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Courthouse Square now looks a lot like Christmas
On December 3, the Parish Hall At Christ's Church in Port Republic bustles with four dozen Calvert Garden Clubbers preparing to decorate the county courthouse with evergreens harvested a day earlier at four local farms.
"We call it the Greening," says cochair Mary Berkley.
Wearing monogrammed aprons, they work likes elves trimming magnolia, grapevine and boxwood for wreaths, fragrant sprays and evergreen ropes.
The finished greens are loaded onto county trucks to green Main Street Prince Frederick.
Peggy Cochran, Calvert Garden Club chairwoman, knows just where everything goes.
"Twenty-two wreaths will adorn the courthouse windows and the law offices across the street. Eight will go to the annex. Thirty-one of the evergreen sprays will decorate the lampposts, with seven more on the pathways," Cochran says.
"The gazebo gets roping and sprays; Calvert Historical Society Linden House gets two grapevine wreaths. And the Della Robbia goes on the courthouse door," Cochran says with pride.
It takes a village to decorate Main Street. Under eight dozen watchful eyes, five county workers load the greenery onto their trucks.
Their reward is a free wreath each and lunch.
"It's a pretty good deal," says supervisor Joe Denton.
Ten more county workers are waiting on Main Street for delivery. They're the guys who climb the ladders and hang the greens from lampposts and high places.
The greening is a 77-year tradition. It started with Betty Briscoe, wife of Dr. Everard Briscoe, in 1936, when the small garden club became a member of the national federation of garden clubs.
Back then, a single wreath was hung on the courthouse door.
The greening — like the garden club, with 55 active members — has grown over the years.
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This is a 'yes' or 'no' option. If set to yes, FreeRADIUS will read the system files into memory, rather than perform a system call to lookup the information. On *BSD systems, you should set this value to no. On other systems, if you have a very large passwd and shadow files, you can try setting this to yes, which may increase the servers performance. The default is no.
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1. He has a stuffed dancing hamster on display in his Senate office.
2. His wife says her obsession with electronics and technology is one of his pet peeves.
3. He says his pet peeve is politicians who talk too much. (He admits that he's guilty, too, sometimes.)
4. He's not much of a shopper, but he likes to buy rugs when traveling abroad.
5. His favorite book is "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.
6. He was addicted to the TV show "24."
7. He carries a lucky penny in his pocket.
8. He played Scrooge in the POWs' staging of "A Christmas Carol" at the Hanoi Hilton.
9. His movie favorites include "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "Casablanca," and "Viva Zapata!" He and wife Cindy have seen "Mamma Mia!" twice.
10. He talks to fellow prisoners of war, those with whom he shared a cell in Vietnam, almost daily.
11. He has seven children. The first two he adopted from his first wife's previous marriage, the third was born to him and his first wife, the next three were born to him and his second wife, and the seventh they adopted from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. He has four grandchildren.
12. His wife was in Bangladesh on a charity mission and brought home baby Bridget without checking first with McCain.
13. He describes himself as "a person who is mostly normal."
14. His parents "eloped" and got married at Caesar's Bar in Tijuana, Mexico; McCain's grandfather accompanied them.
15. He's serious about the finer points of barbecuing, and he likes to deep-fry turkeys in peanut oil.
16. He wasn't happy when Hudson, the neighbors' black Lab, ate the tenderloin he'd been marinating to grill for dinner at their ranch in Sedona, Ariz.
17. He doesn't like to be alone.
18. At Christmastime, he likes to supervise the lighting of about 1,000 luminaria candles on their property in Sedona with family and friends.
19. Going on vacation with him is anything but relaxing. His children call it "Camp McCain."
20. He's an early-bird, not a night-owl.
21. He doesn't e-mail. He doesn't surf the Web. He likes to read the newspaper in print. He's attached to his cell phone.
22. His office window sill is overrun with stacks of books. He hands books off to friends once he's read them.
23. He's into fruit trees. And birds. He keeps binoculars and bird books at the ready in Sedona. His pet collection: two dogs, two turtles, a cat, a ferret, three parakeets and 13 saltwater fish.
24. His wife is super-rich. They have a prenuptial agreement.
25. He programmed digital remotes at the family's homes in Phoenix and Washington so they can call up DVDs in any room.


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Plan to Destroy California Is Even Crazier in Nutcase's Own Words
It's easy to dismiss wacky venture capitalist Tim Draper's "Six Californias" plan. After all, the notion of splitting America's third-largest state into six pieces just for the tax benefit of Silicon Valley is silly! But it sounds even sillier from someone taking it seriously.
Tim Draper, with all the persuasiveness of a tired 8th grade football coach, gave the above talk yesterday during a press conference to celebrate his ballot initiative's success. It makes the whole thing seem like less of an internet in-joke, and more a genuinely powerful, wealthy man with a pernicious plan.
