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PROMenade to Honor Preservation Visionaries' Achievements
by Annette Crawford September 15, 2016 January 31, 2020
WeWork will open a downtown San Antonio co-working space in late 2019, taking over five floors of the Kress Building. Credit: Scott Ball / San Antonio Report
The Power of Preservation (PoP) Foundation will honor the work of forward-thinking citizens and businesses at its Fifth Annual Power of Preservation PROMenade. This year's event will be held on Oct. 27 in the Kress Building, located at 311 E. Houston St.
The award winners, selected by the PROM committee, are:
Sally Buchanan – Vision Award for Lifetime Achievement
Irby Hightower – Preservation Champion
Pearl Brewhouse – Best Preservation Project
"This year's honorees continue the Power of Preservation's tradition of honoring our local heroes – some popular and some unsung – who passionately advocate to preserve the city's heritage," said PoP Board Member Robert Salluce.
"I'm proud that Sally Buchanan will be honored with this year's Vision Award," he added. "Her absolute conviction and famous tenacity helped preserve our natural and cultural heritage and, indeed, shaped our identity as a place. For years, Irby Hightower, this year's Preservation Champion, has been at the center of projects that have truly transformed the city."
Salluce said that while the Pearl, in general, has had a significant impact on San Antonio and its growth, the Brewhouse "particularly embodies a new energy for San Antonio and is an obvious choice to highlight at PROM."
The event theme – "Historic Houston Street" – will allow attendees to "celebrate the golden era of this glamorous boulevard," which was once a thriving center for commerce and recreation in the early 20th century. To purchase individual tickets, which cost $150, click here.
Read about this year's honorees below.
Vision Award for Lifetime Achievement
The consummate leader, volunteer, and activist, Sara "Sally" Matthews Buchanan knew what community involvement meant from a young age. She was well known for her steadfast commitment to several preservation and conservation causes in San Antonio.
Buchanan died July 30 at age 73 after a five-year battle with melanoma. Her husband of nearly 45 years, Robert T. Buchanan, said his wife's life was all about "doing for others.
"In anything she did, personal gain did not come into the picture," Robert said. "Sally always made certain that everybody involved got their due and got their recognition. It was not about her.
"In her young schooling at St. Mary's Hall, I think service was one of those things that came to the forefront," he added. "She went to Mills College out on the West Coast and that influenced her a great deal in being independent."
Robert said his wife's love of travel figured greatly into her persona.
"Her quest of seeing places and knowing different cultures certainly was a big part of who she was. She was able to really experience the classical civilizations."
During Buchanan's early travels, "The Shah was still in Iran. Afghanistan had a king. Nepal had a king. She got to see the Buddhas of Bamiyan that the Taliban eventually destroyed. It just stuck with her," Robert said. "She became more interested in conservation and preservation from seeing so much on her trips."
Buchanan was known as an advocate for many organizations, including the San Antonio Conservation Society, The Witte Museum, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the San Antonio Symphony, and more, but perhaps her most notable achievements came while serving as a director of the San Antonio River Authority board from 1996-2016, and as its president in 2013. Buchanan also co-founded the San Antonio River Foundation in 2003, and served as its chair from 2003-2006.
"Sally Buchanan loved San Antonio – its past, present, and future," said River Authority General Manager Suzanne Scott. "She could always share interesting, behind-the-scenes stories of how big decisions in the city really happened – the interesting people, relationships and, yes, sometimes the gossip, that drove some of San Antonio's past movers and shakers.
Sally Buchanan. Photo courtesy of San Antonio River Authority.
"Preservation was more than bricks and mortar to Sally. It was the people and the stories that provide the emotion and passion that built this city," Scott continued. "I saw that firsthand in her love for the San Antonio River and the role this treasured resource plays in the rich cultural history of our community. She would tell everyone who would listen that it was the river, its fresh water and abundant flora and fauna, that supported life of the earliest indigenous people, fed the acequias that advanced the successful agricultural operations of the Spanish-colonial missions, and, in more recent history, is the reason San Antonio is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the nation."
Scott said one of Buchanan's proudest moments came when UNESCO bestowed the World Heritage designation upon San Antonio's Spanish-colonial missions and the Alamo. The organization specifically noted the significance of the San Antonio River and the acequia system as key elements in the establishment and sustained operation of the missions.
"She was so very pleased that this foundational part of our history was highlighted on the world stage," Scott said.
Preservation Champion
There was never a question in Hightower's mind that he would be anything but an architect, even as a child in Port Arthur, Texas.
"My parents knew that the easiest way to keep me happy on a family trip was to drive around neighborhoods where I could look at houses and buildings," Hightower said. "My favorite places were where I could walk around and look so I've always liked urban areas the best. I was a weird kid."
Alamo Architects Founding Principal and consulting architect for the Frost Building project Irby Hightower. Photo by Scott Ball.
That "weird kid" – founding principal at Alamo Architects, Inc. – initially worked and lived on the East Coast after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin.
"I'm not a preservation architect," Hightower said. "They are highly trained experts. But when my partners and I were young architects, the federal government enacted income tax credits for converting historic buildings into mixed-use buildings. We were living in New York and Philadelphia so it created a lot of work for architects. I was hired by a firm that specialized in this new field of adaptive re-use of historic buildings."
When he moved back to his home state, San Antonio "was the only city in Texas already actively adapting older buildings for multi-family, office, and hotel (use) so it was natural for us to start working on projects like the Fairmount Hotel," he said. The 3.2-million-pound hotel was moved a half-mile from Bowie and Commerce streets to La Villita over a span of six days in 1985.
"In the first two years of the firm, we looked at converting many of the two- to eight-story historic buildings downtown into apartments with ground floor retail," Hightower said. "Sadly, the 1980s oil crash and savings and loan crisis killed all of these projects. We are just now seeing some of these projects starting up again."
Like Buchanan, Hightower's interests led him to the San Antonio River. When the San Antonio River Oversight Committee was formed in 1998, Hightower and former Mayor Lila Cockrell were appointed as co-chairs. The committee was formed to advise the City, County, and River Authority on the comprehensive oversight of flood control and amenity improvements on the San Antonio River portion from Josephine Street south to Espada Dam, which was later extended to south of Loop 410.
Architect Irby Hightower explains RIO7 designs to property owners. Photo by Lea Thompson.
Hightower said he's proud that the project is well designed and reflects the aspirations of the community.
"The river and creeks are the connective tissue of San Antonio's built history. It is hard to perceive how Brackenridge Park, the Pearl, the San Antonio Museum of Art, Main Plaza, and the Missions relate to each other if you drive from one to the next," he said. "But if go along the river, all of these great spots reconnect as they were first perceived as part of a larger community. They are no longer individual places but become part of what makes our city unique."
Hightower admits that "preservation" can be difficult to define.
"It's a bit of an odd word. You're preserving the building or the landscape for the future but rarely are you preserving how it currently appears or is being used," he said. "It usually requires a great deal of work, updating, ongoing care, creativity, and thoughtful editing.
"Building on a place's history, culture, and how it has changed over time are all part of making great and unique places to live," he continued. "I'm less interested in preserving a particular building or group of buildings than how we can constantly improve our city. For me, preservation is about the future, not the past."
Best Preservation Project
When the Pearl Brewhouse was built in 1894, its skyline must have been a sight to behold. The brewery was the largest employer in the city, and considering its location on the outskirts of town, "it must have been crazy impressive," conjectured Bill Shown, managing director of real estate for Silver Ventures, the Pearl's development company.
Now, 122 years later, with the San Antonio skyline more fleshed out and its outskirts expanded for miles in all directions, the Pearl Brewhouse is once again "crazy impressive" as the home of Hotel Emma and Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery.
