I know what you've all been thinking: "Emily, it's been far too long since you've written an article obnoxiously ranking things that we genuinely didn't and still don't care about. Have you forgotten your roots?" To which I say: never. I will never not be giving my fully biased and unsolicited opinion on any and everything.
This week's topic of discussion: drinks. Not the "it's only alcoholism until you graduate" drinks, so simmer down. I'm going to rank the best drinks to grab when you can feel the sweat running down your back and your face turning 50 Shades of Tomato. Yes, that's right: ice cold, condensation on the cup, refreshing summer drinks. Not to be dramatic, but iced drinks in the summer are like salvation in a cup.
Writing this article with absolutely no regard for how any of you feel on the topic truly feels like coming home after 30 years at sea. Here is my list of the most refreshing iced drinks to cool down with during the summer.
DO NOT try to tell me that you would not want a glass of lemonade beside you as you sit outside in the summer. Or "Lemonade" playing as you sip it. There is no situation in which lemonade is not the answer, that is just a fact.
I don't know where you grew up, but Arnold Palmer was everyone's drink of choice throughout middle into high school. There will never be a time when an ice cold Arnold Palmer isn't undesirable because rooted in such wholesome summer memories. I mean, just look at how inviting this wax statue of Arnold himself is!
It's actually kind of creepy. Avert your eyes from the wax sculpture and go grab an Arnold Palmer drink instead.
...or as it's called in the South, Sweet Tea. If you're drinking unsweetened iced tea and not mixing it with lemonade to make Arnold Palmer, You're living your life entirely wrong. I'm sorry to break it to you but it's true.
I love my parents. I love how I was raised. I love that I was taught the importance moderation in my diet because that gave me soda. Please don't preach your crunchy granola "soda is bad for you" speil: soda is the best and a nice Diet Coke with a cheeseburger fresh off the backyard grill is the best.
Before you show up with torches and pitchforks outside of my house, hear me out on this: I am an iced coffee fiend. I'm talking 1-3 cups a day. But there's nothing truly refreshing about iced coffee, aside from the knowledge that you won't have a withdrawal headache today.
I am fully Team Iced Coffee and always will be. But I stand firmly by its position on this list.
But yeah, everything else is a lot better so it's still down here.
If you try to tell me that water is your favorite drink out of everything on this list, I ask you: have you not lived? Have you never frolicked, nay, walked out in the sun? Water is that thing you drink after a workout or when your lips start to chap because you're "probably dehydrated." Water isn't your first choice in the summer, it's an obligation.


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A $500 reward is being offered in hopes of recovering the artifact, which dates to 1800s.
A prairie school bell that likely summoned children to class in the early 1900s in western Hennepin County has been stolen from the shoreline of a homeowner, and there's a $500 reward being dangled for the historic artifact's safe recovery.
The 200-pound piece of local history was lifted, literally, from a hillside behind the Lake Sarah home of Brad Spencer in Independence sometime in late February, police said Monday.
Spencer said he noticed the bell was missing when he went down to the shore to burn some brush. He also saw two sets of footprints in the snow leading to the lake ice. From there, Spencer surmised, the duo would have had to load the bell onto some sort of vehicle to make a getaway on the snow-free ice surface.
"And they came back for the [metal] cradle" that houses the bell, Spencer said, suggesting to him that the thieves were motivated to sell or display it, rather than scrapping it.
"Sadly, it will never ring over Lake Sarah again," said Spencer, who sits on the Independence City Council.
Spencer took ownership of the bell, 26 inches in diameter, 10 years ago. He restored it and researched its history. He estimates the bell's value at $2,000 to $3,000.
The bell in its former home at the Shady Beach Inn in the 1950s, with Ron Lamotte as a young man. His family owned the inn.
"But obviously," he added, "this thing is completely irreplaceable."
Spencer said his research indicates that the bell was made of steel, tin and other metals by the Blymyer Norton & Co. of Cincinnati in the late 1800s.
Most likely, Spencer found, the bell was rung at Wagner School, which held classes from 1880 to 1921.
"The Wagner School appears to be the only school which fits our time line," according to a historical account compiled by Spencer.
Later in the 1920s, the bell summoned hotel guests to dinner at Anderson's Inn and also alerted people on the lake to approaching bad weather, Spencer determined.
Anyone with information that could lead to the bell's return and any arrests is urged to call West Hennepin Public Safety at 763-479-0500.


Such a fine dining restaurant but still lacks the best fine dining experience that you expect from such restaurants with expensive menu. I dined in their DIFC site but did not enjoyed their soup because it was salty and the bread (baguette and the bread rolls) were all stale which I think were recycled from their yesterday's operation.
I love their menu, try the toffee date pudding so yummy with some arabic coffee. The seating is nice in this branch. You can eat, chat, and watch people passing by.
Great location and lovely food. Service is not so great specially on weekends but good overall experience. They're food is consistently delicious and they have lots of healthy options.


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Königstein im Taunus () is a health spa and lies on the thickly wooded slopes of the Taunus in Hesse, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Owing to its advantageous location for both scenery and transport on the edge of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, Königstein is a favourite residential town. Neighbouring places are Kronberg im Taunus, Glashütten, Schwalbach am Taunus, Bad Soden am Taunus and Kelkheim.

Geography

Neighbouring communities
Königstein borders – from northwest to east – on the communities of Glashütten, Schmitten, Oberursel, and Kronberg (all four in the Hochtaunuskreis), and from southeast to southwest on Schwalbach, Bad Soden and Kelkheim (all three in the Main-Taunus-Kreis).

Constituent communities
Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole, Königstein has three outlying centres: Falkenstein, Mammolshain and Schneidhain. Since 2001, Falkenstein has borne the designation  (health spa) independently of the town's status as such.

History

Shrouded in legend, the town's founding date is unknown. The name 'Königstein' means 'King stone'. The local legend states that King Chlodwig (466-511), founded the town after building a castle on a hill as well as a chapel.

Königstein had its first documentary mention in 1215, making it likelier that the castle was built around the 12th century for the town's – and the Frankfurt-Cologne commercial road's – security.

Also in that time came the town's first lords, the Counts of Nürings, but they were supplanted in 1239 by the Lords of Hagen-Münzenberg into whose ownership the castle went as an Imperial fief. The Lords of Hagen-Münzenberg were in turn followed by the Lords of Bolanden-Falkenstein from 1255 to 1418, under whose rule Königstein was granted town rights in 1313. The Lords of Bolanden-Falkenstein were succeeded by the Lords of Eppstein, who were themselves followed by the Counts of Stolberg in 1535. It was they who introduced the Reformation to the area.

