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Populations of western toad (Bufo boreas) have declined or disappeared from much of the species' range in the United States. To assess distributions and densities of the western toad in the foothills of west-central Alberta, Canada, we conducted visual surveys of 130 natural water bodies in watersheds encompassing a range of human-disturbance levels in early and late summer 2000. Encounter rates were consistently low throughout the study area (0.2 to 0.3 toads/h) and were one-tenth the rate for the co-occurring wood frog (Rana sylvatica). Pitfall trapping of breeding and non-breeding sites during 2001 and 2002 showed differences in age structures between western toad and wood frog populations and low recruitment of newly metamorphosed juveniles into western toad populations. On ponds, more toads of ≥1 y old were captured than recently emerged juveniles. The difference between the 2 age classes was greater on ‘borrow pits’ (human-created roadside ponds) than on beaver ponds, suggesting that borrow pits might be population sinks providing poor larval habitat. Borrow pits either dried prior to juvenile emergence or had oligotrophic to mesotrophic waters compared to eutrophic conditions in beaver ponds. Pond creation as a mitigation strategy or by-product of road construction may put western toad populations at risk of decline in the foothills of Alberta.
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It's bad enough that Halloween itself is essentially canceled, but one Texas woman's HOA is determined to make sure that even every single iota of safe fun is wrung out of the holiday, too.
Because it's 2020 and we must ensure we ruin absolutely everything, a Richmond, Texas HOA ruled that Angela Nava has to take down the skeleton strip club she created on her front lawn, sending her pole-dancing skeletons to the skeleton unemployment line.
Nava's display--complete with wigs, skeleton customers and even a skeleton security guard--is called The Candy Shop, and it is truly a sight to behold!
And Nava told Houston's ABC13 that she changes the display up each day, and does a show complete with music every evening at 8:00pm for her neighbors, which they have absolutely loved--except for her HOA.
In a letter that arrived to her home, the leadership of the HOA told Nava that the skeletons were "offensively positioned" and that she would need to take the display down within 30 days... even though Halloween is on Saturday.
At first, Nava planned to comply, but the support she got online made her change her mind. As she told ABC13:
"I was a little sad... but then I got so much support off of Facebook and I said forget it. People are having so much fun with this and they love it, I'm gonna continue to do it."
So, since Halloween comes before her HOA's deadline, and especially since this year has been such a nightmare, The Candy Shop lives on!
"We've all been cooped up and it's been just a terrible year. We've just decided if this brings a little bit of joy and a little bit of smiles to someone, then we're doing everything right."
On social media, people are loving the display as much as Nava's neighbors.
Skelton strippers! Completely normal and appropriate for 2020. This is probably one of the only things that is norm… https://t.co/hQz7lkJ0Sc— 📚 Kim ~ Read Your Writes Book Reviews 📚 (@📚 Kim ~ Read Your Writes Book Reviews 📚) 1603799092.0
Gonna have to side with the homeowner on this one.... https://t.co/rxxPl68z3i— Stefania Okolie (@Stefania Okolie) 1603767688.0
Party pooper 😂 Woman told to take down Halloween decorations of pole-dancing skeletons https://t.co/1nAUnvKagZ via @ABC13Houston— ASTROSpethicus Afarensis (@ASTROSpethicus Afarensis) 1603806997.0
@ABC13Miya If they would just put a G string on them it would’ve been ok.— biz (@biz) 1603852511.0
Funny. We have some creative skeleton art in our neighborhood as Halloween approaches, but nothing that entertain… https://t.co/SZcx9kPYeV— Kevin Whited (@Kevin Whited) 1603814679.0
@MycahABC13 https://t.co/Dlvud4jQwh— Jojo (@Jojo) 1603768556.0
🤣😂 https://t.co/xAIRTeBthe— mhmjr (@mhmjr) 1603848629.0
.@GratefulDead would be proud...Halloween: Texas homeowner told to remove risque pole-dancing skeletons |… https://t.co/QDgL0Ui03g— Tony Kurre (@Tony Kurre) 1603834381.0
This headline was everything I needed today. https://t.co/36YSc0CDjB— Danielle Meyer (@Danielle Meyer) 1603899695.0
Brilliant!! 💯🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/vjEabbmDW9— ☆Mr. Jay 2 U!☆ (@☆Mr. Jay 2 U!☆) 1603900504.0
At least it all worked out in the end. Happy Halloween to everyone, but Angela Nava of Richmond, Texas especially!
Kate Hudson's Topless Bikini Photo Garners Hilarious Response From Brother Oliver Hudson


text: He sells razors. A lot of razors. But Mike Dubin, CEO and co-founder of Dollar Shave Club, is not satisfied with just selling razors. He wants to save lives. Today, he is going through a procedure that most men dread because he dreads something else more. Since his family has a history of colon cancer, he needs to get checked. Thanks to an alliance with the Colon Cancer Alliance, he's live streaming it to convince you, me, and every other man to avoid the second leading cause of cancer deaths. Because colon cancer is 90% beatable if caught early. So do yourself a favor and videotape your innards like all the cool kids. And check out Mike's at 3 PM ET right here.

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Colts' Robert Mathis: 'We have the pieces'
Despite his four-game suspension to start next season, Robert Mathis says the Colts have the players to make a Super Bowl run. (Phillip B. Wilson / The Star)

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The Bradley County Commission on Monday approved the new certified tax rate that comes after the recent countywide property tax reappraisal.
County Mayor Gary Davis said since property values overall were down by about two percent, the overall rate was raised by that amount. He said under state law the move was made so the county would stay at the same level of income as before.
Property tax rates are $1.82 per $100 of accessed value within the city limits. There is another 34.4 cents added in rural areas and 42.1 cents in areas within five miles of fire halls.
Commissioner Charlotte Peak-Jones asked if there would be a change due to the construction of new fire halls. County Mayor Davis said the commission will need to redraw the fire districts next month. He said they would be "moving further out."
Commissioner Jeff Morelock said he will move forward a resolution calling for a tax increase for the Lake Forest Middle School at the commission work session next Monday at 7 p.m. It would then receive a vote at the following voting meeting.
He said officials of Cope Architecture will make a presentation to the commission finance committee on an alternative financing plan. It will be at the county mayor's conference room on Wednesday at noon.
The state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was in town for the presentation of a $20,000 check for the first phase of the Hiwassee River Heritage Center.
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Deputy Commissioner Brock Hill and newly appointed Red Clay State Park manager Erin Medley will host an informal meet and greet on Friday at 2 p.m. at the park.


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Subitems Collection Editor Dialog Box in UI Designer
How do I get to this dialog box?
Open a session document.
On the ribbon, click the Appearance tab.
From the Menus group, click UI Designer.
Under Insert Controls, click Gallery, Split Button, or Button Group.
Select an existing Gallery, Split Button, or Button Group, and then, under Settings, click the Modify Subitems button.
If you add a button group, split button, or gallery control to the ribbon, you must specify subitems (buttons and menus) for that control.
Choose from the available subitems:
|Add||Add a Button, Split Button, or Gallery to a control. The control you select in the Insert Controls pane of the UI Designer determines the subitems you can add; for example, if you select Button Group, you can select any of the subitems.|
|Remove||Removes the selected control type from the list.|
|Move Up / Move Down||Moves the selected control up or down in the list.|
|Identifier||Use to identify the control when programming with the Reflection API.|
|Note: See "Dynamically Changing the User Interface" in the VBA Guide or the .NET API Guide.|
|Visible||Select to display the control. You can use the Reflection API to show or hide the control.|
|Enabled||Select to enable the control. You can use the Reflection API to enable or disable the control.|
|Action||Shows the action assigned to the control.|
|Select Action||Click to specify an action for the selected control in the Select Action dialog box.|
|Modify Subitems||Click to add subitems to a control. For example, if you add a gallery to a button group in the Subitems Collection Editor dialog box, click Modify Subitems to add buttons to the menu for that gallery.|
|Change settings||Select to allow changes to the label, image, tooltip, and description of the control.|
|Note: Changes to these settings overwrite the default properties of the selected action.|
|Label||Specifies the text that appears on the control.|
|Note: An ampersand (&) in front of a character in a label indicates that the character will function as a keyboard accelerator key.|
|Image||Shows the image that appears on the control. If you don't select an image, an orange circle with an exclamation point appears.|
|Select Image||Click to browse for a .PNG or .JPEG image to appear on the control.|
|Tooltip||Enter a heading that appears when the pointer is held over the control.|
|Description||Enter a description that appears (below the heading) when the pointer is held over the control.|
|Reset||Click to clear any of changes you've made and restore the default properties of the assigned action.|

