We exit Newton County just north of Marble Falls on Arkansas Highway 7 and enter Boone County. It will be the final county on our Highway 7 trek.
Unlike some of the rural counties around it, Boone County has seen its population more than double since the 1960 census. There were 16,116 residents in 1960 and 36,903 in the 2010 census.
Following the Civil War, those who lived in the area asked the Arkansas Legislature to split up sprawling Carroll County. Boone County was created in April 1869 from pieces of Marion and Carroll counties. It was determined that the Missouri border would mark the county's northern boundary.
"Although no documentation supports it, the most widely quoted belief is that the county was named for frontiersman Daniel Boone," C.J. Miller writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. "But some say the name is a misspelling of 'boon' because it was thought that the creation of a county would be a boon to residents. Lines drawn between residents during the Civil War often resurfaced in the new county. When the county seat was selected, it was not in the established town of Bellefonte but in the new town of Harrison, where Confederate beliefs were not as strong.
"Towns developed. Lead Hill grew up near the site of what had been Dubuque. Smelters were built to process lead from the area. With the popularity of the healing waters in Eureka Springs in Carroll County, Boone County's Elixir Springs was promoted. The post-Reconstruction era began with the resurgence of conflict between the former Confederates and the Republicans who controlled Boone County. The ex-Confederates attempted to move the county seat from Republican-controlled Harrison to Bellefonte. After a countywide vote, it remained at Harrison.
The coming of the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad in the early 1900s helped open up the county to new arrivals. Lumber mills and dairy farms opened.
Meanwhile, the small black population disappeared.
The race issue has continued to plague Boone County as Thom Robb, the head of one wing of the Ku Klux Klan, calls it home.
Harrison grew from 6,580 residents in the 1960 census to 12,943 in the 2010 census. J.E. Dunlap, the publisher of the Harrison Daily Times, declared the city the "hub of the Ozarks" and relentlessly promoted it across the state.
We take a few minutes to get out of the car and walk around the Harrison town square. We read the monuments on the grounds of the Boone County Courthouse, which was built in 1909.
The trip is nearing its end as we leave Harrison and drive north through Bergman, South Lead Hill, Lead Hill and finally Diamond City. These are all places whose fortunes changed with the construction of Bull Shoals Lake.
Bull Shoals Dam is to the east of us, at the point where the White River divides Marion and Baxter counties. But the lake has played a key role in helping Boone County grow.
The Corps of Engineers completed the construction of Norfork Dam on the North Fork River, a tributary of the White, in 1945. Many of the same workers were involved in the construction of Bull Shoals, which began in 1947.
Construction of the powerhouse began in September 1950. Generation started two years later. The final two generating units were installed in 1963.
Widespread media coverage accompanied President Harry Truman's visit to Arkansas to dedicate Bull Shoals on July 2, 1952.
"The completion of the dam and reservoir immediately began to affect the local economy," Branyan writes. "The media coverage attracted attention to the region and resulted in the quick growth of the tourism industry. In 1940, there were only 13 businesses that provided overnight accommodations. By 1970, 300 such establishments could be found. Assessed taxable real estate values, per capita income and manufacturing payroll rose dramatically in the following decades. The area also now supports a retirement community.
Before we reach the shores of the lake on Highway 7, we must pass through Lead Hill. Though it only had a population of 271 people in the 2010 census, it has a colorful history. It began as a mining town on the White River and had to be relocated to its current location when it was flooded by the lake.
In 1857, the Arkansas Legislature had authorized a geological survey of the state.
"Newly appointed state geologist David Dale Owen conducted a reconnaissance of north Arkansas in 1857-58, which located numerous indications of lead and zinc," Robert Myers writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. "Owen found that the Independence Mining Co. of St. Louis was mining smithsonite for zinc ore at what's now Calamine in Sharp County, making Calamine one of America's early zinc mines. The company suspended operations during the Civil War.
"At the outbreak of the war, Confederate troops seized the rich Granby lead mines of southwest Missouri, then touted as able to provide all the lead needed for the Confederate cause. In 1861, 75,000 pounds of pig lead a month were being hauled overland to Van Buren to be shipped to the Memphis ordnance works. The loss of Missouri to the Union following the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas effectively meant losing this important source. The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau mined lead and saltpeter (an ingredient in gunpowder) in Newton, Marion, Pulaski and Sevier counties. However, these operations proved too close to enemy lines and were soon abandoned for more secure sources in Texas.
Demand for both lead and zinc rose during World War I. Arkansas, however, didn't benefit as much as some other states.
The Kellogg Mine north of Little Rock had the state's deepest mine shaft at 1,125 feet in 1940 when mining ended there.
Back to Lead Hill: Crippled by the Great Depression, the Bank of Lead Hill closed in 1931. Several stores, a flour mill, a cotton gin and a canning factory survived. Then came Bull Shoals.
The last city as we head north on Highway 7 is Diamond City, which had a population of 782 in the 2010 census.
As Bull Shoals Lake began to fill, a community named Sugarloaf was formed on the site of a former settlement that had been known as Dubuque.
We stop the vehicle at the park where Highway 7 ends, walk to the shore of Bull Shoals and throw a few rocks in. We look north across the water toward Missouri and contemplate all we've seen on the trip up Highway 7.
Highway 7 has taken us through four of the state's six distinct geographic areas — the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Ouachita Mountains, the Arkansas River Valley and the Ozark Mountains; everything but Crowley's Ridge and the Delta.
From Hartwell Smith Jr. at Smith's Liquor Store in the pine woods of Ouachita County in south Arkansas to Connie Hawks at the Hollis Country Store in the Ouachita Mountains of Perry County, we've visited with the type of rural Arkansans who give this state its soul. This trip has reminded us what a varied, fascinating place Arkansas is.
Reluctantly, we point our vehicle south and begin the trip home to Little Rock.
The business leaders of tiny Newton County thought Dogpatch USA would change everything.
Albert Raney Sr. listed his trout farm for sale in 1966. A real estate investor in Harrison named Oscar Snow found nine additional investors and went to Al Capp with the idea of a theme park based on Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip. The town of Marble Falls just north of Jasper even changed its name to Dogpatch.
"Capp, who had rejected such offers in the past, agreed to be a partner in the enterprise, " Russell Johnson writes for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. "The partners acquired 1,000 acres. … Capp spoke at the groundbreaking on Oct. 3, 1967. The cost of construction was $1,332,000. The park originally featured the trout farm, buggy and horseback rides, an apiary, Ozark arts and crafts, gift shops, entertainment by Dogpatch characters and the park's trademark railroad. Management added amusement rides in subsequent years.
Arkansas businessman Jess Odom purchased a controlling interest in the company in 1968 and hired former Gov. Orval Faubus as the general manager.
Dogpatch declared bankruptcy in November 1980. Wayne Thompson's Ozark Entertainment Inc. purchased the theme park but not Marble Falls and operated Dogpatch from 1981-87 before selling it to Melvin Bell. The high-flying Bell, who died in 2006 at age 68, was buying up properties across the state at the time — everything from Magic Springs at Hot Springs to the Red Apple Inn at Heber Springs. In November 2001, Bell was indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion. The trial was delayed repeatedly because of Bell's health problems. The case was dismissed two months before Bell died.
Business at Dogpatch continued to decline as more and more people elected to go to nearby Branson, Mo. The park's final season was 1993.
It has since become a ghost town covered with weeds, bushes and trees. In December, an owner of the property, Charles "Bud" Pelsor, said it had been leased to a new group headed by David Hare, who announced in a video posted on social media outlets that he would create the Heritage USA Ozarks Resort.
Pelsor and a business partner had hoped to turn the site into what they termed an "ecotourism village" with artists, restaurants and a creek stocked with trout.
The new Heritage USA isn't connected with the theme park of the same name that televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker once operated at Fort Mill, S.C., just south of Charlotte, N.C.
With the park having been closed for so long, locals understandably are wary. But the Heritage USA Facebook page is filled with photos of improvements that have taken place lately.
Dogpatch faded from the scene, but the designation of the Buffalo National River and the reintroduction of elk to the county did more than the continued existence of the theme park could have ever done. Neither the national river designation nor the reintroduction of elk came without lots of criticism in a county where private property rights are considered sacred.
The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed what became known as Buffalo River State Park along the river in 1938, and Lost Valley State Park was added in 1966. The National Park Service later would take over those areas.
"The river's hydroelectric potential was also appreciated," Suzie Rogers of the National Park Service writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. "With the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1938, the Army Corps of Engineers included the Buffalo River in its planning for a system of dams on the White River. Two potential dam sites eventually were selected on the Buffalo, one on the lower portion of the river near its mouth and one at its middle just upstream from the town of Gilbert in Searcy County.
"The continual threat of a dam on the Buffalo caught the attention of Arkansas conservation groups and those who had begun using the river for recreation or simply appreciated the free-flowing river as a spectacular natural resource for the state. In the early 1960s, advocates for the dams and advocates for a free-flowing stream formed opposing organizations. The pro-dam Buffalo River Improvement Association, established by James Tudor of Marshall, and the anti-dam Ozark Society, which included environmentalist Neil Compton, emerged as the leading players in the drama.
Proponents of obtaining a National Park Service designation received an unexpected gift in the fall of 1966 when John Paul Hammerschmidt, a Republican business owner from Harrison, defeated Trimble. Hammerschmidt joined forces with the state's two Democratic senators, J. William Fulbright and John L. McClellan, to introduce legislation in 1967. Final legislation was introduced in 1971, and hearings took place that fall. Congress approved the bill in February 1972, and the Buffalo National River became a reality.
"Park acreage, boundaries and special considerations were written into the legislation," Rogers writes. "Total acreage could not exceed 95,730 acres. Hunting and fishing were allowed as a traditional use. Many permanent residents had an option of use and occupancy up to 25 years. Landowners in the three private-use zones of Boxley Valley, Richland Valley and the Boy Scout camp at Camp Orr could choose to sell easements to the government instead of selling the land outright.
Land use battles continue along the river to this day. In April of last year, an organization known as American National Rivers ranked the Buffalo among the country's 10 most endangered rivers due to the threat of pollution from hog farms in the Buffalo River watershed.
People ranging from Oklahoma oil and gas executives to Arkansas automobile moguls now build second homes in Newton County. Others rent cabins.
Horseshoe Canyon, a nationally recognized dude ranch operated by Barry and Amy Johnson, has become a favorite spot for rock climbers from around the world.
Ponca-based Buffalo Outdoor Center also has gained a reputation. Mike Mills started BOC as a canoe rental operation in 1976, just four years after the national river designation. That business now also has a large store, modern log cabins, a lodge, zip lines and more.
There's fine dining in the form of Nick Bottini's Low Gap Cafe, which is between Mount Sherman and Ponca. The restaurant is packed on weekends in the spring, summer and fall.
There also are the various artisanal products that come from Newton County. One example is the honey harvested by Eddie Watkins for his Buffalo River Honey Co. I don't claim to be a honey connoisseur, but it's the best I've tasted.
As far as the elk, the U.S. Forest Service brought Rocky Mountain elk to Franklin County's Black Mountain Refuge in 1933. Three bulls and eight cows were transported from the Wichita National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. These elk were themselves transplants, having come to Oklahoma from Wyoming. The Arkansas herd increased to almost 200 elk by 1950s and then disappeared. Poaching, no doubt, played a role in the herd's demise.
Elk were native to Arkansas, though the eastern subspecies that roamed the region already was dwindling by the time Arkansas became a state in 1836. There were reminders that Arkansas once had been a state where elk roamed freely. The Elkhorn Tavern was a landmark during the Civil War battle at Pea Ridge. One of the oldest banks in the state was Elk Horn Bank & Trust Co. in my hometown of Arkadelphia.
In the late 1700s, elk could be found as far south and east as northern Alabama.
Too much hunting and the loss of habitat meant the end of the Arkansas elk herd by the 1840s. The eastern elk is now extinct.
During his first year in the governor's office in 1979, Bill Clinton named Hilary Jones of Newton County to the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. Jones, an avid elk hunter who made regular trips to Colorado, thought elk could survive along the Buffalo River. In 1971, the state of Arkansas entered into an agreement with the state of Colorado to trade elk for Arkansas fish. Jones recruited friends to take trailers to Colorado and bring the Rocky Mountain elk back.
In the years that followed, seven elk from Nebraska's Sand Hills also were brought to Arkansas. The first elk calf was born in the state in 1982. In the winter of 1985, local volunteers raced winter storms to bring back seven loads containing 74 additional elk. They were transported in cattle trailers lined with sheets of plywood.
The elk brought to Arkansas in the early 1980s were released in the Pruitt area near Highway 7. Much of the herd migrated through the years to the Boxley Valley near Ponca.
In 2002, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission established the Ponca Elk Education Center just across the road from the Buffalo Outdoor Center headquarters. Housed in a log building, the center has displays of elk and other wildlife, photographs, a meeting room and a gift shop. There are also picnic tables and restrooms. On Highway 7 in Jasper, just north of the bridge over the Little Buffalo River, the Hilary Jones Wildlife Museum and Elk Information Center also offers a place for visitors to stop.
Arkansas elk now range over about 225,000 acres. In addition to Newton and Searcy counties, elk have been reported through the years in Washington, Carroll, Boone, Marion, Stone, Conway, Pope and even Faulkner counties. Efforts to improve elk habitat have included prescribed burns and the establishment of native grass openings. Unlike the 1950s, the Arkansas elk herd appears here to stay.
Only six Arkansas counties have fewer residents than Newton County. Three are in the pine woods of south Arkansas — Calhoun, Lafayette and Dallas counties. Two are in the Delta — Woodruff and Monroe counties. One is next door in the Ozarks — Searcy County.
The Newton County seat of Jasper had only 466 residents in the 2010 census. Jasper has been the county seat since 1843. Sawmills there employed hundreds of men in the late 1800s and early 1900s as oak was harvested in the surrounding mountains to be used in stave mills and cedar was harvested for pencil mills.
The current courthouse on the Jasper square was completed in 1942 as a Works Progress Administration project. Highway 7 from Harrison to Jasper was finally paved in the 1950s.
The locals still gather for breakfast and lunch at the Ozark Cafe on the square, which has been around since 1909. It's part of the Jasper Commercial Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The restaurant has expanded through the years to include parts of three buildings.
The restaurant has had 14 sets of owners during its 109 years. There's often live music on Saturday nights. The Ozark Cafe is open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. seven days a week.
After breakfast at the Old South in Russellville, we head north on Arkansas Highway 7 to Dover.
If Arkansans think of Dover at all, it's often to remember that awful week in December 1987 when Ronald Gene Simmons killed 14 members of his family before driving to Russellville and killing two more people.
I was the Washington correspondent for the Arkansas Democrat at the time but was back in Arkansas for the holidays, working out of the downtown newsroom. I have vivid memories of the phone ringing each time a new body was found. We kept a body count in the newsroom as we planned the next day's edition. It was a dark day in Arkansas.
Dover once was the county seat of Pope County. It became the county seat in 1841, and the county seat remained there until moving to Russellville in 1887.
We're entering the Ozark Mountains now, and the sometimes rough history of this area isn't always pretty.
"Following a series of murders of county officials after the Civil War, two federal companies were stationed in the area to reinstate order," Guy Lancaster writes for the Arkansas Encyclopedia of History & Culture. "The troops left two years later. In 1872, however, violence once again flared up, and John H. Williams formed a militia to clamp down on the unrest. Ongoing murders and shootouts led to the entire county being placed under martial law. This period of Reconstruction-era violence, known today as the Pope County Militia War, did not end until early 1873.
We head north out of Dover and soon pass what remains of the Booger Hollow tourist trap, which has been closed for years. We stop at the U.S. Forest Service's Rotary Ann overlook and rest area. It's named for the Rotary Club women's auxiliary in Russellville, whose members established the first roadside rest stop in the state at this location in the 1930s.
It's cloudy and windy with temperatures in the 30s. It feels as if there could be snow flurries at any minute even though it's still November.
Noted Arkansas food and travel expert Kat Robinson writes: "The term Rotary Ann comes from two women. One was Ann Brunier, who traveled with her husband from San Francisco to Houston for a Rotary Club convention in 1914. She was the only woman on the train headed to the conference, and by the time the couple disembarked, everyone was calling her Rotary Ann. Ann Gundaker of Philadelphia was also at the event with her husband, and by the time it was over, she too was known as Rotary Ann. The name stuck, and the ladies' auxiliary membership for the Rotary Club went by the Rotary Anns up until the 1980s.
"The auxiliary members in Russellville saw a desperate need for a place to stop along the route, not only because of the need for sanitary bathroom facilities but also to give drivers a place to take in some of the amazing views of the Arkansas Ozarks. They encouraged development with the Rotary Club, and in the 1930s a scenic overlook with places to park was created along Highway 7. It was the first rest stop in the state, and it should be around a good, long time. In 2004, the stop was reopened after a year-long renovation and upgrade. Today it includes an unmanned restroom for men and women, interpretive panels, rail-guarded overlooks and picnic tables along with lanes allowing for small-vehicle and bus parking.
Kat is right. This part of Highway 7 is long past its peak as a draw for tourists. Booger Hollow isn't the only former attraction that's closed. You can spot old buildings all up and down this route that once catered to tourists.
We press on following a short stop, winding our way through the mountains and looking for snowflakes as we pass through the small communities of Pelsor, Lurton and Cowell. We're in Newton County now. Though we're still full from breakfast in Russellville, we determine that a stop for pie and coffee at the Cliff House Inn, which is six miles south of Jasper, is de rigueur for anyone traveling this stretch of Highway 7.
