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Officer says Haynes pressured his superiors to alter police report
During the second day of Beaumont ISD communication specialist Jessie Haynes' trial for blocking a public entrance, refusing to let a reporter and a school board trustee into a press conference, a BISD police officer testified Haynes was unhappy with his original police report and that BISD Police Chief Clydell Duncan pressured the officer to make multiple changes to his official account of the incident.
Tuesday, May 20, the day began with the resumed testimony of Beaumont Independent School District Trustee Mike Neil and the viewing of video shot by a camera that caught the whole incident on tape Aug. 1, 2013.
By the end of the day, however, BISD PD Corporal Juan San Miguel testified Haynes was not happy about the original police report into the incident and said she filed a complaint against him citing what she said was the inaccuracy of his original report.
As a result of the complaint by Haynes, San Miguel said he was called into the office of Chief Duncan, who more than three times pressured San Miguel to alter his original police report, according to court testimony.
After altering his report at least three times, San Miguel said Chief Duncan was still pressuring him to change his report.
"He wasn't happy with that either," San Miguel said of Duncan.
Stay tuned to TheExaminer.com for day three of the trial.
Previous reporting: May 19, 2014
After rejecting a plea deal for one year deferred probation and $1,000 fine, a trial was underway Monday morning, May 19 for BISD's Communication Director Jessie Haynes.
Prosecutors sought to prove Haynes blocked a local reporter and BISD Trustee Mike Neil from entering a room where a press conference with other Beaumont media outlets was being held with BISD's attorney Melody Chappell. The Class B misdemeanor charge of obstructing a public passageway carries potential penalties of up to 180 days in jail, a fine up to $2,000 or both.
After a jury of six men was selected, Haynes' defense argued his client was doing her job that day and was assaulted by Mike Neil.
"This is not a normal criminal case," Haynes' defense said in opening statements. "This is, and I think the evidence will show, political blood sport."
But BISD Trustee Mike Neil would tell jurors otherwise.
As he took the stand first, Neil told the jury tensions within BISD's administration were high that August day as a weeks-long battle over new voting maps culminated in a restraining order against BISD.
"It was boiling and boiling more and more," Neil said. "In fact, I think we had been brining more police officers."
When Neil realized the reporter was barred, he said he demanded an explanation from Haynes as she physically blocked the doors, disagreeing that a verbal tiff between Chappell and the reporter was a good enough reason to block a member of the press from entering the room where the conference was being held.
Neil said one of the only public water fountains in the building was through the doors blocked by Haynes.
"The doors were shut and Mrs. Haynes was standing directly in front of the door handle," Neil said.
After accosting Haynes but failing to convince her to relent, Neil testified he carefully attempted to reach the door handle and was eventually able to open the door despite Haynes physically blocking him.
Moments before prosecutors would show jurors the full tape of the altercation, Judge Langston Adams ended the County Court at Law #3's proceedings for the day at about 4:45 p.m. as the jury worked through lunch during jury selection.
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An ESPN report Monday said that the Raiders are the leading candidate to land Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in a much-rumored trade that could be consummated soon.
If so, that's news to the Raiders.
Two Raiders employees remain steadfast that the Raiders haven't even spoken with the Eagles about McNabb, who is in the final year of his contract.
Also, Eagles coach Andy Reid said last week that he isn't seeking to trade McNabb, just listening to offers.
That hasn't prevented the McNabb-to-the-Raiders angle from being explored from coast to coast, in the papers, on the Internet and across the airwaves.
Last week, Yahoo! Sports said the Raiders and Buffalo Bills were the front-runners for McNabb. Somewhere along the line, the Bills fell by the wayside. ESPN on Monday characterized the Raiders as the "leader" for McNabb's services, according to unnamed league sources.
Those sources base their stance on the fact that the Raiders meet the criteria for a trade going down.
One, the Raiders aren't scared off by the fact McNabb is due a $6.2 million roster bonus in May and $11.2 million overall next season. Two, the Raiders aren't concerned about McNabb entering the final year of his contract.
Also, the Raiders supposedly are willing to part with the level of compensation the Eagles are seeking. Several reports say the Eagles want at least a high second-round draft pick. The Raiders have one — No. 39 overall.
The ESPN report also made note of the Syracuse connection shared by McNabb and Raiders managing partner Al Davis, and McNabb being a distant cousin of Raiders offensive coordinator Hue Jackson, for what it's worth.
Last week, several reports surfaced about the Raiders dangling Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha as part of the compensation for McNabb.
The two Raiders employees contacted about this story said Asomugha isn't available for trade, and they scoffed at the mention by ESPN.
Reports out of Philadelphia say McNabb has told Reid he wants to play for the Eagles next season, his 12th in the NFL, and that he would prefer to go to the Minnesota Vikings if traded.
The Raiders, Eagles and Vikings have three quarterbacks with starting experience in the NFL on their rosters. None of the three is desperate to make a move.
Some reports out of Philadelphia paint a picture of a situation where Reid wants McNabb as his quarterback but others in the Eagles front office prefer youngster Kevin Kolb.


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In 1420, Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana proposed an elaborate mechanical room he dubbed the Castellum Umbrarum, or "castle of shadows". Sound awesome? It is.
In a recent paper, French professor Philippe Codognet described it as "a room with walls made of folded translucent parchments lighted from behind, creating therefore an environment of moving images", adding that "Fontana also designed some kind of magic lantern to project on walls life-size images of devils or beasts." Codognet deems it an early ancestor of the immserive VR rooms, like StarCAVE, that are used today. Whatever. Da Vinci probably had one as his guest room. [BLDG BLOG]


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History of Health Plan Changes
This page provides a record of changes to UA Choice Plans made in recent years.
FY16 Plan Changes
Summary of FY16 UA Choice Health Plan Changes
FY15 Plan Changes
Summary of FY15 UA Choice Health Plan Changes
FY 14 Plan Changes
Summary of FY14 UA Choice Health Plan Change
Here's a summary of the changes for the FY14 plan year.
Health Care Plan Updates (as of February 2013)
The Joint Health Care Committee met on Feb. 1 to take action on nine health care motions, which were initially presented in an October 2012 meeting and submitted in writing for approval on Nov. 7. Before implementing those motions into the UA Choice Plan, President Gamble requested employee feedback through forums.