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Altair GPCAM BASIC Colour Guide / Imaging / EAA Camera
The GPCAMAR0130C is an all-in-one General Purpose astronomy camera with a 1.2mpx COLOUR CMOS AR0130 sensor. It's the size of a small eyepiece, and weighs about 70 grams.
You can image the Moon, Sun and Planets in full HD high speed video mode, or take long exposure deep-sky images.
The GPCAM is great for Video Astronomy or "EAA" (Electronically Assisted Astronomy), for real-time viewing of deep-sky objects. Replace your eyepiece with a GPCAM and prepare to be amazed by the detail and colour you can see in for example, the Messier objects.
An ST4 auto-guiding port is included along with all the cables and adapters you need for imaging with almost any telescope.
Special voltage regulation hardware and on-board noise reduction circuitry creating less noise in long exposure mode. Non-essential circuitry is shut down during long exposures resulting in even less noise and a stronger signal. Japanese SMD boards with US made components give better reliability than older style cameras on the market.
GPCAM is perfect for autoguiding with the APM GuideScope 50mm e.q. 60mm. GPCAM fits direct to your APM Miniguider 50/60 optical tube just like a 1.25" eyepiece, and no additional adapters are required to achieve focus.
Full ROI (Region Of Interest) support is included, allowing you to increase the frame rate to very high speeds by isolating planets or solar features/
The free downloadable AltairCapture software
, enables recording of high speed video, timelapse video, or single frame long exposure images.
GPCAM BASIC - what's in the box:
- GPCAM Camera
- CS Adapter with built-in UV/IR blocking AR Coated Optical Window
- 1.25" Nosepiece with 1.25" Astro Filter thread (connects to the CS adapter)
- 1.5m ST4 Guide Cable
- USB2.0 Cable
- Plastic dust cap
The GPCAMAR0130C is an all-in-one General Purpose astronomy camera with a
1.2mpx COLOUR CMOS AR0130 sensor. It's the size of a small eyepiece,
and weighs about 70 grams.


Goldman Sachs Plans To Slow Hiring, Bring Back Annual Performance Reviews
Goldman Sachs plans to slow hiring and reinstate annual performance reviews as the Wall Street bank looks to rein in expenses.
(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to slow hiring and reinstate annual performance reviews as the Wall Street bank looks to rein in expenses.
“Given the challenging operating environment, we are closely re-examining all of our forward spending and investment plans to ensure the best use of our resources,” Chief Financial Officer Denis Coleman said Monday on a conference call with analysts. “We’re taking a number of actions to improve our operating efficiency. Specifically, we have made the decision to slow hiring velocity and reduce certain professional fees going forward.”
In addition, the New York-based firm could reduce the pace of replacing staff it loses because of attrition, Coleman said, adding that it plans to reinstate annual performance reviews at the end of the year, a practice it had suspended during the pandemic.
The reviews were typically used to weed out the worst-performing staff.
Total operating expenses declined in the second quarter from a year earlier as the firm cut compensation and benefits, but the company also reported increases in costs from growth initiatives.
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Target 8 fact checks Webber political ad attacking Rowden
COLUMBIA - Until recently, the race to the 19th District state Senate, which includes Boone and Cooper counties, had been a quiet one. The political ad battle between Democratic Rep. Stephen Webber and Republican Rep. Caleb Rowden heated up after Webber released an ad claiming Rowden voted to pass a tax cut bill that would decrease funding for the University of Missouri, among other things.
The Target 8 Investigative team reached out to both candidates and talked to a political expert to look into the claims the ad makes and determine if they are true, false or incomplete.
The ad, called "Remember," begins by making a claim in regards to HB 253, which was a 2013 tax cutting bill that was vetoed by Gov. Jay Nixon.
'Rowden voted to cut over $800 million from local schools and universities like Mizzou': INCOMPLETE
The ad cites a 2013 article by Mizzou News for this claim. The bill the claim is referencing resulted in a campus-wide reaction when lawmakers voted to override Nixon's veto. Rowden told KOMU 8 News he voted for the bill because it would have cut taxes for all Missourians and 220,000 small businesses.
"That's a good thing to do," Rowden said. "In addition to that, in my four years in the House, we've increased K-12 funding by $550 million and higher education by $100 million."
Rowden said the bill would not have caused a $800 million funding cut for MU.
When asked why the bill caused such an uproar among students, Rowden said editorials done by the MU campus newspaper, The Maneater, helped increase the fear of tax cuts among students, which is why Webber is using them in his ads.
"The difference between our ads is that we cite specific votes, and he cites editorials and newspapers," Rowden said.
Columbia College Professor of Political Science Terry Smith said the Webber/Rowden race for state Senate is one of the most expensive races in the country and the two campaign teams can afford to produce multiple attack ads.
"That's because it's about the only competitive one in Missouri and the laws in Missouri that basically have no limits on spending," Smith said.
Smith said it is important to understand that these negative attack ads are effective because they appeal to emotions rather than intellect.
"They really provide information in an environment where that information might not be there," Smith said.
Regarding HB 253, Smith said there are so many things people can make of it, which makes it difficult to predict what its exact outcome would have been. He said using MU as a target in a political attack ad is a great way for candidates to make it memorable.
"Webber is attempting to attach Rowden to this vote, which might, not would, if certain other decisions took place, reduce the appropriation to the university and therefore probably increase university tuition," Smith said. "But none of this would be set in stone because the governor has a lot of discretion, and there are a lot of ways to move that money around."
'Raise tuition at Mizzou 16%': INCOMPLETE
This claim is stated as an effect of the first claim regarding HB 253. The ad cites this claim with an article by The Maneater.
Rowden said the 8 to 16 percent increase in tuition that many students feared would not have happened with the passing of the bill.
"The assertion that one leads to the other is really dangerous and sets a bad precedent," Rowden said.
He said a similar bill, SB 509, was passed the next year and did not cause an increase in MU tuition.
"I worked as a member of the budget committee last year to get the Mizzou funding cuts restored," Rowden said. "The reality is tuition hasn't increased, and it certainly hasn't increased as a result of any sort of tax cut or funding issue at the state level."
Smith said Webber likely used this claim as a tactic to sway voters because many people have an opinion about MU.
"Negative ads don't work if they are not believable or if they are irrelevant. They get information into the political environment that otherwise wouldn't exist," Smith said.
Smith said whether MU tuition would have increased is not clear-cut.
'Caleb Rowden is hurting middle class families all to pay for tax breaks for millionaire donors': INCOMPLETE
The ad cites this claim with Senate bill 509. Rowden said this tax cut, passed in 2014 and similar to HB 253, benefited all Missourians.
"We did it responsibly, and when you can pass a tax cut that allows every single Missourian to keep more of their money, not just millionaires and billionaires, the only entities that didn't get a tax cut were large corporations," Rowden said.
The ad does not mention the plan laid out by the bill to decrease the maximum tax rate on personal income from 6 to 5.5 percent while generating revenue. The bill stated:
"A reduction in the rate of tax shall only occur if the amount of net general revenue collected in the previous fiscal year exceeds the highest amount of net general revenue collected in any of the three fiscal years prior to such fiscal year by at least one hundred million dollars."
Rowden said this claim made is a scare tactic used by Webber.
Smith said this claim is similar to the other two in that it can be interpreted in a negative way but is difficult to prove.
KOMU 8 News reached out to Webber multiple times for an interview and ultimately received this statement:
"While it is inconvenient for Mr. Rowden, the President of the University of Missouri System, the Mizzou Student Body, our local Superintendent, and educators around the state were all clearly on record what this reckless tax plan would force tuition increases and hurt our local schools. Unfortunately, Mr. Rowden consciously chose to ignore them, siding with special interests over students and educators. As a senator, I will always put our schools first."


