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One of the greatest thrills from doing family history research is that occasionally what goes around, comes around. Over the last couple of years I have been corresponding with a cousin of my wife's, Paddy Nolan, on a shared part of our family tree concerning the Giles and Nolan families of Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. I've been sending finds at this end to Paddy, he's been reciprocating with finds at his end, and together we have achieved a lot in unravelling the shared part of our respective family stories.
As a part of this, some time ago Paddy sent through a photograph of my wife's father, Paddy Giles (1926-2001), which depicted him in the uniform of a Local Defence Force volunteer playing with the Carrick-on-Suir Brass Band (originally the Carrick-on-Suir Brass and Reed Band). The LDF was a local defensive group set up to prepare for the possibility of an invasion during the Second World War, known in the Republic of Ireland today as the 'Emergency', as Ireland was neutral throughout. It was an extraordinary find, not just because it was the first time we had seen him in an LDF uniform, but more so because we did not know he played an instrument. Front and centre though, Paddy sits there in the image with a French horn. This is the picture...
Last November, there was a further development. Following the recent passing of their brother, Midge (Eugene), Paddy Nolan and his brother Pierce (top photo), who still resides in Carrick, had been in conversation about the family history research being compiled, and during their conversation came across the above photo. It transpired that Pierce had in his possession the very same French horn that Paddy Giles once played in his youth.
Paddy Giles was in the LDF and the band for a couple of years, but when he left (after the war, to join the RAF), the French horn was duly passed to Pierce as Paddy's successor. Pierce continued to play with the band for just under a year, before he too eventually left. At that point the French horn left Pierce's possession, and that was seemingly that - until a happy venture at a recent local auction in the town saw Pierce purchasing the instrument once again. During their discussion, Pierce had indicated that he would like to give my wife the instrument that her father once owned and played - if ever we were in the Carrick area, we could pop in to pick it up. Needless to say we were absolutely delighted!
Last weekend, we were indeed once again in the area, and arranged to meet up with Pierce. We had a wonderful conversation with him about Carrick in the past, the role his grandfather had in establishing the brass band in the first place, and confirmed that Paddy Giles' father was also involved with the band in earlier years, though to what extent we have still to establish.
But there was more... Pierce sat us down beside his computer and promptly showed us an extraordinary collection of photographs from his family's past, including both Giles and Nolan members. The highlight was a photo of Paddy Giles as a child, believed have been taken in approximately 1942, marching with the LDF in a parade through the Main Street of Carrick-on-Suir, possibly as part of a recruiting drive. Patrick C. Power's book, Carrick-on-Suir Town & District 1800-2000, notes such a parade on St Patrick's Day 1941 (p.315) - it may well be the same parade. At this stage Paddy was not playing an instrument, but was merely shadowing one of the members as he learned the ropes. The following is the image...
This cropped detail of the picture shows Paddy, marching behind Pierce Nolan's father Henry (Harry) Francis Nolan, carrying the band's sheet music for them - the French horn itself can be seen in the image also, on the far left, with the gentleman with the mop of hair looking down as he plays it:
I asked Pierce how he knew that the French horn purchased at auction was the same one? The answer was simple - the instrument was partially damaged one day when Paddy Giles dropped it on the Main Street! The dent that it left was of a unique shape, and it was this that Pierce recognised instantly at the auction.
Later in the evening, Claire and I returned home, after thanking Pierce for his generous gift. In the house of Paddy's widow, my mother-in-law Pauline Giles, several of Paddy's grandchildren were present, including my sons Calum and Jamie. An instrument is for playing, and so we allowed them each to try to get a note from it!
The French horn is now very tarnished, and we will seek advice now on whether it should be cleaned and restored, or left as is, before doing anything further with it. But the experience was absolutely extraordinary, and one for whom we are forever indebted to Pierce Nolan, and to his brother Paddy.
Family history does not get much better than this.


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I would like to start out by saying that having a college of the magnitude of Wesleyan can be an asset to the residents of the City of Middletown, but has and continues to also have a small group who give the college a bad rap.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Wesleyan respecting the Community: Respect Is Earned. A Commentary.
I would like to start out by saying that having a college of the magnitude of Wesleyan can be an asset to the residents of the City of Middletown, but has and continues to also have a small group who give the college a bad rap.
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I greatly appreciate this post and this is an important conversation that needs to continue. Personally I am not really interested in weighing in heavily on town-gown politics, however I do want to point out a physical manifestation of these issues. I walk down High Street nearly every single day and I am just about the only pedestrian who ever presses the walk light button on Church and High street. The students cross against the light whenever they want to. In additon, on a regular basis, I run into students who are walking on the sidewalk 2 or 3 abreast who refuse to move to a single file to let oncoming walkers (me) pass by. I have learned to stand my ground and the students do this sort of half body twisting move without really giving way. I am practically forced off the walk at times to step in the mud or grass. Do they do this to their friends or other students? I also routinely come across groups of students standing stopped in the sidewalk to talk. If they are stopping to talk they should move it off to the side so they are not blocking the sidewalk for pedestrians. Its really rude and suggests to me that the students would presume to have some sort of ownership of the streets, sidewalks and crosswalks around campus and it comes across as very disrespectful and discourteous. Maybe this is on a completely different, scaled-down level from what the writer was trying to convey in his post but in my mind its the same issue. The offending people are making a staement "We are more important. We belong here. You Dont" . And that is just untrue and its a terrible shame that educated people associated with Wesleyan behave in this manner.
- April 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM
What makes you think this legal battle is being funded by Wesleyan? Wesleyan allows several lunch trucks to park on or near their property on a regular basis. I sincerely doubt that Wesleyan would fund a legal battle against a lunch truck on Route 17.
- April 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I have to agree with 3:22; I doubt Wesleyan is funding any legal battles other than it's own. It wouldn't make economic sense when it has bigger problems, like say, refurbishing Hall-Atwater after last week's fire?
- April 27, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Anonymous #2 It is quite evident from your response that you are someone who is well versed on the ongoing travesity that is being waged against a lifelong resident of the City of Middletown, as well as your brief synopsis proves your position on this personal attack toward someone you probably have never met and obviously do not know.
Let me put it this way, the individuals that are being served a grave injustice are dear to the community in more ways than one. Your reluctance/willingness to research their status and respect amongst lifelong residence of this community/town is just the point that I am trying to portray to those who engage in this forum.
Maybe you should reassess your position...
Anthony R.Lancia, Jr.
(Not Anonymous)
- April 27, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I have no connection to Wesleyan and I am very happy about the changes to High street. They made it much safer for pedestrians. If the cars would drive the speed limit or a few miles below it would be a lot less treacherous. It seems to me like the drivers just want to be able to go 30, 35, or 40 mph and that is the problem. You're not going to get anywhere faster by going 5 or 10 mph faster in a residential zone with lights everywhere!
- April 27, 2009 at 9:07 PM
- Vijay Pinch said...
Dear Mr. Lancia,
Thank you for your commentary. While I disagree with most of what you have written, I have to say I enjoyed the piece. I hope you keep writing for the Eye.