Pearl Brewery complex entrance. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
When the Pearl began its resurgence journey 14 years ago, the team at Silver Ventures spent a lot of time dreaming about what the location might become.
"We went through a really cool exercise trying to project ourselves forward into the future and try to imagine what a day at the Pearl might look like," Shown said. "As the stories began to unfold from each of our respective visions, it was so often about community and connectedness, and so that became a common theme around what we wanted to do at the Pearl. As we looked at the Brewhouse, we looked at all the different ideas and one thing became (really) clear to us, consistent with the idea of connectedness. If we make it residences, nobody will be able to go inside those spaces. As appealing as it might be to make it condos or apartments, that was out, because we felt it was important to invite people in."
Shown added that once the team landed on the idea of a hotel, they wanted the space to feel like "San Antonio's living room, where people can go because they feel really comfortable there." The challenge of the design was to mix the Old World San Antonio heritage with the industrial character of the building. They found that right mix with the firm Roman and Williams.
"We just love their design aesthetic, because they are so attuned to the idea of making something beautiful inside a rough space and enhancing the rough space by kind of riffing off of it," Shown said.
While Pearl itself has been 14 years in the making, the design of the Brewhouse began in 2007, but was put on hold the following year when the recession hit.
"Then in 2009 or '10, once the smoke cleared from the recession, we restarted the idea of a hotel in the space," Shown said. "We started looking at a 225-room hotel originally, and then we started looking at an 85-room hotel. We got way down the road on that and said, 'This needs to be bigger,' and so we landed on the idea of Hotel Emma, which is 146 keys. It took five years to build."
(Read More: Hotel Emma: San Antonio Gets a Showcase Hotel)
The entrance to Hotel Emma. Photo by Scott Martin. Credit: Scott Martin for the San Antonio Report
Shown credited the success of the project to the team that worked on Hotel Emma around the clock: Development Manager Lisa Rosenzweig, Design and Construction Manager Allen Sikes, and Jeffrey Fetzer, a man with an unusual job title – Protector of the Historic Fabric.
"His job was to make sure that everything we did was supportive of the history of the place and that nothing was done that would damage the history, "Shown said. "Things like electrical conduits, junction boxes, and air conditioning ducts … were thoughtfully placed."
Shown said the true visionary of Pearl is Christopher "Kit" Goldsbury, chairman of Silver Brands, Inc.
"He's committed to the vision. He absolutely stays the course and every decision that we make is consistent with the vision," Shown said. "One of the best compliments we receive is when people say, 'We just love the attention to detail.' I think what they're really saying is that they love that we pay attention to the way everything interacts and the way everything is done. We work hard to make sure that every single nut and bolt and screw and board and piece of furniture and piece of art is consistent with the vision. Hopefully, when they're in the spaces, they feel a sense of history."
"I think the cool thing about PROM, is that it has blossomed organically, thanks to so many special people who believe passionately in historic preservation and have nourished it with their energy and creativity," said PoP Board Member Andi Rodriguez. "There's really no other event like PROM in the city. Anytime a super fun celebration can provide a deeper understanding of a mission and activate people together for a common cause, it creates community."
Rodriguez said while it's easy to wax nostalgic about the importance of historic preservation, it's really about the people.
"Power of Preservation exists to foster the idea that breathing new life into these spaces helps us understand the context of place, to reimagine ourselves, and to connect us to each other – (to) our past, present and future," she said.
Tickets and table sponsorships are still available for PROM. For more information, click here.
Top image: The Kress Building at 311 East Houston Street. Photo by Scott Ball.
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Annette Crawford is an Air Force veteran and has spent more than 30 years as a writer, editor, and public affairs officer. She is the house photographer at Sam's Burger Joint & Music Hall.	More by Annette Crawford
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Why Does Sirius XM Want Pandora?
Sirius has taken a serious stake in the streaming-music specialist, and combining their assets could make both companies stronger in some big ways.
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Jul 5, 2017 at 8:49AM
Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ:SIRI) has been interested in Pandora Media (NYSE:P) for a while now, and recently took a $480 million stake in the company when Pandora turned down an acquisition offer.
In this clip from Industry Focus: Tech, Motley Fool analyst Dylan Lewis and senior tech specialist Evan Niu explain what Sirius is getting out of its interest in Pandora.
A full transcript follows the video.
This video was recorded on June 30, 2017.
Dylan Lewis: Why don't we kick things off with Pandora? A lot has happened with the company in the last month or so. In early June, they announced that Sirius was taking a $480 million stake in the business, and that the company was selling off its Ticketfly online ticket property. Why don't we unpack that first part there? It looks like Sirius is taking what amounts to about a 19% stake in the business. For longest time, there's been this "will they, won't they" with these two companies. They've talked about possibly doing an acquisition, there's been rumors for a while. This is not a full acquisition. But it gives Sirius a meaningful stake in the business, and three seats on Pandora's board. In your eyes, Evan, what makes Pandora attractive to Sirius?
Evan Niu: One of the main factors is the fact that Sirius is still very reliant on the automotive market. No one listens to satellite radio outside of the car. It's based in a stand-alone device, and no one really does that anymore. So, they are still very tied to the auto market. And that's under threat by the fact that cars are becoming increasingly connected to a wider array of music options. So, if you're tied to this market, and that's your only real market, and it's getting a lot more competitive there, then you have to start exploring other avenues. For them, it's a way to get exposure to internet radio, just more digital radio services. They also lack an on-demand service, which is something that Pandora is just now finally getting up and running. So, to me, I think that's part of it.
Lewis: A lot of people think of Pandora as a laggard in the online music-streaming space, but they do have something like 70 million users. They certainly have a large installed base to pick up on and work off of, if you're Sirius.
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One of the things that I talk a lot about when it comes to the 80s is this idea that because the pop culture of the decade was so loud, syndicated and homogeneous no matter where you lived in the United States, it's like everyone who grew up through those years had a shared childhood. We all watched the same cartoons, read the same comics and ate the same prepackaged,, processed foods. And I love that about the decade. But there's also something to be said about regional nostalgia. For instance, growing up int he southeast I was bombarded with local television commercials that featured Jim Varney doing his Ernest character for our local Fox affiliate channel. This was something that he did in a lot of regions, but the commercials were all localized, so only the folks growing up in those areas got a chance to see those spots. There's something really cool about the idea of having a more focused, obscure nostalgia that ties you more closely to your hometown, but it also very much a part of the pop culture zeitgeist.
That's why I was super stoked to find the below sheet of stickers that were promotional giveaways for Chicago's local Fox affiliate WFLD TV 32 back in 1985. Granted, I didn't grow up in this area, but I love the idea of the local station putting together sticker sheets to give away to kids which illustrated their after school cartoon line-up…
I also love seeing this hodge-podge of cartoons together all on one sheet mixing some very 80s properties with older series like Tom & Jerry and the Flintstones. I wonder how many other stations put out promotional items like these geared towards their cartoon line-ups?
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Kimberly Jordinson (Patrick Shanahan EX Wife) Wiki, Bio, Age, Children, Domestic Violence
By Admin	 Last updated Jun 19, 2019
Kimberly Jordinson
Kimberly Jordinson Bio – Who Is Patrick Shanahan Wife
Kimberly Jordinson is the ex-wife of Patrick Shanahan, who was the U.S. acting Defense Secretary until June 18, 2019, when he withdrew his nomination following an investigation by FBI on a domestic dispute from nine years ago involving him and Kimberly. She is the owner of KGJ Interior Design and KGJ Properties Management.
Kimberly Jordinson Age
Kimberly is 56 years old; she was born on December 13, 2019
Kimberly Jordinson Job
Kim attended Virginia Tech where she studied Human Resource. She began her career at the NRA where she quickly rose to ranks. She later moved to DFI, a management consulting company in D.C. where she became a senior partner. She then moved to Heidrick & Struggles where she helped build and later ran their telecom practice.
