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160710-204649-16JEH-EditI am slowing down in posting pictures while I decide what I really want to do. Most of my pictures in the last few years were made while I tried different cameras, lenses, and techniques. Now that those trials with new gear are winding down, and I am mostly photographing events, activities, an... |
There are only so many pretty images of flowers, scenes around Homewood, etc., and I get tired of making the same pictures as I walk the same routes, day after day. I need to make images that mean something to me. My images of people here at Homewood mean a lot to me, but I can’t post many of them due to privacy conc... |
Another feature of this blog, in the past, was that it was to a degree an encapsulation of what I saw on a daily basis; i.e. it was a visual diary. I am not sure that I want to continue doing that since I don’t think it means much to most of my viewers, but it is a way to rationalize my photography. |
My plans are to continue taking pictures for both my Homewood projects and for my personal interests. I am hoping that I will be able to find those kinds of images that I enjoy to make and then that I will be able to formulate a rationale as to how I can continue this blog. |
One idea that I have been exploring are the abstract details of things I see in vivid colors. One of my primary issues with those types of images is that I prefer to use my micro 4/3 cameras with wider lenses, and that doesn’t work well for details since I can’t often get up close. Longer focal length zoom lenses wo... |
I also like camera gear and using different cameras and lenses to see what I can make with them. I like well-engineered equipment. That probably evolved from my engineering education. The issue I’m facing now is what to do if I stop buying new & different gear. One possibility that I have revisited off and on over ... |
I enjoy my Homewood photography and I would like to expand it into other areas, especially if I could do it with one or two micro 4/3 prime lenses and manage to avoid privacy issues. I’m thinking that my focus could be on lifestyle photography … what can be seen with a near normal lens without using special wide, or m... |
Another aspect of my decision relative to my blog revolves around whether or not to continue with the focus of my blog being photography. In the meanwhile, my “vision” is blurred as to how to proceed so I will slow down as I think more about it. |
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MUNCIE, Ind. Lift-A-Loft Corp. has agreed to pay $18,720 to fund environmental testing at the former CR3 rubber recycling site, the scene of a tire fire that burned out of control for several days in August of 2003. |
Based in Cowan in southern Delaware County, Lift-A-Loft, which makes aerial lifts, entered an agreement with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management calling for a fine of $23,400 to settle alleged hazardous waste violations at its factory in 2017. |
The agreement requires Lift-A-Loft to pay the state $4,680 of the fine. In lieu of paying the remainder, the company will make a cash payment of $18,720 to the Indiana Finance Authority to fund a "supplemental environmental project" in the Muncie area. |
The project chosen by state and local officials is sampling for contamination at the CR3 brownfield site in the southside Industria Centre, where Josh Perkins, a landscape architecture graduate of Ball State University, wants to relocate his business, Plant Studio Landscape. |
"I drive by it every day," Perkins told The Star Press. "It just sits there — a concrete slab and plenty of land. If we can do something with the site, it would be great for us as a company to … take an abandoned property, put it back on the tax rolls and make it nice. It's a bit of an eyesore." |
A pool, patio and landscape contractor, Plant Studio Landscape currently operates out of leased premises nearby. "We need some outdoor space to store pavers, mulch and so forth," said Perkins, formerly a landscape designer for the high-end residential market in the Chicago area. |
The $18,720 paid by Lift-A-Loft will be combined with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant funds to pay for soil and water testing at the CR3 site on behalf of the owner, ECI Regional Planning District. |
"A prospective purchaser, Plant Studio Landscape, has been identified for the site," IDEM spokesman Barry Sneed said. |
The soil and water sampling is part of an effort to eliminate concerns about potential liability for cleanup of any contamination on the property. |
Lift-A-Loft makes aerial lifts, aka scissor lifts or aerial work platforms, to elevate workers like traffic signal technicians. The company, whose processes include painting, signed an agreed order with IDEM to resolve allegations including: |
• Solvent-contaminated wipes or rags were air dried and disposed of as a solid waste. Drying solvent-contaminated wipes allows hazardous waste constituents to be emitted into the air and is considered treatment of hazardous waste. The company lacked a permit to treat hazardous waste. The company generated about two bar... |
• Storing contaminated wipes in an open container. |
• Failing to post the location of fire extinguishers and spill control material, and the fire department's telephone number, next to the telephone. |
• Blue powder coat paint was observed on vents, exterior walls, surrounding equipment and the ground. It was allowed to drain to a storm sewer that empties into No Name Creek. Wash water from the paint room also drained to the creek. |
• Inadequate training of employees. Containers not labeled as hazardous waste. A container not labeled as used oil. |
Lift-A-Loft did not return a call seeking comment for this story. |
But Vice President and CFO Jacquelyn Duggan told IDEM in a written response that the air drying of solvent-contaminated rags has stopped; employee training was completed; plant upgrades were made; procedures and practices were changed; a longtime employee was fired and other steps were taken to comply with regulations. |