1) You assert that the redesign of High Street was driven by 'select individuals at Wesleyan'. This is a misrepresentation. The truth is, Wesleyan had very little to do with the redesign. True, several of us who live and own homes (and pay property taxes, not unlike yourself) in the neighborhood raised concerns with city officials in 1998 about the speed and volume of traffic. Yes, some of us work for Wesleyan; but at no point did any of us ever give the impression that we were acting on behalf of or representing the views of Wesleyan University. We simply compiled, as private citizens of Middletown, a petition of local pedestrians, homeowners, and residents, and we went to the Common Council to ask for stop signs at key intersections. We thought it would be nice to make High Street south of Church more like High Street north of Washington, where speeding is generally not a problem (as far as I am aware anyway). In the end, members of the city's Public Safety Commission felt that stop signs were not a good idea. Instead, after several meetings the Public Safety Commission authored a 'Traffic Calming Ordinance' that stipulated a set of procedures whereby neighborhoods could request amelioration of traffic problems. These procedures involve making a formal request, after which the Police Department conducts a traffic study, based on which the city then decides whether or not to take action. According to the ordinance, any plan the city comes up with has to meet with the approval of a high percentage of neighborhood property owners. And it has to be reviewed by all city departments.
After we learned of the ordinance, several of us in the neighborhood decided to make a formal request for some kind of 'traffic calming'. This was in 2001. As per the procedures outlined in the ordinance, the Police conducted a speed study and compiled an accident report. I can't recall all the details, but I do recall that it was determined that the average speeds were very high, well above ten miles over the posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour, and that in a 3-year period there had been on average one accident per month along the stretch of High between Church and South Main (not including the several accidents at the intersections with those roads, particularly the latter). I personally knew of one particularly bad accident that occurred when someone tried to pull out of Mansfield Terrace -- like Huber, a notoriously bad intersection with High Street due to the illegally parked cars along that stretch that used to block visibility. Meanwhile, I conducted my own informal speed study with a borrowed radar gun. Sitting on my porch with a friend, I confirmed that the speeds were very high -- averaging 37 miles per hour (this average included cars that were slowing down to turn onto Loveland!), with some speeds upwards of 60 miles per hour, especially as drivers made their way down High toward Warwick.
The city then explored various traffic calming alternatives, as mandated in the ordinance. One involved speed 'humps' (not bumps), but this was rejected due to objections from the Fire Department and the Snow Plough drivers. So the engineers went back to the drawing board. Eventually they came up with the current design. The next phase of the project involved obtaining 'neighborhood concurrence' as well as making sure the different departments of the City had no objections. This involved holding several public meetings with the engineer and police to present the plan and answer questions. For our part, homeowners and other property owners in the neighborhood agreed in numbers well above the threshold required to approve the design. The figure for High Street was well in excess of 80%, which was the threshold required. Even if you remove Wesleyan-owned properties, the figure was 84%. (By the way, this was the full extent of Wesleyan's involvement, namely, the signing of the neighborhood concurrence form.) If memory serves, concurrence was achieved in April of 2003. Meanwhile the Public Works department sent the plan around to *all* the city departments, and received no objections.
The final implementation of the plan was delayed due to budgetary and funding issues, but eventually construction began. The plan was finally completed, but with some unfortunate alterations at the last minute due to political pressures to which the mayor sadly capitulated. At this point it is perhaps best not to go into detail about the nature and origin of that pressure, but I can say with some confidence that the changes to the original plan were detrimental to the overall effectiveness of the design, particularly as it concerns the corner of High and Loveland.
The point of this over-long response to your commentary is not to defend the redesign of High Street (which, incidentally, I think has resulted in lower speeds, but at the same time has had some unfortunate side effects, not least the increased [and possibly illegal] paving over of the tree lawn for parking, especially by owners of rental properties between Warwick and High). Rather it is to indicate to you and other interested readers that the redesign of High Street was a long process that occurred over several years, was as inclusive as possible, and involved many dozens of property owners and residents. It was not the result of a cabal of well-connected individuals with secret handshakes and blood-soaked, candle-lit midnight rituals ramming their own vision of what Middletown should look like down everyone's throats. (I won't say that this sort of thing doesn't go on in Middletown, but I can say with all honesty that I'm not aware of such behavior, or part of it.)
If, in fact, High Street is as dangerous as you claim, then this will be borne out in whatever traffic data the city routinely compiles. If the case can be made that the redesign has resulted in a less safe situation, then the ordinance mandates that the city should act to remedy the situation. On the other hand, if the redesign only makes you feel a little worried and more cautious as you enter the neighborhood, and causes you to slow down as a result, then the design has achieved its purpose. You may curse me as a result for being among those who prompted the process of redesign, but as far as I'm concerned being cursed is a small price to pay for a safer, more livable neighborhood. (And I can assure you that you are not the first to hurl invective in my direction. I get it all the time, especially from colleagues at Wesleyan. But to be honest, I wear their scorn like a badge of honor.)
2) You write the following: "it is in my opinion that the lifelong residents whom have made this their home deserve the respect they have earned by dedicating their lives to the community by means of paying taxes, volunteerism, parenting and supporting future growth. It is once again in my opinion a travesty and disrespectful that transients and or part time residents feel that they live above and deserve more than those who have settled here before them."
Your comment suggests, or rather asserts, that because you have lived in Middletown all your life you are more deserving of respect than those of us who have not. As far as I am aware, this is not the case. We are all due the same amount of respect, regardless of how long we have lived in Middletown.
3) I'm not sure what to make of your comments regarding Miss Patsy's hot dog stand, aside from noting that it also betrays the odd belief on your part that somehow a cabal of Wesleyan professors engages in nefarious behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Please. The plain fact is that this is a dispute between two property owners over a question of zoning.
Finally, to anonymous at 3:04: I share your pain. I also use the pedestrian light at Church and High religiously every day (2 or 3 times a day at least). I can confirm that most pedestrians do not use the crosswalk and that most of those are students. I also observe drivers routinely running the red light at this intersection, even when the crosswalk light is on. This occurs about 50% of the time.
As for students not sharing the sidewalk, I think it has less to do with selfishness and a sense of entitlement, and more to do with the fact that they are kids and tend to live in their own world. I agree, though, that it is annoying.
Vijay Pinch
- April 27, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Anthony, while I am a Middletown resident (not lifelong; only a few years), I'm not familiar with the "individual" or the details of the legal battle directed towards the lunch truck you continue to refer to in your posts.
It makes it very difficult to learn more about this situation if I don't have names and details on which to base my research. I am willing to do that research in order to have an informed opinion, but your veiled descriptions make it very difficult to do so.
Perhaps you have a desire to avoid slandering anyone, which I completely respect, but if these legal matters have been reported on in the paper, all that I ask for are some article links. It would be very helpful to those of us who are not as well informed as we might otherwise be. Thanks.
- April 27, 2009 at 10:12 PM
What I am always amazed by is the fact that Weslyan is tax exempt with an almost billion dollar endowment and I am sure a huge operating budget with an endless line of applicants each year.
Rather than helping its host community with direct payments like YALE does, Weslyan argues that the city recieves PIOLT funding from the state because of their existence in Middletown.
That means state taxpayers make a payment to Middletown so that poor Wesleyan doesnt have to.
Our city has a $10 million deficit, our state has an $8 billion deficit, has Weslyan said we will help out by paying a portion of the PILOT so the state doesnt have to. NO
Wesleyan selfishly enjoys their tax exempt status and keeps building tax exempt structures. The President is non existant, at least Doug Bennett was engaged in the community and did some great things. This president is to good to engage the unwashed masses around his ivory tower.
Find a way to revoke Weslyans tax exempt status now. Talk to Dodd, Liberman, Delauro..
