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- This app highlights dimensions in a drawing for which the user has customized or edited the dimension text and helps to ensure the quality of the drawings.
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I' , Reflection In sin I ""t Wednesday, October 20, 1993 Virginia Commonwealth University's African-American t'IIews Magazine Vol. 18, No.3 Jody Allen assists minority affairs Colleagues describe her as solid, efficient, reflective Betsey Coplan RII Staff Writer MO\'l~S can bl~ Il1l'SSV .15 Jodv Allen, intl'rilTI assistant dirl'chlf of the Office ot Minor{tv Student Affairs, found llUt - l'spl'ci(llly \yhl'l1 you'rc bringing your pet angel fish \\'ith VOll. "It t(ll)k us (lP(lut t\\'() IHlllfS ttl get the tank ()\'l'f hefe. It \\'~S " big ml'SS, Alll'n s,lid jokinglv. "It probably lookl'd Iikl' something out of L<lurclllnd Hardy. "I t(lok ()ut SOl11l' \\'(ltl'rbut lH1tenough. Thetank was still hl\l\'Y <lnd my husband \\'.15 straining to lift it. "We had to 1110\'l' the car to the side of Johnson Hall and then the tank didn't fit in the car right, and we dccided it would bl'l\lSil'f to get it b(lckout of the trunk. Mv husbi'lnd s,lid if this fish dies, 'don't tell n1l'.' " -When Allen, the former cuordinator of residence CdU(,ltion, ilrri\'l'd the next morning the fish WilS dead. Today, Allen's office looks something like home: The fish tank bubbll's with fish in it, <utworks hang on the \\,,1 lis, fish swim on thecomputerscreen,t1nd photos of f<lmilv, fril~nds and sttlff <ldorn her office mantel. A sle-nder, :1-foot-IO inches tall, Allen sl'ell1ed surprised by thetlttentioll f()(used ()11 her but discussed her nl'\\' job vvith <1 natur(li l'<lse ilnd confidence coupled with her sel'mingly endless smile. "TIll' dour is opl'n <lnd we'rl' open to suggestions," she silid, adding th<lt it is important for students to express their needs <lbout \\'h<lt the office could offer thL'm. Allen continued to page 6 Jody Allen, interim director of the office of minority student affairs. • News Briefs Compiled from The Associated Press Blacks acquitted on most counts; Denny trial continues Two Blacks were acquitted on Monday, Oct. 18, of most of the felony charges in the beating of white trucker Reginald Denny and other motorists at the start of the 1992 riots, easing fears of renewed racial tensions. The multiracial jury ended the day sill deadlocked on the most serious count - attempted murder against defendant Damian Williams in the videotaped attack on Denny - ~nd deadlocked on an assault account against Henry Watson. Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk on Tuesday, Oct. 19, ordered the jury to resume deliberations. Haitian refugees get temporary stay; won't be deported The United States has temporarily stopped sending Haitian refugees back to their violence-' torn homeland, but Clinton administration officials stressed they were not inviting an exodus. "There hasn't been a moratorium or a change in policy per se, but we are taking a closer look at conditions there," said Justice Department spokeswoman Ana Cobian. She said deportations have stopped temporarily. Although the Coast Guard will still intercept Haitian boat people at sea, that doesn't mean they will be repatriated immediately, Cobian said in Washington. Navy spokeswoman JeannieCampbeli refused to ~ay whether the warships off Haiti would pick up tleeing refugees. Afro-American director search under way Susan Kennedy heads committee looking for the right person Gage Harter RII Staff Writer Thequest hlr the Ilew d irector{)f Afnl-An1eri(( 1n Studies st(1rted with c1 sl'tlrch cOI1l1nittl'(' hedckd bv Susan Kennedy, associ<1te dean of the Co lle~e of HUI1lilnities <1nd Science. But thl' VCU Board of Visitors ultimately will ITI<1ke the final decision before July 1, Clfter recommendations from Kennedy's committee Clnd David Hiley, dean of thl' Collq.;e of Humanities and Science. The university advertised the position in several l'duc<ltional public<ltions, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and Black Issues in Education. As applications arrivl\ committee men1bers review each olle. Kennedy said the job description requires the applicant to have a doctoral degree and a record of teClching, research and community work that will support award-ing tenure. In addition, she said the committee prefers an applicant with administrative expenence_ Avon Drake, who served seven years as director before resigning last spring, said he is concerned the search may not reach thl' best available person. "If the university is serious about hiring the right person," Drake said, "they need to find a person who is a scholar with a good publication record and has a public voice. "That person also has to be dynamic, energetic and can interact intellectually. Since (Afro-American studies) is not a department, there aren't many resources so the person will have to carry the program." Nevertheless, this particular search seems to be stirring controversary. An Aug. 10 Style Weekly column reported that Nikki Giovanni, a faculty member at Virginia Polvtl'chnic Institute and State University, topped VCU's list of candidates. Style Weekly's editor, Sue Robertson, said her paper since has retracted the story bcc(luse no evidence of such a Jist exists and the source quoted ill the article never was revealed. But Kennedy maintains the comtnittee still is (1((t'pting applications and will continue todOSll reg<lrdll's~I)1 some people's contention that the search IV," ci<N'd before it even began. "You have my personal guarantee that I will h,1\" nothing to do with any search thatisn'tan "pen sl',Heh. ·· Kennedy said in response to Style Weekly's ori~in"l column. "We have asked people to sprmd the ,,""rd. and anyone is welcome to nominate a person." This is just what Drake said he will do,adding th"t " the person he nominates does not get the job, hL' i, Director continued. to page 6
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|Virginia Commonwealth University
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|Spring 1978-vol. 18, no. 8 (May 1994)
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|Virginia Commonwealth University -- Newspapers
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|Original text: Reflections in ink, v.18:no.3 (1993:Oct. 20), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Reflection In sin I ""t
Wednesday, October 20, 1993 Virginia Commonwealth University's African-American t'IIews Magazine Vol. 18, No.3
Jody Allen assists
minority affairs
Colleagues describe her as
solid, efficient, reflective
Betsey Coplan
RII Staff Writer
MO\'l~S can bl~ Il1l'SSV .15 Jodv Allen, intl'rilTI assistant
dirl'chlf of the Office ot Minor{tv Student Affairs, found
llUt - l'spl'ci(llly \yhl'l1 you'rc bringing your pet angel
fish \\'ith VOll.
"It t(ll)k us (lP(lut t\\'() IHlllfS ttl get the tank ()\'l'f hefe.
It \\'~S " big ml'SS, Alll'n s,lid jokinglv. "It probably
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2. Also try brainstorming a rough list of lunches that you both agree on and post this list of favorite foods on the refrigerator door, don't forget to include a few fun items that your kids can help prepare. My kids make and agree to eat what I pack as long as it's on the list. When kids do the planning, and at least some preparing for their own school lunches, they are less likely to complain. Once in a while, be sure to pack a lunchbox surprise like a note, a sticker, or a lollipop. It's a simple gesture that will let your kids know your thoughts are with them even when they are at school.
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Ethel leaves its listeners wanting
By JAMES HENNERTY
Special to the Times Union
ALBANY … Key Bank's American Music Festival sponsored the first Albany appearance of the string quartet Ethel on Friday night.
Ethel is Cornelius Dufallo and Mary Rowell on violins; Ralph Farris, viola; and Dorothy Lawson, cello. They play contemporary music only, dress casually and amplify their instruments. And in the program's second half, the group staged a multi-media event.
The concert began with six pieces, two of them by members of Ethel. Lawson's "Chai" and Dufallo's "Lighthouse" are both skillfully written short pieces, with the latter especially effective in its moodiness. Neil Rolnick, who teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was represented by part of his Shadow Quartet.
