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The attitude toward public input displayed by some city leaders and some Traverse City Light & Power officials in the Record-Eagle's Feb. 24 recent article "Scuffle over how utility will select next leader" was troubling.
Light & Power is a publicly owned utility and must include public input into the important process of choosing its next executive director. Public input is critical to finding a candidate who has the qualities necessary to effectively lead the utility, and especially to build public support for the new leader.
L&P itself sent out a press release requesting citizen input into this process, and most of the board members do a commendable job engaging with the public and including public comments at meetings.
So it was surprising to read about city officials criticizing an organization and citizens for engaging in the process. There is absolutely nothing wrong with an advocacy group like the Michigan Land Use Institute and residents of Traverse City contacting public officials, advocating for an open and wide search, and looking for the best possible candidate. In fact, L&P and the mayor should encourage this kind of involvement. This is how the process is supposed to work.
I also wrote a letter to the L&P board earlier this month outlining the qualities the next executive director should have and asking that they post the job to make sure we hire the best possible candidate. As I said in my letter and public comment Tuesday night, energy is critically important and filling the executive director position will have implications for our region and our state for years to come.
Leading a utility is not what it was a decade ago. Today, wind generation is cheaper than new coal generation, and energy efficiency beats all generation dollar for dollar at less than 1.6 cents/kWh.
Meanwhile the cost of coal-fired electricity continues to increase, and the health impacts of coal-fired pollution costs Michigan citizens more than $1.5 billion each year. Many communities are moving towards clean energy and finding it keeps energy rates low and boosts the economy.
This is why L&P is hearing from residents about clean energy. If we want L&P to continue to thrive, we need to find an executive director who understands this and who can lead our utility into this new reality.
The real question the Record-Eagle should be asking is why there is so much backlash from the mayor and some L&P board members when citizens and public interest groups engage in the process?
This decision affects all of us, and if L&P and the mayor are truly serving our city they need to be encouraging more public input, rather than trying to stifle it.
About the author: Kate Madigan is the Northern Michigan Advocate for the Michigan Environmental Council and a Traverse City Light & Power ratepayer.
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The deadline for payment to the Carter County Sheriff's office is April 15, at which point unpaid bills will go to the Clerk's office.
Roughly 2,800 bills had not been paid as of Jan. 31. The Sheriff's office estimates that nearly $5.7 million dollars in property taxes will be paid this year, which does not account for discounts and penalties assessed to each bill.
Property owners who paid before Nov. 15 were given a two percent discount. Those who paid in January were given a five percent penalty. Those who pay now will pay a 21-percent penalty.
As of Jan. 31, CCSO had collected $5,076,393.74, leaving more than half a million dollars at large.
Unpaid property tax bills will be sold at auction by the County Clerk's office on Aug. 27. Once the bills are transferred from the sheriff's office to the clerk, a 40-percent fee is added, but can be paid in the Clerk's office. An additional one percent fee is assessed each month thereafter until the auction.
Carter County Sheriff Casey Brammell said people are much better off making early payments.
"We send out notices in advance and even offer some big discounts," Brammell said. "Even with the penalty at this point, people will save money if they don't wait."
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When cancer spreads to the liver it can go to the bile duct, making it difficult to detect. That's because this area is buried deep within major organs. Now, a tiny camera could mean a quicker diagnosis and better treatment for patients.
Laura Davis is formidable at family trivia games.
But for the last seven years, she's battled a tougher opponent: breast cancer.
"Every day, I just try to be normal, as normal as possible, every day," she said.
Her cancer has come back three times. This time doctors worried it might have spread to her bile duct. Typically, they've relied on x-rays or biopsies for diagnosis, which can be inaccurate and painful.
Doctor Michel Kahaleh, Director of Pancreatic-Biliary Services at the University of Virginia, uses a new technology called SpyGlass.
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A fiber optic probe with a miniature camera is placed down the patient's throat and travels all the way to the bile duct. It magnifies the area to show cancer, benign tumors and stones in real time.
"Now, we can finally see all those diseases that we were suspecting," said Kahaleh.
If cancer is present, doctors can immediately use a laser to destroy it. In a study, using SpyGlass with laser therapy more than doubled survival rates. Luckily, Davis' bile duct was clear and Dr. Kahaleh was able to tell her the good news on the spot.
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Now, she enjoys family time knowing doctors are keeping a closer eye on her cancer.
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---- — MILO, Mo. — Joseph R. Smith, Sr., 77, left his earthly home in Milo, Mo., July 19, 2013, to begin his "How ya dooin'" reunion with previously departed family and friends.
