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Contrived Threats versus Uncontrived Warnings: A General Solution to the Puzzles of Contractual Duress, Unconstitutional Conditions, and Blackmail
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) with one notable exception: it struck down the provision that threatened to remove preexisting federal Medicaid funding from states that refused to accept an expansion of Medicaid, on the ground that this threat “crossed the line distinguishing encouragement from coercion.” This constitutional standard has been condemned as amorphous and meaningless. Because the standard explicitly incorporates contract-law concepts, we might hope to find clear guidance in the underlying contract law. But contract law makes the legality of threats that induce contractual agreements turn on whether the threats are “improper” or in “bad faith,” conclusory labels that themselves have been deemed incoherent and meaningless. Nor could the Court find useful guidance from the general unconstitutional-conditions doctrine because it has been deemed conclusory, incoherent, and “infamously inadequate.”
Indeed, the Supreme Court seems to have given up even trying to define a coherent doctrine, openly admitting both in the Medicaid- defunding-threat case and a subsequent unconstitutional- conditions case that it could not articulate the line dividing con- stitutional conditions from unconstitutional ones, although it was nonetheless—somehow—confident that the conditions it was considering were over the line. This Article solves these doctrinal puzzles with a coherent theory that is normatively attractive and descriptively fits current legal results.
For analytical clarity, it is important to exclude some cases that lie outside these puzzles. If a threatened action by a government or private party were independently unconstitutional or illegal, there would be no difficulty condemning the threat. Likewise, sometimes even an uncoerced agreement to a condition or contract would be independently illegal or unconstitutional, usually because it would harm third parties or violate equal protection norms. In these cases, the independent doctrine of illegality or unconstitutionality does all the work.
Other times, whether the agreement was coerced is irrelevant because the threatener has a power to compel without any agreement, such as when the government has a power to order the relevant action because the individual or state has no consti- tutional right against such compulsion. Whenever direct coercion is permissible, that fact moots the issue of when threats of otherwise-lawful action should be deemed coercive, because they would be permissible either way. But in these cases the work is done by the independent legal doctrines that create a power to coerce.
The cases of interest involve situations in which a threat to engage in otherwise-lawful action (like a termination of funding) induces an agreement that is otherwise lawful, but the threat is nonetheless deemed too coercive to enforce the induced agreement. Those threats are the ones for which we could use some coherent principle to explain why they are sometimes condemned and sometimes allowed.
This Article provides a simple principle for resolving this puzzle.

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Passive smoking is considered a harmful factor for the health of non-smokers, especially children. A well-known concept, but until now it has remained linked only to ‘traditional’ cigarettes. Now research published in the scientific journal ‘Environmental Pollution’ has highlighted how even ‘heat-not-burn’ (Hnbc) cigarettes, those which heat tobacco without burning it, could negatively influence the cardiovascular health of exposed children and adolescents.
The study, which saw the collaboration between Sapienza University of Rome, Irccs Neuromed of Pozzilli and Mediterranea Cardiocentro of Naples, examined three groups of children and adolescents aged between 2 and 18 years, divided based on exposure to smoke they might have had in the family: not exposed to any type of smoke, exposed to traditional smoke, exposed to heated tobacco smoke. A series of tests, performed on blood samples and instrumental tests, then measured oxidative stress, endothelial function (a key indicator of blood vessel health) and platelet activation (a risk factor for the formation of clots) .
Disposable cigarettes, what are the risks?
“The most important data that emerged from our research – say the authors, Lorenzo Loffredo and Anna Maria ZicariSapienza University of Rome, e Roberto Carnevale, Sapienza University of Rome and Irccs Neuromed – is that there are no significant differences between traditional cigarette smoking and heated tobacco smoke. In both cases, the children and adolescents examined had, compared to those not exposed to any type of smoke, higher oxidative stress, greater platelet activation and an alteration of endothelial function and therefore a greater cardiovascular risk. These results – the authors continue – show that even new generation cigarettes, universally considered less harmful than traditional cigarettes, can pose a potential danger to the health of those around smokers, especially younger ones. The final objective must therefore remain that of encouraging the cessation of smoking in all its forms and its surrogates, including zero tolerance towards passive smoking of any type”.
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Using discarded ikea furniture, recycle wood and pallets, we built a Hydroponics Tower system, completely indoor. Based in Hong Kong, having any space to grow anything is very hard. Going vertical is a great way to grow more. This is our first time using ZipGrow Tower. As you can see, our basils loved it. Our lights are mounted on pallets with wheels so that we can get to the plants when we need it.
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Wars don’t just happen; there is always an underlying cause. Sometimes a predator sees an easy target (Mexican-American War 1846, Korea 1951), sometimes God or some ideology decrees it (The Crusades 1087, Iraq 2003), sometimes domestic politics demand it (War of 1812, Israel-Lebanon 2006), and sometimes war occurs merely as a result of stupid accidents (World War I). The attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman highlights the dangers in the current confrontation between the United States and Iran. We have yet no information on the provenance of the attacks, but major wars have started for less. For those seeking de-escalation, a review of the President’s past diplomatic efforts show that a staged photo-op may be the best means to diffuse the situation, even if that means giving the President the appearances of a ‘win.’
Most observers see the current American confrontation with Iran as having originated from domestic political issues in the United States, namely President Trump’s fixation on the 2020 elections. If one examines the President’s foreign policy practices, a distinct pattern emerges, one in which the road to electoral victory demands erasing President Obama’s legacy and obtaining concessions from foreign countries by threatening economic or physical devastation. We saw this tactic in action last week when he threatened Mexico with devastating tariffs if it did not stop illegal immigrants from reaching the US border. Mexico panicked and sent a delegation to negotiate. The talks produced some limited Mexican actions, some of which had been previously agreed to. Regardless, the President declared victory. He did the same with North Korea. For his electoral purposes, two friendly but fruitless summit meetings with Kim Jong Un sufficed. It does not strain incredulity to imagine that an Iranian offer to negotiate followed by one or two reasonably upbeat meetings between Trump and Rouhani might take the edge off the confrontation and give President Trump the appearances of a ‘win’ at a time when he so desperately needs to be seen as a fitting Commander-and-Chief.
Unfortunately, the ongoing Iran affair presents a much more complicated scenario than the President’s previous diplomatic overtures. Mexico’s new President had sufficient domestic popularity to get away with bending to extortion. In contrast, North Korea’s leader has no domestic constituency to satisfy and therefore shares with President Trump the belief that substance-less summits do indeed bear public relations fruit. Unlike President Obrador and Chairman Kim Jong Un, Iran’s reformist President Rouhani faces a determined hardline opposition that could destroy him should he be seen as going hat-in-hand to the Americans for a meeting. Overcoming Iranian hardliners to negotiate the JCPOA had stressed the limits of his authority. Now his opponents crow over his humiliation at Trump’s hands.
