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As we approach issue #25 of American Vampire, which concludes the "Death Race" arc, tensions are high between rockabilly vampire slayer Travis Kidd and series staple Skinner Sweet, but there is so much more headed your way it's not even funny.
We caught up with the always affable Scott Snyder about what's next to come in the American Vampire universe, and we're happy to bring you an exclusive first look at American Vampire #25, on sale Wednesday. Be warned though, there are some spoilers for what's coming in here.
IGN Comics: I've really been digging the "Death Race" arc set in the 50s. I know that you're a big fan of the time period in general, so was this a story you wanted to tell at the outset of the American Vampire?
Scott Snyder: Yeah, definitely. Rafael [Albuquerque] joked about it and talked about the character of Travis when we first started writing it over a year ago. So it's someone that's been on our minds forever. Rafael was like, "We need to make a young Elvis vampire killer!" And I had the same idea! But we can't make him Elvis. [laughs] I'm a huge Elvis fan – I have two Elvis tattoos and everything from when I was a teenager. Rafael is a big Elvis and rockabilly fan as well, so it's definitely an era that we've been dying to get to and a character we've sort of loved since before he was born.
IGN: That being said, will you be sticking with the 50s after the conclusion of this arc, or are you moving on?
Snyder: Yeah, we're definitely sticking with the 50s. The seeds that are going to be planted at the end of this coming issue, issue #25 -- the finale of "Death Race" -- is really going to set in motion the story that's going to carry us through the second half of the 50s with Rafael drawing that as well. We're really thrilled about it. The stuff that happens in "Death Race" and the status of Skinner, why he's back, how he came back, why he's doing what he's doing, and what his allegiances are – all of those things are going to be set up in this coming issue. They're going to set the ball rolling for the second big part of the 50s that we're going to be starting soon called "Black List."
IGN: That was actually my next question, if we're going to be seeing how Skinner survived the incident back during "Ghost War" and if that back story would be getting filled in.
Snyder: Yeah, definitely. That's something we've been talking about forever, too. It's one of the things I'm most excited to get to, because he's a character who is just so fun to write when he's loose and on the wild, you know? We wanted this to be a period where it's a very different status quo for him. The reason he's been able to come back and the deal with the devil that he's had to make – figuratively, I mean – is something that puts him in a very different place; a different place in relation to Pearl, Henry, and to Calvin. All of these characters are going to come back in a very big way at the end of the "Death Race."
IGN: That's exciting. Obviously you have an affinity for Travis Kidd; pending what happens to him at the end of the arc, will he be sticking around in some capacity?
Snyder: Well, if he survives the arc! [laughs] I think he's a character we would love to use again. He's really a character who, to me, gives the series a whole different angle on things. Because he's not just a human, but he's a human who fights vampires outside of this major organization – the Vassals – where he's really sort of a rogue vampire killer and thus he represents a lot of the spirit of the 50s in this kind of rebellious, punk rock way. He has a lot in common with Skinner. Or at least, the way Skinner used to be. That's the biggest hint I can give.
That's one of the reasons they're paired up against each other in the "Death Race" arc. The reasons that he's hunting Skinner will become clear in the next issue also. His relationship to Skinner is one that's really fun to write because I think, in a lot of ways, as much as Skinner wants to kill and eat him, he also sees a bit of himself from days gone by in this kid. He has fun reliving his own more rebellious, wild west days by fighting this kid that just won't give up.
IGN: Throughout the series so far, there's been some degree of interconnectivity between all of the characters despite the different time periods. Will we be seeing Pearl or Henry in the 50s at some point?
Snyder: Yeah, you're going to see them next issue! You'll see them in issue #25, that's a spoiler, but it's true.
IGN: [laughs]
Snyder: Then the story that begins with the events that end issue #25 will carry us forward into the second big 6-issue arc called "Black List." It'll be very heavily focused on Pearl as the main character with Henry and Skinner.
IGN: Now, writing those characters must be interesting for you, in that Pearl isn't aging while Henry is. Do you find yourself approaching the characters differently as you tackle them in different time periods?
