TYB
It was clear from the beginning that he was going to be cleared… and then riots.
These riots will be scheduled and televised.
Judge just said, "If Tobin testifies using the tests (on carbon monoxide levels) withheld from the defense, there will be a MISTRIAL."
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You can always tell a badass by how many screens at his desk.
You're either a Pepe working intel or a Pepe routing rental equipment for Sunbelt.
I always wondered how many of us were actually targeted.
Anon remembers when school system in middle school strongly suggested this anon go to the shrink for ssri's for getting a B- in math :P
Queue the experimentals ! Imipromine… buspar… et. al.
The Rock Communes With Nature at His Virginia Farm (or Tries to)
Suzy Byrne
Suzy Byrne·Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
April 25, 2017
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, sporting a cowboy hat in this deleted scene from
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is on vacation at his farm. He is not wearing this outfit though. Sadly. (Image: YouTube)
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson isn’t one of those celebs who’s always on vacation. Between work and his workouts, he has a dizzying schedule — and that doesn’t include the time he’s at home with his family, running around dressed as a Pikachu. (That happened.) So we actually exhaled when we saw that he’s enjoying a respite this week at his farm outside Charlottesville, Va.
The Fate of the Furious star, 44, said that he “just wrapped #Ballers” and has “one week before … shooting #Rampage,” so he had “to scoop my lovely ladies up” — that would be Lauren Hashian and their bug-lovin’ daughter, Jasmine — and head to his farm to “recharge, recalibrate, and reset,” he shared on Instagram. All good reasons to vacay.
Now, if there weren’t photo proof, we don’t think we’d be able to picture the Rock kicking back on a farm. (He doesn’t scream farm guy, ya know? Though he never screamed fanny-pack guy either.) But there he is, in his Rock wear (aka gym clothes), communing with nature.
The Rock fishing…
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rock-communes-nature-virginia-farm-tries-165750992.html
Why do the rich and famous all come here to "get away from it all?"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304724404577295740495101240
A Bronfman Family Farm
STATS: An 8,100-square-foot home with five bedrooms, six full bathrooms and two half baths on 120 acres, asking $3.8 million. The asking price for the house and 540 acres is $10.3 million. Property taxes in 2012 for the entire property are $32,490.
PHOTOS: OPEN HOUSE
DETAILS: Built around 1975, this Colonial-style home features heart-pine and brick floors, heart-pine wainscoting in the dining room and a sunroom that looks out at the Blue Ridge Mountains. The property includes a tennis court, a swimming pool, a gazebo and a two-bedroom guesthouse. There is also a separate artists studio with a half bath and a spiral staircase leading to a loft. Georgetown Farm includes a farm manager's house, a show barn, a hay barn, an equipment barn and a feed shed. The farm equipment and the herd of Angus cows are negotiable. A donkey that appears in some photos is not included and has already been relocated, though he protested getting in the trailer when it came time to move.
SELLER: Philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman, the former chief executive of Seagram.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: It's less than 30 minutes to the fried-green-tomato salad and the jalapeño hush puppies at Miller's Downtown in Charlottesville. Or stay home and go riding, hiking or fishing in your own pond. The property fronts the Moormans River if you're looking for bass. It's about 30 minutes to Monticello.
OPEN HOUSE
1921 Georgetown Farm Rd., Charlottesville, Va.
WHAT WE PAID: Mr. Bronfman started buying land here in the 1970s and over the years expanded the farm by purchasing adjacent properties. While he does not have a figure for how much he spent on the land, he estimates that he has spent $5.5 million on improvements, many of them in the last decade.
WHY WE'RE SELLING: Mr. Bronfman says that he has spent his weekends at the farm for almost 30 years, but now he'd like a weekend house closer to his main residence in New York. "Also, since my children are grown they are no longer there to enjoy the farm with me," Mr. Bronfman says in an email.
WHAT WE'LL MISS:"The farm lifestyle of seeing our cows and at one time, buffalo, grazing made for a wonderful place for my wife and I to be creative," says Mr. Bronfman, who wrote several books in the farmhouse's study.
WHAT WE WON'T: The walk from the sauna to the house (the sauna is a separate building).
COMP: Nearby, a three-bedroom, three-bathroom home on 271 acres is listed at $6.8 million.
OTHERS SAY: Andrew Middleditch of McLean Faulconer says the price is "competitive" considering the location in the heart of the Farmington Hunt country, the large size of the property and the improvements including the farming complex. Jim Faulconer of McLean Faulconer has the listing.
Write to Sarah Tilton at sarah.tilton@wsj.com
https://www.keswick.com/
http://www.readthehook.com/102582/hall-sold-richmond-magnate-buys-keswick-resort-and-club
At least one suicide and a murder: what you won't find in the releases
1912: Robert B. Crawford spends $100,000 to build his dreamhouse, Villa Crawford.
1947: Local businessmen buy property as country club.
