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Who is Eligible to Volunteer With Adopt a Highway?
- Any business, group or organization can apply to either the volunteer or sponsor program. Eligible organizations must comply with State laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, and other applicable laws.
- Each group must have a designated group leader who must be at least 18 years old. All volunteer participants must be at least 12 years old to participate in the program. Participants between the ages of 12 and 17 years old must have signed parental permission.
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Volunteer Application Process
- View our map of available roadways to find an appropriate one to adopt.
- Fill out the application for the MCDOT Adopt a Highway Program (PDF)
- The Adopt a Highway Coordinator will contact the group leader listed in the application to discuss the application and determine if the group meets the criteria for the program.
- If approved, the Adopt a Highway Coordinator will send a Welcome Packet to the group leader. Included in the Welcome Packet is the permit, the Checklist of Potential Roadway Hazards and the Special Event Waiver Form (PDF). The Group Leader must fill out, sign and return all forms. All participants must be at least 12 years of age and also fill out and sign the Special Event Waiver Form. Those participants between the ages of 12 and 17 must have written parental consent.
- Once the permit, Checklist of Potential Roadway Hazards, and waiver forms have been filled out, signed and returned to MCDOT, the Adopt a Highway Coordinator will finalize the forms and send the group leader the necessary copies.
- After receiving your permit, the applicant must then contact the Adopt a Highway Coordinator to set up an initial safety briefing and coordinate supplies (safety vests, trash bags, gloves and fold up signs). Required attendees for the safety briefing include all supervising personnel for the group.
- Once the above steps are complete, a request for the recognition signs for your organization will then be made.
- Your group is now ready to schedule their first cleanup. One week notice is required to schedule the collection of litter and debris from your clean up
Sponsorship Application Process
- Fill out the application for the MCDOT Sponsor a Highway Program (PDF)
- Once submitted, the application form will be sent to each Maintenance Provider (MP), who will provide a competitive quote for services on the selected road segment. The sponsor group will be asked to sign an agreement/contract with the MP of their choice.
- After the agreement is signed, the MP will submit an Application for Signing Installation and Permit to use County Right of Way with the Department of Transportation. The roadway selected by the sponsor will then go through a verification, inspection and approval process.
- Once the permit application is approved, MCDOT will send out a Welcome Packet to the MP so they can sign the permit, fill out the Checklist of Roadway Hazards and return the packet to MCDOT.
- Once MCDOT receives the signed permit and Checklist of Potential Roadway Hazards, the Adopt a Highway Coordinator will finalize the forms and send the MP the necessary copies. The MP will then install the recognition road signs to MCDOT specifications and start their cleaning schedule.
- MCDOT will complete regular quality checks on all locations to ensure clean ups are being performed.


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MMORPG is pretty much the devil in my books, WoW is anyway. I played FFXI for a while and enjoyed a little bit of Guild Wars when I played it but never really got into either.
I don't really enjoy FPS. The only FPS I have actually enjoyed in my life were Quake (original), Perfect Dark and strangely enough, Bioshock of recent times. I enjoyed Hexen, Wolfenstein and Doom as a kid, as did everyone really, so I'm not counting them. If you're a big FPS player then there's no doubt a good PC is the way to go. Console FPS is pretty crap if you heavily into it, it's not too bad if you're just bumming around.
RTS is strictly a PC genre and any foray into console based RTS games have been woeful, and rightly so. PC hands down.
I don't really like wRPG's that much, they dominate the PC market though. Elder Scrolls, Fallout & Baldur's Gate among others. Quality games most of them and most of them don't translate well to consoles. Oblivion was especially poor when I played it on PS3, but was much more enjoyable on PC.
I'd personally say that hardcore gamers use both PC and Console anyway, emulation is a massive part of PC gaming for mine and I enjoy it the most about PC gaming. That's mainly more due to the fact that I don't really enjoy the most prominent genre's on the PC.
Certainly FPS is better on your PC, I do play CoD4, although I wouldn't say I've ever heavily been into the FPS genre.
RTS I used to love, haven't played a good one for many years now. Well, that's not fair, haven't played one I've enjoyed for many years, last would've been Age of Mythology. SupCom was disappointing IMO, TA so much better.
As for wRPGs, well, some I've enjoyed immensely, such as all the Baldur's Gates, but never enjoyed Oblivion/Morrowind. Fallout was good, but I got into that too late. My problem with any RPG out at the moment on whatever platform, is that they're cRPGs more than actual RPGs. P&P FTW.
The PC also has better TBS IMO, HoMM!!! Warlords III, AoW, etc etc, also for the grognards, all those hex based WWII sims, like Panzer Generals, The Ardennes Offensive, and various others I'm sure. Close Combat is a TBS players RTS, and also awesome, incidentally.
I, personally, have never played a console in any really hardcore way, so I struggle to see others doing it, which is of course just my opinion. Really hate having to clarify that, incidentally. My genres fit the PC a lot better, although I will maintain that playing 4 player Console madness beats a 4 player LAN, and find consoles much more fun for those situations.
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I'll always game on my PC, though I do have a PS2.
The main reason being that I can update the hardware and stuff whenever anything becomes too slow or crap.
Also, the Age of Mythology/Empires series are pretty crap on consoles, and as I spend about half my life on AOM/Titans, then it makes sense to have a PC.
I've been thinking of getting a Xbox360 or PS3.
PS3 big selling points for me in MGS4, FF and GT and I can use my keyboard/mouse on it so I can play RTS
Oh and Devil May Cry is on both....
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I have a PS3. Love it! Absolutely love it! The Blu Ray player is fantastic. Watching Die Hard 4 the other weekend was something else.
Have no problem with the online play and although I can only afford 2 games atm love the graphics and gameplay the PS3 offers.
Although a friend bought a Wii on the weekend, and it is heaps of fun. Loved playing some or those games.
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I'm getting my PS3 on wed or thurs with either GTA4 OR MGS4
Bit of a toss up myself here tbh, PS3 does look nice from when i've played on one, though most of my mates have the 360, and GTA online is just too tempting. Plus i'm more used to the 360 controller now after getting one for the PC.
Not too fussed about a blue ray player ATM, because when i move i wont have a HD TV (have an old cheap 32" widescreen that'll do fine)
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Wii for sure.
Dragonball Z is the best game on it that i have played...wii sports and mario kart also high calibre...want to get a ps3/ 360/decent computer but being a poor student i'll have to wait until i enter the real world
Does Wii have 'Smash Brothers'? If so, going to get one on the weekend.