- April 27, 2009 at 10:22 PM
The city is cutting back on everything in an attempt to avoid big tax increases on the good people of Middletown who are here to stay not 4 year transiants who disrespect our laws and put public safety officers in danger.
Why can't Weslyan step up to the plate. The recent fire at the Chemistry lab and the extensive mixture of chemicals and gases resulted in 22 workers compensation claims filed by firemen with the city. Has Weslyan said sorry that one of our students accidently left a bunson burner on and caused 22 injuries to the fireman that risk their lives to contain a fire at this completly tax exempt property? NO.
President Roth needs to be a true leader and visionary, istead he backs the students that caused a riot a few months back and has been silent about the fire and the pain and suffering it has caused on 22 firemen and their families.
Any idea what 22 workers comp claims will cost the city? Weslyan needs to step up to the plate and make payments to the city just like YALE does in New Haven. We, Middletown tax payers, pay for a Fire Department and a Police Department which protects Weslyan and its property and they can't pay Middletown one thin dime.
- April 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM
To Weslyan (sic) Tax Exempt Billioniare...
All institutions of higher education are tax exempt. Wesleyan does not receive special consideration.
- April 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I can live with Wesleyan not paying taxes on the properties of the University proper, classrooms, offices, adminastration even dorms. What I think would be fair, is for them to have to pay taxes on the homes that they rent to faculty and students. Perhaps they already do, and if so they can report so here. I think I payment for those rental properties would make a lot of sense.
- April 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Im sure they do pay taxes on the houses, but so what that amounts to nothing.
Someone please educate us as to why the state should pay PILOT funds to the city so Wesleyan can enjoy tax exempt status. Its wrong, they dont serve the general public like a hospital or other tax exempt organizations.
- April 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Good Morning to all,
I am not at all shocked at the instant response of all that have written as well I am pleased that the responses shed light on issues that I have raised.
Dear Mr. Pinch please do not twist my writing to portray that I feel as a lifelong resident that we deserve more respect, my comment is meant to bring light of those who are transients (students) have the ability to vote on local issues and political elections that effect the residents long after they are gone.
As for back door dealing and burning of the midnight oils between Wesleyan and Politicians within the City of Middletown, we would all be very naive to not beleive that this occurs on a regular basis.
As for the lenghty study and final decisions made on how to make this road safe I am somewhat aware of, that is not to say that all agreed.The facts are that there were some shady signatures obtained to make this happen.
I would also support your desire for a safe neighborhood something all resident in the city deserve, but let us not forget the changes that occured came at the expense of the entire city for the benefit of one neighborhood, so is politics!
In regards to the lunch wagon, it is not a fight between two property owners.
The Wesleyan Professor who also would like to open a alcohol rehab house on their property feels compelled to throw his weight around by using the Wesleyan institution as a backer, these are quotes made by himself as well as those who have taken a stand behind him.
To all have a great day and step up to the plate and do what is right for all, don't be selfish the outcome is never good.
- April 28, 2009 at 7:55 AM
To Anonymous 10:33 pm
No kidding but does that make it right for the very rich to pass their obligation on to the often struggling taxpayers.
- April 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Great way to improve town-gown relations with your post. Chip on your shoulder?
To all the Wesleyan haters, what do you think this city would be without Wesleyan. I'm sure Main St. and throngs of other businesses would shutter up if the Wesleyan community (students/staff/faculty) was no longer here to support the businesses/landlords/etc. Middletown residents should be a little bit grateful that Middletown is home to a world class university.
This town/gown battle is tired.
- April 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Just because I questioned who was funding the legal battle over the lunch truck on Rt. 17, should in no way suggest I was taking sides in this battle. I don't know either of the parties involved and the only things I have read about this issue have been posted in the Eye. I'm sure both parties have some legitimate complaints about the other. I would like to thank our P&Z committee for trying to sort this all out.
Anonymous #2
- April 28, 2009 at 12:23 PM
I have seen some disturbing points in these posts including reference to "transients" and the original post about your relatives arriving in 1920s. Wesleayan was founded in 1831, nearly 100 years before your relatives arrived. It's really not about who was "here first" or who will remain. Its about who is here NOW!. And as for who will ermain re: "Transients"... many MANY people who arrive here due to going to Wesleyan end up staying here because Middletown, Connecticut is a wonderful and special place. There are many many people who end up settling here and making major contributions to Middletown. And people such as myself who have no connection whatsoever to Wesleyan but have also chosen to settle here in Middletown are just as free to get involved and make contributions to the community. I am also disturbed by the comment re: 'What would Middletown be without Wesleyan'. Its not like one of those state schools out in the boonies where the town has 5000 year round residents and 30000 students. The Wesleyan population is just a fraction of Middletown. We are the County Seat, tthe court is here, the hospital, etc etc. And to reiterate, its really not about "winning" or "being right" its about being good neighbors and inclusion. I agree that people need to look outside themselves and look to the good of the community and think about their intentions before making hurtful and assumptive statements about who other people are.
- April 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM
To Anonymous @ 1:20 PM;
If Wesleyan left, I guarantee Middletown would probably turn into a Manchester or Hartford-type city. I can tell you that your courts and (mental) hospitals - something you boast about- aren't destinations that are bringing quality citizens to this city. Hartford and Manchester have those things too, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- April 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Do you think it's the "transient" Wesleyan students that are the disrespectful people that grafitti all around town or do you think it's Middletown residents that are doing it. Do you think it's the disrespectful Wesleyan community that is causing a strain on Middletown's social services budgets or do you think it's Middletown residents that are? It can go both ways, can't it?
If you don't like Middletown, leave. It's that simple.
- April 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Vijay Pinch said...
Dear Mr. Lancia,
You are making a serious allegation of corruption when you write that "there were some shady signatures obtained to make this [the road redesign] happen". It is only fair that you provide some facts to back up your claim. For my part, I can say that all the signatures we obtained from neighborhood property owners for the concurrence process were obtained legitimately. No one was pressured to sign, and in fact several property owners chose not to sign. (Otherwise we would have achieved 100% concurrence.) Perhaps you are referring to something that went on in City Hall? If so, then I think you should say so, and make clear precisely what it is you are talking about. Otherwise your claim lacks credibility.
Likewise with your comment about a supposed Wesleyan professor who wants to "open a alcohol rehab house on their property". Who is this person? You say s/he has been quoted to this effect, so why not tell us his or her identity? If you don't shed some light on all this, readers will only conclude that you are simply trying to rabble rouse and will dismiss your comments as irresponsible rants.
Vijay Pinch
- April 28, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Now I hear a bunch of drunken Wesleyan frat house boys built a pool right on High Street with no permits and no safety precautions or concern for kids in the area. Try doing that in your yard.
Is Wesleyan going to order it taken down or will they back down because some of these kids have rich and well connected parents.
Can't Wesleyan control their own students.
- April 28, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Dear Mr. Pinch,
It is the latter of your assumptions as to who signed off on paper work regarding the final approval of the street design, as I cannot speak for those neighbors who signed the petition. As for revealing names the outcome of the road redesigning will not be changed and the relevance becomes mute, as I have said, "so is politics".
In regards to the homeowner who would like to open their doors to an alchohol rehab for a limited number of recipients that would be the same individuals whom are seeking litigation against the lunch wagon in their neighborhood, this was reported by the Middletown Press and the owners were quoted as saying that they would seek litigation against the City of Middletown P&Z if their application was not approved.