Waiting to greet him were his parents, Clarence and Mary; brother, Norman; and his children, Doug and Mike Smith and Deb Radcliffe.
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I have a couple of questions concerning cardio.
OK, I have been cutting seriously for a couple of months. I am stuck right now and I want to do some bulking. My strength has gone up since I started getting serious about my diet and WO's, but I haven't seen the muscle gains since I am cutting.
I think that one of the main problems I have right now is that I do not have much LBM so I am going to up my cals 500 a week unitl I am at around 3000+ to build more muscle. I am 5'10" 160 right now, but still have a little stubborn fat on my gut and thighs.
Here's my question.
The way I understand it, if you do cardio 1st thing in the morning you are going to burn nothing but fat since your body has nothing else to burn. That is of course if it is not high intensity. I was wondering if a bulking diet, but doing cardio before I eat my 1st meal of the day will I gain muscle yet burn the fat via cardio?
30-45 minutes of light-moderate cardio on an empty stomach is not catabolic is it? Say 4 days a week?
Any help would be appreciated...please remeber that I haven't been doing serious weights for long so I have a lot of muscle growth coming my way.
light (aerobic) cardio is not particularly catabolic. It may up your metabolism for an hour or so but unlike intense cardio it won't up your metabolism for extended periods. This assumes that you are in acceptable cardiovascular shape to begin with.
As far as empty/full stomach, it doesn't matter much. Who cares if you 'burn' fat at 6:00am or you 'burn' it later in the day. If your calories in are less than your calories out, you'll burn fat regardless of what time of day you do it. I believe you should do your cardio/aerobics after you eat your first meal.
Now in pain, only working out the walking sticks.
To me the best way to drop fat weight is to do interval-based cardio, something like fartlek sprinting, hill training, whatever.
10-20 minutes of that 3x a week will do wonders for your body composition.
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Wherein I Argue for More Playing Time for Kareem Jackson. bfd argues Kareem Jackson should get the majority of playing time down the stretch.
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A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happinessuntil she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile groupthe fabled Lost Generationthat includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriagea deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything theyve fought so hard for.
A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.
The very first thing he does is fix me with those wonderfully brown eyes and say, "It's possible I'm too drunk to judge, but you might have something there."
It's October 1920 and jazz is everywhere. I don't know any jazz, so I'm playing Rachmaninoff. I can feel a flush beginning in my cheeks from the hard cider my dear pal Kate Smith has stuffed down me so I'll relax. I'm getting there, second by second. It starts in my fingers, warm and loose, and moves along my nerves, rounding through me. I haven't been drunk in over a year--not since my mother fell seriously ill--and I've missed the way it comes with its own perfect glove of fog, settling snugly and beautifully over my brain. I don't want to think and I don't want to feel, either, unless it's as simple as this beautiful boy's knee inches from mine.
The knee is nearly enough on its own, but there's a whole package of a man attached, tall and lean, with a lot of very dark hair and a dimple in his left cheek you could fall into. ...
With 20 out of 22 reviewers rating it 4 or 5 stars, The Paris Wife is a clear favorite amongst BookBrowse readers, and has inspired many to revisit classic works by Ernest Hemingway.
Paula McLain sympathetically captures Hadley Richardson's voice in this highly addictive, page-turning debut. She pushes deep in to the lives of her characters while remaining true to the facts (Jill S). The narrative is very compelling! I was hooked by the first chapter and it never let up, and despite knowing how the marriage ended, I was riveted (Michele J). Perhaps the author's greatest strength is that her writing style is much like Hemingway's - crisp, clear, and concise (Mary S). I felt I was living in this unstable world and sympathized with Hadley as she watched her marriage fall apart while Ernest became more and more concerned with his own reputation and with fitting into a world that she could not accept. If for no other reason, the novel is worth reading for taking us back to a time many of us know little about (Sandra H). (Reviewed by BookBrowse First Impression Reviewers).
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Paula McLain's novel, The Paris Wife, centers on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. However, over the course of his life (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway married four different women, each unique and interesting in her own right:
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson: Born on November 9, 1891, Hadley was raised in a rather cheerless household. She suffered a serious injury as a child when she fell out of a second-story window, putting her in the hospital for months and igniting her mother's overprotection. This, plus the suicide of her father when she was 12, contributed to Hadley's severe shyness, and she sought refuge from her difficult childhood in music. After her mother's death, Hadley ...