"It's it kind of a cool story," Brad Bookout, director of economic development/redevelopment for Delaware County, said of the potential reuse of the CR3 property. "It is a site that has been in tax sales since the fire. It was bought by out-of-town people who I think didn't really know what they were purchasing, and I ... |
So the county stepped in. |
"We got an end user," Bookout said. "We're excited about that, and the county commissioners can take credit. We're lucky to get it repurposed. The commissioners' goal was not so much economic development as getting it back on the tax rolls, mowing it and maintaining it." |
Plant Studio Landscape plans to invest about $300,000 in skid loaders, lawn mowers, trucks, other equipment and new construction, Bookout went on. |
Before it became a rubber-recycling facility, the 10-acre property was used for manufacturing between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, according to SME, a Midwestern consulting and engineering firm that conducted a "phase one" site assessment (including a records review of the site's history) for the county. |
A fire destroyed a building and engulfed numerous tire piles on site in 2003. Borrow pits of soil were dug to help extinguish the fire. Buried tires reportedly burned for up to two years, according to the assessment. Prior sampling found ground water contaminated with volatile organic compounds. |
The site today is covered by vegetation, gravel, burned rubber, building pads, a scale and a concrete wall. |
Contact Seth Slabaugh at (765) 213-5834 or seths@muncie.gannett.com |
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During his career as a trial lawyer, Fran Morrison's clients have entrusted him with the trial to verdict and/or judgment of some 70 cases. Those cases have included defense and prosecution of matters with multi million and billion dollar exposure involving critical technological patents and trade secrets. The techno... |
Fran's trials have also included products liability and commercial claims involving turbo propeller control systems; gas turbine design, operation and maintenance; commercial truck steering gear design; tobacco and health issues and fraud and unfair trade practice claims. He has also devoted substantial pro bono effor... |
Fran is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1993, a charter member of the American Board of Trial Advocates in Connecticut since 1984 and certified as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1986. |
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• American College of Trial Lawyers |
• American Bar Association, Section of Litigation Law |
• Connecticut Bar Association, Litigation Section |
• Corporation Counsel, Town of West Hartford, CT (1983-1985) |
• Line Officer, US Navy (1969-1972); USS Grand Canyon (AD-28) |
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• Co-tried to conclusion for Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. et al. bench trial involving claims of obviousness and lack of written description regarding patented pharmaceutical composition Omidria. |
• Tried to verdict for patentee Depuy Synthes Products case involving patented spinal fusion technology. |
• Tried to verdict for patentee 3M Innovative Properties Company case involving patented plasma fluorinated and hydrocharged filter media (including trial of Walker Process and sham litigation claims). |
• Tried to judgment for defendant Actavis case involving patented pharmaceutical composition Intuniv* (Guanfacine). |
• Tried to judgment for defendant Actavis case involving patented pharmaceutical composition Lyrica* (Pregabalin). |
• Tried jury case to settlement for defendant Actavis/Purepac case involving patented pharmaceutical drug Neurontin* (Gabapentin). |
• Tried to conclusion Motion for TRO/PI for defendant Actavis case involving patented drug Restoril (Temazepam). |
• Tried TRO for plaintiff optical fiber manufacturer NuFern case involving technical trade secrets. |
• Co-tried to judgment for defendant EVAPCO trade secret claims related to electromagnetic water treatment technology. |
• Obtained summary judgment of infringement and validity for patentee Sensitech case involving electronic temperature and acceleration monitors and argued subsequent Federal Circuit appeal. |
• Handled Markman hearing on behalf of defendant Danaher Tool case involving hand tool technology. |
• Tried to verdict on behalf of defendant NIDEC Corporation infringement and validity claims involving direct current brushless fans used to cool electronic devices. |
• Tried to judgment on behalf of defendant Bristol Myers Squib trade secret claims related to the launch of OxyContin® |
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• Tried to judgment for plaintiff Ineos USA breach of contract claims involving ethylene oxide supply contract. |
• Tried to verdict for defendant TRW, Inc. wrongful death products liability claim related to metallurgy and strength of materials issues. |
• Tried to verdict (hung jury) for defendant General Motors Corporation wrongful death unwanted acceleration claim. |
• Tried to verdict for defendant John Hancock Insurance Company claims involving vanishing premium, fraud and unfair trade practices. |
• Tried to verdict for defendant Brown & Williamson case claiming wrongful death products liability claim related to tobacco and health issues. |
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Fran has briefed and argued numerous appeals before the US Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh and Federal Circuits and the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts. These appeals have concerned patent infringement and invalidity, supply contract issues involving world-wide high tech chemical processes, claims... |
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• Power Attorneys: Business Battlefields, Corporate Connecticut Magazine, 2004. |
• Cross Examination in the Psychology Case. This chapter was prepared in connection with the ABA’s publication entitled, Psychological Injuries at Trial. |
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• "Laboratory Corp. of America v. Chiron Corp. Past Injunction Procedure –Appeal of Injunction," The Twenty-Second Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar, New York, NY, May 2006. |
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