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Every other Thursday, we bring you Nicholas Day -- on cooking for children, and with children, and despite children. Also, occasionally, on top of.
Today: Nicholas' go-to fancy dessert when there's no time to make a fancy dessert. (Eat up, kids -- it's just yogurt, right?)
I have never written about dessert in this column. I would have, but I figured that no one would want our recipe for seaweed and rye crackers, since that's all we let Isaiah have for dessert. And not more than one.I'm kidding, of course. If he finishes his dinner, he also gets to have whole flax seeds. You should see his face light up when we break out the bag!Right. So this is a tricky subject. We have handled it in the somewhat schizophrenic way that a lot of new parents do: we all go out for ice cream as a family and then, late at night, after Isaiah is asleep, I carefully scrape the evaporated cane juice off each individual corn flake. He never suspects anything.In truth, I really am more paranoid than most parents. But it is mostly because I am married to someone who once had candy embedded in her meatloaf to get her to eat it. (Did she eat it? Do you really want to know?) All of this may explain why I am writing about a labneh tart: plausible deniability. It's not dessert! It's just yogurt! It's also incredibly creamy, oddly sophisticated, universally beloved. And preposterously easy. How many adverbs do you need already? It's an everybody-wins dessert, except it isn't really, because the person who eats the most labneh tart wins. (If you have questions about what is and isn't labneh, I suggest you skim the comment thread of Rivka's recipe.)
This work of modest genius comes from Alice Medrich's Pure Dessert. If there were such a thing as a little white dress, she says, this would be the dessert equivalent. (It is so white that if it were anything else in your home, it would be instantly ruined.) It is not a kitchen-sink childhood dessert. (Fear not: we will get to those.) It's a little subtle. Unlike cheesecake, it doesn't throw itself at you and then sit on top of your prostrate, distended body. Its taste tip-toes between sweet and tart (depending on your labneh). But it isn't so subtle than any child wouldn't immediately fall under its spell. It is still yogurt plus sugar plus butter plus flour. It is not esoteric.It is also, and this is the harried-house-husband part of the pitch, way easier than it should be: the crust is the melted butter, pat-in-the-pan sort. While it prebakes, you whisk together the filling; the filled tart bakes for less than twenty minutes. It's our go-to fancy dessert when we don't have time to make a fancy dessert, which is pretty much always these days. Feel free to decorate it with a few berries, candied nuts or citrus, that sort of thing. Or nothing at all. No one will complain. Or more accurately, no one will complain about it. Also, at some point while reading this, did you wish it were less about food and more about babies? You did? You will be happy to hear that my new book, Baby Meets World, comes out next week. It's a wide-angled look at infancy in all its wonder and weirdness, an attempt to a tell a new and different story about babies. (Basically: funnier, less pressured, less provincial, and with way less advice.) If you like, or at least tolerate, this column, odds are that you'll like it. You can read lots more about it on my website. (And at my blog about infancy on Slate.)
Alice Medrich's Labneh (Lebni, Labni) TartMakes 1 tart8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick), melted1/4 cup sugar1/4 teaspoon salt3/4 teaspoons vanilla extract1 cup all-purpose flour (4.5 ounces)3 large eggs1/4 cup sugar1/8 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract16 ounces labneh (aka: lebni, labni, kefir cheese)See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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Cassette only, in an edition of 500 copies.
A: 'Live at the ICA, London, 17th May 2008' – 40m44s. Recorded by Charlie Poulet.
With thanks to Eric Namour for overpaying the artist.
B: 'Live at Puzzle, Caen, 26th November 2008' – 31m50s. Recorded by Anna Cruise.
With thanks to Jerome Remy at Borealis.
Cover: 'Dead Flowerz One' – the first in a series of six by SAVX.
Arrive early. Dress appropriately. Avoid excessive alcohol consumption. Tune up before and during the performance. Don't be a statue. Avoid "dead air�. Be flexible. Learn to play through bad stage sound. Never stop part way through a song, no matter how badly you've screwed up. Be prepared to socialise and mingle with the audience members. Have fun.
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Well this is a tad awkward. We don't currently have a working cassette player in the office, and so the contents of this latest Ash International from BJ Nilsen outing remain something of a mystery to us. As you'll probably realise, Nilsen is a bit of a favourite around here, and so it's not a particularly big stretch to suppose that this is well worth acquiring. The A-side features a forty-minute live set recorded at the ICA in London during May 2008 while the B-side boasts another live document (this time clocking in at just over half-an-hour), recorded at Puzzle, Caen in November 2008. Rumour has it that renditions based on his 2007 long-player The Short Night feature prominently, inter-woven with other non-album elements, which all sounds very promising. For what it's worth, here are the liner notes/performance guidelines listed on the release: "Arrive early. Dress appropriately. Avoid excessive alcohol consumption. Tune up before and during the performance. Don't be a statue. Avoid "dead air". Be flexible. Learn to play through bad stage sound. Never stop part way through a song, no matter how badly you've screwed up. Be prepared to socialise and mingle with the audience members. Have fun." Limited to just 500 copies and housed in great SAVX (aka Savage Pencil) illustrated artwork.
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By now, most faithful aQ list readers are quite familiar with Swedish sound artist/field recordist/musician BJ Nilsen, we've heaped praise on most of his records, each a dark delicate balance of strange haunting sonic landscapes, and deftly manipulated sound, drones and textures and abstract explorations of sound, from the macroscopic to the micro, from thick sheets of rumbling low end thrum, to hushed crystalline chimes, to barely there snippets of found sound, to charged stretches of barren electronics.
This super limited cassette gathers up two live performances from back in 2008, both gorgeous examples of Nilsen's delicate and expressive soundscaping. Barely there shimmers, strange animalistic croaks and grunts, shimmering ultra delicate sine wave skree, deep whirling almost industrial sounding thrum, swoonsome stringlike melodies stretched into yet more layered drone, shards of muted glitch and crackling buzz, smeared into gauzy clouds of soft focus haze, the sounds whirling dizzily, druggy and drifty and dreamy, lush almost sci-fi cinematics, draped with softly crumbling melodies, and fragmented streaks of grinding high end, all woven into a surprisingly lush chunk of blown out dreamdoomdronemusic, a bit shoegazey, a little ethereal, but still rife with mechanical whirs and strange bits of found sound, samples and other sonic detritus, that makes it sound a little like a Philip Jeck performance, all warped and warbly. Whew! Fantastic stuff, not surprisingly, and most likely super limited, so grab one pronto!