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You will learn that the visible spectrum is only a part of what our sun, a star, emits within the electromagnetic spectrum. Students will also study how astronomers use a special tool (spectroscope) to learn more about objects that are far away, and observe how white light can be refracted to form a color spectrum that has a pattern. Additionally, students will see how other careers are connected to spectroscopy, while understanding how technological design can help scientists to better understand our Earth, our Sun, our solar system and the universe around us.


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European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who dragged her heels interminably on issuing a condemnation when three Israeli teens were kidnapped by Arab terrorists 19 days ago in Gush Etzion, hurried to condemn their murders after their bodies were found together in a field located in Halhul, an Arab village smack in the middle of the Palestinian Authority.
The connection was inescapable – this crime was committed by Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists, with the cooperation and collaboration of PA Arab villagers.
“We learned with profound sorrow that the bodies of the three Israeli youths who were kidnapped on 12 June in the West Bank were found on 30 June near Hebron,” read the statement released by Ashton’s representative on Tuesday. “We condemn in the strongest terms their killing. We express our sincere condolences to their families and friends and share their grief. We trust the perpetrators of this barbaric act will swiftly be brought to justice.”
Nevertheless, Ashton could not stop herself from reminding Israel to exercise caution when dealing with the PA.
“We call for restraint of all parties concerned in order not to further aggravate the fragile situation on the ground,” the statement concluded.Hana Levi Julian
About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.
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On Saturday, February 22, 2020, beginning at 6:00 p.m., the El Riad Chanters hosted the fifth annual ROCK the Shrine 2020 which as again held at El Riad Shrine and once again featuring PopROCKS! This concert and karaoke battle was an incredibly fun and tremendous success in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. The same happened again…only bigger for our fifth anniversary…in 2020!!!
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Samsung Galaxy S10E Waterproof Test: Is the Samsung Galaxy S10E a waterproof device? Samsung released its S10 series back in March 2019. Samsung Galaxy S10E was a part of the S10 series as well. Many customers looked forward to buying the S10E as it was the cheapest option available in the S10 series. But of course, before buying any mobile customers look for the phone’s features and traits and one of those features is the device’s water resistance. Users want to know that is the Samsung Galaxy S10E a waterproof device? To answer that query, we are going to conduct the Samsung Galaxy S10E waterproof test.
Customers ought to check for the official IP68 ratings that the companies give to their mobiles. A waterproof smartphone brings a lot of advantages with itself such as it is resistant to any damage from accident water splashes, it can take underwater photography or videography and you can even take it with you to baths. So it becomes a straightforward fact that customers get attracted to waterproof mobile phones. Samsung itself has announced that the Galaxy S10E is a waterproof device with official IP68 ratings. But of course customers need another type of confirmation so we have conducted the Samsung Galaxy S10E waterproof test to confirm these ratings and to answer your questions.
Is the Samsung Galaxy S10E a Waterproof Device?
The Smartphone market is constantly growing and companies are introducing one mobile after another. The major obstacle that stands in the way of the companies being able to sell their smartphones is that most of the mobile phones do not come with the official IP68 waterproof ratings. But the Galaxy S10E is one of the latest devices of the Samsung company, so of course Samsung would try to attract customers towards the device, so it has official IP68 ratings. Before we continue to the Samsung Galaxy S10E waterproof test, let’s discuss some of the device’s specifications.
|Device Name||Samsung Galaxy S10E|
|Screen||5.80-inch display & pixel density of 522 pixels per inch|
|Processor||1.9GHz octa-core Samsung Exynos 9820 processor|
|RAM/ROM||6 GB RAM / 128 GB ROM|
|IP67/68 waterproof ratings||IP 68 water & dust resistance|
What does IP68 mean?
Now to answer your question, IP68 is a waterproof rating for mobile phones, you probably would have guessed this much up till now. This rating has been given to many of Samsung’s devices. What does this actually mean? Well, it means that the mobile phone with this rating can be immersed up to 1.5 meters in water for 30 minutes and still be all right. Nevertheless, to actually test the strength of the water-resistance of the phone and to check if the ratings are legit, we will carry out the Samsung Galaxy S10E waterproof test.
Samsung Galaxy S10E Waterproof Test
We are going to perform a few different tests to check how much water can the Samsung Galaxy S10E actually resist and how long can it remain underwater without being damaged. As the IP68 ratings suggest, most of the phones can stay 1.5 meters underwater for about 30 minutes long. Nevertheless, we will test it by conducting a few tests.
We suggest that you should not carry out these tests in your home. We will not take responsibility for any consequence of this test. The test is only used to give an idea of the strength of the device’s water resistance. We recommend that you do not try this at home as your device may be damaged.
Samsung Galaxy S10E Quick Immersion Test
In this test, we are getting to put the device in water for 30 seconds. After that, we are going to test whether the device has got any harm or not.
After performing the quick immersion test we didn’t discover any signs of harm on the device. Since the device is IP68 certified, it’s awesome that the device can withstand being submerged in water for 30 seconds. You don’t have to be stressed over small drops or coincidental splashes of water or tea or juices while using the Galaxy S10E.
Samsung Galaxy S10E Shower test
In this test, we are planning to suspend the device in a counterfeit shower or a rain environment. Afterward we are going to conclude that is the device perfect to use in blustery conditions or showery conditions.
After performing the Samsung Galaxy S10E Waterproof test in counterfeit rain conditions, we came to the conclusion that the device was working perfectly fine. Furthermore, the device’s speaker works well in these circumstances. This implies that you will tune in to music or conversation with your adored ones while you are taking a shower.
Samsung Galaxy S10E Water Immersion Test
In this test, we are reaching to submerge the device in a pail full of water for half an hour and will check if the Galaxy S10E is fine afterward this test or is it damaged.
After conducting the water immersion test, we came to the conclusion that the device can withstand being in the water for 30 seconds and will be impeccably fine. This eventually suggests that underwater photography and videography are possible with this device. But you need to be careful that you do not keep this device submerged in water for any longer than 30 minutes because the device is designed to withstand being underwater for only 30 minutes.
Samsung Galaxy S10E Dust Proof Test
This test is not to check the water-resistance of this device. Instead, this is to check that if the device is dustproof or not. To check this, we will keep the device exposed to sandy surroundings with high speeds of wind with a lot of sand particles and grains. This situation is counterfeit to dust storms and will imply if the device can retain itself in these circumstances or not.
After the dustproof test, we can conclude that the device is dustproof because the device was working perfectly fine and had no dust particles inside it.
Conclusion: Can Samsung Galaxy S10E survive underwater?
Samsung Galaxy S10E is an outstanding device with waterproof and dustproof features. So you don’t have to stress over getting your device damaged by water. You can safely use the Samsung Galaxy S10E for the following activities without any risks of damaging it:
- Underwater photography
- Underwater videography
- Underwater video calls and live streaming
- Listening to music while taking a shower
- Talking while in rain or storm, etc.