Snyder: That's really the fun of writing them. At first, when I started American Vampire with Rafael, it was like, "What do we want to explore in this decade?" And then as we fell in love with the characters, as we started writing it, it changed a lot. I fell in love with the characters and so did he, and it became about seeing the decades of the 20th century of America through their eyes and where they would be emotionally. So every arc is very much about where they are, rather than about the time period itself.
So when you read the end of "Death Race" you'll get sort of what's coming in "Black List" in some ways too. It's all really coming up in #25, which is one of my favorite issues of the whole series. In the "Black List" arc, it's very much about this notion that Henry and Pearl have made a pact not to change him out of fear. Meaning, not to change him just because she's afraid of losing him because he's getting older. That's really at the heart of part of the conflict that happens in that storyline. Meanwhile, she also feels this dark pull towards Skinner who comes back in a big way. The end of "Death Race" will make it a fully independent story, but the things that are planted are things that are really going to grow into the storyline that we're coming up with in the issues right afterwards. That'll be our big "Ghost War" type of arc for this decade.
It's very fun to be able to alternate between doing stories about characters like Calvin, the African-American soldier who was turned into an American Vampire, or about Felicia and Cash, and then move back to our big central cast of Pearl, Henry, and Skinner. The series is such a delight to write; I'm really excited that people have responded so positively to it. And so is Rafael. We really want to say thanks to everyone reading this too. We feel very lucky to be able to write it.
IGN: I don't know if you can say anything about this at the moment, but after "Black List," can you speak to where you'll be headed next?
Snyder: We do have stories but DC would kill me if I talked about it! [laughs] But we do, we have a lot of things that are going to be announced soon. About stories that take place both in the main series and out of the main series; all of that stuff. The world of American Vampire is, for us, expanding constantly and this year is going to be a big year for us having fun and telling a lot of different kinds of stories with these characters.
IGN: This question probably falls under the same "can't talk about it" category, but the last time last time you were on the IGN Comics podcast, you mentioned that you might be up for doing more American Vampire mini-series with Sean Murphy. Has that notion moved forward at all? Is it still a possibility?
Snyder: We definitely want to do another American Vampire mini-series, and there will be news about that coming really soon. [Editor's Note: American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares was announced after this interview was conducted. Read more about that series here.] It's something we want to try and do; we talked about trying to do one every summer. Yeah, there's something in the works.
IGN: Right before we started the interview, I put out the call for fan questions on Twitter, so I'm going to toss you a couple of those as well.
Snyder: Yeah, of course! I love those.
IGN: Okay so, we saw it in Survival of the Fittest and "Ghost War," but are there plans to tackle more of the global ramifications of vampires?
Snyder: Definitely. Both historically and in the present. All of that stuff is really part of the bigger tapestry of story we want to tell. I guess the best way to put it is that in every story, we try to think of it as having three storylines that we try and touch on in some way. The obvious one is just the forward-moving story that carries the protagonists, whoever they are in that arc, forward emotionally. But the other two, the B and the C stories that we always want to touch on… the B story really is the history of vampirism and its origins. Where the bloodline has gone, the creatures it has created, the species it has created, the genocide that's part of the mystery that's part of the mystery of the series as well. How this species, the Dracula kind – the Carpathian species – has become this dominant species and why we haven't seen a lot of other types of vampires around the world.
And the C story being this brewing conflict between the remnants of those species: the American species and the Carpathian species. Every story we want to hit on that and hit on the global ramifications, the different species, and expand the mythology. Work it forward towards this conflict that I think has been right beneath the surface since we began.
IGN: This is kind of a similar question, but will we see more of the ancient vampire race?
Snyder: Absolutely. That's something that is built into the outline of the earliest seeds for the whole series. Who those ancients are, where they came from, how the bloodline has split, what creatures and species it's created over the years. We're going to touch on it again very, very soon in issues that are coming up really soon.
IGN: That's great. And the last fan question I have here is, is there any chance of another Stephen King back-up at some point?
Snyder: There's definitely a chance! The door is always open. We send him every issue and we are always in contact with him. He's definitely one of the godfathers of the series. He likes to say it's like the "Skinner Sweet Suite" in the hotel right over the bookstore where the reading happened in our first arc. It's always reserved for him. So he's always welcome to come back at any point. There are no firm plans for him to do it, but he knows the invitation is always extended to him and nothing would make us happier than to have him back. He's in the DNA of the series. We're always grateful to him for making this story even better in that first arc.