Fancy full color covers, with some cool Savage Pencil collage/artwork inside and out!
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NEW YORK -- As the final hours tick down to the start of the 2012 NFL Draft, here are the latest rumblings making their way around the league:
Bucs coming up for Trent Richardson? Matt Kalil could fall
The draft starts with the third pick, and the Minnesota Vikings remain very much open for business. Several GMs I spoke to believe their best (only?) option might be getting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to move up a few spots to make sure they land Trent Richardson. The Alabama running back loves Tampa's staff and the Bucs love him, as well. But Cleveland, picking fourth, could easily take him. So will the Bucs come and get Richardson?
If not, the Vikings are picking between Justin Blackmon, Matt Kalil and Morris Claiborne. A few GMs picking in the top 10 believe that in the end they go with Blackmon over the left tackle. Either way, the uncertainty at this point in the draft is making things interesting. And Minnesota is most definitely open to entertaining offers.
Let's say they don't take Kalil. Then where does he go? There aren't many teams in the top 10 who are crying out for a left tackle and they have bigger holes to fill. Could he fall all the way to Buffalo at No. 10 or would the Bills move up a bit to break his fall? People I've talked to who have worked with Buddy Nix don't get the sense he's inclined to move up to grab someone. And, needing to fill multiple holes, Gailey is exploring trade-down options himself.
It's going to be very interesting around 8:30 p.m. ET, with the calls and decisions being made in real time.
Browns could end up with three first-round picks
Teams and agents are trying to figure out where QB Brandon Weeden will go. Specifically, what do the Browns do at No. 22? Cleveland really likes Weeden, according to numerous sources with knowledge of the situation, but ideally, they'd love him at No. 37, in the second round.
I suspect if the Browns don't take him 22nd, and at this point I don't think they will, then a trade up into the late first round isn't out of the question. If the Browns want to get a jump on anyone thinking about leaping to the top of the second round Friday, they could go ahead and do business with Bill Belichick, who is always looking to deal, at No. 31 and get their quarterback. The Browns' dream scenario would allow them to take a WR, RB and QB with their top three picks. A year ago, GM Tom Heckert did some excellent wheeling and dealing. Maybe he can do it again.
First trade will involve Mark Barron
I will make a prediction that the first trade of the draft will come with Alabama safety Mark Barron as the target. Teams love him. Teams feel he is most definitely a value pick outside of the top 10, and if he gets past Buffalo, look out. Calls will be coming in to get ahead of teams like Dallas and nab Barron.
Three receivers in first half of the draft?
Very quietly, the Kansas City Chiefs have done a lot of work on receivers, and I hear they love Michael Floyd. I don't see Floyd getting beyond the 11th or 12th spot in this draft. Watch for Arizona to make a move. The Cards believe he is special and could form a ridiculous tandem with Larry Fitzgerald. If he's there around 10, Arizona is primed to move up.
Blackmon, at worst, ends up at No. 7. People I talk to are convinced the Jags are sold on him. (Of course, if he's gone, and given Floyd's off-field issues -- character matters infinitely in Jacksonville -- then the Jags could have a quandary.) And Kendall Wright is very hot as well. Again, Kansas City at 11 is in consideration. Everyone is predicting the Jets will take a pass rusher, and it makes sense, but Wright is someone Gang Green has paid a lot of attention to, as well. Regardless, I see three receivers going in the top half of the first round.
More bad boys for Detroit?
The Lions are not afraid to take a perceived "bad boy," or someone with a few run-ins off the field. And there are two prospects who have had off-field issues who would fill a need at No. 23: corner Janoris Jenkins and tackle Mike Adams. The Lions could take either one. I believe Alabama corner Dre Kirkpatrick will be the pick if he's there, but he might be gone. If the Lions were to go with Adams, then I'd be quite surprised if they didn't come back with a corner in the second round.
Surprise corner for the Patriots?
Like others, I expect New England to trade one of its two first-round picks. If they stay at No. 31, though, they have done a lot of work on corners. It would be a surprise, but I continue to hear strong reports on Vandy corner Casey Hayward. New England did a lot of work on him. If the Pats do deal with Cleveland, and move back atop the second round, then Hayward may be in play there, as well.
Eagles could be a wild card
With seemingly so little separating many of the pass rushers in this draft, and that being something the Eagles are looking at, Philly is perched in the middle of the first round with the ability to go in any direction. They really covet Fletcher Cox, from what I hear, though moving up to get him would be steep (the Eagles do have an arsenal of picks, however). They could drop back to the 20s and still land someone to give them a push off the edge.
Philadelphia is an aggressive front office and it is not afraid to be bold. Can't help but wonder if the Eagles do something that alters the course of the back half of Thursday's festivities.
Chandler Jones and Vinny Curry are hot
Some have suggested to me that if Blackmon doesn't make it to the seventh pick, the Jags could take Jones there. Gene Smith is not afraid to take someone higher than many draft experts project. To me, No. 7 is the highest Jones could go, and I don't think he makes it past the middle of the first round.
Vinny Curry made something like 13 visits. He isn't the total package right now, but the raw athleticism could be enough to get him into the 20s. There's been a lot of talk about Courtney Upshaw sliding, but I don't think the Alabama product slides past fellow Crimson Tide product (and Ravens GM) Ozzie Newsome at pick 29. Quinton Coples has heard the slide talk, as well, but I think he still ends up in the top third of this draft, if not the top 10.
It's better to be second than first
Every college football player in American wants to be a first-round draft pick. Only 32 will be. And for many late first-round prospects, it might actually be beneficial to not hear their name called Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall.
In the new rookie wage system, there are actually rewards for going in the second round. And it's been talked about in the agent community for several weeks now. The difference between being taken in the late 20s, versus, say, going 34th, is roughly $300,000 a year. However, first-round contracts are for five years. Second-round picks are signed for four years. So, for roughly $1.2 million cumulatively, a young player in his prime gets to hit the market a year sooner.
It will be a tough sell to any player late Thursday night, but in terms of the economics, it's a great tradeoff. If the young man can play, and is a solid starter, he is going to make that money back quickly on his second contract, and he gets to begin that process a year sooner. "As much as it sucks for the kid, and it makes for a long night, I'll take hitting the market sooner," one prominent agent said. "In a lot of ways, going high second is actually better."