By 1581, Königstein belonged to the Electorate of Mainz, which had incorporated the old County through a legal dispute. Early in the 17th century, in connection with the Counterreformation, the castle was remodelled into a mighty fortress, but this newer military stronghold met its end in the French Revolutionary Wars when the French blew it up in 1796, although this may have been unintentional. (Local legend has it that gunpowder was hidden in the castle's well, and a spark from a careless French soldier's pipe started the explosion).

In 1803, Königstein passed to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen, which itself later merged with Nassau-Weilburg to form the Duchy of Nassau. By 1866 it was in Prussian hands, and since 1945, it has been part of Hesse. The three constituent communities mentioned herein were amalgamated with Königstein as part of Hesse's municipal reforms in 1972.

Königstein enjoyed an economic upswing from less wealthy times when the coldwater spa first opened in 1851. It reached its high point just before the First World War broke out. The designation  was granted in 1935, and is still borne by the town, and now also independently by the constituent community of Falkenstein.

Jewish health resort and summer residence of the Frankfurt Jews

Königstein was regarded as a "Jewish spa" – this was especially in the era of National Socialism a topic. The city became famous as "Jewish spa" mainly due to the high proportions of Jewish guests (for example Otto Klemperer, Kurt Hahn, Carl Sternheim, Botho Graef, Reinhold Lepsius), who stayed in the internationally famous sanitarium Dr. Kohnstamm (the name stuck even after the death of the founder Oskar Kohnstamm in 1917) and Hotel Cahn, which offered kosher food. For these reasons, Königstein was an attractive city to visit for a day trip for many Jews in Frankfurt. Königstein became even more easily accessible from Frankfurt am Main in 1902, when the railway between Königstein and Frankfurt was built.

Königstein was also the residence of prominent Jewish citizens (for example Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild, Sigmund Kohn-Speyer, L. Albert Hahn, Hermann Wronker, Albert Katzenellenbogen, Julius Blau, Max Neisser, Adolf Sabor, Selmar Spier, the family of Richard Musgrave), who in turn brought their friends and guests there. The poet Stefan George, e.g., initially often visited his school friend Oskar Kohnstamm, and then after Kohnstamm's death in 1917 and the sale of Kohnstamm's sanatorium, moved to Königstein to be near his sister, Anna George. In her apartment he received members of the George circle for which special rooms had been rented. These include for example the poet Ernst Morwitz, with whom he went for long walks. George's and Kohnstamm's honored school friend Karl Wolfskehl had contacts to the Sanatorium Dr. Amelung, whose director had been a friend of Oskar Kohnstamm.

After Kohnstamm's death in 1917 until 1938 the owner of the renowned Kohnstamm sanatorium was Carl Frankl (also Jewish). Carl was a brother of the famous World War I fighter pilot Wilhelm Frankl (his brother Wilhelm had converted from Judaism to Christianity in order to marry his high school sweetheart).
While in 1937, 24 hotels, hostels and guest houses still refused to do so and accepted Jewish guests, the following year, in 1938, all 54 hotels, hostels and guest houses in Königstein complied with Nazi law and added the following sentence to their advertisements: "All the guest houses are run Jew-free."

Königstein's mayor in 1938 commented on the reputation of Königstein as Jewish spa town in the context of public discussions of a suggested continued existence with the Jewish name kept of the Sanatorium Dr. Kohnstamm instead of the Aryanization preferred by the mayor himself, that (should the name be kept) "the reputation of Königstein as 'Jews' resort' would yet again be cemented in an irreparable way".

Even after the Holocaust famous people of Jewish descent settled in Königstein. Thus, e.g. Max Dessoir moved here for his retirement (he had lived there once before previously in the 'Sanatorium Amelung'), as did Hedwig Fischer (née Landshoff), the wife of publisher Samuel Fischer. Both Hedwig Fischer and Max Dessoir spent the rest of their lives in Königstein. Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin's wife, was a famous visitor of Königstein after World War II.

Politics
Represented on town council are the CDU, the SPD, the FDP and the Greens, as well as the ALK (), a citizens' coalition. At the moment, Königstein is governed by an informal alliance of ALK and the CDU.

Coat of arms
Königstein's civic coat of arms was conferred in 1907. It is based on a town seal from 1535. The towers stand for the old Imperial Castle (). The Lords of Bolanden-Falkenstein are remembered in the red and gold field in the upper right (upper left heraldically speaking), as are the Counts of Nürings in the black lion, and indeed the Lords of Eppstein in the three chevrons.

Economy

Purchasing power
Königstein has an extraordinarily high level of purchasing power. In 2010, their purchasing power index was of 191 percent (compared to the national average of 100 percent) and with that the highest in Germany.

Transport

Königstein is advantageously placed for driving. By way of Federal Highways () B8 and B455, which meet in town at a roundabout, Autobahnen A 66 (Frankfurt-Höchst interchange), A 661 (Oberursel interchange) and A 3 (Niedernhausen interchange) can be reached in a matter of minutes. Königstein's advantageous placement, however, brings problems, too. Rush hour traffic, both in the morning and evening, regularly results in heavy traffic jams on the way into the roundabout.

The nearest airport is Frankfurt International Airport.

By way of the Königstein Railway ( – FKE) and bus routes connecting the towns to the S-Bahn stations at Bad Soden (S 3) and Kronberg (S 4), Königstein is connected to Frankfurt Central Station and the whole railway network run by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV), and it has at its disposal Königstein station and Schneidhain station. The Frankfurt-Königstein Railway accepts the  as fare as far as Königstein im Taunus station, but the RMV only accepts it for fare area 5000 (Frankfurt am Main without the airport).

Established businesses
Königstein im Taunus is an attractive place for business. The citizens' above-average buying power is a boon to local retail businesses, the range of which is correspondingly great. Furthermore, there are quite a few independent business and personnel consultants, often former managers from industry. Through the takeover of the well known German personnel consultancy Hofmann Herbold & Partner, Königstein was for years headquarters to the biggest international executive search firm Korn/Ferry. Several spinoffs brought into being by former Korn/Ferry employees are still in business in town now.

The Commerzbank maintains a large training and conference centre at the edge of town, which is also available to third parties. The Deutsche Bank also has one between Falkenstein and Kronberg.

Town partnerships

Königstein im Taunus maintains partnerships with the following towns:
 Le Cannet-Rocheville, France
 Königstein, Saxony
 Kórnik, Poland
 Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe, France (with Falkenstein)
There is also a friendship agreement with:
 Königstein in the Upper Palatinate

Culture and sightseeing

Regular events
The greatest folk festival in Königstein is the yearly , or Castle Festival, at the Königstein Castle ruins. Moreover, early in the year, and in the summer, further events also take place there:  ("Knights' Tournament"),  ("Theatre at the Castle"), as well as various musical and film events. Since 2005 also a series of concerts called  ("Middle Ages rock the castle").