Due to her success at Heidrick & Struggles, she was recruited to MCI transitioning to Director of Strategy, where she was responsible for building out wireless capability.
She later joined Korn/Ferry International's Human Resources Center of Expertise as a client partner after Verizon acquired MCI. Within a year she was promoted to Senior Client Partner and Managing Director. She soon left and founded KGJ Interior Design and KGJ Properties Management.
Kimberly Jordinson Husband – Patrick Shanahan wife
Kimberly was married to Patrick Shanahan for 22 years before they separated in 2010 and later divorced. Patrick is an American official who was serving as Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense since January 1, 2019. He was appointed by President Donald Trump after the resignation of Retired General James N. Mattis. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense for two years (2017-2019). Prior to joining the government, he served various roles at Boeing for 30 years.
In May 2019 the White House announced that Shanahan would be appointed as permanent secretary, but the paperwork was never officially sent to the Senate. On June 18, 2019, he withdrew his nomination following an FBI investigation against domestic dispute against his former wife, Kimberly.
President Donald Trump tweeted that Patrick had decided not to go forward with the confirmation. He also thanked him for his outstanding service.
"Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family… I thank Pat for his outstanding service and will be naming Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, to be the new Acting Secretary of Defense. I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!"
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family….
….I thank Pat for his outstanding service and will be naming Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, to be the new Acting Secretary of Defense. I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!
Kimberly Jordinson Children
Kimberly together with her former husband Patrick Shanahan has three children; a son William Jordinson and two daughters Caili, and Jordan. After the divorce, Kimberly won the custody of the children and moved them to Florida. When Jordan went to college she joined her father in Seattle. In 2014 she lost custody of her youngest daughter Caili.
Patrick Shanahan Domestic Violence
According to USA Today, the FBI had been investigating a violent domestic dispute from nine years ago between Shanahan and his then-wife Kimberly.
According to court filings and police reports both Jordinson and Shanahan acknowledged that on Aug. 28, 2010, they had a late night argument after both had been drinking.
During the argument, Jordinson ordered Shanahan to leave their home and began to throw his clothes and other belongings out the front door. Shanahan also told police that night Jordinson tried to light the pile of clothing on fire.
Jordinson said that before Shanahan left the house, he went to retrieve a briefcase from a closet near the bathroom where she was getting ready for bed.
"We have had arguments over this briefcase and its contents before. I did not want him to take the briefcase. I picked up the briefcase and Pat slugged me in the stomach. I stood up and he tried to hit me in the stomach twice more, but the briefcase was in the way. … Pat eventually yanked the briefcase from my hands, breaking my fingernails."
Jordinson claimed that she called out to her son who "appeared with a baseball bat" to defend his mother. She later called the police and that's when the confrontation ended.
Shanahan on his part claimed that after he packed his car with the clothing and other belongings tossed in the front yard he went to the bathroom to gather toiletries that had been strewn across the bathroom floor by his wife, who "continued to drink."
"I took belongings out of my closet. When I started to carry my briefcase and other items to the car, Kim attacked me. I did not hit her in the stomach or anywhere. I tried to exit the house to put the briefcase in the trunk of my car but she wouldn't let go. … Kim followed me outside and then punched me repeatedly in the face. I told her to get away from me and to leave me alone."
He told the police that his wife continued to swing at him but he didn't retaliate; "I defended myself by blocking her punches with my hand."
According to the officers dispatched to the family home, they said that Jordinson, not Shanahan, was the aggressor, producing photographs of his bloodied nose, blood-stained hand and scratched chin. The officers also said they found no apparent injuries and noted that her description of the attack was inconsistent.
"Though she stated that she was struck in the stomach, she demonstrated she was struck on her face". The police said and also added that Jordinson appeared to be intoxicated.
After the incidence Jordinson was arrested on a domestic assault charge. The case was dropped the following years due to "proof problems," though Shanahan wrote in court filings that he had asked them to do so.
During an interview with USA Today in May, Jordinson maintained her version claiming that Shanahan dragged her from the couple's home, mocked her and grabbed her wrists after he locked the briefcase in the trunk of his car.
"I was like fighting … trying to get my wrists loose, and, um, he was just shaking me, saying, 'You're a joke! You're a joke! You're a joke!' Then I got one hand loose, and that's when he punched me … in the stomach."
Kimberly Jordinson Criminal Charges
In 2014 Kimberly was charged with burglary and criminal mischief in separate disputes with a former business partner.
On August 23, 2014, Kimberley was on the phone with Eric Goodman, who was her business partner, and they had an argument. Kimberly later texted him "get your piece of shit car out of my driveway."
Goodman had stored his 2003 Mercedes C230 at her house on 109 N Warbler Lane. When he returned to pick it up, the front and rear windshield were busted out and there were numerous dents around the vehicle.
An eyewitness told the police that he saw Kimberley with "a medium-sized sledgehammer methodically circling a Mercedes Benz that was parked in her driveway" and that he observed "Jordinson strike all sides of the Mercedes, including the front and back windshields, with a sledgehammer"
On December 19, 2014, Kimberly was arrested and charged with burglarizing an unoccupied structure and damaging property worth $1,000 or more.
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Q: Templating Language like Smarty available for dotnet I really like using the awesome templating engine called Smarty in Php.
I'm wondering if there is something akin to this for dotnet for doing a project in Asp.Net MVC(C#)?  I have been looking and haven't been able to find anything yet.
Basically, I'd like to be able to on a pageload, access an object and the attributes of that object are then used to fill in the placeholders for where dynamic data would go.
Anybody have any ideas as to whether this is possible or what might support something like this?

A: Check out Razor (MVC 3 required) or another one of the ASP.NET MVC View Engines:
Razor
Spark
Other View Engines:  What templating engines are available for ASP.NET MVC Framework?

A: Why not use ASPX page itself as a template - you can use data binding expressions to bind the data from mark-up and then execute it using HttpServerUtility.Execute method to get the html output.

A: In ASP.NET MVC, you don't do any business logic in your Views (which would be your templates if you will), you only do presentation logic. And for your BL you have your Models and for all the wiring you have your Controllers. I personally think it's a very clean design and you always (well almost always :P) know where everything is supposed to go.

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Mail the form to the IRS.
You can even apply for EIN by telephone.
All EIN applications must disclose the name and tax payer identification number of the true principal officer, general partner, grantor, or owner, whom the IRS would call as "Responsible Party".
In order to apply for tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(3), you have to fill out relevant forms and submit with user fees. User fees are based upon the gross receipts. Total money an organization receives from all sources before taking out costs or expenses. It's based upon the gross receipts an organization received/plants to receive over a four year plan. Generally an organization is required to apply for recognition of exemption with the IRS within 27 months from the end of the month in which it was organized for its exemption to be effective from its date of formation. When certain requirements are met, this deadline can be extended. Normally on receipt of application and user fees, the IRS approves simple applications within 90 days or less. IRS would have an Exempt Organization Specialist assigned to process complex application which needs substantial data and takes more than 90 days to process. In some cases, it may take up to six months. Determination letter recognizing exempt status which shows foundation classification and permanent records required for public disclosures would be issued by the IRS.
Churches, including synagogues, temples and mosques are not required to apply, yet they are still exempt from federal income tax and the contributions they receive are tax deductible, but they can still apply. Most of them apply to receive the determination letter that proves their tax-exempt status and specifies that contributions to them are tax deductible.
Churches, schools, organizations providing medical or hospital care are statutory charities. Other public charities are organizations that receive significant public support including organizations that provide support to other public charities.
In order to qualify an organization as a public charity, it has to pass the organization and operational test, broad public support etc.