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CrystalGenomics Reports Positive Top-Line Data from Phase 2a Study of CG400549 in Patients with Complicated Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections Caused by MRSA
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CrystalGenomics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Korea, has just announced that it has received the draft of the Clinical Study Report (CSR) from the recently completed Phase 2a study of CG400549, a first-in-class antibiotic candidate for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
This study was the first human efficacy study for CG400549 and was an open-label, exploratory study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of 960 mg of CG400549 orally administered, once daily for 10 to 14 days, in subjects with complicated acute bacterial skin & skin structure infections (cABSSSI) caused by MRSA. All subjects received active treatment of CG400549 and there were no active comparators in the study. The primary efficacy parameter was evaluated at the Early Clinical Evaluation (ECE) point, between 48-72 hours of treatment initiation per new FDA recommendations.
The top-line data revealed that at the ECE visit, 90.9 % of subjects were considered to be stable or improving in the investigator's assessment, meeting the primary efficacy endpoint of the study. The study also met its secondary endpoints as the clinical cure rate was 88.9% at End of Treatment (EOT) (Day 10 to 14) and 100.0% at Test of Cure (TOC) (Day 21 to 28) with a 95% CI of 66.4% to 100%.
In terms of safety, there were no deaths, Serious Adverse Events (SAEs), or discontinuations due to Adverse Events (AEs) and most of the AEs were considered unrelated to the study drug. Also, there were no abnormal findings on vital signs, ECG, or physical examination that suggested safety risks for the use of CG400549.
Dr. Joong Myung Cho, President & CEO of CrystalGenomics, stated, "We are very pleased with the results from our first human efficacy study as no one else has yet to confirm human efficacy with FabI inhibitors as an antibiotic agent. Based on currently available data, the biggest advantages of CG400549 over the Standard of Care (SOC) anti-MRSA therapeutics are its novel drug target, new chemical class, and once-a-day formulation. However, if we can show that the safety profile of our drug is better than the SOC such as linezolid and vancomycin, CG400549 may become an excellent alternative for those patients who are restricted from using SOC due to safety concerns."
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CG400549 belongs to a novel class of antibiotics that target the fatty acid biosynthesis enzyme called FabI within the FASII pathway, a critical enzyme in generating bacterial cell membrane. CG400549 has a novel chemical structure that has never been used as an antibacterial agent previously. CG400549 has displayed superior in vitro efficacy and 4 to 8 fold higher potency when compared with many commercially available antibiotics including linezolid (Zyvox®), daptomycin (Cubicin®), and vancomycin. In addition to treating MRSA, CG400549 also had superb activity against other types of Staphylococcus aureus strains including VRSA and VISA.
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Despite this, only two agents displaying novel mechanisms of action (linezolid and daptomycin) have been approved during the last 11 years to treat MRSA infections. However, resistant strains to linezolid and daptomycin have already emerged, making it crucial to develop completely novel antibiotics against MRSA to keep pace with this challenging pathogen.
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Yes, It's been a while.
In the last few months I've been through the painful experience of trying to keep a company running despite the best efforts of the directors. Realising that the odds were stacked against me I decided to throw in the towel and relocate back to New Zealand.
So farewell England! I arrived as a graduate programmer, with a bit of open source hacking under my belt, and left with several years programming experience, a whole ton of knowledge that could not be leaned through any means but hard work, not to mention a few (emotional) scars. It's been a great experience, and one I encourage any graduate to do.
So now I'm back in Dunedin, what am I doing? Well, I've taken a 12 month contract to teach at Otago polytechnic; I'll be teaching third year programming and database papers. I've also completed a short stint programming for ARL and fixing the Survival Factor exhibits at Otago Museum. I'm hoping to set myself up as a contractor, so I can take on any odd jobs that I see.
My hope is that I will be able to return to more open source hacking now that I'm in a more flexible working environment. I'm not sure what project I'll end up helping - perhaps KDE, perhaps something new.
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Two weeks ago I began having a really disturbing sound in my ears. The noise is constant, with high frequency. I can hear it almost all the time, especially in the mornings. Why is this happening? I have not had any accidents. What can I do about it?
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I believe what you are describing is called tinnitus.
It is a sound that can be a buzzing, ringing, hissing or other noise. It is perceived as a sound near the head or within one or both ears. The sound can be continuous, pulsating or intermittent.
It is estimated that one out of every six people experience tinnitus for a prolonged period at some time during his or her life. Most are older.
A quarter of those experiencing it have such severe tinnitus that it affects their daily activities.
A general practice physician might refer the patient with tinnitus to an otolaryngologist (a doctor specializing in diseases of the ears, nose and throat). The physician will interview the patient, taking a history of the symptoms, getting a description of the noise and do a complete head and neck examination, with emphasis on the nerves of the head and neck (cranial nerves).
The patient should also have a hearing evaluation. Other tests are often warranted, depending on the circumstances.
In the discussion, the physician will be looking for a history of noise exposure or a head injury that could have caused inner ear injury.
Symptoms suggesting jaw problems (tempromandibular joint, or TMJ), hypertension, atherosclerosis or neurologic illnesses such as multiple sclerosis are pertinent, because they can cause tinnitus.
A review of the patient's drugs and supplements also is necessary. Aspirin, other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, anti-hypertensives and anti-depressants are among the more than 20 common drugs that can cause tinnitus.
When tinnitus is pulsing, rushing, flowing or humming, a vascular problem should be suspected. This can be a constriction of blood flow in an artery.
Vascular-based tinnitus often changes intensity or pitch with changes in head motion or body position (lying, sitting, or standing).
Clicking tinnitus is commonly due to drugs or problems in the middle ear. A high-pitched continuous tone is commonly the result of a nerve or inner ear injury. Treatment is aimed at fixing the underlying abnormality, when it can be identified.
Cochlear (inner ear) implants can benefit some patients with severe inner ear nerve damage and hearing loss. Vascular abnormalities can be fixed surgically.
Medical treatments for this condition, other than removing a drug that causes tinnitus, have limited effectiveness.
For many the goal should be to lessen awareness and impact on quality of life. Biofeedback and cognitive behavior therapy may be useful.
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Alternatively, the family could have originated in the parish of Duddington in Northamptonshire. The parish dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was first listed as Dodintone [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) and literally meant "estate associated with a man called Dud(d)a," from the old English personal name + "-ing" + "tun." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Further to the north, Duddingston is a former village in the east of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was first recorded in lands granted to the Abbot of Kelso Abbey by David I of Scotland between 1136-1147. Duddingston Loch is a loch located in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland, below Arthur's Seat. It is the only natural loch in Edinburgh.
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If a system were devised – you might call it the Benítez scale – to grade degrees of furiously mutinous, home-crowd managerial reception, Mauricio Pochettino's first appearance on the touchline as Southampton manager would register as no more than a tremor.