California has a lot of problems, Draper explains. Its roads, schools, and employment rate all need help. This also applies to every other state in the union, as well as every other country on the planet. But Draper isn't just stating the obvious—there's an apocalyptic bend to all this. California needs to be gerrymandered so that Californians will be prepared "when it all comes down."
Draper asks himself "why not just two states?" Perhaps he's approximating what it's like to talk with another human. "Remember when there were just two choices of ice cream? Vanilla and chocolate." I do not remember that, Tim, and neither do you, but you do present a very compelling argument here. "Two choices are better than one," Draper concludes, "but I'd rather have six!" This is also a convincing argument for subdividing California into 400 states—or how about 38 million states, one for each of California's silenced residents?
That's the idiot logic behind the Six Californias plan: empower the state by destroying it. It's the kind of logic only a man up to his neck in Silicon Valley swamp water could pitch with a straight face. His group even put together this twee little whiteboard video, explaining how much better things will work once there are more Californias:
State services, infrastructure, jobs, and literally everything else will somehow improve if Silicon Valley gets its own little constitutional enclave at the tremendous expense of the entire rest of extant California. But, on the plus side, Draper entices voters with a participatory component to neo-statehood:
"You can mold your own state. You can frame your own constitution. Your own system of government. Your own state bird. Social media and rating systems allow us to easily determine how each state can serve its people. We'll be launching sites for each state that can help you get started. Then, it is up to you."
Just imagine: a government where anything goes, operating as smoothly as Google Plus. I'd love to try it out—enlightened monarchy, anyone?—but right now the "Create Your State" section of Draper's site is just a picture of California above an email waiting list.


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In moments like this... I NEED A MAN!
Sunday, February 19, 2012
In Moments Like This, I Need A MAN!
In moments like this... I NEED A MAN!
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YUCK, Claire... u could have posted this more late... like that wun feel like wanna vomit my dinner. OMG... so damn geli la... ask someone to get rid of it. If I saw this, I will fast fast ask someone to get rid of it for me... the other day saw dead cicak on my table... i feel so geli too!ReplyDelete
At least all you got to do is scream and run away... :(ReplyDelete
Memang... =.= every time a cicak died in my house... I will make either the budak besar to get rid of it for me... or force the budak kecil to throw it away. My anak not sked of this. Thank god for that... LOL!ReplyDelete
Oh, a rotten rat... Can imagine how unbearable the stench can be. Didn't Labby sense the presence of the unwelcome visitor?ReplyDelete
omg..that's horrible!ReplyDelete
cleff: cicak is nothing la!! can just sweep it away... but rat? Gross!!ReplyDelete
pam: up on my balcony, no way she can smell that.. can smell also doesnt know how to tell me. .hahaha..
wenn: smelly-gible!
You poor thing! How come got dead rats in your house?ReplyDelete
OMG!!! i couldn't stand rats.. Geliii.. in the moment like tht i would need a man too...ReplyDelete
last time my friend also experienced the same thing, also did what you did, used plastic bags..but didnt hear her talking abt the naggots..maybe can use ridsect to murder them first.ReplyDelete
quaypo: outside on my balcony... i dont have the answer...ReplyDelete
stella: very gross!!!
medie: u scared? how come???
lena: maggots.. aikssss!!
- b3@N2311February 19, 2012 at 11:12 PM
A rat paying another "Rat" a visit?ReplyDelete
yucks!! and i thot what was that.. and i really salute you, you even dare to use your hands to pick that thing up?? given me, for sure i'll not use my hands but maybe two sticks to "chopstick" that and quickly dump it into a plastic bag~~ @_@"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2012 at 12:17 AM
too bad your sons weren't there to help you, Claire!ReplyDelete
i'd be disgusted if i have to do that :/ReplyDelete
yeah u need a man. I found a dead rat in my car porch several years ago too and guess what? My man ran away! I had to do the dirty job while he shivers far far away! >_<ReplyDelete
by looking at the picture... i could imaging the disgusting smell... *vomiting nowReplyDelete
EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! And AWW, you poor thing!! How disgusting!! But you are a fast thinker, this was such a good idea!! I don't think i would have thought of this, I would have been running next door to the man who lives there!ReplyDelete
What a man can do, a woman can do as well...maybe even better! Wink! Wink!ReplyDelete
bean: rat seeing rat!!ReplyDelete
sk: hands in plastic! aikss.. terrible!
gigi: yes, my tarzans!!
ken: but got to do too...
merryn: i think i need u more! hahaa...
tz: yes.. horrible smell...
ginny: at least u got someone to run too.. hahaha..
stp: thank u for thinking so high of a lady!