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At Reason Weekend 2013, the annual donor event for the nonprofit that publishes this website, Poole presented areas of transportation in which federal dollars are being wasted, including airports, air traffic control, highways, urban transit, ports, and inland waterways. Poole explained how privatizing many of these areas would help increase efficiency and allow the transportation sector to avoid funding cuts related to the sequester.
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I do not get some libertarian wonks love for tolls. That is the dark age system of road funding and comes with a host of it's own problems. It's a form of government taxation quite directly modeled off of a robbery scheme.
Like let me get this straight, you're not allowed to build a wall and restrict access to the country on the border, because freedom of movement, but assholes can buy the roads and put tollbooths between me and the supermarket and that's kosher?
It gives me an idea for pitching anti-immigration to libertarians. If we contracted out customs enforcement to a private company by public bid, to be recovered by charging $200 "usage fee" to anyone trying to enter or leave (or however much you need to filter out the indigents), then would it be OK to build a wall to protect the guy's property rights?
"Like let me get this straight, you're not allowed to build a wall and restrict access to the country on the border, because freedom of movement, but assholes can buy the roads and put tollbooths between me and the supermarket and that's kosher?"
Uh, you seem to have a problem with logic.
Preventing access with a wall is one thing, requiring you to pay for construction you use is another.
Are you capable of seeing that?
Private property, how the fuck does it work?
Like this:
You are acting like the most important thing is the construction of the road.
I'd say it's the passage. It's a path to get from A to B. Roads can be dirt roads, the key to being a road isn't the asphalt construction, it's the route.
If you can restrict movement between A and B on the grounds that you bought the property between it and payed to have nicer passages constructed, the same could apply to the entire border. We just build a road on the whole thing and we can charge whatever we want for passage across it then? What happens to freedom of movement if you let people get fenced in with toll roads?
What happens if you can't put together a buck and a quarter for a cheeseburger? You starve. Right?
"If you can restrict movement between A and B on the grounds that you bought the property between it and payed to have nicer passages constructed, the same could apply to the entire border."
Sarc or stupidity?
but assholes can buy the roads and put tollbooths between me and the supermarket and that's kosher?
Maybe you can get the supermarket to validate your toll.
Besides, this libertarian isn't anti-immigration.
I suggest trying to unfuck yourself.
I don't think there's many libertarians that have a problem with a tollbooth at the border. :)
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that it costs a hell of a lot more than $200 for a foreigner to get resident alien status (Green Card) right now.
You're probably right about that.
So who comes up with all that crazy smack? Wow.
Afghan warlords. Bot, are you suggesting we fund our infrastructure projects by selling opium? Might work.
did Poole consult on the latest SimCity game, and if not he should make his own.
Both President Bush Jr & President Obama agreed to hand over
$50 billion Uncle Sam Tax$ to fight the International battle against AIDS..
The American infrastructure is reported to need dire repairs and this USA little American $50 billion in U.S. Tax$ are long gone to others in the world.
Having the U.S.funding a World health problem on the backs of our countries dire needs needs change..Allowing Others around the World to continue to just sit back and allow USA Tax Payers to foot the World's health issues is no longer a viable option !
I registered just so I could ask: Does anyone know where the valve stem is for Poole's head? And does he refill his cranium at home or at a service station(where he'd have to pay for the air)? What PSI?
He uses the same specs you do
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..."(where he'd have to pay for the air)?"...
You can have all the air you want for free. If you want it compressed, you have to pay for the machinery and power.
OK wow that makes a LOT of sesne dude.
If there's any privatization, it needs to be completely, truly private, free market driven infrastructure, not pseudo-private/quasi-public government controlled means. Here's Walter Block on the same topic, but from a different perspective.
Still, I'm with Poole on heading towards the same direction, but I think it's a hard sell and simply impossible in CA and many other states. What state is going to stop accepting Federal highway funds, despite all the conditions it carries, and turn the job over to the private sector?
I'm like 99.9% libertarian but even Block loses me quick enough on the roadz business.
Of all the BS the government pulls, not many people are dissatisfied with the roads. Nor is it the greatest cost driver.
So for proof that the government roads suck, he cites what, the fact that 40,000 people a year die. Oh, like no one will crash themselves up on a private built road? He talks about proximate causes and ultimate causes specifically but he screws up blaming 40,000 deaths on a proximate cause (like the speed limit) in order to find fault with the public highways.
And then even goes so far to say, in regard to 40,000 road deaths annually, "it's the government that has not done well in regard to speed, it's the government that hasn't done well with regard to reducing drunken drivers".