IGN: You're obviously pretty packed with work at the moment between your DCU work and the ever-growing AV universe, but do you have any interest in doing another series with Vertigo beyond AV?
Snyder: Yeah, definitely! I won't say anything concrete, but absolutely. As much as I adore doing DC stuff – I love writing Batman and Swamp Thing, they're my two favorite comic book characters that I didn't create – for a lot of us that work in the DCU, Vertigo is the home that we come back to where we get to explore ideas that are our own organically. So, absolutely. There's stuff in the works in that department, if only I could say more about it!
I have a lot of interest in doing more creator-owned stuff. As much fun as I have in the DCU, it really makes it so gratifying to be able to come back to Vertigo and be welcomed and have license to tell stories that are completely your own and be able to flex your muscles. I feel like it keeps you young as a writer, you know? As much as I love doing stories with characters that I grew up with, to be able to try new things and push boundaries at Vertigo where they encourage that sort of thing is priceless to me as a writer.
IGN: That's all I've got for you man, but thanks for taking the time out today.
Snyder: Thank you! And thank you to all the readers at IGN, I mean it. We get so much support; your readers are the best, so thank you so much, everyone. And you guys that work there too, but I mean it – the people that read IGN and go on the forums and stuff, it really means a lot to all of us. We look at that stuff, so thank you.
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Levitating Magnets: Floating Isn't Just for Magicians
Have you ever seen a magician float an object in the air? If so, you might think that levitation (making things float) is just a magic trick, but the truth is you can use an invisible physical force to levitate a magnet! Try this science project to find out how.Objective
In this science project you'll discover how to place magnets so they either attract or repel one another and then use that information to levitate a magnet.
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Imagine people's surprise when they came across the first magnet! It must have seemed like a magic stone to them—able to make tiny pieces of iron rise up and slide around by some invisible force. The earliest records of magnets are from the Chinese and the Greeks who both wrote of lodestones, which are naturally occurring stones that attract iron. Today we know that lodestones contain magnetite, a naturally occurring magnetic material. Through experimentation and observation, both the Chinese and the Greeks eventually began to use these magnetic lodestones to make compasses to use for navigation at sea. But it took until the 1600's before major scientific understanding of magnets occurred. And scientists are still discovering more and more about magnetic principles today!
One of the most basic and important features of magnets is that when allowed to rotate freely on a piece of string, they always align themselves so that one end faces the North Pole and the other end faces the South Pole, these two ends are referred to as the north and south poles of the magnet. They can also be called the positive and negative poles. By aligning the poles of two magnets in different combinations, the magnets will either be attracted, (pulled closer to one another) or repelled (pushed farther apart from one another). To learn more about magnets, check out the Science Buddies Electricity, Magnetism, & Electromagnetism Tutorial.
Magnets are used in a wide variety of household objects, including headphones, televisions, computer disks, and refrigerator magnets. Recently, engineers have used magnets to create maglev (short for magnetic levitation) trains. These maglev trains use the attractive and repellant nature of magnets to levitate or "float" above the tracks, rather than use wheels. The first commercial high-speed maglev train, located in Shanghai, China, began transporting people in December of 2003. It averages 250 miles per hour!
In this science project you'll conduct two experiments. In the first experiment you'll discover how to place two magnets in order to create a repellant force and an attractive force. Then you'll use that information in a second experiment to make your own magnetic levitation system.
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- Force
- North or positive pole
- South or negative pole
- Attract
- Repel
- Maglev train
- Levitation
- What do magnets do?
- How are magnets used in everyday life?
These websites contain general information about magnets and what they are used for.
- Canallaw Online. (2004, December 3). Magnets. Retrieved May 20, 2008 from http://www.canllaw-online.com/fe/news/news_details.asp?NewsID=3467
- Magcraft. (n.d.). Magnet Basics. Retrieved May 20, 2008 from http://my.execpc.com/~rhoadley/magreview.htm
- Bonsor, K. (2000, October 13). How Maglev Trains Work. Retrieved May 20, 2008 from http://science.howstuffworks.com/maglev-train.htm
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Materials and Equipment
- Bar magnet with north and south poles labeled (2); these can be ordered online from science supply stores like Edmund Scientific, product #: 3037908, and Science Kit & Boreal Lab product #: WW4799902.