Ewww....... =_=ReplyDelete
This picture gonna spoilt my appetite all day.. LOL.
omg already decompose?? that must be realy stinky!ReplyDelete
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hayley: so sort of dieting today? :pReplyDelete
mery: urgh...
fish: yes... now i can still remember the smell...
a man would squeal and run too.ReplyDelete
OMG....Claire, I will run!!!!ReplyDelete
Claire, in moment like this, I will sapu them away. I scared of dead lizard also.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness.. arghh.. I can only imagine the stench! Last time my car got dead lizard the stench was already awful.. imagine a dead rat with maggots somemore! Eww.. you're really geng to solve this yourself! What to do.. we have to be independent! :)ReplyDelete
uewerkkk! Can imagine the gross-ness. U're really brave. But I guess there was no choice huh. :)ReplyDelete
I cannot even manage a dead cockroach, let alone a decomposed rat! You are now my idol, Claire!ReplyDelete
peiyee: i have no choice!.. i kept staring for a few moments..thinking how to get away from this.. urgh!ReplyDelete
slavemom: yes! no choice.. sigh..
sweetwitch: no choice as i said.. how i wish someone does it for me..
i tabik u!! So brave. There was once a bird died at my office here (outside). It had maggots underneath too. I tried to remove it but my whole body turned wobbly. hahaha.....At the end, one of the worker help me to get rid of it.ReplyDelete


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Every second Sunday six men disappear into a cavernous shed in Ararat and start building something special. No hammers or drills here, these guys share a yarn, a feed and then plug in their instruments and rock out. They call it shed therapy.
I first came across The Shed Dwellers band, when guitarist Gordon Adams turned up to an info session for the ABC Exhumed band competition.
"We'll play any music you like as long as it's requested on a $50 note," Gordon deadpans.
Intrigued by his wry sense of humor, and curious about this magical shed the band apparently dwelled in, I headed to Ararat to learn more.
Entering the shed on that icy day was a bit like stepping into Doctor Who's Tardis. This was no ordinary backyard shed. Inside was a group of mates cooking up curries, having a drink and a laugh, sitting around the fireplace, and getting ready to crank out some serious noise. A drink was handed to me (only soft drink mind you), and I was introduced to the band and their friends.
The Shed Dwellers play a mixture of rhythm and blues, country and rock covers. From Johnny Cash's 'Folsom Prison Blues', to Van Morrison's ' Brown Eye Girl', the Sheddies (as Gordon likes to call them) play music you can boogie down to.
Where they differ from the typical pub cover band is the way they approach their music. As I watched them perform, I felt their energy, excitement and happiness radiating off the corrugated iron walls. It is the sheer joy of playing together that they love: an audience is not required. The playing was tight and joyous, the mood infectious.
During a short break from the music, with the band seated around the table, Billy described the group simply as "a bunch of guys that get together for a weekly session of therapy and music." The rest of the band agreed.
For Dave, drumming in the Shed Dwellers helps alleviate his depression. "I find that the shed therapy is better then any medication I've been dealt by the doctors."
"The shed is just the shed. Once you're in there, then you understand what the shed is all about." Adrian McAllen.
After only a few hours hanging out with the Shed Dwellers, I think I understand what Adrian was getting at. Watch the Shed Dwellers video above to find out too.
Check out a live performance by the Shed Dwellers at the Ballarat Exhumed regional finals.
Big thanks to the mighty Shed Dwellers for inviting me to their secret base, and AME systems in Ararat for letting me film Gordon at work.
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Great story ! Really enjoyed their music ! Great to see the smiles all round .
Genuinely inspirational. How do I find similar like minded people doing similar things in my local area?
I had the pleasure of being entertained by the shed dwellers at Willaura last nite ..Great music. Top job. Cheers Wally
What a great story Marc - they are really an inspiration aren't they? That's what I call a Musical Man Cave
This is just great to see! Who would of thought this would all happen from a simple trip to Ballarat ABC for an information session about the Exhumed Competition. What an honour and a fabulous journey we have had as a bunch of mates now known as The Shed Dwellers. I can only say thank you to the Universe and all involved. I can honestly say we are over the moon with a strong sense of pride from within to have taken this ride. Fan bloody tastic mate!
Really enjoyed this Marc. Real down to earth stuff.
the shed dwellers.play great music the way they want to play it.its great to see the change and the energy the boys get out of hanging out and playing music together.they all share there vibe and they are all genuine good blokes..support the shed dwellers ''these blokes would support you''
Brilliant work Marc. Great follow up from the Exhumed Concert and this story has great human depth. Love it!! :-))
Bring on the shed. Great story.