Outside players also complicate the Iran affair. In the case of North Korea, no outside nation has any interest in seeing an armed confrontation between the two. In the case of Iran however, a number of international players have demonstrated that they would welcome an American attack on Tehran. Saudi Arabia has made clear that it regards Iran as an existential threat to the continued rule of the Al-Saud family. Riyadh has magnified Sunni-Shia competition to levels unseen in centuries and has apparently even gone to war in Yemen to keep the Ayatollahs from seizing Mecca and Medina. The UAE, more pragmatically, sees value in the confrontation and would almost certainly welcome American military action to recover Abu Musa and the Tunbs, islands occupied by the Shah’s Iran in 1971. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s current posturing reminds one of Israel’s demonization of Iraq as an existential threat to the very existence of Israel before 2003. At its most bizarre, the Washington Post reported on an Iraqi Kurdish sheikh who sought to revive his own political fortunes by advocating an American war with Iraq. He stayed for weeks at the Trump Hotel in Washington in an apparently vain effort to connect to the White House.
Additionally, one cannot discount the fact that many Americans hold a deep resentment for Iran stemming from the humiliation of the Ayatollah’s revolution, during which American diplomats were held hostage for more than a year. That wound, unlike the Korean or Vietnam Wars, has not healed with time. This resentment made abrogating Obama’s JCPOA an easier sell domestically. No American politician would have advocated war with Korea, however using sticks to teach Iran a lesson has advocates not just in the National Security Council, but also across the American political spectrum.
Trump initiated “maximum pressure” by cutting Iran’s oil exports. In doing so he has done real damage to the Iranian economy. The U.S. President has also reinforced the U.S’s military presence in the region and has threatened to “end Iran” if provoked. If Pompeo’s 12 demands presented at the Heritage Foundation are indeed what is required of Iran, then they are asking the Ayatollahs to commit suicide. Trump has surrounded himself with a foreign policy team that appears to have focused on regime change in Tehran, despite protest to the contrary. These American decisionmakers appear to also profoundly fail to understand the Iranian people, who have a sense of three millennia of Persian history. No matter how much they may dislike their leaders, few will succumb to foreign pressure, especially when they see Trump acting on behalf of their declared enemies: Israel and Saudi Arabia. If North Korea and Mexico are indeed examples, the President only needs negotiations and some simulacrum of concessions to declare victory. Under these circumstances, Iranian President Rouhani’s refusal to accept the US invitation to negotiate (unfortunately couched as an ultimatum requiring concessions in advance) should surprise no one.
President Trump appears determined to avoid war, a promise he made to his voters. The leadership in Tehran wants to do the same. The Iranians are skilled diplomats and can manage provocations. However, the US administration seems to lack the skill set necessary to manage the unexpected. It has alienated all its allies, coerced otherwise friendly countries into acting against their own interests, and has put the least capable of the neocon crowd (that organized the war in Iraq) to run his team. Worse, he has put himself at the mercy of other players who openly desire an American attack on Iran.
These outside actors do have the skill set to create incidents that will help the hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton make the case for war. We still do not know if the apparently controlled attacks (minimal damage, no casualties) on ships anchored off Fujairah were black ops or, indeed, an Iranian message to the UAE. The same ambiguity applies to this week’s attacks in the Gulf of Oman. Still, blaming Iran for the incidents, or the stray rocket fired into Baghdad’s Green Zone has left most observers unconvinced. However, as demonstrated by the June 13th attacks, if an outside party wishes, it can create an incident that will inflict significant American casualties, providing the opportunity for hawks in the White House to try and stampede the President into war.
Dissident elements within the Iranian security forces might take it upon themselves to exact a price should they feel the pressure of American sanctions is becoming unbearable or because they seek to undermine Rouhani’s government. This could take various indirect forms such as attacking American forces in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan through proxies. Politicizing the American military, as occurred recently when some mid-level White House official ordered a Navy destroyer to cover up its name so as to not offend the President, should make us all worry. If left unpunished, what would prevent another such official from ordering the Navy to take some other action that could provoke hostilities? Or, Iran may finally respond to Israel’s continued attacks on Iranian forces or proxies in Syria. If they inflict sufficient Israeli casualties, the current Israeli government, facing reelection may find itself forced to escalate.
Furthermore, accidents happen even amongst the most disciplined of militaries. On July 3, 1988, the American cruiser USS Vincennes shot down a commercial Iranian airliner over Iranian territorial waters killing 290 people, including 66 children. The Vincennes had highly sophisticated sensors but still failed to properly identify its target. Increased tensions exaggerate stress on even the best-trained forces, sometimes leading to tragic mistakes. Unless both the US and Iranian national command authorities at the highest levels keep their forces at a significant distance from the other (which does not appear to be happening), the repetition of such an incident appears frighteningly probable. Furthermore, we should worry about simple human fatigue in an overstretched Navy, as seen in recent accidents at sea involving US warships.
The potential for things getting out of hand grows with each day of ugly rhetoric and real economic hardship. Europe’s effort to rescue the JCPOA and the Iranian economy seems too weak and too late. If the example of Mexico and North Korea are any indicator, the best way to quickly defuse the situation would be for a third party to bring Trump and Rouhani to a summit meeting. They will not do so on their own. So far, Iraq, Qatar, and Oman have all offered, but no one seems to have taken them up on it yet.
Ambassador Patrick Theros is a Strategic Adviser for Gulf International Forum. Previously he held positions as Political Advisor to the Commander in Chief, Central Command; Deputy Chief of Mission and Political Officer in Amman; Charge D’affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission in Abu Dhabi; Economic Counselor in Damascus; and U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar. In a career spanning almost 36 years, he also has served in diplomatic positions in Beirut, Managua, Dharan and Abu Dhabi, as well as in the Department of State. During that period, he earned four Superior Honor Awards. After retirement Ambassador Theros served as President of the U.S. Qatar Business Council in 2000-2017.


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Oasis have reportedly signed a £1,000,000 deal with AT&T for the rights to use one of their songs
Weeks after slamming Jack White of The White Stripes for working for Coca-Cola advertisement, Oasis has reportedly signed a £1,000,000 advertising deal with AT&T for the rights to use one of their songs.
The band apparently agreed to let the telecom company use their track "All Around The World" in their television adverts. No words on when the ads will be published.

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Judges quash Gerry Adams’ jail-breaking convictions
The audacious plan to spring Gerry Adams from the Maze prison in 1974 involved kidnapping a lookalike at a Belfast bus stop, dyeing his hair, adding a false beard and substituting him for the republican activist.
And it almost worked. Mr Adams was arrested in the prison car park after guards realised what was going on.