I ask that you give me some time to seek out the article and I will try and post it within the blog.
Once again I thank you for responding to my claims and keeping me honest.
- April 28, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Dear Anonymous 1:20 pm
I would like to say only that after four to five paragraphs of tirate that you and I agree whole heartedly in your closing statement and these are the points that I am trying to get acrossed to our neighbors and guests at the Wesleyan University.
By no means do I, nor have I ever said that I want them to go away, I would just appreciate co-existance with respect not force fed resisitance and attitude.
There is a time and place for everything, the students are the future and my future means a great deal to me and I want them to know that, I offer guidance and constructive criticizm not hate and anger.
Have a wonderful night.
- April 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Dear Anonymous 4:20 PM
????????????????? I am at a loss on your response!!!!!!!! Please tell me where you read that I do not like Middletown and I have accused Wesleyan of all that happens in town.
- April 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- April 28, 2009 at 11:41 PM
- Vijay Pinch said...
You are quite right, anonymous 11:41, to point out that there are very few routes from Washington Street to the South Farms area. And it is possible that the closing of School Street exacerbated the situation, though I'd need to see some data.
In any case, the volume of traffic was not our main concern, though the size of some of the vehicles was and is (the street and the many historic buildings that line it really cannot handle 18 wheel tractor-trailers which, I can attest, cause the buildings -- especially older buildings -- to shake). We did try, early on, to get the street designated a "no through truck" zone, but for some reason the state would not allow this. Perhaps we should try again. But the main concern was and is speeders.
The north-south artery issue was part of the discussion during the early meetings in the late 1990s. The reality is that High Street is an important local artery. In fact, when the volume of traffic is high in the a.m. and p.m., the speeding is significantly reduced.
That High Street is a local artery doesn't, however, mean that it needs to be a speedway, or that it has to be unattractive. There are many important, heavily used streets in cities and towns across America that are lovely, safe streets to walk and live by. In fact, given that High is such an important street, especially for visitors to Middletown, it stands to reason that our planners and engineers and politicians make it as attractive and as safe as possible. It doesn't take much. Tree plantings, the restoration of tree lawns (including those that have been paved over), the "undergrounding" of the power and phone lines, improved pedestrianization, ticketing of cars parked over the sidewalk, enforcement of city regulations regarding garbage bins, sensible and strictly enforced design codes -- these things can go a long way to making High Street even more pleasant, safe, and welcoming for residents and visitors alike.
Charles Dickens is thought to have said that our High Street is "the most beautiful High Street in America". The truth is, while many believe he said this, he probably did not. But whether he did or not, he could have. You would be hard pressed to find any other similar stretch of road in Connecticut with such lovely, historic buildings. We should treat it with respect.
As for the redesign of 66: My view has always been that this was an unnecessary use of ConnDOT money (between $20-30 million, if memory serves) given all the other pressing transportation needs we face, especially in the realm of public transportation. The closure of School Street after the fact, which was the main locale of serious accidents that ostensibly justified much of the project, essentially solved the safety issue at the reservoir. None of the expensive re-engineering of the road around the reservoir would have been necessary had School Street simply been closed in the 1990s. And rather than add more lanes and causing speeds to increase, we should be putting roads like 66 on diets, especially where they form gateways to Middletown. Washington Street used to be gorgeous. Ditto for South Main/Route 17.
And while we're on the topic: I'm surprised more people aren't concerned about the current situation along 66 by the reservoir where traffic is moving at very high speeds in opposite directions along a long curve, separated only by a double yellow line. Instead all we hear about is how (allegedly) dangerous High Street is.
Perhaps the only silver lining in all this is that now we have four or five lanes to play with all the way to Meriden. When and if the "Knowledge Corridor" (the commuter rail between New Haven and Springfield, via Meriden) gets going, we could put some elevated light rail right down the middle of 66/691.
- April 29, 2009 at 6:53 AM
Yes, closing a street in one place to (seemingly) solve one problem can cause problems miles away. The accident data of accidents on Route 66 prior to its reconfiguration reveals they were the result of driver behavior (drinking or sleeping) not due to the road geometry or the existence of an intersection.
Regarding other comments during this post, the hot dog wagon (So Main/ Randolph Rd) is an issue before the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) not P&Z. A sober house application for additional residents was not sought by a Wesleyan professor.
- April 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM
to anonymous @ 415pm and 1003am looks like the same person... I was not referring to CVH but rather Middlesex Hospital where babies are born and x-rays are taken and surgeries performed, you know, the usual medical stuff. I wasnt boasting just pointing out that the hospitals and the court are huge employers just like Wesleyan is. I am sorry you feel the need to speak ill of other Connecticut towns which certainly have some detracting points just like any town anywhere. They also have plenty of positive and appealing points and I know many people who live / have lived in both places and could argue those points much better than I. You seem really focused on being right and it seems like you completely lack respect for the place you live outside the scope of your tiny little university world and are nit picking on certain points and not getting the overall message which is that both Wesleyan and Middletown /non-Wesleyan aspects of Middletown are gems with lots to offer each other and I would like to see a focus on the positive rather than the negative, as negativity and blame accomplish nothing.
- April 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM
I just want to say that I personally felt that the High Street re-construction project that created the curving slow zone was one of the biggest wastes of man-hours and tax dollars I have ever seen in a lifetime of living in Middletown. It upsets me every time I drive through it.
Had there been a simple stop light or stop sign installed at High and Loveland, I believe the same vehicle speed control could have been achieved. I believe actually, it would have been safer and smarter option than the obstacle course that has been created.
Also - what about a stop light at the 4-way intersection of Pine and Shurch Street. There's a project that really should happen!
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Burn baby burn: fire sparks dump controversy
Poisoned ground? County wakes up to illegal dump
Palettes and pumps, windows and wheelchairs, rusted cars and rotting wood. Engines, ovens, tire piles, leaking drums, dishwashers, oil and propane tanks, asphalt and asbestos shingles, toilets– and, yes– even kitchen sinks.
All up in flames.
But even after the smoke from the January 4 fire had cleared, County officials recorded enough debris still clogging the Keswick property of Cecil and Doris Gardner to make the above list seem almost insignificant.
No one knows exactly what went up in the acre that burned– only that the possibilities on the 16-acre parcel fronting Campbell Road appeared limitless. According to relatives of the Gardners, much of the rubbish was construction debris from a local roofing company. Add to this a flea market's worth of novelty items like ice cream trucks and soda machines, and a fleet of broken-down autos from a hobbyist's garage.
But on January 4, firefighters could only conjecture about the composition of the piles as random explosions detonated around them, even blasting through the roof of an old milk truck 50 feet from where they were working adding to the column of "black, noxious smoke" pouring into the air, according to one report in the County file.
The blaze, visible from several miles away, consumed a shed and 12 vehicles, according to a County report. "It burnt the electric line belonging to Virginia Power, which caused the power to be off for several people until it was repaired. The black smoke wafted through the neighborhood. There was a multitude of materials that were burning that could give off toxic or harmful fumes," the report says.
A month later, the County issued a press release which claimed that, in responding to the emergency at the Gardner home, officials had "discovered a major illegal junkyard."
Neighbors along Campbell Road agree that the Gardner's backyard business constitutes a major illegal junkyard, but they roll their eyes at the notion that the County just "discovered" it.
"The County has basically turned a blind eye to this dump for thirty years," says neighbor Kate Bailey. "As a result, it has led this family to believe that its existence is acceptable to County officials. I really hold the County more at fault than the landowners."