Now I know what men get up to in their sheds! A fantastic film Marc. Thank you for sharing the stories of these beautiful men and their music. We could all do with a bit of shed therapy at times.
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NEW YORK — Shares of TRI Pointe Homes climbed in the home builder's first day of trading. The stock was up $2.15, or 12.7 percent, to $19.15 in Thursday afternoon trading.
The strong debut is a sign that the gradual housing market recovery is gaining traction. Home sales and prices have routinely been setting multiyear highs as they come back from the real estate collapse.
TRI Pointe Homes Inc. raised approximately $232.9 million from its initial public offering of about 13.7 million shares. The offering priced at $17 per share, above the expected range of $14 to $16 per share.
The company said that it is selling 10 million shares, while a fund affiliated with Starwood Capital Group is selling about 3.7 million shares. The fund is giving the underwriters a 30-day option to buy up to 2.1 million more shares.
TRI Pointe, based in Irvine, Calif., expects net proceeds of about $156.3 million, after deducting an underwriting discount and some expenses. It plans to use net proceeds to buy land and for development, home construction and other related purposes. TRI Pointe won't receive any proceeds from shares sold by the fund affiliated with Starwood Capital Group.
TRI Pointe has 14 communities in California and one in Colorado. The company was formed by former executives of homebuilder William Lyon Homes.
In becoming a public company, TRI Pointe has the option of raising capital through the stock market, rather than relying solely on private investors or financing from lenders.
That's important because builders need capital to buy land and build homes. Even with the improvement in home sales and housing prices over the past year, many small, privately held homebuilders complain that lenders remain hesitant to provide loans for land acquisition.
In a regulatory filing TRI Pointe reported $22.3 million in home sales for the nine months ended Sept. 30. That compares with $9.3 million in home sales a year earlier. The company's projects are primarily in California.
The company reported a loss of $3.9 million for the nine months. It lost $3.1 million a year earlier.
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The Costa Mesa High cheerleaders never stole any moves or routines from a squad in Compton. In that sense, their captain, Alyssa Dasca, would never be subject to the challenge: "Bring it."
However, this past weekend it was as if Dasca and the Costa Mesa cheerleaders said, "Oh, I'll bring it. Don't worry."
Excuse my point of reference. It's from the 2000 movie, "Bring It On," a cult classic and a guilty pleasure of mine.
I don't feel too guilty because, "Bring It On," can be classified as a sports film.
Is cheerleading a sport? The movie, aside from its silly scenes and funny quotes, proves that it is.
The proof can be seen in the movie's final scene, which takes place at the competition that is televised by ESPN. The competition is known as the National High School Cheerleading Championship.
The Costa Mesa cheerleaders competed at the Universal Cheerleaders Assn. event this past weekend in Orlando, Fla.
The CMHS cheerleaders brought it, or as their coach Kori Johnson likes to say, "They killed it."
They finished sixth in the nation out of 20 teams in their division and they finished sixth out of 12 in the World School Cheerleading Championships Team Competition, that included squads from Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, Johnson said. They also had some fun at Disney World.
"After they did their performance at nationals they were overjoyed," Johnson said. "Everyone was hugging and crying and they enjoyed themselves. I'm so proud of their performance. They are too."
The girls on the team practiced religiously in the days leading up to the event. Since August, they practiced the routine for at least two hours a day, five days a week.
The work paid off. You can watch their routine on YouTube, "CMHS Cheer at Nationals!"
In addition to Johnson, Frank Molina and Maria Calbande also coach the team.
They got them ready to try to perform their routine without flaw on a big stage in front of the best and their fans.
"They condition and they run," Johnson said. "They perform at a national level. They are certainly athletes. You're lifting humans. You have to be careful. There is a lot precision and skill involved. You have to be dedicated to do it and you have to be athletic."
This NHSCC competition is no joke.
There are six pages of rules for each division that competes in the NHSCC, basically the Super Bowl of high school cheerleading competitions. Over 550 teams competed at the event.
The Costa Mesa cheerleaders competed in the Large Varsity Non Tumbling Division. The division has teams that feature 21-30 members and can have up to two males. Costa Mesa's squad consisted of 27 cheerleaders.
"The division prohibits all tumbling, except for inversions into load-in positions, stunts, and pyramids. Tumbling is defined as any skill with feet-over-head rotation," the rules state.
There are other divisions for different levels and numbers of cheerleaders on squads.
Cheer can be intense.
There are other levels than high school. College, of course, and pros. The Laker girls are celebrities.
There is also club cheerleading. Scott Bruce, who I knew in high school, has three daughters ages, 11, 9 and 7, who compete for the Orange County-based California All-Stars. He's well aware of the hard work that goes into cheerleading.