So in this world of privatized roads we dream of, the speed limit will be 12mph and every 2 miles you'll go through a tollbooth/speedtrap/DUI checkpoint. And if you disobey the speed limit while buttchugging mojitos and wipe out a schoolbus, apparently that's the
government'sproperty owner's fault for failing to stop you.
I don't think you've really read his book or given his thoughts a fair understanding.
Block advocates a diversity in attacking the issue of drunk driving. Perhaps urban roads should be 15 miles an hour after midnight. And be brightly lit and easy to navigate. Perhaps there are even better ideas out there to limit or prevent tragedies associated with drunk driving. It is astonishing that in the year 2013 we allow planes to fly themselves hundreds of miles an hour, but cars still poke along difficult to navigate roads and highways with highly flawed drivers.
It is clear that the government lacks the incentives to solve these problems. In fact, the exorbitant tithing owed by a drunk driver to the state apparatus encourages police to maximize the number of drunk drivers in a given night.
Here's my problem with govt abandoning it's job to build toll free roads. We all just end up paying more in the end. Govt budgets are reduced but the money is never really saved it's only spent on some other worthless crap. So we get stuck paying ever increasing taxes and a toll road fee. No, I want to use the crumbling infrastructure as leverage to reduce spending in other areas.
In other words. I've already paid for these motherfucking roads. Give me my shit.


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Part I - The SEO Gold Rush
My name is Joel Glenn Wright. I am a supporter of Patch.com as well as a personal friend of several of its reporters. I am also the founder/owner of Re-Evolution SEO, an Internet marketing and local SEO service firm. I decided to write this blog after being encouraged by close friends to speak up and talk a little bit about a lot of the corruption in the Search Engine Optimization/Internet Marketing field today.
And let me start by saying, "yeah, there's a lot of it." I guess that it is always that way in any industry where there is serious money to be made. Anytime there is an explosion of popularity and of profit, there are always charlatans and pariahs there to exploit and take advantage of it.
I was recently talking with John Crandall, a Patch reporter and old high school friend, who referred to SEO as the "New Gold Rush." I thought that was a perfect metaphor for the field of SEO because it is so true. The search engine marketing industry has taken the world by storm and has now become such a vital part of the modern business model.
I mean 10 years ago, less than 35 percent of small business owners in this country had a website or even felt that it was an important key to expanding their business. As of 2011, it's estimated that number has jumped to just over 89.2 percent and for good reason.
The statistics show that over 87 percent of the population utilizes the Internet to search for local products and services and 90 percent of those searches result in a monetary transaction. WIth numbers like that, it's not that hard to see why businesses of all sizes anxious even desperate to be on the first page of the local search engine results. The way I see it, the front page of Google is the most sought after piece of real estate on the Internet today.
The other reason that I think that the "New Gold Rush" is the perfect metaphor to describe the SEO industry is that if you look at what happened in the original gold rush, you will see much of the same things that are occurring today. After the first pioneers struck it rich, more and more people started "jumping on the bandwagon," heading out west to seek their fortune.
And the longer that continued to go on, the more and more the violence and the deceit and the corruption and the seedy underbelly of mankind crept in and gathered around the entire gold rush community. Then you see the emergence of deception, lying, cheating, stealing, and even killing just to make a few bucks.
Seeing those startling parallels and looking at the anticlimactic death of the original gold rush era made me realize that it was time for all of us in the SEO community to go beyond just trying to sell a service and make a profit and take a more active role in educating the public about SEO and speaking out against all those black-hat, "so-called" SEO expert firms that, whether through ignorance or intentional malice, are misleading, scamming and/or swindling desperate, small business owners out of their money and are giving all of us in the SEO community, who are honest and integrous, a very bad name. This blog is my first step toward that end.
You see, fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), I have worked for a lot of these kind of shady organizations in the past, both as a salesman and later as a SEO. Although I am glad that I left as soon as I discovered that the companies weren't "on the level," and working for them was an experience which I never want to repeat, the one good thing that has emerged from all of that was that is that I had seen and now knew every trick in their book.
Having listened to and, yes, even having personally used such deceptive and abusive tactics on many local business owners, I was now able to teach businesses how to spot and avoid those kind of snake-oil salesmen.
So to any business owners, executive, or CEOs who are reading this article, I promise you that by the time you have read and understood this article series, you will be able to spot the "wolf in sheep's clothing" and never be taken advantage of again.
