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A water management tragedy is playing out around the Hill Country community of Dripping Springs.
As reviewed in a previous post, the city has predetermined, apparently without any meaningful analysis of options, that it will extend wastewater service to large developments being planned around the city by doubling down on the prevailing 19th century infrastructure model. The plan is to increase capacity at its existing centralized treatment plant and to extend sewer trunk mains to major developments to the east, west and south of the city. The city believes this "requires" them to apply for a permit to discharge effluent from the centralized plant into a branch of Onion Creek, on which are downstream sites of a goodly portion of the recharge of the Edwards Aquifer, and along which reside a goodly number of people who are concerned about the impacts of this discharge on the creek. Recent information indicates that discharges into the creek would also recharge the Trinity Aquifer, a source of their water supply, right about where the wells serving the city are located.
The level of treatment which the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) appears likely to permit for Dripping Springs will not require reduction of nitrogen. That can lead to algal blooms in the creek, degrading water quality and the visual quality of the riparian environment. Recharge of nitrogen laden water would be a problem in drinking water withdrawn from wells. It appears the permit will also not require consideration of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as pharmaceuticals, also problematic in drinking water. They may also impact life in the stream. Cases of sex changes in fish have been observed in waters receiving discharges containing CECs.
In response to widespread criticisms of their discharge permit, the city asserts that "most" of the effluent would not be discharged, rather would be routed to irrigation reuse. Some on city-owned facilities, but since those are quite limited, mostly it appears by routing it back to the developments generating much of the increased flow to the city's plant, to be used for irrigation there. However, no reuse lines running to those developments are shown in the city's Preliminary Engineering Planning Report (PERP), dated July 2013, which a city spokesperson stated is still their "official plan". Since it's clear this long-looped, far-flung centralized reuse system would be quite costly, it appears the city has not yet calculated the full cost of their "disposal" focused conventional centralized strategy with reuse just appended on at the end.
A 21st century option to this very roundabout method was reviewed in "This is How We Do It". That decentralized concept would obviate the long-looped, high-cost system of pipes and pump stations to first make this water supply "go away" and then to run it back to where it was generated in the first place. Rather, a tight-looped reuse system would be integrated into the development – irrigating the neighborhood where the wastewater is generated – as if reuse were a basic principle of water management, instead of just an afterthought to a disposal-centric system down there at the end of the pipe. Reuse would be cost efficiently maximized, and being designed into the development would not be optional, so would most definitely save on using potable water for irrigation. This is a model which the city and the developers of the large projects around it have so far refused to consider.
Dripping Springs also contends it must centralize all wastewater flows because it aims to implement a direct potable reuse (DPR) scheme, providing additional treatment to bring this wastewater to potable quality and introducing it into the city's water supply. They assert this is the "ultimate" scheme for reuse of this water. DPR, however, is a rather problematic strategy. The costs would be prodigious, and the city does not own, thus control, the water system that supplies the city; an independent water supply corporation does.
There are also social equity issues with this scheme. Even if it were to integrate its water system into a DPR scheme, that water supply corporation does not, and will not, provide water to some of the outlying development, so in the process of serving that growth, the existing citizens would be expected to drink the reclaimed water produced by those who generate it but won't have to drink it.
It's an open question if the water supply situation in and around Dripping Springs is, or will become, so dire that the city would ever seriously consider the extreme costs, and the other complications, of going to DPR. Arguments can be made that increased water supply could be more cost efficiently, and safely, provided locally by building-scale rainwater harvesting, so the actual utility of DPR is questionable. From all indications so far, a DPR system in Dripping Springs is just theoretical. Perhaps not the best argument to ignore anything but a conventional centralized wastewater system, without any regard for the consequences.
So let's compare the two approaches to expanding the Dripping Springs wastewater system to serve those large outlying developments, to see what those consequences may be. They can be compared on fiscal, societal and environmental grounds.
More Fiscally Reasonable
As reviewed in "This is How We Do It", the decentralized concept appears to be far more fiscally and economically efficient than the conventional centralized system is projected to be. That analysis was admittedly limited, meant only to be illustrative, and more work is needed to put some meat on that skeleton, but the comparison was stark.
To review, a sketch plan was created – see the figure below – and a cost estimate derived for this decentralized concept strategy in a neighborhood in the Headwaters project, to the east of Dripping Springs. The estimate was $8,000 per house for collection, treatment and redistribution of the reclaimed water throughout the neighborhood, to provide irrigation of front yards, parks/common areas, and parkways. Since these areas would be irrigated in any case, an irrigation system would need to be installed in any case. The drip irrigation fields in those areas would therefore not entail much additional cost. So the estimated global capital cost of the decentralized concept strategy was $8,000 per house, or about $8 million total for the 1,000 houses planned in Headwaters.
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From the city's PERP, the estimated cost in 2013 of the "east interceptor", to convey wastewater from Headwaters to the city's centralized plant, was $7.78 million. Spread over those 1,000 houses, that yields a cost of $7,780 per house. This one line by itself costs almost as much as was estimated for the complete decentralized concept wastewater system, yet all it does is move the stuff around.
To complete the centralized collection system requires installation of all of the local collector lines, manholes, and lift stations within Headwaters, an additional cost likely north of $10 million. Then there would also be a buy-in cost for a share of the treatment capacity at the centralized plant, likely a few million more. So it seems pretty clear that the basic conventional centralized strategy would be more than double the cost of the decentralized concept strategy, which is again a complete system, including reuse. Yet for that much greater cost, they get only collection and treatment, still having to pay for any reuse of this water.
One wonders, in what other arena would the prospect of getting more function for less than half the cost not be compelling? But in this arena, that prospect does not seem to even be noticed!
Dripping Springs insists that little, if any, of the water would be discharged; instead facilities would be installed to route it to irrigation reuse. That would entail pump stations, transmission mains, storage facilities, distribution lines within the areas where the water would be irrigated, and the irrigation systems. What all this would cost has apparently not been addressed; as noted, the city's latest PERP is utterly silent on this. To just get the water back to Headwaters, for example, would likely entail a cost similar to the "east interceptor". Clearly, the cost of enabling reuse under the disposal-centric centralized infrastructure model would be much greater than the cost to integrate reuse into the very fabric of development, as the decentralized concept does.
Then too, the energy demands of the decentralized concept system would be much lower than for the centralized system. The multiple distributed treatment units would use less energy in total than would be required to run the centralized activated sludge treatment plant. Little if any energy would be required to pump wastewater to those distributed units. In contrast, wastewater would run through multiple lift stations to get to the centralized plant. The tight-looped distributed reuse system would require little energy, as the water would only be pumped short distances. In the long-looped centralized strategy, much more energy would be expended to get water from the centralized plant to far-flung points of reuse. These energy savings also impart a fiscal advantage to the decentralized concept.
As it is turning out, however, that analysis of Headwaters is "theoretical" because it appears that Dripping Springs is no longer planning to install the "east interceptor" and run the wastewater from Headwaters to its centralized treatment plant. It appears they will also not build the "west interceptor" to run Scenic Greens, another major development in the city's hinterlands, to its centralized plant. Instead these developments will be left to implement and independently run stand-alone wastewater systems.
Still, the analysis of that Headwaters neighborhood is indicative of what may be generally expected in any of the outlying developments that Dripping Springs does include in its centralized system. So it remains a general indication of how the decentralized concept would be more fiscally reasonable, likely far more so.
The wastewater systems within Headwaters and Scenic Greens are presently planned to themselves be smaller-scale disposal-centric conventional centralized systems. Effluent will likely be run to "waste areas" within the development rather than to areas that would be irrigated in any case – "land dumping" this water resource. These satellite treatment plants are exactly what Dripping Springs has asserted they are centralizing to avoid, thus the decision to not include Headwaters has societal dimensions to it. Leading us to …
More Societally Responsible
Dripping Springs will face a clear temptation to "cut corners" on the centralized reuse program that's just appended on to an otherwise "disposal" focused system exactly because it will cost them so much. But under the decentralized concept, reuse will be practically maximized, most cost efficiently, because it's designed into the development, serving the local and regional water economy well just as a matter of course, no further effort or expense required.
A decentralized concept system would be inherently simpler to plan and finance. Each distributed system would serve a small area, a neighborhood, to be built out in short order. Contrast this with planning large-scale facilities over an area-wide system, with much less definite growth projections.
And because investments are so focused, the costs of planning, designing and implementing the wastewater infrastructure could be readily "assigned" to those who directly benefit from that development – the developer would directly fund the building of those distributed systems. Unlike the conventional centralized system, which is typically financed by loans and bonds, spreading the costs among the whole of the city's citizenry and/or ratepayer base. So the decentralized concept could be more equitably financed; existing residents would not be compelled to be the "bank" for development.
Then there's the "time value of money". With distributed systems, only the infrastructure needed to serve imminent development would be installed, neighborhood by neighborhood, so cost would closely track actual service needs. In the conventional centralized system, on the other hand, facilities that will not be fully utilized for years to come are routinely installed; dollars paid today for something you don't need for years, foregoing all other investments that money could fund in the meantime. In Headwaters, for example, buildout is expected to take years, but to centralize it, the "east interceptor" and associated lift stations, sized for that ultimate flow, would have to be installed up front of serving the first house.