After careful consideration of the feedback and a review of additional information received, the JHCC decided to rescind two motions including implementation of a spousal surcharge and to eliminate the opt out option from the UA Choice Plan. Neither option will be forwarded for implementation by the JHCC at this time.
The JHCC also passed a motion confirming new plan names and another motion to continue with the Signature Plan on the VSP contract and increase the allowance for frames/contacts to $150.
Michelle Rizk, interim chief human resouces officer, had 20 days to either approve or deny these motions and recommendations before they are implemented into plan policy.
Health Care Plan Forum Presentation
The presentation from the forums may be accessed here.
Health Care Plan Forum Notes
The notes are a beif summary of how many attended the forums and general topics raised for discussion during the forums, which can be accessed here.
FY 14 Health Care Plan Changes Q & A
Read the Q&A document developed in response to questions received at the Forums and from staff blogs.
Please read the article in The Statewide Voice, which describes each of these motions in detail.
For a full review of the JHCC and its function within the university health care system, read the following article in The Statewide Voice.
FY 13 Plan Changes
Memo to employees from Donald Smith, Interim Chief Human Resource Officer
Health Care Employee Costs chart
FY 12 Plan Changes
Effective July 1, 2011
Below you will find links to information the university collected in an effort to keep employees fully informed of the changes in health care changes that took place in FY13.
Open Enrollment Letter from Mike Humphrey-- (04/07/2011)
Drug Maintenance List from Caremark--(03/30/2011)
Essential Preventive Health Services--(06/14/2011)
FY12 Health Care FAQs-- (3/11/2011)
FY12 Health Care Memo from Beth E. Behner, Chief HR Officer (02/09/2011)
FY12 Heath Care Plan Deductibles (updated 03/02/2011)
FY12 Health Care Overview PDF (updated 03/02/2011)
Letter From President Gamble (01/31/2011)
Health Care Changes Memo to President Gamble from Beth E. Behner, Chief HR Officer (01/21/2011)
Lockton's Presentation to the Board of Regents on 12/09/2010
FY 12 Health Plan Mailers
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Greetings, long time fan and lover of the Dynasty series, but I am trying to complete everything in one of my top 5 Dynasty games, Dynasty Tactics 2? I am trying to get every single thing done, oh I've played like every Main, Epilogue, recruited so many characters in hilarious factions/etc however... I still have a couple scenarios to appear along with unlocking 4 more characters in the encyclopedia.
I've done so many 16 combos it almost isn't funny, even tied Wolfguard, whatever his name is, his great 16 combination which was majestic yet I still do not consider myself a master of this game.
At least this game isn't as SUBTLE and difficult as Dynasty Tactics 1 was in the regard of finding things out, where to go, where NOT to do things to activate events/blah blah blah, however what I have left as "? ? ? ?"s would be the following as I've completed EVERY thing else;
Liu Bei *I cannot stand Shu or these benevolent guys but...* the second and third SCENARIOS- which ... I don't know if that's a PATH to take in the game while you're playing it- I don't know if it's to do in the MAIN- I'm guessing it is since there are no ultimate story choices to make in the epilogues as it's already pretty drawn out;, anyway- for Liu Bei- SECOND and THIRD scenarios are blank with the ? ? ? ?'s, that's two right there...
Cao Cao *The best of all time, long live Wei* COMPLETED 100%.
Sun Ce *Second best of all time* COMPLETED 100%.
Lu Bu- FIRST and THIRD scenario are completely ? ? ? ?ed out, I think it's because I did not ever join Yuan Shu there.
Anyway, if there's anything else I may have missed, secrets, easter eggs I'm very eager to learn and play it because well... Dynasty Tactics 2 is my main game I play every day of late- I hate the turn limits because it has to end eventually. Just looking for the beginners/intermediates/experts/masters and Grand Masters to check out all I did, and to maybe fill in the blanks of what I NEED TO DO TO UNLOCK THE ? ? ? ?'s, thank you for positive help in advance.
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GOP ditches farm bill extension
Facing certain defeat, Republicans pulled their one-year farm bill extension from the House docket late Tuesday in favor of a narrower $383 million disaster aid package to address the immediate needs of drought-stricken livestock producers.
The abrupt turnaround came just minutes before the House Rules Committee had been slated to take up the extension in anticipation of floor votes Wednesday. Within hours, the slimmer 22-page disaster bill had been filed with the promise of floor votes Thursday.
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The action shows how much the GOP leadership — having boxed itself in by refusing to take up a five-year farm bill — is scrambling now to find something the party's candidates can take home to farm states in August given the severe drought plaguing much of the country.
The substitute will restore livestock indemnity and forage programs that have expired in the current farm program, with some assistance also for specialty crops.
To keep down costs, the aid will apply only to 2012, while offsets will come from imposing caps on two conservation programs much as the House Appropriations Committee has already proposed in its 2013 budget bill. Early estimates indicate the net savings would be about $256 million.
"My priority remains to get a five-year farm bill on the books and put those policies in place," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.). "But the most pressing business before us is to provide disaster assistance to those producers impacted by the drought conditions who are currently exposed."
"The House is expected to consider a disaster assistance package on Thursday and I encourage my colleagues to support it. … The challenges our farmers and ranchers are currently facing only underscores how important it is that we complete a five-year farm bill this year."
As this week began, the leadership was still talking boldly of going forward with the extension — but the odds only grew longer by the hour.
Stepping into the debate Tuesday morning, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack dismissed the extension as "just an excuse not to put in the work to build a coalition" needed for a long-term plan for producers but also all of "rural America."
"We need a five-year bill," Vilsack told POLITICO. "If folks care about rural America they will get this done."
The "rural America" theme is one that the former Iowa governor has sounded before, emphasizing the economic development, energy and land conservation elements of the farm bills. And with Iowa in play in the presidential campaign—not to mention Vilsack's wife, Christie, running for Congress back home against Republican Rep. Steve King—the farm bill's import can no longer be ignored.
Vilsack upped the ante himself, saying that rural communities can survive the drought but that their economic turnaround could be seriously hurt by the stalemate in Congress.


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The Prisoner
My hand has one gesture left:
to push things away.
From the rock dampness drips
on old stones.
This dripping is all I can hear.
My heart keeps pace
with the drops falling
and sinks away with them.