Since there are a lot of things to share with you about the tactics these amoral SEO ompanies and how to avoid being scammed or taken advantage of, I've decided to divide this post in three or four parts, which will be posted successively one after the other in the coming weeks.
This will give me a chance to rest my fingers (which are cramping up at the moment) and also receive any comments and feedback from the readers about what you want to know about this subject and also to answer any specific questions that you all may have.
After which time, I will be posting part II of the "Local SEO Firms: The Good, The Bad And The Guy" series which deals with the anatomy of a bad SEO company. Until then, good luck to all of you out there in cyberspace.
Joel Gleen Wright is the founder/owner of Re-Evolution SEO - San Juan Capistrano SEO Company


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8:24 p.m.: The City of Falls Church government will be closed Monday due to Hurricane Sandy.
In a written statement, Susan Finarelli, spokeswoman for the city, said essential personnel should report to their supervisor.
The Mary Riley Styles Public Library will also be closed.
The Falls Church Community Center, however, will be open Monday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. but all Parks and Recreation programs will be canceled.
In-person absentee voting will continue as scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the city's Registrar's Office (City Hall, Suite 101 East; enter the building through the Police Department on level G2).
4:38 p.m.: Falls Church City Public Schools have joined other jurisdictions in closing school Monday for students, teachers and administrators.
Fairfax County, Arlington, Alexandria and Loudoun County are also closed Monday.
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Adventure Trips
Feeling adventurous? Prove it.
Join Tarleton Outdoor Pursuits as we explore Texas and Oklahoma this year on our adventure trips to locations ranging from Rockport Beach to the captivating Turner Falls and beyond!
See below for more information about the trips we will be taking this Spring and head on over to the Outdoor Pursuits Checkout Center located in the Recreation Sports Center to get signed up!
Fall 2013 Trips & ClinicsPrices of the weekend trips include transportation, meals, entrance fees, and all equipment unless otherwise noted. For the one day trips you will provide your own transportation and lunch. Sign up by the deadline indicated at the Outdoor Pursuits Checkout Center located in Rec Sports.
S'mores & Cocoa Social
Date: Tuesday, January 21
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: TSU Heritage Park
Cost: FREE
Description: Come meet the Outdoor Pursuits staff and learn about upcoming trips and clinics while roasting marshmallows and sipping hot cocoa! Bring a friend and enjoy a tasty treat!
On-Campus Camping Social
Date: Friday, February 7th - Saturday, February 8th
Time: Begins 7:00pm Ends 9:00am (Feb.8)
Location: Behind Rec Center
Cost: FREE!
Come enjoy a night on campus under the stars! Bring your friends and enjoy fun games and s'mores with the Outdoor Pursuits staff! *Equipment available until supplies last.
Couples River Trip
Date: Saturday, February 15
Time: 8:30am (launch) to 4:30pm (return)
Location: Granbury, Texas
Sign Up Deadline: Wednesday, February 12th
Pre-Trip Meeting: Wednesday, February 12th at 8:00pm
Cost: $10 per person. (participants provide their own lunch and transportation)
Description: Want the perfect Valentine's Day gift? Bring a friend or spouse with you to join the Outdoor Pursuits staff on a scenic kayaking trip in Granbury, Texas. Equipment will be provided. Conditions permitting!
Rock Climbing at P-Hollow
Date: Saturday, February 22nd
Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Mineral Wells State Park, Tx
Sign Up Deadline: Wednesday, March 19th
Pre-Trip Meeting: Wednesday, October 19th at 8:00pm
Cost: $10 (participants provide their own lunch and transportation)
Description: Come out to Mineral Wells State Park and climb with the Outdoor Pursuits staff. It does not matter if you are an experienced climber or have never climbed before, we will teach you the ways of the rock! Bring your friends and bring a lunch! Equipment will be provided.
Challenge Course Day with Friends
Date: Saturday, March 1st
Time: 9:00am- 3:00pm
Location Challenge Course (TSU)
Cost: $10
Max number of participants: 15
Sign-up Deadline: Wednesday, February 25th
*Partipants must provide their own lunch and transportation*
Dutch Oven Cooking Clinic
Date: Tuesday, March 4th
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Behind the Rec Center (TSU)
Cost: FREE
Description: Like to cook? Come join the Outdoor Pursuits staff for some good old camp cooking! Learn how to cook over hot coals with a cast iron Dutch oven. Bring a friend and come enjoy some tasty treats! Equipment will be provided.
