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Wireless FAQs
Office for Community Technology (OCT) – Updated 8-2014
- General Background
- Legal Limitations
- History of City Wireless Siting for Sites in the Right of Way
- Placement on Private Property (Zoning Code) vs. Placement in Streets
- Proposals or Reported Actions in Other Cities
- Health Concerns
- Impact on Property Values
- Arguments Regarding Lack of Neighborhood Demand for Wireless Services (or Services from Particular Providers)
- OCT Process Overview (ROW Applications Only)
- What Else is the City Doing?
- Small cells
- Conclusion
The City's Broadband Strategic Plan recognizes broadband networks as fundamental infrastructure to the future of Portland's citizens and businesses. Such broadband networks rely upon both wired and wireless telecommunications technology for both infinite capacity and mobility and connectivity. Portlanders are increasingly relying upon cell phones, smart phones, and the wide range of wireless devices available instead of landline phones and wireline internet connections. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that wireless phones are the source of over 70% of calls to the 9-1-1 emergency communications center, and federal surveys show that two out of every five Americans have dropped their landline phones completely (41%). Dependable access anywhere and everywhere, without signal loss, is viewed by many as essential to their daily lives. As the technology is mobile, access to the technology has very little to do with demand or interest in any particular neighborhood. It has far more to do with the right and ability of the carrier to provide an adequate signal to mobile users wherever those users happen to be in the service area, regardless of neighborhood. Reliable wireless access depends upon signal availability. Increasing numbers of wireless users, wireless devices, and data traffic means more antennas are necessary to provide reliable signals. Unsurprisingly, there is some debate in the community about the placement of wireless sites. Some citizens prefer such facilities be located away from residential neighborhoods. They cite sincerely-held concerns about potential health impacts, aesthetic issues, and property values. There are others who support wide availability of access to wireless choices, and regard such availability, along with good connections and competitive pricing, as an asset to the City and its neighborhoods.
- A wireless carrier has basic legal authority to place antennas to provide service to fill a coverage gap. The antenna placement decision itself is an engineering decision related to quality of signal/service.
- Under federal law, no state or local government can "prohibit or effectively prohibit" the offering of wireless services in any area where the carrier is licensed. See Communications Act, 47 USC 253(a).
- Federal law prohibits the City from making decisions modifying or denying any wireless sites based on allegations regarding human health impacts (47 USC §332(c)(7)). Arguments regarding effects on property values are mixed at best, and nothing in the statutes or case law indicates the City can legally take these arguments into account when making wireless siting decisions.
- Wireless carriers have enforceable rights under both federal and state law to place wireless facilities on utility poles.
- In Portland, wireless sites on private property are administered by the Bureau of Development Services (BDS) through the Zoning Code (Title 33) via land use reviews and/or building permits.
- The Office for Community Technology (OCT) reviews administrative permits for sites located within the public right of way, e.g. attachments on utility poles. Administrative permits are not governed by the Zoning Code and are not appealable. Because the City's legal authority is limited under the federal Communications Act, its primary concern has been to regulate the time, place, and manner of wireless site installations.
As a result of increased concern by both citizens and City Council members, in 2009 staff undertook a public process to take a fresh look at right of way (ROW) regulations governing wireless attachments, which included multiple public hearings. The public ROW is generally the area between neighboring properties and includes street surfaces, curbs and sidewalk, and also frequently includes additional areas on either side of the sidewalk. This process looked at multiple options and included consultation with interested citizens, neighborhood representatives, the City Attorney's Office, staff in the Office for Community Technology (OCT) and the Bureau of Development Services (BDS), and wireless industry representatives. The goal of the City in the revised process is to strike a balance between the City's legal obligations, while also taking into account to the extent legally possible the sensitive nature and livability of our residential neighborhoods.
The result of the re-booted process is the current system adopted by the City Council for sites within the ROW. It requires wireless carriers to follow a hierarchy for placement of new facilities in the ROW. Under the 2009 City process, if there is an existing building or structure, such as a business, existing cell tower, water tank, or utility pole where new antennas can be placed ("co-location"), that option is preferred. Facilities can be placed on poles within the ROW, but only based on a four-tier street ranking, with busy streets and arterials (Priority 1) strongly preferred over neighborhood residential (Priority 4 – the least preferred). Generally, the re-tooled wireless siting system is set up to give preference to facilities placed on a pole on the largest or busiest street possible. The process developed in 2009 allows current utility poles in the right of way to be replaced with taller structures so there can be fewer facilities, rather than shorter structures that require more sites to reach "line of sight" coverage connections.
Before 2009, permits to place antennas on utility poles were processed like most other ROW permits—without neighborhood notice or input. The current process increases the ability of neighbors to participate in the process of siting antennas in the ROW in residential neighborhoods. This ability to participate is not absolute, however, and the current process provides for limited local input. Federal law makes it clear that wireless siting decisions are ultimately based on the engineering judgment of the licensed wireless carrier regarding the coverage needs in the area to be serviced. The City's process is designed to facilitate the exchange of information between carriers and neighbors and to provide a forum where neighbors can ask questions and express opinions about the proposed site and aesthetic and design considerations. Ultimately, it is in the carrier's discretion whether it chooses to modify the proposal in response to comments.
PLACEMENT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY (Zoning Code) vs PLACEMENT IN STREETS (ROW)
Administration of wireless siting within the City of Portland is primarily shared between two bureaus or offices—the Bureau of Development Services (BDS) and the Office for Community Technology (OCT). The jurisdiction for each office is determined by where the proposed siting is located. Through the Zoning Code, Portland City Code Title 33, BDS administers and review requests for sites located on private property. This is typically through land use reviews and building permits. OCT administers and reviews requests for sites located within the public right-of-way (ROW), i.e. attachments on utility poles located near the road or sidewalk.
Occasionally, a wireless site may involve both offices. For example, an applicant may propose to attach wireless facilities and antennas on a utility pole in the right of way, but may choose to locate the associated equipment on adjacent private property. In this case, OCT reviews the request for the wireless facilities on the utility pole, and BDS reviews the request for the equipment as a Type I conditional use review.
Because the Zoning Code does not apply to the ROW, approvals or denials to work in the streets are administrative permits, not land use cases. Citizen influence on ROW permit decisions is much different from citizen influence in land use cases. OCT does not make discretionary decisions. Rather, OCT staff review whether all applicable standards are met. Nevertheless, during the public process in the spring of 2009, participating community members clearly stated that they wanted both notice and meetings of proposed new sites, even if these meetings are not structured like land use cases and even if the public does not have the same voice in these ROW permits as it does for land use cases. The City's current requirements were designed with this input in mind.
While some citizens have recommended applying the full range of zoning rules to ROW applications, this recommendation is not reasonable. The City's governing legal framework draws a sharp distinction between administrative ROW permits and land use processes. It is not clear that investing substantial City resources and staff for this issue is justified, particularly in light of other pressing challenges and current federal law.
Portland City staff appreciates and will follow up on references to what other cities are doing on this issue. However, given legal constraints, we are not aware of any local city code or licensing provision enacted or under discussion or development in any other US city that allows any US city to arbitrarily deny wireless service coverage, or to consider alleged human health impacts in connection with siting decisions. The City continues to manage the proliferation of wireless sites, balancing citizen and neighborhood needs and interests, the licenses for wireless carriers, and applicable legal constraints.
The Communications Act is the overall federal statute which governs the telecommunications industry. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 amended portions of the Communications Act and preempts local governments' decision-making authority in approving or denying wireless sites based on the issue of health effects. This relevant section of law is located at 47 U.S.C. §332(c)(7) and states that "No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission's regulations concerning such emissions."