As a new open-air highlight, from 2006, the  ("Königstein Castle Festival Games") will be held, bringing to the stage a multi-faceted cultural programme in the unique atmosphere of the ruins: ambitious concerts and operatic and musical productions with large casts under the open sky. As well, business in the outlying communities is shaped by many festivals and activities.

Clubs

The  ("Knights of Königstein") have committed themselves to the Middle Ages and since 1998 have been staging a yearly Knights' Tournament with a mediaeval market at Königstein's picturesque castle ruins. The local young people who do this are supported in this endeavour by the club  ("Town Watch").

Furthermore, each of Königstein's constituent communities has its own sport or football club. The biggest in the whole town is , offering volleyball, judo, gymnastics, athletics,  (a kind of dancing popular in Germany involving dancers in old, often 18th-century, military uniforms), and football, and having more than 800 members. The most successful football club is the  (a fusion of  and ), whose first team has been plying for many years in the top of the Regional Upper League (). Moreover, the club has at its disposal 21 youth teams. Also, the SG ( or "playing community") Schneidhain and FC Mammolshain play Football (soccer) in Königstein, both, however, at lower levels.

From 5 to 16 June 2006, on the occasion of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Brazil national team made its home at the Kempinski Hotel in Falkenstein, a five-star hotel originally built as an officers' retreat for Kaiser Wilhelm. The team trained at the "Altkönigblick" sport ground,  usual facility.

The Königstein Fanfare Corps () won the  in Rödemis in 2005 and the Solothurner Marching Parade, in which the Königstein Fanfare Corps was the first foreign club to participate.

Königstein also has, from singing clubs to a mandolin club, a karate and tennis club, and a volunteer fire brigade in every constituent community, more than 100 clubs.

Buildings

Besides the town's landmark, the Königstein Castle ruins, other buildings are worth seeing, such as the historic Old Town with its Old Town Hall (Rathaus), and Falkenstein Castle, and the Old Town also found there. Nearby there is a viewpoint called Dettweiler-Tempel, named after physician Peter Dettweiler, specialised in pulmonology, who helped establishing Falkenstein as a spa town. The viewpoint allows a look over parts of Falkenstein as well as of Frankfurt and its surrounding area.
Located at the top of a small wooded hill there is the . Built in 1891 by Frankfurt Banker Albert Andreae de Neufville, it was transformed into a boarding school (Schülerheim) in the post-war years (1957–1987). Thoroughly restored, it became famous as Jürgen Schneider's headquarters from 1987 until his multi-billion-Deutsche-Mark bankruptcy in 1994.

Architecturally important in its time was the  ("Meeting House") built in 1955 for the headquarter of Catholic aid organisation Aid to the Church in Need.

The health spa, built in 1977, was controversial at the time because of its blue-orange colour scheme.

Former Grand Duke of Luxembourg Adolph von Nassau's stately home is known as the  and houses now the court (Amtsgericht Königstein).

The Villa Rothschild, built in 1888 as a summer residence for Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, was used in 1948 and 1949 as a conference venue by the Conference of Ministers-President to resolve disputed questions between the allied military governors and the Parlamentarischer Rat. Today it is used as a Hotel.

At the foot of the  ("Castle Mountain"), surrounded by a park through which flows the Woogbach and adjoining which is the Woogbach Valley is found Saint Angela's Ursuline Convent (), founded in 1884, and owning a like-named state-recognized private school.

Königstein is likewise well known for its idyllic Old Town. Its exclusive residential areas (also in Falkenstein) are mainly marked by Art Nouveau and its -influenced offshoots as well as 1960s Chic (bungalows). Lot sizes, however, are not comparable to those in other towns owing to new town planning and the building plans following therefrom.

Museums
The Castle and Town Museum () is found at the historic Old Town Hall ()

Education

Schools
There are in Königstein various schools, among them three Gymnasien: the state Taunusgymnasium (formerly Taunusschule), the private St. Angela Schule and the private Bischof-Neumann-Schule.

Primary schools
Grundschule Königstein
Grundschule Falkenstein
Grundschule Mammolshain
Grundschule Schneidhain
Kid's Camp Königstein

Secondary schools
 Taunusgymnasium Königstein, Gymnasium
 Friedrich-Stoltze-Schule, Hauptschule and Realschule
 Bischof-Neumann-Schule, private school, state-recognized
 St.-Angela-Schule, private school, state-recognized

Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Königstein (1949–1978)
On 29 April 1949, a Königstein Philosophical-Theological College was founded in Königstein as a self-standing Catholic university, and acknowledged by the Hessian state government.

Bishop Maximilian Kaller – who was the first bishop with special authority over ethnic Germans who had been driven out of lost German territories at the end of the Second World War – appointed philosophy professor Erich Kleineidam to the new institution in late May 1947 as a professor. In 1948, he also became head of the seminary, and in 1949 rector of the Königstein Philosophical-Theological College. Besides Kleineidam, others who taught at the ecclesiastical university were Anton Janko, Philipp Schäfer and Leo Scheffczyk. Among well known graduates were Karl Gabriel, Johannes Gründel and Gerhard Pieschl.

The college produced 417 priests. It was dissolved on 15 February 1978.

Literature
For three years, from 1970 until his death in 1973, the writer and journalist Herbert Kranz (born 4 October 1891 in Nordhausen; died 30 August 1973 in Braunschweig) lived here.

The book  ("Königstein im Taunus: History and Art") by Beate Großmann-Hofmann and Hans-Curt Köster (Königstein im Taunus 2010 ) offers a detailed outline of the town's history, its castle and its outlying communities. It also includes a detailed catalogue of many buildings and objects worthy of protection.

Also of importance is the book  ("Jews in Königstein") by Heinz Sturm-Godramstein (). The former town archivist's documentation first appeared in 1983 and was reissued in 1998 almost unchanged.

Sundry

Health
There is in Königstein a comprehensive offering of health services. Besides the baths, there are various clinics, among them a migraine clinic, a special clinic for psychosomatic illnesses, a heart clinic and a neurological clinic. The two spas of Königstein and Falkenstein have recently formed the entrance portal to Germany's first climatic healing park ().