If the drops fall faster
an animal might come to drink.
Somewhere it is brighter than this—
but what do we know.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Part II of "The Prisoner" is here
translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
For some time now the word I focus on in meditation is free. I don't meditate daily; maybe a couple times a week. I close my eyes for a few minutes, focus on my breath, and while I exhale, I hear, see and feel the word free. Sometimes I'm up in the sky, with birds, coasting on air currents. Sometimes free appears as a prayer for someone. But it had not occurred to me until now that it was an unconscious "choice," this meditation word, in a time when I am bumping up against the stone walls of physical limitations for the first time in my life.
I've been slowed by hand-wrist-arm-shoulder-neck pain since December. These are repetitive strain injuries, the result of twenty years at a computer at work. I am getting manipulations by an osteopath, and learning the Alexander technique, in hopes of relieving it. Dictation software has been a mixed blessing; often I get more tension using it than not when I have to repeat a sentence many times. Last month I was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which accounts for some of my fatigue, and soon I'll go on the lowest dosage of medication for it, taking a prescription drug long term for the first time. I'm 55. (The natural remedies for hypothyroidism include avoiding cruciferous vegetables—broccoli, cauliflower, kale, spinach—because they block the thyroid hormone. I would rather not give these up, so I'm hoping the low dose of levothyroxine is enough to restore my metabolism and does not result in the dizzy or "drunk" feeling some people encounter. My bad cholesterol has shot up from 193 to 243, which is another reason it seems important to go on this med.)
Learning the Alexander technique from my teacher Elinore is about unlearning bad habits of hunching my shoulders, holding tension, rushing into space, pulling my head back onto my spine, affecting every movement of my body in painful ways. (This 10 minute video explains quite well how the Alexander technique helps pupils regain balance and lightness.) For years I've thrust forward into the next thing, as if life was an emergency.
More than the pain, what bothers me most is having to slow down. "Somewhere it is brighter than this," says the prisoner in Rilke's poem. Truly, somewhere it is much darker than this where I am. But this has taken some adjustment. I am no longer quick, and youthful. Suddenly I act like an old woman, not the plan I had when I became a grandma in January.
We just finished watching "Little Dorrit" the BBC series on Netflix DVDs. It's the Dickens story of a young woman who lives in a debtors' prison in London with her father. She was born there and knows nothing different. She even loves her life caring for her father and prefers it to the new life of wealth that comes to them suddenly. Her father Mr. Dorrit suffers daily from his imprisonment and degradation, however, believing he is worthy of something far better. But once he arrives at the something far better, he finds no peace there either.
I take inspiration from Little Amy Dorrit. Inside the stone walls of Marshallsea Prison for Debt she angelically loves and cares for her father in spite of his irksome resistance and condescension. Like Dickens' characters often are, she is probably a caricature of what a human can really be, in this case softer and more philanthropically positive than seems possible in her situation. But even she could not adjust to the seismic changes that came with enormous wealth. We humans are creatures of habit, even when our habits keep us confined.
"We need to stop trying so hard and allow our lives to unfold naturally," says Richard Brennan in my Alexander book. For some years now I've been doing spiritual work to learn to love what is and what comes, which is helping me with this physical learning. To not "push it away" as the prisoner in Rilke's poem, now that's the real work.
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I have again another Pegasus lesson going up, but this time it is going to be for kids. I find myself being attracted to two things lately, chibi Pokémon characters, and drawing animals for kids. Even though Pegasus is a fantasy creature, its creation is based on a horse. Inspired from the new My Little Pony figures I have been uploading; this tutorial will show you "how to draw Pegasus for kids", step by step. Drawing one of these flying horses is pretty neat because not only are you creating something beautiful, there is an interesting story behind the myth. I won't go into details because I must have submitted a few Pegasus or flying horse lesson before. I want you guys to have fun because I know that there is nothing to it when it comes to following a tutorial geared towards novice artists and even adults. I hope you all have fun, I will return in a few folks so either be here or be square.
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I'd like to install a base Fedora system meaning without all the other programs/applications that come when installing a Gnome/KDE/XFCE spins. How do I do this?
This is the first time I'd be installing Fedora and I'm quite accustomed to Arch Linux so I want the same approach, or similar approach of building from the base install up to the system of my preference.
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Once joined at the hip, two Worcester health care powerhouses are getting ready for a separation. Reliant Medical Group, a physicians' group with 270 doctors and about 1,730 other employees, is cutting ties at the end of 2013 with the Fallon Senior Plan, a health insurance plan for Medicare recipients run by the nonprofit Fallon Community Health Plan.
WORCESTER — Once joined at the hip, two Worcester health care powerhouses are getting ready for a separation.
Reliant Medical Group, a physicians' group with 270 doctors and about 1,730 other employees, is cutting ties at the end of 2013 with the Fallon Senior Plan, a health insurance plan for Medicare recipients run by the nonprofit Fallon Community Health Plan.
The decision will force about 18,000 Reliant patients with Fallon Senior Plan insurance to make a choice: Stick with their doctors and get different Medicare insurance, or find different doctors who will accept Fallon's plan.
Reliant will continue to accept other Fallon insurance products, but the split with the senior plan marks a break in two organizations that operated together until 2004. Before 1996, the two organizations also were tied to St. Vincent Hospital of Worcester under the umbrella of the former Fallon Healthcare System.
Reliant's action also sets up a shift in the health insurance landscape, and the benefits could flow to Tufts Health Plan of Watertown. Reliant has named Tufts Medicare Preferred the only Medicare health plan it will accept as of next year. It now accepts both Tufts and Fallon.
Although Medicare Preferred is the state's largest senior health plan with 91,000 members to Fallon's approximately 30,000 senior plan members, it trails Fallon in Worcester County and covers just 600 patients who see Reliant doctors.
"Certainly it's our hope that all of these folks will be considering Tufts Health Plan for 2014," said Patty Blake, Tufts senior vice president for senior products. "The relationship between patients and their physicians is really critical, and we know these patients have been seeing their doctors at Reliant, in some cases, for decades."
Medicare health plans, known in government terms as "Medicare Advantage" plans, are insurance that expand on the federal government's traditional Medicare program for people 65 and older and people with disabilities.