Monday night's visit of Everton to St Mary's came three days after the sacking of Nigel Adkins and there had been talk – albeit fanned by Twitter rumour and 24-hour rolling TV sports news – of a mass demonstration of disdain for the club's board. They promised us handkerchiefs. There were no handkerchiefs. Or at best there were just a few, a minor bunting that seemed to chime with a mood of fond and wistful farewell as much as angry protest.
Instead Pochettino was free to make an intriguingly assured debut as Southampton drew 0-0 with Everton, the Argentinian's first appearance on an English football field marked by a buzz of welcoming applause and a mass craning of necks. Southampton's new manager has an appealing natural authority: straight-backed and glossily groomed, Pochettino waved to the crowd and then strode on to the St Mary's turf to speak to his captain, Rickie Lambert. Even this seemed politic. Much has been made of Pochettino's meagre English, but here he was barking in Lambert's ear before happily exchanging pleasantries with David Moyes.
And in truth the evening provided an example of how thrillingly ruthless English football can be, a sport of enduring loyalties that nevertheless keeps charging on straight ahead. The waving of linen was scheduled for the fifth minute, a cosmopolitan if slightly quaint form of protest, but in the event the mass of handkerchiefs failed to materialise.
There were placards, a T-shirt or two, some Adkins face masks and a chorus in the first minute of "One Nigel Adkins". But otherwise Pochettino strutted about his technical area unhindered. And one thing is clear: he is a fidget, beckoning and cajoling his Southampton players even as they swarmed forward down the left and three times threatened to take the lead in the opening 15 minutes. Pochettino may not have Adkins' bond with his players, but he has an obvious charisma. Football is often a business of tiny margins. These things definitely help.
Perhaps this match, played out at a St Mary's that saved its most emphatic chant of the second half for Jason Puncheon's return to the pitch from a brief disappearance ("Oh Jason Puncheon, he's gone for a piss!"), might be seen as a double-header with the recent "£62 match" at the Emirates.
There is a lurking question here: when exactly will football supporters begin to protest in earnest – not at the referee, or at diving player, but at each incremental affront to their enduring loyalty? This is a business that seems to inflict fresh alienation on its captive consumers with each passing week, in this case the ruthless sacking of a popular manager. And yet those closest to the clubs remain patiently supportive.
What ire there is at St Mary's is reserved for the board and specifically for Nicola Cortese, the executive chairman who effectively runs the club on behalf of the family of the deceased Swiss-German industrialist Markus Liebherr. On this front the night had started in darkly ham-fisted fashion for the hierarchy's attempts to massage public opinion, with a match programme that contained almost no trace of Adkins (all that remained was a 2mm high Adkins, who could be spotted un-airbrushed at the edge of picture on page 21. Heads will roll).
This was followed by reports of stewards preventing radio journalists asking match-goers questions about Adkins at the ground, a genuinely bizarre full stop to what has already been a most peculiar managerial career. The three-year rise from physio's room to Premier League, and now this. Maybe the club were right. Maybe we had simply imagined Nigel Adkins.
It must be said the Adkins memoriam was kept to a minimum, despite the best efforts of the TV cameras eager to pick out the scattered Nigel T-shirts and Nigel banners. Indeed Adkins was most visibly present here in the team he bequeathed his successor.
Much has been made of Pochettino's modernity and his leanings towards the innovatory spirit of his fellow Newell's Old Boys alumnus Marcelo Bielsa, but the new man will also find a great deal in Adkins' regime that chimes with his own ideas of passing, pressing football and the blooding of young talent. Here there were no notable tweaks to the Adkins formula, with Southampton attacking with pace down the flanks and in a game of few chances narrowly shading it from the visitors.
Afterwards Pochettino, addressing the press through his interpreter, praised the reaction of the players "in a complex situation". Asked if he felt embarrassed to replace a manager whose name was chanted by the crowd here, Pochettino was, as expected, entirely composed: "I have the maximum respect for the previous manager. That is normal. He was here for several years. Now I want to focus on my tenure."


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I made a quick casserole the other night, and threw 5 baking potatoes in the oven at the same time, specifically for breakfast the next day. If you make baked potatoes with your steaks, this is a great way to use up leftovers! Here's how:
1 baked potato per person
1 egg per person
Shredded cheese (I used Cheddar)
Cooked crumbled bacon, sausage, ham, Canadian bacon, or meat of your choice (I used leftover sausage links and chopped them up)
Green onions, bell peppers, spinach, or veggies of your choice, diced
Butter, optional
Salt and pepper to taste
Slice the very top off of the baked potatoes, and hollow them out with a spoon, leaving enough potato to hold the shell together, at least 1/4 inch. Save the scooped out potatoes for another meal! Brush the inside of the potato with melted butter if you'd like. (I didn't do this, but it certainly couldn't hurt!)
Sprinkle a little cheese into the bottom of each potato shell. Add cooked meat and diced veggies. Each person can choose the toppings he or she likes, for a custom breakfast!
Crack an egg into each potato shell. Top with salt and pepper.
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The kids loved this breakfast, and came up with the name "Idaho omelettes" because it really is like an omelette in a potato. They just picked them up and ate them with their hands, which made for a quick and easy breakfast for a busy school day. From now on, whenever I'm making baked potatoes, I'll throw 5 extras in the oven so we can have these the next morning!


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STOCKTON — The Clayton Valley Charter High football team's amazing run finally ended Saturday night.
The Eagles, their star running back Joe Protheroe on the sideline after injuring his left foot, dropped a 27-24 heartbreaker to Oakdale in the California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional Division II championship game.
The Eagles, who had a 12-game win streak snapped, battled back from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter in the tense battle at Lincoln High.
Oakdale will face Serra-Gardena in the state Division II title game at 4 p.m. Saturday at The Home Depot Center in Carson. Serra beat Edison-Huntington Beach 27-10 in the Southern Regional Division II final.
Big pass plays by Oakdale (14-1) and three turnovers came back to haunt the Eagles (12-2), who had earned the school's first North Coast Section football title.
"This was the ultimate goal," first-year coach Tim Murphy said. "This is what we put on the paper when I first met them in May: We were gonna win an NCS title, and they did. We never even talked about this game. This was an added bonus to what they accomplished this year."
Clayton Valley quarterback Mike Protheroe scored on a 2-yard burst with 7:48 left to cut the deficit to 27-24.