Famous Personalities
 Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833 – 1916)
 Max Dessoir (1867–1947) psychologist and art historian
 Franz Halder (1884–1972) Wehrmacht general
 Eduard Maurer (1886–1969) chemist and metallurgist (developed V2A stainless steel)
 Herbert Karl Ludwig Kranz (1891–1973) writer
 Walter Christaller (1893–1969) geographer
 Eugen Kogon (1903–1987) political scientist, writer, Antifascist
 Richard Musgrave (1910–2007) economist
 Leo Cardinal Scheffczyk (1920–2005)
 Jürgen Schneider (1934– ) building speculator
 Volker Reiche (1944– ) comic strip artist
 Birgit Friedmann (1960– ) athlete
 Christoph Neubronner (1960– ) jazz pianist
 Hans Zimmer (1957– ) film composer and Oscar winner
 Father Werenfried van Straaten (1913–2003) called "Speckpater" ("Bacon Father"); founder of the international relief organization Aid to the Church in Need
 Michael Gross (1964– ) Swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medal winner
 Eva Pfaff (1961– ) tennis player
 Charly Körbel (1954– ) soccer player
 Jürgen Hardt (1963– ) German Politician, Christian Democratic Union member of the Bundestag

References

History and Coat of arms have their own sources.

External links

Königstein

Hochtaunuskreis
Spa towns in Germany

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Federal Memo Signals Compliance With TMA Court Win – For Now
By Joey Berlin
Days after the Texas Medical Association's Feb. 23 court victory over federal regulators, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it's taking steps to comply with the court's decision on rules for the No Surprises Act – even as HHS is "considering next steps" after TMA's win.
HHS made its announcement of how it will "conform to the court's order" in a Feb. 28 memo, after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sided with TMA in its lawsuit against HHS and several other federal agencies.
TMA had argued part of the rulemaking issued for the No Surprises Act directly conflicted with the language of the law and created an illegal piece of the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process to resolve out-of-network billing disputes. The process in the rules, TMA said, would make an arbiter disproportionately rely on one insurer-calculated factor, the "qualifying payment amount," to determine fair payment – not several factors, as lawmakers had intended.
District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle agreed in his 35-page decision, which granted TMA's motion and invalidated that part of the rule.
HHS' Feb. 28 memo notified physicians, practitioners, and others of three steps the department would take to comply with Judge Kernodle's order. The agency said it would:
Immediately withdraw guidance that is based on or refers to the parts of the rule the district court invalidated, and update and repost it;
Provide training on the revised guidance for both "certified IDR entities" – i.e., arbiters – and "disputing parties," such as physicians and insurers, through webinars and roundtable discussions; and
Open the IDR process for submissions through the IDR portal, which will include accepting disputes in which the law's negotiation period has already passed. "For disputes for which the open negotiation period has expired, the Departments will permit submission of a notice of initiation of the IDR process within 15 business days following the opening of the IDR Portal," the memo said.
Although HHS is signaling compliance with the court's decision in the short term, that doesn't necessarily mean the legal battle for a fair IDR process is over. TMA is waiting to see whether the "next steps" the government mentioned could include an appeal. The federal agencies have 60 days to decide.
In the meantime, as HHS' memo also noted, the court decision "did not affect any of the Departments' other rulemaking under the No Surprises Act. Thus, consumers continue to be protected from surprise bills for out-of-network emergency services, out-of-network air ambulance services, and certain out-of-network services received at in-network facilities."
HHS is directing physicians who have questions about the law to the No Surprises Help Desk at (800) 985-3059.
Find educational materials, including an American Medical Association Toolkit and TMA's resource list, on TMA's surprise billing webpage.
And read Texas Medicine Today for updates as TMA develops more detailed materials to help physicians navigate the state and federal surprise billing laws. Submit your questions to the TMA Knowledge Center.
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UPDATE: TMA Sues Feds – Again – Over Unfair Arbitration Process Under Federal Surprise Billing Rule
The Texas Medical Association is back in court – again – to hold federal regulators accountable for implementing a key piece of the No Surprises Act as Congress intended it: to operate an arbitration process that does not skew the dispute resolution process in favor of health plans. Read More
TMA Seeks to Protect Patients' Access to Care in New "No Surprises Act" Rules Lawsuit
Amid concerns about threats to patients' access to physicians' care, the Texas Medical Association has filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, challenging certain portions of the July 2021 interim final rules implementing the federal No Surprises Act. This is the third lawsuit TMA has filed against federal agencies related to rulemaking under the law. Read More
Federal District Court to Hear TMA "No Surprises Act" Rules Lawsuit
On Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022 the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas will hear arguments in the Texas Medical Association's (TMA's) second lawsuit challenging certain portions of the Aug. 26, 2022, final rules implementing the federal No Surprises Act (NSA). This hearing addresses the second of three TMA lawsuits against federal agencies related to rulemaking under the surprise-billing arbitration law. Read More
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Home>Articles>Gov. Newsom's Water Portfolio Has No Water Entrepreneurs
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Gov. Newsom's Water Portfolio Has No Water Entrepreneurs
Governor's water portfolio is not a plan and is in the form of an Executive Order
By Wayne Lusvardi, August 3, 2020 9:56 am
On July 28 Gov. Gavin Newsom issued what he called a Water Resilience Portfolio. Prior governors have put out ambitious water plans, such as Jerry Brown's Water Fix and Eco-Restore Plans.
However, Newsom's water portfolio is not a plan and is in the form of an Executive Order (No. N-10-19), like the Coronavirus emergency orders, that focuses on "climate change" as justification for fast tracking construction of the proposed Sites Reservoir and a water tunnel under the Sacramento Delta. The Sites Reservoir is to be built by the state Department of Water Resources and financed by 30 water agencies to develop 470,000 to 640,000 acre-feet of new water for dry years. Perhaps, the use of executive orders signal that Newsom is going to autocratically govern every aspect of state government using similar emergency powers as his declared Coronavirus emergency.
An acre-foot of water is a football field of water one-foot high, capable of providing potable water to two urban households in a wet year or plausibly four households during drought.
However, the largest source of new water developed in California since the State Water Project was completed 50 years ago did not come from government but from the entrepreneurial actions of two Texas billionaires, the Bass Brothers, who bought up 42,000 acres of land and water rights for $60 million in Imperial County that eventually ended up being transferred to the San Diego County Water Authority. This is the same way that the Los Angeles bought land voluntarily from farmers in Owens Valley in the early 1900's. Newsom's dictatorial orders have no room for such innovative and risk-taking actions to bust the decades old logjam on water policy in California.
In the past 50 years the only water projects that substantially added new net water supplies in California have been the:
Imperial Irrigation District transfer of water to San Diego County in 2003 brought about by the private actions of the billionaire Bass Brothers from Texas (280,000-acre feet of water);
The building of the Las Vaqueros Reservoir in Contra Costa County that provides water mainly to the East Bay suburbs of the San Francisco Bay that came about because of a 1988 voter approved ballot initiative, not the sole actions of government (160,000-acre-feet of water); and.
The Carlsbad Oceanwater Desalination Plant in North San Diego County initiated by the San Diego County Water District in 2012 (56,000 acre-feet of water).
As shown in the table below, 56 percent of the new net water supplies in California in the last 50 years comes from entrepreneurial actions and 100% from regional water districts, not from state or federal government.
New Net Water Supplies After State Water Project (SWP)
Water Project
Acre Feet of Water Capacity
(% new supplies)
Year Built/Transacted
Governor/
Water Agency/
New State System Water Supplies After 1968
Imperial Irrigation District to San Diego County Water Authority Water Transfer
Bass Brothers/
Imperial County Irrigation Dist.-MWDSC
Los Vaqueros Dam
1988 voter approved
1998 built/
2010 dam raised
George Deukmejian
San Diego County Carlsbad Desalination Facility
SDCWA
Offsetting Water Gain/Loss
Water Recycling MWD Agencies
MWDSC agencies
MWD Depleted Groundwater Supplies
Failed Reservoir Projects
Auburn Dam
Pending Reservoir Projects
Sites Reservoir
State Dept. Water Resources
The Las Vaqueros Reservoir is in the process of raising the height of its dam 55-feet to 275,000 acre-feet of water, a 115,000 acre-feet increase in water supplies. The planned expansion of the reservoir was pursued in 2010 but failed because the Contra Costa Water District could not find other water agencies to invest in the project, excluding any entrepreneurial investors in a joint venture.
Other reservoirs have been built in California in the last 50 years, but they are pure storage down-stream reservoirs, not up-stream water basin reservoirs that capture new water supplies. For example, the giant 800,000 acre-foot capacity Diamond Valley Lake in Riverside County in Southern California is merely a repository for imported water from northern California and the Colorado River.
Following floods in Northern California, in 1965 the U.S. Congress approved the proposed Auburn Dam. The reservoir would have stored 2.5 million acre-feet of water. In 1972, however, environmental groups successfully sued to halt the project and construction halted in 1980. An attempt was made to restart the project in 2013 but went nowhere.
As shown in the above table, water recycling in Southern California generated 400,000 acre-feet of re-usable "new" water recycled from imported water. However, this was entirely offset by about 400,000 acre-feet in water lost due to depletion of groundwater supplies over the last 20 years. Water recycling is a zero-sum game.
Newsom's novel Water Resilience Portfolio has been criticized by Restore-the-Delta and the Sierra Club as a "ruse" for fast-tracking the Sites Reservoir and the Delta Tunnel.
The Newsom Water Resilience Portfolio has seven investment principles, none of which includes the actions of water entrepreneurs, such as farmer John Vidovich who has been trying to put together a voluntary speculative groundwater market in Kern County for dry years.
Newsom's proposed fast tracking of the Sites Reservoir is a long overdue government sponsored reservoir project. Unfortunately, Newsom's portfolio does not include or encourage private investments in other new water development projects that have been so crucial in the past.
Wayne Lusvardi
Wayne Lusvardi formerly worked for California's largest urban water agency and lives in Rancho Mirage.
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There's an Australian taipan, considered by some to be the world's deadliest snake, as well as a splendid 18-foot king cobra. There are six species of cobra and 11 kinds of rattlesnakes.
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Open: Tues – Sun from 9am – 5:30pm. For more information call 407-892-6905.