"There are not many high school athletes who would be able to complete one of their workouts," Bruce said.
Johnson knows plenty about cheerleading and coaching. She was recently named a national coach of the year by Cheerobics, which annually honors the best with its Cheer Coach of the Year Awards. Johnson was the winner of the inaugural "community" coach of the year award.
Johnson was a cheerleader at Costa Mesa High, where she lettered three years and was the team captain as a senior. She also ran track for the Mustangs.
She came back to coach the team at her alma mater eight years ago, when the program was in shambles. The program was heading toward being eliminated at the school.
Costa Mesa has now become a highly respected program among the best cheerleading teams in the nation and reached unprecedented heights in the program's history.
"It's to the point that now other teams are fearful of us and they say, 'oh my God, they are good,'" Johnson said. "It's so great to do well and hold our own with teams at the nationals. It's so great to see where we have come from to where we are now."
The CMHS cheerleaders actually improved from last year, when they finished 13th at the nationals and committed a few costly drops.
This year, there were no drops. They brought it. They want to go back and place higher next year, Johnson said.
The Costa Mesa cheerleaders are: Seniors Courtney Hatch, Alyssa Dasca, Taylor Jones, Natalie Fowler, Jordan Weir, Lexi Stroman, Megan Settles, Emily Strodel, Adriana Rodriguez and Selena Arreola; Juniors Alyssa Lopez, Laura Vaigious, Mckenzie Soldin, Jazzy Jaime, Olivia LeValley and Allie Ross; Sophomores Shannon McCormick, Rachel Keane, Karly Brumbaugh, Frankie Bertella, Alexis Dasca, Alexis Lomeli, Lea Mitani and Ellie Aguilar; Freshmen Kate Piatti, Andrea Ross and Paige La Bare.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
"we encourage" - Make Him Glad
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- carina@a punk, a pumpkin and a peanut said...
oh jami, this is so good for me to read. so often i just wonder, "where the heck is HE? doesn't he know i need some back up?", when in all reality he is working hard for our family all day long. he deserves so much more gratitude than i give. thanks for this reminder!!
- March 5, 2012 at 10:34 PM
- Erin Ledbetter said...
Such a great reminder, Jami...of course we want home to be the place that he looks forward to at the end of the day! Our attitude MATTERS!!! Although we all can falter, this is great to keep in the forefront! Thanks!
- March 5, 2012 at 11:43 PM
- hannah singer said...
whew. so timely.
just this morning, i started fresh with patrick. we have been AT WAR. nearly silently though. we allowed our cirumctances to frazzle us and make a wide distance between us. praise jesus we were simultaneously convicted and were able to forgive and open communication again today! IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY. not circumstances, but our hearts were fixed on jesus and on serving one another in LOVE.
i am gonna make him glad this week! and on and on!
thanks for this awesome post, dear friend. love you!
- March 6, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- kaylee@life chasers said...
LOVED this post. Sometimes it's really just as simple ad asking. Putting him first wouldn't always be my first option but I'm finding more each day that the key is really just preferring the other person.
- March 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- Katie said...
i love that quote! I want to work to remember that and make that a goal!
- March 6, 2012 at 4:47 AM
- Stephanie said...
Love this...such wisdom that Martin Luther and you have today for us wives. I can still remember my momma going to our bathroom and breaking out her lipstick and powder to freshen up every afternoon. I knew that meant my daddy would be coming home any minute....that has impacted my marriage to this very day.
- March 6, 2012 at 6:54 AM
- Karen said...
This is so great! Such a wonderful reminder on where to keep our priorities and what we can do to always improve our relationships.
- March 6, 2012 at 7:00 AM
- Rheana said...
How crazy is this: Yesterday I posted something very similar to this with that exact picture from pinterest! I posted a few encouraging verses that I am turning to this week to help me be a better, welcoming wife. Maybe they will inspire you, too!
- March 6, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- EverythingIam-blogspot.blogspot.com said...
Just heard this at the Titus 2 workshop I went to on Saturday!
This was a quote from Titus 2- Our husband's greatest love need is to be respected for who he is and what he does.
- March 6, 2012 at 9:47 AM
- Laurie J said...
clean underwear, that's awesome! great post, jami. it's so easy to forget those seemingly little things we can do to strengthen our marriages.
- March 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- the lowes said...
so good Jami. i need to ask myself that to "am I doing it with JOY?" because I know he certainly comes home (more often than not these days with a toddler, newborn and exhausted mommy) to NOT much joy. Thats grieves my heart. Thanks for writing this out for us...Im gonna be dwelling on this with the Lord today! love you....
- March 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- Handbags*N*Pigtails said...
Over the past few years I've realized just how selfish a person/wife I am. I always have such high expectations of him(& hes great at doing things with a cheerful heart) yet when he needs something I'm too busy/tired/whatever...