This section has been upheld in a number of court cases to invalidate any local decision that appears in any way to deny, delay, or obstruct any local wireless siting decisions on the basis of health concerns. The City does not have legal authority to recognize or consider whether a given wireless installation may have adverse health impacts on adults or children in the local wireless siting process. This is true regardless of the sincere belief or concern of anyone on this subject. Other cities that have challenged or tested this preemption have lost in litigation.
In order for a local government to legally consider potential health concerns in local siting decisions, scientifically documented or otherwise, Congress and the FCC would first need to act to amend this section of the Telecommunications Act.
The issue of whether property values may be affected by a new wireless installation is also not a legally recognized criterion in the local wireless siting process. The reason for this is that applicable federal law strongly promotes the deployment of any and all advanced telecommunications services and the lack of any case law or precedents the City is aware of which have successfully halted or delayed wireless siting for these reasons. Moreover, it is worth noting that the argument that property values are affected by wireless sites (positively or negatively) has very little documentation other than anecdotal sources. City staff is aware of arguments on both sides of this issue.
Wireless technology is mobile, and therefore access to such technology has very little to do with demand or interest in any particular neighborhood. It has far more to do with the federal right and ability of the carrier to provide an adequate signal to mobile users in and traveling through the service area, whether or not those users live in the neighborhood.
Portland has granted wireless carriers the authority to use the city rights-of-way since approximately 2005 in the form of right-of-way use agreements. These agreements allow wireless carriers to place its facilities on existing utility poles located in the right-of-way. Each carrier's agreement is substantially similar to that of other wireless carriers, and each agreement is available on OCT's website. Beginning in mid-2009, these rights-of-way use agreements require carriers to follow a pre-application notification process for new sites proposed in certain residential areas. The notification process seeks to balance the need for wireless infrastructure with the concerns of residential neighborhoods for prior notification for such wireless sites. In 2012, OCT promulgated administrative regulations to provide clarification on the pre-application process. The purpose of the process is to provide notification of new wireless sites within the ROW. The pre-application process does not apply to modifications of existing wireless sites within the ROW.
ROW permits are administrative permits in public streets, and NOT discretionary land use cases. There are two phases of this process for new ROW applications, and in this section we have outlined OCT's pre-application and application process for new sites in the public ROW. Please note that installations on private property are managed by BDS under existing land use codes and procedures, governed by the Zoning Code (Title 33). OCT's wireless ROW siting process is very different from land use cases for private property as administered by BDS.
PRE-APPLICATION PROCESS FOR RESIDENTIAL AREAS (ROW applications only)
- The wireless carrier determines that it wants to apply for a new site within the ROW. If the proposed new site is on a Priority 4 or within 400 feet of a Priority 4 street, this decision triggers a pre-application notice and meeting requirement for the proposed site.
- The wireless carrier sends a notice of an upcoming informational neighborhood meeting to discuss the proposed site. The city requires carriers to hold this meeting and provides that meetings may be moderated by a third-party.
- The notice must be sent to property owners and residents within 400 feet of the proposed ROW site. The notice must also be sent to the neighborhood association, any business associations, and the neighborhood district coalition.
- The notice will also have contact information about the pole owner. The large majority of utility poles are owned by PGE and Pacific Power & Light. CenturyLink (formerly Qwest), Frontier (formerly Verizon), and the City own a small number of poles throughout the City. It is the wireless company's responsibility to identify the pole owner and provide the correct contact information for the pole owner on the meeting notice.
- The notice must describe the proposal and provide names and contact information for the wireless carrier and the City.
- The notice must be sent 14 – 30 days before the meeting date.
- The carrier holds the informational neighborhood meeting. The carrier is expected to discuss its proposed plan and to provide interested parties with certain information about the proposed site, including a photograph of the pole and a photo simulation of how it will appear after the equipment is attached. The carrier must also present design options to address mitigation of visual, scale, or other aesthetic impacts of the proposed site. Neighbors are encouraged to ask questions and offer suggestions about the design alternatives.
- The intent of the neighborhood meeting is to facilitate the exchange of information between carriers and neighbors and to provide a forum where neighbors' questions about the proposed site can be answered. The city also asks that neighbors provide feedback regarding the carriers' proposed design alternatives for the site and for carriers to consider this particular feedback before making its application to the City.
- If questions are asked which need follow up, the applicant should seek a primary neighborhood contact person so that answers can be provided and distributed after the meeting.
- If the carrier chooses to proceed, it must wait 30 days after the meeting to submit its application to OCT. During this period, the City expects the dialogue about the carrier's proposal, which began at the informational neighborhood meeting, to continue.
- The carrier's application must include information on how it responded to public input. You may review the application form on OCT's website. It is in the carrier's discretion whether it chooses to modify the proposal in response to comments.
FORMAL APPLICATION (ROW applications only)
- Once it has received an application, OCT reviews the application against contractual requirements. Applications will not be approved if they are incomplete or do not comply with the contractual requirements.
- This is a process review. If the form and process are not met, OCT will return the application to the applicant for correction. Unlike land use review cases, there is no specific timeline for the City's review of applications. This allows flexibility to respond to citizen questions and clarify issues with the applicant before action is taken.
- Please note that, like all other ROW permits, there is no formal notification process required for citizen or neighbors after OCT review is complete. That being said, the City has at times offered to provide a courtesy notice to the neighborhood association chair when the application is moved forward. This decision is made on a case-by-case basis.
- Once OCT has verified that the City's Wireless Application process and criteria are met, it notifies the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) that the wireless application has satisfied necessary requirements and forwards the application to PBOT.
- The antennas can be attached to an existing utility pole or the utility pole can be replaced with a slightly taller one.
- This permitting step can take a few weeks.
- At this point, the application is under the jurisdiction of PBOT. OCT is not involved in the technical ROW permit process. PBOT processes the application against the requirements of Title 17 of the City Code (transportation and street use provisions). PBOT staff performs their technical review and can approve, modify, hold or deny the application. Ultimately, if all other requirements are met, PBOT issues the ROW construction permits to the applicant and allows construction to commence. Applicants may start work the day PBOT issues the permit, or they may wait and start several months later.
- Post-installation – After the facility is installed, PBOT conducts a field inspection to ensure the facility was constructed as proposed. If the facility does not operate in accordance with standards or stops operating correctly, i.e. noise and vibration levels are excessive, PBOT and/or OCT will require the facility owner to correct the problem(s).
"Small cells" is an umbrella term for low-powered radio access nodes designed to complement the larger cellular network. They have shorter range and use smaller equipment and antennas than the traditional cell sites that have been deployed on utility poles in Portland's ROW. Small cells may have less impact on the ROW because of the smaller size has less visual impact while providing needed coverage for carriers.
On a case by case basis, the City may permit small cells under different procedures than described in this FAQ for traditional ROW applications. Small cells would be placed on existing utility poles and be used to provide additional capacity and coverage to existing networks, such as in high traffic areas or hard to reach locations.
The City continues to carry out its responsibilities under applicable law, but is also active in legal and policy issues involving for responsible regulation of cellular facilities. For example:
- The City has participated in numerous court proceedings to advocate for local jurisdictions to retain its local control to make certain decisions regarding wireless sites. Many companies seek to preempt local governments by creating federal or state regulations to bypass local authority. One key victory for local governments is that telecommunications companies can only sue cities & counties for denying a permit based on actual or effective prohibitions of service, and not speculative or theoretical ones under 47 USC §253(a).