Organizational test:- The organization limits its purpose to one or more of the exempt purpose listed in Section 501(c)(3). It does not permit the organization to engage in non-exempt activity and assets of the organization must be permanently dedicated to an exempt purpose. For the operational test, the organization must show that its principal activities will be to further its exempt purpose. The organization also has to limit the participation in certain types of activities and absolutely refrain from other prohibited activities.
To demonstrate public support the organization has to show that it receives substantial support and contributions from publicly supported organization, governmental units and or the general public or no more than 1/3 support from gross investment income and unrelated business income combined and more than 1/3 support from contributions, membership fees and gross receipts from activities related to exempt functions. In this a good record keeping is an important factor.
The IRS assesses the activities and the test is conducted when you are first applying for tax-exempt status. When the organization after receiving the 501(c)(3) status engages in prohibited activities, you could lose your tax-exempt status and would be subjected to both taxes and penalties. Churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches and an organization that is not a private foundation and the gross receipts of which in each taxable year are normally not more than $5000 are normally treated under public charity. When an organization qualifies as a 501(c)(3) organization, the IRS presumes it's a private foundation unless it can show that it's a public charity.
The main difference is where the organization's financial support comes from. Generally a public charity has a broad base of support while a private foundation has very limited sources of support. There are also different tax rules like private foundations are subject to excise taxes that aren't imposed on public charities.
Normally the IRS grants public charity status when it passes the public charity test for the initial five years, based upon the predicted support is treated as a public charity regardless of actual support. From year 6 onwards, the IRS based on information provided in annual reporting, it's calculated for current year plus four previous years.
Group exemption letters are issued by IRS for smaller group associated with a single central group. They can apply as a group and there is no need for individual application. Group exemption letters have the same effect as individual letters.
Post application, organizations may operate as a tax exempt organization while waiting for approval. Donors have no assurance that their contributions will be deductible until application is approved. While waiting for the approval, the organization may follow the procedure for record keeping, keeping detailed records of financial and non-financial activities.
The benefits of Section 501(c)(3) status is that, the organization gets exemption from federal income tax, tax-deductible contributions and reduced postal rates. Possible exemption from State income, sales and employment taxes. The organization can receive tax-exempt financing.
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Daily Wrap – Monday June 29, 2013 – Fitzpatrick All Fitzpatrick
July 29, 2013 Uncategorizedmtc9393
Fitzpatrick was on the stand all day. The best that can be said is he stood up pretty well on cross-examination, not backing down from any of his assertions even though Kelly kept hammering away at him accusing him of making things up and reinventing reality.
I'm not sure how the jury is understanding this. Kelly seems to have information showing that he is not telling the truth, FBI reports saying something totally opposite, and he says in effect: "I didn't write the report. I was there. I know what happened no matter what some report says."
We started off with the arrest of Gerry Angiulo. Fitzpatrick claims that he was the one who did it; Kelly shows that the 302 says Agent Quinn and another one did it. Fitzpatrick suggests Quinn wrote the 302 and it is wrong (something we've heard before which should not give us a great deal of confidence in the FBI reports) and repeats that he was there and he made the arrest. Kelly reminds him that Agent Quinn is still alive (remember you are testifying under oath) and thus available to come in and contradict him. It doesn't affect Fitzpatrick.
We move over to who found the rifle used by James Earl Ray who killed M.L. King. Kelly had reports suggesting it was the Memphis police; he refers to a 200 page FBI documentary telling about the killing and there's no mention of the FBI recovering it. Fitzpatrick repeats: I was the first FBI agent on the scene. I found it, took custody of it, took it to Washington, DC.
Next as to his reason for leaving the FBI. Apparently he was supposed to investigate a shooting down on the Cape which he did and filed a report. But we know from his direct testimony that he's becoming a little bit out of step with the "get along, go along" FBI mentality. He's complaining bitterly about Whitey being carried as an informant.
He goes to DC to meet with the top brass. They tell him that's the way it is going to be. Not only that, they want him and the people investigating the Wheeler/Halloran murders to coordinate their investigation with the targets' handler, Connolly. He being the good soldier – he keeps reminding us the FBI is a semi-military group and you must do what you are told – tells everyone they have to do that, even though he doesn't like it.
He then gets rock solid proof that the SAC Greenleaf has leaked grand jury minutes to a defense lawyer (not sure how this will be handled in cross-examination because the Boston US Attorney's office has done the same thing to the Globe). He goes to O'Sullivan with his complaint. Anytime O'Sullivan's name is brought up the prosecutors object to us finding out anything he said. After that, he writes up a complaint against Greenleaf and sends it to FBI headquarters. He speaks with one of the top dogs down there, a guy named Glover. Glover tells him to shut up and keep it to himself. Nothing is ever done about his report.
He meets Greenleaf sometime later and he can tell Greenleaf knows about his report. Little things start happening. He can sense he's become persona no grata in the Bureau. This messes with his mind that he can be doing the right thing and yet evil things start happening to him.
Back to the shooting down the Cape, he writes a report saying he interviewed all involve. The FBI gets one or two agents who say he didn't interview them. One of these agents will later admit that he lied when he denied being interviewed, he said he was forced by other FBI agents to say that. (Our wonderful FBI.) He gets a letter from the FBI Director saying nasty things about him. Fitzpatrick says he made a settlement that had as part of it the deal that the letter was not supposed to be disclosed at a public hearing but Kelly is doing it anyway. Fitzpatrick seems mad. It seems he feels he is being betrayed again, like he gave as the reason he named his book.
Fitzpatrick figures he can't stay in Boston so he volunteers to take a pay grade adjustment and a drop in rank and go off to the Rhode Island office. He's got too many family ties in the area to leave. In Rhode Island he learns another FBI agent is being fingered as a bad agent. He files a report with Greenleaf and Greenleaf tells the agent he reported on. That was it, he quit.
Kelly tried to have him admit he quit was because of the FBI director's letter. Fitzpatrick say the reason why he did leave the FBI was because it had become corrupt.
He said he went to the Connolly trial in Florida where he was interviewed by Agent Marra who has been working with the prosecution. He told Marra that Connolly should not have been on trial since it was his opinion Morris was the one who was doing the leaking. He was not called as a witness. (I wonder if this was disclosed to defense counsel in Florida? Certainly is exculpatory.)
When the day ended I must admit I was getting to become a lot more willing to see things through Fitzpatrick's eyes. I expected the cross-examination of him would have been more telling. Fitzpatrick's book really turned me off; but seeing him in person gives me a better feeling for what he is about. I'm going to have to think about this. Maybe listen to the rest of his cross-examination more. But perhaps he is getting a bad rap because he is on the level which we've seen happen before.
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I wonder if you could drop a note off for me to Mr. Comey if you run into him in the Halls of Justice today?
Dear Mr. Comey,
Welcome to your new job at the FBI. We'd dearly love for you to come to Boston and walk every hallway of every single office building in your charge; as a matter of fact, we're tidying up an island for the President, why don't you drop by while he's in town?
Messrs. Carney and Brennan have actually cleared the air for you. It's a glorious morning.
And Mr. Comey? There's someone I've just laid eyes on who formerly worked for your organization, a Mr. Robert Fitzpatrick? Like the Forrest Gump of the FBI, he seems to have been everywhere important and with apparent equal amounts of sincerity. I'm not sure if yesterday's mocking was in good taste. Would you check on him please and make any reparations necessary?
mtc9393 says:
Firefly:
Definitely will give him your letter when I have lunch with him later today.
declan mcmanus says:
One more thought…Morris collects his pension while Fitzpatrick gets the goose egg.
Declan:
Even Connolly is collecting his pension. Yeah, Fitzpatrick really got rolled over and it seems his real crime was walking out of step.
notaboyo says:
Like to point out that Fitzpatrick voluntarily took a demotion to distance himself from the corruption he was witnessing and reporting to no avail. That should say something about his character.