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File #: O-506-21 Version: 1 Name:
File created: 9/29/2021 In control: Metro Council
Title: AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE ZONING OF PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 528 AND 530 ATWOOD STREET CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 0.26 ACRES AND BEING IN LOUISVILLE METRO (CASE NO. 21ZONE0060).
Sponsors: Madonna Flood (D-24)
Attachments: 1. O-506-21 V.1 101421 Zoning at 528 and 530 Atwood Street.pdf, 2. 21-ZONE-0060.pdf, 3. 21-ZONE-0060 PC Minutes.pdf, 4. 21-ZONE-0060 Other Minutes.pdf, 5. 21-ZONE-0060 Staff Reports.pdf, 6. 21-ZONE-0060 Legal Description.pdf, 7. 21-ZONE-0060 Justification Statement.pdf, 8. 21-ZONE-0060 Booklet.pdf, 9. 21-ZONE-0060_Revised Plan_2021-09-16.pdf, 10. ORD 163 2021.pdf
Related files: 21-ZONE-0060
10/28/2021 1 Metro Council passed Pass Action details Meeting details Video
10/19/2021 1 Planning and Zoning Committee recommended for approval Pass Action details Meeting details Video
ORDINANCE NO. __________, SERIES 2021
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE ZONING OF PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 528 AND 530 ATWOOD STREET CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 0.26 ACRES AND BEING IN LOUISVILLE METRO (CASE NO. 21ZONE0060).
SPONSORED BY: COUNCIL MEMBER MADONNA FLOOD
WHEREAS, the Legislative Council of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (the "Council") has considered the evidence presented at the public hearing held by the Louisville Metro Planning Commission (the "Planning Commission") and the recommendations of the Planning Commission and its staff as set out in the minutes and records of the Planning Commission in Case No. 21ZONE0060; and
WHEREAS, the Council concurs in and adopts the findings of the Planning Commission for the zoning change in Case No. 21ZONE0060 and approves and accepts the recommendation of the Planning Commission as set out in said minutes and records.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: That the zoning of the properties located at 528 and 530 Atwood Street containing approximately 0.26 acres and being in Louisville Metro, as more particularly described in the minutes and records of the Planning Commission in Case No. 21ZONE0060, is hereby changed from R-6 Multi-Family Residential to R-7 Multi-Family Residential; provided, however, said properties shall be subject to the binding elements as set forth in the minutes of the Planning Commission in Case No. 21ZONE0060.
SECTION II: This Ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and approval.
Sonya Harward	David James
Metro Council Clerk	President of the Council
Greg Fischer	Approval Date
By:	_________...