Under traditional Medicare, the government pays set fees to doctors and hospitals for specific procedures and services. Under Medicare Advantage, the government pays lump sums to private insurers, which then manage patients' hospital and medical benefits. Some insurers also offer seniors additional benefits, such as prescription drug coverage, sometimes for an additional fee.
About 19 percent of the 1.1 million Medicare beneficiaries in Massachusetts are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. In Worcester County, about one-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in the plans, according to data from the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
At nearly 28,000 members in Worcester County, the Fallon Senior Plan is the dominant Medicare Advantage operation in Central Massachusetts. Tufts Medicare Preferred had 6,663 members in Worcester County as of March 1, federal data show.
Christine L. Cassidy, Fallon vice president of corporate communications, said Fallon knew of Reliant's decision for some time and factored any loss of members into its business projections for 2014.
"We're really hopeful that because they have trusted us all these years they will continue to look at us," she said.
Reliant officials said accepting one Medicare Advantage plan rather than two will simplify administrative burdens. But that's not why Reliant linked itself to Tufts, said Dr. Robin S. Richman, Reliant chief medical officer.
"They're going to allow most of the health care decisions to be made between the doctor and the patient, with little oversight from the plan," Dr. Richman said of Tufts. "That's a very compelling reason, to say that, with all things being equal, we're going to be able to really discuss with our patients what we think needs to be done and then go ahead and write the orders and have it happen."
Some who work with both Fallon and Reliant wonder about other factors.
"Personally, I have never heard anyone ever complain about Fallon," said Bill Randell, president of Advantage Benefits, a Worcester insurance agency whose customers include employers. " I just wonder if this was more of a purely financial decision, and the Tufts contract paid higher reimbursements and that Reliant hopes that their patients switch to Tufts."
Reliant has said reimbursements were not an issue. The group also said its decision had nothing to do with its membership in Atrius Health, an alliance of Massachusetts physicians' groups that can negotiate contracts together. Tufts Medicare Preferred is the only Medicare Advantage plan accepted by all the other Atrius group practices, Dr. Richman said.
Yet Reliant's move comes as the federal government plans to reduce payments under Medicare Advantage to levels it pays doctors and hospitals under traditional Medicare. The government last month proposed cutting Medicare Advantage reimbursements by 2.3 percent in 2014.
A report commissioned by the insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans estimates that could translate to benefit reductions and premium increases of $60 to $70 a month for Medicare Advantage members in Massachusetts. But AARP, a group that advocates for older Americans, argues that efficient health plans should be able to thrive.
"There are quality deficits in our health care system that are so well documented. We know among older people they do not get the health care they need," said Joyce Dubow, AARP's senior director for health care reform. "We see the need for this re-engineering and retooling. It cannot be business as usual."
Health privacy laws prohibit Tufts from directly seeking out Fallon members impacted by Reliant's decision, but Tufts is undertaking a general marketing campaign in Central Massachusetts and fielding thousands of calls from Fallon members as they grapple with Reliant's decision, Ms. Blake said. Open enrollment in Tufts Medicare Preferred will take place later this year.
Meantime, Fallon is looking elsewhere for growth, pushing into Southeastern Massachusetts with its NaviCare combination health and social services plan for seniors.
Seniors should compare their options at the website medicare.gov, according to AARP. Those whose enrollment in the Fallon Senior Plan is covered as a retirement benefit also may need to check with former employers.
Reliant is hoping most of the 18,000 patients with Fallon coverage will find a way to stay with their doctors.
"We think we're going to have most of those people choose to keep their doctors," said Linda M. Coccola, Reliant's director of customer service and marketing communications. "I don't know that it will be 100 percent, but that's what we're hoping for."
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"Come with us now from the bubbling tarpits, to the sulfurous wasteland; from the rotting forest, to the stagnant mud flats, to the Land of Gorch.
The Land of Gorch was a recurring sketch on the first season of Saturday Night Live. Lorne Michaels, executive producer of the show, stated in a Tomorrow Show interview prior to the series' premiere that these sketches would feature "a whole new group of Muppets which are adult Muppets and who can stay up late." These new "adult" Muppet characters included King Ploobis, Queen Peuta, Scred, Vazh, Wisss and the Mighty Favog. Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz performed the roles of Ploobis, Scred, and the Mighty Favog respectively, while Alice Tweedie, Fran Brill, and Richard Hunt performed the roles of Peuta, Vazh, and Wisss. Opening narration for the sketches was supplied by Saturday Night Live staff announcer Don Pardo.
The series of sketches lasted from SNL's premiere in October 1975 to April 1976 (and became a recurring joke in the next season). The original proposals and scripts refer to the sketches as Gortch rather than Gorch; over time the spelling was changed, and both versions are found in the Henson files.
According to the Muppet Morsels on The Muppet Show: Season One DVD, only hired writers for Saturday Night Live, and not Henson employees, were allowed to write Gorch sketches. Other writing credits went to SNL contributors Chevy Chase and Al Franken. Despite this, Jim Henson did write one sketch, for the episode hosted by Raquel Welch. In a 2009 interview Jerry Nelson revealed that he wrote the sketch with Lily Tomlin and Scred.[1]
The writing staff were generally less than pleased with the presence of the Muppets. Writer Alan Zweibel expressed his views on the topic:
Whoever drew the short straw that week had to write the Muppet sketch. The first time I met [Michael] O'Donoghue, I walked into Lorne's office... and I look in a corner of the room and there's a guy I learned was Michael O'Donoghue. What was he doing, you ask? He had taken Big Bird, a stuffed toy of Big Bird, and the cord from the venetian blinds, and he wrapped the cord around Big Bird's neck. He was lynching Big Bird. And that's how we all felt about the Muppets.