The restaurant and inn are open from March 15 until November 19.
Here's how the Cliff House website describes the history of what has become a Highway 7 landmark: "In early 1960, Kenneth and Fern Carter were driving along Highway 7 on a Sunday afternoon. Kenneth stopped the truck, got out and walked through the tree line of the land that overlooked the valley that's now known as Arkansas' Grand Canyon. When Kenneth came back, he mumbled something as he was getting back in the truck.
"Kenneth bought the land and in February 1964 started the process of building the Cliff House Inn. To prepare the land for building, Kenneth had to use dynamite to blast away part of the mountain to build the motel rooms. When he blasted, a section of Highway 7 had to be closed to traffic. His mother, known as Granny, stopped traffic by waving a red flag and yelling 'fire in the hole!' You can still see some of the holes down by the motel rooms that were drilled for dynamite but not used.
"The Cliff House Inn opened May 27, 1967, as a gift shop and five-unit motel. Ken and Fern's son Jim and his wife Joyce managed the Cliff House for a short time. Kenneth sold the Cliff House to the McNutts about a year later. The McNutts owned it for a year and then sold it to Bob and Francis McDaniel. The McDaniels added a house, kitchen and small dining room to the building in the mid-1970s. Mrs. McDaniel wanted a signature pie to offer her dinners. She introduced the company's comin' pie, which is still served at the Cliff House today.
Newton County is one of the least-populated counties in Arkansas with only 8,330 residents in the 2010 census. The county's population peaked in the 1900 census with 12,538 residents. By 1960, it was down to just 5,963. It has rebounded some as tourism has increased due to the Buffalo River receiving the first national river designation from the National Park Service and the introduction of elk to the county by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.
Writing for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, C.J. Miller describes Newton County as "mountainous, rural and isolated. The land, once respected and protected by Native Americans, has come full circle with a large portion being protected by the U.S. Department of the Interior. … The area, rich with game and timber, is watered by the Big and Little Buffalo rivers. Until 1808, the Osage claimed the region, and between 1818 and 1828 the land was part of a reservation granted to the Western Cherokee. The county was part of Carroll County when that county was created in 1833, and white settlers quickly moved in. A block of marble taken from a hillside near present-day Marble Falls was used to help build the Washington Monument. Although Jasper appeared on maps in 1840, it wasn't incorporated until 1896.
"The Legislature created Newton County on Dec. 14, 1842, naming it after U.S. Marshal Thomas Willoughby Newton. After beginning his career as a mail carrier and serving as U.S. marshal for Arkansas, Newton was elected to serve in Congress after the resignation of Archibald Yell. John Belleh's house on Shop Creek was designated the county seat until the designation was given to Jasper in 1843. The county had 10 post offices by 1856.
With so few slave owners, there were strong Union sympathies in the county.
The population decline began soon after the turn of the century, and isolated Newton County seemed to be a place stuck in the past. Population began to tick back up in the 1970s as the back-to-the-land movement brought new residents (locals simply referred to them as hippies) and Dogpatch USA, which had opened in 1968, increased in popularity. The Buffalo National River designation in 1972 brought thousands of new visitors. Elk were introduced in the early 1980s.
This is the heart of the Arkansas Ozarks.
"At up to 2,600 feet, the Boston Plateau, usually referred to as the Boston Mountains because of its ruggedness, is the highest of the Ozark Mountains," Tom Foti writes for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. "It extends as a belt across the southernmost Ozarks, generally parallel to and to the north of Interstate 40. Typical rock types are sandstone and shale. Although the elevation of the mountains is similar, the highest are in and near Newton County. The elevation there causes higher precipitation and lower temperatures than elsewhere in the Ozarks. Streams are generally small, and the headwaters of many of the well-known streams of the Ozarks occur in the Boston Mountains, including the White, Buffalo, Kings, Mulberry, Big Piney and Little Red.
President Teddy Roosevelt signed a proclamation creating the Arkansas National Forest on Dec 18, 1907. On March 6, 1908, he signed a proclamation creating the Ozark National Forest from land north of the Arkansas River. The land south of the river became the Ouachita National Forest. The first Ozark National Forest headquarters was at Fort Smith. The headquarters later moved to Harrison, and then it moved to Russellville in 1918. The forest supervisor in Russellville now also must administer the St. Francis National Forest on Crowley's Ridge in east Arkansas.
It might be small from a population standpoint, but Newton County is a special place. In fact, we'll get off Highway 7 for a time on this day in order to view the elk in the Boxley Valley.
We cross the Petit Jean River just north of Ola as we make our way north on Arkansas Highway 7.
Several creeks come together in Scott County to form this river, which eventually empties into the Arkansas River about 115 miles east of where it starts.
We're downstream from Danville on this day.
Upstream from Danville, work began in 1940 on a dam constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
We've left the Ouachita Mountains now and entered the Arkansas River Valley, one of the six natural divisions in the state.
The Arkansas River Valley is filled these days with cattle pastures and chicken houses.
We're now in Yell County, a distinctive place that the natives like to refer to as the Free State of Yell. The county was formed in December 1840 from parts of Scott and Pope counties. It was named for Gov. Archibald Yell.
And what about that Free State of Yell?
The sun is beginning to set as we enter Dardanelle, so we get off Highway 7 to make our way to the top of Mount Nebo. The state park store is about to close as we get the keys to our cabin, and it's starting to rain. We don't want to go back down the mountain so we buy canned chili and crackers. Along with the parched peanuts purchased earlier in the day at Hollis, that will be our supper on a cold, rainy Tuesday night as we start a fire in the fireplace.
The rain has stopped by the time we awake early the next morning. Paul Austin, who packed his own coffee beans and grinder, makes coffee.
After a short drive around the top of the mountain, we head down, reconnect with Highway 7 and make our way into Dardanelle.
This historic river port is one of Arkansas' oldest towns. It was platted in 1847 and incorporated in 1855.
By 1860, Dardanelle was connected by telegraph to Little Rock and Fort Smith. Union troops had taken over Dardanelle by the fall of 1862 and skirmishes in the years that followed left part of the community destroyed. As Reconstruction began to wind down, Dardanelle grew again. The courthouse for the northern district of Yell County was built in 1878. The first ice plant in Arkansas opened in 1888.
Diversity these days is supplied by Hispanic families. The city's Hispanic population had soared to 36.1 percent by the 2010 census as these workers showed up for jobs in the poultry industry.
Dardanelle Lock & Dam is a key part of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. At the time it opened, the system was the largest civil works project ever undertaken by the Corps of Engineers. The project provides a minimum nine-foot-deep channel from the mouth of the river to Catoosa, Okla., which is near Tulsa. President Richard M. Nixon was the keynote speaker when dedication ceremonies took place at Catoosa on June 5, 1971.
Construction began in the Dardanelle area in 1958. Navigation was opened to Little Rock in October 1968 and a postage stamp was issued with the words "Arkansas River Navigation" to mark the occasion. The first commercial barges docked at the Port of Little Rock on Jan. 4, 1969. The system — covering 443 miles and consisting of 17 locks and dams — was ready for full use on Dec. 30, 1970.
We cross the Arkansas River into Pope County and Russellville. Nearby is the state's only nuclear power plant, Arkansas Nuclear One.
The last census in which Dardanelle was larger than Russellville was the 1890 census when Dardanelle had a population of 1,456 and Russellville had 1,321 residents. From the 1970 census to the 2010 census, Dardanelle grew from 3,297 to 4,745. Russellville, meanwhile, soared from 11,750 to 27,920.
Russellville's growth was spurred soon after the Civil War by the construction of the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad.
Growth later was spurred by the construction of Interstate 40 in the late 1950s. Arkansas Nuclear One began operations in 1974. The biggest driver of economic activity, however, has been the explosive growth of the student population at Arkansas Tech University in the past decade.
In 1909, the Arkansas Legislature passed an act to establish agricultural schools in four districts across the state. Legislators had been lobbied for years by the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union to create such schools in an attempt to reverse what the leaders of the organization viewed as the decline of rural life in Arkansas. Competition was particularly stiff for the Second District Agricultural School. Russellville was chosen following a spirited competition with Fort Smith, Morrilton and Ozark.
Cities interested in landing the school were required to pledge at least $40,000 and 200 acres. Russellville threw in free water and electricity for three years. The district school, which initially served high school-age students, opened in the fall of 1910 with 186 students. It grew to 350 students by the fall of 1913.
In February 1925, the Legislature changed the name of the Second District Agricultural School to Arkansas Polytechnic College. The other three district agricultural schools went on to become Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia and the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Life wasn't always easy at Arkansas Tech. The Great Depression led to budget shortfalls and legislative discussions about closing the four district schools. More problems came at the onset of World War II when most males joined the armed services. Tech's enrollment dropped to 133 students in the fall of 1943. Empty dorm space was utilized by members of the Women's Army Corps and naval air personnel who trained on the campus.
In recent years, Tech has been among the fastest-growing colleges in the region with almost 12,000 students now enrolled on campuses in Russellville and Ozark.
Breakfast on this Wednesday is at that Arkansas classic known as the Old South, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999. The Art Moderne modular diner was built in six days in 1947 out of manufactured parts produced by the National Glass & Manufacturing Co. of Fort Smith. A similar Old South restaurant earlier had opened at Fort Smith but is long gone. The Russellville restaurant serves one of my favorite breakfasts in the state. I like to get things I can't often find on menus elsewhere, and so corned beef hash is the choice on this chilly day.
William E. Stell, the owner of the Fort Smith manufacturing company, built the restaurant for Russellville businessman Woody Mays. At one time, the restaurant was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Fort Smith restaurant was at 711 Towson Ave.
Noted Arkansas food writer Kat Robinson says that Stell, who was born in Oklahoma, formed his company at Fort Smith in 1929.
"The company created fixtures, furniture and metalwork for restaurants and department stores," she writes. "It wasn't a far jump for Stell to develop a modular diner system to take advantage of the new automobile culture developing. Unlike the Streamliner design (which was a contained prefab unit), Stell's idea was for a modular build-on-site system that could be adapted to the location. He employed the help of architect Glenn Pendergrass (who designed the El Chico restaurants around Dallas) to design the concept he envisioned.
We take our time at breakfast before heading north through Dover and into the Ozark Mountains.
We head north on Central Avenue at Hot Springs. We pass the now-vacant site that long was home to the Majestic Hotel and turn right onto Park Avenue, following the route of Arkansas Highway 7.
There's plenty of traffic and commercial activity as we drive north out of Hot Springs, pass the gate to Hot Springs Village and continue through Jessieville.
Hot Springs Village once promoted itself as the nation's largest gated community. As the popularity of golf declines and more of the Baby Boomers choose to retire in cities with cultural amenities rather than retiring in rural golf communities, the place that locals simply call the Village is now promoting additional activities such as fishing, hiking and boating. Hot Springs Village is in parts of Garland and Saline counties and had a population of 12,807 people in the 2010 census, more than double the 1990 population of 6,361.
John Cooper, who earlier had success developing Cherokee Village and Bella Vista in the Arkansas Ozarks, purchased 20,000 acres of pine forests that later became Hot Springs Village.
"By 1969, Cooper had been approached separately by two people with the idea of creating a retirement community," Kayla Laxton writes for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
Those people were state Sen. Bud Canada of Hot Springs and Peter D. Joers, president of Dierks Forests Inc.
Ground was broken on Feb. 15, 1970.
Jessieville is a busy place on this day. The growth of Hot Springs Village led to new businesses at Jessieville as that community's population grew from 1,412 in the 1990 census to 2,467 in the 2010 census.
Once we leave Jessieville, we won't see much in the way of businesses until we reach Ola in Yell County. The mountainous stretch of Highway 7 from Jessieville to Ola is as close as it comes in Arkansas to the parts of the Skyline Drive in Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina that I enjoyed traversing when I lived in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.
We're in the Ouachita National Forest as we travel from Garland County into Perry County. It originally was known as the Arkansas National Forest and was created when President Teddy Roosevelt issued an executive order on Dec. 18, 1907. Gifford Pinchot, who was the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1905-10, noted that it was the only shortleaf pine forest under the protection of the federal government.
"At first, the Arkansas National Forest consisted solely of reserved public domain lands south of the Arkansas River," Debbie Ugbade writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. "The 1911 Weeks Law, which authorized federal purchase of forest lands in the eastern part of the United States, was later used to add thousands of acres of cutover or farmed-out lands to the national forest. The largest increases in national forest ownership occurred from 1933-41.
The Ouachita National Forest now consists of almost 1.8 million acres in 12 Arkansas counties and two Oklahoma counties. It's the largest and oldest national forest in the South with 60 recreation areas, six wilderness areas, two national wild and scenic rivers, several scenic byways (we're on one) and almost 700 miles of trails.
The Ouachita Mountains are one of the state's six natural divisions.
We stop briefly at what was the site of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp during the 1930s. U.S. Forest Service budget cuts are evident from the condition of the signs here, which are difficult to read. They need to be fixed. The CCC played such an important role in Arkansas history during the Great Depression that we should take every opportunity to celebrate its successes.
Most of the Arkansas projects were in national forests.
The day's most interesting stop on our trip up Highway 7 proves to be the Hollis Country Store on the west side of the highway just north of the South Fourche La Fave River bridge. The original portion of the store was built in 1931-32, while other parts were added in the 1950s. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
There are few stores like this one remaining in Arkansas. The business has been operated by the Crain and Hawks families since 1940. Berl Hawks and his wife Connie bought the store in 1989. Berl died in 1999. Connie has operated the store ever since.
"You still going strong?" I ask as we walk in.
"For now," Connie Hawks replies.
We're still full from lunch at Hot Springs so we don't order the store's famous bologna sandwiches. I do, however, buy a brown paper sack filled with parched peanuts that we'll munch on later that evening while staying in a cabin atop Mount Nebo.
"The original building was constructed not long after Arkansas renumbered its state highways to comply with the then-new Federal Highway Administration regulations back in 1926," Kat Robinson writes on her Tie Dye Travels blog. "The store was opened to serve the residents of Hollis, a mountain community named after Hollis Britt Aikens, a Union soldier who served in the Civil War. A year after it first started serving residents, construction began on the structure we see today — a sturdy and everlasting single-story structure created from layers of mismatched rocks and mortar with an overhang porch.
"It was built by Mike Gross and William 'Bill' Furr. Gross, a country doctor, operated the store and the local post office, which was south of the grocery. Electricity came from a Delco generator housed in a shed behind the building. The store was sold to Dennis and Lillie Crain in 1940. They lived in the back of the building, and their children grew up there. Their daughter Gulelma and her husband Loyd Hawks took over in the 1950s, and the store was expanded with frame additions.
When I was a boy, my parents liked to stop at Hollis on our trips from Arkadelphia to Russellville and eat at a restaurant called Sam-Ann's, which was established by Sam and Anna Herbert in 1951.
John Egerton wrote in his classic 1987 book "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History:" "It was closed for a time in the 1970s, but Sharon Nugent and Tony Montgomery reopened it with the old name and the same purpose: 'Continuing Miss Anna's tradition of excellence.' Sam-Ann's calls itself the 'premier country restaurant' in Arkansas. Its features include large breakfasts, soup-and-sandwich lunches and dinners built around Arkansas catfish, chicken, pork chops and fried steak with gravy. Fresh vegetables grown on the place or produced by local farmers are served when available, and the iced tea is freshly brewed.
Sam-Ann's later burned and was never rebuilt.
The South Fourche La Fave River, which we crossed before stopping at the store, begins in the Ouachita Mountains near Onyx in Yell County and empties into the Fourche La Fave River near Deberrie in Perry County. We cross the main Fourche La Fave, which begins in Scott County and empties into the Arkansas River in Perry County, just below Nimrod Dam.
"In 1841-42, German writer Friedrich Gerstacker resided and hunted in Arkansas, mostly along the Fourche La Fave River," Guy Lancaster writes for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. "The experience provided background for some of an 1844 book as well as his 1845 novel, which describes vigilantism along the river. On another trip to the United States in 1867, he returned to Arkansas specifically to hunt along the Fourche La Fave River and visit with his friend Gustavus Klingelhoffer.
"Early transportation along the river was conducted by keelboat, but even this was challenging, given the numerous shoals along the course of the waterway. On March 3, 1879, Congress passed an act to improve the river. This included dynamiting some of the rocky shoals to create a deeper channel for transportation. By 1889, the river was navigable up to either Perryville or Aplin depending on the level of the water.
Flooding once was common in Yell and Perry counties, and the federal Flood Control Act of 1938 authorized construction of a dam. Engineers began testing in 1938, and a flood in April 1939 washed out two bridges and gave the project political momentum. The dam was completed in March 1942, and Nimrod Lake remains a popular fishing spot in this part of Arkansas.
Nimrod was the first of the big Corps of Engineers projects in Arkansas.
The next stop is Ola in Yell County, which had a population of 1,281 in the 2010 census. The community name was changed from Petit Jean to Ola in December 1880. Deltic Timber is a major employer these days, though a number of Ola residents drive to Danville, Dardanelle and Russellville for work. Because of jobs in the poultry industry, there has been a large Hispanic influx into the area. The Hispanic population grew from 27 in the 1990 census to 231 in the 2010 census and likely will be even higher when the 2020 census is conducted.
We cross the Petit Jean River north of Ola as we leave the Ouachita Mountains and enter the Arkansas River Valley. The land flattens out here and consists of cattle pastures and chicken houses — lots of chicken houses.