In fact, County records reveal that neighbors were complaining back as far as 1976. The pattern of activity, shown on a timeline produced by the County, goes something like this:
A zoning or other violation is alleged. The Gardners remove a few cars or truckloads of trash. The citation is dismissed.
A new violation is generated. The Gardners don't respond. Yet another citation is issued. The Gardners again remove some junk. And so on– for years.
A 1976 county memo by then-zoning administrator J. Benjamin Dick is revealing: "Mrs. Gardner said she could fool the county and in fact had," Dick wrote. "She has a perpetual building permit for additional rooms to be added to their house... Records ought to be checked for building inspections."
Today's zoning law requires all private landfills over 10,000 square feet (about a fifth of an acre) to have a permit. The Gardners have argued that their unpermitted 16-acre behemoth was legal because it existed prior to the 1969 zoning ordinance that regulated private landfills.
But from 1976 through 1984, according to a chronology of the Gardner property produced by the County, officials made a series of visits to the junkyard to investigate violations, complaints, and in 1984, to deal with a fire that burned for almost two weeks.
In 2003, the dump appeared on the county's radar for the final time prior to the January blaze. Two onsite visits from then-zoning inspector Steve Smith resulted in violation reports. He found "trash/refuse/inoperable vehicles," but noted that the junkyard "has not been added to or altered," and dubbed it grandfathered– or "legal non-conforming" in County parlance.
Smith's violation report dated January 28, 2003, claimed that "cleanup is under way." In a follow-up site inspection, the violation was declared "abated." His notes exclaim, "I shall return!"
Indeed he did. In October of that year, another violation was alleged, and on November 12, the violation was again considered "abated."
Yet, based on its present scale it seems the dump grew steadily over the years and continued to grow even after the recent fire. During a January 26 inspection, officials noted that "a large quantity of metal that appears to be siding scraps" had been added since their inspection on the day of the fire.
But a long lull separated the 2003 violations from earlier enforcement actions. For fifteen years, the neighbors weren't complaining, notes a County file.
The neighbors contend that they shouldn't be responsible for enforcing zoning, fire, solid, and hazardous waste codes.
Had the laws been strictly enforced, residents say, the current mess would not exist. Neighbor Pat Napoleon calls the accumulation "an environmental disaster." She and others along Campbell Road worry about their wells, and about their kids playing in the neighborhood creek.
It's no Love Canal yet. So far, the only drinking water tests conducted on three nearby wells found no major contamination. But it can take years for contaminants to reach wells through the underground aquifer, and Napoleon one of those whose wells was tested isn't satisfied. She and others are adamant that soil and water tests be conducted on the Gardner property.
While the junkyard may not qualify for the Superfund, residents are angry that the DEQ has allowed a county zoning department to be in charge of the cleanup of a possibly toxic landfill.
In order to prompt action, a group of about 15 residents have come together to make sure any possible environmental impact of the site is thoroughly assessed.
Their efforts seem to be paying off. The DEQ originally had no plans to test, but now say they aren't ruling it out. The determination not to test, after all, was only based on "two visual assessments," according to County zoning administrator Amelia McCulley.
Jed Pascarella, Environmental Program Planner for the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) the state agency that performs environmental risk assessments says that another state agency, the Department of Emergency Management, "closed the case as an imminent threat." That ruled out bringing in the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
But it doesn't rule out the DEQ conducting its own soil and water tests. In fact, asbestos shingles were found "shoved" into a stream on an adjoining property, while the burial ground for asphalt shingles was located beside a creek, according to January reports by the County.
The decision to test will be based on materials found "as the cleanup progresses," says Pascarella. The agency makes a visit to the site "every two or three weeks." During those visits, the DEQ will be on the lookout for ground-up asbestos in the soil or signs of chemicals having been released into the environment.
The only hazardous materials still on site, according to Pascarella, are paint, a few batteries, lead sheathing, computer monitors, and a few cans of solvent. What lies underground, he concedes, is unknown.
Yet it's what may have been buried that worries neighbors the most. For years, they say, they've heard and seen the Gardners backfilling and bulldozing– activities Pascarella says he hasn't heard about.
"We have a lot of allegations, but no factual information has been submitted to us," he says, referring to things like photos, sworn statements from people who saw refuse trucks on the property, and other eyewitness accounts.
Napoleon says both the County and the DEQ have been made aware of the bulldozing. She told Pascarella, she says, and she has said it to the County, "over and over again; there was constant digging, bulldozing, burning, burying."
In addition to a "shingle disposal area" found near a creek, Pascarella says the site contains a large "burn pit" measuring eight-feet wide, 30-feet long, and five-feet deep.
Neighbors fear the Gardners may have been burning hazardous waste in that pit for years. They report having regularly smelled burning– "not like leaves or ordinary trash," says neighbor Napoleon, "but something noxious."
Residents Kate Bailey, Bonnie Stevens, and Anne Fox also say they've smelled acrid smoke and fumes.
In fact, neighbors believe that neither the January fire nor the much larger one that occurred in 1984 were accidents.
While the recent fire resulted from open burning in the junkyard, the 1984 conflagration came on the heels of a neighbor's complaint about the stockpiling of tires.
Former Keswick resident Gary Beasley says he was worried about the fire hazard when he filed his complaint about the tires with the County on February 7, 1984.
The next day, then fire marshal Ira Cortez advised the Gardners of a fire code violation, and on February 9, he mailed them a certified letter with official notification.
On February 10, the tires went up in flames.
Residents fear that leftover sludge from that fire may still be buried deep in the soil. In a letter to the County, adjacent homeowner Kate Bailey asks, "Is it news to the County that every burning tire releases two gallons of oil in addition to a host of other hazardous and carcinogenic materials... to eventually leach into our ground water, run off onto our adjoining properties, and ultimately contribute to the mess we have all made of the Chesapeake Bay?"
While the number of tires that burned in the January 2005 fire is anyone's guess, the 1984 volume "far exceeded" the legal storage maximum of 2,500 cubic feet, according to reports from the fire marshal.
A newly released County fact sheet on the dump announces that the DEQ is just learning of the first fire– though in 1988 the agency conducted a statewide survey of Virginia tire piles which, according to information found on the DEQ website, included every city and county in the state.
"A lot of piles were missed in that survey," says Pascarella.
In the wake of the recent fire, neighbors say they've "hammered" county and state officials for information, even requesting documents through the Freedom of Information Act.
One of their greatest concerns about the cleanup, they say, is that the County is letting some "responsible parties" off the hook. High on their list is local roofing company W.A. Lynch, where Cecil Gardner has been employed.
The massive piles of asphalt, tiles, and rooftop cooling units, two stacks of asbestos shingles, and other products of a roofer's trade aren't just the Gardners' responsibility, Keswick residents claim.
Zoning administrator McCulley says the County intends to fully enforce the cleanup, though only the Gardners are currently charged with the task.
"Our goal is compliance," says McCulley. "We want this site cleaned up. When they stop making progress with the cleanup, then we'll go after every responsible party."
The Gardners face a formidable list of violations.
For one thing, McCulley points out, their land isn't zoned for industrial use. Also falling under County jurisdiction is violation of the Trash Ordinance, which allows for criminal prosecution. Fire and Rescue has cited them for violations involving improper storage of hazardous and combustible materials also allowing for criminal prosecution. In addition, the state DEQ has fined the couple for solid waste code violations for operating an "unpermitted storage-disposal-of-waste facility."