And this is all money "at risk". If, for example, we were to experience another "crash" such as occurred in 2008, the pace of development might slow down, even stop altogether for a time. But once the money is borrowed and the system built, the payments would be due whether development came on line to fund those payments or not. So whoever financed that infrastructure would be "on the hook" to make those payments. If these facilities were publicly financed, it would be all of the ratepayers, and/or taxpayers, who would be called upon to pony up. This could balloon their wastewater rates and/or tax bills. All that would be avoided under a decentralized concept strategy, which assigns that risk to the developer, who would be putting relatively small amounts at risk at a time.
If the management needs of each area were considered independently, there would be no need for a "one size fits all" approach. But the conventional centralized system is a one-trick pony; either an area is sewered and the "waste" water is piped "away", or – sorry, that's the one trick – it's left unmanaged. Under a decentralized concept strategy, the needs of each area can be considered independently. Some areas might be connected to an existing centralized system, some areas may have distributed systems, some areas may use individual on-lot systems, with all of those systems under unified area-wide management. So one management entity could accommodate each development in the most cost efficient manner, with systems best suited to the characteristics of the area and the type of development planned for it.
This would eliminate the "balkanization" of wastewater management Dripping Springs said it's centralizing to avoid, not wanting a bunch of independent operators running systems around it – or installing unmanaged on-lot systems. On its present course, however, balkanization is just what will happen. Having had to abandon centralizing Headwaters and Scenic Greens, each relatively close in to Dripping Springs proper, highlights that it's clearly a pipe dream to centralize the whole of Dripping Springs' far-flung extraterritorial jurisdiction. They will continue to accept a proliferation of independent operators and unmanaged wastewater systems. Under the decentralized concept, they wouldn't have to; they could manage it all, effectively and cost efficiently.
Independent systems could also be required for any "industrial" wastewater generators that might locate within the service area. Each such generator could be required to tailor its treatment to the characteristics of its wastewater flow. And also to the reuse opportunities inherent in the operation at hand, or that may be offered by co-located activities.
The decentralized concept is inherently growth-neutral. Each distributed system serves only a limited area of known imminent development. The centralized system, however, creates large-scale infrastructure covering an area that would grow over time. Since this infrastructure needs to be installed, and financed, up front of any development over that larger area, that creates an impetus for growth, indeed for higher intensity growth, to pay for those large-scale facilities. The infrastructure funding "tail" is allowed to wag the pace and nature of development "dog".
The "out of sight, out of mind" nature of the conventional centralized system, taking the water far, far away from the neighborhoods where it's generated, has at times resulted in wastewater management failing to get adequate funding to do the job well. Many cities, MUDs, etc., have a story or two about that. But with the system right there in the neighborhood, there would be constant vigilance to assure that proper management effort is always applied, that adequate funding to maintain the system is always provided. Of course, some may question if keeping the wastewater in the neighborhood is an undue "hazard". But as reviewed in "This is How We Do It", these distributed systems would be rather less likely to create any problems than the wastewater systems now routinely used in hinterlands developments, which do not seem to be causing much alarm, so that objection is rather disingenuous.
A little noticed feature of the decentralized concept, the system could readily accommodate any level of water conservation found to be desirable, or necessary, in the future. Employing the effluent sewer concept, the "big chunks" are retained in the interceptor tanks, and only liquid effluent is conveyed to the treatment centers. So cutting the flow, no matter how drastically, would not cause any problems in these collection lines. In conventional sewers, on the other hand, if "too much" water conservation were practiced, the sewers would be "starved" of the liquid flow needed to move solids through the lines. During severe droughts, some utilities have had to haul in water to flush sewer lines because the wastewater generators were "too good" at cutting their water use. Stagnation of sewer flows can cause a buildup of hydrogen sulfide in the sewers. That's a potentially deadly hazard to sewer workers and can degrade sewer system components. Another whole field of risk that would be completely avoided under the decentralized concept.
Another societal issue is vulnerability to pollution, an inherent quality of the type of wastewater system being used. This leads us to a consideration of the differences in environmental impacts between the two infrastructure models.
More Environmentally Benign
Scale is a major driver of environmental vulnerability. In the conventional centralized system, large flows run through one pipe or one lift station or one treatment plant, so the consequences of any mishap – like a line break, power outage, flow surge, flood damage – are potentially "large". With distributed systems, flows at any point in the system remain "small", thus the potential consequences of any mishap remain "small". Eliminating all of the large-scale collection lines outside the neighborhoods, the decentralized system has shorter runs of smaller pipes, minimizing vulnerability. Then too, with a distributed system, any mishap that may occur would only affect a small part of the overall system. All the other independent distributed systems would not be impacted at all.
In any case, decentralized concept infrastructure would be much less likely to experience problems to begin with. Effluent sewers are built "tight", with no manholes, and there's short runs of small pipes, so infiltration/inflow and exfiltration/overflows would be somewhere between minimal and non-existent, while conventional sewers are inherently leak-prone, typically leaking more as they age. Decentralization also minimizes, perhaps can eliminate, pump stations in the collection system, removing a major source of (sometimes major) bypasses that plague centralized systems.
The distributed treatment unit employs a highly stable, very robust technology – the high performance biofiltration concept – which is highly resistant to upsets and, by the very nature of how it's built and operates, does not allow bypassing of untreated wastewater. The conventional centralized plant, employing the inherently unstable activated sludge technology, is a point of high vulnerability where any sort of mishap, flow surge, etc., could lead to a bypass or poorly treated water running freely on through the treatment plant.
In a conventional centralized system, the larger sewers typically have to run in the lowest topography, the riparian zones. Thus these areas are torn up to install the sewers, and often to repair or upgrade them, creating environmental vulnerability. In the decentralized system, since flows are not highly aggregated, riparian areas can typically be avoided, eliminating this vulnerability.
Also, with the collection lines being small and shallowly buried, far less disruption is entailed when installing the sewer lines, wherever they are located, and reclaimed water distribution lines can typically be laid in the same trench, making their installation non-disruptive. Since the system would be expanded by adding new distributed systems rather than by routing ever more flow to existing treatment centers, there would never be a need to upgrade collection lines, eliminating that on-going disruption.
All these factors impart a far lower vulnerability to environmental degradation with a decentralized concept system. Indeed, centralization is a "vulnerability magnet", gathering the stuff from far and wide to one point, where again any mishap can cause "large" impacts.
Backward – or Forward?
Carrying the promise of being (far) more fiscally reasonable, more societally responsible, and more environmentally benign than the "disposal" focused 19th century conventional centralized infrastructure model, it is nothing less than a water management tragedy that Dripping Springs, and the developers of the large projects around the city, will not consider the 21st century decentralized concept infrastructure model. Preferring the "comfort" of the familiar, they will extend and perpetuate that 19th century model, incurring the high costs of implementing it and the even higher costs of appending on at the end of the big pipe a far-flung reuse system, along with all the societal and environmental ills it entails. Since this infrastructure has a service life of several decades, this retreat into the past will cement in place an infrastructure model that may hamstring progressive water management in this area for generations to come.
This is a tragedy that local society does not have to endure. It merely requires the boldness and wisdom to move forward, instead of backward. To explore the full range of options, of infrastructure models, that the city and the surrounding developers have at their disposal. Their refusal to do so is a free choice. There are no imperatives "forcing" them to forego such an examination, not fiscally, nor societally, nor environmentally – as just reviewed, all those factors highly favor the decentralized concept. And not regulatorily. TCEQ has confirmed the decentralized concept can be readily permitted.
There is nothing really new here. This is just a re-framing, in the current context, of the forward-looking ideas, ideals, concepts and principles that have been set out for society's consideration for decades. Perhaps here and now, with the "urgency" of an Onion Creek discharge in the mix, society will chose to act on it.
Indeed the question is, will we continue to fall backward, or move forward?
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Excellent blog, David. This, however, from your report is exactly why these plans will never be taken seriously:
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waterbloguer Says:
Interesting perspective, Annalisa, that this equity argument would be singled out as the reason a change in infrastructure model won't be taken "seriously". It may be that certain actors are "addicted" to having public financing serve as their "cash cow", but maybe the rest of society would readily support moving to a model that allows the cost to be placed on those who benefit. Seems to me the "problem" right now is that so few know that there is another infrastructure model that could be pursued, much less that it is superior fiscally, societally and environmentally, as this analysis reviews. So the first step to getting it taken seriously is to spread the word. Thanks for whatever you can do in that vein.
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On Friday morning I visited Mayo Court, which is a sheltered housing scheme run by Ipswich Borough Council. I was well received and struck by the friendliness of the residents. I was ribbed about my yellow shirt and green tie as those are Norwich colours! Mental note to always wear my Labour tie in future!
In the afternoon I had a meeting with the director of Suffolk Wildlife Trust. They manage several small nature reserves with about 35 full time staff and 1500 volunteers. They also provide consultancy to developers and councils on environmental matters. On the Parham windfarm, they say there is no environmental issue with going ahead whereas with Snoasis, there is an issue with bats and newts. What interested (and disappointed) me most was that it is very difficult to recreate most wildlife habitats, which makes human developments very damaging to the natural world.
Out canvassing on Friday evening on the Whitehouse estate - six times more voters for than against. I was very tired by this point so I am glad there weren't too many long discussions on the doorstep.