The composer adds recorded sounds of the players to the performance. A more impressive piece using similar techniques is Marcelo Zarvos's Double Quartet Rounds. Here, Ethel recorded its "double" part earlier, and combined it with the live performance. Zarvos was equally effective with the opening piece, "Arrival," from Nepomuk's "Dances," a piece inspired by a character in Thomas Mann's novel "Doctor Faustus."
Don Byron's String Quartet No. 2, four thoughts on Marvin Gaye, reminds one of classical pieces by Duke Ellington written in a traditional classical idiom, using melodies from popular music and just a hint of jazz.
Marvin Gaye songs sound lush when played by a string quartet, and Byron's writing would leave the most conservative of classical music listeners contented.
The second half of the concert was given over to a single work, Mary Ellen Childs' "Dream House." The composer was inspired by witnessing renovations to her home. She worked with video and sound artists who recorded scenes and sounds of demolition and construction. They are combined with the music in a work of eleven sections. Friday's performance gave a scaled-down version of the visuals, played on rather noisy video machinery.
The music features a lot of pizzicato (strings plucked rather than bowed) and col legno, hitting the strings with the wooden part of the bow. Childs also owes a lot to the reiterated chords of John Adams and Steve Reich. For all her talent and unusual inspiration, the piece is less than gripping. The music seems, at first hearing, to be unfocused overall, despite a number of beautiful passages.
Ethel is to be commended for challenging the audience with an unorthodox program. But the lack of variety in the music left listeners undernourished.
James Hennerty is a freelance writer from Albany and a regular contributor to the Times Union.
Music review: ETHEL
Program: Works by various contemporary composers
When: Friday
Where: The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany
The crowd: About 100 listeners of various ages


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Hartman noted that the entire potential population that could request such service is about 3,600.
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The Newton Youth Players in Newton, MA is a children's theatre company for elementary school children who love to sing, dance, act, and construct scenery. Each summer, fall, winter and spring season we produce adaptations of popular Broadway musicals that the whole family will enjoy.
2017 - 2018 Season
Winter 2018 - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Spring 2018 - Bye Bye Birdie
We've just added a new day: Mondays 6:30-8:00pm!Co-Directors: Linda Goetz and Hannah Rosenberg
Registration Dates for the 2018-2019 Season
Summer Theatre Arts ProgramOur morning theatre program gives children an opportunity to be part of a summerstock experience in a day-camp-like setting. Young actors entering grades 1 through 6 spend their mornings with professionals who specialize in drama, music, scenery design and choreography. This fun-filled three week program culminates in a wonderful musical production.
School Year Theatre ProgramOur after-school program for elementary school children, grades 2 through 5, runs through the fall, winter and spring seasons. During this time we put on three adaptations of beloved Broadway musicals with three casts to choose from - Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Newton City Hall War Memorial Auditorium
1000 Commonwealth Ave
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125 Derby Street
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You may also contact us online if you would like to correspond via email.
Payment in full is required at time of registration and includes a $35 non-refundable registration fee. Remaining fees are refundable only up to two weeks before the first class. Thereafter, fees will not be refunded.


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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Bethel College will host a one-day exhibit of anti-war sculpture by a local artist in conjunction with a lecture and conference on war tax resistance in early November.
Beth Vannatta, who often goes by the name "Piglet," is a retired art teacher and a lifetime resident of Halstead. She taught at Hutchinson High School for 27 years, from 1969-96, and was a part-time instructor in jewelry design at Hutchinson Community College, 1987-99.
In more recent years, Vannatta has become "so incensed at the casualties of war," she says, that she decided to create a series of anti-war sculptures and take the exhibit, which she calls "The wages of war," on the road. It premiered earlier this year, in May, at a two-day conference called "Creating a culture of peace" in Santa Fe, N.M., and was on display for four days in June at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Portland, Ore.
She took the exhibit to the Veterans for Peace conference in St. Louis, Aug. 15-18, where she was "so impressed with that group that I joined and became an auxiliary member." At the conference, she found out about the Sept. 15 march in Washington, D.C., against the Iraq war, and traveled there for the march and to show her sculptures at a Church of the Brethren-Mennonite Sunday school class in Hyattsville, Md., and then at All Souls' Unitarian Church in Washington.
"The wages of war" is currently on display at the Hutchinson Art Center, 405 N. Washington, through Oct. 28.
It will have a one-day installation in the small gallery, just outside the main Bethel College Gallery, in the Fine Arts Center, Friday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. until after the lecture in Krehbiel Auditorium that evening. The exhibit is being mounted in connection with the first KIPCOR Peace Lecture for the school year by Alan Gamble, executive director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF) and the Peace Tax Foundation.
The exhibit will then move to the Meadowlark Center at 2111 N. Spencer Road in Newton for a Nov. 3 conference on war tax resistance being held there. The conference is sponsored by a local group, the Heartland Peace Tax Group, in conjunction with the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.
Vannatta has her B.A. in education from Fort Hays State College (now University) plus graduate hours from Wichita State University. She lives on a 48-acre farm near Halstead where she has renovated a large chicken house into a studio where she does most of her sculpture. Vannatta reports that "for the past eight years, I have senior-audited the Advanced Sculpture class at WSU, which demands I produce and keeps me in the loop."
Alan Gamble's lecture, "Peace: More than an end to war," is at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in Krehbiel Auditorium of the Fine Arts Center. It is free and open to the public. The lecture is part of the annual Peace Lecture Series sponsored by the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR) at Bethel College. Gamble's appearance is co-sponsored by the Heartland Peace Tax Group.
The Peace Lecture Series, now in its 35th year, provides a forum to address issues of peace, justice and conflict resolution in the world and at home. The series has included Nobel laureates, scholars, performing artists, activists and visionaries. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public. The second event in the 2007-08 series will be a concert by folk musician John McCutcheon, Friday, Feb. 16, 2008, in Memorial Hall on the Bethel campus.
The Peace Lecture Series receives support from the J. Winfield Fretz Lecture Fund and the Peace with Justice Task Force, Kansas West Conference of the United Methodist Church, both of which support speakers and events on peace and justice. Other funding for the series comes from individual contributions to KIPCOR.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Well - I did it. I officially launched the first phase of a new idea that I've been working on for a few months now. Here it is. Tell me what you think! And if you're interested and live in the Chicago area, PLEASE sign up!
SWAP/MEET! New Clothes. New Friends. So Much Fun!
Hi Ladies!
Do you like socializing with new people? Are you in need of some smaller sizes? Tight on budget? Looking for a new exercise buddy? Just want to come hang out with some like-minded and goal-oriented people?
Welcome to SWAP/MEET! A monthly meet-up for Chicago area ladies (gentlemen, hang tight - I'm working on expanding this idea to include everyone very soon!) to exchange plus sized clothes, books, recipes, exercise, stories and friendship.
The goal of this program is to organize Swap/Meet parties for 8-10 ladies every month who want to meet new people, are in need of new plus-sized clothing, have inspirational stories to share or are just in need of a little kick in the butt to get moving again. No topic is off the table - these parties are catered to YOU!
Here's how it works:
- Ladies bring 5 gently used articles of clothing or accessories and a $5 administration fee to each Swap/Meet.
- After a short introduction of our party guests, and while enjoying some light snacks and beverages provided by the meet coordinator, the "shopping party" begins. Ladies will "shop" from the clothing and accessories racks, try on new sizes, dish about belts, hand bags and earrings, give each other honest opinions about what's hot and what's not, and pick out up to 5 items to take home!