- Ring magnets (2); sets of ring magnets can be ordered online from science supply stores like Edmund Scientific, product #: 3052375, and Science Kit & Boreal Lab product #: WW4772500.
- Permanent marker
- Pencil
- Spool of thread, Play-Doh®, or some other object that can be used as a stand for holding the pencil upright.
- Lab notebook
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Remember to be careful when using the magnets so you don't get your fingers pinched between two magnets that are attracted to one another.
Determining Which Poles Attract and Repel One Another
- Place the two bar magnets on a table. Examine both ends of the bar magnets, you'll notice that one end of each magnet is labeled "north" or "N," and the other end is labeled "south" or "S." Bring the north pole of the first magnet close to the north pole of the second magnet. Do the two north poles attract or repel? Make a data table, like the one below, in your lab notebook and record your observations.
Using the same technique, try all the different combinations of poles and record your observations in your data table.
Pole Type of 1st Magnet Pole Type of 2nd Magnet Attract or Repel North North North South South North South South
- Look at your data table. What conclusions can you make? Do like (which also means the same) poles attract or repel? What about opposite poles?
Levitating a Ring Magnet
From your experiments with the bar magnets, you now know how the poles of two magnets behave when you bring them close to one another. Use that information to determine which is the north pole and which is the south pole for your ring magnets.
- Bring the flat side of one of the ring magnets close to the north pole of a bar magnet. Is the ring magnet attracted to or repelled from the bar magnet? Based on that observation, is the side of the ring magnet you chose the north or south pole? Using the permanent marker, label that side either "N" for north or "S" for south. Be careful not to get the ink on anything else, it'll stain!
- Repeat these steps in order to label the north and south poles of the second ring magnet.
Once you have the north and south poles of two ring magnets labeled, you are ready to determine the conditions under which you can achieve magnetic levitation.
First you need to make the holder for the ring magnets.
- Place the pencil in the hole of the spool of thread, or in a lump of Play-Doh, so that it stands up vertically. Make sure the pointy tip of the pencil is pointing down so you don't poke yourself.
- Slide one ring magnet onto the pencil, with the north pole facing the ceiling. It will fall to the base of the holder.
- Slide the second ring magnet onto the pencil so that the north pole of the second magnet faces the north pole of the first magnet. What happens? Does the second magnet levitate? Record your observations in a data table, like the one below, in your lab notebook.
- Remove the ring magnets from the stand and repeat steps 5b and 5c using all the possible combinations for north and south poles of both magnets. Record your observations in your data table.
Pole Type of 1st Magnet Pole Type of 2nd Magnet Levitation of 2nd Magnet (Yes or No) North North North South South North South South
First you need to make the holder for the ring magnets.
- Look at your data table. Under which conditions does the second magnet levitate? Are the conditions for levitation the same as the conditions that caused the bar magnets to be attracted or repelled?
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Magnets are fascinating and have endless properties to explore. Here are a couple more ideas you can investigate with your magnets.
- Can you use a magnetic compass to determine which end of a magnet is the north pole and which is the south pole? Design an experiment to find out. Hint: Use the bar magnets, which already have their poles labeled, so you can interpret your observations.
- Did you know that you can make a temporary magnet out of a nail? Using a bar magnet, stroke the nail 30 times, in the same direction each time. Now can you use the nail to pick up staples? How many? What happens if you stroke the nail more times? Does it become a stronger magnet? Use the staples to find out.
- If you break a magnet in half, can you get a magnet with two south poles or two north poles? Use a magnet designed to be broken, like product #: WW6234500 from Science Kit & Boreal Lab, or make your own temporary magnet from a wire paperclip and use wire cutters to break the magnet into smaller pieces. Hint: to learn how to make a temporary magnet, read "Variation" # 2.
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I've had the pleasure of knowing Katie Hafner, New York Times reporter and author, for at least five years. She generally writes on tech topics, so I was interested to see her latest book on the famous pianist Glenn Gould, A Romance on Three Legs.
As a geek, it feels good to see some of the oddities of tech people translated into the music world. Gould was a real character: maybe even stranger than my Caltech classmates. But, brilliant of course.