We deserve better. That was my conclusion after visiting two grand new public (well, semi-public) spaces in New York. After two years of absence from the city—the longest I have been away since I was a kid—I was appalled not only at the state of disrepair in which much of our largest metropolis seemed to be, but also by the billions of dollars we have spent on structures that are clunky, kluged-together messes. If this is the best the government and the architects they hire can do with all that money, as well as the opportunity to celebrate metropolitan culture, perhaps we need to rethink the whole process.
The structures I visited were LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B and the Moynihan Train Hall. They are the most visible evidence of a considerable amount of investment in transportation and resilience infrastructure in the New York region. Still on the docket are not only the further streamlining of LaGuardia, but a new terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a redo of Penn Station, and a new 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal—though how much of all that will be built and, how well-built, is unclear. The images released for the designs for these proposed new structures do not fill me with much hope. More promising are the now partially open Freshkills Park built on top of a massive former garbage dump, and the plans for a necklace of parks disguising huge sea-level rise levees around Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
The disconnect between good design and the making of what have become our most-used public spaces, namely those for transportation, is not solely a New York issue. None of the airport expansions in the United States that have been built in the last several years, or have plans to be built— examples in Salt Lake City, Houston, and Los Angeles come to mind—are anything to write home about, especially if you compare them with the exhilarating spaces that are currently serving as transport hubs in China, such as the Beijing Daxing International Airport by Zaha Hadid Architects (pictured below), the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport by Fuksas, and the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station by Andrew Bromberg Architects, and in Europe, such as Arnhem Central Transfer Terminal by UN Studio and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
So, what is wrong with these buildings? It is just a basic clunky-ness. The terminal at LaGuardia—a design/build project in which design credit (if you can call it that) goes jointly to the Stockholm-based construction firm Skanska and architect firms HOK of Chicago and WSP of Montreal—has more light and air than the cramped and badly worn, if elegantly detailed and conceived, original. What it does not have are places that have a focus; are clear in directing you in your movement; invite gathering at various scales; or have any sense of rhythm that emphasizes the relative importance of the various pieces. The spaces are just there, as big as they need to be according to whatever formulas bureaucrats use. They are clad with the kind of metal panels that seem to have become the basic bricks of banal Modernism. Where the structure is visible, it is clad in more of that slick skin, with no emphasis on what all those trusses, arches, columns, and beams are actually doing. Escalators have to be found with the help of signage, rather than presenting themselves to you in a logical manner. Balconies and mezzanines, with little or no view, turn into funnels that lead to more endless corridors and, when you finally arrive at the waiting area, you find a single-loaded version of a shopping mall atrium that, now and then, has nice views of planes taking off, landing, or, mainly, waiting.
Yes, it is impressive that they shoehorned all of this into the available site and yes, the amenities are certainly an improvement. Yes, I know that shopping and security rule in such spaces these days. But can’t we at least avoid what I call the “bald spot problem,” of looking down at those endless pods of Starbucks and Hudson News from above and seeing their undesigned roofs? And couldn’t somebody have taken hold of this basic and yet intricate plan, with all the demands it answered, and massaged it into something that has the exposition of structure, the logic of movement and scale, and the beauty of a public space that good architecture should have as its focus?
The problem is even worse at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed Moynihan Train Hall. Here the restraints were mainly the existing building. It might have seemed like a genius move to turn New York’s block-filling former main post office into a new train hall for Amtrak and a few other uses, and to do this by converting the sky-lit sorting hall at the heart of the structure into the waiting room so that it could perhaps remind us of the grandeur that was the original Penn Station, but it just does not work. First, the more ambitious plan Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan had supported was dumped because of cost, and with it went a courtyard skylight structure that might have been elegant. Second, that waiting room is imprisoned inside the structure, and the renovation architects completely failed to use what spaces they could open under landmark restrictions to create the kind of sequence and flow that are a large part of what made the original Penn Station so successful, and that is also missing both in the current version of that station and at LaGuardia. The new materials and forms used have the same kind of new car body slickness as all our modern transportation hubs (although without the curvy bends that make some of those automotive forms beautiful), and the various ramps and stairs that slice through the spaces are awkward and confusing.
Then there is the atrium itself. There is nothing there. What benches are to be found are tucked away to the side. All you have is a big space to stand in and watch for the announcement of your track.. There is nothing to admire, either, as the trusses are so ungainly in their proportions and their pieces as to make at least this critic avert his eyes in disgust.
Both the train station and the airport have Art, with a capitol “A,” but it does little to alleviate the pain of public banality. I was particularly disappointed by the Moynihan’s installation by the Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who are usually both thorough in the spatiality of their pieces and provocative in subject matter. Here all we get is an upside-down, train-set version of Manhattan hanging over our heads like something between a chandelier and a fragment of Inception’s set.
New York has hundreds of new skyscrapers, and more are on the way. City density is not only reaching ever further into the sky but is also spreading to the other boroughs at a remarkable scale. A growth of that sort needs the anchors that define and refine public space if the city does not want to be just a collection of pencil towers for the super-rich and shopping malls for tourists. A proper start would be spending a few more dollars to renovate what it just built into something worthy of a great New York.
The views and conclusions from this author are not necessarily those of ARCHITECT magazine or of The American Institute of Architects.