- When the shopping has concluded, the socializing begins! Ladies will have an opportunity to meet other Swap/Meet members, talk about books, recipes, movies, exercise, significant others - whatever suits the group's fancy. Discussions and ideas will be gathered and moderated by the group coordinator to keep the conversation fun and flowing. Ladies should feel free to network, exchange contact information and start planning your next get-together with your new friends!
- Though the Swap/Meet will have a specific start & finish time, there's no telling when the party ends! New friends are encouraged to leave for a group walk, head out to a movie or maybe hit up some more stores for a full day of shopping. The coordinator will be available to help with suggestions or to assist in making acquaintances.
The Small Print:
- Not everyone who attends the party is guaranteed to take home 5 pieces of clothing or accessories. Every attempt will be made to provide an assortment of sizes and styles for the ladies attending the party, but due to inventory, personal taste and the difficulty with determining the exactness of women's clothing sizes, ladies should be prepared for the possibility of not finding anything to their liking or their personal fit preference.
- The $5 administration fee covers the cost of food and beverage as well as any rental fee involved in securing a space for the Swap/Meet. The $5 fee is required of everyone, regardless of whether or not you take home clothing or accessories.
- The 5 articles of clothing or accessories brought to the Swap/Meet by each member may or may not be part of the items available for the shopping party. Articles are inspected for damage, cleaned and added to the larger Swap/Meet inventory before appearing for "purchase" at an event.
- While the goal of Swap/Meet is to assist people in finding new clothing in differing sizes, the overall objective of Swap/Meet is the social aspect of meeting new people and making new friends. Members are asked to come prepared to socialize and have fun - the clothing is an added bonus.
- This is NOT a Spark-Only program. Please feel free to forward this information to ANYONE who might be interested in this program. Swap/Meets will not be limited to once monthly if there is enough interest to generate more meets. Think of it like a dating site for new clothes! The best efforts will be made to match people, clothing styles, lifestyles and needs by the coordinator. Anything can happen!
- Since this is a BRAND NEW program, please allow time for set-up and potential start-up hiccups. Thanks!
Ready to SWAP/MEET?
Interested ladies, please email Jenn Kincaid (your Swap/Meet Coordinator) at email@example.com with the following information:
- age
- neighbourhood
- car/public transportation
- marital status
- kids?
- food allergies
- desired clothing size (be sure to indicate tall or petite if applicable)
- desired clothing style (business attire, casual, fitness, outerwear)
- description (size, style) of 5 articles for donation
- any other information Swap/Meet needs to know
Please allow time to receive adequate interest in these events and the organization of the first Swap/Meet. The goal is to schedule the first event in October or November. I'm sincerely looking forward to meeting all of you! Let's get this party started!
Questions? Please email Jenn Kincaid at firstname.lastname@example.com
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wow, that sounds like a really fun idea! Wish I still lived in the Chicago area :D FUN!!!
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Awesome idea!!! I will send info if I ever get a free block of time! :)
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GR8 idea!! can't wait to hear how this turned out for all those lucky Chicago ladies
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sweet idea! will send an email once i've gotten a list of donate-able items.
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phenominal idea! Wish I lived in your area!
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What a wonderful idea! Would hope it will take off and be available across the country. Such a neat social as well as practical solution. Great job Jenn
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Sounds awesome... and blast not being in Chicago!
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Great idea Jenn. What a great way to make new friends and give and receive support.
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This is a fantastic idea!! :)
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I think it's a terrific idea and I wish I lived in the Chicago area!!
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Great idea!
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Sounds like fun. Wish I lived near Chicago.
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What a fun idea. Good luck with it and I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes.
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Sounds like a good idea! I hope it works out for you! Let us know how it goes, fingers crossed!
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A great idea. I'm looking forward to hearing how things progress in Chicago.
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I love the idea and wish you success! Unfortunately, Wyoming is a bit far for me to participate :)
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Such a fantastic idea! Chicago seems like a good place to be right now :)
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I love autumn evenings, they look so beautiful and so colorful, may fringes of mine feels that autumn evenings are sad and they look pretty dull and boring, and body fell chilly and warmth at the same time and that is pretty blue, but I personally think that it is not so true, autumn evenings are as interesting and beautiful as any other season's, I love the shad of trees in this season.
You will see almost all shad in the evening and I love the pre-night shade that we see on the sky, its purplish maroon-ish dark shade and that is what I am going to try today, I am not using maroon in it, but yes I am going to try a purple autumn eye makeup look and I can bet that it will suit on any skin tone, so give it a try.
Purple Autumn Eye Makeup
We will start with the face and I am using Belletrist Studio airbrush foundation to get perfect looks because I want perfect face skin to enhance the eye look and now we will start with the eye look.
First of all we will apply a primer and blend it well and then we will apply pure purple shade in the middle of movable lid and we will apply in tabbing technique and then we will take a comparatively darker purple and we will apply it over the outer V and then we will take a blending brush and we will start blending well we will blend it all over the lid and we will make sure that the darker shade does not overcome the inner mid part, now we w will take the darker shade with a thin eye brush and we will apply on the outer v again and blend it over the crease to enhance the depth.
Now we will take a velvety shiny light purple shade with the blending brush and we will apply it all over the upper and outer crease and we will start blending till it will start looking like a bit frosty shade and then we will take a nude mate mauve shade and then apply it over the brow bone and blend it well, now you will take pale yellowish or nude shiny highlighter and we will apply that over the inner corner of the eye to get a bright eye look with purple autumn eye makeup.
Now we will take a plum purple shiny shade with the liner brush and draw a line under the lower lash line and then blend it a bit with finger and now you just need to take a dark dray or brown eye pencil and apply and line over the upper lash line and a nude shade on
lower water line and finish the look with mascara and I am using pretty nude lips with that beautiful look.


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Do you fancy a little splash of yellow this afternoon? We thought you might which is why this Menasha wedding shot by Emily Steffen Photography is just what the doctor ordered. It is pretty much impossible not to don a big, fat smile after staring at all these lovely images. Yellow will do that to you and so will all those bright, fabulous florals by Branching Out and Co.. See it all, one charming billy ball at a time, here!
Click here to see the entire gallery of images!
From Emily Steffen Photography...Jon and Kristine planned a wedding that was 100% them! Full of joy, laughter and touches that made everyone feel so warmly welcome, the party was amazing. The color palette was classy and charming and perfect for the event!
The ceremony was held at Kristine's home church because she wanted to capture the charm and beauty of the church she grew up in. The wedding party was filled with friends and family members that were full of support and smiles for them during the ceremony.
North Shore Golf Club was a perfect setting for their classy reception. The decor was simple and cute; cut lemons, vases of yellow billy balls and an amazing cake made the reception room feel so warm and charming! Kristine pulled in more of the greys to the palette with handmade table runners for each table in various textures made perfectly by her Mom! The head table was positioned in the center of the room so the guests could get a view of the action all night long. A yellow infused candy bar was the hit of the late-night party and guests left for the night with a bag of Kristine and Jon's favorite coffee from their favorite coffee shop!
Wedding Photography: Emily Steffen Photography / Floral Design: Branching Out and Co. / Ceremony Location: St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church / Reception Location: North Shore Golf Club / Wedding Dress: Modern Trousseau / Bridesmaids Dresses: J.Crew / Wedding Cake: Cakescapes by Jen


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After two years of meetings, research and public input, the Jackson County Comprehensive Land Use Plan must go through one more round of public comment before commissioners can give it final approval. A public hearing is scheduled for 5:50 p.m. Monday, June 19, at the Jackson County Justice Center.
Haywood County residents support land-use planning by a large margin, according to the results of a recent telephone survey.
The controversy over a proposed gun range in a rural farming community in Haywood County has raised questions about the adverse impacts of unwanted development in rural communities given the lack of land-use protections.