Yesterday, more than 45 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr Adams should never have been convicted of the attempted escape, or an earlier one, because he should not have been in the prison in the first place. Five judges overturned the two convictions, ruling that his detention at the height of the Troubles had been unlawful.
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Zachery Levi is most widely known as Chuck Bartowski from the series Chuck.Levi’s professional life as an actor, a singer, and a director is known by many as he has mostly found success in whatever he has done till date.Zachary Levi is the "nerd herd" action star in the drama Chuck.Zachary Levi stars alongside Yvonne Strahovski in the FOX drama Chuck.Berger's two best friends are Miles Jenner (Jareb Dauplaise), whose ambitions for popularity cause him to clash with Berger, and goth girl Lily Miran (Kara Taitz), who has been lusting after Berger for several years.Berger's love interest is Jenny Swanson (Amber Lancaster), a cheerleader who is involved with Max Owens (Jayson Blair), a popular jock and bully.Zachary was a short - term relationship with actress Nina Dobrev in 2014.
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36-year-old Hollywood star dated Caitlin Crosby in the past but their relationship couldn’t last more than two years.
Zachary is rumoured to have hooked up with Rachael Taylor (2007 - 2008).
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"Establishing the rules for building trustworthy AI"
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The European Commission’s report ‘Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI’ provides a clear benchmark to evaluate the responsible development of AI systems, and facilitates international support for AI solutions that are good for humanity and the environment, says Luciano Floridi.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launch the “COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostics Design-A-Thon”, an initiative to help develop technical innovations to help fight COVID-19.
Capturing diagnostic data from COVID-19 tests is of paramount importance to guide an evidence-based pandemic response at the local, state, and national levels. The primary goal of this event is to spur technological innovation by aligning software developers, designers, and engineers with diagnostic device developers and COVID-19 subject matter experts to build digital tools that are directly integrated with COVID-19 tests (e.g. in vitro diagnostic devices) and testing workflows, both in clinical and non-clinical settings. These digital tools will automate data capture directly from tests, improve harmonization, enhance security, and expedite direct reporting for greater speed, quality, comprehensiveness, and utility of diagnostic data. Timely access to core data elements from both lab-based and non-lab-based tests by public health authorities, healthcare providers, patients, and the public is essential to support real-time, data-driven COVID-19 response efforts. During the event, we will also be building U.S. government-developed tool will be named “Wireless Automated Transmission for Electronic Reporting Systems” (WATERS). The reporting systems could be IVDs (devices- hardware/software), apps, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), or any other entity that is transmitting/reporting diagnostic data.

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Hundreds of private businesses, dozens of financial institutions and 14 municipal governments are being asked to chip in for a high-stakes gamble on attracting new industries to Volusia County.
The county's Business Development Corp., a non-profit foundation set up by the county council 13 months ago to lure industries, is trying to get contributions from businesses and cities to create a $400,000 fund for promotional activities.
Annual contributions would be used as membership dues in a new group, called Volusia County Ambassadors, that the corporation is trying to form.
Under a contract with the council, the corporation gets $100,000 annually from the county government. That money will be the county's membership dues to the Ambassadors, corporation executives say.
The executives now are trying to get similar contracts with the county's 14 municipalities and are asking each to contribute 50 cents per resident. Private businesses are being asked to contribute $1,000 to $10,000 per year, depending on the business' size.
Some business and government leaders say the money they would contribute to the Ambassadors probably would pay off with a healthier job market and a larger tax base.
"You've got to make an investment in this type of program," said DeLand City Manager Scott Rohlfs. "Sitting back and hoping just isn't going to do it."
If the city commission agrees to join the program, DeLand, with a population of about 16,000, would pay about $8,000. The county's largest city, Daytona Beach, with a population of about 54,000, would pay $27,000.
Educational institutions and several non-profit foundations also are being asked to join the Ambassadors, but are not going to be charged dues said Dave Richmond, executive director of the development corporation.
The private foundations are either tied to industrial development, such as chambers of commerce and the county's munufacturers' association, or to the county government, such as the Industrial Development Authority, which recommends to the council businesses seeking tax-free bonds to finance construction projects.
Richmond said the corporation hopes to have 110 to 125 members in the Ambassadors. An organizational meeting of those who have been invited to join the group will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Ocean Center, the county convention center in Daytona Beach.
After the organizational meeting, the group will elect officers and start planning for promotional projects. Ambassadors will aim their pitches at such businesses as areospace, electronics, telecommunications and medical equipment industries.
Besides financing advertising campaigns, members are to live up to the group's name by personally representing the county, Richmond said. If a member is traveling out of the area, he will be given a list of businesses to contact to try to sell the area as a good place to locate.
The county is behind and does not seem to be gaining any ground on other areas in Florida that are seeking new industries, Richmond said. Most county residents rely upon a seasonal tourist industry, which does not provide many high-paying jobs.
Out of 19 federally designated urban areas in the state, Volusia County ranks 18th in the average size of paychecks. The average worker in the county brings home $12,879 annually, compared with a statewide annual average of $15,543, Richmond said.
"We're so far down the list," he said. "We've not done well and we have a long way to go."
So far, the development corporation cannot point to a specific industry and claim the credit for luring it into the county, Richmond said. But he said executives of at least one Daytona Beach area firm were convinced to remain here despite blandishments from other counties.

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VANCOUVER, April 1 /CNW/ - A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund (the Fund) (TSX symbol AW.UN) today declared a cash distribution of 10.6 cents per trust unit for the period March 1 to March 31, 2010. The distribution will be paid to unitholders of record at the close of business on April 15, 2010, and will be payable on April 30, 2010. For tax purposes 8.958 cents per unit of this distribution will be other taxable income and 1.642 cents per unit will be non-eligible dividends.
A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. (Food Services) will also receive 10.6 cents per share from A&W Trade Marks Inc. (Trade Marks) on its investment in Trade Marks.
Launched on February 15, 2002, the Fund, through its investment in Trade Marks, is entitled to receive royalties from Food Services in the amount of 3% of the sales of the 700 A&W restaurants in the Royalty Pool. Cash distributions are paid monthly. A&W is the second largest quick-service hamburger restaurant chain in Canada. Operating coast-to-coast, A&W restaurants feature famous trade-marked menu items such as The Burger Family, Chubby Chicken and A&W Root Beer.


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Destiny’s Child Alum Michelle Williams Is Engaged
Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is engaged.
The 37-year-old singer said in an interview with People published Thursday that she said yes to her boyfriend, pastor and pro sports chaplain Chad Johnson, in March after a year of dating.
Johnson, who has served as chaplain for the Pittsburgh Steelers and L.A. Dodgers, proposed to Williams with a five-carat engagement ring. The couple plan to marry at an intimate, black-tie wedding in the summer.
"Think James Bond-meets-Midsummer Night's Dream -- with a little hood in it," Johnson told the magazine.