Franken and Davis and I were the rookie writers, and the others always rigged it so we were the ones who wrote the Muppet sketches. So I went over to Jim Henson's townhouse on like Sixty-eighth Street with a sketch I had written. There was one character named Skred [sic], and I remember we're reading the sketch, Jim Henson's reading the pages, and he gets to a line and says, 'Oh, Skred wouldn't say this.' And I look, and on a table over there is this cloth thing that is folded over like laundry, and it's Skred. 'Oh, but he wouldn't say this.' Oh, sorry.[2]
During the middle of the season, after a deal to produce The Muppet Show in England had been made, the sets were destroyed, and the Muppets were officially "let go" from the show's regular cast. All of the Gorch sketches from the second half of the season revolved around the idea that the Muppets had been fired, and were trying desperately to get their jobs back. In 1983, Jim Henson commented on what happened behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live:
I saw what he (Lorne Michaels) was going for and I really liked it and wanted to be a part of it, but somehow what we were trying to do and what his writers could write for it never jelled. ... When they were writing for us, I had the feeling they were writing normal sitcom stuff, which is really boring and bland. ... Yeah, it just never jelled with the particular writers we were working with, but at no time did I ever lose my respect for the show. I always liked what they were doing. [3]
In early 1999, Frank Oz also commented on the show:
There was good and bad. The bad unfortunately was that I think we didn't really belong on Saturday Night Live. I think our very explosive, more cartoony comedy didn't jive with the kind of Second City casual laid-back comedy, so the writers had a lot of trouble writing for us. They weren't used to that kind of Muppet writing. But the good part was that every Saturday was very exciting - going through rehersal, then dress [rehersal], then air - and meeting and seeing the beginnings of Andy Kaufman, and the great little films of Albert Brooks, and seeing John [Belushi] and Chevy [Chase] and Danny [Aykroyd], the beginnings of all that. That was very, very exciting. A live show on Saturday night is always exciting. But it was good at the end of the year that The Muppet Show was there for us, because it was just too difficult for them. We didn't belong on that show anymore. But we had a great time. [4]
The segments dealt with a number of racy issues: alcohol abuse, adultery, species extinction, drugs, and other "adult" topics, though each was treated with the expected SNL irreverence.
Skits were indeed performed live; the exception was the January 24, 1976 episode; that sketch was pre-taped on January 10th, during the pre-shoot of the Elliot Gould episode.
The Muppets were supposed to have appeared on the Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Gerald Ford's press secretary, Ron Nessen, as evidenced by a behind-the-scenes photo and Don Pardo's announcing the Muppet cast during that episode's credits. Nessen explained at the end of the episode that they could not be there due to "technical complications."
The Gorch sketches from the first season were included on the Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season DVD set.
While the Gorch characters were never significantly utilized following their expulsion from SNL, they can be glimpsed in the crowd of Muppets during the "Rainbow Connection" finale in The Muppet Movie (1979).
|Guest Host
|October 11, 1975
|Ploobis and Scred are sent to The Mighty Favog for medical advice.
|October 18, 1975
|The Mighty Favog provides fiscal assistance.
|October 25, 1975
|Ploobis and Scred find out that Wisss is smoking craters, and they do what they can to get Wisss to stop.
|November 8, 1975
|Ploobis wants to eat some Gligs, but there are only two left. He goes to the Mighty Favog for advice on making more, and Favog charges a Glig as payment.
|November 15, 1975
|Scred does everything he can to cure Ploobis' headache.
|November 22, 1975
|Scred falls for Lily Tomlin, and they sing a duet of "I Got You Babe."
The introduction to the duet can be seen on Hulu.
|December 13, 1975
|Ploobis and Scred "hit the sauce" and go see the Mighty Favog.
|December 20, 1975
|Ploobis throws a Christmas party. However, most of the invited guests have chosen to go to the Killer Bees' Christmas party instead. Even Vazh and Wisss duck out to go to the Bees' party. Candice Bergen shows up, and is disappointed with what she sees. Candice, Ploobis and Scred sing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", and then Scred invites Candice to go to the Bees' party with him.
|January 10, 1976
|Peuta reveals to Scred that she feels guilty about their affair, and that he should confess to Ploobis or else risk losing her. Ploobis, meanwhile, vows to kill whoever has been fooling around with his wife. Scred seeks advice from the Mighty Favog, who refers him to page 212 in "The Joy of Sex."
|January 17, 1976
|With Ploobis out of town, Scred is able to show Peuta the new sex device he just got. Rollin Krewson served as assistant puppeteer for this sketch.
|January 24, 1976
|Gilda Radner is about to introduce the musical guest when Scred, in bee costume, comes on-stage. Scred has been asked to participate in a Bee sketch, a bee version of The Andy Griffith Show (he was supposed to play Aunt Bee), but learns that the sketch has been cancelled. Gilda lets him introduce musical guest Neil Sedaka.
|February 28, 1976
|The Muppets are at the Grammy Awards in California, so Chevy Chase performs a sketch on the Gorch set.
|March 13, 1976
|Ploobis and Scred ask Anthony Perkins to help them get back their jobs on the show. They come back during the middle of a later sketch for help, and at the end of the episode, they come on-stage during the credits.
|April 24, 1976
|Backstage, Ploobis and Scred face facts: the Muppets just aren't welcome on the show. They can't even "get lucky" with Raquel Welch because, as she points out, they "don't exist below the waist." Chevy Chase comes by to tell them that their act has been cancelled.
Later in the show, Scred and Ploobis encounter The Mighty Favog, who tells them the Muppets have no choice but to get in the trunk. They enter a big trunk along with Peuta, Vazh and Wisss. Now that they're all inside, Favog thinks he has a chance at stardom...
According to the Henson Archives, this is the only sketch not written by the regular SNL writing staff; it was written by Jim Henson.
|May 8, 1976
|Scred and the Mighty Favog try to cut a deal. They ask Chevy Chase to tell Lorne Michaels that if the Muppets get rehired to appear on the show, the Mighty Favog will get the Beatles to appear on the show for free.
|September 18, 1976
|Having been asleep in a filing cabinet for quite some time, the Gorch Muppets wake up and assume they must be in the afterlife. Lily Tomlin visits them, and tries to sing "I Whistle a Happy Tune". Unfortunately, the Muppets can't whistle. The characters appear later on towards the end of the episode to join everyone in "The Antler Dance."


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Google is working on a $10 a month subscription music service that will be featured on YouTube and Google Play Music, according to reports.
The service is called Music Key and will run on both Google Play and YouTube, according to Android Police. The service will be free for one month and then start charging subscribers $9.99 a month for music with no ads and featuring audio-only playback. From the story:
Google, according to the images below, has added "over 20 million high-quality tracks - complete albums, organized into artist discographies" specifically for Music Key.