A proposed recycling clearinghouse in the Haywood County industrial park outside Canton has been nixed, but a handful of residents haven't given up their fight.
By most accounts, calling Art Williams a hands-on developer would be a pretty fair description. For decades, Williams was in the business of subdivision building, first in Florida and then in Western North Carolina.
In pretty much everything, his word was the final say. He picked the land to be developed, he divvied up the plots, he instructed engineers and construction crews. He even sold many of the lots himself.
Even as his health failed, said his wife Anne, her husband was routinely on the scene at the developments. His regular contractors said the same. He was there when the pavement was laid on the roads in Alarka Creek Properties, one of the Williams' first developments in Swain County. And it was he who approved the words "state-approved paved roads" in brochures advertising the developments. He signed off on the erosion and sediment control plans for the 5.5 miles of roads that crisscross the development.
But it was not Williams who footed the bill when some of those roads began to deteriorate and slide from the mountains they were cut steeply into.
Of the homeowners in the subdivision, many bought their properties directly from Williams and believed the state-approved-roads pitch, until they were left with $40,000 worth of repairs and roads that were, in places, perpetually in peril.
This hadn't been part of the purchase bargain. And in 2008, the costs and safety concerns reached a critical mass. The Alarka Creek Properties Homeowners Association took the late Williams' Cane Creek Development Corporation to court, charging that he and his team misled them, saddling them with defective and dangerous roads.
Three years later, they won, to the tune of $3 million — the largest judgment court clerks had ever seen in Swain County — and threw into sharp relief the ongoing debate in Western North Carolina over steep-slope development and who is responsible when it falls, literally, to pieces.
Alarka Creek Properties is a two-pronged development precisely 5 miles from Exit 69, just west of Bryson City. Its twin developments, Timber Creek Estates and Eagles' Roost, sweep up the faces of neighboring mountainsides, cradling Alarka Creek neatly between them.
They're not subdivisions in the traditional sense — there's no pool or clubhouse, and most of the homes aren't even within shouting distance of one another. They do have gates and a homeowners' association, but really, the two developments are collections of retirement retreats and second homes, a mixture of already-built houses and empty plots that boast spectacular vistas of the surrounding landscapes.
The roads that lead to and connect them, though, aren't for the faint of heart or fragile of vehicle. Sitting at the apex of Eagles' Roost, facing down the mountain isn't dissimilar to the slow crest of a rollercoaster's first descent, peering down the long incline. They drop off steeply to one side and hug the sheer mountainside on the other. And though few cars are around to traverse the lanes, meeting one headed in the opposite direction can be a harrowing experience. The views are pastoral — the drive, less so.
The roads are anywhere from seven to 10 feet across. In places, there are signs of distress — fissures and cracking. They're all passable now, but that hasn't always been the case.
"We've had three multi-thousand dollar slides, we had a road that we had to move 2,000 feet of with blasting," said John Foster, the homeowners' association's one-time president. "Ultimately, the road probably should not have been put in."
That is, of course, only his opinion.
But, according to a study done by Bunnell-Lammons Engineering, a geotechnical firm out of Asheville, he's at least partially correct.
There was never a dedicated, detailed road plan drawn up for Alarka Creek's roads. Swain County doesn't require one, and unless a developer plans on leaving the road in the state's care, neither does the state.
There was, however, the required erosion and sediment control plan that detailed how the roads would meet state standards for erosion and run-off on the steep fill slopes — manmade grades with fill dirt pulled from the surrounding mountain.
It's not a definitive road-building guide, but it spelled out the basic standards for what would be installed at Alarka Creek: road thickness, slope and drainage measures.
And, said the engineering firm, had developers and contractors followed the plans, the roads probably would've been fine.
But they didn't.
There are, said the report, four basic reasons for mountain road failure: insufficient pavement thickness, insufficient asphalt compaction, slope instability and bad drainage.
In places, Alarka Creek's roads showed all four.
Where the plans called for pavement to be two inches thick, in some spots it was only 1.5. They specified six inches of crushed stone under that pavement. Most roads averaged only 5.4. One had barely more than an inch.
Ninety-five to 96 percent compaction is industry standard for a fill slope — unlike the mountain's native soil, it hasn't had thousands of years to build up its structural integrity. The more densely packed, the less likely it'll move around, cracking and sliding. That's what the plans called for, too.
Most of the subdivision's roads averaged between 84 and 89 percent compaction.
And then there's the slope.
The state recommends a two-to-one, horizontal-to-vertical slope ratio at minimum for a safe road. And again, that's what appeared on the erosion control plan submitted to the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
But the engineering firm found some of the slopes to be as steep as one-to-one.
"The roadway fill embankments evaluated have a significant potential for instability because the roadway fill embankments are constructed of loose fill that have a steeper slope inclination than fill soil conditions can support," read the summary report.
In other words, you can't have loose dirt and a steep road, too, or eventually, you won't have a road.
"When you have slopes too steep and base and asphalt too thin, the roads are going to fall apart," said Dan Bryson of Raleigh, the lead attorney on the homeowners' side. The case, he said, was simple — poorly constructed roads sold through false advertising.
"When they showed homeowners paved road as an inducement to sell, it was a bait and switch," said Bryson. "There was significant engineers' testimony that these roads were not built pursuant to local standards. When you build a road, there's just some basic things you have to do. And it's going to take a little bit longer, but you just need to do it right."
Anne Williams, Art Williams' widow, disagrees with those assertions. As the sole owner of Cane Creek Development, she is the defendant.
Bryson and his legal team pointed to the multiple slides and alligator cracking — patchwork cracks that resemble the crusty reptilian pattern of an alligator's back — as signs that the roads were faulty from the outset.
"But that's typical of all roads in [Western] North Carolina, when you pave them," said Williams. "All the other evidence was that we had done the right thing, we'd done the best roads we could do. State roads slide all the time, and 90 percent of that road is there the same way we built it."
Could they have gotten a geotechnical engineer, like BLE, to come and test the sites before the road was laid? Sure, said Williams. But no developer does that, she said; it's too cost prohibitive.
"You're selling lots to average people. This is not a country club setting," said Williams. "We wanted to build in a way that the average person could buy and have a second home, not what we always called the ritzy ditzy."
Plus, she said, they knew what they were getting.
"They all personally signed [a statement] that they understood that these were private roads and they were inferior to state roads and that the burden of keeping up the roads would be on the homeowners' association," said Williams.
And regardless of the roads' initial construction, that much is true. Which points to a problem facing not just Swain County, but every mountainside subdivision in the region.
Paul Carlson is a man familiar with degraded land. He's the executive director of the Franklin-based Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, a non-profit group that works in land preservation. He is concerned about the glut of developments in WNC such as Alarka Creek, where steep lots connected by questionable roads have now fallen to owners to maintain. And those owners may not have always done their homework.
"Perhaps they hadn't done significant due diligence to find out what they're getting into, and now collectively own a liability," said Carlson. And what then? "With poorly designed road systems on these properties, every year that passes the liability is increasing. Well, who's going to be responsible for that stuff?"
That's a question that legal precedents like the Alarka Creek case are looking to settle, but historically, a lot of homeowners have been left holding the bag on decaying roads they didn't think they signed up for.
John Foster certainly didn't. When he bought his plot in Alarka Creek, he didn't dream Williams would sell him a lot on an unsafe road. But he didn't look too far into it, either.
"I thought it was steep, but again with the advertisement of state-approved, I thought, 'OK, if the state of North Carolina is going to approve this, then I'm OK with it,'" said Foster. "We did sign a release, but what we understood was we were going to maintain the roads, but we were going to be given roads that were maintainable."
But this, of course, is not actually a given.
The truth is that, when it comes to private roads, no one is really checking.