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John Dumelo and Lydia Alhassan snubbed NCCE parliamentary debate.
Mr Edem Afeeva, NCCE Municipal Director for Ayawaso West Wuogon has stated that three political parties and an independent candidate were invited but NCCE was later informed that the candidates for the two major political parties had" other engagements".
"We were just being told that they had engagements and though we were expecting them, unfortunately, they could not come to the programme," he explained
He indicated that the debate formed part of the Commission's effort to provide an opportunity for the electorates to know the background and policies of potential Members of Parliament (MPs) in the area.
Mr Afeeva entreated the public to tolerate each other's political views to ensure a free and fair elections as the whole world would be looking at how Ghana would conduct the upcoming election.
The absence of the NPP and NDC parliamentary candidates gave the two other candidates Madam Gifty Nana Brima Botchway of the People's National Convention (PNC) and Mr Richard Mawuli Amegatse, an independent candidate, ample time to outline their visions for the area.
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The Sierra de Huetor mountains are relatively unknown and give great guided walking and scrambling in quiet and interesting scenery. The hills and forests offer the intrepid explorer a magnificent insight into the days when there were few paths into the mountainous areas. The area may only reach around 2000 metres in height but they have fascinating valley and mountain scenery worthy of mountains much higher and...more famous?
Sierra de Huetor is set in Granada province, close to the towns of Huetor de Santillan, Cogollos Vega, Diezma, Beas de Granada, Nívar and Viznar. This open space is noted for its botanical importance and the Mediterranean type fauna, that includes protected species, for example the golden eagle and wild cat.
The area is open to day or multi-day walking and is perfect for the "get away from it all" types who are tired of following wide trails and footpaths accompanied by the noise of other travellers.
The fauna of the area also includes reptiles, little owls and tawny owls, blackbirds, robins, warblers and partridges, amongst other species. The botanical importance of Sierra de Huertor cannot be disputed, since besides the presence of oaks, maples and gall-oaks, numerous local and North African endemisms can be encountered.
We are growing to love this area and have seldom met other people on our journeys through these hills. In addition to wild and quiet walking we have also "discovered" some brilliant scrambling potential. Some of the summits surpass (in our opinion) many of those found in the higher Sierra Nevada! Indeed some of our parties have put up new climbing routes in the area on perfect limestone crags.
The "Peak of the Dead" rises behind the town of Cogollos Vega and makes a very pleasant circular day walk. The mountain from a distance looks impregnable, but a gentle path ascends to a col where a wonderful surprise awaits, the whole of the Sierra Nevada range spread out befoew you to the south!
The ascent to the peak is a bit loose and rocky, but nowhere involving the use of hands. The view from the summit is superlative. We return to a small col and take a traverse path below dramatic cliffs which encircle the mountain.
The valley north of the Penon de la Mata is acricultural but has a very wild and unkept feel. Few others will be met. A little gem and yet, so close to the centre of Granada.
This walk is often just on faint goat tracks. We ascend from near the Puerta de la Moro northwards through pine forests before breaking out onto open hillsides. Faint tracks lead up to the ridge which leads to the reigning peak of Majalijar. The ridge is rocky but mainly easy walking on limestone escarpment. Great views guaranteed southwards to the Sierra Nevada.
Combines the wonderful Peñon de la Mata with a walk over the whaleback ridge of Peñones. A return walk down the central valley to finish. Much harder than either of the other two walks we do here. Some rough and pathless hiking involved.


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After lunch at resort, proceed to check in.
Relax and enjoy the Swimming Pool, walk around the Organic Garden, Kayak, and use the other free amenities that the resort has to offer.
will get a firsthand look at the local life of Cai Be.
From there you will head back to the resort to walk around our Organic Garden with the Chef to pick out some more ingredients.
Relax for a little while after the bike ride.
6:00pm Begin the cooking class with our Chef with the ingredients you've just helped buy from the market and pick from the garden.
Enjoy your dinner and the rest of the evening. Be sure to get some rest so you have energy for the boat tour the following morning.
DAY TWO: Cai Be – Ho Chi Minh City.
8:00am : Depart from the Mekong Riverside Resort by tour boat.
For an additional single room: 950,000VND/46USD will be added to the cost of the tour.
 Free facilities at the resort include: wifi, bicycles, fishing, swimming pool, badminton court.


Wiveliscombe Town Council Meetings are held monthly every THIRD Monday, at 7.00pm, at Wiveliscombe Primary School Hall, North Street, Wiveliscombe. An annual meeting is also held each May. Members of the public are welcome to attend all meetings (but occasionally certain agenda items may be confidential to members/officers only).
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I realize that for a blog about literature I write an awful lot about music. Of course, to me, those two are one and the same, one you see, one you hear, they both end up in the same spot; in your aesthetic bodysoulheartbraincore.
I had a few hours to spare today, it doesn't happen too often, but today it did, and I decided to spend those hours cleaning/washing/tidying/sorting stuff. And as everybody knows, those things are best done while listening to good and loud music.
I fetched my red and shiny Sony earphones (some teenage stuff I will never outgrow) and scrolled through the play-lists on Spotify. Ah, yes, Led Zeppelin Celebration Day Live.
This is another example of something whole, something perfection. Excellent music, excellent lyrics, goosebumps and happiness, completely transported by this music.
This fascination I share with my mom and dad. They grew up on Led Zeppelin and gave me this for a birth present. This band has followed me through my life, adding a soundtrack to many big events. My parents' song is Thank You. One of my Soundtrack To My Life-songs is Ramble On.
I never tire of listening to this band, and last year, I was honored, humbled and ecstatic when I had the chance to see Robert Plant live in Odense. When among his new songs, he began playing Whole Lotta Love I have to admit, I cried; openly and unashamed. I was standing there with my mom and dad, we shared this amazing experience, they having followed this band since their teenage-years, and me, their daughter, having grown up with this music, now an adult myself – and we could stand there and see this show together after so many years – what a legend! What an extraordinary feat!
What I am trying to get to is how some things stay with us a lifetime and beyond. Some things are so embedded in us that they never change. We may change, our lives change, people around us change, but these things remain, intact and shiny like indestructible diamonds in our core. And so often, these things are artwork. Music, images, great stories. Something we have perceived and taken via our senses, something come to us via aesthetics. How is it that these things last like that?
There are many, forming their very own diamond mine in my soul. These diamonds shape who we are, and they never disappear. I'll bet when I'm 98, sitting in my rocking chair, looking back at my life, I'll still hit play on Led Zeppelin and feel as I always did, 17, 36 or 98. Diamonds are forever.