A squadron of Israeli military and police officers invaded Nablus at 1 am on Thursday, surrounded the house where a Palestinian suspected of killing two Israeli settlers, was believed to be hiding, and shot and killed the man, who was identified as Ashraf Waleed Suleiman Na'alwa, 23.
Na'alwa was 'wanted' by Israeli forces for the killing of two Israeli colonial settlers two months ago.
The soldiers shot and killed Ashraf with multiple rounds.
According to Israeli sources, the location of Na'alwa was provided by several suspects after they were subjected to "harsh interrogation", which is the euphemism that Israeli authorities use to describe torture.
The Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet told Israeli media that they worked with several other Israeli agencies to "interrogate suspects" and try to locate Na'alwa.
During the invasion, the military deployed dogs and heavily-armed soldiers who surrounded the building, entered the building firing heavily, shot and killed Na'alwa, and abducted two men who lived in the building with their mother.
Israeli sources said Na'alwa was killed by undercover soldiers of the Yamam special forces, who briefly exchanged fire with him, while he was hiding in a home in Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus.
They added that Ashraf was chased, for several hours, through many areas until reaching the home, before dozens of soldiers, intelligence officers and undercover soldiers managed to surround the building.
Israeli media sources quoted senior military and security officials stating that the first weeks after fatal shooting in the settlement, the hunt for Na'alwa was largely focused on extensive searches of homes, caves and buildings, but later the search became more focused on individuals, who were detained and "interrogated," on suspicion of providing aid to him.
After killing the young man, the soldiers invaded many areas in Tulkarem, especially in Shweika area, near the Annexation Wall, and fired a barrage of gas bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets and live rounds, at Palestinian protesters.
The soldiers also attacked journalists, and forced them to leave the area.
It is worth mentioning the repeatedly abducted members of his family, including his father, mother, sisters and brothers, in an attempt to locate him.
Two months ago, the army also issued a demolition order targeting the Na'alwa family home.
Earlier in the day, another Israeli execution operation was carried out, this time targeting Salah Omar Barghouti, 29, who was a suspect in another crime.