During pre-trial interviews, lawyers asked that very question: is there anyone who makes sure these roads are being constructed properly? A state agency? Local authorities? A retired volunteer? Anyone?
"When you construct a house, you have an inspector come in and say 'this house is substantially complete and it has been constructed in conformance with the plans and specs submitted on file'… to your knowledge, there is no one who does that for roads or private roads?" Bryson's fellow attorney Scott Harris asked Victor Lofquist, a civil engineer in Sylva who did the erosion plan for Alarka Creek and most of Williams' other projects.
"Not that I am aware of anywhere," replied Lofquist.
Doug Parker, the excavator who helped install the roads, replied similarly.
"To my knowledge, there is no equivalent to that (a building inspector) on a road development project," said Parker.
And that's become pretty clear in the years since mountainside developments began to see their vogue.
Roads have been splintering and slipping off the hills in subdivisions around the region, and local officials began to realize that maybe someone should, in fact, be looking.
Enter subdivision ordinances, those controversial local laws that give officials a little more power over what's going up in their jurisdiction and how it's built.
Haywood County has one that limits cut slopes to 1.5 to one, and spells out things that state erosion control standards do not, such as no organic matter in roadbeds; it will decompose and crack holes in the street. And they keep tabs to make sure it's all being done according to plan.
"What would happen is if somebody built a subdivision road here that was subject to the erosion control law is you would submit your plan to us, we would give you approval, we would inspect it periodically. Then we do perform a final inspection," said Marc Pruett, erosion control program director in Haywood County.
In Jackson County, a similar ordinance was passed, drawing some ire from developers in a locale heavy laden with second homes peppering the steep mountain faces.
But when it comes to such laws, there is a schism in the church of steep-slope construction.
Parker told attorneys in his deposition that those regulations helped grind his subdivision road-building work to a halt in Jackson County.
"We used to (build roads) a lot until we had a subdivision ordinance in this county and then it came to a stop," said Parker. "Pretty much everything in this area that stopped developing because there was restraints of subdivision ordinances."
Swain County has no such regulations. There was some movement on the idea around 2007. A committee was even formed, spurred by the news that emergency vehicles couldn't traverse some of the county's dicier residential roads. Recommendations were made, but nothing ever came of them. Swain commissioners apparently lacked the political will, in a county that doesn't even have a planning board.
In neighboring Macon County, a so-called steep slope ordinance is in talks. Macon is dealing with the aftermath of the Wildflower development, which is the apocryphal, when-roads-attack story that seems to drift into most steep-slope conversations.
Wildflower was a behemoth of a development on the side of Cowee Mountain that broke ground in 2005, at the height of the mountain real estate upswing. At the time, it was controversial, but only because local residents feared such an influx of inhabitants would overstretch their resources.
Four years later, most of its lots were in foreclosure. Then the ground broke on it: One of its key thoroughfares collapsed, a landslide followed and a subsequent geological survey cast serious doubt on the rest of the roads in the place. Downslope residents were warned to brace for debris in case of extreme weather.
The neighborhood's manager defended the roads, calling the collapse an isolated incident and pointing to the fact that the rest of the roads had erosion control approval.
But so, presumably, did the decimated road.
Back on Alarka, the victorious homeowners are not yet rejoicing. Anne Williams maintains that she is an 81-year-old widow who had nothing to do with the roads' construction and has no money to pay $3 million for their repairs. She said her refusal to settle with the homeowners wasn't stubbornness, but insolvency.
"The fact is we lost on Alarka. We may have put in $3 million, but none of it came out of the profit. We have not had to pay income tax for profit reasons for at least five years, if not longer than that," said Williams. She said she's closed Cane Creek Development, laid off the staff and headed back to Florida to live off her Social Security.
Dan Bryson, however, thinks Williams' cries of poormouth are, at best, disingenuous. He's starting another proceeding against her that, in legalese, is called 'piercing the veil.' Basically, he's going after all the other corporations she has, trying to draw some of the sizeable settlement from them.
In the rest of the region, though, the problem of unstable roads persists, though subdivision ordinances and the economy are cutting down on the number of new substandard streets going down.
Gordon Small, who works with the Haywood Waterway Association, is working on a project to help new developers find the most suitable road locations in the first place, rewarding them with a certification if they follow expert suggestions.
"The No.1 source of non-point pollution — or mud in the creek — is roads," said Small. His group is trying to get county commissioners to get on board with the idea.
"You can't observe this and not be concerned about that," he said. "People are beginning to recognize that it's to their advantage to know what's going to move and what's not."
Carlson, with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, said he's looking toward an inventory of the region's perilous roads, so at least they can be monitored for movement.
"Clearly in [the last] decade up until 2008, it was absurd to try to make the argument that the highest and best use of steep-slope land was for forestry, but now it's kind-of interesting to revisit the question," said Carlson. "I think a lot of these lands — the most marginal, steep, remote lands where these roads were punched in — it may be that no one wants them."
And for developers still around, the Swain County jury's decision is ringing clearly through the mountains.
"I think these jurors are tired of developers who come in, deface the mountains and then put in substandard roads, sell out all the lots and then try to avoid liability," said Dan Bryson. "I hope that this judgment sends a signal to every developer: if you pave a road on a mountain in Western North Carolina, it needs to be done properly."
Developers in Waynesville rejoice: your customers may now park in front of your buildings. Sometimes. In some places.
The new rules, passed after nearly two years of deliberation, will allow limited parking in the front of businesses for high-traffic commercial districts, something that was strictly forbidden under the town's smart growth policies, much to the chagrin of some developers and business owners.
Parking design has been a controversial topic since 2003, when the town's new land-use plan relegated parking to the side and rear of buildings in favor of a streetscape defined by building façades — a more attractive option than asphalt parking lots.
But a committee tasked with reviewing the town's land-use plan over the past year recommended the town allow some parking in front buildings.
After two months of debate of their own, the town board was split 3-2 on exactly how much parking should be allowed in front during last month's town board meeting.
Town leaders ultimately did not allow as much parking in front as the land-use review committee or the town planning board suggested. Instead of allowing two rows of parking spaces in front of the building, the town board cut that down to just one row.
Town board members Libba Feichter, Wells Greeley and LeRoy Roberson voted to limit parking in front to just one row.
Greeley, who wasn't on the board when the original ordinance was hashed out, said he was pleased with both the process and the result. Greeley said that he knew coming in that the standards would be a challenge — the parking provisions in particular.
He said that he feels like the end result was a good compromise between the pro- and anti-parking factions.
"I think this strikes a compromise as being now commercially friendly but yet still trying to keep the façades and the front of the buildings maintained," said Greeley.
Roberson said that he was also pleased with the eventual outcome of the months of discussions and debates.
He also came to the board after the initial statutes were penned, but said that the cleaned-up version will lay a good framework for future development.
"I just think it gives it a better look," said Roberson. "Instead of having another Russ Avenue on South Main, you'll have something that's more appealing and something that will function better overall."
Mayor Gavin Brown and Alderman Gary Caldwell sided with the committee in wanting two rows.
Caldwell said that, while he'd never be completely happy and did vote against the parking proviso, the overall compromises that were reached were workable.
Town Planning Director Paul Benson said the idea was to offer a clean and inviting aesthetic, while still giving businesses, and their customers, workable parking.
"The concept of one row is that it sort-of replaces on-street parking in places where you can't have on street parking, and still keeps buildings pretty close to the road," Benson said. "I think [the aldermen] recognized that a limited amount was probably desirable, at least in some locations, but they didn't want to go too far."
What that means will differ greatly for businesses and developers on the ground from district to district, and sometimes even from case to case, said Benson.