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their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure.
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tonight, the American auto industry is back.
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highest that it's been in eight years. That's right – eight years.
of the past sixteen years.
But with only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough.
cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.
health and safety of our citizens at risk.
helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.
to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries.
doubled. And thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.
said he worried that at 55, no one would give him a second chance.
Michigan. Before the recession, the factory only made luxury yachts.
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who built them to the businesses that still use them today.
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Q: Expected length of a stochastic process I have this matrix:
\begin{pmatrix} \frac{7}{10} &  \frac{3}{10} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & \frac{5}{10} & \frac{4}{10} & \frac{1}{10} \\  0 & 0 & \frac{3}{5} & \frac{2}{5} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1\end{pmatrix}
I'm trying to determine the expected number of iterations required for something starting in the first state to end in the final state.
I assume this was called finding the expected value of a stochastic matrix but that hasn't yielded what I wanted on Google.
I've never studied stochastic processes before, so all guidance / help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben

A: There is a nice way of finding mean time to absorption straight from the transition matrix: see Absorbing Markov chains by Dan Ma. Let $Q$ be the part of your transition matrix without the absorbing states, that is
$$
Q=\begin{pmatrix} \frac{7}{10} &  \frac{3}{10} & 0  \\ 0 & \frac{5}{10} & \frac{4}{10} \\  0 & 0 & \frac{3}{5}\end{pmatrix}
$$
Then $W=(I-Q)^{-1}=Q^0+Q^1+Q^2+\ldots$ is a matrix whose entry $W_{ij}$ is the mean time spent in state $j$ before absorption, if you start from state $i$. In your case you have $i=1$ and you want the mean total time spent in all states $j=1,2,3$ before absorption, so take
$$
m = \sum_{j=1}^3 W_{1j}.
$$
It should be $7 \frac{1}{3}$.
A cheap and simple numerical way (and good for double-checking) would be to start with the state vector $(1,0,0,0)$ and multiply repeatedly by your transition matrix. After each multiplication, record the probability of being in the absorbing state; continue until it practically reaches $1$. Now you have a (numerical) distribution of the absorption time, so you can calculate its mean.