A significant character in the book is the blind piano tuner, Verne Edquist. I had no guess that reading my first Hafner piece on music I'd be getting a window on what it was like to be a visually impaired kid growing up in the prairie during the Depression. So, it's a book about unusual people and technology (in this case, a unique Steinway that Glenn Gould loves and Verne tunes).
I'm enjoying the book a lot and look forward to adding it to Bookshare.org after my wife reads it (actually, I bought it for her because she's the concert pianist in our family!).
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Has it? I read a study once that said [IIRC] 'Sesame Street,' with it quickly edited chaotic style, actually interfered with learning and created generatioins of kids who couldnt concentrate. IIRC, the study also said shows like 'Mr Rogers' were actually better for developing minds.
My mother let me watch Mr. Rogers but kept me off the Street for that very reason. Overprotection? Maybe, but I can't fault her reasoning.
We didn't watch any US imports. Our idea of a treat was watching a beardy hippy with big specs standing in front of a diagram on Open University.
Dave Shapel: the truth about sesame street. [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdim8hWR44&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/yt]
I don't have any issues with concentration and neither do my kids and we've all watched Sesame Street.
Penn State Takes Down A Photo Of Elmo Being Given A PSU T-Shirt: Penn State University appeared to make private a photo on their Flickr feed Tuesday of Elmo receiving a Penn State T-shirt during a visit to the university in March. Those guys at Penn State can't catch a break...
Here's an idea. Why don't we just ask the second guy suing Clash over the same charge what he thinks?
Surely that should be "I grew up on Sesame street in the 70s and I have no problem... uh... What was I saying?"
Wasn't the second guy 15 when he had his sexual encounter with Elmo, and came foward because of the first guy who came forward?
We won't know if it's true or not until this thing goes through the courts, assuming these complaints have enough merit to make it that far. All we know is that Clash resigned (probably, forced out) because this is a big distraction Sesame Street doesn't need. Whether it is true or not, these allegations will likely be drawn out in the media for months to come, and he had to go.
$125,000 hush payments don't usually happen when the accuations are not true... So, anyone think he used the Elmo voice while having sex with these kids?
*cough* I'd also add "NINJA'D," but I don't think that counts when the other post was made three pages and eight days ago.
NEVERTHELESS, I stand by what I said. As I wrote, I'm disappointed. I see nothing wrong with NOT rushing to judgement.


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439. Armed incoherence watch
The Chicago gun control decision was a great liberal triumph, the culmination of nearly 50 years of such triumphs. It shows the wonderful influence William Brennan continues to exert beyond the grave. (See post 365.)
Justice Brennan spent much of the 1960s and 1970s voting to make this or that portion of the Bill of Rights "applicable to the states." Sadly, he died with his great work unfinished. Now soulmate Samuel Alito has picked up the torch. Brings a tear to the ol' liberal eye, doesn't it?
Just look at the glee with which Alito rubs liberals' noses in it:
Sad to say, the hack is right.
The point of the decision isn't that citizens have an unrestricted right to bear arms, but only that limitations on the right to bear arms must be imposed or approved by judges rather than through democratic means.
Justice Scalia had said just that very thing in the earlier decision striking down gun control legislation in that notably firearm-starved zone, the District of Columbia. In typical Scalian fashion, he said it twice, first in positive terms, then by bombastically refuting himself:
First the positive statement of the point: "the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns."
Then the belligerent reversal: "The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon."
Can't you just hear Scalia explaining why that's not a self-contradiction? Judges don't have the power to decide on a case by case basis whether the right is really worth insisting on, but only to decide whether the weapons at issue are of the sort "typically" possessed by, etc. Which is an entirely different thing in every way ... except in the one way that matters. Under either formulation, judges have the final say. On a case-by-case basis.
I love Scalia's string of weasel words. How does a judge access the data necessary to determine what weapons citizens "typically" keep? They do so the old-fashioned judicial way: they make it up.
The really cute thing is the "law-abiding" and "lawful," since almost by definition the Supreme Court's second amendment rulings will benefit only those citizens who don't abide by gun-control laws. So a "law-abiding citizen" is, it would seem, one who decides which laws to obey. And suddenly we're playing footsie with the sovereign individuals.