"It varies from no parking in front, like in the central business-type districts, to maximum parking in front with a controlled-use permit," said Benson, referring to the new stipulation that allows some developers to ask that their property be made a special zone, with site-specific conditions.
Ingles on Russ Avenue, which is pursuing a major expansion, is the first to be granted such a permit.
Not everywhere in town, of course, would be privy to parking-in-front. For businesses, it's limited to the town's three major commercial districts — Russ Avenue, the Elwood-Junaluska district and South Main Street — and certain residential districts.
Waynesville leaders will vote this month on whether to loosen town guidelines governing growth.
A special task force spent the past 18 months reviewing the town's development standards and recommending changes. The town's land-use plan was heralded for its smart growth principles when it was passed in 2003, but developers have repeatedly complained the standards were too arduous and confusing, prompting the task force review.
The task force, which includes development and real estate interests, presented its recommendations to the town board at its last meeting, but aldermen elected to take some extra time to consider the measures.
Long at the center of contention have been the town's parking regulations. For new commercial buildings, parking lots must go to the side or rear — rather than in front — of the building.
The concept promotes a boulevard aesthetic in the town's commercial districts, advancing the goal of making Waynesville a more walkable, visually-appealing town, said the Lawrence Group, consultants who helped the town craft the new ordinances.
The idea is to turn streets now fronted by parking lots into tree-lined avenues and store façades that will provide a more welcoming entrance into the town.
In the new regulations, however, there is a provision for allowing limited parking in front of buildings in certain commercial districts. But nailing down the specifics of just how and when that option can be invoked has been the subject of some ire over the last year as the new standards were discussed.
"That was probably our biggest friction point with developers was the parking in front," said Paul Benson, Waynesville's planning director. In the new regulations though, Benson pointed out "there are a lot of variables in parking patterns now."
Benson presented aldermen with a number of different scenarios that could crop up under the new guidelines, trying to illustrate what the more relaxed rules would look like for real businesses.
For big-box stores like Wal-Mart, they could have up to 150 spaces in front, while large retailers with a slightly diminished footprint, like Best Buy, would only be allowed around 25 spaces in front. Smaller stores such as CVS or banks would only get about eight front spaces under new regulations.
Among some members of the task force, this compromise didn't always meet a positive response.
"It doesn't help that much," Joe Taylor said of the front-parking concessions in the updated guidelines. Taylor, of Taylor Ford dealership in Waynesville, was on the steering committee and was an outspoken advocate of allowing parking in front.
He said the committee suggested the provision for front parking to give potential developers a break in otherwise tight regulations. The problem, he said, is that it doesn't quite do what they'd originally envisioned.
Under the new wording, up to 50 percent of the minimum parking required for the stores under the town's ordinance could go in front.
But the minimum number of parking spots required for a store is far less than any store would actually have.
"We don't require a lot of parking. They [developers] usually want almost three times as much as we want," said Benson.
Taylor said the required minimum is so small, that allowing 50 percent of that to go in front doesn't do much.
"It takes the benefit of it away unless it's a real large store," Taylor said.
Though aldermen could have voted to adopt — or reject — the updated rules after the public hearing in March, board members all said they wanted just a little more time to mull over the proposals and give the public one last chance to weigh in.
And in the mean time, Benson has proposed a new option for the contentious front parking issue: special use permits, which would give developers with legitimate parking gripes a way to talk about it with planners.
By allowing special use permitting, said Benson, the board of adjustment would be able to hear pleas from business owners and builders on a case-by-case basis, judging them against a set of standards that complement the parking compromises already reached.
Under this recommendation, if a site meets one of several requirements — it has tricky terrain that governs where the building can sit or the business is looking to join with others and create a courtyard parking atmosphere, among others — the board would be able to give them some leeway.
In the end, the aldermen all said they wanted to reach a set of standards that are best for both the town residents and businesses.
"I'm a firm believer in compromise and finding the best compromise for this community. I want to maintain what is best for Waynesville and I believe we can do that," said Alderwoman Libba Feicther.
For his part, Mayor Gavin Brown said that, after months of negotiation and debate, he's ready to get the changes to the land-use plan out of discussion and on the books.
"I think the process has been more than democratic," said Brown, and now it's time to take that democratic effort and translate it into real, working guidelines that will hopefully lead the town into a better, more beautiful future.
The Waynesville Planning Board said this week it will hold off on adopting a major update to the town's land use plan until February at the earliest, and will delay voting even then if it thinks citizens still want time to digest the plan and offer suggestions.
"I will say that people have told me that if we vote at this meeting it would prevent some from commenting," said planning board member Jon Feichter at the Dec. 20 meeting. "I would be in favor of waiting until at least Feb. 21 to vote."
Other planning board members agreed to wait until then at the earliest.
"I think we can tentatively schedule it for then, but it can wait until later if that's what we need to do," said board chairman Patrick McDowell.
Town Planning Director Paul Benson also said that there should be no rush to adopt the revisions.
"It is my recommendation that you vote when you feel comfortable with it. Tonight would be too early," said Benson.
Benson told board members he would like them to delay voting and take public comment at its next couple of meetings.
The updates to the town's land development standards have been in the works for more than a year. Waynesville hired a consulting company that has been working with a town committee to update the land-use standards that were originally adopted in 2003. Nearly 40 meetings have been held, and result of that work was presented to town citizens at two public meetings in late November and early December.
Benson prepared a package of all the comments for the planning board, but he said two issues raised by the public stood out: one, criticism of the revision that will remove the mandate that parking be on the side and in backs of buildings in commercial areas; and two, complaints about the new plan's allowable density and height.
The board did not discuss any changes to the original proposal in response to public comment from the two public meetings.
Feichter did bring up one problem that he said might need to addressed: the stipulation that redevelopment of existing structures did not have to meet the new standards as long as the revision was to less than 50 percent of the existing structure. He said some could take advantage of this if there was not a time limit put in the regulations saying how long a period there had to be between renovations.
Benson suggested that saying a year must pass between renovations would likely solve this problem, but the board did not adopt any change.
A proposed update of Waynesville's progressive land-use ordinance that has been several years in the making is close to becoming law, as planners gear up to inform the public at two information sessions next week.
The new ordinance will update a plan that hasn't been changed since 2003, which Waynesville Planning Director Paul Benson says is too long.
"It was due," said Benson. "It [the ordinance] was adopted in 2003 and, honestly, wasn't that well developed. There's been a pretty steady drumbeat of complaints about parts of the ordinance, particularly the parking-in-front portion."
Benson is referring to a clause in the ordinance that requires new buildings and larger renovations to locate their parking either behind or to the side of the building to present a more pedestrian friendly, urbanized feel to new development in the town.
According to Benson, 85 percent of the ordinance will remain unchanged since, he said, the ideas behind the 2003 version were solid, if the execution was sub-par.
Among the substantive changes to go into effect, perhaps the most powerful is the creation of Condition District zoning, which allows the board of aldermen to create a negotiated, site-specific zoning districts on a case-by-case basis, allowing them to make exceptions for certain developments that meet particular criteria. This change has, however, already been enacted ahead of the rest of the new ordinance after Ingles lodged a special request with the board.
Other changes will include less vagueness in design standards, increased protections for open space in high-density residential areas, and more relaxed slope regulations to allow denser development on slopes with less than 25 percent grade.
Another key feature will be an update to the parking regulations, which would vary by district and building type. For regional business districts like Russ Avenue, the new rules would allow up to 50 percent of required parking to be out front.
The new standards will also give developers some leeway in their landscaping choices, particularly around where to put plants in parking lots.
Benson said he hopes that the meetings, to be held Nov. 30 at the Waynesville Recreation Center and Dec. 2 at the Waynesville Fire Station No. 2, will allow residents who might be impacted by the changes to get their questions answered.