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RAJOURI: Police on Friday nabbed a bus driver and his accomplice with 110 grams heroin from main bus stand Rajouri.
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The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is gearing up for its newest exhibition, the Chinese Lantern Festival.
The festival, produced by Hanart Culture, will be held from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays starting Sunday, Sept. 7 and running through Friday, Oct. 29.
These won’t be your traditional round lanterns; the theme of the exhibit is “The Wild.” Expect to see illuminated fauna and animals from all over the world, including pandas, lions, flamingoes and even dinosaurs, all making use of the unique scenery the garden has to offer.
“We have hippos that are bathing in our Canal Garden. We have a whale that’s sitting in another fountain. And then there’s a meadow that runs along a road that sits on the outside of the garden, and there’s dozens of African animals. It’s like a migration of animals on the Serengeti. You get to walk among these animals as they migrate through our garden,” said Jim Hoffman, chief operating officer.
Cardinal and tulip lanterns were created for the show as a nod to the state bird of North Carolina and to the Garden.
The amount of animatronic parts of the lanterns has also been increased. Dinosaurs, elephants’ trunks, moose, and even the heads on the Mandarin ducks’ heads move.
While lanterns will be spread throughout close to 300 acres, the Lost Hollow and Orchid Conservatory will not have lanterns.
An Asian-themed display has been set up in the conservatory and throughout the garden.
Last winter, the horticulture team at Daniel Stowe came up with an Asian-expired exhibit and worked to install it in March. Among the exhibit are various Japanese maples, bamboo, irises and more, all of which created in preparation for hosting the festival.
Lost Hollow will not be open during the festival, but the conservatory will be.
Breathing life into lanterns
George Zhao, principal and operations director of Hanart Culture, described the process involved in bringing these creations to life – all the way from Zigong, China.
In-house artists create the design for the lanterns on the computer and paper. Materials are gathered, the design is laid out on the ground, materials are cut, prepared, fashioned into a three-dimensional shape and are wired. The artists make sure the bulbs are correct in size and color before the skin goes on, matched to color samples provided by the chief artist. Great care is taken to make sure the wires aren’t close enough to the skin that shadows will appear. Glue and fabric is then applied to the outlines, and the chief artist paints on the final touches. And that’s all before the lanterns even leave China.
After they arrive overseas, the packages are stationed on-site. The artisans do the casting and repairs, if needed.
“Depending on the scale of the festival, it typically takes one month and a half to build the exhibit from the early stage in China and then another one month to one month and a half to do the final stage of production on-site,” said Zhao.
Nineteen Hanart Culture artisans have traveled to Belmont from Zigong to put them together.
“It’s been an incredible experience working with this team that’s half a world away,” said Hoffman.
Highlighting Chinese culture
The festival is more than just a show of colorful lanterns — festival organizers have made it a point to incorporate other aspects of Chinese culture.
Sample authentic Chinese food through a variety of vendors. Folk artists have flown in from China and will have their crafts for sale, but will also demonstrate Chinese embroidery, knot art, the creation of sugar figurines and more.
Kung Fu and Shadow Play shows with demonstrations will give the community a chance to participate in the festival hands-on.
“In general, it’s a variety of interactive and demonstrative activities that present the history and heritage of Chinese culture,” said Zhao. “We are especially proud of our cultural programming.”
And although the exhibit hasn’t officially opened yet, some community members have had the chance to lend a hand, and others to get a small taste of what’s to come.
Gaston Day School students and the recording studio at Gaston College have worked with Hanart Culture to produce the audio for the Shadow Play.
Some have had the chance to see a few illuminated animals in the back of a truck Zhao has taken around town.
“I’m glad to hear the interest, not only from the kids, as we position our show for the audience from [ages] 8 to 80. Before, we didn’t try to focus on the youth audience. But this time when we drive around with some animals on the truck, we hear great interest from the younger generation. They say the animals we produce, especially with great detail, that the creations are ‘very cool,’” said Zhao. “In general, it’s for everybody. No matter what age, we’ll find a part of their favorite.”
Online in advance
Senior 60+: $19.95
Child 2-12: $14.95
Child Under 2: Free
At the door
Senior 60+: $21.95
Child 2-12: $15.95
Child Under 2: Free
Garden members receive 30 percent off ticket prices including up to four guests.
The garden encourages all guests to purchase tickets online in advance at DSBG.org. If tickets are not sold out for an evening, tickets will also be available at the door.
Admission with Chinese Lantern Festival tickets begins at 5:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. each evening. These tickets are not valid for daytime admission or before 5:30 p.m. Daytime admission is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with entry ending at 4 p.m. and requires the purchase of a general admission ticket or garden membership.
NIGHTLY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
5:30 p.m.: Festival opens
5:30 – 9:30 p.m.: Family activities
5:30 – 9:30 p.m.: Chinese Folk Art Marketplace
6 – 9 p.m.: Food truck(s)
6 – 6:45 p.m.: Kung Fu Show followed by a Coaching Session
7 – 7:30 p.m.: Shadow Play followed by Backstage Activities
7:45 – 8:30 p.m.: Kung Fu Show followed by a Coaching Session
8:45 – 9:15 p.m.: Shadow Play followed by Backstage Activities
9:30 p.m.: Festival closes

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The Aylesworth Scholarship is a joint program of the Aylesworth Foundation for the Advancement of Marine Science, the Southeastern Fisheries Association, and the Florida Sea Grant College Program. Aylesworth scholarships are available to students in all Florida universities that conduct research in the marine sciences.
Ralph and Kitty Aylesworth, long-time members of the Florida fishing industry, established the Aylesworth Foundation for the Advancement of Marine Sciences in 1984. They created the foundation to make a long-term investment in the industry which has been so good to them and their family. The Aylesworths believed that scientific knowledge in marine-related areas coupled with decisions based on environmental and conservation factors will prove to be the only way to develop, use and manage our renewable marine resources on a long-term basis.


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I’ve known Jenny and her family for several years now, ever since her children were itty bitty. This year she wanted a location that was festive and cheery, City Center was the perfect spot. The streets are lined with hanging lights and snowflakes, it’s one of my favorite spots to walk to during the holidays. […]