The Eagles then stopped the Mustangs on a fourth-down play for the third time in the game and were in position for a possible dramatic win. But Jesse Medrano, who ran gallantly along with Cesar Luengas in the second half, was stopped well short on a fourth-and-10 run with 2:23 left.
It was a tough ending for Joe Protheroe, who injured his foot early in the third quarter. He still managed 94 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries. He finished his epic senior season with 2,989 yards rushing and 35 touchdowns.
He said someone rolled on his ankle.
"I broke my left ankle my sophomore year in a playoff game, too," Joe Protheroe said. "It's kind of been weak. I hope it isn't broken. I just couldn't play on it. I tried and I couldn't cut or anything."
After Tanner Wraa scored on an 8-yard run, followed by a 2-point completion from Mike Protheroe to Medrano, the Eagles led 17-14 with 1:08 left in the third quarter.
The Mustangs promptly had a 70-yard touchdown completion from Spencer Thomas to Austin Jones.
Mike Protheroe was then intercepted for the second time, and the Mustangs upped the lead to 27-17 on a leaping touchdown grab by Dewayne Finney, who outfought an Eagles defender on the 25-yard play.
Oakdale also scored on a deflected pass in the end zone earlier in the third quarter to lead 14-9.
Clayton Valley went 67 yards on 10 plays on its first series of the game to take a 6-0 lead. The extra point was blocked as Eagles kicker Eddie Juarez appeared to suffer an injury.
The Eagles were poised to up the lead on their second possession after Mike Protheroe, Joe's younger brother, completed a 24-yard pass to Curtis Grant to the Oakdale 31. Joe Protheroe ran for 5 yards and a personal foul penalty put the ball on the Mustangs' 12. But the Eagles lost 15 yards on a botched snap before Mike Protheroe was picked off in the end zone by Eddie Machado.
The Mustangs took a 7-6 lead on a 30-yard TD pass from Thomas to Machado, followed by the PAT.


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The Filibuster
If you had to choose any manager in MLB today who might follow Jim Riggleman's example and tell his GM to shove it, who would it be and how do you think they'd do it?
Hagerstown, MD
Honestly, Seth, I still can't believe Riggleman had the gall to tell Rizzo to shove it! I mean, I knew Jim walked and talked like a boss… but I didn't know he had Mt. Everest sized cojones! Somebody get that man a beer! And a whisky chaser!
Though what Riggleman did, as we probably all know by now, doesn't really do him much good if he plans to continue managing in professional baseball. There aren't too many baseball folks who can shake the acidic label of being a quitter (see Hanley Ramirez) and a 58 year old yes-man certainly isn't one of them. Then again, dude knew he wasn't the man in D.C., so I can't blame him for not wanting to be
Ken Macha a lame duck; if it were me though, I woulda kept my mouth shut, got my paycheck, then requested a bunch of exotic (and expensive) fare for my clubhouse spread.
And because this Riggleman show has been so bizarre, I really cannot see it happening again anytime soon. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are bad GMs and porous front offices, but I don't think any of them would cause a manager to commit career suicide.
Of course, that could all change if someone would just give poor Wally Backman another chance.
Alcohol abuse, short temper, bankruptcy, tax evasion… These are all things that come to mind when Backman's name is brought up, not to mention the fact that the dude is good friends with Lenny Dykstra — not quite a paragon of amicability. I could imagine a half soused Wally Backman stumbling into GM XYZ's office, shirt half untucked, bbq sauce stains above the letters, hat scrunched up in one hand, Keystone Light in the other, mumbling: "Pick up my option, dammit. Or I quit."
GM XYZ sits back in his chair, loosens his tie and exhales as he examines the sad, disheveled remains of a World Series champion and says: "You're fired."
Why didn't Rizzo just fire Riggleman again?
Hate me 'cuz I refuse to resign, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Once feared, redevelopment of Myrtle Beach Air Force Base has been resounding success
MYRTLE BEACH — The federal government's report had an ominous sounding name – "Socioeconomic Impact Analysis Study."
Its conclusions appeared to be just as ominous: the loss of nearly 5,100 jobs; as many as 1,500 homes dumped on the resale market; a 15 percent drop in students attending local schools; unemployment rates topping 20 percent; and an economic loss topping $91 million from payrolls, taxes and other revenues as soon as South Carolina's Myrtle Beach Air Force Base shut down its operations.
Just as foreboding to many Myrtle Beach area residents was the sense of losing a longtime friend.
"You could never find a better neighbor than the Air Force, it was a great community," said John Maxwell, a former Myrtle Beach city councilman who helped lead efforts to redevelop the base after its March 31, 1993 closure.
Now, 20 years later, the 3,937-acre former base has been transformed into a model for how closed military facilities can be revitalized to serve their communities.
Its mix of higher-education facilities, ball fields and parks, more than 1,200 homes with more on the way, a Red Cross headquarters and Veterans Affairs clinic, new general aviation and commercial airport terminals, a new technology and aerospace business park and a centerpiece commercial district called The Market Common, with its upscale shops and restaurants, has exceeded nearly everyone's initial vision for what the base could become.
"Redevelopment of the base with The Market Common has been a great success," said Cathy Jerrard, the Air Force's program manager for the former Myrtle Beach base. "Compared to other [closed] bases, they are way ahead of the curve. What they've done there is impressive."
Buddy Styers, a Myrtle Beach native and retired Air Force colonel, has been at the helm of the Myrtle Beach Air Base Redevelopment Authority – the group in charge of creating new jobs and development at the base – since August 1995. With all of the base property transferred from the military, Styers no longer draws a fulltime paycheck but still shows up at the office at least once a week to oversee the authority's greatly reduced workload.
Styers spends much of his time these days helping Myrtle Beach International Airport with its economic development efforts, funneling about $200,000 annually in state grant money from the authority to the airport. The grant program that's funding that development has been extended to 2017.
"Why should the authority go away when we can still help and be a benefit to the community?" Styers said, adding that the authority's money will be used as matching funds for a ramp and taxiway at the airport's International Technology and Aerospace Park, or ITAP.
Horry County Councilman Paul Prince, who was on the council when the base closed, said he's "very pleased with the way things have turned out."
"We might not have felt this way at the time, but the base closing has been a blessing in disguise," he said.
"It amazes me sometimes that it's been so successful," Maxwell said. "I tell people that that's going to be the center of Myrtle Beach in a few years."
Shortly after taking over as the authority's executive director, Styers said he spoke to a community group eager to hear his vision for the base's future.