Professors David S. Cohen and Maxwell Stearns, writing in The National Law Journal, point out that the city of Chicago actually won both of its constitutional arguments and still lost the case. The lesson they draw?
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As we look back on 2012, federal funds continued to make their way to local projects and shovels continued to break ground for infrastructure projects. This led to increasing eminent domain litigation - resulting in a high number of published appellate decisions.
One of the subject areas that saw a lot of attention in 2012 (and will likely continue to be a focal point in 2013) is the debate over the roles of the judge and the jury in eminent domain cases. In County of Glenn v. Foley, 2012 DJDAR 17177 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. Dec. 21, 2012), the court leaned towards the jury, holding that it was improper for the trial court to exclude an appraiser's opinions because the appraiser's comparable sales required material adjustments. The court explained that an appraiser's quantitative adjustments to comparable sales do not amount to valuing a property other than the one in question (something precluded by Evidence Code Section 822). Instead, such adjustments are a natural and necessary tool to prove the fair market value of the subject property.
Similarly, in City of Livermore v. Baca, 205 Cal. App. 4th 1460 (2012), the court leaned towards a larger jury role. There, a property owner sought to recover severance damages caused by the agency's partial acquisition. The trial court refused to admit the evidence, finding it speculative and noncompensable, but the Court of Appeal reversed, holding that the judge should have allowed evidence of temporary severance damages to be presented to the jury since the alleged impacts interfered with the owner's actual, intended use of the property.
In City of Corona v. Liston Brick Company of Corona, 208 Cal. App. 4th 536 (2012), by contrast, the court leaned towards the judge. There, the condemning agency sought to acquire an easement over a portion of a larger parcel. In valuing the part taken, the owner sought to rely on (1) another public agency's appraisal of the entire larger parcel, (2) the resulting purchase agreement between the owner and that agency for the portion of the property not being acquired, and (3) the option price offered by the other agency for the entire parcel in the event the condemning agency did not complete its acquisition. The court held that all three types of evidence were inadmissible: the appraisal because it valued a different property than the one being condemned; the purchase agreement because it was a sale to a public agency which could have acquired the property through eminent domain; and the option price for the larger parcel because the option was never exercised.
One of the subject areas that saw a lot of attention in 2012 ... is the debate over the roles of the judge and the jury in eminent domain cases.After passing on a number of Fifth Amendment issues in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court has three takings cases on the docket for the current term.
Finally, in People ex rel. Department of Transportation v. Dry Canyon Enterprises, 211 Cal. App. 4th 486 (2012), the court clarified the jury's role in determining loss of business goodwill, holding that before a jury can determine the amount of a business' goodwill loss, the business must prove that it possessed goodwill before the taking. While this requirement already exists as implicit in the very concept of "loss of business goodwill," the opinion also arguably limits a business goodwill appraiser's ability to utilize the cost to create approach to valuation, and serves as a warning to appraisers using untested or nontraditional valuation methodologies.
2012 also saw decisions concerning the right to take and some other procedural irregularities. For example, in Council of San Benito County Governments v. Hollister Inn, 209 Cal. App. 4th 473 (2012), the government's acquisition resulted in the taking of a hotel's key access point, leaving it with only an admittedly inferior secondary access point. The owner challenged the agency's right to take because the agency failed to analyze whether it should condemn substitute access in an effort to mitigate damage to the hotel. The court held that Code of Civil Procedure Section 1240.350 allows an agency to condemn alternative access only if the taking results in the remainder parcel becoming landlocked. In other words, if the taking leaves the remainder with any access, however inferior it might be, Section 1240.350 does not provide the agency with any right to condemn substitute access. As a result, the court overruled the owner's right to take challenge.
In California Department of Transportation v. Menigoz, 203 Cal. App. 4th 1505 (2012), the issue was not the agency's right to take but its obligation to pay litigation expenses. There, Caltrans accepted the property owner's final demand of compensation five days before trial, and the parties entered into a stipulated judgment that was silent on the right to recover litigation expenses. The owner filed a motion to recover its attorney fees, and the court held that if the matter settles at any time before the jury is empanelled, the agency has no liability for litigation expenses, regardless of how unreasonable its pre-settlement conduct may have been.