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I am a (relatively) techie person, although my job isn't working with networking kit in an IT environment, and I have a SuperHub2. I dearly dearly dearly wish that I could have just kept my little dinky VM modem with my own router, but VM tell me that they "aren't compatible with speeds higher than 20Mbps" for some reason. I can't work out whether that's just the party line their helldesk folks have been told to spin (surely they're all DOCSIS3.0 compatible?) or whether there is some technical element of truth to it... I'd be interested if anyone knows the truth.
Onto the 'Super' Hub 2. Modem mode on mine simply refuses to work correctly. When it was installed, once it had been proven to be working correctly "as-is", the first thing I did was flick it into modem mode to use my D-Link DIR645 with it... and nothing. The 'modem' wasn't assigning a WAN IP address to the router. I found this odd, as the router itself had been functioning perfectly fine an hour beforehand with my old dinky VM modem:
- Tried swapping cables, just in case. Nothing.
- Tried plugging the 'modem' directly into a machine to see if the machine would get an IP address... it timed out and assigned itself a 169.xxx IP address. Obviously: nothing.
- Reset the Hub at least five times while trying various things. Nothing.
- Tried various combinations of cables, networks cards, boxes, machines and both router and 'modem' settings. Nothing.
- Hit the VM forums for some support, and got the usual nonsense from their 'Technical' support people (i.e. power cycle it; do a software reset etc. - all the stuff I'd told them I'd already done.)
Eventually decided to run the SuperHub2 as a router for a week and try again. Still nothing, although some random software update turned up in the logs, but wasn't installed as the security hash was for the wrong bit of kit. At this point I start wondering if I've maybe just been unfortunate and got a bit of kit borked from the factory - I suppose these things can happen now and then.
Got fed up, phoned VM Helldesk - who were surprisingly sanguine about the entire affair. Explained what I'd done, and was told immediately that they'd replace the unit - I didn't even have to power cycle the damned thing while I was on the phone.
Engineer turned up and replaced the unit and had basically the same problems again. (Full disclosure - it did, on first turning modem mode on, give the router an IP address, but then it seemed to pull down some kind of software update which borked it again.)
The engineer, bless him, was very helpful and tried all sorts of things while I was there, but we eventually ran out of time - and to be fair to him, it worked flawlessly (for small values of 'flawless') when in router mode. He seemed to think it could be some form of incompatibility between the Netgear SuperHub and the D-Link router. Not sure what to think about that - I know in the bad old days this could happen between different manufacturers, but one would hope that the various firmware IP stacks would have been able to talk to each other over an apparently standard protocol by now!
So, the upshot is I'm currently sat using the SuperHub as VM intend - as a router. As it seems to work well at my house and I can get a decent signal from it in every room, I'm tempted to just leave it as-is. Might give it another go once the new firmware update comes out, but it's annoying. My only other consideration is whether to hit eBay and buy an old Cisco router / VPN tunneller so I can route a lot of my traffic through a VPN so I don't get hit with throttling for having the temerity to use my 'unlimited' internet connection to stream video using the TorrentStream protocol.
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Professor David Williams is a consultant obstetric physician who specialises in the clinical management of pregnant women with underlying medical disorders and gestational syndromes. He provides a clinical service for pregnant women with general medical disorders and leads multi-disciplinary clinics for pregnant women with kidney disease and hypertension, rheumatological disorders, liver and gastro-intestinal disease and neurological conditions. He works closely with haematologists, virologists and cardiologists in other pregnancy clinics.
Professor Williams led the development of NICE guidelines for the management of medical disorders during childbirth and was an expert member of the NICE Guideline on The Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy. He is a member of the UK Independent Advisory Group on maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and past chairman of the UK Obstetric Medicine Society.
His research team investigates the causes and management of gestational syndromes including pre-eclampsia, acute fatty liver of pregnancy, chronic histiocytic intervillositis (CHI), and the long-term consequences of gestational syndromes on the mother’s future health. He leads an MRC-funded project investigating the role of paternal obesity on fetal growth. His team is also funded by the UCL/UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, the Rosetrees Trust, Wellbeing of Women and partnerships with industry. He is chairman of the Wellbeing of Women Research Advisory Committee.
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
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1. Åsenius F, Gorrie-Stone TJ, Brew A, Panchbhaya Y, Williamson E, Schalkwyk LC, Rakyan VK, Holland ML, Marzi SJ, Williams DJ. The DNA methylome of human sperm is distinct from blood with little evidence for tissue-consistent obesity associations. Plos Genetics 2020
2. Bos M, Harris-Mostert E.T.M.S, van der Meeren L.E, Baelde J.J, Williams D.J, Nikkels P.G.J, Bloemenkamp K.W.M, van der Hoorn M.L.P. Clinical outcomes in chronic intervillositis of unknown etiology. Placenta 2020; 91: 19-23
3. Serrano NC, Quintero-Lesmes DC, Dudbridge F, Leon LJ, Hingorani AD, Williams DJ, Casas JP. Family History of Pre-Eclampsia and Cardiovascular Disease as risk factors for Pre-Eclampsia: the GenPE Case-Control Study. Hypertension in Pregnancy 2020; 39: 56-63
4. Ahmed AS, Williams DJ, Cheed V, Middleton L, Ahmad S, Wang K, Vince AT, Hewett P, Spencer K, Khan KS, Daniels JP for the StAmP trial collaborative group. Pravastatin for early-onset preeclampsia: a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2020; 127: 478-488
5. Williams DJ. Renal Disease in Pregnancy. The Oxford Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Eds, Arulkumaran S, Ledger W, Denny L and Doumouchtsis S. 2020. Chapter 14; Edition 1. ISBN: 9780198766360
6. Williams DJ. Physiological changes of normal pregnancy. In Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th edition), 2020. Eds, Firth JD, Conlon C, Cox TM, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 14.1: DOI: 10.1093/ med/9780198746690.003.0263
7. Williams DJ. Nutrition in Pregnancy. In Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th edition), 2020. Eds, Firth JD, Conlon C, Cox TM. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 14.2: DOI: 10.1093/med/ 9780198746690.003.0264
8. Williams DJ. Medical Management of normal pregnancy. In Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th edition), 2020. Eds, Firth JD, Conlon C, Cox TM. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 14.3: DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198746690.003.0265
9. Cohen H, Cuadrado MJ, Erkan D, Duarte Garcia A, Isenberg D, Knight J, Ortel T, Rahman A, Salmon J, Tektonidou M, Williams D, Willis R, Woller S, de Andrade D. 16th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies Task Force Report on Antiphospholipid Syndrome Treatment Trends. Lupus (2020 in press)