I needed to hear this.
Miss you!
- March 6, 2012 at 5:16 PM
- Amanda said...
David and I revisit this topic every now and then. It helps us interact with each other in a way that expresses how much we value each other. :)
Thanks for the post - and for hosting!
- March 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM
- Kara @ Just1Step said...
This is great - it is definitely easy to get so caught up in kids and home life that we forget about pleasing our husbands and making the home a sanctuary for them. Thanks for the reminder. :)
- March 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- theolivetree said...
love this post :)
- March 7, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- Marie said...
this is an insightful post...
my dear husband lavishes on me. loves to spoil me. delights to make me smile! sometimes it is so easy to fall into just letting him do for me and soak it all up! it is so very important when you are married to a giving person to remember to fill their tanks as well. do for the other person and pleasing them is a very important tool to use to cultivate love as well as stave off selfishness.
thanks for the reminder:)
- March 10, 2012 at 4:42 AM
- Tannita said...
I try to always think about this when I stress out about something and want to nit pick when he comes home :)
- March 11, 2012 at 12:15 PM


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Counties argue tax dollars owed
TALLAHASSEE - A judge's ruling that online travel companies should be taxed only on what they pay for hotel rooms rather than the higher price they charge customers will be appealed, a lawyer for 17 Florida counties said on Tuesday.
Circuit Judge James Shelfer on Thursday ruled from the bench in favor of Expedia and other online companies after a three-day hearing in Tallahassee.
With millions in tourist development tax dollars at stake, Shelfer's decision will be challenged in the 1st District Court of Appeal, also in Tallahassee, said Bob Nabors, a lawyer for the 17 counties and four county tax collectors. The case could end up before the Florida Supreme Court.
"It's frustrating, but either side would have appealed," Nabors said. "We are going to do everything we can to fast-track the appeal."
Shelfer hasn't yet signed a written order, but a hearing transcript indicates he found Florida's tax law is too vague to support the counties' argument that it requires payment based on the full price customers are charged for their rooms.
"The defendants have made a strong case about whether or not a tax can be imposed if it is not clearly stated that they are subject to the tax," Shelfer said. Then, paraphrasing an attorney from the O.J. Simpson murder trial, he said, "If the glove don't fit, you have to acquit, I guess."
Shelfer said he was having trouble figuring out the Legislature's intent because lawmakers removed language from the state's tax law that would have supported the counties' argument when the tourist development levy was added in 1977.
The travel companies contend their markup pays for services, not hotel-room costs, so it is not subject to the tourist development tax, sometimes referred to as a "bed tax."
"We provide a travel service and travel services, as the law is written now, are not taxed in the state of Florida," said Elizabeth Herrington, a lawyer for Orbitz Worldwide Inc., Orbitz for Business Inc., Orbitz LLC and Trip Network Inc.
Herrington acknowledged that if the ruling had gone the other way, her clients would have appealed as well.
Other defendants are Expedia Inc., Hotels.com LP, Delaware Hotwire Inc., Priceline.com Inc., Travelweb LLC, Sabre Holdings Corp., and Travelocity.com Inc.
The counties are Leon, Flagler, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Polk, Alachua, Nassau, Okaloosa, Seminole, Wakulla, St. Johns, Escambia, Charlotte, Walton, Hillsborough and Pasco. Tax collectors in Leon, Pinellas, Polk and Hillsborough also participated.
The lawsuit is one of several that have been filed over the issue. A case involving Broward County is pending before Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, also in Tallahassee. In that case, online companies including Orbitz sued Broward, but the issue is the same, Herrington said. She declined further comment because the case hasn't yet been decided.
In 2010, several travel companies agreed to pay $6.5 million to 32 counties to settle a federal class-action lawsuit. The counties agreed they wouldn't collect tax on full retail prices from July 1, 2010 until July 1, 2012 except for Priceline, which is covered by the deal through July 1, 2013.
Orange County last year approved a separate confidential settlement with Expedia.
Bills have been filed in the Legislature in recent years to ensure travel companies wouldn't have to pay tax on their markups. The House passed such a bill 77-38 in 2011, but it didn't get a floor vote in the Senate. This year, similar legislation never got out of committee in either chamber.


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Two common examples of the things coming out of Google X are Google Glass and driverless cars.
Recently, the head of the closed-door organization, Astro Teller, penned an article for Wired sharing some of his keys to success.
"It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better," Teller starts off his piece.
Basically, Teller argues that when you think about accomplishing goals that seem impossible, you're much more likely to achieve them. He uses the example of John F. Kennedy sending a man to the moon:
You've all heard the story before: Without a clear path to success when we started, we accomplished in less than a decade a dream several generations in the making. We chose to go to the moon, John F. Kennedy said, not because it was easy … but because it was hard. Suddenly everyone from schoolchildren to the largest institutions were rallying behind the mission.