For each of these violations, others who dumped on the property could also be charged. But McCulley says the County will only pursue other violators if the Gardners don't complete the cleanup and claims that they have no proof that others were using the property as a cheap landfill.
"We have no evidence that Lynch Roofing– the company– was bringing materials there," says McCulley.
But neighbors say they've seen many W.A. Lynch trucks entering the Gardners' property loaded with materials– and coming out empty.
Pat Napoleon recalls that in 1991, while she was employed as a teacher at Stone Robinson Elementary School, W.A. Lynch replaced a portion of the school's roof. The operation, she says, included drilling close enough to her classroom to be distracting, and she recalls seeing Cecil Gardner working on the project.
During that period– which school building superintendent George Shifflett says lasted through the entire summer and involved the replacement of 14,500 square feet of roof Napoleon remembers being out sick one day and watching as "convoys" of W.A. Lynch trucks came and went at the Gardners' property all day long.
"Going in full and coming out empty," she says.
Napoleon's husband, Leo, recalls passing by the school one day on his way home and seeing a Lynch truck loaded with roofing debris pulling out of Stone Robinson. Both he and the driver were headed for Campbell Road, where Leo says he "watched the truck pull into the Gardners'."
Another neighbor, Mike Svetz, has his own observations. In 1987, a crew from W.A. Lynch replaced his home's old tin roof. Svetz a project manager for a builder says the roof was loaded with lead paint but remembers hearing that "Cecil was taking it home." He recalls seeing Mr. Gardner leaving in a truck filled with discarded roofing materials and returning a short time later. Svetz thinks the return came far too quickly for the truck to have gone to the County's only public dump, the Ivy Landfill, now a transfer point called the Materials Utilization Center.
"I believe our old tin roof filled with the lead paint went to the Gardners," states Svetz.
But if eyewitness accounts aren't enough, there's also the word of the Gardners' own relatives, as recorded in County files. In one memo, two Gardner relatives allegedly told an inspector on January 5, 2005, that Cecil Gardner collected trash "to supplement his income." According to the inspector's report, Cecil worked for W.A. Lynch Roofing, "and materials from their job sites are major components of what is on the property."
Will Lynch be investigated for its alleged role?
"I haven't heard the Gardners claim that Lynch did have something to do with it," McCulley says.
Perhaps, given the mound of documents the issue has generated, McCulley has forgotten a letter she received from fire inspector John M. Jones on January 31, 2005. In that letter, Jones says that Doris Gardner "stated that the roofing company her husband worked for has volunteered to help with the cleanup."
A spokesperson for Lynch, declining to give her name, claims the company is not involved in the cleanup– and that Cecil Gardner is no longer a Lynch employee. On the matter of whether the company has contributed to the mess, owner William A. Lynch Jr. has not returned several phone calls.
Doris Gardner, while declining to be interviewed, says that she'll have "several things to say" at a June 29 meeting the County is convening at Stone Robinson School.
The upcoming meeting has already sparked controversy, according to Napoleon. The County is only sending notices to residents who live within a mile of the site and residents feel it should be advertised to a wider audience, Napoleon says.
But if Doris Gardner originally contended that W.A. Lynch was helping with the cleanup, her stance has apparently shifted. Gardner tells a reporter that there are no Lynch materials on the site, and the roofing company has nothing to do with the problem.
"It's our mess," says Gardner, "and we're cleaning it up."
That strikes some neighbors as unfair if the eyewitness allegations about Lynch vehicles are correct, and since the Gardners have stated in a private meeting with the County that they can't afford the cleanup. "We don't have the money," son Chris is quoted in one County document.
Mike Svetz, who has known Cecil Gardner for years, says he believes "Mr. Gardner is a victim, too."
It's not clear what sort of "supplemental income"– referred to by the Gardners' relatives– might have been received from Cecil's employer, but it's clear that the cost of legal disposal of construction debris is high.
According to its website, the Materials Utilization Center charges a tipping fee of $61 per ton. If a typical dump truck carries 10 tons, that's $610 for a fully loaded truck.
Anyone offering to accept a load for less than that might find himself doing a land office business– literally.
Today, the Gardners are discovering the high cost of proper disposal as they struggle to remove the hazardous materials and other flotsam that clutters their property. One local recycler, Coiner's Scrap Metal, says it has made eight pick-ups in three and a half months, and neighbors acknowledge seeing refuse-laden trucks– leaving the Gardner property.
The County now concedes that it erred in assuming that the landfill was grandfathered. After the 2005 fire, officials went back and examined aerial photographs shot "soon after the 1969 zoning ordinance was adopted," according to a new County release. "The photographs show that a junkyard did not exist on the property at that time." The Gardners had just moved there in 1969.
When zoning inspector Smith declared on November 12, 2003 that the site was grandfathered, "according to aerial photos that pre-date the ordinance," he based his conclusion on the wrong aerial photos and the wrong ordinance, says County spokesperson Lee Catlin. She says Smith was referencing later photos, and a 1980 zoning ordinance that had nothing to do with junkyard regulation. Smith could not be reached for comment.
But even if officials mistakenly believed the dump was "grandfathered," its owners still were not allowed to "add to or alter" its use after the ordinance was enacted.
Yet reports from the 1970s and 1980s reveal that they did just that. The County's own chronology of the property states that, during an inspection by then zoning administrator, Dick, on August 2, 1976, the Gardners were informed that they had "expanded a non-conforming use." The 1984 violation from fire official Ira Cortez for the "storage of over 2500 cubic feet of tires, wood, and other combustible materials" also shows that officials knew the junkyard had indeed been altered or added to since 1969.
For that matter, the finding that the junkyard is not grandfathered should not be a new finding at all. If the aerial photos were shot "soon after" the 1969 ordinance, neighbors wonder why the County needed 35 years to decipher them.
Today the County claims that it will closely oversee the dismantling of the illegal landfill, with the Gardners paying for every penny of that operation. As long as they continue to do so, it seems the County won't be asking questions about where the debris came from, or who else contributed to the mess.
"The Gardners are making an extraordinary effort," says McCulley.
Fronting their home on Campbell Road is a large, well-kept lawn. Behind the house, however, the yard gradually melts into a wooly stretch of once-pristine woodlands where a well-worn road leads into the moonscape of rubbish.
For now, at least, the trucks traveling that road are heading out full.


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Sherwood: Spurs sacking hurts
Tim Sherwood admits it was a "massive wrench" to lose his job at Tottenham on Tuesday but he will be hoping he has made enough of an impression to land another managerial post.
The 45-year-old was relieved of his duties at White Hart Lane less than six months after he replaced Andre Villas-Boas in the dugout.
Sherwood's future was unclear throughout much of that reign, with constant speculation linking the likes of Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino, Ajax's Frank De Boer and Holland coach Louis van Gaal to his job.
And Daniel Levy confirmed Sherwood's departure in a statement on the club's official website on Tuesday afternoon.
"We appointed Tim mid-season as someone who knew both the players and the club. We agreed an 18-month contract with a break clause at the end of the season and we have now exercised that option," the statement read.
"Moving forward, now the season is over, we shall embark on the process of finding a new head coach.
"We have a talented squad and exciting young players coming through. We need to build on this season, develop our potential and inspire the kind of performances that we associate with our great club."
Sherwood became the 12th Barclays Premier League manager to lose his job since the start of the season and told Sky Sports News he was disappointed to be sacked.