Brinkley killed one of our chickens last week.
Here's how it happened: For those of you who don't know, Brinkley is our neighbor's Golden Retriever, but we've "adopted" him to the point that our neighbors looped their electric dog fence around our yard. So Brinkley has the run of our yard, and we love him. Since July, when we first put the chickens outside, Brinkley has shown admirable restraint — he's been interested in them, but until lately he never made any aggressive moves.
We keep the chicken coop inside a fenced yard. Here's the weakness: because our yard is so rocky, we can't sink the fence deeply into the earth to keep predators from digging under it. The fence is chicken wire strung between metal posts, but the chicken wire sits level with the ground. So last week, when Brinkley started digging under the fence and pushing up the wire with his 80 pounds of doggy energy, he won. I'd caught him inside the chicken yard several times, but luckily no harm was done.
Then, last Friday, as I pulled into the driveway with Georgia (the other two girls were in preschool), expecting a quiet, uneventful afternoon, our neighbor from across the street came up the driveway. She was watching Brinkley while his owners were away, and had caught him with one of our white Leghorns in his mouth. She saved the chicken — who was a little slobbery and wobbly and traumatized, but otherwise unhurt — and returned her to the chicken coop. I went to check on the chickens — and found only the lucky Leghorn and one of our Rhode Island Reds inside. That left TWO chickens unaccounted for.
My quiet afternoon turned into a frantic chicken hunt. It's unclear exactly what happened, but it appears that three of the chickens may have escaped their yard by squeezing under part of the fence that Brinkley had warped with his digging. Once they became totally free-range chickens, they were also fair game for Brinkley. Amazingly, the OTHER Rhode Island Red eventually fluttered down from a tree branch above the chicken yard, where she'd taken shelter during the chicken massacre. As for the other Leghorn, all I found of her was a pile of feathers and a dismembered leg.
I wasn't totally devastated; it's pretty rare for a chicken to die of old age. Although I'd have liked to have gotten a few eggs out of this hen before she became Brinkley's chew toy, chickens don't usually inspire deep affection. They're not cuddly creatures; even as chicks, our chickens hated to be held, and now it's almost impossible to catch them. They're nervous, flighty creatures whose main interest is food.
But I felt worse than I expected. Those chickens were my responsibility. I was prepared for them to die at some point, but it was still my job to keep them alive as long as possible. If you were looking for someone to pin the blame on in this situation, all evidence pointed straight to: ME. It was hard to be mad at Brinkley; he was just a dog being a dog. And the chickens were just being chickens. But I was the one who'd wanted the chickens to begin with, and I was the one who'd invited our neighbors to include our yard in Brinkley's fenced run. I'd brought a hunting dog and chickens together, and when the inevitable happened, I had only myself to blame.
"You just keep adding and adding and adding," my mother said to me during her latest visit. She was concerned after we told her that we were thinking of getting a dog of our own. And she's right: three children in four years, four chickens, our neighbor's dog, and now possibly our own dog. I DO have a little problem with adding things to my life. But here's why: I think it's almost never bad to add something else to love. Don't most of us add and add? We form new relationships, get married, have children, acquire pets. Isn't love the motivation behind all of those things?
I have a hard time saying that I love our chickens. I got them because we go through at least a dozen eggs a week, and because I thought it would be nice for the girls to have some animals around to watch and care for. But I raised them from chicks, I feed them and clean their coop, and I guess that's a form of love.
Here's the scaly underbelly of love, though, the thing we try to fool ourselves into forgetting: nothing lives forever. My husband, my children, my chickens, Brinkley, myself — we're all going to die. When we add things to our lives, we're adding present-tense love, with the promise of future-tense pain and loss.
So why keep adding at all?
I thought about that while I checked on my lonely Leghorn all that afternoon — a chicken who'd just suffered shock and loss herself, and appeared about as depressed as it's possible for a chicken to be. I thought about that when Brinkley came running up to me proudly, carrying a mouthful of white feathers. I thought about that when I told my two oldest girls that Brinkley had killed one of their chickens.
Guess what the girls wanted to do after I picked them up from preschool? I am absolutely not making this up: they wanted to go play hide & seek in the cemetery. So we did.
And then I thought: we can live with loss. We can feel the pain and learn from it and work through it and heal. But I cannot, I cannot, live without love. So I will keep adding.
Also, I will reinforce that chicken fence.