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Rethinking Criminal Contempt
John A.E. Pottow, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Jason S. Levin, University of Michigan Law School
It is of course too early to tell whether we are in a new era of bankruptcy judge (dis)respectability. Only time will tell. But this Article performs a specific case study, on one discrete area of bankruptcy court authority, based upon a particular assumption in that regard. The assumption is this: certain high-salience judicial events-here, the recent Supreme Court bankruptcy judge decisions, coupled with earlier constitutional precedents involving the limits of Article III-can trigger overreaction and hysteria. Lower courts may read these Supreme Court decisions as calling into question the permissibility of certain bankruptcy court practices under the Constitution, and justifying a wholesale scale-back of all bankruptcy court power. One need go no further than Stern v. Marshall, which induced such shock waves it required the Court to revisit the matter twice in barely as many years while the ink was still drying. And Law, close on Stern's heels, made some comments in dictum casting at least some doubt on the strength of the Court's support for bankruptcy judges exercising inherent equitable power, sending off further ripples of anxiety. This backlash motivated us to reconsider one especially thorny area of bankruptcy court authority, namely, the propriety of issuing criminal contempt citations. While the issue has been brewing in the federal courts for years, the Supreme Court's recent skepticism over the authority of bankruptcy courts makes renewed analysis of the debate timely. Perhaps perversely, we want to go in the opposite direction from where our assumption of a hysteria bubble might lead. That is, post Stern and Law, we might expect many lower courts to be even more anxious about the power of bankruptcy courts to award such sanctions, i.e., that these judges should learn to stay in their place and not overstep their authority, which has once again attracted the watchful eye of the Court. But we decided to go another way-why not go back to first principles and, instead of having to defend the propriety of bankruptcy courts issuing criminal contempt orders, ask whether there is anything wrong with bankruptcy judges so doing, i.e., to start with a presumption that such relief is just fine until convinced otherwise. As we dug through the case law, it will surprise few readers to learn that there were firmly established circuit precedents prohibiting bankruptcy courts from imposing criminal contempt sanctions in no uncertain terms. But the more we went through the cases, especially against the backdrop of historical practice in the bankruptcy courts and their predecessors, the more we became convinced that these opinions were flawed-the result of overreadings of Supreme Court precedents and unfounded policy concerns. They lacked solid constitutional foundation. In other words, to invoke once again our intentionally provocative image, these decisions appeared to be based upon, and aimed to increase, bankruptcy hysteria. This Article concludes that there is nothing intrinsically problematic from a constitutional, statutory, or policy perspective with bankruptcy courts issuing criminal contempt orders. To reach this conclusion requires more than a few steps. This Article begins with a lay of the land, assaying current judicial treatment of bankruptcy courts' contempt power. It then examines the historical context of bankruptcy judges, paying particular attention to the sui generis role bankruptcy courts have played in the judiciary's evolution. Next, it considers the various statutory concerns in light of the complex legislative innovations regarding bankruptcy courts in the United States. After that, the Article considers constitutional jurisprudence regarding Article III and other provisions. Finally, the Article discusses pertinent collateral policy concerns that we deem to have played a significant role in the evolution of criminal contempt powers in the bankruptcy courts.
Pottow, John A. E., co-author. "Rethinking Criminal Contempt in the Bankruptcy Courts." J. S. Levin, co-author. Am. Bankr. L. J. 92 (2017): 311-74.
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05 May 2008 @ 08:54 am
First Post in Epic Community
Q: What do you think is the value of LJ?
It brings people together.
Q: What changes would you like to see LJ make in the next year?
Not a lot, just don't mess anything up. Regain the support of your core userbase, then make improvements.
Q: Why do you want to be the elected representative?
I've been on/am on other, real life advisory committees, and I like it. It's fun. Also, I've been a permanent account holder since 2002 and remember how Live Journal used to be - and miss that.
Q: What do you think are the community's greatest concerns?
Privacy, stability, consistency.
tigersilver asks: But, tell me, what would you really do as a rep? I do like cake, I admit, but I'm an omnivore - I need meat as well as sweet.
If it goes anything like other community participation I've been involved with, there will be an agenda set by SUP a the meetings, and then some time to make comments. My advice to the corporation will include consistent application of the TOS, protection of our privacy, no content restriction, advertising should not be intrusive, the open source tradition should be upheld.
The livejournal advisory committee will also provide input into LJ's charitable work, which is an area where I do have some background as a nonprofit and research administrator. My advice there would be to look at the potential dollars-to-impact return on the investment and a low administration-to-direct-services ratio. In general, I have found grassroots community health projects and neighborhood youth programs are the best at providing this in the US. There are also programs internationally such as the excellent Riverkids Project which has been successful in stopping child trafficking at its source, working directly with parents and kids to provide education and support for a different type of future. Their financials are completely transparent, and would be a gold standard for the type of charitable contribution I would suggest.
WHY JETTE?
1. First!
2. If she wins, there will be cake.
Here is a small sampling of endorsements for my campaign.
smallstages: Besides jette, they are all a bunch of spitters, and one of them even dips snuff. Two of them were wearing filthy dirty underwear upon my arrival -- JUST FILTHY DIRTY UNDERWEAR. One of their children called me fat, and not in a complimentary way. They were all sexist and had John McCain for President stickers on their minvans. One of them was reading the Bible. And all of them pronounced my name wrong (unforgivable!).
But when I went to jette's house, she didn't spit in my presence even once, and just happened to be reading selections from the Koran, the Upanishads, the Talmud, the New Testament, Lady Chatterly's Lover, and The Anarchist Cookbook all at once (all of them in their original languages except The Anarchist Cookbook, which she was reading in Icelandic just for fun).
She was wearing a fashionable outfit made by well-paid workers to whom she rents her guest bedroom on select summer weekends. Her children offered to make me waffles, pronounced my name right, and hung my jacket up on a hanger made of plastic recycled in their own backyard, a process no doubt taught to them by jette.
gordonzola: I'll be voting jette.
She's an awesome person on LJ and irl. She's raised children so she can deal with anything the LJ community can throw at her. She lives close enough to the Russian part of SF that she will know how to deal with LJ's owners. And the very first time I met her she came bearing mixed drinks!
Seriously though, she wants to be on the advisory board and she wants to do what she can. I think jette understands the positive things that online communities can do. She's been on LJ longer than me and I trust her to do as good a job as anyone possibly can on that stacked deck of a group she's running for.
jimbojones:
(Jette is)
1. a longstanding LJ citizen
2. someone who gives a shit
3. agenda-free (not a former LJ employee / Six Apart lover / Six Apart hater / etc)
4. like, seriously MILFy
5. even-keeled, level-headed, and not at all given to crazy half-cocked flamewars
Current Mood: the cake is not a lie
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"I support this nomination"
stilllove on May 5th, 2008 04:18 pm (UTC)
Jette would be excellent! Go Jette! I support this nomination!
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I support this nomination.
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i support the nomination!
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I support the nomination of jette.
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i, too, support this nomination!
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Newly elected Hall of Famer Mike Mussina played 10 years with the Orioles and eight with the Yankees, so which team's logo will appear on his cap in Cooperstown?
Mussina announced Friday that his cap on his plaque will be blank when he's inducted July 21. He said at the Hall of Fame press conference that he didn't know which team to choose, because he wouldn't have been going to Cooperstown without playing for either team.
Mussina pitched in six postseason games for the Orioles, 17 for the Yankees, including games in two World Series.
The family of the late Roy Halladay, who was killed a year ago when the plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Florida, also decided to go without a logo on his cap. He played for Toronto and Philadelphia.
Halladay, Mussina, Greg Maddux and Tony La Russa are the only members in the Hall without a logo on their caps.
La Russa went into the Hall as a manager. He was caught in the middle between wearing an Oakland or St. Louis cap. He won World Series titles in both cities. He also managed the White Sox.
Maddux couldn't choose between the Cubs and Braves. Most people think of Maddux as a Brave, but he had 133 wins with 47 complete games and 14 shutouts for the Cubs. He won a Cy Young as a Cub and three as a Brave. He won 194 games with Atlanta.
The logo decision is up to the player, but ultimately, the Hall of Fame has veto power and the final say. The reason is that the Hall wants to keep a historically accurate record. The Hall also wants to prevent a player from marketing his logo selection.
When Dave Winfield was elected, there was speculation that he wanted to go in as a Yankee, but that his original team, the Padres, was offering him a job if he wore their logo. He's a Padre in Cooperstown.
* In 2003, catcher Gary Carter had to choose between the Montreal Expos and New York Mets. Carter played 11 seasons with the Expos and five with the Mets. Montreal no longer has a team and Carter felt connected to the Mets because he played on their 1986 World Series title team. But the Hall said he had to go in as an Expo.
* When Andre Dawson was elected, he asked if he could go in as a Cub, but the Hall rejected the request and said that it was better for him to go in an Expo. Dawson played 11 seasons with the Expos and six with the Cubs. He didn't win in either city, but he did win the National League MVP with the Cubs.
* Oakland wanted Reggie Jackson to go into Cooperstown as an Athletic, but, even though he played 10 of his 21 seasons on the West Coast, Jackson went in as a Yankee. The Hall agreed, given that he had earned his "Mr. October'' nickname for the Yankees in the 1977 World Series. Jackson helped Oakland with three World Series from 1972-1974.
* When Frank Robinson was elected, he had to choose between the Cincinnati Reds and Orioles. He played six seasons with the Orioles and won two World Series in Baltimore, 1966 and 1970. He won the NL Rookie of the Year and NL MVP with the Reds. The Orioles and their dominant championship teams won out.
* Pitcher Randy Johnson developed into a stud pitcher with Seattle. He won 130 games for the Mariners and was on their first playoff team in 1995. But, Johnson chose the logo of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team he helped win the 2001 World Series.Nolan Ryan, who threw seven no-hitters, played nine years in Houston and eight years with the Angels. He also played for the New York Mets. But, in the Hall, he's wearing a Rangers cap, even though he didn't make his first start with the Rangers until he was 42.