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Mesilla – The town of Mesilla's budget woes may have reached a point where layoffs could become a reality.
The town's board of trustees is scheduled to meet Monday evening to consider approval of a reduction of force plan.
Town administrators worked out final details of the plan over the weekend. If approved, it would go into effect at the start of Mesilla's new fiscal year on July 1.
Mayor Nora Barraza says it appears 3.5 positions will have to be cut.
Although trustees will make the final decision of where those positions will be eliminated, Barraza says the cuts would likely come from classified positions in town administration.
There are about 30 people who work for the town government.
The town has already cut back to a 32-hour workweek to deal with reduced revenues.
Information from: Las Cruces Sun-News, http://www.lcsun-news.com
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The Liberals are one of the three smaller parties which make up the centre-right Alliance coalition that has been in government since 2006, having polled 7.5 percent in the 2006 general election.
Education minister Jan Björklund is the party leader. The party has a further three government ministers - Minister for Higher Education and Research Tobias Krantz, Minister of EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson and Minister for Integration and Gender Equality Nyamko Sabuni.
History and ideology
The Liberal Party (Folkpartiet liberalerna – fp) is a social liberal political party with roots dating back to the end of royal autocracy in 1809. The party's base is mostly among the middle-class and is known for its positive stance toward the euro, EU, nuclear power, and Nato, and for its no-nonsense profile on education issues.
Aside from taking its place in a war-time coalition government, the Liberals first experienced power in a three party coalition government in 1976 under Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin, which ultimately came to an end in 1982.
After being part of the crisis government and reform years under Carl Bildt between 1991 and 1994, the party had a long period in opposition.
The Liberals enjoyed a successful 2002 election, in an otherwise disappointing year the centre-right, but was criticised for adopting populist right-wing rhetoric when proposing a language test requirement for obtaining Swedish citizenship.
The party leader since 2007 is Jan Björklund, a former army major and school-teacher, known for his tough stance on order in schools. Björklund recently aired his view on the re-nationalisation of the public schools system, currently the reserve of municipalities.
The party supports more open immigration, especially for economic migrants.
The Liberal Party under Jan Björklund has been described as standing for a strain of liberalism dubbed ”law and order liberalism” and the party regular defends the ”right to place demands” on groups in society such as immigrants and the unemployed.
Gender equality minister Nyamko Sabuni has meanwhile been criticised from some quarters for declining to identify herself as a feminist.
2010 election platform
The Liberals campaign is very much focused on party leader Jan Björklund and equality minister Nyamko Sabuni, and the party is pushing its education and integration line as the party of action which does not shy from tough choices.
*Grades from 12 years of age and the re-establishment of vocational training at upper secondary school (gymnasium) level; more funds to higher education
*Nuclear power expansion
*Cut segregation with a focus on jobs and Swedish language skills; citizenship course for newly arrived immigrants
*Establishment of a European police force
*Identify men's violence against women as the most ”acute” equality issue, propose an outlawing of forced and child marriages
The Liberals have enjoyed a rebound in the polls recently with Björklund's straightforward approach putting the party in a strong position to wrestle the position of the Alliance's second party away from the Centre Party.
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By Graham Averill
Photos by Derek Diluzio
The riders in Boone, North Carolina, have a Christ-like way of crossing a river without getting wet. But it’s not a miracle; it’s spatial awareness. They use their bikes to bridge the gaps between the rocks, anchoring the tires into the river, then using the pedal as a stepping stone–the missing link between exposed, dry rocks.
It’s a key skill to have when you’re riding Wilson Creek, a dank corner of Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina’s High Country, where steep channels of dirt drop through rhodo tunnels and carve along the edges of river gorges. Creek crossings are obligatory.
This isn’t the well-known side of Pisgah National Forest–that would be the land between Brevard and Asheville that sees hundreds of thousands of rubber tires every year. Wilson, in the Grandfather Ranger District of Pisgah, sees a fraction of that traffic. This is the mysterious side of Pisgah, on the edge of the rugged Linville Gorge, where the Brown Mountain Lights have baffled locals and scientists for centuries (Google it). Where 40-foot-deep sinkholes add character to ridgeline singletrack–like traps in an Indiana Jones movie. Where Confederate soldiers stashed hundreds of guns in a local cave, just in case the South did actually rise again. Signage is sporadic at best; cliffs and rivers are par for the course.
“You can still get way lost out here, and probably never run into another biker,” says Ethan Anderson, a Wilson Creek regular for more than 20 years. He bagged 184 days riding last year, and is going for 250 this year.
Wilson Creek has a reputation for big, burly downhills, like Beehive, which throws mini-fridge-sized boulders in your way, or Sinkhole, which carves a beautiful bench cut that hangs onto the side of a steep gorge for 3 miles, demanding total concentration. Boone, home to Appalachian State University, is the closest ‘city’–that’s in quotation marks because the year-round population is 18,000. Boone’s mountain bikers have a reputation for localism, and are notorious for keeping a lid on their favorite trails. Some have even gone as far as removing signs and giving bum directions to outsiders.
Ride Greentown–a jumble of water bars, roots and stupid-steep switchbacks that drops 1,500 feet in under 2 miles–and you’ll understand why the locals would want to keep it to themselves.
“For a long time, there was no cohesion in the community here,” says Kristian Jackson, the trail boss for the local club, Boone Area Cyclists. “Everyone was doing their own thing. Riders even resisted when IMBA showed interest in the trail system in 2002. Everyone here imagined groomed trails with the technical challenge pulled out by the root, and the club never got off the ground. If you’re not from here, it can seem kind of closed off.”
That should read, it used to seem kind of closed off. The High Country is undergoing a trail renaissance that has galvanized the local community while simultaneously opening the door to outsiders looking for adventure. With a new bike club and two new purpose-built bike parks, Boone is more welcoming than ever.
“Everything changed with Rocky Knob,” Jackson says. Rocky Knob is the 185-acre bike park located just east of Boone’s city limits that locals started building from scratch in 2009. The park gave locals a mission to rally around (a new club, the Boone Area Cyclists, was born to spearhead Rocky Knob’s development), and gave outsiders an accessible piece of High Country singletrack. Today, Rocky Knob has 8 miles of purpose-built trail. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but they’ve managed to pack a lot of variety into the system. Hook up Rocky Branch and Boat Rock and you’re in for a 900-foot climb via a seemingly endless series of switchbacks. Between those switchbacks, the terrain oscillates between methodical rock gardens and whimsical flow. Stone Binge is a freeride area with a blend of boulders and wooden features–a tiny piece of Whistler in Dixie. ’Ol Hoss has a mile of flowy berms and jumps, then there’s the dedicated PBJ jump trail. Also a mid-mountain skinny park, miles of challenging cross country in between, and a new pumptrack near the parking lot. Think of Rocky Knob as one giant skills course prepping riders for the big bad they might encounter out in Wilson.
“We built Rocky Knob so everyone could learn to do a tabletop, or drops or jumps in a safe way,” Jackson says. “The pumptrack is full of kids all the time. I can’t wait to see what they’ll be riding in 10 years.”
At the same time Rocky Knob was being cut, Beech Mountain, the highest ski resort east of the Mississippi, reopened its lift-served mountain biking and slowly began piecing together a legitimate downhill trail system. Beech hosted the Gravity National Championships two years in a row, in 2011 and 2012. And it’s only gotten better since then. Mike Thomas, a former collegiate national champ from Appalachian State who turned his experience into a trail-building career, has been building out the eight-trail system and reworking older trails.
“There’s nothing else like Beech in the South,” Thomas says. “To have this downhill park and Rocky Knob in the same town is unreal.”
Now that both Beech and Rocky Knob are almost built out, locals are turning their attention back to their roots in Wilson Creek. A new IMBA chapter is dedicated to working in the Grandfather District, and is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding that would give them maintenance rights over the trails in Wilson Creek.
“We’re not looking to build new trail,” says Paul Stahlschmidt, president of the IMBA chapter. “There’s so much potential with the legal trails that exist, but they’re in such bad shape, they can’t be ridden because they’re too choked up.”
Just don’t expect the forest to get sanitized.
“There’s still a sense of discovery in Wilson. We’re still discovering old trails and creating new ways to link up rides,” Jackson says. “That forest is so wild–nobody wants that to change. But we finally have a seat at the table and we’re a part of the discussion now. We have a vision.”
￼KNOW BEFORE YOU GO | The Grandfather District of Pisgah is full of small Wilderness Study areas, where mountain biking is illegal. Be mindful of trail designations. Rocky Knob is signed well and even has skill-level indicators at trail intersections (rockyknob.wordpress.com), but signage in Wilson Creek is spotty. Bring a map and a GPS. Magic Cycles rents bikes (including downhill bikes at Beech; magiccycles.com).
CAMPING | Julian Price Campground sits at the base of Grandfather Mountain, near Price Lake on the Blue Ridge Parkway, with quick access to Pisgah National Forest (recreation.gov). And there’s good primitive roadside camping in Wilson Creek at the bottom of Sinkhole near Highway 181.
WHERE TO STAY | Boone has plenty of moderately priced chain hotels that are just a few minutes from Rocky Knob. If you’re looking to splurge, consider Westglow Resort, a palatial estate on 42 acres near Blowing Rock with an insanely decadent spa program. Think Gone With the Wind meets a yoga retreat. westglowresortandspa.com
WHERE TO CELEBRATE | The Pedalin’ Pig is owned by a mountain biker and offers down-home barbecue and an impressive list of local beer (thepedalinpig.com). Get the pulled rib sandwich and a side of slaw. Appalachian Mountain Brewery has a killer Blonde Ale with plenty of citrus, plus live music and food trucks on weekends (appalachianmountainbrewery.com). Beech Mountain recently opened a bar and brewpub at the top of the mountain for pedal-up brews. Get the 5506 Pale Ale (beechmountainresort.com).
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City Acquisition of All American Asphalt (AAA) Facility
During a special City Council meeting April 11, 2023, the Irvine City Council approved an agreement to purchase and decommission the All American Asphalt plant and create the Gateway Preserve. The following schedule outlines the timeline for the City's acquisition and closure of the AAA Facility to create the Gateway Preserve:
|Early June 2023
|June 14-15, 2023
|November 15, 2023
For more information about Gateway Preserve, visit our website.
The information below summarizes the City's involvement with All American Asphalt plant prior to the agreement to purchase the plant for creation of the Gateway Preserve.
AAA's Proposed Title V Permit and Statement of Basis were:
- Sent to USEPA for a 45-day review period (starting September 27, 2022)
- Released for a public review and comment period of at least 30-days (from September 28, 2022 to October 28, 2022)