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Casual fans of pro bass fishing look at it as a fun diversion or perhaps a hobby. Those who understand that it is a professional sport won't be surprised to find out that one of the top stars on the Bassmaster Elite Series, Missile Baits pro John Crews, is immersed in the fishing culture and the business side of pro fishing year 'round.
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Velvet Street, location of the Trumbull and Monroe Melon Head story
In the American folklore of Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, Melon Heads are beings generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding places to attack people. Different variations of the legend attribute different origins to the entities.
Legend in Michigan[edit]
The melon heads of Michigan are said to reside around Felt Mansion,[1] although they have also been reportedly seen in southern forested areas of Ottawa County.[2] According to one story, they were originally children with hydrocephalus who lived at the Junction Insane Asylum near Felt Mansion.[2] The story explains that, after enduring physical and emotional abuse, they became feral and were released into the forests surrounding the asylum. The Allegan County Historical Society asserts that the asylum never existed, although it was at one point a prison;[3] however, the story has been part of the local folklore for several decades. Laketown Township Manager Al Meshkin told the Holland Sentinel that he had heard the tales as a teenager, noting that his friends referred to the beings as 'wobbleheads'. Some versions of the legend say that the children once lived in the mansion itself but later retreated to a system of caverns (or caves in a nearby hill left over from an abandoned zoo). Some versions of this legend say that the children devised a plan to escape and kill the doctor that abused them. It is said that the children had no place to hide the body, so they cut it up in small pieces which they hid around the mansion. Rumors exist that teenagers who had broken into the mansion saw ghosts of the children and claimed to see shadows of the doctor's murder through the light coming from an open door. The legend has spread throughout the region, even becoming the subject of a 2011 film simply titled The Melonheads, which is based around the West Michigan legend.[4][5]
Legend in Ohio[edit]
The melon head stories of Ohio are primarily associated with the Cleveland suburb of Kirtland. According to local lore, the melon heads were originally orphans under the watch of a mysterious figure known as Dr. Crow (sometimes spelled Crowe, Krohe or Kroh or known as Dr. Melonhead[6]). Crow is said to have performed unusual experiments on the children, who developed large, hairless heads and malformed bodies.[7] Some accounts claim that the children were already suffering from hydrocephalus and that Crow injected even more fluid into their brains.[6]
Eventually, the legend continues, the children killed Crow, burned the orphanage, and retreated to the surrounding forests and supposedly feed on babies. Legend holds that the melon heads may be sighted along Wisner Road in Kirtland, and Chardon Township.[7][8] The melon head legend has been popularized on the Internet, particularly on the websites Creepy Cleveland and DeadOhio, where users offer their own versions of the story.[9] A movie, 'Legend of the Melonheads', released in 2010, is based on the Ohio legend and various other legends in the Kirtland area.[10]
Legend in Connecticut[edit]
Saw Mill City Road is the dirt road where the Shelton Melon Heads supposedly lurk.
Several variations of the Melon Head legend can be found throughout Southwest Connecticut, especially in central & eastern Fairfield County[11] and western New Haven County, Connecticut. In eastern Fairfield County, many tales can be found in communities such as Trumbull, Shelton, Stratford, Monroe, Easton and Weston. In western and central New Haven County tales can be found in towns like Seymour, Oxford, Milford, and Southbury.[12]
There are several primary Connecticut variations.[13] According to one variation of the myth, Fairfield County was the location of an asylum for the criminally insane that burned down in the fall of 1960, resulting in the death of all of the staff and most of the patients with 10-20 inmates unaccounted for, supposedly having survived and escaped to the woods. The legend states that the melon heads' appearance is the result of them having resorted to cannibalism in order to survive the harsh winters of the region and to inbreeding, which in turn caused them to develop hydrocephalus. Some retellings of this version substitute the asylum or prison with places of business or camp grounds and the inmates/patients with employees, staff or camp-goers. Individual variations will modify what town these individuals were originally from and where they end up.[14]
According to the second variation, the melon heads are descendants of a Colonial-era family from Shelton-Trumbull who were banished after accusations of witchcraft were made against them causing them to retreat to the woods. As with the first version of this legend, this variation attributes the appearance of the melon heads to inbreeding.[15] Melon Heads allegedly prey upon humans who wander into their territory.[16] Like the first version, individual retellings will modify what town the family was originally from and where they end up.[17]
Dracula Drive[edit]
A number of Connecticut-based legends of the melon heads have one characteristics in common: the inclusion of a secluded, rustic or single-lane (usually) dirt road running through the melon heads' wooded territory. Many towns in Fairfield County and New Haven County have rural and forested sections, and it is not uncommon for these forests to have rural roads running through them. These roads at times are associated with the local variation of the Melon Head legend and are said to be part of the Melon Heads' territory.
In a number of towns such as Shelton, Trumbull and Monroe, several legends place the melon heads' territory around a mysterious and mythical street commonly referred to as Dracula Drive. None of the towns that have a melon head legend have roads designated as Dracula Drive. Depending on what version of the legend is told, one of several existing streets are mistakenly referred to or coincidentally coincide with the Dracula Drive mentioned in the melon head stories. For instance, some legends place the melon heads' territory in and around Saw Mill City Road in Shelton as Dracula Drive. Some other roads mistakenly referred to as Dracula Drive include:
Edmonds Road in Oxford.
Velvet Street in Trumbull and Monroe. (Runs between Tashua Road in Trumbull and Judd Road in Monroe near the Easton border.)
Zion Hill Rd in Milford.
The roads around Lake Mohegan in Fairfield.
Marginal Road in New Haven.
Jeremy Swamp Road in Southbury.
Paths/roads in and around Roosevelt Forest in Stratford.
Connecticut Legend - Inspirations and Origins[edit]
Characteristics of the legend evolve and parts of various versions of the legend affect other parts/versions of the legend. For example, some legends claim the melon heads would bite or consume whoever entered their territory. Also, the Melon Heads' territory commonly involves a secluded, rustic or dirt road running through it. This is one instance where elements of the legend interact over time and why some actual streets are mistakenly referred to as Dracula Drive by some locals.[18][19][20][21]
In Connecticut, some of the inspiration for a number of versions of the Melon Heads' legends may be attributed to the local surroundings and landmarks. Central Fairfield County is home to the now defunct Fairfield Hills State Mental Hospital as well as the Garner Correctional Institution, both located in Newtown, as well as the Federal Correctional Institution located in nearby Danbury. Also this area of Fairfield County has been historically a rural area filled with farms and forests. The proximity of several criminal and psychiatric institutions as well as their juxtaposition to rural areas of the county may have contributed elements to the legend of the Melon Heads.[22]
Stories about deformed country people who keep to themselves are common in legend. While the legend of the Melon Heads is more widely told throughout Southwest Connecticut, one of several other similar legends of deformed or mutated humans can be found in various locations of Fairfield and New Haven County.[18][19][20] These legends have been told in overlapping communities where some individuals would tell versions of one legend alongside other individuals who would tell versions of another legend. Over time this overlapping of oral tradition may have allowed the cross-contribution of elements to each other. Some similar legends include:
The Danbury Frog People (commonly told in Danbury/Bethel).
The Faceless People of Monroe / The House of the Faceless People (commonly told in Monroe).
Mongoloid Village (commonly told in the communities of central and eastern New Haven County like North Branford).
See also - Haunted Cemeteries in South Western Connecticut[edit]
Union Cemetery, Easton Connecticut
Stepney Cemetery, Stepney (Monroe) Connecticut
Gregory's Four Corners Burial Ground, Trumbull, Connecticut
Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, Connecticut
Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck, Connecticut
^ 'The Dogman and other Michigan mysteries'. Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
^ abThe origin of the Melon HeadsGrand Haven Tribune. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
^Mike LaVey. 'The Legend of the Melon Heads'. Weird Michigan. Sterling Publishing Company, 2006. 16.
^imdb.com The Melonheads
^ Ast, William F. III (2009-07-12). 'Hit and myth'. The Herald-Palladium. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
^ abMark Moran and Mark Scuerman. 'The Hideous Melon Heads'. Weird US. Sterling Publishing Company. 2005. 61.
^ abJames Renner. 'Mutant Melonheads Terrorize KirtlandArchived 2007-10-22 at the Wayback Machine'. Cleveland Free Times. October 25, 2006. Retrieved on December 31, 2007.
^Maggi Martin. 'Guide to ghosts and goblins Doris Straka will retell myths and legends during a ghost walk in Lake Cemeteries'. The Plain Dealer. October 2, 2000. 10B.
^Brian E. Albrecht. 'Does Hell Town really deserve its name?' The Plain Dealer. October 30, 2001. E1. Subscription required.
^Imbd.com Legend of the Melonheads
^ 'Urban legends are plenty in Connecticut'. Connecticut Post. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
^Joseph A. Citro. '[1]'. Weird New England: Your Guide to New England's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling Publishing Company, 2010. 62-63.
^'The Melon Heads'. Damned Connecticut. Accessed April 19, 2012.
^ 'Melonheads - CT Paranormal Searchers'. Ctparanormalsearchers.weebly.com. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
^ Kooz (2012-01-18). 'Kooz Top 5: Top 5 Fake Creatures Some People Think Are Real'. Kooztop5.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
^ ab Joseph Citro (2005-10-20). 'THE MELONHEADS MENACE FAIRFAX COUNTY, CONNECTICUT'. LiveJournel. Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
^ ab Ray Bendici (2009-08-01). 'The Melon Heads'. Damned Connecticut. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
^ ab Ray Bendici (2010-03-01). 'Murder on Melon Head Road?'. Damned Connecticut. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
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 * The data, metadata, and configuration are persisted on Docker volumes to not start "fresh" every
time the container is restarted. For details on the volumes, you can use `docker volume inspect <sourcename>`
 * For Docker on Windows make sure to configure it to use Linux containers