ONE OF the most underused employee benefits available is the "cafeteria" plan – which can benefit both the employer and the employee.
These plans allow workers to withhold a portion of their pre-tax salary to cover certain medical or childcare expenses. When their workers' taxable income is reduced, it increases their take-home pay.
This in turn can benefit you as an employer as you won't have to pay FICA or workers' comp premiums on those dollars.
Essentially, what you are doing by offering a cafeteria plan (also known as a Section 125 plan under the Internal Revenue Service code) is using the tax code to your and your employees' advantage. This is a great way to enhance your employee benefits package, while simultaneously boosting your margins.
Premium-only plans (POPs) allow your employees to withhold a portion of their pre-tax salary to pay for their portion of the premium in their qualified employer-sponsored plans.
This is a simple way reduce reduce taxable income for the employee, as well as taxable payroll for the employer.
An FSA allows them to fund certain medical expenses on a pre-taxed basis through salary reductions to pay for out-of-pocket expenses that aren't covered by insurance (think: deductibles, copayments, prescriptions, over-the-counter drugs and orthodontia).
Each paycheck a certain amount is withheld pre-tax and put into the FSA. Employees pay for Qualified Medical Expenses with these funds, and many plans include a debit card for point-of-purchase convenience.
U.S. workers spend more than $1,000 every year on these types of benefits so it makes sense to spend the money using pre-tax earnings. This also increases take-home pay.
The dependent care FSA is an attractive benefit for employees who have to pay for childcare or long-term care for their parents.
Many employees don't take advantage of this benefit and may be unaware of the significant tax savings. Employees may hold back as much as $5,000 annually of their pre-tax salary for dependent care expenses.
In addition, by paying for dependent care with pre-tax dollars, they can save about 20% to 40% on these expenses.
Every dollar that goes through a Sectin 125 Plan reduces your payroll by the same amount.
That means you don't have to pay FICA or workers' comp premiums on that part of your workers' salary. Pundits say that this savings can add up to as much as 20% of every dollar being passed through the plan.
Implementing a cafeteria plan can reduce the perceived impact of health insurance premium increases to employees. For example, let's say your company's medical premiums climb this year and the employee's portion goes from $1,000 to $1,120.
If these additional costs are run through a POP plan, an employee in the 25% tax bracket would have an increase of just $90, rather than $120.