"It's gonna be very traditional," he added. "We're doing black-tie. We want it to be small and intimate and very private."
Williams confirmed news of her engagement in a tweet Thursday.
"That time I got engaged March 21st and @people is telling y'all alllll about it!! Thank you @people and @nelson_jeff!!!" she wrote.
Williams told People Johnson has the approval of former Destiny's Child members Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland and Beyoncé's mom, Tina Knowles. She gushed about her fiance in an Instagram post Tuesday.
"That amazing feeling of getting off the stage, running back to the dressing room and I see someone standing there waiting for me!" the star captioned a photo of of herself after a concert.
"I've waited yeeeeeeears for someone who could come in to my world and be CONFIDENT and NOT insecure, love who I love and genuinely be there for people!!" she said. "I LOVE YOU @chadjohnson77!!! #HoldOn #LoveIsComing."
By Annie Martin, UPI.com
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Bills finish final camp practice; Marrone sends message to team
by Joe Buscaglia,posted Aug 21 2014 2:13PM
With the sun beating down on the field inside Growney Stadium at St. John Fisher College, the edgy Buffalo Bills went through their final training camp practice of 2014. And with the way the last week has gone, it was fitting that it ended with a few fireworks.
Not even an hour into practice the Bills took a page out of their practice on Wednesday. It was only the first set of team drills, and within just a few plays, the team already had two scuffles between offensive and defensive players.
At that moment, head coach Doug Marrone hit his breaking point.
He started screaming at the top of his lungs at his team. He yelled to the on-field staff to cut the music that serenades each practice. He had a message to deliver to his team — some of which that isn’t suitable for radio or television.
“Conduct detrimental to the team,” and “stop fighting,” were two of his statements to the players — albeit cleaned up versions of the original transcript. The team was then sent to the sideline and Marrone made them run a lap across the field and back as punishment.
That wasn’t before one member of the team, defensive end Jerry Hughes, pushed back and made his comments heard at least a little bit. Marrone and Hughes shared somewhat of a loud exchange before defensive tackle Marcell Dareus put his arm around Hughes and ushered him into the punishment lap before any more words were communicated.
Defensive tackle Kyle Williams, who got the practice off to rest a leg injury, then had a conversation with Marrone once everything had cooled down and the team resumed practice. Marrone and Hughes seemingly buried the hatchet after the practice, with the head coach going over to Hughes and pulling him aside to have a brief conversation about what happened.
Marrone cited a lack of respect for the reason why the fighting has lingered in camp, and then said he’s going to handle it all personally. As could be expected, though, the head coach wasn’t exactly eager to discuss what happened with the media.
“I'm going to say it again and I'm not going to answer another question. We're responsible for the integrity of the game,” he said after a series of questions. “Can you figure it out? Figure it out. We're responsible for the integrity of the game. There is no use for fighting in the game of football, period. End of discussion. Move on.”
Moving on is precisely what the Bills will do, too. They’ll spend two more nights on campus, Thursday and Friday, before packing up and leaving on Saturday before their game on the same night.
It was an extremely long camp, 21 practices in total without counting the one that was cancelled due to weather, but a necessary evil according to the head coach.
“Yeah, we needed it,” Marrone remarked. “I think we benefitted quite a bit from the extra work and I also think the work in Pittsburgh was outstanding for us. I think the more that we can do that moving forward, I think the better chance we have of being a better football team.”
Once Saturday arrives, the Bills will no longer have football surrounding their lives at every moment of every day. When they leave St. John Fisher College, they’ll transition back into real life while still playing the part of professional athletes.
“For us, the environment changes and we have to be careful. We want to make sure that we set the expectations for us when we go back to Buffalo and how we practice. We were trying to that this week,” Marrone opined. “But then, the environment changes. There's a lot more structure when you're in training camp as a whole team, you're around each other quite a bit. Now you have a lot more free time. There's other people that are going to come in that you have to do a good job as a player and also as a coach, to make sure that you have the structure and you have the discipline and the focus remains the same.”
That is the struggle for any team once a training camp wraps up. Reclaiming their lives outside of football and how they’ll approach the work in-season is just as vital as their performances on Sundays. That could have been part of Marrone’s line of thinking when he stopped Thursday’s practice, and brought an intense approach to the session.
He’s doing it for a reason, because he believes in the players that make up the 2014 Buffalo Bills.
“Here's what I sense: we are close. What is it going to be to get over the top? It's a matter of either you get over the top or you don't and we've gotta find a way to push ourselves over the top,” Marrone said. “Now this year it's critical to get us over the top, so, I'm doing everything I possibly can to get us over the top. And if intensity's the answer? Yeah, I'm intense.”
The Bills will head back to Buffalo for their fourth preseason game of 2014, a 4:30 showdown with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the newly renovated Ralph Wilson Stadium.
Bills finish final camp practice; Marrone sends message to team
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I'm with Marrone.
Better than 6-10!
I am glad Marrone is being intense! If you want to be better than you have always been then you need to change the way you are doing things!
will the game be aired on channel 7 again? I know it is going to be on NFL Network, but does anyone know if its going to be on locally?
Surprised no one got the opinion of Hughes or any teammate about Marrone's blow-up.
MESSAGE TO MARRONE...
Unfortunately you have proven that you cannot win as a head coach in the NFL. Sad but true, you are yet another in a loooong line of "hiring cheap incompetent coaches" by the Buffalo Bills.
Get ready for NEXT YEAR and a new head coaching search.
I like Steve Tasker's statements recently on the "Bickering Bills." I think this team needs to hold each other more accountable. Obviously that's the perspective of an outsider. I realize the different mindset of this generation compared to Tasker's, however it seems like other teams WANT to WIN more.
fighting is just a form of letting frustration out- maybe the coaching is causing this problem? I really don't see Marrone doing any real coaching unless you can call messing with minds coaching-something is missing in this team but I can't figure it out yet? there seems to be no unity?
Good job Marrone
They shouldn't be fighting each other no matter what was said or done there is no excuse.
I glad that these players are showing emotion and competition When was the last time anyone hear of the bills having "exchanges" between each other. I understand that the coach doesn't want any player fighting. But you have to respect the fact that theses players want a spot on this roster and want to win!
Who cares its football!
Other Side?? Who Cares
You watch too many soap operas. The coach is the boss, period. At least, please try to develop a clue!
this wannabes think fighting will make them better? shows how big of "Punks" they really are- save all that "toughness" for the opposing teams
Lets go Buffalo
Hope the bills make the playoffs!!!
Marrone strikes me as a very very bad coach,this season is gona be a nightmare.
OMG! The girls got into a fight? LOL.
CMON MAN? That's the best news this camp has to report about. SAD?
They should be more concerned about getting a experienced
starting QB if they want to make the playoffs!!!!