This ideal is from a concept called "moonshot thinking." Moonshot thinking is the idea that if you're not thinking crazy enough then you're doing the wrong thing.
But Teller clarifies that not all moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem and it doesn't all involve technology. Teller's point is that if we change our thinking and focus on moonshot thinking we may end up solving the right problems instead of the wrong ones.
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In a possible harbinger of how transportation funding will be generated in this country, Nevada's Clark County recently passed a two-year fuel tax increase due to take effect Jan. 1 next year – an effort that should result in a 3-cent per gallon tax hike that's expected to raise $700 million for transportation projects across Southern Nevada.
While local fuel taxes aren't necessarily new – indeed, Nevada's Washoe County passed a similar fuel tax hike on diesel back in 2009, and we'll get to that in a bit here – trucking's involvement in crafting Clark County's fuel tax plan certainly is, and the industry did so in an effort to head off some very nasty ripple effects.
Thus, as more and more local governments potentially line up to institute such localized fuel taxation, truckers may want to keep Nevada's experience with such taxes handy.
First, let's examine Clark County's fuel tax plan more closely. First of all, it's a county ordinance that indexes the fuel tax to inflation; a move that is expected to result in that 3-cent per gallon tax increase mentioned earlier.
That fuel tax boost will, in turn, allow the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) to issue bonds to fund 183 regional transportation projects, including developing Interstate 11, widening U.S.-95 in the northwest part of Las Vegas from Ann Road to Kyle Canyon, bringing the 215 Beltway to freeway standards, among others.
Here's another key part of this tax plan: all of the funds generated by Clark County's fuel tax hike will only go toward projects in Clark County.
Now, without indexing, RTC estimated that it would only have about $22.4 million per year over the next 10 years to spend on local streets and highway projects – equivalent to building one interchange per year, one mile of roadway per jurisdiction per year, or one beltway segment without bridges per year.
"Figuring out how best to raise revenue to fund roadway projects is an issue that not only affects Clark County but our entire nation," noted Tina Quigley, RTC's general manager, in a statement. "We believe that indexing the fuel tax to inflation is the quickest alternative with the least impact on our community to help address our streets and highways budget that will allow us to help create a transportation vision for our future."
That's all very nice, but Nevada's truckers quickly realized that such localized fuel taxes don't count towards International Fuel Tax Agreement or "IFTA" calculations – and that leaves carriers both large and small open to "double taxation," Paul Enos, executive director of the Nevada Trucking Association, told me.
Now, as all truckers know, IFTA is a compact signed by the 48 contiguous states and 10 Canadian provinces to ensure that fuel taxes are paid not at the point of purchase (where a truck fills up on fuel) but at point of use. "This ensures that interstate trucking companies that travel on Nevada's roads are paying for their use on Nevada's roads, even if they do not buy fuel in our state," Enos explained.
Thus every interstate trucking company is required to keep track of their miles traveled in every jurisdiction, and report those miles traveled to their base state, which then sends the revenue due to other states. If a carrier owes more to a particular state, Enos said, they send in a tax payment. If the carrier has paid too much they receive a refund.
Ah, but here's the critical part: IFTA only deals with state taxes and will not collect, or credit, local taxes unless they are applied statewide.
Now, with that salient fact in mind, let's return to Nevada's Washoe County, which implemented an "indexed to inflation" fuel tax hike four years ago.
Enos explained that Washoe's fuel tax hike initially started at 3 cents per gallon but has increased by about 3 cents per gallon every year since – and none of it counts towards IFTA calculations.
As an example of how that hurts truckers he pointed to Washoe-based carriers that operate a goodly portion of miles in nearby California. The Golden State imposes a fuel tax of 44.5 cents per gallon, whereas Nevada's state fuel 27 cents per gallon. Ah, but truckers in Washoe County pay a further local fuel tax of 13.5 cents per gallon, meaning they are shelling out about 40.5 cents per gallon in total state and local fuel taxes. Yet that extra 13.5 cents per gallon doesn't count towards their IFTA payments.
End result? Although Washoe County-based truckers actually pay 40.5 cents per gallon in fuel taxes, they only get assessed the difference between the California state rate of 44.5 cents and the Nevada state rate of 27 cents per gallon. This effectively is double taxation on the California miles because instead of having to make up only 4 cents per gallon in fuel tax differences between Nevada and California, Washoe truckers must make up 17.5 cents per gallon.
Enos told me that, for one Washoe County-based trucking firm that operates 80% of its miles in California, that translates into $120,000 in extra fuel tax payments to the Golden State per year. In a word: blech!