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Q: Temperature of gas leaking into chambers An initially evacuated and thermally isolated chamber has a small hole opened in its side through which an ideal gas effuses from the outside. The gas outside is at standard temperature and pressure.
A second, smaller hole directly opposite the first hole on the opposite side of the first chamber lets gas into a second evacuated and thermally isolated chamber. The initial temperature of the gas entering the second chamber, when the first hole is opened, is the same as the temperature for the gas in the first chamber.
Why this is the case?
Edit: Note that the hole is considered to be smaller than the mean free path.  Thus, the gas will not be able to reach equilibrium with the surroundings.

A: The temperature of the ideal gas will be the same at all times in all chambers whose walls are maintained at the standard temperature or are thermally isolated. The expansion of an ideal gas into vacuum doesn't perform any work therefore there is no temperature change.


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Attorney Questions Midshipman's Memory of Party
Associated Press | By Brian Witte
WASHINGTON - A defense attorney on Friday spent hours questioning a midshipman's spotty recollections of a toga party where she says she was sexually assaulted by three Naval Academy football players last year.
Attorney Lt. Cmdr. Angela Tang noted inconsistencies in what the 21-year-old senior told Navy investigators last year and how she is recalling the April 2012 off-campus party now during a military court hearing.
The woman has testified repeatedly over three days on the stand that she had been drinking before and during the party in Annapolis, Md., and has no memory of having sex with any of the three accused.
She said she only learned of what happened after hearing gossip that she had slept with multiple partners at the house where football players gathered. That prompted her to ask one of the accused, Midshipman Josh Tate, 21, whether they had sex that night. She testified that he told her that they had. He also told her she had a sexual encounter with another one of the accused, Midshipman Eric Graham.
Tang, who is representing the 21-year-old Graham, noted that the woman testified she had consensual sex the morning after the party in the house with another football player. Tang then asked graphic questions about how oral sex is performed.
"This is an act that cannot be performed while someone is passed out," Tang said, arguing that her client could not have had oral sex performed without her consent.
Midshipman Tra'ves Bush, 22, also has been charged in the case.
The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault.
The woman has been testifying at a hearing to determine whether the men will face a court-martial.
The woman says she initially did not want to cooperate with investigators, because she did not know what happened the night of the party. But she changed her mind months later out of concern some could be wrongly accused.
At first, she testified, she held back details from investigators.
"I was trying to not give them information," she said.
The woman also says she would be happy if it is determined she was not assaulted.
The hearing at the Washington Navy Yard has dragged, largely due to repeated questioning by lawyers from three defense teams about details the woman says she has little, if any, memory. The hearing is scheduled to continue into the Labor Day holiday weekend.
After the hearing, investigating officer Cmdr. Robert Monahan will refer recommendations about whether the case should proceed to a court-martial. The academy's superintendent will make that decision after reviewing the report.
The case has drawn attention as the White House, Congress and the Pentagon have been focusing on the issue of sexual assault after a strong of cases in the military this year.
President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of the issue at the Naval Academy's graduation ceremony in May.
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Lil Uzi Vert allegedly asked Popp Hunna to take him off "Adderall (Corvette Corvette)," due to him allegedly snitching, also asking him to remove him from the EP, and accuses Popp Hunna of ruining his reputation [PHOTO]
Roddy Ricch has gone 8X platinum with breakout single, "The Box," which dropped early last year [VIDEO]
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Yung Ralph talks Gucci Mane/Jeezy #Verzuz battle, admitting he thought it would "go ugly," but gave them props for ending it in peace, also speaks on them helping artists, "9 Piece" mixtape, and spending $1 million on his house [VIDEO]
By Jay Rich
Hip-HopVibe.com Staff Writer
In Philadelphia, there is a lot of momentum surrounding Popp Hunna, who is a TikTok sensation. His song, "Adderall (Corvette Corvette)," is one of the hottest records out. The momentum of this song led to Philly veteran, Lil Uzi Vert, jumping on the remix.
Lil Uzi Vert definitely got in, at the right time, with Popp Hunna, as the video for "Adderall" reached 1 million views in one day. However, the good news seems to have ended, right there. Since then, Popp Hunna has faced a barrage of bad press about him being a snitch.
According to some DMs circulating Instagram, Lil Uzi Vert asked Popp Hunna to take him off "Adderall (Corvette Corvette)" and to remove him from the EP. These DMs, which may not actually be from Uzi Vert, have him asking Popp Hunna to remove him from his music. The messages also saw Uzi allegedly telling Popp that he ruined his reputation.
See the alleged DMs between Lil Uzi Vert and Popp Hunna below:
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Q: Problema - Identificador no válido Buenas tardes, tengo un problema al insertar datos mediante objetos me dice que el identificador no es válido y no se que pueda ser. Gracias

ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss';

create or replace type aerolineas as object
(
    cod_aerol number(6),
    nom_aerol char(20)
);
/

create or replace type ciudades as object
(
    cod_ciudad number(4),
    nom_ciudad char(20),
    pais char(20)
);
/

create or replace type pasajeros as object
(
    cod_pasajero number(11),
    nombre varchar(30),
    apellido varchar(30),
    edad number(3),
    ciudad number(4),
    telefono char(15),
    direccion varchar(25)
);
/

create table vuelos1(
    cod_vuelo number(8) not null,
    capacidad number(3) not null,
    h_inicio date not null,
    h_fin date not null,
    origen ciudades,
    destino ciudades,
    escalas number(1) not null,
    aerolinea1 aerolineas,
    constraint pk_vuelos1 primary key(cod_vuelo)
);

create table tickets1(
    cod_ticket number(8) not null,
    cod_vuelo number(8) not null,
    pasajero pasajeros,
    precio number(15) not null,
    constraint pk_tickets1 primary key(cod_ticket),
    constraint fk_tickets1_vuelos1 foreign key(cod_vuelo) references vuelos1(cod_vuelo)
);

insert into vuelos1 values('00000001', '90', '13-06-2017 20:19:00', '14-06-2017 06:10:00',
    origen('0003', 'Madrid', 'España'),
    destino('0004', 'Paris', 'Francia'),'2',
    aerolinea1('000004', 'Air France'));

A: aerolinea1 no es un objeto declarado dentro de tu base de datos, aerolinea1 es el nombre de tu columna.
El objeto declarado es el siguiente:
create or replace type aerolineas as object
(
   cod_aerol number(6),
   nom_aerol char(20)
);

Debería insertar aplicando lo siguiente:
insert into vuelos1 values('00000001', '90', '13-06-2017 20:19:00', '14-06-
2017 06:10:00',
origen('0003', 'Madrid', 'España'),
destino('0004', 'Paris', 'Francia'),'2',
aerolineas('000004', 'Air France'));

llamando al objeto dentro de la inserción, no a la columna
aerolineas('000004', 'Air France')

A: Tienes un fallo de concepto, necesitas insertarlo a través de un bloque PL/SQL:
DECLARE
  origen ciudades;
  destino ciudades;
  aerolinea1 aerolineas;
BEGIN
    origen := ciudades('0003', 'Madrid', 'España');
    destino := ciudades('0004', 'Paris', 'Francia');
    aerolinea1 := aerolineas('000004', 'Air France');
    INSERT INTO vuelos1 VALUES('00000001',
                               '90',
                               '13-06-2017 20:19:00',
                               '14-06-2017 06:10:00',
                               origen,
                               destino,
                               '2',
                               aerolinea1);
END;
/

O si quieres hacerlo directamente (no te lo recomiendo):
INSERT INTO vuelos1 VALUES('00000001',
                               '90',
                               '13-06-2017 20:19:00',
                               '14-06-2017 06:10:00',
                               ciudades('0003', 'Madrid', 'España'),
                               ciudades('0004', 'Paris', 'Francia'),
                               '2',
                               aerolineas('000004', 'Air France'));

PD: Oracle ofrece esta herramienta online ideal para esta clase de testeos.
PD2: La seleccion de estos campos complejos requiere el uso de TREAT. Ejemplo:
SELECT TREAT(origen AS ciudades).nom_ciudad FROM vuelos1


Messrs. Roy V. Reppy and W. C. Mullendore, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner.
Mr. Arthur T. George, of Los Angeles, Cal., for respondents.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of California denied.


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USM Dean of Students Eddie Holloway retiring after 40 years. Here's 5 things he's learned.
Ellen Ciurczak
Hattiesburg American
As a student at USM, Eddie Holloway earned four degrees.
He became the first African American to serve as dean of students, assistant vice president for student affairs
Eddie Holloway faced a challenge when he prepared to attend the University of Southern Mississippi as a freshman in the fall of 1970.
The school's assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students had never been in an integrated education setting before.
"I had one Caucasian instructor in high school, so my views of people were from a fairly narrow perspective," he said. "Coming to the university afforded me to meet people of diverse backgrounds and views and histories."
Holloway, 66, is now preparing to retire after 40 years employed at the university. As a student, he earned four degrees — one bachelor, two masters and a doctorate.
As an employee, he rose through the ranks from counselor in 1979 to dean of students in 1998 and assistant vice president for student affairs in 2015 — the first African American at the school to hold those two positions. He will retire June 30.
Before reaching college, he had grown up in the Mobile Street neighborhood of Hattiesburg, spending time at different neighbors' houses, after his mother died when he was 11.
"Those experiences cushioned me not to be callous and to know that we must affiliate and coalesce, build bridges of tolerance, hold healthy conversations, despite current differences," he said.
(Story continues after photo gallery.)
Holloway took those lessons learned as a youth with him when he went to college. But he has said, it was at USM where his passion for learning expanded and he grew as a person — intellectually, socially and professionally.
Here are the top five lessons he learned during his time at the school.
1. Respect all
As a student, Holloway was the first African American resident assistant at Southern Miss in 1971. He said before taking that position he had some nervousness about how he would manage the unknown.
"I welcomed others and others welcomed me," he said. "I learned for the most part — a smile begets a smile, trust is earned and respect should be afforded all."
Holloway said his years as a resident assistant allowed him to learn that people from many different walks of life have much in common. His experience in this role laid the foundation for a successful career in counseling, mentoring, teaching and administration at Southern Miss.
2. Tolerate different views
"I knew that in many of these positions (I held) there were not many people who looked like me," he said. "I saw it as an opportunity to grow and develop and acquire skill sets.
"It equipped me to work with those soft skills that are so much needed in our world of diversity."
Holloway said he learned things that helped him get along with people without losing his own sense of self.
"Being able to manage conflict, to assert, to tolerate and respect divergent views and perspectives while differing from them and to tell and sell my perspective and to do it in a way that would be acceptable to those who had different ideas than me," he said. "And in all things — I attempted to do it in a way to get to 'yes' by all parties."
3. Desire to know
As dean of students, Holloway is responsible for serving as a point of information for students and responding to students' needs. To do this, he must be able to relate to them.
"The students have kept me current," he said. "To be current I have had to stay abreast of current literature, current language, what students are interested in, current thought."
For Holloway, that means understanding a student may want to spend $300 on a ticket to see Beyoncé in concert, even though he would never consider such a plan.
Holloway references the Arabic proverb: "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool."
"So, I always desire to know, though I may not agree with what I've learned," he said. "Once I learn what your perspective is, I may choose to differ."
Southern Miss President Rodney Bennett is well aware that Holloway goes to great lengths to relate to his students.
"We thank him for his immeasurable service to our students and our institution," Bennett said in a news release.
"He truly embodies the Southern Miss spirit, and his legacy will continue to live on through the generations he has impacted here at USM."
4. Be a 'possibilitarian'
Holloway was the speaker at the Southern Miss May commencement. He urged graduates to strive to become "possibilitarians."
"If one sees things as impossible, then that limits your perspective for goals and accomplishments," he said. "But if you're a possibilitarian, all of your dreams and aspirations are possible — if you're prepared for those."
Holloway admits getting prepared to achieve a dream can be difficult.
"The more difficult the task — the greater the preparation," he said.
Holloway cites Walt Disney, who went bankrupt in 1923 before debuting Mickey Mouse in 1928, and Michael Jordan, who admits to losing almost 300 games and missing around 9,000 shots, before becoming one of the most successful basketball players of all time.
Graduate McKenna Stone, who's going to law school in the fall, said Holloway's speech was "incredibly powerful."
"It encouraged me to think about the foundation I'm laying and how to prepare for my career down the road," she said. "To be intentional about every opportunity that is given to you and, if needed — create your own opportunities."
5. Put your heart in it
As Holloway leaves Southern Miss, it may be the students who are most on his mind.
"I've attempted to be where my students are," he said. "I've attempted to feel their joy and their pain.
"I've attempted to be where they can reach me at the earliest and latest hour, but to always tell them what is right and to do it with heart."
Holloway faces retirement with some ambivalence.
"It will take a different mindset," he said. "My work has been my pleasure.
"To not go to sleep at night thinking about what I didn't do that day and what I need to do the next morning will be difficult for me."
But Holloway tells the story of running into an old friend who had been retired for years.
"Retirement is great!" the friend told him.
"That was inspirational," Holloway said. "I don't think that was accidental for me.
"He and others have done it. I'll do it too."
Cutting-edge insight:How USM's artificial intelligence research on sidewalks could save thousands of lives
Ready for real life:It could have been a scene for 'The Office.' USM trains students to sell.
Contact Ellen Ciurczak at eciurczak@gannett.com. Follow @educellen on Twitter.
Eddie Holloway
City of residence: Hattiesburg
Family: Wife, Sarah, two grown children, Leslie and Sommer
Employment at USM: counselor/instructor, 1979-98, assistant dean of students, 1993-1997, assistant professor of psychology, 1998-2013, interim dean of students, 1997-98, dean of students, 1998-present, assistant vice president for student affairs, 2015-present
Education at USM: B.S. in sociology, personnel management, 1974, Master's of Counseling, 1975, Master's of Health, 1984, Ph.D. Educational Administration, 1997
Accomplishments: Committee member instrumental in naming university's Student Services building after Clyde Kennard and Walter Washington and establishing the Armstrong-Branch Distinguished Lecture series; established Kennard Scholars program; fundamental in development of National Pan-Hellenic Council Plaza; Dean Challenge Award named in his honor; first African American elected to Hattiesburg City Council; charter member of Hattiesburg Public School District Foundation; Mississippi Civil Rights Commission member; played key role in establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Ecumenical and Multicultural Prayer Breakfast and Area Development Partnership's Leadership Pinebelt.