2012 also saw a pair of fairly unique inverse condemnation cases. In West Washington Properties v. California Department of Transportation, 210 Cal. App. 4th 1136 (2012), the court rejected an inverse condemnation claim arising from Caltrans' requiring the removal of an 8,000 square foot "wallscape" advertising space on a property owner's building, explaining that general regulations restricting the use of property typically do not constitute takings. And in Pacific Bell Telephone Company v. Southern California Edison Company, 208 Cal. App. 4th 1400 (2012), one private utility company sued another for inverse condemnation arising from damage to the company's telephone cable. At issue was whether a private utility company could be held liable for inverse condemnation and, if so, whether a strict liability or a reasonableness standard governed such cases. The court held that a privately owned utility company could be liable in inverse condemnation, and that the same strict liability standard applicable to public agencies also applied to utility companies.
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Moving beyond California, the U.S. Supreme Court also took an interest in takings issues. After passing on a number of Fifth Amendment issues in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court has three takings cases on the docket for the current term. In Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 511 (2012), the court held that there was no categorical exclusion by which the government could avoid paying just compensation under the Fifth Amendment for the temporary flooding of private property. The court explained that relevant factors in determining whether a temporary flooding rises to the level of a compensable taking include: the degree to which the invasion is intended or is a foreseeable result of authorized government action; the character of the land at issue and the owner's reasonable investment-backed expectations regarding the land's use; and the severity of the interference.
In Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management Dist., 133 S.Ct. 420 (2012), the court will decide whether the essential nexus and rough proportionality tests required to be satisfied for government land-use exactions also apply to government demands for other types of property, and in Horne v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 133 S.Ct. 638 (2012), the court will decide whether the takings clause can be raised as a defense to a federal government program requiring raisin "handlers" to turn over a percentage of their raisin crops.
But 2012 was not just about published appellate decisions. One of the major themes of 2012 was the fallout from the Supreme Court's December 2011 decision allowing the dissolution of California's redevelopment agencies. In 2012, the Legislature enacted some "clean up" legislation - AB 1484 - which corrected some of the obvious deficiencies of AB XI 26, but created other problems and uncertainties. More significantly, successor agencies, developers, and bond holders all fought back, filing more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the law. We can expect the headlines in 2013 to be filled with the continuing redevelopment-dissolution saga.
Finally, one other longstanding news story from 2012 involved efforts by a private company to convince government agencies to condemn underwater mortgages in an effort to stabilize housing markets in areas particularly hard hit by the decline in property values. While generating tremendous media attention and at least an initial analysis by a number of local governments, the controversial plan has yet to be implemented in any jurisdiction. While this story will likely continue to make news in 2013, it seems unlikely that the plan will see any large scale success due to some fundamental flaws in the valuation premise behind it.
Bradford B. Kuhn is a member of Nossaman's Eminent Domain and Valuation Practice Group and specializes in real estate and business litigation with an emphasis on eminent domain and inverse condemnation. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (949) 833-7800.
Rick E. Rayl is chair of Nossaman's Eminent Domain and Valuation Practice Group and a member of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. He is an experienced trial attorney dealing with eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and other real estate and business disputes. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (949) 833-7800.
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I just picked up a 454 out of an 88 2500 . I will be stuffing it into my 1953 chevy 3100 pickup as soon I pull the 283 w/ th350 out. Has anyone done this before? Im looking to see if there are any tricks that may come in handy. I'll be taking pics as I go along.
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I have a 1954 with a 283 and my steering box is very close. I am going to pull my 283 out sunday. i am going to paint my fire wall and redo my motor supports they are solid no rubber. I am going to put a new truck independent front suspension, that i found on this web site.( the plans not the front end) After that if i find a good 454 I will put that in or put the 283 back in till I fine one.I will reply if i do it first. you tell me if you do it first.
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Well one things for sure, you know it will fit. I put a hemi in my '53 3100.
What kind of radiator is in the the truck to cool the hemi? I have the radiator for the 454 w/trany cooler I will be attempting to fab into place. There is plenty of room for the motor its all the other stuff Im thinkig about like steering, radiator, how far back to move motor, and how to route the headers/exhust. Id like to route the exhaust it right out of the side so I can dump it into those annoying imports i plan on blowing the doors off of.