If you start Pulsar successfully, you will see `INFO`-level log messages like this:

```
2017-08-09 22:34:04,030 - INFO  - [main:WebService@213] - Web Service started at http://127.0.0.1:8080
2017-08-09 22:34:04,038 - INFO  - [main:PulsarService@335] - messaging service is ready, bootstrap service on port=8080, broker url=pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650, cluster=standalone, configs=org.apache.pulsar.broker.ServiceConfiguration@4db60246
...
```

:::tip

When you start a local standalone cluster, a `public/default` namespace is created automatically. The namespace is used for development purposes. All Pulsar topics are managed within namespaces. For more information, see [Topics](concepts-messaging.md#topics).

:::

## Use Pulsar in Docker

Pulsar offers client libraries for [Java](client-libraries-java.md), [Go](client-libraries-go.md), [Python](client-libraries-python.md)
and [C++](client-libraries-cpp.md). If you're running a local standalone cluster, you can
use one of these root URLs to interact with your cluster:

* `pulsar://localhost:6650`
* `http://localhost:8080`

The following example will guide you to get started with Pulsar quickly by using the [Python](client-libraries-python.md)
client API.

Install the Pulsar Python client library directly from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/pulsar-client/):

```shell
pip install pulsar-client
```

### Consume a message

Create a consumer and subscribe to the topic:

```python
import pulsar

client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://localhost:6650')
consumer = client.subscribe('my-topic',
                            subscription_name='my-sub')

while True:
    msg = consumer.receive()
    print("Received message: '%s'" % msg.data())
    consumer.acknowledge(msg)

client.close()
```

### Produce a message

Now start a producer to send some test messages:

```python
import pulsar

client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://localhost:6650')
producer = client.create_producer('my-topic')

for i in range(10):
    producer.send(('hello-pulsar-%d' % i).encode('utf-8'))

client.close()
```

## Get the topic statistics

In Pulsar, you can use REST, Java, or command-line tools to control every aspect of the system.
For details on APIs, refer to [Admin API Overview](admin-api-overview.md).