Some of the perks of Music Key will not only be the music but also to concert footage, remixes and likely covers, Android Police reported. There's also some indication that users may be able to upload content to the platform and tie-in "discoverability" and suggested results. So far, YouTube doesn't have any comment on the report, according to the Re/Code.
The subscription idea isn't a new one -- it's one currently used by Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio and others -- and YouTube has its standard freemium and ad-filled model. However, until Google prices its service more competitively, it won't stand out from the crowd.


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I want to show how you can create a simple persistent database by utilising reader literals in Clojure 1.4. You can copy these lines into a Clojure program if you like – the only dependency you require is
Let's start by defining a transaction as an update to some state using a protocol :-
(defprotocol Transaction (update [_ state]))
Here's some example transactions we want to perform. For this article let's imagine we're creating a database of user accounts. We'll just create two transaction types- creating users and deleting them. Let's record the name and email address, plus the date they joined or left.
(defrecord CreateUser [name email start-date]
(update [this db]
(update-in db [:users] conj
{:name name :email email :start-date start-date})))
(defrecord DeleteUser [email remove-date]
(update [this db]
(update-in db [:users]
(fn [coll] (remove (fn [r] (= (:email r) email)) coll)))))
Data is important. We'll want to keep records of these transactions.
(defprotocol TransactionLog (record [_ tx]))
Here's an implementation that uses an agent to write the records to a print-stream.
(defrecord DefaultTransactionLog [ag]
(record [this tx]
(send-off ag
(fn [out]
(binding [*out* out *flush-on-newline* true]
(io! (prn tx)) out)))))
The agent will hold the print-stream. Agents are good for I/O because messages to them only get delivered if the transaction completes its update succesfully. If a retry is needed the message doesn't get delivered. We let the Clojure prn function figure out how to serialize it. It's optional, but I've wrapped the actual print statement in an
io! wrapper as a safety check.
Having written the records we'll need some way of reading them back. We'll just use the standard Clojure reader for this. This function returns a list of all the transactions in a file.
(defn read-transactions [f]
(if-not (.exists f) []
(let [rdr (java.io.PushbackReader. (clojure.java.io/reader f))]
(take-while identity
(fn [] (read rdr false nil)))))))
Now we move on to the database state. Let's decorate the transaction log with something that will hold this state. As transactions are added to it they will update the in-memory state and be recorded on disk. This can support the TransactionLog protocol as well. The state will be a Clojure ref. The delegate will be a backing transaction log.
(defrecord Database [state delegate]
(record [this tx]
(alter state (partial update tx))
(record delegate tx))))
Now we're ready to create our database with the Clojure ref and backing transaction log. We'll initialize the ref with a result of updating an empty map with a series of transactions read from our file.
(def db
(ref (reduce (fn [db tx] (update tx db)) {}
(clojure.java.io/file "my.db.clj"))))
(agent (clojure.java.io/writer
(clojure.java.io/file "my.db.clj")
:append true)))))
Remember those transactions we coded earlier? Let's add some convenience functions that will create and apply these transactions :-
(defn create-user [name email]
(record db (CreateUser. name email (java.util.Date.))))
(defn delete-user [email]
(record db (DeleteUser. email (java.util.Date.))))
Notice how we're creating
java.util.Date instances.
Now, let's test it.
(create-user "Bob" "firstname.lastname@example.com")
(create-user "Alice" "firstname.lastname@example.com")
(create-user "Carol" "email@example.com")
(delete-user "email@example.com")
What's the state of the database?
(deref (:state db))
You should see something like this :-
({:name "Carol",
:email "email@example.com",
:start-date #inst "2012-04-19T16:00:35.903-00:00"}
{:name "Bob",
:email "email@example.com",
:start-date #inst "2012-04-19T16:00:35.901-00:00"})}
What's in our database file? Below is the raw content. Unlike some database files it's quite easy to read and even possible to edit by hand if the need arises.
#blog.CreateUser{:name "Bob", :email
"firstname.lastname@example.com", :start-date #inst
#blog.CreateUser{:name "Alice", :email
"email@example.com", :start-date #inst
#blog.CreateUser{:name "Carol", :email
"email@example.com", :start-date #inst
#blog.DeleteUser{:email "firstname.lastname@example.com",
:remove-date #inst
Note, unless you aren't using Clojure 1.4 or above you won't see the
#inst tags!
Notice how Clojure is writing out and reading back the
java.util.Date instance. You can also register your own Java types to it through the
*data-readers* dynamic binding (more details in the Clojure 1.4 release notes). This makes things really easy to create some fairly complex atomic transactions.
Now try recompiling – you should find the database is restored. You can also try removing the user. The transaction log will store both the create-user event and the delete-user event, both with timings.
That's around 30 lines of code to code a transactional database, and a few more lines to code some custom transactions.
You don't have to limit yourself to a map as your state. At Deutsche Bank we've used a similar design but with RDF triple-stores that are queryable in a datalog syntax. A key benefit with using Clojure's persistent data-structures for simple in-memory datastores is that you don't have to worry about locks or concurrent updates.


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Retro Productions' Revival of DEAR RUTH Opens At Spoon Theater
Retro Productions (Heather E. Cunningham, Artistic Director), six-time 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominee for The Desk Set, will present Norman Krasna's screwball comedy Dear Ruth May 4 through 21, 2011 at the Spoon Theater (38 West 38th St., 5th Floor).
It's WWII, and teenager Miriam Wilkins can't keep her nose out of other people's affairs. Fired up by patriotism Miriam begins a pen pal relationship with an Air Corps officer. Using her older sister Ruth's name and image, Miriam presents herself as a morale boosting love interest, never thinking for a moment that the officer would live to return home. Return he does; to the Wilkins home in Queens, to an astonished Ruth, and to Ruth's fiancé.Dear Ruth premiered on Broadway in 1944 and ran for over 650 performances. The play was turned into a film of the same name, starring William Holden and Joan Caulfield. Legend has it that when J.D. Salinger saw the film's billboard, he decided to name his Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield.