When any LEO reports corruption they are routinely persona non grata. Although the cop/agent whatever is in actuality doing his or her job they're suddenly "rats" for not toeing the Thin Blue Line.
Some end up quitting, some fired on trumped up charges, some commit suicide, quickly or slowly via the bottle, some get shot ala Serpico, some are sent off to Federal prison and some get to write a book and payback their tormentors in a public trial.
AUSA Kelly should be ashamed of himself.
ernie boch, lll says:
Was Roy Cohn ever ashamed?
Notoboyo:
There's more to the Fitzpatrick guy than I gave him credit for. You're absolutey right about what happens when an agent complains another agent is breaking the law – the guy who complained gets fingered as "no good."
I agree with everyone's comments about Fitzpatrick. I was not a big fan because I felt he was less than force coming about his reasons for leaving the bureau. I believe I may have alluded to it in 1 or 2 comments when he showed up here. After hearing him testify however, his explanation definitely has a ring of truth to it. That's one of the things that makes this one of the best blogs I've ever visited. People aren't afraid to change their minds when they are presented with facts. They should absolutely be ashamed of themselves for using a document that was supposed to be kept secret as part of an agreement. once again a person who is merely telling the truth is portrayed in the media as a supporter of Bulger. Nothing could be further from the truth.I hope he comes back!
We still have his cross-examination to go through today. Let's see how he holds up. I forgot that they pulled out the document that was supposed to be sealed. Kelly better get back to that today to show that it was not sealed in the settlement agreement as Fitzpatrick alleges or that'll be real dirty pool.
Actually, if the cross-examination was done right Fitzpatrick could have been an effective witness against both Bulgers since he has no love for Billy. He's up first today on cross so we'll see how it plays out.
Here's a 1/6/12 interview with WPRI of Robert Fitzpatrick – about 30 minutes:
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/on_air/newsmakers/newsmakers-16-new-whitey-bulger-book
I understand the FBI corruption aspect doesn't directly correlate with the murders he's charged with, but he at least should be able to call whoever's relevant to why he stayed free for 46 years after prison. I am no legal expert but this really doesn't seem like a fair trial regardless of the evidence against him.
The more this trial goes on, the less fair of a trial it seems he's getting. Is that a fair assessment? Fitzpatrick mentioned Weld a few times on the stand today and Greenleaf and the prosecution pulled the puppet strings to have them not take the stand to save them further embarressment. Would really like to see Judge Casper take her own stance on things instead of doing anything to appease and stay in good standing with the prosecution…She's the judge, not Wyshak.
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Midtylland sports director Svend Graversen hopes Frank Onyeka will fulfil his potential at Premier League newcomers Brentford, reports Completesports.com.
The Premier League newcomers announced the signing of the Nigeria midfielder on a five–year contract on Tuesday.
The Bees parted with £10m to sign Onyeka from Midylland to make him their record signing.
"Frank is the example of another fantastic story about the collaboration between our academy in Nigeria, the academy in Ikast and the Superliga team," said Graversen, as quoted by Tribal Football.
"He has taken the whole journey, where he started as a striker and was quickly retrained as a midfielder.
"It has been inspiring to see how he fought his way into the first team and has since made an extraordinary impression on the Super League the last few years. We are incredibly proud of that."
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Graversen also backed Onyeka to take his game to a new level in England.
"It is a happy story for the whole of FC Midtjylland to be able to send a really good football player and not least a really nice young man on to new challenges.
"There are many in the club who have had something to do with Frank and had an impact on his development.
"It ranges from coaches, managers and teammates to his foster family, and he has been well-liked by all.
"We are of course sad to lose Frank, but on the other hand we also encourage him to come out and unleash the huge potential he has.
"We look forward to following him in the Premier League, and we are confident that he can develop even more and become a profile in Brentford and on the Nigerian national team."
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An elected Liberal Nationals Government will increase VPTAS funding by $35.1 million to raise reimbursement rates for accommodation and mileage, provide funding for future population growth in our regional cities and towns and speed up claims processing times, improving the lives of the 30,000 Victorians who use the scheme.
Victorians who have to travel more than 100kms one way or 500kms a week for specialist medical treatment are eligible for financial assistance under the VPTA scheme which assists with the cost of travelling to and staying near the treatment.
Under a Liberal Nationals Government the nightly accommodation support will increase from $45 to $60 and the cents per kilometre reimbursement rate will rise from 21 cents to 25 cents.
Daniel Andrews and Labor have lost control of the cost of living with Victorians paying more than ever for power bills and housing, the Liberal Nationals will ease the squeeze on cost of living pressures when Victorians need it most.
A Liberal Nationals Government will also make sure patients and carers are reimbursed faster by employing more staff to halve reimbursement turnaround times.
The 10 extra staff dedicated to helping patients efficiently through the system and improving reimbursement times will be located in Ballarat.
A Liberal Nationals Government will also undertake further investigation into the scheme to enhance access, including considering the minimum and cumulative distance thresholds, stepped payments for long-stay patients and inclusion of patients who travel to access clinical trials or require emergency care.
The Liberal Nationals are committed to decentralising Victoria and encouraging growth in our regional areas; but to do that we need to ensure that all Victorians can access top quality healthcare.
"This policy is about ensuring regional Victorians can access the best healthcare and helping them with cost of living pressures for travel and accommodation.
This will give regional patients more choice and help them get back in control of their cost of living pressures from travelling and accommodation.
Daniel Andrews and regional Labor MPs have ignored country Victoria and been too focused on Melbourne.
"This commitment demonstrates the Liberal Nationals belief that all Victorians should be able to access high quality healthcare no matter where they live.
Country Victorians are feeling cost of living pressures because the Andrews Labor Government has lost control of the economy so this extra funding will help those who have to travel for health care defray some of those costs.
We can't continue with the situation that has occurred under Daniel Andrews and Labor where some country patients are opting for less effective health treatments when costs make the travel for the best care unfeasible for them.
"Regional Victorians who are sick and need to travel long distances for life-saving treatment already have enough on their plate, with transport costs adding to the pressures of a skyrocketing cost-of-living.
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The gallery was filled at capacity for the extent of the night, the band played on, and the patrons stayed to discuss the art! We were pleased with the mix of interesting and important visitors from UMD professors, George Koch of artomatic, art collectors and gallery directors..
Grayson's View from artdc.com on Vimeo.
While curating the show, Grayson and I were talking about Peter's work, and I couldn't get Alexandra Zealand's coffee filter works out of my head. So we invited her to join the show. There's a connection between the repetitive material nature of their works. One filter or phone line isn't enough. They hammer the idea in and create a new work out of old materials with a furious energy. As we move through this gallery process, I become more and more excited about site-specific work, and how they can change from space to space. Lexi's work is a great example of that, since her filter works were created for her past exhibition at the Delaplaine in Fredrick, MD where they lived as wall installations. Here, we worked together to fly them with fishing line. During the show they would move and float with the air current.
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As Japan and the OECD celebrate the 50th anniversary of Japan's accession to the OECD, this Forum provided a multi-stakeholder arena with OECD members and partner economies to discuss and compare recent experiences in the design and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. The key outcome of this Global Forum is a set of guiding principles for the use and design of EPRs.
The Forum was held over three days, with four plenary sessions spanning Days 1 and 2, four break-out sessions on Day 2 and plenary sessions on recent developments and forum outcomes on Day 3.
The Forum was jointly organised by the OECD Environment Directorate and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ), with funding from the European Union.
How is EPR used across the globe, which products are targeted?
Key challenges faced when designing and implementing EPR policies; what insights does the literature offer?
Welcome Reception, hosted by Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ).
A closing plenary gathered feedback from the breakout groups in a plenary discussion, followed by a wrap-up by the co-chairs.