- The City recognizes that potential health effects have been a concern for many residents. Unfortunately, the city is pre-empted by the federal government from considering potential health concerns when making siting decisions. The City's Office of Government Relations continues to work with our federal Congressional delegation to request that the federal government re-evaluate potential health impacts of wireless sites. On March 29, 2013, the FCC released a report, order, further notice of proposed rulemaking, and notice of inquiry (FCC 13-39) on the potential health effects of radio frequency radiation. The City submitted comments, which you can read online. It has also forwarded this information to our Congressional delegation.
- Portland City Council unanimously approved a resolution requesting that the Federal Communications Commission update studies on potential health effects of radio frequency wireless emissions. City Council Resolution No. 36706.
- Relevant city bureaus, including OCT, BDS, and PBOT, continue to work together in reviewing applications and issues arising from cellular facilities in ROW or on private lots. Remember, OCT's jurisdiction extends only to ROW facilities. Wireless sites on private property are governed by the procedures of the City's Zoning Code and BDS.
- The City will continue to follow up on individual issues and complaints (e.g. noise, inspection issues, nuisance regulations, etc.).
Given the significant legal constraints on the City and the increasing reliance of Portlanders upon wireless devices, OCT believes its review process strikes a balance in an otherwise difficult situation. To provide for more local control in this area, the only realistic recourse at present is to change the governing federal legal mandates. Such change can only be achieved by citizens asking Congress to pursue necessary amendments of federal statutes at the national level. OCT encourages concerned citizens to continue to urge Congress to address these issues responsibly and promptly.


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I have had a bit of a fabric splurge. Oops. Am I sorry? Not one bit.
The first bit of fabric shopping was for someone else. I'd promised to make my niece a dress for her birthday. She is only a couple of weeks older than my own seven year old, so, I predict I might be asked to make a second one for her, now that she has seen this.
|Fabric and pattern (girl skater dress) from KitschyCoo
My next splurge on fabric was some pretty darn amazing stuff for making my race day marathon tights with. Buoyed up by the fun of wearing my toucan tights for a recent half marathon, I want to throw caution to the wind and dazzle the crowd with my legs in Edinburgh. The fabric is now in my possession, but I am forcing myself wait until after I've hit the 20 mile mark in training before cracking on with special kit.
My last splurge was totally on impulse, in a moment of love at first sight between me and the creepy crawlies, as I was having a casual browse on DragonFly Fabrics.
I don't know about you, but I am very much a seamstress who is inspired to make something because of seeing a piece of fabric that really grabs me. I saw this and immediately thought I would like to make a Sew Over It 1940s Tea Dress with it.
I have since bought some ivory coloured crepe de chine from my local shop, and plan to make the dress as two layers, treating the bodice pieces as one layer, and keeping the skirt panels separated so that they twirl nicely. This will be a bit of a challenge. A slow burner rather than a one night sewing fix.
Progress so far is cutting and stitching the front five pieces together. I was round at my friend Pamela's for a sewing night, and, she helpfully had a spotlessly clean kitchen floor (mine has never been so clean) and was very patient about me sprawling out over it as I attempted to cut my breathe on it and it moves fabric out. Starch spray helped a bit, but I am accepting that chiffon is just a very different beast to interlock jersey.
The two layers of chiffon and crepe de chine hang together to make a dress I think will ooze luxury. I am imagining swishing about the place very happily in this, sun shining all the time, and hair looking amazing too, of course.
Mum asked me if I was making it for a special occasion. Um, no, not really (although it will be nice for such times). I'll be just as likely to bring this out for the school run as I will a fancy do.


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Sunday, April 15, 2012
And NASA can't wash it's hands for lack of Hoverboards
While I have been ripping on the $5.6 Billion dollar
company Mattel, for not producing real working Hoverboards,
how about we talk about NASA.
The space technology people, the people who put a man
on the moon, and have been sending people into space
ever since, have yet to come up with a Hoverboard.
Now, perhaps I shouldn't be too angry, they have other
things on their minds, like fu*kin algae , yes NASA is
spending $10 Million dollars on mother Fu*in Algae,
and not the Algae itself, but the bags to put Algae in.
What the hell is wrong with this anti hoverboard society?
First Robert Zemeckis lies to us in 1989, then Mattel lies
and gets our hopes up, now NASA the people who
could do this thing, is spending it's money on bags
for Algae.
What the hell has happen to the future????
This is not what I thought when I was a kid.
A word to the geeks and tech people and billion
dollar companies.
A hoverboard is what we want, is that too much to
ask in 2012?
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RoboEpic's Robo-Weekend!
In the NY [Empire] Championships on Sunday @ PACE University, though the robot was not as reliable this time around, the team won the Motivate award (team spirit and teamwork), was nominated as 2nd place in the PTC Design award (robot design and aesthetics), and came in 3rd place in the Think award (for best engineering journal). While this is very impressive recognition, it didn't earn us a spot in Super Regionals – we'll get another chance on March 7th at CT states @ GFA.
RoboEpic 5017's Post-Season Wrap Up
After three long days at the East Super-Regional in York, PA (April 3-5, 2014), the girls have a lot of which to be proud. Although they came up just short of a trip to the world championship, they had their best robot performance of the year, finishing 16th out of 36 teams in their division despite the fourth hardest schedule. They also had the fourth highest ranking points in their division; a feat that is difficult to achieve. Their four wins in eight matches were very impressive and could have easily been six, they lost two very close matches that came down to the final seconds. They received serious consideration from several teams as an alliance partner for the final rounds but unfortunately they were not picked for the elimination rounds.
On the judging side, they had a clear goal going in and were aiming to win the Motivate Award, described below.
Guidelines for the Motivate Award:
- Team demonstrates respect and Gracious Professionalism to all
- Team functions as a cohesive unit to discover the goals of the program
- Team can articulate the journey of becoming a team of individuals with different roles
- Team has formed and can articulate internal processes to assign roles and communicate between team members
- Team attitude of celebration and spirit is consistent throughout the team and the competition
- Team is enthusiastic
- Team functions well as a unit
- Team enthusiasm is evident in community outreach
FTC update Feb 2014
RoboEpic 5017 (FIRST Tech Challenge team number) consists of 11 Upper School girls who have a common passion for robotics. Each girl contributes her unique set of skills to the team. Between working on the mechanical design, construction of the robot, lengthy programming, game strategy, 3D design for custom parts/pieces, the team also records, in detail, each step they take and change they make in their pristine, yet highly decorative and customized engineering journal.
Though their journey began in September, the highlight of their work is being showcased now; FTC competition season. Each team has the ability to compete in up to three different states (or regions) during the qualifying competition season, which stretches from January to March.
The first event (Jan 18th) the team attended was the Connecticut State Regional Qualifying Event, which was held here at Greenwich Academy. Not only did the girls help set up, host, run, and take down the event, they competed in it as well. Being the first official event of the season for the team, it was their first real attempt at running the robot with other teams, and they were hard at work noting the strengths and weaknesses of their robot, noting future changes they wanted to make. Their robot made a decent showing, winning about half of their matches. But it was their team spirit, crazy pink costumes, teamwork, and dedicated to spreading the word of FIRST in the community that caught the attention of the judges. The team won the Motivate Award (description below) This has been a trend for Greenwich Academy Robotics, as our girls exhibit graciousness, poise, and enthusiasm during each event they attend; just a few of many skills they learn while at GA. Hosting this event is an honor for the team, and they were given a ticket of advancement to the Connecticut State Regional Championship Tournament.