Marrone is Coming to Grips ....
that his team is garbage, no matter how much Bills fans HOPE their team will be decent
14 YEARS AND NO PLAYOFFS, LETS BE NICER.......
Coach Marrone is dealing with a lot of egos, who haven't won in years, should he just be a nice guy and kiss up? Don't tell me that other coaches don't get angry at their teams, it happens all the time, these guys can't be babied, they are in a league that is physically brutal, one play can end your career, hats off to coach for putting his foot down, now it's up to the players to quit talking and start playing!
Marrone is imploding. He sees another 6-10 season coming with EJM at the helm. Or 4-12!
This is what happens when you go out and get a lot of bad actors, like Whaley does, instead of good character individuals.
This team -the Bills -is self-destructing. It shows what respect the players have for the coach if Hughes can mouth-off at Marrone, and not be disciplined for it. Give me Bill Parcells!
Its gonna be another long season again this year for Bills fans.
Re: Let's go Buffalo
PLAYOUGHS??? You are a Joking idoit. When do the trucks get loaded to move these losers?
Girls, Girls, Girls, Just want to have fun.
Maybe its the new image of the BILLIES?
like his Gilligan hat
This should not be all on the coach.
look we all know the bills have not been in the playoffs in years. If the players want to change that then put in your heart that you going to do that on the field. I don't care who the coach is he not going to like players taking flags through any game. And with the refs calling every thing under the sun this year. You really got to play smart football. Your team mate scores a td but they call it back because of your mistake is really going to hurt teams this year. That's what the coach is talking about. their going to be trash talking going on both sides. Teams are going to use that to their advantage. If you let them throw you of your mind set. Teams will not have to run a play because you will be doing a good job of moving them down the field. Ten yards here 15 yards their holding to left or the right. For change players can we let them get call for those things not us. I mean 1 or 2 we all can understand 5 to10 is going to put your a team in either field goal range or to make a td. But whatever happen we got to play as a team to be able to get the job done. just remember if you reach the playoffs you are going to make this city explode with happiness. and it will be you that will go down in the history books. Not the bills before you, it will be you isn't that why you play football is to be call the best at what you do. Something you are going to be able to tell your kids when you get old and gray. To be able to say yes that was me. It dosen't get no better than that Boy i can only wish and dream about that. But you the players can make all that i mention come true. You just got to stay focus lets go ruff buff.
If you never played Football at a high level, you know fights happen, and make you closer as a team.

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I'm unplugging this weekend to get a jump on deadline week. But while you're here, you might check out National Geographic's Daily News's cool report on the discovery of an ancient Greek tablet with the oldest readable writing in Europe. According to the article:
Considered "magical or mysterious" in its time, the writing survives only because a trash heap caught fire some 3,500 years ago, according to researchers.
Although the article doesn't identify what the writing says, PBW called a pal in Greece, who provided this translation in English, as well as some enhancements to show that the tablet was in fact an ancient author's self-promotional item (which is probably why it was thrown in the garbage):
I don't know. I mean I know it's thousands of years old, but the choice of wording could have been better. And don't you think those beads on the tassels make it look a little cheap?


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Snapshot virtual tour
Welcome to the Monson Lake State Park virtual tour! Explore camping options, hiking trails, and beautiful lake scenes. The accessible wooden pier may tempt you to fish from the rails, or bring your boat and enjoy a sunny day on the water. We hope it prompts you to visit the park in person sometime soon.
A wooden fishing pier looks over Monson Lake. It provides accessibility to anglers looking to catch northern pike, sunfish, walleye, or “lunker” bass.
A boat ramp is available to visitors who want to launch their boat on Monson Lake for fishing or pleasure boating. Fishing is one of the main attractions at Monson Lake State Park.
Several of the sites in the campground include a beautiful view of Monson Lake, as well as a great opportunity for watching sunsets.
Non-electric campsites, such as this one, provide you with all the basics. Campers can enjoy a picnic table, a fire ring for cooking or sitting around the campfire, and an area to set up a tent or back-in a camper. Several sites also come with a wooded view of Monson Lake.
If you desire the comfort of electricity, the campground offers six electric sites for you to choose from. This particular campsite is more open than most in the campground, but majestic bur oak trees will keep you shaded and cool during your stay. Campers may access the nearby Glacial Lakes State Trail in New London (about 20 miles from the park) for biking or hiking during their stay.
Monson Lake State Park is located 20 miles northwest of Willmar, Minnesota. It is a small, quiet park rich in history. The park offers 20 campsites (6 electric), good fishing, great spring bird and wildflower viewing, hiking, and canoeing.
Self-registration is available to visitors interested in camping or purchasing a daily or annual park permit. The office building is handicap accessible.
Monson Lake State Park was established as a memorial to the family members of the West Lake Settlement that lost their lives in the Dakota War of 1862 on August 20 of that year. The marker in this scene indicates where the home site of the Broberg family, Swedish immigrants, once stood.
This large grassy area is sprinkled with large ash and oak trees, making it an excellent place for family reunions, field games, and cookouts. A picnic shelter, fire ring, and several picnic tables are available for visitors to enjoy.
During the 1930s, men of the Veterans Conservation Corps (unemployed World War One veterans) built this historic stone picnic shelter. The shelter is located in the picnic area and offers electricity and an open fireplace.
Restrooms and Showers
This 1930s Veterans Conservation Corps constructed stone building includes modern sinks, showers, and toilets. It is a short walk from any site in the campground.
Nature Trail Crossroads
Begin your hiking journey throughout Monson Lake State Park by starting at the trail crossroads behind the shower building. From this wooded location, you can venture off onto three different trail segments.
Walking Trail View
At this point along the mowed path, trees are on one side of you and Lake Monson is on the other. This combination provides an excellent opportunity to observe the plants and wildlife of Monson Lake State Park.
Walking Trail Point
A bench at the end of a one mile woodland trail offers a beautiful view of Monson Lake. Relax and enjoy the peace and solitude.
Monson Lake Nature Trail
This flat, easy section of trail takes you along the beautiful wooded shoreline of Monson Lake. Trees provide welcome shade as you journey along this mowed trail.
West Sunberg Lake Trail
Walk along this section of mowed trail and you will be rewarded with a wonderful view of West Sunburg Lake.
West Sunberg Lake Portage
Take the short, easy portage from Monson Lake to West Sunburg Lake and enjoy a day of excellent wildlife viewing from your canoe or kayak.
Monson Lake Bay
Birdwatchers should not miss this bay of Monson Lake. Birds frequently seen here include pelicans, wood ducks, great egrets, great blue herons, and an occasional bald eagle.