Day 3 The morning session aimed to engage a wider Japanese audience in a discussion of the key conclusions emerging from the first two days of the Forum; and outlined ideas for moving forward with EPR, with a focus on Asia. The afternoon offered a choice of site visits to local recycling facilities.
The total volume of material resources extracted or harvested worldwide reached nearly 60 billion metric tonnes (Gt) in 2007, a 65% increase from 1980 and an estimated 8 fold increase over the last century. Going for green growth and establishing a resource efficient economy is therefore a major environmental, development and macroeconomic challenge today.
In this context, putting in place policies that ensure sustainable materials management building on the principle of the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - is crucial. Sustainable materials management can help both to improve the environment, by reducing the amount of resources that human economic activity requires as well as diminishing the associated environmental impacts and minimising waste from production and consumption.
More broadly, resource efficiency policies can help to improve competitiveness, contribute to addressing resource security concerns and create growth and jobs, in addition to making an important contribution to environmental protection and resource conservation.
In many OECD countries, the concept of "extended producer responsibility" (EPR) has been an established principle of environmental policy since the middle of the 1990s. EPR is an environmental policy approach in which the responsibility of producers for their products is extended to include the social costs of waste management, including the environmental impact of waste disposal of their products.
In many countries, extended producer responsibility policies are playing an important role in supporting national resource efficiency strategies. While usually effective at transferring the financial burden for parts of waste management to the private sector, there is a risk that EPRs - when poorly implemented - may lead to sub-optimal levels of material recovery, absence of environmental incentives, excessive costs, disruption of existing material markets, as well as rent-seeking. Hence, there appears to be a significant need for guidance in the use of EPR schemes across major OECD and emerging market economies.
In order to address this need, OECD has launched work that aims to update and expand the OECD Guidance Manual for Governments on EPR that was last published in 2001, with recent country case studies and to analyse recent EPR policy experiences, from which policy guidance can be derived.
Mr. Upton is responsible for the Environmental Performance Reviews of OECD member countries, the economic analysis of policy instruments used to improve environmental outcomes and a wide range of work related to water, waste, biodiversity, climate change and chemicals. Mr. Upton played a key role in the development of the OECD's Green Growth Strategy.
Dr. Yatsu was appointed Vice-minister, Ministry of the Environment (MoE), Japan, in July 2013.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Yatsu served as MOE's Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs in 2012 and Secretary-General, Minister's Secretariat in 2010. His initial assignment with the Government of Japan dates back to 1976 at the Environment Agency, Japan.
Ms. Ukishima was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the Environment and Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office, Japan, in 2013. Prior to her appointments, Ms. Ukishima served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Member of the House of Representatives, Chairman of Policy Research Council on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012.
The Forum was held at the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.
Logistics Information Note (hotel reservation and local information).
The Global Forum on Environment (GFENV) is a venue that brings together international experts from member and non member economies to share experiences and explore common policy issues focusing principally on the environmental dimension of sustainable development and its linkages with economic and social policies. Issues to be addressed in the Global Forum on Environment is shaped based on the current work of the OECD Environment Programme, by focusing on one or two priority issues on the global environmental agenda each year.
OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Materials Management, Belgium, 2010.
This OECD Global Forum on the Environment is carried out with funding by the European Union.


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Chef Howard Hanna in the kitchen at The Rieger, which will close Nov. 1.
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City Club Apartments will have two restaurants on site owned by Chef Howard Hanna.
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Chef Howard Hanna to Open Two New Restaurants in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District
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Chef Howard Hanna is expanding his reach in Kansas City's Crossroads neighborhood.
City Club Apartments founder and CEO Jonathan Holtzman announced this week that the chef-owner of The Rieger has signed a lease to open both a new natural wine bar and restaurant and a city diner concept as part of the new mixed-use apartment community located at 20th and Main Streets.
The two concepts will be located directly across the street from The Rieger, which Hanna opened 10 years ago with his friend Ryan Maybee (now of J. Rieger & Co.).
Built as one structure, the two restaurants will sit on the pad in front of the City Club Apartments, offering a total of 6,000 square feet of combined restaurant space. Hanna will divide the space, with a third of it allocated to the wine bar and its accompanying restaurant and the larger remaining space operating as the diner.
"It was a big space and I love small restaurants," Hanna said in a release. "I asked Jonathan if he would consider breaking the space up if I committed to introducing two very different concepts. He loved the idea and the deal got done."
The space also boasts a 2,400-square-foot rooftop patio that Hanna may open as a separate experience or incorporate as outdoor seating for his new diner.
The natural wine bar and restaurant will be an intimate and moody space, with seating for around 50 and a private dining room that will accommodate 15 to 20 guests. A cozy and approachable bar and a hearth-style kitchen with a wood-burning oven will be the focal point of the space. The menu will feature a mix of shared small plates and entrees coupled with a beverage program will consist of an eclectic array of frequently rotating natural wines.
Hanna describes the concept as unique and special, but also relaxed and unpretentious. "The food menu will be small, with unique plating allowing my staff and I the ability to do some creative new things, but the star will be our all natural wine program," he tells Feast. "We already have an amazing collection of great craft cocktail, beer and traditional wine programs in the Crossroads. Focusing on an all-natural wine list just feels right with Richard Garcia's new natural wine shop, Big Mood, having just opened up down the street."
As for the diner, the focal point will be a large curved bar with anchored stools winding through the open and airy space. The restaurant's design is a subtle nod to a classic diner look with a very modern take. The restaurant will seat 60 diners indoors with room for 50 more on the first-floor outdoor patio.
"There still aren't a lot of spaces downtown to sit down and have a great breakfast, and like most chefs, when I go home at the end of a long shift, I usually make some sort of breakfast sandwich or egg dish that is quick to execute and enjoy," Hanna says. "That's the kind of food I want to serve here."
As for his two new restaurants being right across the street from The Rieger, Hanna explains that as long as he is building small, focused restaurants that offer a unique experience and menu from his other spots, he isn't worried about them competing with each other. There are many cost efficiencies that come with having more than one restaurant, but the people in this business are the real driving force behind his decision to expand.
"There are several reasons to grow, even during these uncertain times," he says. "First, I am losing chefs to bigger markets because I don't have anywhere else for them to go; having more than one concept allows me to promote from within, and train people into managerial positions. I will need to hire more people, creating more opportunities for women, immigrants, people of color and people from the LGBTQ community to join my team. The restaurant industry is one of the last places where you don't have to have to be rich or have a college degree to succeed; it is truly equal opportunity to anyone willing to put in the hours."
The project has been in the works for a while; construction on City Club Apartments Crossroads began in 2018. The seven-story building includes 283 apartments, duplexes, townhouses, penthouses and furnished apartments, a rooftop pool, outdoor theater and nearly 300 underground parking spaces. The 24/7 boutique hotel style-lobby includes a lounge, business and conference center, indoor theater and concierge service. The first residents will begin moving into the complex this month.
Hanna has been in talks to do a restaurant of some sort at the City Club Apartments for over three years. At this point, with a global pandemic still in play, he plans to take his time to sort out details such as the names of the two restaurants and menus. He plans to open both concepts sometime next year.
"Howard is a true artist and a pillar in the Crossroads neighborhood and the broader Kansas City community," Holtzman said in the release. "He and his team understand how to bring people together and give them an extraordinary experience. We could not be more proud to have his two newest concepts in our community."
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1. LogJam (a LiveJournal client with some offline support) at one point stored entry data in date-organized trees of XML files. This is pretty much the least convenient data format ever, yes, but at the time I was concerned with keeping the number of dependencies down. Keeping dependencies down was a problem that spilled into the next situation: various operations worked in the space of entry numbers, so we needed an index somewhere. After some various false starts I realized we could store a flat file of time_t, 4 bytes per entry, where the nth entry in the array was the time for the nth entry. Simple¹ and tiny, with one disk seek to access. Even if I wrote ten entries a day for ten years, it'd only be about 150kb; a more realistic long-lived LJ like evan is still under 4k entries.