But it was back to the lab for the team, as they worked extremely hard to make changes to the robot build and programming before the next event. They had one week to work through their long list of tasks. But they succeeded! At their next event, the New York State / Hudson Valley Regional Qualifying Event held at JFK Catholic High School in Somers, NY, the team further impressed the judges and their robot won 4/5 matches. They girls felt so proud that they were ranked in the top 10 of robot performance for the day, but even more proud to win the PTC Design Award (description below) for their clean and highly functional robot. Being a third year team, the girls felt they really understood how to create a robot that was effective in scoring points and pleasing to the eye. Though they did not make it to the semi-final or final rounds that day, the team earned a ticket to the New York State / Hudson Valley Regional Championship Tournament.
Their third event, the Connecticut State Regional Qualifying Event held at Loomis Chaffee School on February 1, 2014, was a tremendous success for the team. Adding additional feature to the robot and program allowed the team to win 4/5 matches and ranked 3rd at the end of qualifying rounds. The team was able to choose 2 alliance teams for the semi-finals, but was knocked out by strong opponents in the elimination matches. Overall, the girls felt a tremendous sense of pride and success at this feat. They worked so hard to get to this point, and so it was a personal win for each of them. The team did win the PTC Design Award at this tournament as well, for their gorgeous and highly competitive robot.
After making even more changes to robot build and programming, strategy and design, RoboEpic went to the New York State / Hudson Valley Regional Championship Tournament, held at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY, on February 16, 2014. They competed against 33 other teams from all over New York State, and a few teams from Connecticut and New Jersey. Each team at this event were winners at one of six qualifying events in NY state, just as our team earned a spot in this tournament after attending a Hudson Valley Regional Qualifier at JFK High School in Somers, NY on Jan 25th. This event is a tier higher in the competition level compared to the qualifying events. Tougher competitors, more experienced teams, and higher scoring robots are all hurdles the girls had to overcome. After a really long day of: inspections, multiple interviews (official judging and casual in the pit and at the queuing tables), 5 rounds of robot matches (lost 3, won 2, but scoring very high in each round), LOTS of cheering, dancing, and scouting (and some snacks) — the girls placed 21st out of 34 teams. They also happened to score the second highest score of the day (313 points) on one of their matches – a statistic that was not overlooked by the judges. During the Elimination and final rounds, the girls watched and cheered for the other two CT (both Westport) teams that made it to the finals (RoboEpic was not part of these rounds this time). They had so much fun anyway, though! During the awards ceremony, the girls were thrilled to win TWO awards! The first award was the "Promote Award", which is a Public Service Announcement-style video submission (1 minute) geared toward the theme provided by FIRST. This year's theme was "Leadership is…". Charlotte Warne filmed/edited an amazing video that the judges all loved. (description below) The team also won second place for the "Inspire Award." The Inspire award is the Champions Award, and it is given to the best all-around team. Robot is part of it, but there are so many more aspects to a great FTC team (details below). To even be considered for this award is a huge honor, and it is given to those teams who demonstrate a love for STEM, FIRST, and the community. Although there is no physical trophy for "second place overall team" RoboEpic earned a ticket to advance to the next level!! There is a new structure to FTC this year; before teams can advance to the World Festival in St. Louis at the end of April, teams need to advance to the new Super-Regional Championship Tournament. There are only FOUR of these around the country; one each in the West, North, South, and East. So, on April 3-5th, RoboEpic will travel to York, PA and compete against 71 other teams from Virginia to Maine in the East Super-Regional Championship Tournament to try to earn a ticket of advancement to the World Festival.
FIRST: www.usfirst.org/
FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge- their division: www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc
"East Super-Regional Tournament" www.ftceast.org/
This formally judged award is given to the team that truly embodied the 'challenge' of the FTC program. The team that receives this award is chosen by the judges as having best represented a 'role-model' FTC Team. This team is a top contender for all other judging categories and is a strong competitor on the field. The Inspire Award Winner is an inspiration to other teams, acting with Gracious Professionalism™ both on and off the playing field. This team is able to communicate their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge to other teams, sponsors, and the Judges. Working as a unit, this team will have demonstrated success in accomplishing the task of creating a working and competitive robot.
Guidelines for the Inspire Award:
- Team must demonstrate respect and Gracious Professionalism both for team members and fellow teams
- Team is a strong contender for all Judged awards. The Inspire Award is based on the guidelines for all of the Judged Awards
- Engineering Notebook must be submitted, and must include an Engineering Section, a Team Section and a Business or Strategic Plan. The entire Engineering Notebook must impress the judges
- Team demonstrates and documents their work in their community spreading awareness of the team, FIRST, and FTC within the community
- Team displays good communication and teamwork skills within the team as well as with their alliance partners
- Team communicates clearly about their robot design and strategy to the judges
- Team presents themselves well in the judges' interview
- Robot and team effectively competes in the game challenge and impresses the judges
- Team and robot consistently perform well during matches
The Promote Award is given to the team that is most successful in creating a compelling video message for the public designed to change our culture and celebrate science, technology, engineering and math.
Guidelines for the Promote Award:
- Team must present a thoughtful and high-quality video which appeals to the general public.
- Strong production value is important, but the message and impact of the video are of greater weight for the judges.
- Creativity in interpreting the annually assigned theme is desired.
- Submissions for this award will be considered for the Inspire Award but are not required.
- Team must have rights to any music used in the video.
PSA Subject for 2013-2014 Season
- Create a one-minute PSA video that begins with the following sentence: "Leadership is…"
This judged award celebrates the team that exemplifies the essence of the FTC competition through team building, team spirit and enthusiasm. They celebrate their team, their individuality and their spirit through costumes and fun outfits, a team cheer and their outstanding spirit. This team has also made a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community.
Guidelines for the Motivate Award:
- Team demonstrates respect and Gracious Professionalism to all
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Recently we discussed one area where Jim Slater is a bit overrated, face offs. It is not Slater's fault, but the impact of a face off win is not that large.
There is one area though that Slater may potentially provide value and that is on the penalty kill.
Let's take a look.
First, here is the performance of the Jets most commonly used penalty killers this season.
The raw numbers show the player's shot attempts against per sixty minutes and their differential in terms of a percentage. The impact on linemates is a WOWY (With or Without You) of either statistic weighted for time on ice.
Using the player rates and the average shooting percentage on the penalty kill, we can estimate the player's impact in terms of goals. While skill may impact shooting percentage in one direction or the other, the shortened sample size in this case makes league average shooting percentages superior to non-regressed numbers.
Slater actually comes out the worst penalty killer of the bunch. This is not that surprising, as most hockey skills are transferable. The more skilled players tend to "outskill" others in most areas. While this is not always true and specialists do exist, they are often rare than what some may tend to believe.
This does not mean there is no value in having Slater on the penalty kill.
There is an opportunity cost. Players can only play so many minutes without fatigue taking an effect, especially late in the season where most players are dealing with minor injuries. Minutes that Slater takes on the penalty kill means more availability in skilled players taking even strength and power play situations.
So, to compare, we need to also estimate each player's impact at even strength.
There is no highly representative goals above replacement model that includes all the current factors that we know exist in the game. I have constructed one previously using Corsi percentage and time on ice.
While the model would grossly underestimate superstar percentage-drivers like Sidney Crosby or Steven Stamkos, it does pick up that there are differences in on-ice percentages experienced for different lines.
It is simply an act of comparing the options.
Values are expected goal differential per 60 minutes of play.
At a strict 1:1 minute ratio, it is more effective to use the higher-skilled forwards than the options like Jim Slater.
In all likelihood the transfer is not a 1:1 ratio. Penalty kill minutes can be tiring, which is one of the reasons why most teams have three penalty kill forward units while only two power play units.
Here is an example if placing a skilled player on the penalty kill costs two minutes at even strength.
Values are same but 5v5 player and 5v5 Slater options have been doubled.