"Being retired Air Force, I hope no one ever forgets the base was here, but I told them that someday we will make something that will be so integral and important to the community that people may have a tendency to forget the Air Force was here," Styers said, admitting his prediction at that time was greeted with some disbelief.
Today, with most of the beige and brown military buildings torn down or in reuse, many visitors and newcomers to Myrtle Beach may not realize the base once existed. But the city has kept the base history alive with a military museum at its Crabtree Gymnasium, a pair of parks – Valor Memorial Garden and Warbird Park, with its Wall of Service featuring the names of those who lived and worked at the base – and more than 150 historical markers along parks, bike paths and walkways on the base, detailing the contributions of those who served at the base.
The Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was on the 1991 list of military facilities scheduled for closure by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission, the federal agency that began disposing of unneeded Department of Defense facilities two years earlier. The Myrtle Beach base started winding down its operations in late 1991 and closed for good in 1993.
While the military's economic projections for life after the base seemed dire, some local officials were concerned that the impact was going to be much worse.
"Everybody believes we'll rebound from this, but how long will it take?" Ashby Ward, the former president of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, said at the time. "There's going to be immediate hardship on real estate and construction."
Judy Fry, the former president of the Greater Horry County Board of Realtors, warned the base closing would bring the area's real estate market "close to devastation."
Jack Walker, the city's planning director and the first to envision an urban village at the base, remembers the city was "real concerned."
"Not only were we going to lose the on-base jobs, but the other off-base families that were associated with the military – civilian jobs, support jobs," Walker said. "We knew it was going to be a real shock for us to absorb that impact."
But even as the base was closing, other economic forces were taking shape to put the Myrtle Beach area at the forefront of national tourism destinations. Myrtle Beach was named a "metropolitan statistical area" in 1993, a Census Bureau designation that attracts the attention of chain restaurants and retailers looking to move to up-and-coming cities that might not otherwise appear on their radar.
That same year, Myrtle Beach land owner Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc. hired its first outsider – Doug Wendel, a former public administrator – to run the family-owned company. Wendel's arrival ushered in an aggressive era of tourism and real estate related development for B&C. Among Wendel's first announcements was the Broadway at the Beach shopping and entertainment center, with its "New Center of Fun" slogan and pyramid-shaped Hard Rock Café and Ripley's Aquarium as major draws.
Then, during the spring of 1995, a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal introduced Myrtle Beach and its attractions – including live-music theaters such as The Carolina Opry – to millions of readers nationwide, providing the spark for many of them to make their first visit to the Grand Strand.
By that time, Ward – who died in 2003 – had changed his mind about economic impact of the base closure. Ward said at the time that The Wall Street Journal article gave Myrtle Beach instant credibility.
"It shows we're not a moss-gathering rock," he said.
A steady influx of new businesses, jobs, visitors and retirees quickly offset the economic impact of the departing military. A few months after The Wall Street Journal discovered Myrtle Beach, American Demographics magazine dubbed the Myrtle Beach MSA the nation's second-fastest growing area for jobs and people.
As 1995 drew to a close, the air base authority and others had replaced most of the 800 civilian jobs that had been lost when the Air Force moved out of town. Among the biggest economic development announcements was electronic manufacturer AVX Corp.'s decision to build a $6 million, 58,800-square-foot research and development facility on former base property.
While the rest of Myrtle Beach was in the midst of a $1 billion building boom in the mid-1990s, redevelopment of the base proper moved at a slower pace.
The authority, which was created by the governor's executive order in 1994, knew it wanted to create an urban village, but the property's roads, utilities and other infrastructure needed major upgrades and the authority didn't have enough money to foot the bill. In addition, the authority was fielding requests from numerous groups – homeless advocates looking for shelters, the YMCA seeking recreational facilities, a preacher looking to build a private school, among others – who saw the opportunity for free or low-cost land.
The military had created a public benefit conveyance program in which local officials could transfer base land for free or at a reduced cost if the property was going to a group that served an important need for the community. The authority was the final say for land transfers at the Myrtle Beach base, and some groups exerted tremendous political pressure in an attempt to get their way.
"Those were probably some of the most difficult times for the authority," Styers said. "We already had a development plan for the base, though, and the authority members stood their ground. They said, 'This is our plan and we're not going to change it'. They weren't swayed by political actions. They made their decisions based on the economic and development needs of the community."
The authority eventually awarded public benefit conveyances to Horry-Georgetown Technical College for its Myrtle Beach campus, the city for its recreational needs, the Red Cross for an administrative building and property for a private, Christian school. The city also won the base's Whispering Pines golf course for free – the area's only municipal course – after negotiating with the Air Force.
The authority unsuccessfully applied for a free transfer of the base land under an economic development conveyance program that provided closed military property at no cost to communities struggling to rebound from economic hardships caused by base closures.
The Air Force wasn't buying the authority's argument that it qualified for free land.
"When you walk into the Pentagon and ask for special economic concessions for Myrtle Beach, you're not met with a straight face," Pat McCullough, who was the Southern region manager for the Air Base Conversion Agency, said in March 1995. "People all over the country think of Myrtle Beach as very prosperous. In Washington, it's seen as a place that can stand on its own."
Three years after the military left, the authority was still struggling to find money for redevelopment.
"There are a lot of specific hopes for breaking things loose on the base, more now than there's ever been," Harold Stowe, the authority's chairman, said in March 1996. "But we aren't going to support our operations beyond this year unless we generate some revenue sources pretty quickly."
The money was slow to come, but when it finally arrived, it was a flood.
In 1998, the state legislature earmarked all of the money Horry County businesses paid for Sunday liquor, beer and wine sale permits – about $1.8 million a year – to go to the authority for its operating costs. The authority continued to receive that annual amount for five years.
The authority agreed to buy the 280-acre, 770-unit base housing complex from the Air Force for $5.9 million and negotiated with a local developer who agreed to fund the authority's down payment to the military and lease the housing for $360,000 a year. Four years later, that developer bought the housing complex for $16.6 million.
"We literally had no money in that deal," Styers said, adding that the developer picked up all the costs of renovating the housing, sewer lines and roads in the community. The authority netted $10.7 million on the sale.
Later, the state legislature set aside 5 percent of the state income taxes paid by federal employees at S.C. military bases for redevelopment efforts at closed facilities, including Myrtle Beach. And the authority got another $6 million from the sale of property called the Ross tract, where a theme park initially was planned and the Withers Preserve housing development now is being built.
All of the authority's newfound wealth went toward infrastructure costs and improving community resources. For example, Styers estimates the authority has given $10 million to Horry-Georgetown Technical College for its base campus and another $6 million was spent helping the city upgrade Crabtree gymnasium and build new ball fields for its recreation programs.