"It is obviously a massive wrench to leave a club of the stature of Tottenham Hotspur, a club very close to my heart,'' he said.
As soon as it was announced that Sherwood was departing Tottenham, he was installed as favourite to fill the vacant hot-seat at Brighton.
Oscar Garcia left the south-coast club after losing 6-2 on aggregate to Derby in the Championship play-off semi-finals and now Sherwood could replace him.
West Brom and former club Norwich are also looking for new managers and Sherwood's impressive win ratio of over 59 per cent during his time at Spurs will no doubt alert those clubs.
When asked in his press conference ahead of their final game of the season against Aston Villa he revealed he was not confident he would be managing anywhere next year.
During his spell in charge Sherwood compared his position to that of a babysitter and a supply teacher and publicly criticised the commitment of his players after they slipped to an uninspiring 4-0 defeat at Chelsea.
Sherwood's side also lost 5-1 at home to eventual champions Manchester City and were knocked out of the Europa League in the round of 16 with a 5-3 aggregate defeat to Benfica.
An impressive display in their last league game of the season saw them beat Aston Villa 3-0 and seal a return to the Europa League next season but the writing already appeared to be on the wall for Sherwood.
Brazil midfielder Sandro, who fell out of favour under Sherwood, said last week that he expected to be working under a new boss while the approach to De Boer and constant link to the likes of Pochettino always suggested Levy was ready to make a change.
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Caution: Some people get dizzy the first few times they try roll breathing. If you begin to breathe very fast or become lightheaded, slow your breathing. Get up slowly.
Breathe in to fill your lower lungs. Your belly will push your left hand up as you do this. Your right hand won't move.
Then breathe out. Your left hand will fall as your belly falls. Do these steps 8 to 10 times.
Next, breathe in as you did before, but don't stop after your left hand pushes up. Continue to breathe in. You will feel your upper chest expand and push your right hand up. Your left hand will fall a little as your belly falls.
Breathe out slowly through your mouth. As you breathe out, feel the tension leaving your body. Both your hands will fall. Do this exercise for 3 to 5 minutes.
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At his news conference on Wednesday, President Obama opened with a statement of over 1,100 words, all of it on gun violence, including his announcement that "I've asked the Vice President to lead an effort that includes members of my Cabinet and outside organizations to come up with a set of concrete proposals no later than January -- proposals that I then intend to push without delay."
That should reasonably have been expected to put the gun control issue to bed for the rest of the day. How many meaningful questions could reporters possibly pose after all of that (other than the one Jake Tapper of ABC asked, which will be seen later in the post)? But as Ben Sisario at the New York Times's Media Decoder blog reported Wednesday afternoon, that didn't satisfy many media critics, who -- with Sisario seeming to agree -- expected and wanted to see an all-gun-control, all-the-time exercise, and were angry that it didn't unfold that way (bolds are mine throughout this post):
At News Conference, Reporters Skip Past Gun Control and Face Instant Criticism
The harshest judges of those in news media are often others in the news media, and, with the benefit of Twitter, that intrajournalistic watchdog role can be performed simultaneously with the journalism being criticized.
Case in point was the White House news conference on Wednesday afternoon, when President Obama made a forceful announcement in response to the massacre of children last week in Newtown, Conn.
... His words, after five days of extensive news coverage and national debate, were intensely focused on gun violence. He addressed no other topics. Yet judging by the questions that followed his address, most of the members of the Washington press corps had other things on their minds.
"I'd like to ask you about the other serious issue consuming this town right now, the fiscal cliff," was the first question, from The Associated Press's correspondent, Ben Feller.
Mr. Obama answered. Then came the next question, again about the so-called "fiscal cliff": "What is your next move?" Then: "You mentioned the $700,000, $800,000 — are you willing to move on income level?" And so on, for at least 15 minutes, before a question about gun violence was finally asked, by David Jackson of USA Today.
Media watchers on Twitter — mainly other members of the media and some whose job it is to watch it — quickly seized on the questions as a sign that the Washington press corps was out of step with the national agenda.
The whiners Sisario cited included some of the usual suspects: an unnamed tweeter at the Huffington Post, Eric Boehlert, and CNN's Piers Morgan.
The disgruntled should be relieved that Obama didn't get more gun-related questions. ABC's Tapper asked the one question (HT the Daily Caller) which, after nearly four years of inaction, should be on the minds of both Obama's friends and his foes. Note the obviously testy presidential response:
Q. It seems to a lot of observers that you made the political calculation in 2008 in your first term and in 2012 not to talk about gun violence. You had your position on renewing the ban on semiautomatic rifles that then-Senator Biden put into place, but you didn't do much about it. This is not the first issue -- the first incident of horrific gun violence of your four years. Where have you been?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, here's where I've been, Jake. I've been President of the United States dealing with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, an auto industry on the verge of collapse, two wars. I don't think I've been on vacation.
And so I think all of us have to do some reflection on how we prioritize what we do here in Washington.
Obama then concluded the conference, possibly because things were starting not to go his way, and because gun-related questions would probably have sent things further downhill. The whiners seem totally oblivious to that.
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ADMIT for developers:
You will need to know where CASA is installed on your machine (see our CASA support page). The following (csh) commands get your started on installing ADMIT (use USER = anonymous to get a read-only version, developers should know their USER name). bash users use the .sh variant.
cvs -Q -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/cvsroot checkout admit cd admit autoconf ./configure --with-casa-root=/astromake/opt/casa/stable source admit_start.csh
This will define the $ADMIT environment variable. There is also a top level INSTALL file, which contains more hints to install ADMIT with advanced options, most of which you will not need to get started. If you do not have autoconf installed, you can try and download the (possibly outdated) [[1]] file instead, and then cvs update -d this version.
The command
will remind you that ADMIT has been installed, it doesn't do anything other than that right now. The top level Makefile also has some useful reminders what can do now and to do some very basic testing of ADMIT in a CASA environment. For example
make python0 make python1
are both essential to run tests. But making the documentation is not (and is currently fragile):
make pdf make html make doc
and to simulate the buildbot
make buildbot
For beginning developers this may not work if you don't have sphinx added to your CASA, in that case use
make unit
although that currently does very little testing.
We do have some **rogue testing** installed, these are basically python (pure python as well as casarun-python) scripts that run through some Flow*_AT's. You can run them via
make unit0_clean make unit0 make unit0
and they should not fail. The 2nd run will re-run an existing test and should also not fail. Those test_Flow* scripts are instructive to see how basic Flow's can be created using ADMIT.
Running an NGC 253 test dataset
This example
cd $ADMIT make data n253 cd data $ADMIT/admit/test/admit1.py ngc253_fullcube_compact_spw3_clean.ce.fits --alias x >& x.log
should give lots of interesting things to look at in a directory called ngc253_fullcube_compact_spw3_clean.ce.admit. The x.log file might be useful for developers to look at in the casa where things don't look so interesting. This example should take about 2 minutes.
Enhancing your CASA with extra tools
For reasons beyond our control, CASA comes with its own python, which in a default installation isn't even accessible to mortal users. You will need to enhance your shell to see and work with that python. Installing ADMIT will take care of this last part, but if you don't have write permission into your version of CASA, there is only a limited number of things you can do as a developer. You would not be able to build the documentation, as this requires sphinx to be installed within CASA's python. See also casa-python and drive-casa for ways to interact with CASA and its python.