The public may request a Proposed Permit Hearing by submitting Form 500-G (Hearing Request Form) by October 13, 2022
Requests for additional information, requests for Public Hearing, or comments should be sent to:
Jillian Wong, Ph.D., Engineering & Permitting
South Coast AQMD
21865 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Or via email to: firstname.lastname@example.org
AQMD Releases Health Risk Analysis for All American Asphalt
South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) conditionally approved a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) for All American Asphalt August 19, 2022. All American Asphalt was required to submit the HRA based on the approved Air Toxics Inventory Report, which was submitted February 1, 2022. The approval letter and details of the HRA can be found at the links below.
AQMD/City of Irvine Fact Sheet
South Coast AQMD and the City of Irvine completed a joint fact sheet in 2021 summarizing the results of air monitoring efforts that have been completed by multiple parties over the course of a year and associated health impacts. Click on the fact sheet image for more detailed information.
All American Asphalt Inc. operates an asphalt batch plant at 10671 Jeffrey Road in the North Irvine area which has been at the center of numerous odor complaints by residents and others in the area in recent years. The plant has been in place since the early 1990s and was approved by the County of Orange, prior to the land being incorporated into the City of Irvine.
Regulation of industrial emissions and odors lies with an agency called the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). The City has worked hard to hold AQMD accountable and bring enforcement actions at the plant to eliminate odor and identify and eliminate any potentially harmful emissions. As a result of the attention drawn to the plant by the City and concerned residents, AQMD has issued several citations for violations at the plant which have resulted in the installation and testing of new mitigation equipment. AQMD also instituted an air monitoring program to help identify the source of odors and the presence of any other potentially harmful emissions from the plant. A summary of the actions taken by AQMD, the status of plant permitting, and the results of its air monitoring program can be found on the AQMD website here.
While enforcement responsibility lies with AQMD, and the City does not have the power to immediately close the plant or eliminate the odor, the City has initiated independent efforts to help identify potential risks due to plant emissions and protect public health. These efforts include an independent air monitoring program at the plant site and within the nearby community as well as an audit of the plant to ensure the facility is built and operating consistently with all appropriate permits. The City has also filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents, against All American Asphalt aimed at eliminating public nuisance. Included below are links to relevant information and resources regarding the All American Asphalt plant.
Should you experience asphalt odors in the area of the plant, we encourage you to register your complaint with AQMD at:
- AQMD online Complaint System: aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/complaints
- AQMD Complaint Phone Number 1-800-288-7664
This link provides a map showing the All American Asphalt Plant and the immediate vicinity. The map provides the names of nearby neighborhoods and major streets, for reference, as well as the underlying zoning designations for the area.
This link provides a timeline of relevant operating and approval milestones for the All American Asphalt Plant.
A Seller Disclosure is a notification provided by a home seller to a home buyer that outlines known issues with a property or other historical details. Available at this link is the Seller Disclosure currently provided by the Irvine Company to nearby homebuyers related to the All American Asphalt Plant.
City of Irvine Air Monitoring Program
Air Toxics Study and Health Risk Assessment
The City’s consultant, Yorke Engineering, completed an Air Toxics Study and Health Risk Assessment related to their air monitoring work near the All American Asphalt facility in Irvine. The report summarizes Yorke’s evaluation of health impacts based on the air monitoring they did in the community earlier this year and available data about plant emissions from AQMD. The report indicates that, based on the data available, health risks were within acceptable standards and consistent with background levels for the area and region. Also included with the report is a peer review of the report by AQMD. The agency notes that the study is based on limited data making it difficult to attribute emissions to the plant or to other sources. AQMD notes that it will require more comprehensive testing of the facility over time which will provide better estimates of health impacts attributable to the plant.
The Yorke Air Toxics Study / Health Risk Assessment and the AQMD Peer Review is available at the link here.
From November 2020 through January 2021, the City of Irvine commissioned an air monitoring program through a third-party firm, Yorke Engineering. The program included 24-hour air samples taken at four separate locations; on-site at the All American Asphalt plant, just outside the plant, and at two locations in the community. The air was tested for over 100 individual chemical compounds known to be potential emissions from the asphalt production process.
A summary of the findings, as well as the detailed lab reports for the City’s air sampling program, can be found at this link. The results of the testing show that the chemicals in the air are within typical regional background levels as reported in studies conducted by the AQMD. Results from the City’s air monitoring program showed concentrations that are less than all published health-based reference exposure levels developed by the California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The reference levels developed by OEHHA are used by agencies and health risk managers to evaluate the hazard associated with exposure to a specific chemical contaminant and the impact it has on target organs in the human body.
City Council Designates Money for New Testing
At its October 26, 2021 meeting, the Irvine City Council designated $200,000 in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act for additional air monitoring equipment in the area of the All American Asphalt. Additional updates on timing and methodology will provided when information is available.
AQMD Air Monitoring Program
In response to community concerns, AQMD began an air sampling program in December 2020 in the North Irvine area near the All American Asphalt plant. This link to the AQMD webpage provides a summary of the program and the results of the air sampling. A summary of the findings from the AQMD sampling program is included below;
“Based on the data our scientists have collected and analyzed thus far, we do not have evidence to conclude that there are elevated air toxics levels that would cause a health threat to the residents of the community near the facility. The monitoring data provides information about the overall levels of air pollution in the community. The sampling data that we have thus far have shown relatively typical (“background”) levels of toxic air pollution in the community.”
AQMD issues Notices of Violation to All American Asphalt
On January 14 and 18, 2022, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) issued notices of violation (NOVs) to All American Asphalt for causing a public nuisance. More information regarding these violations is available on the AQMD website at aqmd.gov/home/news- events/community-investigations/all-american-asphalt/compliance-enforcement.
AQMD Evaluation of UCI Sensors
AQMD recently completed testing on equipment supplied by the June Wu research group at UCI, and used by members of the community to evaluate air quality near the All American Asphalt plant. The equipment, called Atmotube Pro sensors, measures total volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are man-made chemicals often produced as an industrial byproduct. Readings from these sensors have led to concerns in the community of more significant health impacts than the data produced by the air monitoring equipment of either the Air Quality Management District (AQMD) or the City’s consultant. A summary of AQMD’s testing on the sensors is included below. A more detailed overview along with a technical report summarizing the testing is provided on the AQMD website here.
“All Atmotube Pro sensors were run side-by-side with a more expensive and reliable 'reference' instrument to assess performance. Testing results indicate that VOC concentrations measured by the Atmotube Pro sensors did not correlate with measurements recorded by the “reference” instrument. The sensors overestimated VOC concentrations and reported high levels of VOCs when concentrations were low, suggesting levels measured in the Irvine community were not accurate or precise, and were biased high. The testing results suggest the sensor devices should have been tested and calibrated prior to field deployment.” – AQMD
The City held a public meeting to discuss the All American Asphalt plant, to which Scientists from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), UCI, and Yorke Engineering (City-retained expert) were invited to discuss the results of air monitoring activities conducted over the last year. Members of the community also spoke about their experiences with the plant. Although testing by AQMD indicates that community air quality is consistent with background levels throughout the region, the City Council directed several specific actions to address public complaints:
- Evaluate the use of restricted truck routes and parking, as well as truck covering mandates to improve safety and limit odors within neighborhoods in north Irvine.
- Work with state legislators to craft policy to give the City more local control.
- Require disclosure notices about the All American Asphalt plant for all homebuyers and renters in the immediate area.
- Explore relocation options if other remedies do not result in resolution.
AQMD has held two public meetings regarding the situation with the All American Asphalt plant. This link to the AQMD website provides the presentations that were given at the meeting by experts from AQMD, the City’s consultant, Yorke Engineering, and from two different academic research groups from the University of California, Irvine. The site also includes archived videos from both meetings.
In July 2020, the City of Irvine filed a public nuisance lawsuit on behalf of residents against All American Asphalt. More information about this litigation can be found at the links below:
The links below provide access to a variety of correspondence related to the All American Asphalt plant:
- October 15, 2020 letter from Irvine City Council to residents regarding City efforts at All American Asphalt
- October 30, 2020 letter from All American Asphalt to residents
- November 17, 2020 letter from Irvine City Council to AQMD Chairman and Board Members regarding emissions from All American Asphalt and Bowerman Landfill
- November 24, 2020 letter from AQMD to Irvine City Council regarding efforts at All American Asphalt and Bowerman Landfill (View the letter in Mandarin here)
- December 2, 2020 letter from Irvine City Council to UC Irvine regarding university involvement in the public nuisance at All American Asphalt
- January 8, 2021 correspondence between Dean Baker and Irvine Mayor and City Council regarding appointment of expert panel and work being conducted by City and AQMD
- January 13, 2021 letter from UC Irvine to Irvine City Council regarding university involvement in the public nuisance at All American Asphalt
- January 19, 2021 letter from Mayor Khan to AQMD Chairman and Board Members requesting a public meeting
- February 5, 2021 letter from AQMD to Mayor Kahn regarding AQMD efforts at All American Asphalt
- February 8, 2021 letter from All American Asphalt to Irvine City Council in response to an article in the Voice of OC
- May 13, 2021 letter from All American Asphalt to City of Irvine staff and Councilmembers related to the Granulated Activated Carbon Unit.
- November 5, 2021 letter from AQMD to All American Asphalt.
- November 8, 2021 letter from Irvine City Council to Senator Dave Min regarding legislative options.
- November 30, 2021 letter from Senator Dave Min to Irvine City Council.


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