1953: An Air Force B-26 crashes on the property killing the three airmen on board.
1956: Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor use the Keswick depot in the movie Giant.
1960: Auctioned to Knox Turnbull who begins massive club expansions.
1967: While Farmington was still excluding blacks, Turnbull desegregates.
1967: Turnbull installs an ice skating rink, a ski rope tow, and a bubble over the unique oval pool.
1971: Turnbull's lavish spending depletes his funds, and he commits suicide.
1972: In August, club folds when a minimum 300 members (of 600 total) decline to put up a $1,000 investment. The golf course opens to the public.
1977: While sitting in his truck in the club parking lot, golf pro Belden G. McMillen is slain in a never-solved incident.
1978: Fairfaxian J.W. "Bill" Lane buys the place with hopes of a country inn, vineyard, and restaurant.
1980: Lynchburgian William H. Burruss buys the property.
1980: Alan Alda directs first feature film, The Four Seasons, with Villa Crawford as a weekend getaway.
1983: In January, Burruss's lessee Eric V. Bartoli sells annual golf memberships for $250. By August, Bartoli is out of business.
1984: Thomas J. Curtis Jr. buys the deteriorating property with plans to subdivide for 253 homes.
1984: In December, Arnold Palmer beams as Curtis shows off the high-falutin' golfer as course designer.
1985: Rebuffed by County planners, Curtis reduces his request for 253 homesites to 147.
1985: Rebuffed again by County planners, Curtis reduces his request for 147 homesites to 68.
1985: Once more into the breach, Curtis reduces his request to 37 homesites. Approval.
1986: With legal woes in Texas hounding Curtis, the Daily Progress scores an interview only after agreeing to speak with a juror in one of Curtis's trials.
1987: Browne Eichman Dalgliesh & Gilpin sues for $192,057 in unpaid architectural fees: Arnold Palmer sues for $2 million.
1989: Curtis vows to buy Keswick when the banks sell it at foreclosure.
1990: Creditors, arguing over proceeds, halt the auction. Sir Bernard Ashley, widower to late fashion designer Laura Ashley, steps in with $5.5 million and rehires Arnold Palmer and architect Bob Paxton.
1991: Things get really ambitious as Villa Crawford swells from a big house to a mere sliver of a 32,600-square-foot, 48-guest room hotel. A new clubhouse eventually rises next door.
1992: While Arnold Palmer is all smiles again as he puts his signature on the new golf course in May, a bomb is found under a boiler on Christmas morning by a State Police dog.
1995: In September, Sir Ashley sues Coopers & Lybrand for $83 million, asserting that the consultants "kindled" his interest in this money-losing enterprise to earn fees.
1999: Orient-Express Hotels buys Keswick Hall for $13.5 million.
–sources: clippings at Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society and a book by Patricia Castelli
http://phasezero.gawker.com/the-secret-mountain-our-spies-will-hide-in-when-washing-1701044312
It’s after midnight. From this mountaintop perch, he can still see the radioactive remains of what used to be Washington, D.C., illuminating the horizon as he exits the helicopter. The nuclear glow serves as stark proof that the intelligence community failed to foresee and prevent the worst, but at least someone was smart enough to build this mountain bunker in rural Virginia for him and his fellow spies to regroup and survive. He opens the reinforced steel door and begins his descent.
This isn’t paranoid conspiracy fiction. This exact scenario was played out this week.
But job descriptions, contracting documents, insider resumes, and furtive discussions with Washington sources reveal that this little-known “activity” is a $100-million-a-year disaster playpen. At its 24/7/365 Response Operations Center (at a classified location), watch officers provide what’s referred to as “situational awareness and crisis support” to the nation’s leaders; and when that fails, they evacuate to their classified alternate facility, which sources say is in Albemarle County in central Virginia.
There is really only one candidate—a mysterious facility atop Peters Mountain, roughly 16 miles east of Charlottesville—and it’s undergone a $61 million plus renovation since 2007.
For decades, there’s been speculation about just what Peters Mountain is, this Cold War artifact on the outskirts of Washington, part of a string of “hardened” communications nodes built to survive nuclear war in the 1950s. It’s a favorite of internet conspiracy types, but no one seems to know what it is, other than the fact that the land it’s on is officially owned by AT&T. And if that’s not clear, there’s an AT&T logo newly installed on the top of the mountain itself, a helicopter pad built for this don’t-pay-attention-to-us blank spot on the map.
“I always heard stories about how it was a Nuclear Missile base, or a super communications hub. But the coolest one was the rumor that on 9/12/2001 Anti-Aircraft Artillery went up the mountain and has not come down. There is a big paved road that goes to the top off of Turkey Sag Rd. [sic] which is a gravel road and tractor trailers are always going up the mountain with covered loads. There are all sorts of Gov’t signs about private property and no trespassing. From Gordonsville at night the top of the mountain is lit up like a Christmas Tree with a lot of blue lights which I thought was weird. and you can see vehicles driving around.”