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By Deslaknyo Wisnu Hanjagi, Milatul Ulfa, and Saefihim
In Indonesia, the use of corn (Zea mays) as a staple food source is low. Communities argues that corn is the food of the lower classes, in contrast to paddy (Oriza sativa). This is because the value of fresh corn are quite low with a different texture to the rice, though corn has a higher nutritional value than rice. Adding value to corn as a qualified staple food in the community is required by processing corn into ready-made household products, such as instant rice. Corn used for manufacture is corn with high protein quality (QPM), namely the ‘Srikandi Putih’ varieties. Unlike yellow corn, texture of ‘Srikandi Putih’ instant rice like white-colored grains. White color will give the impression of sterile food. This color will attract the public to food diversification because white are symbolizes purity, cleanliness, and freedom. Instant rice from these materials can survive for more than five years.
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Earlier this month, Twitter was in a brief uproar over President Donald Trump.
It wasn’t for anything he tweeted, but rather the 11 minutes on Nov. 2 that his account was disabled, cutting off access for his more than 40 million followers.
Twitter first called it an accident but later said a customer support employee did it while working their last day with the company.
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On Wednesday, that employee revealed himself.
In an interview with TechCrunch’s Tito Hamze in Germany, Bahtiyar Duysak says the whole incident was a “mistake” and apologizes for it.
“I didn’t do anything on purpose,” Duysak said. “I didn’t hack anyone, I didn’t do anything that I wasn’t authorized to do. ... I didn’t break any rules.”
When asked why he’s going public now, he said he just wants to get back to “an ordinary life.”
“I had to delete hundreds of friends because reporters are stalking me and my friends on Facebook,” Duysak said.
Some people have joked on social media that he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Would he accept it?
“It should be accepted by one who deserves it,” Duysak said, adding that he does not.


Not surprisingly, in 2014 we had many discussions with our customers about Information Governance issues such as data retention and remediation, privacy and eDiscovery. Very surprisingly, at many of these meetings, we introduced the IT and Legal departments to one another for the first time.
Every good Information Governance initiative needs Legal and IT to work together. For example, it is difficult (and risky) for IT to determine whether data, even backups, can be deleted without some guidance from the legal team. Successfully implementing an email or file share archive – which can save an organization substantial amounts in operational cost and legal / compliance risk –requires Legal to help IT in establishing proper retention policies. For legal, an eDiscovery process (or even a simple investigation) will not go well without enlisting assistance from the right people in in IT.
What’s the Problem?
While it sounds simple to bring these groups together, it’s not, partly because they are trained to think so differently. IT professionals tend to be very precise and careful. When they are asked to provide data protection, it’s not for “most” of the data in a repository – it’s for every single bit. And that data needs to be available and accessible almost every minute of the entire year – think “five nines” availability (99.999%).
Conversely, lawyers are trained to think in flexible, subjective terms. There are only rare situations where a legal concept is set in stone. Most tend to be expressed in terms of reasonableness, a standard which varies based upon the situation, community or industry. In eDiscovery, there are flexible concepts like proportionality, which means that the effort required to collect and process data can consider the cost and effort, and weigh those against the “value” of the case.
Adding to the difficulty is that many lawyers are scared of or under-informed on IT issues. That’s changing as more legal organizations, ethics rules and even clients mandate a higher level of IT competency. But that process will take time.
The Objection Is Overruled
The lack of communication can result in disastrous situations. Using backup media for litigation hold – a “worst practice” — is clearly the result of Legal failing to explain what it needs to preserve for eDiscovery, and IT not explaining how backups work. As another example, Legal is often surprised to learn that an explicit retention policy (e.g. “All email is deleted after 6 months unless filed’) is being subverted by 90% of employees — with IT’s knowledge because it has no ability to enforce the rule and because it normally protects data. Some technology upgrades and data migrations occur in the midst of pending litigation, resulting in the actual or potential loss of data, with Legal learning of the process only after it has begun – to the detriment of the entire process.
What Can We Do?
Fortunately, almost all of these issues can be overcome with more interaction and communication between the two groups. So if you are in either department, make a 2015 Resolution to get to know your counterparts in that “other” department. Your organization will be stronger for it, and you will make yourself that much more valuable.


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Rain has become a persistent problem for music festivals in the Midstate scheduled for late summer or early fall, aka hurricane season. In 2018, a deluge in Franklin meant that Pilgrimage had to be called off after just a couple of hours; Bonnaroo, whose long-awaited return was set for Labor Day weekend, was likewise canceled after Hurricane Ida turned the site into a mud wallow. After a steady downpour literally rained on its parade Saturday morning, Nashville Pride had to make a pivot. The precipitation finally let up around midday, but the festival grounds at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park needed time to dry out before they could be opened to the public.
The site opened around 3 p.m.; many of the local acts scheduled to play had to be struck from the bill, while the headliners were able to go on about an hour behind schedule. Though fans had to navigate some treacherous patches of mud on this muggy evening, it seemed little could dampen their spirits. A substantial crowd turned up to be heard and seen, shining as their truest selves and bopping along to some top-notch pop of various flavors.
Both of the acts I got to see had occupied top spots on my to-watch list at Bonnaroo. Just around sunset, sporting a luminous blue Nudie-style suit and the signature fringed mask that’s concealed his identity thus far, enigmatic Canadian troubadour Orville Peck took the stage with his band against a backdrop of low-flying clouds. It was an ideal setting for the star-swept, melodramatic and subversively nostalgic homage to country music’s golden era Peck does so well. Peck opened with the violent and sentimental “Roses Are Falling” from his 2019 debut Pony, his sole full-length so far. The song is a showcase for the anthemic hooks he delivers gently through a baritone croon that feels like something out of a movie; it’s also a prime example of his deft and dreamy blend that includes goth, indie rock and classic country.
This was one of the first stops on the band’s COVID-delayed tour for last year’s Show Pony EP. Peck revealed to the crowd that newer songs like the original “Drive Me, Crazy” and the Bronski Beat cover “Smalltown Boy,” which was originally released for the 2020 Pride edition of the Spotify Singles series, were being played live for the first time. As if fan favorites like “Dead of Night” and “Queen of the Rodeo” weren’t already killing it with this delighted audience, Peck’s twangy reimagining of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” released earlier this summer as part of a companion to the 10th anniversary edition of the Born This Way LP, was a better crowd-pleaser than anything I could have imagined.
As night fell, the crowd moved closer together and closer to the stage in anticipation of German-born, L.A.-based singer-songwriter and underdog pop diva Kim Petras. The choice time slot and dialed-in audience more than compensated for my disappointment at not being able to see the transgender pop queen down on The Bonnaroo Farm. Flanked by a troupe of dancers, Petras came out blazing with a sassy and sultry strut, half-jokingly asking the crowd, “Are there any rich men here who wanna buy me shit?”