Despite being the weakest performer in both even strength and penalty kill, it could be beneficial to place Jim Slater on the penalty kill in place of certain players.
Now this was a pretty simplistic look at the variables, but shows why coaches make particular decisions at times. The caveat though is the simple model also shows how some coaches may assume incorrectly.
Coaches generally have a good perspective on trends, but statistics should play a role with even the best of coaches. No coach will be able to see the impacts in a manner to appropriately compare impacts such as the above example.
The above example is also why effective penalty-killing skaters for the fourth line can be such a bonus. Again, statistics can aide in detecting which players actually impact the game effectively and sufficiently.
Raw numbers curtesy of stats.hockeyanalysis.com and behindthenet.ca


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I love her work so much! Her business is called Four Corners Tiles. She was SO nice and relaxed with the kids... they made tiles using the patterns on the soles of shoes. We also loved her beautiful screened-in studio. One of our best field trips yet!
And yes you do probably recognize her from Eric Billig's concrete casting class.... check out these awesome concrete vases she made:
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A visit with Elena Eidelberg!
Labels: field trips, tinkering
4 comments:
- Bernadette said...
wow!!! Just wow. We love Elena and her amazing mad skills!!!
- April 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Lesley at early play said...
great ideas with clay - going to get some soon. Thanks - added you on blog list on early childhood http://echildhood.synthasite.com/ and http://earlyplay.blogspot.com/
- April 9, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- rachelle @ tinkerlab said...
I love this! What a good idea to take impressions of their shoes (and feet!). Next time we make clay patterns, I'll have this in mind for sure! Wouldn't a whole series of shoe tiles be cool in a backyard or kitchen backsplash? Now you've got me thinking...
- April 23, 2011 at 12:05 AM
- Kami said...
Yes, Elena sure is the bomb!
Thanks Rachelle! Yes, it was such a cool idea... it was intoxicating to look closer at the possibilities of these soles we take for granted! So many cool patterns.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:29 AM
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Walgreens just announced plans to build what the company believes will be the nation's first net zero energy retail store – complete with solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal technology, energy-efficient building materials, LED lighting and ultra-high-efficiency refrigeration. The store will be located in Evanston, Ill., at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Keeney Street, where demolition of an existing Walgreens store now is under way. Engineering estimates — which can vary due to factors such as weather, store operations and systems performance — indicate that the store will use 200,000 kilowatt hours per year of electricity while generating 256,000 kilowatt hours per year.
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"We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and leading the retail industry in use of green technology," said Thomas Connolly, Walgreens vice president of facilities development. "We are investing in developing a net-zero store so we can learn the best way to bring these features to our other stores. Because we operate 8,000 stores, we believe our pursuit of green technology can have a significant positive impact on the nation's environment."
Over the past year, Walgreens engineers have worked with the city of Evanston and vendors, including Trane, CREE Lighting, Acuity Lighting, Cooper Lighting, CalStar Products, GE Lighting, Geothermal International, SoCore Energy, Wing Power and Camburas and Theodore Architects. The Chicago-area location will allow convenient access for Walgreens engineers based at the company's headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., to measure the store's performance for an entire year to determine if the store reaches its goal of net zero energy use.
"This planned building development reflects the City of Evanston's ongoing commitment to the constant improvement of sustainable practices in the natural and built environment and will serve as an excellent example of how responsible development and the environment can be harmoniously combined," said Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. "Green building is important to Evanston as it is good for business, good for the environment, good for our health and essential to our future. We are honored that Walgreens has chosen our community to build the nation's first net zero energy retail store that will be LEED certified as well."
Walgreens will attempt to have the store achieve LEED Platinum status, which is the most stringent green designation by the U. S. Green Building Council, and plans to enter the store into the International Living Future Institute's Living Building Challenge. The store will be Walgreens second showcase project in the Department of Energy Better Buildings Challenge. Through the Better Buildings Challenge, Walgreens has committed to a chain wide 20 percent energy reduction by 2020. To follow the new store's two-year journey to achieve net zero status and the company's other green initiatives, visit the Net Zero Facebook page.


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Shame, i don't have a car either, but i havn't been surfing in a long time and i'm keen to get back in to us, i'll might need some help cos I've forgotten a lot, i'll share petrol costs aswell.
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Hi guys,
I'm so glad i came across this ad - I was just about to write an identical one myself.
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There have already been a lot of movie screenings at Comic-Con – a lot of big cheers for Harry Potter and sneers each and every time the trailer for Devil, bearing the name of one M. Night Shyamalan, screens.
But I think it's pretty safe to say that the most heads cocked to one side, and the most jaws dropped in disbelief, during Saturday afternoon with the screening of footage from Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder's latest concoction.
Little was known about the project right up through Friday, when the movie's web site launched, leading just about everyone across San Diego to wonder: What the hell is this thing anyway? Five beautiful women with machine guns, backed up by a giant shooting robot with the face of a bunny, all set in a World War I trench scene. Bizarro.
Well, with the first screening of the footage, Sucker Punch asserted itself as one of the trippiest, most hallucinogenic creations to arrive here in quite some time. This movie is totally, gleefully, unapologetically nutso. And one that will have me talking for quite some time.
The sample footage – shown twice during the Warner Bros. panel – starts to tell the tale: Baby Doll (Emily Browning) is a woman who's been undeservingly tossed into an old-time mental asylum, and she must escape before she is lobotomized via electro-shock treatments. She hatches a plan for an escape, wherein she must steal a handful of key objects – and each quest, for such things as a lighter, sparks a whole dream sequence in which she retreats from the grim reality before her to a fantasy world where the rules of time and space need not apply. If she needs, say, a knife to aid in her escape, then she has a dream about a samurai sword.
Ah, but now I've gone and made the whole thing sound sane. It's not. This movie is totally freaking insane. By setting this all in a dreamscape, Snyder can do whatever he wants. And he's used that freedom to jump between time periods and film styles. In the blink of an eye, we switch from a grey, drab asylum to a fire-red, brimstone fantasy universe with dragons that must be slayed, then an ornamental samurai story with giant swordsman who are four times the height of the average human, and eventually a World War I, retro-future fusion, where giant robots and life-size androids square off against German zombies in battle trenches.
The grain of the film, even the color cues – red, blue, black – keep alternating back and forth during the various sequences, all as we get a closer look at these gorgeous she-warriors, dominating over everything from trench warfare to dragon adventures.
So if Warner Bros. wanted to spark some interest, mission accomplished. I was lured in, and won over. Sucker Punch is a story of empowerment and headtrips; Alice in Wonderland meets Kill Bill and Lord of the Rings and Inglorious Basterds and Sin City and Sex and the City. All the talk today at Comic-Con may be about The Avengers, but well before we see that movie, it's going to be Sucker Punch that has the fanboys geeking out next spring.
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So I really should be outside making the most of the current few days of British summer that we rarely have here in Newcastle, but I just spent all of yesterday reading it and now want to review!
The concept of this book would have made it five stars if the writing had of been to a higher standard (not saying it was particularly bad) and also had it not been for the amount of typos, grammatical errors and the rushed ending.
Firstly, I'm one of those people who gets easily put off a book by its grammatical errors, because it comes across to me as unprofessional and it tends to draw me out of the book making it less engaging for me. Based on this fact alone, I would normally rate a book 2.5*/3* however I really did love the ideas, characters and message conveyed by this story.
I have to thank the girls in one of the group discussion that I'd set for TSoT because I had no intentions of reading this because the cover and blurb didn't interest me, however, the girls were adamant about me reading it so I gave it a try. When I read someone else's review of this where they briefly explained some of the books concept and plot, that's when I was really taken.
I'll tell you what I liked:
1) Ian.