In the simplest example, you can use curl to probe the stats for a particular topic:

```shell
curl http://localhost:8080/admin/v2/persistent/public/default/my-topic/stats | python -m json.tool
```

The output is something like this:

```json
{
  "averageMsgSize": 0.0,
  "msgRateIn": 0.0,
  "msgRateOut": 0.0,
  "msgThroughputIn": 0.0,
  "msgThroughputOut": 0.0,
  "publishers": [
    {
      "address": "/172.17.0.1:35048",
      "averageMsgSize": 0.0,
      "clientVersion": "1.19.0-incubating",
      "connectedSince": "2017-08-09 20:59:34.621+0000",
      "msgRateIn": 0.0,
      "msgThroughputIn": 0.0,
      "producerId": 0,
      "producerName": "standalone-0-1"
    }
  ],
  "replication": {},
  "storageSize": 16,
  "subscriptions": {
    "my-sub": {
      "blockedSubscriptionOnUnackedMsgs": false,
      "consumers": [
        {
          "address": "/172.17.0.1:35064",
          "availablePermits": 996,
          "blockedConsumerOnUnackedMsgs": false,
          "clientVersion": "1.19.0-incubating",
          "connectedSince": "2017-08-09 21:05:39.222+0000",
          "consumerName": "166111",
          "msgRateOut": 0.0,
          "msgRateRedeliver": 0.0,
          "msgThroughputOut": 0.0,
          "unackedMessages": 0
        }
      ],
      "msgBacklog": 0,
      "msgRateExpired": 0.0,
      "msgRateOut": 0.0,
      "msgRateRedeliver": 0.0,
      "msgThroughputOut": 0.0,
      "type": "Exclusive",
      "unackedMessages": 0
    }
  }
}
```

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Our region in Northern Michigan is one of the great places to live and vacation in the Midwest and the nation. Yet it faces many challenges: cleanup of past pollution; finding an appropriate balance between economic development and clean air and water; providing economic opportunities for the low-income families and workers who do so much to sustain our tourism- and agricultural-based economy.
Since 1987 we have been committed as individuals to address major issues in our community. In our volunteer work, we apply the same skills as we do in our daily professional lives to help mission-driven organizations in our region achieve dramatic results that improve the lives of our neighbors and families.
After Kelly left his 7-year stint as a community organizer to join The Resource for Great Programs, he continued to work evenings and weekends as a volunteer seeking to establish public transportation in Benzie County, the rural county in which he lives on the shore of Lake Michigan.
He led a multi-year grassroots campaign which succeeded in 2006 in establishing "Benzie Bus," a $1.5 million system that not only takes workers to their workplace but connects residents, visitors and consumers to local businesses and places of recreation that are vital to the area economy. Kelly continues to serve as a volunteer and board chairman for this best-practice model of rural public transportation in Northern Michigan.
Ken has served as volunteer executive director of the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council since 1986, dedicated to "Protecting the natural environment of Northern Michigan."
In 1996 he co-founded the Coalition for Sensible Growth, which mobilized more than 600 businesses, town planners, local officials, community groups, and grassroots environmental activists to combat urban sprawl and build stronger communities.
In 2004 the Coalition and its partners persuaded local officials to drop plans for a $300 million highway bypass proposed by the state highway department and instead launch a $1.3 million, citizen-led community visioning and planning initiative, the Grand Vision, which continues to the present. Ken continues to serve as NMEAC's volunteer executive director and founder of the Environmental Legacy Fund, an initiative that provides funding for legal action by grassroots groups seeking accountability from government and a voice in public decisions affecting their homes, jobs and neighborhoods.


Will My Infertility Be Cured?
The answer to this question is one every man and woman facing infertility must deal with at some point or another. For me it happened the minute I walked out of the doctor's office. He had just told me that I was infertile at the age of 20. How can a 20 year old be infertile - that was my first question. My second question was - will my infertility be cured? My doctor answered that question with grace and wisdom and I'll never forget the gist of what he told me that day.
What does cure really mean – there's nothing wrong with you!
My doctor was quick to tell me that being infertile was not the same as being diagnosed with a disease. There was nothing that needed to be cured, we just needed to work to improve how the body worked so it would work better. I felt like I was diagnosed with a terminal illness – but I think most women feel the same way when they get that diagnosis.
Step back and remember conception is a process that must be perfect!
I'd never really done any research on conception. I knew what I'd learned in health class, but the actual process that occurs in the body was not something I was familiar with. I left the doctor's office that day with his recommendation to read more about conception and the first few weeks of life after conception occurs. I read a lot and I learned a lot, including the fact that many pregnancies are naturally miscarried because they are unhealthy.
Give up the feeling that the world is going to end because there is hope out there!
Hope – that wasn't a word I ever thought I would need to say in regards to my fertility, but here I was saying it loud and clear. Hope meant I wasn't worrying about being infertile and that meant less stress on my body.
My battle with infertility was relatively short compared to women who fight for multiple years to no avail, but I think I learned a very important lesson during that time. Life is precious no matter where the egg and sperm come from.
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Hiring by the nation's entrepreneurs is down.
While that point will surprise few people who lived through the Great Recession and the weak recovery that followed, the duration of the trend probably will. Government data sources point to a more than three-decade-long decline, going back to when data were first collected in the late 1970s.
Small businesses have been adding employees at a slower rate than big businesses for the past two decades. Between 1990 and 2011, employment in businesses with fewer than 500 workers grew by 13.3 percent, while employment in companies with 500 or more people on the payroll increased by 28.6 percent.
This faster rate of employment growth at big businesses has led the small-business share of private-sector employment to shrink over the past nearly two-and-a-half decades. In 1988, businesses with fewer than 500 employees accounted for the majority (54.5 percent) of private-sector workers. In 2011, small businesses were responsible for a minority of private-sector jobs (48.5 percent).
Not only have existing small businesses been adding workers at a slower rate than big businesses in recent decades, but also Americans have been founding new companies with employees at a substantially lower rate than they did three-and-a-half decades ago. Drawing on the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) database, researchers affiliated with the Brookings Institution recently showed that the rate of new employer firm formation in 2011 was roughly half of what it was in 1977 – a pattern the authors found was present across most industries and metropolitan areas.
While Americans are no longer creating and running small businesses with employees at the same rate they once did, they are starting and managing businesses without employees at a higher rate. Between 1992 and 2011, the per-capita number of employer businesses in the United States declined by 7.3 percent, while the per-capita number of non-employer businesses increased by 30.5 percent, Census data reveal. As a result, the fraction of American businesses with employees shrank from 26.2 percent in 1992 to 20.2 percent in 2011.
New businesses have become a less important source of job creation than they were three-and-a-half decades ago. Census data indicate that new-business job creation has fallen even faster than the rate of new-employer firm formation, as the number of people working at the average startup has declined along with the pace of creation of new employers. These two trends have combined to push the new-firm share of employment down from 5.7 percent in 1977 to 2.0 percent in 2011.
Self-employed people are less likely to hire other people than they once did, labor market data reveal. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures show that the share of self-employed Americans with employees fell from 20.7 percent in 1995 to 13.8 percent in 2010.
Many in Washington will likely point to the other side's policies as the cause of the decline in small- and new-business job creation. But differences between the political parties in their approach to entrepreneurship and small business aren't the most likely explanation. The downward trend has persisted for more than 30 years – through Democratic and Republican administrations, and through a wide variety of conflicting government policies. While government actions might have exacerbated or ameliorated the downward trend over the years, something more fundamental than government action is responsible for the long term decline. The $64,000 question is: What's driving the change?