McCloud, CA. – The Protect Our Waters Coalition today issued the response below to the announcement that Nestle has come to the conclusion not to pursue the purchase of McCloud's spring water and the development of a water bottling facility.
The Protect Our Waters Coalition has maintained a candid and constructive dialogue in the recent past with Nestle and appreciates the openness with which Nestle has recently considered our ideas and stated concerns. The project started out on the wrong foot but overtime Nestle improved their process for siting a bottling plant by reaching out to the public and conducting sound science.
"The protection of the cold, clean spring waters that feed the McCloud River has been our primary objective throughout this process," said Brian Johnson, Director of Trout Unlimited's California Water Project.
In August 2008 Nestle announced the cancellation of the original 2003 contract with the McCloud Community Services District. Subsequently, Nestle announced that it would consider a smaller water purchase and bottling facility and began a series of meetings at which the company sought public input on its revised proposal. This summer the company told community members that due to the upcoming opening of a new plant in Sacramento and the overall economic environment it was in the process of evaluating its business need for a plant in McCloud. That analysis was completed and resulted in the company deciding to withdraw its McCloud proposal.


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Arctic air and wintery precipitation found its way to the Liberty Hill area in recent weeks forcing the cancellation of school twice within five days.
Liberty Hill ISD was among most Central Texas school districts that closed school on Jan. 24 and again Tuesday due to hazardous road conditions.
Superintendent Rob Hart said closing school is not a decision taken lightly.
On both days, campus administrators notified parents through automated messaging about 6 a.m. that school would be delayed by two hours. But by 8 a.m., parents were notified again that the decision had been made to cancel school for the day.
On both days, road conditions had not improved and on Tuesday, conditions worsened after daybreak.
Hart said the district still receives credit for student attendance if classes begin by 10 a.m. School districts receive state funding based on average daily attendance.
"Starting at noon does not give us credit for a full day," he said.
Hart explained that the state requires districts to build in at least two bad weather days into the school calendar each year.
"Those two days are used as make up days and any additional days may be waived (although not guaranteed) by TEA (Texas Education Agency) under certain acceptable circumstances," he said.
According to the school calendar, Liberty Hill students and staff are scheduled to make up this week's used bad weather days on April 18 and May 23.
Although law enforcement officials reported numerous collisions — many with injuries — throughout Central Texas on Jan. 24 and again this week, Liberty Hill Police Chief Randy Williams said local officers only responded to one minor accident last Friday downtown. No injuries were reported.


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Vania is very thin. Extremely thin. He would be a good model for a human skeleton study, and this is not good, because weight deficiency leads to low vitality which means vulnerability to cystic fibrosis itself and grave infections it brings along. "You should gain weight, gain weight!" Vania's treating physician admonishes him at every check-up. But one of the concurrent issues related to cystic fibrosis is that it stands in a way of food absorption and it is simply impossible to gain enough calories from regular food. One should add special high-calory medical diet and then it turns out that a regular family cannot afford to feed such a thin boy! This special nutrition has turned out to be quite expensive.
Vania desperately and vehemently fights for his life. Would you please support him in this fight?


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Trisha Monroe: 2019 Legal Services Award
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"Superb." "Exceptional." "One of the fiercest advocates for domestic violence survivors I have ever met." These are just a few of the superlatives colleagues use to describe Trisha Monroe, our 2019 Legal Services Award Recipient.
Thousands of domestic violence survivors have benefited from Trisha's work on their behalf. At times, she has even saved their lives. As a Supervising Attorney in the Family Law/Domestic Violence Unit of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, as well as the Director of Legal Aid's Domestic Violence Intake Center Southeast Project, Trisha has over 15 years of expertise in domestic violence litigation and policy. She represents domestic violence survivors in civil protection order cases who seek protection from abusers as well as custody and visitation rights of children. She also represents clients in other family law matters such as custody, divorce, and child support. Soon after joining Legal Aid, Trisha took on a large caseload and quickly became a regular at D.C. Superior Court and its Domestic Violence Intake Center. She then played a key role in opening Legal Aid's satellite domestic violence intake offices in Southeast and Northeast D.C. Her efforts helped to greatly expand the capacity of her unit, which, in Trisha's first 12 years at Legal Aid, increased its clients by 537% (from 291 to 1,562) and its lawyers by 700% (from 2 to 14).
Despite the emotionally taxing nature of family and domestic violence cases, and her busy daily docket, Trisha "has seemingly limitless energy and fervor" in the courtroom, where she is "exceptionally well-prepared" for her many cases. At the same time, she maintains "genuine concern and compassion" for clients. One colleague recalled the "numerous occasions when I witnessed Trisha's clients express their heartfelt gratitude to her in the hallway after a court hearing where she had helped them obtain a court order that protected their safety." As one client stated succinctly: "My lawyer was perfect – she was a strong woman and a good person."
Before joining Legal Aid in 2006, Trisha worked in domestic violence survivor advocacy for the Women's Law Center of Maryland in its Protection Order Advocacy and Representation Project from 2004 to 2006, and clerked at the Baltimore City District Court from 2002 to 2003. She earned her J.D. in 2003 from the William and Mary School of Law, where she served on the Bill of Rights Journal, and her B.A. summa cum laude in 2000 from the George Washington University.
Trisha has helped not only clients but also colleagues throughout the entire D.C. public interest legal community. In turn, by helping these lawyers serve their clients, she has helped countless additional survivors. She is a member of the D.C. Bar's Family Law Steering Committee and many local domestic violence advocacy organizations, and served on the D.C. Superior Court's Domestic Violence Division Strategic Planning Committee. She is also a faculty member of the ABA Committee on Domestic Violence, with which she has trained lawyers nationwide on domestic violence, custody law, and protection order cases. One colleague describes Trisha as a "mentor and role model" for many junior lawyers, including dozens at Legal Aid alone. The National Bar Association's Women Lawyers Division, Greater Washington Area Chapter recognized Trisha in 2012 as a distinguished attorney in the nonprofit sector.
A mentee explains: "Trisha is particularly skilled at helping attorneys attain confidence and independence in their ability to represent clients. . . . Trisha's commitment to training and mentoring attorneys stems from her dedication to increasing capacity to assist domestic violence survivors. . . . She has inspired me to redouble my efforts to serve clients and mentor attorneys."
At the same time, colleagues note that Trisha herself – despite being "highly regarded" in the legal community as a "leader and expert" – prefers not to call attention to her own accomplishments. She is an "unsung hero." We are thus thrilled to recognize her with our 2019 Legal Services Award.
Learn more about Trisha and the other awards recipients at our 2019 Awards Ceremony.
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