Mmmm-Mmmmmm Damn! He reminds me of Gale from the Hunger Games and I bloody love me some Gale type characters ;)
2) Sophie. I hated her at the start and that's what I admired about how the author wrote this book. Instead of having the all too common endearing, angelic and innocent thinking character with a light conscience, Sophie was a bitch. Not just a bitch, she was far worse. I loved her journey, her character development and her redemption.
3) The other heart warming characters, especially Karina; she reminded me of a lovely lady I once knew :)
4) The depictions of the scenes in Uganda. They were subtle but visually effective and not overly described to becoming mundane.
5) The book somewhat bring awareness of the real life situation of Joseph Kony and the LRA in Uganda, and allows the reader to sympathize with the poor Ugandans.
Now the things that kept me from giving 5 stars:
1) The typos (already explained)
2)The ending. The epilogue and ending in general was just a bit too peachy for my taste and far too rushed, availing little conclusion.
3) I wish the book had of been longer! I feel like it should be because firstly, Sophie's past life took up a relatively large fraction of the book; I think it was 20% of the story.
Secondly, I feel like there should have been a few more chapters in the book that were about Sophie working in the orphanage, changing her ideas and being accepted by Ian and the other characters because to me, that was a bit too sudden and undeveloped. The growing of the relationships are what I think need expanding because they were too abrupt. Example: One second, Ian loathes Sophie (or at least acts like it), then out of the blue, he's completely enamored by her and can't stop fussing around her.
Also, another example of this that I feel I need to add, are the time gaps in the story that which I think should have been filled because they had the potential to cover what I said in my previous point about the dynamics of character relationships. I disagree with the author's choice in having significantly large and important time periods and possible events out of the book. I mean like after Sophie's first couple of days in the orphanage she knew no one and hated the position she was in, then suddenly, a couple of relatively important weeks later, she's all happy-dappy and hugging the life out of Mercy like they're best friends. We don't even get to know about Mercy so what da hell was the all about? (I don't actually talk like 'da'). At that point I was a little frustrated, feeling like I've missed out on a lot and I couldn't stop myself from saying "What? WHAT?! What Da?!".
Overall, I did completely LOVE reading this and couldn't put it down, so I'd definitely recommend it. It was such a nice change to read some nice Y/A prose as a change to my usual stuff but I can't help but feeling like I should still currently be reading it because such a good concept for a book deserves a lot more creative development and for the journey/adventure to just be longer really.


text: Dakota House has closed, and Northeastern Mental Health Center will replace it with a program placing youths in foster homes. Aberdeen's Northeastern Mental Health Center is restructuring the Dakota House program from a traditional residential treatment facility into a community-integrated model, said Joe Manuel, executive director of Northeastern Mental Health Center. The Dakota House program will become the Almost Home Program, which will consist of individual foster homes in residential areas, Manuel said. Right now, that includes a home in Sisseton. Northeastern Mental Health Center is currently looking into other sites in its northeast South Dakota region, including in Aberdeen, Manuel said. In the meantime, young people who were living at Dakota House who did not graduate out of the program were transitioned into another residential program, or another appropriate service was found for them, he said. That might be another foster home or their own home, he said. Once the Almost Home program is going, it will take referrals from the same referral agency Dakota House previously worked with, Manuel said. The transition, Manuel said, follows the national trend of moving away from larger facilities to smaller, less institutionalized facilities. Licensed foster-care parents at these homes will "create a positive home environment and an opportunity for successful reintegration into the community and school," according to a press release from Northeastern Mental Health Center. The youth will also receive therapeutic support from the center. Northeastern Mental Health Center will sell its location on South Main Street, the Podoll Center, Manuel said. Those operations - services for adult clients - will move to the former Dakota House building on Third Avenue Southeast across from Avera St. Luke's Hospital, he said.


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Tourism development on the agenda
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Yakutia plans to increase the tourist flow to 200 thousand tourists by 2030, taxes from the industry - up to 1 billion rubles.
The indicator, as the branch ministry explained, is tied to a certain stage. The results for the second stage of the Strategy for development of tourist industry in the republic were announced at a government meeting on August 23.
For four years the republic was visited by 193 thousand tourists, the volume of tourist services amounted to 590.7 million, hotel services - 952.4 million rubles, tax deductions - 2.6 billion rubles. 18 municipal tourist complexes with 50 objects have been created. There were 4 promotional events, which were attended by 193 people, events - Ysyakh, Winter Starts in Yakutia, Diamond Week, 15 tourist routes have been certified, there are two accredited hotels Sonata*** and Polar Star****,184 students receive a certificate of compliance of industry workers.
464.85 million rubles from the budget was allocated to the implementation of the strategy. 194.9 million rubles - invested in the creation of the 'Northern Mosaic' Tourist-Recreational Cluster. A part of 135.17 million rubles, attracted from extrabudgetary sources, is also directed to the construction of this cluster.
Minister of Investment & Enterprise Anton Safronov informed about attraction of foreign investors, construction of hotels in Oimyakon and a world-class hotel in Yakutsk, development of small aircraft as an auxiliary factor of the industry development. The Minister said that this year's event of Diamond Week will be held in Moscow within the framework of the Days of Yakutia. "This is a marketing step to attract more tourists to the republic in the future. But this does not mean that the event is being closed here," Safronov said.
First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Struchkov showed particular interest in the implementation of the tourism development. He asked whether it is possible to isolate foreigners in the general statistics of tourists visiting Yakutia, was interested in the volume of planned investments in the industry, and whether it is planned to purchase cruise liners instead of obsolete ones. "I'm not saying that nothing has been done. A lot has been done, tourist camps have been built in the districts. But they are more meant for us, local hunting and fishing. In terms of mass tourism, they do not work. Mass tourism will not work with the international terminal that we have, when the hour should be queued for passport control, and you have to wait two hours to get luggage. It is necessary to approach the development of the industry in a real, integrated way," said Struchkov, suggesting a serious analysis of the project being implemented.
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Sunday, 31 May 2009
Who Gets It??
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- Zarah said...
TYVM for the chance to win!
CONGRATS to Knitaddict!!
- 31 May 2009 at 21:11
- Diane said...
Gutted that I missed your giveaway - Hope you feel better soon. xx
- 31 May 2009 at 21:28
- Lucy Locket-Pocket said...
Congratulations to Knitaddict - hope you are fully better soon. Lucy x
- 31 May 2009 at 21:32
- dottycookie said...
Hope you're well on the road to recovery now!
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- Sew Create It - Jane said...
What a shame that you have been unwell. Hope you are on the mend soon.
- 31 May 2009 at 22:18
- Gina said...
Hope you're feeling 100% soon. x
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- twiggypeasticks said...
Hope you're soon on the mend!!! Well done Knitaddict, Julia makes the best soap ever!!
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- 1 June 2009 at 09:11
- The Coffee Lady said...
oh, get better soon! I am lurking around here looking at your muesli recipe, having thrown a huge strop and refused to buy any more damn Cheerios EVER AGAIN
children however are eating the fresh fruit off the top of Gordon Ramsey's muesli recipe before looking perplexedly at the contents of their bowls
- 1 June 2009 at 10:53
- knitaddict said...
I won??? Pardon??? I WON!!!!
(Follow cartwheels around the garden, ahem I wish!!!) I NEVER win anything!!!! Thanks sooo much!!
Very excited!!! (can you tell!!!)
Tia xxx
- 1 June 2009 at 10:59
- pebbledash said...
well done to knitaddict! and hope you and mr mk are feeling better, too.
- 1 June 2009 at 20:49
- Indigo Blue said...