# to a revision: (41 * rev) is the byte offset.
# A record of 40 0s denotes an empty revision.
# And yes, it's still pretty fast (faster than Tie::File).
Both of these rely on the source space being dense. If you had an LJ itemid of 10e6 you'd get a 40mb index file. This density was a property of LJ that I relied upon, even though it wasn't necessarily required of LJ. git-svn has the same shortcoming, especially when used with a tree managed with gvn, which tends to make the revision counter increase rapidly. A shared tree at work has 110k revisions and a 4mb revision database, despite my shallow git-svn clone of it only taking 4mb itself.
1 And with an endianness bug waiting to happen, which of course did only after it had been released and was working fine and someone managed to run LogJam with an NFS-mounted home directory on two systems with different endianness. Ugh.


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An easement grants the legal right to use the land of another person for a specific, limited purpose. The holder of the easement gains the right to use the other person's land or to restrict the other person's use of the land that is subject to the easement.
An easement may be an affirmative easement or a negative easement, depending upon the nature of the rights and restrictions formalized by the easement. An easement may also be an easement appurtenant or an easement in gross, depending upon whether it benefits another parcel of land or another person or entity.
Affirmative Easements: Affirmative easements grant the easement holder the right to do something on the land that is subject to the easement.
Negative Easements: Negative easements grant the easement holder the right to prevent the owner of land from engaging in otherwise lawful activity on that land.
A common affirmative easement is an easement for a right-of-way, that allows the owner of the dominant estate to use the servient estate for purposes of ingress and egress. A common negative easement is an easement that preserves the rights to a view, or to light and air, limiting the right of the owner of the servient estate from erecting any structures that block the view or the passage of natural light to the dominant estate.
Dominant Estate: The dominant estate holds the right to exercise easement rights on the land of another.
Servient Estate: The servient estate is subject to the rights of the dominant estate.
For example, if an easement creates a right-of-way over a front parcel of land in order to reach a separate rear parcel, the front parcel is the servient estate, as it is subject to the easement, and the rear parcel is the dominant estate, as it benefits from the easement.
Easements may involve more than two parcels of land, and may involve multiple dominant and servient estates. For example, a private road that serves eight homes may pass over areas of land that are owned by each of the eight homeowners. All homeowners have the rights of a dominant estate holder to use the right-of-way for purposes of ingress and egress. All homeowners are also servient estate holders for the portions of their properties that are subject to the right of way.
An easement is a nonpossessory interest in land, meaning that it allows the beneficiary of the easement to use or control land that the beneficiary does not own or possess. However, the easement holder may not exclude others from the easement unless their activities unreasonably interfere with the holder's use of the easement.
An easement in gross grants easement rights to a specific individual or entity.
For example, an easement in gross may allow a person or group to use a wildlife trail or pier on the land of another, even though they don't own adjacent land. Similarly, most utility easements are easements in gross.
Easements may be created by a grant, with the owner of the servient estate intentionally granting an easement to the dominant estate or holder of the easement. Easements may also be created by implication, or by virtue of a long-term, otherwise unauthorized use of the land of another.
Most easements are created by a grant. For example, the owner of a parcel of land may sell an easement to a neighboring property owner for a right-of-way, or neighbors may create an easement for the construction and maintenance of a shared driveway that sits on the property line. Easements may also be created when land is subdivided, for example, to allow for the presence of roads and installation of utilities, or for the use of common areas by people who purchase land within a subdivision.
If an easement is granted but does not specify the exact dimensions or location of the easement on the servient estate, the easement is known as a floating easement. Once easement rights are exercised, the location of the easement may become fixed by virtue of the parties' practices.
An implied easement may exist even where there is no formal grant or conveyance of an easement, based upon inferences from the historic use of the property and the intention of the original owner or owners. A court must recognize the valildity of an implied easement before it may be recorded.
For example, if the owner of a large parcel of land splits the parcel and conveys a rear, landlocked parcel but fails to convey an easement for ingress and egress to the rear parcel, a court will normally find an implied easement for a right-of-way. Recognizing an implied easement is normally consistent with the intent of the parties when land is divided, as few people knowingly create or acquire landlocked properties. Recognition of the easement may also advance the interest of the public by ensuring that land can be put to an appropriate use.
An easement by necessity arises when the easement is absolutely necessary to the use and enjoyment of a landlocked parcel of land. An easement by necessity may be implied or express.
Implied grant of an easement: When a property owner sells an otherwise landlocked parcel of land, while retaining ownership of adjacent land, an easement of necessity is created through an implied grant of access. Access is deemed granted to the landlocked parcel over the retained lands of the seller, even if the deed conveying the property omits any grant of access rights.
Express reservation of an easement: When a property owner sells land while retaining a parcel of land that becomes landlocked as a result of the sale, the property owner may expressly retain an easement by necessity. Some states will allow the seller to claim an implied easement, but others will deny the seller an easement by necessity unless seller expressly reserves the easement.
The degree to which a property owner must prove necessity varies to some degree by state.
Strict necessity: Most states require proof of strict necessity, meaning that to obtain an easement by necessity it must be completely landlocked, even if it would be burdensome or expensive to gain access to the land without the recognition of the easement.
Reasonable necessity: Some states require proof of reasonable necessity, allowing a court to find an by necessity only when the owner of the property cannot otherwise reasonably gain access to a public road.
An easement by necessity lasts only as long as the necessity continues to exist. For example, if the landlocked parcel becomes accessible through a new public road, an easement by necessity will terminate based upon the fact that the property owner can access the land through the road.
Use was continuous, consistent with the nature of the claimed easement.
Use was hostile to the rights of the owner of the servient estate meaning that the use was inconsistent with the owner's property rights.
Use continued for the statutory period, the statute of limitations applicable to actions to recover real property.
Unlike in an adverse possession claim, use for a prescriptive easement need not be exclusive. For example, a claim of a prescriptive easement for ingress and egress would involve a right to pass over the land of another, but would not claim any further right to exclude the property owner from using the same land in a manner that does not unreasonably interfere with its use as a right-of-way.
At times, easement rights may be created in response to an encroachment, the unauthorized use of or intrusion upon the land of another.
For example, a builder might construct a home that overhangs an adjacent parcel of land. The owner of the adjacent parcel may seek to have the encroachment removed under principles of trespass. However, if a court finds that it would be unreasonable to remove the encroachment due to the high cost involved relative to the impact that the encroachment causes on the adjacent land, the court may allow the encroachment to continue for the useful life of the home.
The owner of the affected property will normally be awarded reasonable compensation for the continued encroachment.
The holder of an easement in gross, or the owner of a servient estate, has the right to use the easement in a manner consistent with the granting language.
For an implied easement, use of the easement must be consistent with the reasonable intention of the parties, and may be reflected in the historic use of the properties.
For an easement by prescription, the rights of the easement holder are consistent with the manner in which the easement was used over the course of the statutory period.
Absent an agreement to the contrary, the holder of an easement may use the property in a manner consistent with the grant and past practices. The holder may maintain the easement, such as by clearing obstructions and filling holes in a right-of-way. However, the holder may not make improvements that were not contemplated by the grant of an easement, or that are not consistent with past practices, such as by laying an asphalt surface on what had historically been a graveled drive.
Most easements are non-exclusive, meaning that the owner of the servient estate can use the land that is subject to the easement in any manner as long as the use does not unreasonably interfere with the easement.