Though her discography includes just two full-length albums, both released in 2019, Petras is a pop veteran who has released a steady drip of club-friendly singles since 2011. She managed to pack a heap of them into her hour-long set. Some of the highlights included the bratty, down-the-middle pop of her breakout 2017 single “I Don’t Want It All” and her very recent release “Future Starts Now,” as well as dark, razor-sharp blog-house-revival bangers “Death by Sex” and “Wrong Turn” from her Halloween-inspired album Turn Off the Light. Throughout, Petras’ cartoonish obsession with sex and decadence yielded glittering, high-speed collisions of radio-pop earworms, bombastic EDM and the morbid excess of a Bret Easton Ellis novel. Sonically, she doesn’t push the pop envelope, but she’s a purist who masterfully condenses all of pop’s guiltiest pleasures into the most potent pill imaginable. By the time Petras closed with her 2018 single “Heart to Break,” the crowd was primed for anything else the night could bring.
Unfortunately, one thing it brought was more rain. Shortly after 11 a.m. on Sunday, the word went out that the park was simply too soggy to handle more partying, and the day’s shows were canceled. Mid-afternoon, however, word went out that at least some of the performers would appear at The Basement East during the Sweet Tea Dance, an installment of the recurring dance party that was set to close the festival.
Longtime freelance photog Steve Cross was the only member of the Scene team who was able to make it over. Per his report, however, local popster Freak Daddy turned in a ferocious set with an assist from stellar rapper Daisha McBride. Pop-schooled Canadian MC Tommy Genesis, suffering from vocal issues following a recent illness, kept it short and sweet; though she couldn’t muster the energy she’d probably have liked, a small cluster of thrilled fans packed in tight. And hip-hop legends Salt-N-Pepa, seemingly delighted at the unexpected chance to rock a far more intimate party than initially planned, practically blew the doors off the place with a hit-filled throwback set. It may not have been the Pride everyone would have liked, but fans, artists and organizers powered through to make it one to remember.


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Guns N’ Roses‘ singer Axl Rose has given a rare interview in advance of his impending 12-date Rock or Bust tour singing for AC/DC, which launches on Saturday in Lisbon, Portugal. In the BBC 6 Music Breakfast show interview, which airs on Friday, Rose said he is a fan of AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson and “wants to do it justice.”
Johnson, who has been AC/DC’s singer since 1980, was forced to quit touring with the group on doctor’s orders or he would risk “total hearing loss.” Rose was tapped to step in for the singer. Rose told BBC 6 that he was the one who proposed he fill in for Johnson. “I called the day I read about it in the news, that there was a situation going on with Brian’s hearing,” he said, adding that he wanted to help if they were interested.
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Rose acknowledged he has big shoes to fill. “A lot of the Back in Black stuff is really challenging,” he admitted. “I’m not here in any way out of any disrespect to Brian. I can’t take anything away from his singing at all.”
He went on to further compliment Johnson. “He’s a great singer and it’s really challenging to sing it,” he said. “I’m just trying to do it justice for the fans.”
AC/DC’s Angus Young told BBC 6 that despite reports that Johnson’s leaving was contentious, he said he spoke with Johnson at length before Johnson made the decision to leave the tour. “In his heart he wanted to finish [the tour,] but because of that hearing factor, he had to make the decision,” Young said, adding, “The last thing you want to do is walk away from something, but you don’t want someone in a tragic situation; being deaf, or any other affliction.”
Rose, who will be splitting his time with AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses while both bands tour, is looking forward to his time on the road, but he understands his replacing Johnson is a sensitive issue.
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In advance of their tour, AC/DC and Rose took to Facebook to address fans. In April, Guns N’ Roses performed at Coachella, where AC/DC’s Young joined them onstage.
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In a statement, Kürten revealed that a Duisburg court had rejected an application for a temporary injunction to return the Castle Forbes horses and transmitted the judgments in writing to both parties on February 28. She suggested dialogue with Forbes as the best way to solve the dispute. “I hope that we will be able now to find common ground to come to a final solution soon in order to minimize the disadvantages in regard to the sport and in regard to the financial deficits for all parties concerned,” Kürten said. “Especially, because of the long-term co-operation, I wish for an open and respectful dialogue.”
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After all that New Orleans has suffered in the five-plus years since Hurricane Katrina, who would think that yet another of the Crescent City’s character-rich neighborhoods — one that had recently been repaired with federal dollars — would be ripped apart, this time at the behest of the state and federal governments?
It’s shocking, but an enormous volume of gratuitous destruction is under way in a city better known for celebrating than subverting its architectural character. New Orleans is at this moment sacrificing a distinctive working-class neighborhood to land-hungry medical institutions that insist on huge footprints for their future campuses.
Since last spring, more than 60 buildings, many of them charming little shotgun houses that contribute to a National Register historic district, have been demolished so that a new Veterans Affairs hospital can be built on 30 acres cleared of its inhabitants.
Another 60-plus houses, mostly of historic vintage, have been hauled out of the neighborhood, many of them shorn of their roofs so that they can be transported through the streets and plunked on sites elsewhere in New Orleans — this, too, for the sake of a land-hungry VA.
And on an adjoining 37 acres in this Mid-City New Orleans neighborhood, more than 10 structures have been demolished to make way for the state-owned University Medical Center.
You can track the trail of destruction daily at a blog called “In the Footprint”, started by Brad Vogel, a Tulane University student who was appalled by the massive governmental assault on a neighborhood that is worth protecting. By the time the VA and University Medical Center sites are ready for hospital construction, a total of 265 buildings may be gone, 165 of them buildings that contribute to the National Register district.
“It was dense housing, especially the VA site,” says Sandra Stokes, vice chair of the Foundation for Historical Louisiana. “Now it is just football fields of vacant land. Thirty acres is alot of land. It’s the contrast between the density of the neighborhood with the historic houses and the vast emptiness that’s there now that is gut-wrenching.” You can see the historic houses documented.
How could such a thing happen? The short answer is that just like Wall Street firms, medical institutions often grab what they want, even when others are harmed by their actions. In New Orleans, the obsolescence of the old VA hospital and the damage done to Charity Hospital by flooding in 2005 helped to instigate planning on a scale that resembles the worst of the urban renewal era.
It was decided that the state, by establishing a sprawling medical center contiguous to the new VA, would be ushering into existence “BioDistrict New Orleans,” a medical and science corridor that eventually could encompass 1,500 acres. “The massive endeavor inevitably will require more land acquisition and the demolition of historic buildings — a prospect that enrages community advocates and preservationists,” the Christian Science Monitor reported in an article available.
“There is no sugarcoating the shameful, irresponsible and needless destruction of the 27 blocks of neighborhood fabric,” New Orleans architect Gaither Pratt declared Dec. 8 on the Pro-Urb listserv. “New hospitals are needed, but they could have been done on a much smaller footprint (8-12 blocks?) in an area without existing homes & businesses, or even as a renovation in the existing Charity Hospital building.”