Gosh! That bug sounded really awful. Hope you both feel much better soon.
- 1 June 2009 at 23:04
- Limecat said...
ewww! Hope you feel better soon.
Love the random number generator. I was going to do a giveaway sometime in the next 100 years and had no idea how to do it. and now I do!
- 2 June 2009 at 22:14
- Tracy said...
That's an incredible amount of contestants for your giveaway--wow! I was sorry to miss out on the fun. Congrats to Knitaddict. Fun to catch up with you here now we're just back from our trip. So sorry you've been under the weather though...Hope you will be well very soon. Be taking good care...((HUGS))
- 3 June 2009 at 10:53
- Primrose Corner said...
Wow! What a lot of folk joining in. congratulations to Knitaddict. I bet she's thrilled... and I hope her extremeities will be very happy!
- 3 June 2009 at 14:52


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Both John Elkington and David Watkins took stabs at transforming a downtown portion of Jackson's historic Farish Street into an entertainment district.
Each of the developers hit dead ends, Elkington in 2008 and Watkins earlier this fall.
Neither has lost faith that the street can become the entertainment and cultural draw they set out to make it. Any success that does come, the two developers say, will hinge on a new effort that has genuine cooperation from the mayor and Jackson Redevelopment Authority — something both say they lacked during their years of trying to transform the rows of abandoned buildings into an entertainment destination.
Their room for agreement runs out right about there.
Watkins, a Jackson lawyer turned re-developer of historic buildings such as the King Edward Hotel and Standard Life mixed-use building, will tell you Elkington left him "a bankrupt development with $1.5 million in debt" and seven or eight Farish Street buildings with "less than $250,000" of value.
The Mississippi Development Authority appeared to be on the verge of foreclosing on the project after lending Elkington's Performa Mississippi $1 million, according to Watkins. "That led Leland Speed, Ben Allen and Frank Melton to come to me and say, 'Watkins, you've got to take this over,'" said Watkins, referring to the former head of the MDA, Leland Speed; Downtown Jackson Partners President Ben Allen; and the late Jackson mayor Frank Melton.
Elkington, the developer behind Memphis' four-block Beale Street entertainment district, will say it is Watkins who owes him money from the hand-off of the Farish Street project and he has sued Watkins to get it. "He made several payments and then just stopped," Elkington said.
The two give different accounts of the leases in place when Watkins took over in 2008. Watkins said the leases were unenforceable. Elkington said Watkins "ran off all of our leases."
Watkins characterizes Elkington's effort as one doomed by a misguided focus on bringing Beale Street to Farish Street.
Jackson, said Watkins' son and project consultant David Watkins Jr., is "not just another stop between Memphis and New Orleans. It's the stop."
Elkington countered Farish Street success has "got nothing to do with being more like Mississippi."
On the other hand, it's got plenty to do with having a well capitalized developer with experience creating entertainment districts, said Elkington, a former lawyer whose Performa Entertainment Real Estate has 400,000 square-feet of entertainment space under lease and is now working on other projects.
"I don't fault him," Elkington said of Watkins. "He just had no experience. He was just a lost ball in tall grass."
Obstacles of their own
The Farish Street history shared by Elkington and Watkins includes distinct barriers each had to confront.
For Elkington, it was a delay of a year-plus caused by then-MDA Executive Director Leland Speed's insistence that Farish Street improvements include residential apartments. "We had worked out an arrangement for the MDA to fund 70 percent. Soon after the administration [of the MDA] changed, Leland Speed put in a requirement to build apartments. That was never part of the plan," Elkington said.
"It took us forever to get the land to build the apartments."
Next came a snag Elkington never dreamed an entertainment district would encounter: A ban on alcohol sales.
The problem came with the targeted Farish Street block's proximity to the downtown campus of the Mississippi College School of Law.
"After they agreed we did not need to build the apartments, they said we couldn't sell alcohol within 100 feet of a school."
The irony there for Elkington was that he had been counting on the law school to supply a steady stream of customers to the entertainment district clubs.
Watkins' first involvement with the project came with his recruitment to lobby state legislators for entertainment district legislation that would lift the booze ban. "That's how David was brought in," Elkington said.
Elkington said his communications with the Jackson Redevelopment Authority – the entity responsible for reviving the city's urban redevelopment zones — sustained a setback in the project's early days with the death of Jackson lawyer Frank Stimley, who had been a liaison between Elkington and the JRA.
The next loss of momentum, Elkington said, came with the JRA board's firing of Willie Mott as executive director. "That was a huge problem," he said.
In between was the succession of mayors – first Harvey Johnson, then Frank Melton and then Johnson once again.
"They just kept losing continuity," Elkington said.
Watkins acknowledges he experienced a learning curve after taking over the project at the insistence of Leland Speed, Ben Allen and the Frank Melton, the late mayor.
"Nobody has ever written 'How to Build an Entertainment District for Dummies,'" Watkins said.
Today, Watkins calculates his firm, Watkins Development, put in $4.5 million into the project, much of it, he said, spent redoing faulty water and sewer hookups on the first block and stabilizing buildings along the block.
A major despair set in, he said, with the discovery that the former dry cleaning business at Amite and Farish streets which was to house the B.B. King Club lacked a foundation, a problem estimated to cost between $1.4 million and $1.7 million to fix.
The unanticipated expenses forced Watkins to seek a co-developer or even a developer to take over entirely. Watkins said he was close to a deal with Yates Construction to buy out his share of the project and hire his company to run the district after its opening.
That died when the JRA and minority members of the Watkins partnership group approached Yates about a deal of their own. Yates has since washed its hands of the whole affair, Watkins said.
Not long after the JRA's behind-the-scenes move to enlist a new developer, the agency terminated its 45-year lease with the Farish Street Group LLC of which Watkins is managing partner.
Elkington had his share of twists and turns in the several years he had the Farish project, but he is not entirely sympathetic to Watkins' laments over the unexpected spending to stabilize the structure of the B.B. King Club.
Whatever problems were there, Watkins would have known about at the outset, Elkington said.
"All those buildings were tested. He knew exactly what the situation was. I think David couldn't put it together and started making excuses," he said.
For his part, Watkins said he relied on the structural reports that attested to the soundness of the B.B. King building.
He insisted he knew nothing of the structural deficiency until its discovery in June 2012.
The repercussions of the structural flaw went beyond the cost to fix it, according to Watkins' lawyer Lance Stevens. The months of delay the problem caused contributed greatly to Watkins missing a "window of opportunity" to close on a $5 million New Market Tax Credit allocation, Stevens said.
Divergent visions
Along with a mix of entertainment and culture rooted in the heritage of Jackson in general and Farish Street in particular, Watkins developed an operational plan that included consolidated food preparation and entertainment booking for the clubs. Watkins' son, D Watkins, developed much of the operational plan through a separate business entity he created that included a host of Jackson restauranteurs and chefs.
"We're going to have an essentially unified back-of-the house," he said in an interview.
Coordinated entertainment programing, he said, would ensure "you are not having four acts that are doing the same thing. Those things are staggered so you are making sure you are hitting all of the demographics."
He likened his concept to that of Disney and emphasized it provides a way to ensure the visitor "has a consistent experience."
Elkington said he is not impressed. "It's not Disneyland," he said, and added you can't centrally control how a tenant is going to operate.
"We have 38 businesses on Beale Street," Elkington said. "Eighty percent of them gross over $1 million a year. We don't control who they put in their clubs."
Every business, he said, "needs to be itself."
Fiscal issues
Watkins insists Watkins Development has spent $4.5 million on Farish Street, and combined with the $5.4 million from the MDA, the Farish Street Group has a nearly $10 million basis that will be essential to any future effort to secure federal and state historic tax credits for the redevelopment project.