"It's an opportunity for people who are interested to come in and learn about it and have input," said Benson, "and for people with specific issues to come in and see how those are being handled."
The sessions will begin at 6 p.m and will feature a presentation detailing the changes as well as displays and opportunities for residents to comment and ask questions.
Benson said he also hopes to have a form for questions and comments available both at the meeting and online, so those who are interested can formulate and submit questions after the meetings close.
• 6 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Waynesville Recreation Center.
• 6 p.m. on Dec. 2 at the Waynesville Fire Station # 2.
Ingles is now one step closer to giving their Waynesville store a revamp, thanks to a decision taken by the town's aldermen last week.
The board granted Ingles request for a conditional zoning district, which would allow the supermarket chain to go ahead with their redevelopment plans without any delays in the process.
Conditional zoning districts are slated to be part of the town's updated land-use ordinances that will be open to public comment later this fall. Ingles, however, couldn't wait that long, so they petitioned the board to make a decision now.
After meetings between town officials and Ingles representatives, the board seemed convinced that the grocery store wasn't seeking to get in under the wire by pushing through a project before the updated ordinances are adopted.
Mayor Gavin Brown said that, initially, he'd harbored reservations.
"At first I had some reservations about what we were doing here," Brown said. "At first I was a little suspect of having all that authority and all that power. The nice thing is that if we don't like it, we don't have to do it. It's really our decision to make within the confines of the ordinance itself."
Michael Egan, attorney for Ingles and also an expert on zoning, spoke on behalf of the store, assuring the aldermen that the request wasn't frivolous.
"They didn't just file this application out of a spirit of playfulness. It's very important to them. It's critical to them to get started as soon as they possibly can," said Egan, who has helped Brevard and other local municipalities put together similar measures.
"It's a terrific tool," said Egan. "It's probably the best tool that local governments now have."
For the town, adopting conditional zoning will allow them to make exceptions to current zoning on a case-by-case, plat-by-plat basis.
"It's very site-specific," said Paul Benson, Waynesville's planning director. "You can tailor it to an individual and so that makes it really a popular tool."
It is also a powerful tool, giving the planning board and the board of aldermen the power to change and negotiate around current zoning regulations for specific businesses or individuals.
There are, said Benson, some restrictions, though.
"The most specific restriction is they can't ask for a use that's not allowed in the underlying zone," Benson said, which does limit the amount of leeway that a board can offer.
For Ingles, the crux of the issue is timing. Under the current regulations, they couldn't redevelop the site — which is in the Russ Avenue Town Center District — much beyond minor renovations without bumping up against the ordinance's confines. Within those boundaries, developers said, it would be impossible for them to update, since the store lies on what Benson calls a "flagpole lot." That makes parking in the back or side of the building — a stipulation for buildings in the district — difficult.
Ingles hasn't come out with definitive plan for what it wants to do with the site, and Benson said the town won't know for sure until their application arrives. That's when the real negotiations over what will and won't be allowed in the conditional zone — or even if they'll be allowed one — will begin.
The possibility of expansion eastward into the adjoining storefront once occupied by Goody's has been mentioned, as has the idea of a gas station, which is the formula Ingles has been following for its newer stores. At Tuesday's meeting, store representatives pledged that the expansion would bring up to 60 new jobs to the community, in addition to temporary contracting jobs that the redevelopment would create.
Egan said that the major negotiating points of the new conditional use would likely be parking and landscaping, and said that they hope to have an application for conditional use filed with the city in time to make an appearance on the Dec. 20 planning board agenda.
"The engineer is working on those plans right now and we hope to have that application in by the end of the month," said Egan.
The next step is for the town to evaluate the store's application and start talks to work out exact terms. Benson said that, if the timing is right, that process could be well on its way by early next year.


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Since December figures are always so bad, there is no merit in a month-on-month analysis. But it is relevant to compare December 2007 with December 2006 and even more appropriate to look at the six-monthly averages. So let's begin with the overall market first.
Last month the national dailies sold a total of 11.16m compared to 11.38m 12 months before, a fall of 1.95%. The Sundays fared much worse, down by 4.54% year-on-year. I predict that some time later this year, fewer Sunday nationals will be sold than dailies, a genuine landmark moment.
Looking at the six-monthly returns, the picture is roughly similar, suggesting that there is no halt to the long-term structural decline of newsprint papers. As Private Fraser was wont to yell in Dad's Army: "We're all doomed". There is no way back for paid-for titles. Frees have certainly eaten into popular paper sales, but they are not responsible for the losses at serious papers, nor are they the reason for decreases in Sunday paper sales. Keep in mind also the continuing audience growth for newspaper websites, the light at the end of our tunnel.
Much has been made of The Sun dipping below 3m for the first time since its soaraway 1974 days, but I wrote about that yesterday and I'll return to its special problems in Monday's Media Guardian print edition and in this blog on Monday morning. But there is one amusing little statistical wrinkle to point out about The Sun's relationship with the Daily Mirror.
It is generally accepted that advertisers value full-rate sales over discounted sales. With that in mind, note this: The Sun - which circulates across the whole of the UK and Ireland - sold 2,021,000 copies at its full cover price in December. By adding together the full-rate sales of the Mirror and its Scottish "sister", the Daily Record, we discover that between them they sold 1,836,676, not so very far behind the old enemy. Of course, it's just an anorak fact, but interesting all the same.
Anyway, let's look at some other highlights, or should that be low-lights? The Daily Mail goes on defying the trend. Its year-on-year sale difference is a mere 250 copies, though it has had to rely on 10,000 more bulk sales to keep its headline figure looking so healthy. The Mail on Sunday has done well too, without adding any bulks.
The Financial Times is the only paper to record month-on-month, year-on-year and six-monthly increases. No wonder its owners, Pearson, have felt confident enough to raise its cover price yet again.
The Daily Telegraph has slipped only slightly, proving the worth of having stuck to its broadsheet shape, while The Times has fallen back, down by more than 3% on the year and over the past six months. But it is still selling more than 600,000 a day, so there is no cause for alarm. The Guardian has done worse, having lost 4.25% of its sale in the last half year compared to the last half of 2006. And The Independent has dropped by more than 5%. Its full-rate UK sale totals a mere 180,000 a day.
But the really fascinating dramas in the coming months will surely be played out in the struggle between the serious Sunday titles. That market has performed very poorly of late, down by almost 5% in the past six months and showing no sign of recovery. The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph are down by more than 5% on the year. The Observer is gripping on but the Sindy - as I report in the posting below - is ailing and could well drop out of sight in the next year.
The Sindy is not, however, the sickest Sunday on the street. Both the Sunday Express and The People are doing far worse, locked in a neck-and-neck race to see who can sell fewer copies every week. If I didn't do this job I wouldn't buy them. Why, I wonder as I reluctantly scan them, does anyone bother?


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A wealthy English family once invited friends to spend some time at their beautiful estate. The happy gathering was almost plunged into a terrible tragedy on the first day. When the children went swimming, one of them got into deep water and was drowning. Fortunately, the gardener heard the others screaming and plunged into the pool to rescue the helpless victim. That youngster was Winston Churchill. His parents, deeply grateful to the gardener, asked what they could do to reward him. He hesitated, then said, "I wish my son could go to college someday and become a doctor." "We'll pay his way," replied Churchill's parents.
Years later when Sir Winston was prime minister of England, he was stricken with pneumonia. Greatly concerned, the king summoned the best physician who could be found to the bedside of the ailing leader. That doctor was Sir Alexander Fleming, the developer of penicillin. He was also the son of that gardener who had saved Winston from drowning as a boy! Later Churchill said, "Rarely has one man owed his life twice to the same person."