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Under An Outlaw Moon
Musings & Rants by Tim Byrd
TIMFORMATION
Joss Whedon Speaks
Apr12 by Tim Byrd
Story God
Joss Whedon went to Harvard to accept the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, and science fiction site io9 was there. A few highlights:
In terms of the future, Whedon pointed to education as the surest, least violent way to make people confront the ideas of humanism. He stressed that he did not mean people would be educated out of religion, but instead this would work to counteract the fear, hatred, and ignorance that are the real enemies of humanism; these are all part of the darker side of humanity that is within humanists and non-humanists alike. He closed with a brief musing on the nature of faith, pointing out that while religious people believe in a divine deity with no evidence to confirm or deny this, humanists believe in the basic goodness of humanity in the face of a huge amount of evidence to the contrary. In that sense, humanists are the most optimistic, most faithful group of all.
I really like that.
Whedon spoke candidly about his problems with the first few episodes of Dollhouse. He admitted that he has made episodes that have nothing to say, for which he is ashamed. He singled out the fifth episode, "True Believer", as one that fails to explore the motivations for why people join cults and how these reasons connect with why people end up in the Dollhouse. Ultimately, he said, though there's nothing wrong with making television that is merely diverting, it's not something he's interested in doing.
This is heartening, and unsurprising. Whedon recognizes the flaws in the first episodes of Dollhouse, and owns up to them. Since so much has been leaked about Fox's interference in the first half of the show's season, it's easy to figure out that these episodes were somewhat rushed in order to satisfy executive demands. Once Whedon got more control on matters, the show slid perfectly into the groove he'd intended for it all along.
Indeed, he was generally highly pessimistic about the show's prospects for a second season, all but acting as though the show had already been canceled (which, for the record, it hasn't yet, at least not officially). He didn't give any specific reason for his opinion, although one might guess lackluster ratings and bitter experience are contributing factors.
It's not a good sign when the show's creator starts acting fatalistically about it in a public venue.
Whedon explained that Dollhouse is not a feminist show, as to make it explicitly adhere to any set system of belief would make it didactic instead of dramatic. When an audience member asked whether he saw it as troublesome that all the actives were unfailingly young and gorgeous, he acknowledged this to an extent, mentioning that early drafts of the show had involved actives of all shapes and sizes to reflect the fact that people's fantasies don't always adhere to Hollywood's conception of attractiveness, and the beautifying of the Dollhouse was one of the realities of dealing with Fox. There had been an entire early subplot about an active named Tango who was an older woman, but sadly all of that had to go when the show's direction changed.
Again, we see hints of the show that might have been versus the one created through necessary compromise with the idiot suits. It's not a crippling flaw — looking at attractive people isn't exactly a hardship — but it would've been nice to have the greater humanity Whedon wanted in the show.
Dollhouse is looking good, but its chances are looking worse and worse. I encourage you to watch if you aren't already, and if you need to catch up watch previous episodes on www.hulu.com. Fox is watching not only the ratings of Nielsen households watching the show (an utterly outmoded and lousy system), they're monitoring DVR recording/watching (you need to watch an episode within three days for your viewing to count) and how many views episodes get online.
To read the entire io9 writeup of Whedon's appearance, go here.
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La Bandera, le film français de Julien Duvivier sorti en 1935.


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Thread: Nexus Character Directory
2010-11-19, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
- Top - End - #269
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Hell's Heart
Re: Nexus Character Directory
Garrekan the Red
Alias: Pyro; 'The big red building-torcher what burns down buildings!'
Race: Fire Half-Giant
Age: 34 years [about 20]
Alignment: Chaotic Good leaning Neutral.
Profession: Adventurer, pyrotechnist, explosives expert and saboteur
Power Rating: Let's go with 'somewhere in the high C to low B range'.
Description: 8'1''; he's a big guy, even for a half-giant. 390 lbs; about average weight for his size. Agile and reasonably fir but not incredibly musclebound; compared to your average half-giant, he's the tall, wiry guy. Skin is deep tan. Hair ranges from light to dark red, depending on mood. His left arm has a tattoo from the shoulder down; deep red at the shoulder, then a lighter shade, then lighter, and up to deep orange-red at the fingertips with each stage separated by jagged fire-lines. (Occasionally, the hair and the tattoo turn other colors; see Personality.)
He's basically wearing this guy's armor, only take away the gauntlets and replace the armor from the legs down with padded leggings. This is what he wears when he's not undercover or asleep; he's a fire half-giant, he doesn't get hot or sweaty. When he's undercover, replace the whole thing with padded camo.
Personality: If you had your typical band of adventurers in a bar, Garrekan would be the big guy who sits down, orders three pints of beer, drinks 'em all in one swig and initiates a drinking song. He's boisterous, friendly, fiercely protective of friends, and very loud. He's also quite intelligent and streetwise, but he's not regular wise or a leader of any sort. He's not good at strategy or long-term planning, but he's good with short-term tactics and adjusting plans on the fly. Strong emotions are usually reflected in his hair and arm tattoo (and voice color); deep red is depressed, gray is resolve, lime green is excitement. (Note that these are only extreme emotions; normal emotion strength is just different red/orange and isn't visible in what color he speaks in.) If he is looking at you and turns indigo, back away slowly. If he looks at you and turns blue, run away quickly. If he turns BLACK (represented by bolded, underlined caps), EVERYONE NEARBY should run away quickly.
Equipment: The armor above. It's fireproof, obviously, and is more practical than it looks. He also has a magitek flamethrower gauntlet thing which uses his half-fire-giant powers to burn, zap, and explode stuff he shoots, a bastard sword (on fire, naturally). He also has a utility belt (like Batman, only the impossible space requirement is waved away by bags of holding instead of 'too badass for mortal comprehension'), with stuff like thieves' tools, a ten-foot pole, a bunch'a utility items, stuff like that.
Abilities: He's a fire half-giant, but he's got natural talent for shaping and controlling fire. He can light fires by concentrating, he can put out fires by concentrating, he can make small explosions by concentrating, he's virtually immune to heat. Stuff like that. The gauntlet enhanced that so that he's basically a living flamethrower and grenade launcher. Also, he's good at channelling that energy into stuff he makes- he can make explosives ten times more powerful than normal with a tenth of the materials. Garrekan is good at stealth; he likes to deploy his explosives himself.
Backstory:CG father, rebel from LE fire giant society, assassinated, son swears revenge, kills evil ruler, yadda yadda. The resulting explosion would've killed him (fire immunity or no), but he was hurled into the Nexus first, I guess. The rest TCL, or not.
Misc: Garrekan was the name of one of my first D&D characters, a barbarian. He was the most memorable one, so I took the name and personality and turned it into the part of me that really wants to FFRP. I hope nobody minds me blowing up evil fortresses. (Except for the evil guys, of course.)
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How do we make and build disciples without accepting the promise of ease and instant gratification that technology offers?
What should the church consider as we fast have adopted technology, online streaming and video venues?
How does the current trend of musical worship with lights, video screens, louder volume and lyrics effect disciple-making?
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Q: Proving that $f(x,y) = \frac{2}{x+y}$ is not uniformly continuous I'm struggling to show that $f(x,y) = \frac{2}{x+y}$ is not uniformly continuous, where the function is defined on $f:\mathbb{R}^{2}\setminus A \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ with $A = \left \{(x,y) \in \mathbb{R}^{2} | y = -x  \right \}$.