"We've put every dime back into public use," Styers said.
The authority's biggest coup occurred after Congress changed the rules on how economic development conveyances could occur.
The authority in 1997 negotiated with the Air Force to buy 420 acres of base property – including land where The Market Common was built – for nearly $9 million, with interest-only payments for the first three years. As the authority's initial interest payment was coming due, Styers said he was summoned to a meeting with Air Force officials in Washington, D.C.
"When I got there, they told me that Congress had changed the law and if I could justify why I couldn't make that payment [for the base property] they would forgive it," Styers said. "Needless to say, on the flight back home I wrote my justification letter, typed it up the next day and we got that payment forgiven."
The economic development conveyance the authority had been denied in 1995 was now approved.
Styers said the Air Force "did a terrific job cooperating with us, bending over backward numerous times to make it possible for us to do what we needed."
Maxwell credits the Air Force for "allowing us to reap the rewards of land sales on the base to redevelop the land."
"Originally, all of the money that was generated from land sales was supposed to go back to the Air Force," Maxwell said. "They changed that rule to the benefit of the communities and allowed the communities as they sold the land to put the money back into redevelopment. That made Buddy's group a very wealthy group."
With the public benefit conveyances out of the way and a steady revenue stream in place, the authority started leasing its land to businesses, such as Toffino's bakery, and pouring money into infrastructure. The authority demolished 93 obsolete military buildings – including the old barracks, where Grand Lake now exists – and embarked on a $30 million improvement to the base's roads, water and sewer lines and stormwater drainage.
However, the last piece of the development puzzle – a New Urbanism-type village with shops and restaurants on the first floor and residences above them – still existed only in the stack of planning documents and feasibility studies in Styers' office.
"There was a total lack of capacity in the local development community to understand what New Urbanism and traditional neighborhoods were all about because most of our developers were either hotel developers, shopping center developers or housing developers," said Walker, who helped create the original urban village plan approved by the city in 1993, which eventually morphed into The Market Common project.
"Developers didn't understand retail on the first floor, housing above, mixing of uses, compact development and how when you create open space it creates quality of life," Walker said. "Neither did the banks."
The authority, beginning in 1999, spent three years trying to market the urban village concept to developers but got nowhere. Even some authority members were skeptical.
"Every time I mentioned urban village, they'd say 'What in the devil is an urban village'?" Styers said. "It was hard not to get discouraged."
Walker said he was impressed that the authority stuck with the urban village plan even though some community leaders said it would never work.
"The authority protected the plan," Walker said. "Some decisions were tough and we had to do our homework to make it clear that if they would just simply take our advice on this, it would eventually work out."
Styers hired an Atlanta real estate broker to find a developer, but not one single prospect emerged in a year's time.
Frustrated with the lack of progress, Styers made one last attempt to find an urban village developer by asking local real estate brokers if they knew of anyone who might be interested. One of those brokers – Gary Roberts, owner of Coldwell Banker Chicora Real Estate – was friends with a real estate broker near Washington, D.C., named Tom Shuler, who had worked on major development projects with public companies. Roberts got in touch with his friend, who recommended New York-based Leucadia National Corp. and Chicago-based McCaffery Interests as possible developers for the Myrtle Beach site.
Leucadia is a deep-pocketed holding company with subsidiaries ranging from telecommunications and mining to banking and health care while McCaffery specializes in the redevelopment of under-performing real estate, with several urban village projects in its portfolio.
Shuler brought representatives of both companies to Myrtle Beach and Roberts sold them on the local market and the potential of the base property. Leucadia and McCaffery signed a contract to develop The Market Common within two weeks of touring the site, Roberts said. The deal was announced to the public in September 2004.
"It took a team of people to make this happen, and I'm just proud to have been a part of it," Roberts said. "I think it's one of the best things to have happened in Myrtle Beach."
The economic key to The Market Common project was the city's willingness to issue nearly $41 million in bonds to help pay for public infrastructure at the base, including roads, parks, water lines and other components needed to spur development. The city used a law passed by the state legislature in the 1990s that designated the entire base as a tax increment financing district. That allowed the city to use property taxes generated by new development at the base to pay off the bonds.
"Dan McCaffery [president of McCaffery Interests] told me repeatedly that if the infrastructure wasn't in place, he wouldn't have been interested," Styers said, adding that McCaffery Interests brought a new level of nationally known retail and restaurant tenants, such as P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Williams-Sonoma and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant.
More than three years after the initial announcement, the $160 million The Market Common project opened in April 2008 with nearly 400,000 square feet of retail and office space and 195 residential units, adding to the mix of housing available at other areas throughout the base.
"I've talked to a lot of the families that have moved out there and they just love it, and they don't even have the whole package yet," Walker said. "There are still a lot of little things that we want to be able to pull together that will make it a complete network of neighborhoods that work seamlessly as one."
Among the projects still under construction is the International Technology & Aerospace Park, a business park located adjacent to The Market Common and the airport. The Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp. is charged with luring technology and aviation-related industries paying good wages to the park.
"Probably the thing that's the most hard to achieve, but we're slowly getting there, is the technology campus of ITAP because people still think of us as just a beach destination resort," Walker said. "I think we'll get there with some aggressive marketing on the part of the airport and the county, but that's still somewhat of a missing piece."
Walker said the city also eventually wants to extend Grand Park toward the Emory Road area to better serve the neighborhoods that are being developed at the base. There also are long-range plans to extend Fred Nash Boulevard to connect the base with Harrelson Boulevard, which stretches between U.S. 17 Business and U.S. 17 Bypass.
"That's going to help ITAP because people are going to be able to fly in at the airport and zip right over to there without having to get on the bypass or Kings Highway," he said.
Included among the planning documents in Walker's office at City Hall is a series of booklets dating back 20 years with different variations of an urban village project for the former base. The initial concept was simple – a small group of two-story buildings with retail on the ground floor and homes on the second floor. As the plan evolved, the bar was set higher and higher. The end result is like nothing Walker could have imagined when he first presented the concept to the City Council in the weeks before the base closed.
"I'd say that in all aspects, this exceeds everything I thought was possible," Walker said. "When we first started, we didn't have a crystal clear understanding of what we wanted the neighborhoods to look like. As we got more into it, the view of what could happen became clearer. Even so, we never envisioned an urban village with the quality we have out there now. We've done as good a job of redevelopment, if not better, than anybody I've ever seen."