Directed by Richard Roland, Dear Ruth features a cast that includes Becky Byers (2010 NYTheatre.com Person of the Year), Heather E. Cunningham (2007 Back Stage "Performance to Remember" for Still Life, Retro Productions), Shay Gines (The Lady in Question, TOSOS), Douglas B. Giorgis* (Three Wishes for Jamie), Joe Mathers (The Vigil, or the Guided Cradle, Impetuous Theater Group and Brick Theater), David Sedgwick* (Pearl Theatre Company and New York Classical Theatre), Alisha Spielmann (As You Like It and Native Speech, Boomerang Theatre Company), Matilda Szydagis* (The Desk Set, Retro Productions), and Matthew Trumbull* (The Desk Set, Retro Productions and Viral, Gideon Productions).The Dear Ruth production team includes Jeff Stander (scenic design), Jack Cunningham (scenic consultant), Rebecca Cunningham (scenic design), Viviane Galloway (costume design), Jeannette Aultz (military costume design), Jacqueline Reid (lighting design), Jeanne Travis (sound design), Cassie Dorland (properties design), and Heather Cunningham (properties design). Ricardo Rust* serves as the production stage manager.Performances of Dear Ruth run May 4 through 21, 2011, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm with special performances Monday, May 9th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 15th at 3:00 pm at The Spoon Theater (38 West 38th Street, 5th Floor; between 5th and 6th Ave.; Subway: B/D/F or 1/2/3 or N/R to 42nd St. or 7 to 5th Ave./Bryant Park). Tickets are $18 (general admission), $15 for seniors and $5 for student rush, based on availability, at www.retroproductions.org or (212) 352-3101.


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SANTA CLARA — LaMichael James was idle for 12 games, a sleek sports car parked in the garage until he could be trusted on a new track.
James played fast-break, no-huddle football as one of the nation's most exciting backs at Oregon, rushing for 5,082 career yards and averaging 6.6 yards per carry.
Drafted in the second round by the 49ers, James became reacquainted with the huddle and conventional football. The spread option offense that made him the Doak Walker Award winner in 2010 as the nation's top running back was left behind.
James is now enjoying the best of both worlds, getting on the field after a season-ending Achilles tendon injury to Kendall Hunter and even running option plays with quarterback Colin Kaepernick similar to the ones that piled up all that yardage at Oregon.
James scored on a 15-yard run with the 49ers trailing the Atlanta Falcons 17-0 in the NFC Championship game, sweeping to his right as an offset back out of a spread formation.
"It was like an Oregon play, and Colin made a great read," James said this week.
James is back in the big game spotlight and will spell starter Frank Gore as well as return kickoffs in Super Bowl XLVII in the Superdome.
Watching from street clothes for the first 12 games of his NFL career after servicing the first-team defense for the scout team isn't what James had in mind after being drafted by the 49ers.
"I can't sit here and say it was fun," James said. "Any time you're a competitor, you want to be on the field, helping your team win, so I had to do it throughout practice. It didn't give an excuse to slack off and not try to get better because you never know when your number is going to be called."
The 49ers, in contrast to Oregon, operate at a deliberate pace — sometimes drawing criticism for using too much of the play clock and not getting to the line of scrimmage quickly enough.
Play-calling had more verbiage and was much more involved. It was evident early on that James was a Duck out of water.
"I can still remember the first minicamp when he showed up coming from Oregon's offense and what a difference it was," offensive coordinator Greg Roman said. "We're a team that huddles. (Oregon) might say one word and that means a play — and they don't have a lot of plays. We literally have hundreds of plays."
Recalled James: "I hadn't been in a huddle since high school. After being in a huddle and then having to remember (the play) — and not just run it — it was a little bit different for me."
James did his best to learn the 49ers offense while running the plays of the opposing team each week. He also worked on other parts of his game while coach Jim Harbaugh watched closely.
"His work ethic was really evident," Harbaugh said. "He was taking as many reps as he possibly could on the scout team. He would do it as a running back, he would do it as a receiver. And he really improved his hands a great deal."
Two things happened to hasten James' development. First, Hunter suffered an Achilles tear Nov. 25 against New Orleans and was placed on injured reserve.
Second, Kaepernick had become the full-time quarterback, bringing with him the kind of read-option football James had played at Oregon.
"Colin's game adds a different dimension to the offense, and it's something I'm familiar with, running the spread," James said.
James carried 27 times for 125 yards in the last four regular-season games, but his biggest play came on special teams, a 62-yard kickoff return against New England after the Patriots had rallied from a 31-3 deficit to tie the score 31-31 midway through the fourth quarter.
It set up a 38-yard Kaepernick-to-Michael Crabtree touchdown pass on the next play, and the 49ers won 41-34.
"Once he started getting comfortable, we saw a dynamic football player," 49ers safety Donte Whitner said. "Coming from a big university, playing in big games and being a big-time player, having to sit out and be humbled like that, it's a testament to the character he has."


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Producer David Eick promised we'd know the fate of Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica by August 15, but there's been no word. Is the show doomed? We hope not. But it hasn't gotten BSG-level ratings. What do you think went wrong?
We love Caprica, for its complex characters, its tough questions about the nature of consciousness and our relationship with technology, and for its weird, intense world of New Cap City. As we wrote back in February, it's quickly becoming the best show on television. So we wish we could be more optimistic about its future.
At San Diego Comic Con's Caprica roundtables, Eick told us that we would know the fate of Caprica "by August 15 or before." Because the stars' contracts would be up by that date, among other reasons, Syfy would have to decide by mid-August whether to pull the trigger on a second season of Caprica. (The second half of the first season, season 1.5, was filmed ages ago, but won't air until next January.) Here's the video of Eick saying this, via MediaBlvd:
Syfy, of course, put a huge press release yesterday announcing that it had ordered a fifth season of Eureka. But still no word on Caprica, even though the deadline to make a decision has come and gone. We still hope they've ordered more episodes and are just waiting for the right time to announce it, but even if that's the case, it's hard to deny that Caprica failed to make as big a splash as we'd hoped, based on the show's high quality. The show was hovering around a million viewers per episode, or about half the ratings that the (probably much cheaper) Haven is currently getting on Friday nights.
What do you think went wrong with Caprica?
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Terence.drew wrote:
Italian coastguards have thermal imagining cameras where hot spots come outblackinstead of white..why is this??
Heiwa wrote:ghoul [gu:l] n. 1. (in Eastern stories) spirit that robs graves and feeds on the corpses in them. 2. person with gruesome and unnatural tastes and habites. (Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary, Tokyo 1942)
Maybe the tourists were ghouls 1. or 2. I just accompanied Simon around the island to chat with the islanders and to have a good lunch!
pdgalles wrote:Apologies if the question has been asked but does the captain even exist?