"On top of all that, the Washoe County fuel tax plan can't be changed until 2019 until the bonds it's indexed against come due," Enos told me. "That's why we got involved in the Clark County fuel tax effort: we wanted to ensure more Nevada trucking companies don't become competitively disadvantaged due to higher fuel taxes."
In Clark County's case, then, the trucking community crafted a fuel tax rebate structure similar to IFTA's and managed by Nevada's department of motor vehicles (DMV). Enos explained that having a single state entity collect and manage and collect such local fuel taxes – DMV does the same for Washoe County – is critical as it significantly reduces administrative costs, thus ensuing more tax money ends up funding transportation projects.
Enos also believes that the trucking community should prepare itself for more "localized fuel tax hikes" as they are the wave of the future to his mind.
"No one wants to raise taxes; not the federal government, not the state legislatures," he explained. "In our case in Clark County, the state legislature designed this fuel tax, allowed for DMV to collect and manage it, yet then pushed the final decision to implement it down to the board of commissioners."
Enos also said Nevada's trucking industry saw this coming for a while and realized it would be very difficult – if not impossible – to stop. "So we said how do we get involved to ensure our industry doesn't suffer competitively from this? I hate to be a trailblazer – it certainly isn't fun – but we had to face the reality of this [Clark County fuel tax] and make the best of it," he said. "Given that it mirrors the current structure of IFTA, it's a system that's as fair as can be."
Now we must wait and see how many other localities follow Nevada's example, crafting fuel taxes to pay for local transportation projects.


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STAMFORD, Conn./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Family members have identified the body of a woman who died after a tense car chase through the streets of Washington that prompted a lockdown of the U.S. Capitol, their lawyer said Friday.
Miriam Carey's family members plan to discuss the incident later on Friday, when they return to their New York home, attorney Eric Sanders said in a posting on his law firm's Facebook page. They identified her body at the office of the medical examiner in Washington, Sanders said.
Carey, 34, had her one-year-old baby in the car with her on Thursday when she tried to drive through a barrier near the White House, then sped away toward Capitol Hill and led police on a high-speed chase that ended when her car got stuck on a median and police shot her.
Carey had suffered from depression, ABC News quoted her mother as saying, while a neighbor who lived in her Stamford, Connecticut, apartment building said she had been acting erratically.
"She had post-partum depression after having the baby," said Idella Carey, who identified herself as Miriam Carey's mother, ABC News reported on Friday. "A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. ... She was hospitalized."
Investigators probing the incident are focusing on whether Carey had mental problems that triggered her actions, a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said on Friday.
Carey had no previous run-ins with the U.S. Secret Service, which is responsible for White House security, a law enforcement official said.
An officer at Washington's Metropolitan Police headquarters confirmed that Carey was the driver of the black Infiniti coupe involved in the incident, but declined to provide further details.
Carey's daughter had been unharmed when taken in by the District of Columbia Child and Family Services on Friday, said Mindy Good, a spokeswoman for the agency.
"She's fine," Good said of the child, who she declined to name. "Safe and fine, so far."
Outside a Stamford, Connecticut, building where Carey had lived, most neighbors said they knew little about the woman. But one man, a 59-year-old resident of the building who would only identify himself as "O.V.," said she had been behaving unusually recently.
"She seemed nice, but was very erratic lately, was acting very strange," he said. "She seemed like she was OK one minute, and then wasn't making any sense the next.
"She would often speed her car in and out of the parking lot here, and that was something that really concerned me," he said.
The incident, which came as Congress was debating how to resolve the current shutdown of the federal government, was initially reported as a shooting. But law enforcement sources said the woman did not shoot a gun and there was no indication she had one.
Law enforcement investigators had largely completed their search of Carey's Stamford apartment on Friday and reopened the building, which had been evacuated a day earlier, to residents.
Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia said the investigation had been handed over to the FBI.
Two officers were hurt in Thursday's incident. One was a Secret Service officer who was struck by the suspect's car outside the White House, Donovan said.
The other was a Capitol Police officer whose car struck a barricade during the mid-afternoon chase, which ranged over about a mile and a half and lasted just a few minutes, officials said.
Security was tight near the Capitol after Thursday's incident, just three weeks after a government contractor opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, about 1.5 miles from the Capitol, killing 12 people and wounding three others before he was shot dead by police.
In 1998, a gunman burst through a security checkpoint at the Capitol and killed two Capitol Police officers in an exchange of fire that sent tourists and other bystanders diving for cover. The suspect, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., was not charged with a crime because of apparent mental instability.
Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell and Ian Simpson in Washington and Edward Upright in New York; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Vicki Allen and David Gregorio