If the easement is exclusive, the owner of the servient estate may be restricted from using the land over which the easement runs. For example, an easement that grants the right to run high voltage lines or railroad tracks across land will normally exclude the owner of the servient estate from making any use of the area surrounding the utility lines or railroad tracks.
The owner of a servient estate will not ordinarily have any obligation to maintain the easement for the benefit of the dominant estate. However, if the servient estate benefits from the easement, the dominant estate may have grounds to ask for contribution to the cost of maintenance. For example, if the right-of-way gives the dominant estate non-exclusive access to a drive that is also used by the owner of the servient estate, the owner of the servient estate may be required to assist with or contribute to the cost of maintenance of the drive.
Most easements appurtenant are transferable.
When the dominant estate is sold or conveyed, the easement normally transfers for the benefit of the new owner.
Some easements are drafted to be personal to the grantee, meaning that they cannot be transferred to others. If the grantee passes away, sells or otherwise conveys the property, the easement is terminated.
Most easements in gross are not transferable. However, the transfer of easements in gross that are created for commercial purposes, such as utility easements, easements for pipelines, and easements for railroad tracks, are normally transferrable.
Unless the grant of an easement provides otherwise, courts will normally find that the parties to an easement intended the easement to continue indefinitely.
Abandonment: If an easement is unused for many years, it may be possible for the servient estate to seek a court order that deemed it abandoned under principles of nonuser. Where an easement is created by grant, mere nonuse will not ordinarily constitute abandonment.
Condemnation: If the servient estate is taken under principles of eminent domain, the taking will normally terminate any easements that affect the land. The owner of the dominant estate will be entitled to compensation.
Destruction of the Servient Estate: If the servient estate is destroyed, as might happen with a shoreline property that erodes into a body of water, the easement will terminate.
End of Necessity: If an easement is created by necessity and the necessity ceases to exist, as might happen if a public road is constructed that gives access to a formerly landlocked property, the easement may be terminated.
Expiration: An easement may be negotiated to last for a specified period of time or until a specific event occurs, and expire at the conclusion of that agreed period.
Foreclosure: If an easement is created after a lienholder registers a security interest for the servient estate, foreclosure by that lienholder will extinguish the easement.
Quiet Title: The owner of the servient estate may bring an action to quiet title, asking a court to clarify ownership rights for the land. A quiet title action may request that a court rule on the existence of an easement and, if the court finds a basis to do so, the court may terminate an easement or find that a person claiming an easement has not presented a valid claim.
Release: The owner of the dominant estate and the servient estate may agree to terminate the easement through a written agreement, consistent with the statute of frauds.
Termination by Merger: For an appurtenant easement, if the dominant and servient estates fall under common ownership, that will normally cause the easement to be extinguished based upon the merger of the properties.
This article was last reviewed or amended on May 14, 2018.


Blog post 19/366: Tortoise tips.
Me again. So, we are almost two thirds through this month and, with the exception of my minor meltdown Monday, it's all going pretty smoothly. Blogging and tweeting daily are probably more of an issue than the actual mechanics of downsizing. Not that either are difficult, they're just not part of any routine I've had before and therefore require mental effort. I've been in pare down mode for a long time and have reduced many cabinets, closets and drawers in my day. I've chosen to not write too much about that because it can be a little dull…. *yawn* … However, a few tips seem in order for those of you who have asked.
I'm just going to throw them at you as they pop into my head though, because if I wrote "the 3 things you must do" or "5 surefire ways to trim your belongings", I'd lose respect for myself. All those numbered self-help books have made me laugh for so many years, I just can't go there.
The most important rule is to go slow. Pick one drawer, one cupboard, one anything and start there. Separate everything. Decide what to keep, what to donate, what to toss and do it. Remember to recycle as much as possible and please consider donating gently used items to a local charity.
Another suggestion is to make sure you have time to complete the entire project from start to finish. Having boxes, bags, piles of crap, etc. strewn all over the house is more de-motivating than you can imagine. Purging a massive closet (or, in Glenn's case, garage!!!) shouldn't be attempted by de-cluttering virgins. Start small, like a drawer.
Buy organizers sparingly. January is the month to purge, apparently, and home decor stores are loaded with seductive items. First purge, then assess your true needs, then buy if necessary.
Feel free to continue the purging here!! I even have ex husband stuff to purge still – how bad is that!!
Lol! You buy the wine, I'll bring the bags!!!


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RIM's BBX Plans: Can They Reverse BlackBerry's Fortunes?
Nicholas Kolakowski
For months, Research In Motion executives have done their absolute best to convince media and analysts that the company's upcoming round of "superphones" will spare the Canadian company from the market-share doldrums by offering a viable competitor to the Apple iOS and Google Android devices currently dominating the market.
Those superphones (along with RIM's tablets) will run BBX, a QNX-based operating system, in place of a new version of the long-running BlackBerry OS. Thus far, RIM has offered precious few details about BlackBerry BBX's user interface or release date. But that aside, the transition raises some thorny issues for the company, including whether legacy applications will port to the new platform.
According to an Oct. 18 statement released by RIM, BBX will apparently "support applications developed using any of the tools available today for the BlackBerry PlayBook … including native SDK, Adobe AIR/Flash and WebWorks/HTML5, as well as the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps."
That suggests BBX will interoperate with RIM's PlayBook (which currently runs a QNX-based operating system), but it's an open question whether those customers currently buying BlackBerry devices loaded with BlackBerry 7 OS-or those who already own older BlackBerry hardware-will have the ability to upgrade to the new operating system once it rolls out.
The other question is whether, by allowing Android applications onto its devices, RIM will end up alienating those developers who devoted much time and effort to developing BlackBerry apps. RIM needs both developers and its current base of customers to succeed in its latest endeavor.
The consequences of failure are dire. According to a new study from research firm Enterprise Management Associates, some 30 percent of Blackberry users in large enterprises "expect to migrate to a different platform within the next year." Lack of user satisfaction topped the survey respondents' reason for jumping.
"We expected to see some market share loss by RIM, but these results were far more dramatic than we could have anticipated," Steve Brasen, EMA's managing research director, wrote in an Oct. 19 statement. "Both enterprises and employees indicated they were broadly abandoning BlackBerry devise for primarily Android and iOS platforms-and this data was collected before the recent BlackBerry service failures, which can be expected to even further accelerate migration."
Research firm Nielsen estimated RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market at 18 percent through August, behind both Google Android (43 percent) and Apple iOS (28 percent) but well ahead of Microsoft (8 percent). However, Microsoft is pouring millions of dollars and striking partnerships left and right to make Windows Phone the smartphone space's third major ecosystem, and both Android and iOS have made significant inroads within the business community over the past several quarters.
During its Sept. 15 earnings call, RIM reported revenues of $4.2 billion for the second quarter of its fiscal 2012, a 15 percent decline from the $4.9 billion it earned during the previous quarter. Those numbers led to analyst pessimism and even a well-publicized call, from Canadian merchant bank (and RIM shareholder) Jaguar Financial Corp, for a RIM executive shakeup. Those executives have roundly blamed soft sales of the aging BlackBerry line for at least some of that financial weakness, while expressing hope that new smartphones with BlackBerry 7 OS can hold the market-share line until the BBX ones arrive.
That means RIM will need to make a hard case for BBX devices over, say, Apple's iPhone or higher-end Android devices like Motorola's upcoming Droid Razr. If none of the current BlackBerry devices will support the new operating system, and if legacy applications won't run on BBX devices, then the case becomes that much harder. In many ways, RIM is facing a similar situation as Nokia, which abandoned its homegrown operating systems (such as Symbian) in favor of Windows Phone, and now needs to convince users to purchase a whole new generation of devices.
It takes considerable skill and luck for any company to regain the initiative in the face of significant market headwinds. Some succeed. RIM's executives doubtlessly hope their company will be among them.
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