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I'm interested in the use of Wikisource for high-quality ebooks. There are various high quantity sources, such as Google and archive.org but they mainly depend on scanning and OCR and have no community for the real work of proofreading and tidying. Then there's Gutenberg, which is rather secretive and I don't know what's happening to it since Michael Hart died. But I like the discipline that's been established here for proofreading and checking.
Now one can easily get ebooks out of Wikisource (EPUB at least), I'd like to help to make it more accessible to the newcomer. At the moment the user documentation is severely lacking and that's where I'll put my effort, hoping that people will take enough notice to correct things when I get them wrong. I started by puzzling as to why all the thousands of pages in Portal: are invisible to the newcomer. Is there any organisation or have they just been created for the joy of creating? I'm still puzzled why the only links on the front page are to categories not portals.
I realise the community is very small and has done a magnificent job but I think it's chicken and egg at the moment. I've taken two trial dips in the past and had decided it wasn't worth the effort and I doubt I'm alone. If we can encourage people to visit and use the books here I'm sure the word will spread and the community will grow as it did in other wiki projects. But at the moment I haven't the first idea how many real documents there are in Wikisource. The stats say 785,721 content pages but does that mean books or chapters/articles; does it include disambiguation and pages in the non-Main namespaces? i.e. is the number meaningful within an order of magnitude? How many articles in the EB are actually there?
Even the guidance about what you can put in is vague. Is it encouraged to down/upload djVUs and text from archive.org/Google and get to work on them, or are there issues with that? I'm sure I'll be asking these questions in the Scriptorium soon if I can't find answers first.
So what is the state of health of Wikisource? After a couple of posts I made on the Scriptorium I decided to look at the stats on Wikimedia and reproduce an abstract of a few below. To avoid being overwhelmed but to give some perspective I've concentrated on the top 5 languages.
Ok, by Wikipedia standards it's tiny, but 11M views a month is something most websites would be happy about. I'm not sure what happened at the beginning of 2010 - but it may be a lot of publicity caused a big spike which wasn't maintained. But since then the growth has been steady. It's interesting that the French site has a similar spike, but not the other languages. Russia is, I believe, a special case as it's been used to publish a lot of government documents.
The pattern of edits per month is very volatile and suggests that it's largely data driven: when there's a new batch of material there's a lot of activity, but there aren't too many editors doing the long steady task of improving documents. A look at the number of new documents lends some support to this: there was a large peak in March 2011 for English. In similar projects I've been involved in there's a lot of setting of goals and highlighting of those who've done stuff, and maybe that's what's needed here to keep people motivated.
The number of active members is tiny compared with Wikipedia - only about 70 currently (though 350 have done 1 edit/month). The number is 1/350 of that of WP, but the number of documents (215,412) is only 1/13 of that on WP. Incidentally, that number (articles) seems more meaningful to me than the widely quoted figure of 786,503 for the number of pages.
It's interesting that the core set of editors ("very active librarians") is the only graph in which English doesn't stand out from the other languages: we have quite a small nucleus and even more worrying it has shrunk from 20 to 7 in the last year. Correction: I am informed that these statistics only record updates in the main namespace. If we look at the local stats we get a more reliable answer: there are 40 in the very active category, plus one hyper-active bot.
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Steel II
Posted on March 22, 2013 by mshgamer
John Henry Irons
Fighting	Amazing
Agility	Incredible
Strength	Amazing
Endurance	Monstrous
Reason	Remarkable
Intuition	Excellent
Popularity	15
Steel uses a armored battle suit of his own design. The suit gives him:
Body Armor: Incredible resistance to physical and energy damage. The armor also has the ability to learn. After being attacked the same way for 5 rounds the armor raises the resistance rank +2CS for the duration of the combat.
Flight: Incredible
Projectile Weapons: a metal spike launcher mounted on the left forearm capable of Monstrous damage
Magnetic Control: Amazing
Life Support: Unearthly
Regeneration: Remarkable
Battle Computer: On-board Computer that has Amazing ability to predict combat maneuvers of opponents. This also controls all the suits systems.
Mechanical Communication: Steel can summon and send away his armor with a simple mental command.
When not suited up John has the following abilities:
Fighting	Excellent
Agility	Excellent
Strength	Good
Endurance	Excellent
Hammer: Steele carries a sledge hammer with extendible handle magnetically secured to the back of his suit. The hammer is made from Unearthly strength material and in his hands can inflict Unearthly damage.In addition the hammer can be thrown as far as 10 areas and is prgrammed to return the following round.
Steel probably has plenty of other tricks up this sleeve. He can have a few gadgets carried with the armor upto a maximum rank of Remarkable
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Justice League, Superman, Superboy, Guy Gardner
John Henry Irons is the hero known as Steel. His story begins as a child when his grandparents were supposedly killed when they interfered with a robberyat there home, but John Henry believed was a murder over racial tension in the area. A few years later Irons' parents were killed in a car accident, which eventually led John Henry, and his brother Clay into the custody of his other set of Grandparents. After losing so much of his family he remembered something one of the policemen told him right after his grandparents' deaths "The best way a man can keep his family safe is to get so rich and powerful nobody can touch 'em." Taking this to heart, after John Henry realized how much professional sports players were beginning to make he saw his road to wealth and power was through his sports ability.
After a football game one of his teacher's remarked on John Henry's ability to control a football's trajectory at the field goal. When his teacher told John Henry what a trajectory was, and that it could enhance his ability on the football field, he began to study physics the very next day, and started his illustrious career in science.
Delving into the sciences, and sports as a way to become a success and protect his life, it became almost his obsession in life.
A short time later while on a field trip to the Washington Monument he became separated from his class, and was pulled into the Zero Hour crisis and was sent years into the future. Without even realizing what was going on he encountered his grandmother, years older, and his nieces, and nephews who hadn't even been born yet. While there he looked up, and saw his future self in his identity as Steel, in a fight with Hazard's minions. When he asked his future family what was going on they told him, "Haven't you ever heard of the Man called Steel", seeing someone attacked by three assailants at once he decided to help out and threw a rock out one of the attackers and saved his future self. Rightafter that he asked who his nephew was, and then John Henry told Jemahl his, and Jemahl said that his uncle had the same name, and he was the only other person he had ever seen throw like that. Seconds later a young John Henry was back inhis own time, thinking he had some weird day dream, and everyone else from his group simply thought he had wandered off.
A short time later his brother told him that he was getting married to his girlfriend Blondell, who he had gotten pregnant, about the same time he found out he had received a full scholarship,and grant money to Michigan University. But before he left, Blondell had her first child, Jemahl, and John Henry began to question if it was a dream at the Washington monument at all. Leaving for Michigan U. he ran into Guy Gardner who was on the same football team as he was. But while Gardner was majoring in Phys. Ed., JohnHenry was majoring in ballistics. He and Guy became good friends throughout their school years.
Unfortunately for the Irons' family tragedy struck when his younger brother Clay was killed in a drive-by while working at the neighborhood grocerystore. After that John Henry gave up his dream of going to grad school and took a job offer from Ameretek, in order to support and provide for his family. While working for Ameretek he first met Angoria, aka the White Rabbit, and created his military weapon the BG-60. With the money he received he bought his family a new house, in a better neighborhood. After his family was taken care of, he proceeded to rent a workshop where he was possessed with the idea of the flying man he had seen and created his first prototype Steel armor in secret. On his first test flight he encountered a young Hazard trying to kill a man he blamed for the death of his gang. Unfortunately a novice Steel was unable to stop Hazard and his telekinetic power, and the man Hazard was after was killed. Unfortunately for John when he returned to his workshop Angora was waiting for him, and convinced him to turn the blue prints and design over to Ameretek to finish paying off his family's house and save American soldiers.
A while later John discovered his guns had been used to kill Kurdish civilian women and children, while guns weren't supposed to be used by anyone but Americans. After John realized that the only way the guns could have gotten there was if someone in Ameretek sent them there, he tried to quit, but was threatened by his boss Colonel Thomas Weston. Seeing he was in danger he erased the designs for the new BG-80, and his new armor modifications from Amereteks' computer system. Yet when he went to erase the files in his private workshop he was attacked by goons, wearing his armor design, out to kill him, and steal his newest designs. At that point John Henry realized that only he and Angora knew where the place was, and knew that he had been sold out to Ameretek. When the goons destroyed the building with John Henry inside he escaped when he heard police sirens and the Ameretek goons flew off.
Faking his death he moved to Metropolis, met one of his best friends (a psychic named Rosie), and took the name Henry Johnson. Still working to perfect his armor at night, he took a day job in construction work. On this very important day, John Henry's losses began to get to him and he began to question his life, at that very moment his friend, Peter Skywalker fell and John Henry grabbed a cable and swung out to catch him but, at the same time his cable slipped and he began to fall to certain death when Superman showed up, and saved his life. When John Henry told Superman he owed him his life, Superman told him to make it count for something, and John Henry quit working on his armor and took a more active role in the community.
Unfortunately a few days later Superman had his amazing battle with the Anti-Monitor, which led to his apparent death. During the Crisis a building was knocked down and buried John alive. When he finally received the news that Superman was dead, John set out to treat the entire world as his family, and that same morning children were killed in a drive-by shooting using his BG-80. Seeing a mystery needing to be solved, and a world without a Superman, he put the finishing touches on his armor and became the new MAN OF STEEL.
Eventually, there were several fakers who were acting as Superman including: The Cyborg, Eradicator, Superboy, and Steel. It was during this time that Steel battled Eradicator and in the end worked together with Supergirl, Superboy, Eradicator and Hal Jordan in order to stop The Cyborg the Cyborg and prevented an alien invasion.
Afterwards, Steel decided to continue his work as a crime fighter and from that day acted as a defender of Metropolis, working with Supergirl quite abit. Over time Steel continued his work and eventually became a member of the Justice League of America.
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