Here's a recipe for installing sphinx: (you don't need an active $ADMIT, just the get-pip.py)
% cd $ADMIT/integration-test % casapy --nologger --nogui : !python get-pip.py : quit % rehash % which pip # confirm that this is now in casa's path % pip install sphinx % pip install numpydoc
There are a number of interesting modules you can install within your CASA python, if you want direct access to them.
% make all
will check them for you, and report the version of the ones you have in your python environment.
ADMIT for users:
A user installation is expected to be using conda or egg based. We have experimented some with this, but nothing stable is available at the time. You might see the usual setup.py script in the root directory for ADMIT for this. But this is not publicly available yet.
Examples for ALMA Data Reduction Party
The following notes apply to the demo given during the Jan 28 ADMIT talk (Peter Teuben)
If you run on the NRAO/CV lustre system
The following command would enable ADMIT in your current (assumed bash) shell:
source ~pteuben/admit/admit_start.sh
then the command admit will display some settings in your new ADMIT/CASA environment:
ADMIT = /users/pteuben/admit version = 0.5.2 CASA_ROOT = /users/pteuben/casa-release-4.5.0-el6 version = 4.5.0
CAVEAT: this will use "my" 4.5 release version of CASA, not the NRAO system version
Make a symbolic link to the fits file and run admit1.py via the runa1 script:
mkdir /lustre/naasc/users/pteuben/demo cd /lustre/naasc/users/pteuben/demo ln -s $ADMIT/testdata/test21.fits
listfitsa test21.fits test21.fits (1, 300, 180, 180) Serpens_Main 277.491666667 1.22916666667 0.036 runa1 test21.fits /users/pteuben/admit/admit/test/admit1.py --alias x test21.fits Logfile: test21.fits.log
real 1m39.088s user 0m15.339s sys 0m2.421s aopen test21.admit
firefox file:///`pwd`/test21.admit/index.html
# or cf. to my laptop /data2/teuben/ADMIT/demo/admit/admit/test/admit1.py --alias x test21.fits Logfile: test21.fits.log 18.367u 1.202s 0:36.14 54.1% 0+0k 192+115424io 0pf+0w
If you want to install and use it on the JAO/lustre system
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If you want to install it on your system
The example below is for linux, but should translate easily to Mac users.
- Grab the CASA and ADMIT tar files:
wget https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/linux_distro/release/el6/casa-release-4.5.0-el6.tar.gz wget http://admit.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/admit/dist/admit.tar.gz
- Untar CASA and prepare CASA_ROOT for ADMIT
tar zxf casa-release-4.5.0-el6.tar.gz export CASA_ROOT=`pwd`/casa-release-4.5.0-el6
- Untar ADMIT and configure it with this casa, optionally point to a location where ADMIT testdata are. Hopefully you have the command 'cvs' installed, as this is the easiest way right now to update ADMIT to the latest version:
tar zxf admit.tar.gz cd admit cvs update ./configure --with-casa-root=$CASA_ROOT --with-testdata=/home/teuben/ADMIT/data1/M3 source admit_start.sh
- Type the admit command to see if it's happy
admit ADMIT = /home/teuben/ADMIT/admit version = 0.5.2 CASA_ROOT = /astromake/opt/casa/stable version = 4.6.72
- Use the runa1 script (which calls the admit1.py recipe) on a fits file:
runa1 test21.fits
- or a pipeline imaging standard long name
runa1 uid___A001_X12b_X231.NGC_1068_sci.spw17.cube.I
which knows that there are two fits files (.pbcor.fits and .pb.fits) that need to be divided for the noise flat cubes that ADMIT needs for it's processing.


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The discovery was serendipitous. Dr. Nick Christians at Iowa State University made the discovery in the course of other research in 1986. He was awarded a patent for corn gluten meal as an herbicide in 1991, and the Gardens Alive! company was the first to market the product in 1996. To say it's been well-received is an understatement. Researchers are continuing to study exactly how it works, and to develop new formulations, such as hydrolyzed proteins from corn and other grains.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Mount Ida College junior Amanda Bowen (Randolph, Vt.) delivered the decisive strike with nine seconds remaining in the second overtime as the Mustangs outlasted the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth women's lacrosse team, 17-16, this afternoon in a non-conference contest at Cressy Field.
Mount Ida (1-2) generated its final scoring opportunity with a successful ride, forcing the Corsairs (1-1) into a turnover just before midfield. Bowen drew a foul on the hosts to create a free-position opportunity. Positioned in the center of the arc, the junior from Randolph, Vt. placed the game-winner over the UMass Dartmouth's goalie's right shoulder to hand the Mustangs their first win of the season.
The Corsairs snapped a 14-all tie with a pair of unanswered goals to regain control of the contest. Senior Taylor Corsano (Bourne, Mass.) broke the deadlock with her sixth goal of the season with just over five minutes remaining in regulation. Freshman Catrina Longo (Billerica, Mass.) extended the UMass Dartmouth advantage to 16-14 two minutes later, but the visitors responded with two goals within 33 seconds to draw even at 16-all. The Corsairs had two quality chances with six seconds left on the clock, but junior Sammy Levitt (Wayland, Mass.) denied a pair of free-position attempts.
Sophomore Colleen Kane (Arlington, Mass.) powered the UMass Dartmouth offensive attack with nine goals, including five markers in the second frame. Corsano recorded a hat trick and dished out two assists for five points, while freshman Kathryn Gibb (Georgetown, Mass.) and Longo each produced three points. Freshman goalie Leah Wilkinson (Northford, Conn.) scooped up a team-high five ground balls, while junior captain Sarah Kalmes (Billerica, Mass.) was one off the pace.
Senior Molly Sheppard (Brookhaven, N.Y.) and Bowen provided Mount Ida with an explosive 1-2 scoring punch. Sheppard registered six goals and handed out a helper for seven points, while Bowen utilized a balanced attack with four markers and three helpers to match Sheppard's production. Sophomore Samantha Basler (Plymouth, Mass.) tallied three points, while three other student-athletes recorded two points. Freshman Rebecca Beaulieu (Weare, N.H.) won seven draw controls and collected a team-high six ground balls.
The Corsairs raced out to an early 6-2 advantage, but the Mustangs responded with five unanswered goals to take a 7-6 lead. The visitors were unable to hold their advantage for long as Corsano found the back of the net with 49 seconds remaining in the half to send both teams into the intermission tied at 7-all.
Trailing 9-8, Mount Ida began to find its offensive rhythm as the Mustangs used a three-goal surge to create a little breathing room. UMass Dartmouth responded with a marker, but they were unable to stem the tide as the Mount Ida scored a pair of goals to take its largest lead of the contest, 13-10 with 18 minutes, 34 seconds remaining.
With the game beginning to slip away, the Corsairs turned to their top-offensive option and Kane answered the call. Kane produced four unanswered goals in a span of nine minutes to regain UMass Dartmouth's advantage. Sheppard stopped the hosts momentum with her sixth and final marker of the contest at the 50:59 mark.
Levitt turned in a strong performance in between the pipes for the Mustangs with a season-high 14 saves to earn the victory. Wilkinson was the tough luck loser with six saves after relieving freshman Nicole Butts (Milford, Mass.) at the start of the second half. Butts finished the contest with three stops.
The Corsairs held a 37-32 advantage in shots, while Mount Ida had a slight edge in ground balls, 25-24. Gibb helped the hosts earn a 22-15 advantage in draw controls, winning nine restarts.
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