I have a PRC aluminum radiator made specifically for the AD trucks. As you can see the truck has A/C and a separate trans cooler.
I'm also using a home made shroud and mechanical fan. Haven't made the decision yet but I might go to an electrical fan next year. Mine has a Mustang II IFS which gives me more room for steering since it uses a rack instead of a big box. As you can see the hemi completely fills the engine bay so I needed all the space I could get for steering. Running headers out the sides behind the front wheels (gasser style) will require a lot of fabrication but can be done. I used stock high performance manifolds simply because I had them. Could have used block huggers but it's not a race truck so I saw no need to go that route. |
It will fit, but you will need a good radiator, push the firewall on the right side back a bit and move the steering column over about an inch, we also relieved the frame some to clear the steering shaft (headers are Sandersons, radiator is from Griffin)
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Although not the same animal - I bought some Sanderson Cast Headers for my 454 install in my 49 Hudson - these really help when clearances are tight and actually fit tighter against the block. |
I am installing a 454 in my 54 too, was wondering if you had to do anything to your firewall to make room for the distributor? I have a recessed firewall to install but I mocked it up and it looked like I needed to move it back a few inches still, any thoughts?
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Just out of curiosity, how do you decide who is a better keeper ?
By watching them keep wicket where applicable. In the case of Les Ames there's no choice but to go by the testimony of people who did see him. I'd be amazed if he was a better keeper than Alan Knott but if a knowledgable person who saw both says he is then fair enough. Putting Alec Stewart's sub-standard keeping and moderate batting ahead of Alan Knott's supreme keeping and adequate batting makes no sense at all. If Stewart had been around in Knott's day there is not a cat in hells chance that he would have been chosen ahead of him - nor would he have been chosen ahead of Bob Taylor.
I've never seen a better keeper than Alan Knott and I don't believe that any keeper in history, Adam Gilchrist included, would have been more effective than he was batting against Lillee, Thomson, Roberts and Holding et al in the mid 70's
No-one's saying anything should be arbitrarily removed from anything. The point is it makes little sense to treat a period when he was being constantly tossed from one role to another as exactly the same thing as one where he had a clearly defined role. Especially when the results were so different.
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Reckon Stewart would TBH. Stewart's batting had a fair bit of weakness, but he was dynamite off the back-foot to quick bowlers.
Obviously he'd be very unlikely to keep as well to the Underwoods and Illingworths as Knott did, but that's a different matter.
It really does surprise me that anyone would claim Knott's batting - as wicketkeeper, as specialist batsman, as anything but anything - was particularly close to being as good as Stewart's.
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He'd probably have been chosen for the team though, because he was quite a bit better as a batsman than the likes of Keith Fletcher and Mike Denness. And thus if England were behind in a series and Stewart could keep adequately, as he could, Taylor might well be dropped every now and then for a specialist batsman, even if that batsman was only Mike Denness.
Fair enough.
When I posed the query on Ames, I did not compare him to Knott although by all contemporary accounts he (Ames) was a fantastic keeper whose keeping was slightly underplayed because of his magnificent batting.
I too would chose Knott before him as an all time England keeper (although I would give Evans a good consideration before that) but if I was ever asked to chose a batsman keeper for England (for Tests) or for a world side for that matter (its not a choice I normally make) my first choice would be Ames and Stewart wouldn't even figure in it.
Yeah, to keep wicket in any England all-time team for me would be Les Ames, no questions asked. Possibly an inferior batsman to Stewart, but if so marginally, and by accounts I've only relatively recently discovered an excellent wicketkeeper.
For a front line batsman Stewart had an appalling record against Australia and moderate against the West Indies. He wasn't a particularly good keeper either yet there he sits fulfilling both roles in an All Time England XI..........excellent.
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Thats a VERY big call about Knott's batting, although he did bat very well againts those great bowlers in his day. No doubt in Ashes 05, some technical issues that if he played againts those bowlers he may not have been so dominant.
But i reckon the likes of Gilchrist, Stewart, Sangakkara, Lindsay, Healy, Flower at their respective batting peaks, could have batted just as effectively as Knott againts those bowlers if they played in the mid 70s.
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