Pratt, like others, deplores the reliance on “expropriating land from citizens and property owners without the power to fight back.” What makes the situation even more galling, he says, is that “It is not even clear that the state will have the funding necessary to build the new LSU hospital, which may leave 15 blocks of Moonscape in downtown New Orleans.” After all, Louisiana is caught in the same fiscal distress that afflicts nearly every state government, thanks to the dismal national economy.
Preservationists, including the National Trust and the Foundation for Historical Louisiana, have been fighting to save at least part of the neighborhood for a long while. Recommendations late last summer by David Dixon of Goody Clancy Associates in Boston have made some impact, as I’ll explain later. But the basic situation is grim.
“There were always supposed to be two hospitals on one side of Galvez Street,” Stokes says, but the administration of former mayor Ray Nagin allowed the hospitals to expand into additional territory. Stokes is dismayed that the Obama administration, despite its endorsement of smart growth and urbanism, allowed the VA to move forward with such a destructive plan.
“That is backed by HUD financing,” Stokes told New Urban News. “Our federal government says it is not going to do this anymore, yet the federal government is involved. There were many letters to Shaun Donovan,” secretary of Housing & Urban Development.
Renovated with federal grants
On June 28, an “administrative complaint” was filed against HUD, charging that HUD has improperly allowed $75 million of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for land acquisition and relocation for a stand-alone VA hospital. The complaint noted that many of the houses being removed or demolished “were completely renovated, post-Katrina, with new roofs, new wiring, new plumbing, new sheetrock, new paint, etc.” Some of that work was done using federal money through Road Home grants.
The complaint, filed by attorney Mary Howell and supplied by Stokes to New Urban News, is worth quoting at some length:
This Project is having profound and devastating effects upon Complainants’ historic neighborhood, which is being destroyed, and seeks to impose a suburban type, sprawling medical complex on a predominantly residential/mixed use, low-income, mostly African American neighborhood. … The Project abandons downtown New Orleans and the traditional downtown Medical District, with potential long-term, negative impacts to the City, and mimics the worst aspects of “urban renewal.”” The Project is simply the wrong design in the wrong location. HUD money has been key to the development of this project.
It further charges:
The City’s application for these funds includes significant, material misrepresentations and omissions, including false and misleading information regarding citizen participation or rather, the lack thereof, for this project. Additionally, the city’s application appears to have been materially altered, without appropriate authorization. … Despite these fundamental infirmities, the Project is proceeding and federal money is being spent to advance the project.
The complaint says that around January 2009, Louisiana Solutions LLC, acting as agent for the City, submitted to the Louisiana Office of Community Development an application for CBDG funds contending that the “National Objective” would be “Prevention/Elimination of Slums or Blight.” Of course, it’s hard to claim blight when federal funds had been used a short time before to fix up many of the houses in the supposedly blighted area.
The “slums/blight” claim apparently encountered resistance within the bureaucracy, because according to the complaint, a few months later a second supposedly “original” application changed the national objective from “slums/blight” to “”Urgent Need.”
The results of the administrative complaint? “They keep shuffling it, saying they will respond, but there has been no response to date,” says Stokes.
There’s more in the complaint, but let’s turn to what might be called the bright side of the hospitals debacle: The city, rather than see such widespread destruction, allocated $3.2 million mainly to the moving of houses on the VA site. “The goal was to move 100 houses,” Stokes says. A recent report indicates that 81 houses may actually be moved by the time the relocations are completed at the end of December.
Two houses were moved by the state historic preservation office in the correct manner — i.e., intact, according to Stokes. Unfortunately, New Orleans’ new mayor, Mitch Landrieu, who is a huge improvement over Nagin, “had a very short window to get the houses off the site,” Vogel observes. For expediency’s sake, roofs, most of them decrepit, according to the Monitor, are taken off, and new roofs are added later. “Structures with living space extending past 60 feet are shortened to allow them to be hauled.”
As of Dec. 8, the fate of a 17-room mansion that once belonged to S.W. Green, a prominent New Orleans African-American, remained in question. The house stands alone in a now-desolate landscape. According to a Times-Picayune article, Green “began building the mansion in 1928, only to see it burned during construction, reportedly by members of the Ku Klux Klan who did not want to see a black man live in such an opulent home.”
At least the houses hauled to new locations are being saved. A much-loved, architectural stand-out of a brewery, which had discontinued operation, was to be saved and reused, either for a resumption of brewing or for other purposes. But now there’s talk that the state may have the Dixie Brewery demolished after all.
A school from 1879 that was rebuilt after Katrina is scheduled to be razed, says Stokes. Vogel adds that, in one of the many ironies of the misbegotten New Orleans project, “it’s a charter school with a focus on architecture and construction. The children will be moved to a school in modular units, far from that site.”
A tight community, unraveled
And the neighborhood’s residents? “This is a community that lived in each others’ houses, ate in each others’ houses, showered in each others’ houses,” Stokes says. As a result of the mutual aid after Katrina, “it was a tight community.” That population is being scattered, much as was done during urban renewal, which sundered many social ties, with ill effects.
The report that Goody Clancy produced at the urging of Mayor Landrieu has produced a number of beneficial changes. Chief among them, according to a Times-Picayune article available here, are these:
• Instead of having seven blocks of surface parking, the University Medical Center will have two parking decks and a limited volume of surface parking. The parking decks will have retail spaces on their ground floor, facing Tulane Avenue.
• Towers for patients along Canal Street will be pushed back from the street to allow private retail development. However, this is contingent on gaining legal clearance for retail use. The state used eminent domain to acquire land, and there are questions on whether retail is a “valid public purpose” for land acquired by that means.
• Until the blocks that were originally intended for parking lots are needed for other uses, they will be kept as green space. Stokes acknowledges that “it is better to have green space than surface parking,” but the resulting open land will still create a divide between the central business district and the hospital complex. “Why,” she asks, “are they taking twice as much land as we need?”
Probably the best aspect of the entire controversy, says David Dixon, has been the willingness of Mayor Landrieu to weigh in on a development issue that in previous administrations would have been left to state officials.
“The city should take responsibility for the quality and character of any major development and community-building efforts, whether they’re sponsored by a private developer or by the state or federal government,” Dixon says. “The current mayor is doing this. It’s a night-and-day difference from the previous administration. This is probably the first mayor in New Orleans who has been willing to take on LSU and the state government on an issue like this.”
Dixon’s perspective is useful. But when so much of what the state and federal governments and the earlier city administration have done amounts either to negligence or outright harm, the hospitals project comes out, on balance, as nothing less than a catastrophe. “This has been a colossal planning fiasco,” says Jack Davis, a Congress for New Urbanism board member and smart growth advocate who lives in New Orleans.
Both the state and the Obama administration need to do much better.