E adesso non fare lo schettino
"Ecco, ho pensato, la lingua italiana si appresta a inglobare un nuovo neologismo: schettìno, per indicare chi, in barba alle proprie responsabilità, abbandona chi è in difficoltà"
http://www.lettera43.it/attualita/37128 ... ettino.htm
skate n.
1. An ice skate.
2. A roller skate.
3. A skateboard.
4. The act or a period of skating or skateboarding.
intr.v. skat·ed, skat·ing, skates
1. To glide or move along on or as if on skates.
2. To ride or perform stunts on a skateboard.
3. Informal: To act in an irresponsible or superficial manner.
pdgalles wrote:Apologies if the question has been asked but does the captain even exist?
Neck join and head too big for his body?
You may be referring to the idiom "he's skating on thin ice", as in someone who is about to fall into the metphorical water, a fast/evasive/unreliable archetype.simonshack wrote:Now, I presume that the origin of this informal, English meaning of "skate" goes way back - long before the Concordia incident!
This forum concentrates a lot on numerology (no, I apologise: it comments upon numerical concidences, shall we say?), and also names: probably rightly so. The name 'Schettino' sounds to TeutonAnglos like sh!t/Scheiße, with the obligatory 'ino' Italianate ending (and Google Translate auto-senses it to being Italian for "roller-skate"!!)[/edit]simonshack wrote:....the "Schettino" entity
simonshack wrote:pdgalles wrote:Apologies if the question has been asked but does the captain even exist?
I believe the actor playing "Captain Schettino" (which translates "Captain Roller Skate") exists - but since he never was a ship captain, the 'historical albums/images" (photo/video) with this actor in Captain uniform are much more easily crafted with photoshop and digital animation.
I mean come on, ladies and gentlemen...what are the odds of THAT? Does anyone need more proof that the "Schettino" entity is just an umpteenth, lame/cynical 'insider joke' by the Psychopathic Psyop Ghouls (henceforth, the "PPG's") against whom this forum is valiantly combating?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/1 ... 13038.html
It was the height of irony as the Costa Concordia started going down. A passenger has revealed that the Celine Dion song "My Heart Will Go On," made famous by the 1997 film "Titanic," was playing in one of the ill-fated cruise ship's restaurants at the very moment the ship's hull was ripped open.
Swissman Yannick Sgaga tells the Tribune de Geneve newspaper that he and his brother were dining when the Concordia struck rocks near the Italian island of Giglio, starting an evacuation that Sgaga called "a demonstration of incompetence, recklessness and irresponsibility."
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Vigneault, the most successful coach in Canucks history, was judged heavily on the last two playoff rounds in which the team went out in five games to the Los Angeles Kings and then four straight to the San Jose Sharks
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"We're in a results-oriented business and if you look at the last two playoffs we've been in, we were the higher-seeded team that lost the first two games at home," Gillis explained during a news conference at Rogers Arena. "We've lost consecutive games in the last two playoff years and there comes a point in time where the message has to change and we have to be better. We didn't get the results we expected and, in this business, you have to get results."
Gillis further explained that he felt Vigneault deserved another chance after the 2012 playoff flop but that he expected more from the roster of players he provided the coach.
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Gillis declined to discuss, even in the vaguest of generalities, the profile of a coach he would be seeking to replace Vigneault.
"Today has been a bad enough day," he responded. "Can you give me a couple of days just to clear my head? This was a process where we wanted to afford Alain and his staff every consideration we could. They're very good people and very good coaches. I need a couple of days here before we start going down that path.
"There are a number of good candidates out there. We're going to speak to them and we'll go through a process. I think the NHL is changing and evolving rapidly and we're going to listen and talk to the people we feel are legitimate candidates to coach the Vancouver Canucks and we'll make our decision based on that interview process."
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At a news conference in Chicago Tuesday, Obama sidestepped a question about whether he supported a special election.
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Horseshoe Farm Park improvements to draw nature lovers to northeast Raleigh
Construction was set to start Monday on an environmentally friendly, 146-acre nature preserve in the northeastern corner of the city.
Horseshoe Farm Park has been a popular destination for birdwatchers and other nature lovers since the city bought the property in 1994. But for the past 20 years, it's been little more than open fields at the end of a gravel driveway.
When the gates reopen next March, the park will boast a one-mile loop trail through the meadow with educational signs. A new picnic shelter will accommodate up to 100 people for nature programs and private events. Walkers and cyclists will have a paved parking lot and trail accessing the 27-mile Neuse River Greenway. And all visitors will have access to Raleigh's first off-the-grid restroom facility, which will use composting technology.
The $1.7 million project received most of its funding from a bond referendum 14 years ago.
City Councilman John Odom, who represents northeast Raleigh, said the nature experience will draw visitors from throughout the city.
"I would say 30 to 35 percent of the people who come to this will come from a larger area," he said.
Odom said he pushed the council to buy the old farm in a horseshoe-shaped river bend, but he wishes the park plan included more amenities. Initial plans for the site included ballfields, basketball courts, a gymnasium and a community center – facilities Odom says are needed as the rapidly growing corner of Raleigh attracts young families.
"I think we missed a great opportunity," he said, adding that "we've still got a great park."
The debate over Horseshoe Farm's fate ran for years, with some neighborhood leaders and environmentalists campaigning to keep the site natural and undeveloped. They voiced concerns about protecting wildlife and the site's environmentally sensitive features.
In 2008, the City Council approved a stripped-down plan focused on passive recreation such as hiking and birding. The planned community center has been moved to a site five miles away on Durant Road. Abbotts Creek Park and Community Center is under construction and is scheduled to open in late 2015.
At Horseshoe Farm Park, a second phase of improvements has been planned but isn't yet funded. Those plans include a 7,000-square-foot arts and education center, an outdoor amphitheater, more nature trails and a butterfly meadow.
Before that happens, the city will use a $250,000 grant to renovate an old farmhouse on the property late next year.
"We're still planning what it will be used for," parks planner Lisa Potts said. Options include an art gallery and multipurpose room.
With plenty of open space available, Odom said he'd like to reconsider more intensive recreation facilities.
"If it were my druthers, I would want to revisit it," he said.