What was rare in the case of that great English statesman is in a much deeper sense a wonderful reality for every believer in Christ. The Heavenly Father has given us the gift of physical life, and then through His Son, the Great Physician, He has imparted to us eternal life.
May the awareness that we are doubly indebted to God as our Creator and Redeemer motivate us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him. - D.J.D.


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What are some alternative words for modality?
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modality, mode(noun)
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
mode, manner, musical mode, fashion, way, sensory system, modal value, sense modality, style, modality, mood
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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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a particular sense
modality, mood, sense modality, sensory system, mode
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
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text: USDCAD remains in downtrend from 1.1278, the rise from 1.0813 could be treated as consolidation of the downtrend. Key resistance is at 1.1053, as long as this level holds, the downtrend could be expected to continue, and next target would be at 1.0650 area. Only a break above 1.1053 resistance will indicate that the downtrend had completed at 1.0813 already, then the following upward movement could bring price to 1.1500 zone.


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Cardiff City boss Mackay demands siege mentality against Manchester City
Cardiff City boss Malky Mackay wants home fans to turn up the heat against Manchester City on Sunday.
Last Updated: 25/08/13 3:37pm
The Welsh capital hosts a Barclays Premier League game for the first time and Mackay wants supporters to turn the stadium into a fortress.
"We have got to try and make our stadium a fortress," said the Scot.
"We have to make sure that it is a tough ask for any team that comes down to our stadium.
"I have no doubt the way our fans will be this season in terms of their ferocity, support and passion for our club and the way our stadium is, it will lend itself to noise, like we had last season.
"We will have tough teams coming, top teams coming here and it will be a test for us. But we are relishing that."
Mackay, whose team lost to West Ham on the opening day of the season, is aware of just how difficult a proposition City will be given their 4-0 destruction of Newcastle on Monday night.
"I thought they were excellent on Monday," he said.
"After 20 minutes it was slightly slanted because of the sending off and they played a slightly different formation obviously, but at the same time, the players playing out there were excellent.
"I look at the players they have coming off the bench and the impact they have as well. They are a top team.
"It's nice to get back to our home ground but we realise that we are playing one of the top teams in the league and there is a task ahead of us.
"But after Monday night you see the way that team played, they are warming to their new manager quite quickly. So we realise the task in hand."
Mackay is still hopeful of making further signings during the transfer window but has ruled out a move for Paris St Germain's former Liverpool midfielder
Mohamed Sissoko.
"We are trying to do more business before the window closes but I think we are in the same boat as every other team at the moment," he added.
"We are trying to find the best players we can but we will only bring someone in if we think that player can improve us. But that player is not someone we are looking at."


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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Ask a group of college students to "Stand if you own a cell phone" and you'll get an automatic standing ovation. A convocation speaker at Bethel College did that recently, but not for an ego boost.
Sara Reschly, Chicago, wanted instead to show the broad impact of armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa. After asking about cell phones, Reschly added personal organizers, MP3 players and gaming systems to the list, leaving virtually no one seated.
A key ingredient in all these products is columbite-tantalite, or coltan, Reschly explained in her March 9 presentation. An estimated eighty percent of the world's coltan comes from the DRC, with sales helping to perpetuate the conflict as guerilla groups fight for control of the roads to coltan mines.
As part of an all-female delegation of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), Reschly traveled to the DRC in 2006 to "learn how Congolese women have been affected by war and to amplify their voices," she told her Bethel audience. "Civilians, especially women and children, bear much of the conflict."
Since 1998, as many as 5.5 million people have died in the Congo, she said, with many of the deaths resulting from malnutrition and disease related to the conflict.
Women want their stories told in order to create change and stop the flow of weapons to their country, she said.
CPT members filmed and translated the stories of Congolese women. Reschly showed a brief portion of the film during convocation. Women without limbs explained how members of militant groups cut off their hands and feet, gang-raped them, burned their property and killed their husbands and children.
"These stories are not isolated cases," said Reschly. "Rape is being used as a weapon in the war [in Congo] … as a weapon of control."
Reschly explained that the rapes are systematic and happening on a large scale – victims range from infants to women as old as 70 years.
Rape is often done in a very public way that leaves men feeling helpless and women feeling shame. It also has an economic impact – the fear of rape prevents women from working in the fields, selling food at market and collecting water.
In response to a student question, Reschly expanded that description, saying 99 percent of rape survivors are kicked out of the community and rejected by their husbands for shame and fear of HIV/AIDS.
Even so, organizations are working for peace. The Collective Association of Women's Groups for the Empowerment of Women, formed in 1992, "diligently documents human rights violations" and works to public such documents. They provide direct services, including a micro-credit lending project that provides job opportunities, for the often-mutilated women rape survivors.
Such efforts are high-risk, said Reschly. In one village, women suspected of aiding in the publication of stories of human rights violations were buried alive.
The main message of such stories is a call for peace, Reschly said. "If there was peace in the Congo, they would not need to rely on resources from other countries.
"The Congolese women told us, 'As mothers, we are tired of war. We want peace,'" she said. "They said, 'Please go tell other women about the situation in the Congo. Go and lobby for an end to this war.'"
For more information about CPT or ways to help stop the violence in the Congo, Reschly recommended visiting www.friendsofthecongo.org, www.nodirtygold.org, www.amnestyusa.org/diamonds/holiday.html, www.congoglobalaction.org and www.cpt.org.
In her convocation presentation, Reschly also explained CPT's mission in all of its work: "to use nonviolent methods to intervene in lethal conflicts to reduce violence and support local peacemaking efforts" while enlisting "the whole church in conscientious objection to war and the development of nonviolent institutions."
Over the years, "you realize that nonviolent peacemaking and 'getting in the way' does make a difference," Reschly said of her CPT experiences.
As her father-in-law, Bethel College Registrar Rodney Frey, explained in his introduction of Reschly, she has a lot of that experience, having been part of CPT since 1997. Reschly was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from high school in Grinnell, Iowa. She has a B.A. in psychology from Kalamazoo (Mich.) College and an M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame.
As part of CPT, Reschly has served in assignments or participated in actions in Hebron, West Bank, Chiapas, Mexico, and Colombia, in addition to leading the delegation to Congo. She is married to Mark Frey, who works in the CPT Chicago office as administrative coordinator, and they have a young son, Elias.
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Carissa Verkaik Named to Division III Capital One Academic All-District Team
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Capital One Academic All-District Women's Basketball Teams
Calvin College junior Carissa Verkaik has been named to the Capital One Division III Academic All-District 6 team in women's basketball. As a member of the all-district team, Verkaik now advances to the national ballot and is eligible for Capital One Academic All-America consideration.
A native of Holland and a graduate of Holland Christian High School, Verkaik is averaging 18.9 points and 8.7 rebounds a game while connecting on 57.9 percent of her field goal attempts. She has also blocked 81 shots for an average just over over four blocks per game. She is ranked nationally in both field goal percentage and blocked shots per-game average.
She has been a two-time MIAA Player of the Week this year and has tallied nine double-doubles including 33 over the course of her career. She has been a two-time MIAA MVP and a two-time first team All-MIAA selection.
Verkaik carries a 3.67 grade point average while majoring in education. A year ago, she was a member of the MIAA Academic Honor Roll.
Verkaik has also found time to be a two-sport athlete at Calvin. Last spring, she was a member of the Calvin women's track and field team and captured the league title in the high jump to earn a spot on the All-MIAA women's track and field team. She later competed in the high jump at the NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The Calvin women's basketball team is currently 20-0 overall and in first place in the MIAA standings with a 12-0 conference record. The Knights are currently ranked 4th by both d3hoops.com Top 25 poll and by the USA Today/ESPN Division III Coaches Top 25 poll.