Without the basis, any new partner must start from a zero basis, Watkins said, which would put the project financially out of reach.
Watkins said his firm's spending in the project has been verified through at least three audits. Elkington said he is skeptical, nonetheless.
"There is no way they have spent $10 million," said Elkington, calculating redevelopment costs at $150 a square foot for the 20,000 square-feet of buildings on the first block.
He said his $150 a square-foot calculation includes the expense of meeting stringent requirements for obtaining state and federal historic tax credits.
If not returned to the project, Watkins expects to be compensated for his expenses.
Not going to happen, Elkington said. "Nobody is going to pay David to do anything."
While the two former lawyers turned developers have plenty to disagree about, they do agree Farish Street can be transformed into an entertainment destination.
Both reject Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba's idea of having several developers tackle the project.
"The reason Beale Street was a success is that you had one guy in charge," Elkington said, noting he was that "one guy."
Banks and their willingness to lend will be central to any revival of the project, he said.
They need to be gathered up and told Jackson "needs your help to get this project going," he added.
The Jackson Redevelopment Authority must commit as well, Elkington said. "They've never had someone at the JRA who said, 'We are going to get this done.'"
Ultimately, the project "needs a mayor who will say, 'OK, I am taking over this project and bringing it forward.'"
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Handmade Wooden Shelf with Hooks
Beautifully crafted solid wooden shelf with hooks for your mugs. This shelf is ready for your to paint and you can paint the hooks also.
Hang your pretty mugs from the hooks and accessories on the top.
Length 60cm Height 33cm Depth 17cm
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Anyway here is a quick recap of our NYE treats and then our late Christmas with my inlaws. I wish I had taken more pictures but I didn't.
For New Year's Eve we had a few snacks:
Sausage cheese balls
Turkey meatballs
Bunless chili burgers
Lil' smokies
Veggies & ranch
Hot wings
Loaded potato skins
We did work stuff during the day then after work stuff was done we watch the new Vacation movie for the second time. The first time we saw it at the movie theater. After that we switched back and forth between the NYE tv specials and a football game.
Then since my inlaws were out of town visiting their daughter and her husband we had a late Christmas with them.
We had a nice dinner. I cooked up a yummy leg of lamb, mashed red potatoes (I had cauli mash), and veggies. I also made french onion soup and left the bread out of mine. After dinner we had the zucchini cake from the Trim Healthy Mama cookbook and I served it with strawberries. The leg of lamb recipe can be found HERE. It is a Martha Stewart recipe.
Then I finally put all the Christmas stuff away this past week. I had a little help from a protesting dog. Dozer wanted the closet area for himself. Took a few cookies to get him to move out of the way!!


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Miami police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a man detectives say masturbated in front of a home in The Roads area of Miami and then ransacked a car.
Ricky Permenter, 60, was arrested and charged with one count of burglary of an unoccupied structure, one count of burglary to an unoccupied car and one count of voyeurism.
On Monday, police released surveillance video of a man in front of a home in the 700 block of Southwest 28th Road.
Police say the homeowner, Alex Navarro , identified Permenter as the man in front of his home.
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Refreshed...with games
>> Thursday, February 24, 2011
Super easy to make - 1 inch wooden discs, one inch images circles (just search etsy, there's a ton) a one inch paper punch and a little mod podge. Cut glue, seal...easy peasy lemon squeezy!
yotoOh...I like it! Gotta make a matching game to aid in teaching my little guy his "letters".
Cute. I like it. I'm a local, I'm sure I've seen you walking around downtown!


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H.R.4678 - Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2010111th Congress (2009-2010)
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|Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13] (Introduced 02/24/2010)
|House - Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Agriculture
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|H. Rept. 111-683
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|House - 12/22/2010 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 413. (All Actions)
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Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2010 - (Sec. 3) Directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (with respect to drugs, devices, cosmetics, and biological products), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) (with respect to consumer products), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (with respect to chemical substances, new chemical substances, and pesticides), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) (with respect to a motor vehicle or motor vehicle products) to require foreign manufacturers and producers of such products (or components used to manufacture them), in excess of a minimum value, quantity, and frequency of importation, to register an agent in the United States who is authorized to accept service of process on their behalf for the purpose of any state or federal regulatory proceeding or civil action in state or federal court.
Exempts from this Act's requirements a foreign manufacturer or producer that distributes a covered product through its U.S. parent company or U.S. subsidiary, provided certain conditions are met.
Requires the registered agent to be: (1) located in a state with a substantial connection to the importation, distribution, or sale of the products; as well as (2) an individual, domestic firm, or domestic corporation that is a U.S. permanent resident.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish, maintain, and make available to the public and to the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): (1) a registry of such agents; and (2) information on U.S. manufacturers or producers that have submitted certifications of responsibility and liability for their foreign manufacturers or producers or who have had their certifications removed for cause.
Deems a foreign manufacturer or producer of products covered under this Act that registers an agent to consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state or federal courts of the state in which the agent is located for the purpose of any judicial proceeding.
(Sec. 4) Prohibits importation into the United States of a covered product (or component part that will be used in the United States to manufacture a covered product) if the product (or component part) or any part of the product (or component part) was manufactured or produced outside the United States by a manufacturer or producer who does not have a registered agent whose authority is in effect on the date of the importation.
(Sec. 5) Requires foreign manufacturers or producers of a covered product to report within five business days to the head of the applicable agency their determination to conduct a safety recall or other safety campaign of a covered product that is identical or substantially similar to a covered product offered for sale in the United States.
(Sec. 6) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs jointly to study the feasibility and advisability of requiring foreign producers of food distributed in commerce to register an agent in the United States who is authorized to accept service of process on behalf of such producers for the purpose of any state or federal regulatory proceeding or civil action in state or federal court.
(Sec. 7) Requires the head of an applicable agency similarly to study the feasibility of methods requiring foreign manufacturers or producers of component parts of covered products distributed in U.S. commerce to register agents in the United States for purposes of such service of process.
(Sec. 8) Requires the Comptroller General to study methods to enforce judgments of any state or federal regulatory proceeding or civil action in state or federal court against Chinese manufacturers that exported defective drywall to the United States during 2004-2007.


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A Unique Weekend Seminar On The Art Of Mastering
Learn insider tips and sharpen your mastering skills at iZotope's inaugural Mastering Academy weekend, an exclusive learning opportunity for audio professionals.
The iZotope Mastering Academy will take place on July 23-25 at iZotope's headquarters just outside of Boston in the US. it will take the from of a small-group practicum, designed for audio professionals like you who want to learn the techniques to create great sounding masters. isotope intend that you will leave the weekend having gained new skills which will help to set you apart from other audio engineers.
The Mastering Academy will be led by Grammy-nominated mastering expert Jonathan Wyner (David Bowie, Nirvana), who is now iZotope's Director of Education. Jonathan told us...
I really enjoy coaching musicians and engineers and watching the light bulbs go off. The Mastering Academy is a perfect setting for each participant to learn new things through hands-on practice as well as through a rich exchange of ideas with other professionals.
Jonathan will also be joined by special guest Adam Ayan (Katy Perry, Barbara Streisand), and this intensive workshop will combine instruction, hands-on practice, and personalized mentoring designed to take your mastering abilities to the next level.
It is very interesting that iZotope are taking a new direction in training and supporting their user base, in appointing Jonathan as their Director Of Education, as well as having a facility in their Boston headquarters that can host these kind of events. Tops marks to iZotope for starting this initiative and being based in the UK I hope they will consider taking these academies on the road around the world.
Would you consider going?


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