A: Look at what happens near $(0,0)$ for example on the line $y=x$.
Precisely, we want to prove the negative of the following proposition, denoting by $\mathcal{D}$ the domain of $f$
$$\forall\epsilon\gt 0,\exists\eta\gt 0,\forall (x_0,y_0)\in\mathcal{D},|(x,y)-(x_0,y_0)|\leq\eta\Rightarrow |f(x,y)-f(x_0,y_0)|\leq\epsilon$$
Let's take $\epsilon=1$ for any $N\in\Bbb{N}*\geq 2$ we take $x_0=y_0=1/N$ and we have
$$\left|f\left(\left({1\over 2N},{1\over 2N}\right)\right)-f\left(\left({1\over N},{1\over N}\right)\right)\right|={N\over 2}\geq 1$$


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May 6 2017	| New Orleans
Spring is for Bye Bye Birdie at the Rivertown Theaters.
It's 1958 and rock 'n roll heartthrob Conrad Birdie has been drafted. Before heading off to serve, his songwriter/agent Albert Peterson and Albert's secretary/finance Rosie Alvarez concoct a plan to send Birdie to Sweet Apple, Ohio. Their motive? One last hit with the broadcast of Albert's song "One Last Kiss" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." If things go as planned (of course, they don't), Conrad will plant one on the eager lips of Birdie Fan Club President Kim MacAfee in front of millions of hyperventilating teenage girls all around the world.
If all this is summoning up those famous black and white images of Elvis Presley getting his hair cut, you've figured out the inspiration for what's been called America's first rock musical. While it has only been revived once on Broadway since it won four Tony Awards in 1960, Bye Bye Birdie has always been a popular choice of high school and community theaters everywhere. Last night, it opened to a packed house at Rivertown Theater for the Performing Arts in Kenner. Pretty much the word on everyone's lips upon exiting the theater: "Adorable."
Rivertown really is a great little theater. Last night's performance of the musical (book by Michael Steward, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse) featured memorable songs, great sets, fun costumes and charming choreography. The Telephone Hour number was a real crowd pleaser, as were songs like "Put on a Happy Face," "One Boy & One Boy," "A Lot of Livin' to Do," and "Kids." And the cast was, well, adorable.
For starters, Bryce Slocumb who played Albert Peterson has an easy charm and charisma you can't manufacture. There were definitely shades of Dick Van Dyke in his dance moves as he goofed his way around the stage, insuring us that "gray skies were going to clear up." Albert's fiancé Rosie Alvarez, played by Abby Botnick, was first-rate as well. She totally convinced us that Rosie wants nothing more than to be married to a Phi Beta Kappa English teacher and can't wait for Albert's client Birdie to fly, fly way. She totally convinced us that Rosiewants nothing more than to be married to a Phi Beta Kappa English teacher and can't wait for Albert's client Birdie to fly, fly way. Albert's mother Mae, however, has other plans. Mrs. Peterson, played by Big Easy Award winner Helen Blanke, put in an amusing performance, despite the fact that many of her character's comments weren't exactly PC by today's standards. It will be fun to see how Jennifer Lopez handles Mae when she takes on the Rosie role soon in NBC's production of the musical.
Trevor Brown was hilarious sliding and ever-so-subtly gyrating around as Conrad Birdie (the name is a playoff on "Conway Twitty" who was a rocker before he moved on to country). Just out of Archbishop Rummel High School, Trevor has a sparkling, gold lame-future ahead of him. And Loyola University freshman Haley Nicole Taylor who played Kim MacAfee was cute as a button with a sweet voice to boot. Don't come expecting an imitation of Ann-Margret's sex kitten interpretation of the role. Haley Nicole played it straight-up apple pie and it worked.
The audience thoroughly enjoyed the performance of Kyle Daigrepont who played Kim's father Harry MacAfee – especially when he sang about "Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an' roll!" But the real surprise of the night came from Kehoe-France 5th grader Dylan Rhoton who played Kim's little brother Randolph. When he opened his mouth to sing, the words came out sweet and clear, and when he did a little shoulder shimmy in one of the numbers, the audience shimmied along with him. It's going to be fun to see what he does next.
Bye Bye Birdie will be playing at Rivertown through May 21. Last night, Producer/Director Gary Rucker announced that, at the end of the month, the cast will don zombie attire and do a 3-night run of Die Die Birdie. Only in New Orleans. For tickets and more information, click here.


This guitarist seems to have a bunch of experience in the VGM world, not as much as say Shinji Hosoe though. He performs in the majority of SNK arrange album and he arranged some songs too. He is a good guitarist but he usually doesn't lead in most songs, as that isn't SNK's style. As far as I know he only arranged four songs from the Real Bout Fatal Fury(Garou Densetsu) Special Arrange album, and they were all very good. I would like to know if he arranged any other songs/albums.