Backpacking Trip at Lake of the Ozarks State Park
Date: Monday, March 10th - Wednesday, March 14th
Time: 8:00am(March 10th) to 6:30pm(March 14th)
Location: Lake Bridge Area at Grand Lake State Park, OK & Lake of the Ozarks State Park, MO
Sign Up Deadline: Wednesday, March 5th
Pre-Trip Meeting: Wednesday, March 5th, 8:00pm
Cost: $85 (Cost includes transportation, food, equipment, from the checkout center, and park entrance fees.)
Ozarks State Park. The first night we will stay at the Lake Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park as a halfway point, and then spend
the next two nights at Lake of the Ozarks State Park where we will be backpacking, bird watching, adventuring,
camping, relaxing, and fun!
Hiking & Camping at Wichita Mountains
Date: Saturday, March 22nd - Sunday, March 23rd
Time: 8:30am
Location: Lawton, OK
Sign Up Deadline: Wednesday, March 20th
Pre-Trip Meeting: Wednesday, March 20th
Cost: $30 (Cost includes transportation, food, equipment from the checkout center, and park entrance fees.)
Description: Come join the Outdoor Pursuits staff for a relaxing weekend at the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. We will be doing some
hiking, camping, cave exploring, and site seeing. Bring your friends and enjoy a fun weekend out of Texas
Date: Tuesday, March 27th
Outdoor Survival & Rescue Clinic
Date: Thursday, March 27th
Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Heritage Park (TSU)
Cost: FREE!
Description: Want to know more about outdoor survival and rescue? Come join the Outdoor Pursuits staff for some information on outdoor
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And after Labor Day, the store will be no more, said owner and general manager Jeff Levin.
"We've seen a pattern of diminishing sales and a real dropoff the last three months," he told Pikesville Patch Thursday afternoon. There was "insufficient business to stay open."
The store is now selling down its merchandise, Jeff Levin said. Employees were notified Tuesday and customers began hearing about it on Wednesday.
The store has been owned by Levin's family since 1946. Before that, it was run by the Fields family, from the time it opened in 1892.
"Fields has been here for 120 years. We've weathered quite a few things, but we couldn't weather this," he said. "It's not something we voluntarily chose to do."
He and his wife Daniela Levin run the store. Levin's mother, who is 93, is retired, but still comes in to the store.
"We are thankful that we've been allowed to serve the people of Pikesville for as long as we've had," he said. "It's been a good run."
The longtime Pikesville institution began as a soda fountain and pharmacy, but recently it's been known for two things: its cafe and makeup counter.
It opened in 1892 and pharmacist Norman Levin took over in 1946. Today, his son Jeff runs the store, selling everything from greeting cards and gifts to hosiery, but there is no pharmacy.
The spa services include facials and antiaging treatments. The store is also well-known for perfumes and hard-to-find cosmetics.
Jeff Levin wouldn't say how many employees work at Fields.
But he did say that he'll be looking for a job soon. He's not sure, however, where that will be, or what kind of job.
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Monday—9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday—9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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The fact that Northwestern Michigan College makes extensive use of adjunct instructors has garnered much press of late.
The Record-Eagle editorial "NMC owes its adjunct teachers fair compensation" did a good job of explaining why NMC uses adjunct part-time instructors versus full-time instructors; flexibility to staff classes as demands change, ability to hire part-time instructors for curriculums that don't warrant a full-time instructor and the advantage of instructors with current real world business/professional experience.
In my opinion the editorial made a "left" turn when it then concluded "the college also has an obligation to offer employees fair compensation ... to use (adjunct instructors) as a strategy to keep costs down ... is unfair."
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Whenever a donation is made or a sign posted, we condone the behavior of Washington suits.
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Those who lobby for guns have a responsibility to also try to make sure that access to them will be for responsible and safe use.
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The NFL Films piece on Jimmy Johnson, mentioned in this space a few weeks ago, is set to air Wednesday at 7 p.m. on the NFL Channel. The hour-long documentary is part of the "It's a Football Life" series airing weekly, and is expected to contain material on Jimmy's life and times growing up in Port Arthur, and his heroic returns as coach of a collegiate national champion and Super Bowl champion. JJ, incidentally, continues to get embarrassed by picking the Cowboys to win when he, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Michael Strahan make selections on FOX NFL Sunday. After last week's mistake-filled loss to the Giants, his message to his old team was, "It's not how many great plays you make that win games, it's how few bad ones." . . . The latest Sports Illustrated has a strong Texas pro football theme in its NFL Mid-Season Report. The Texans' amazing J.J. Watt is the issue's coverboy, with an inside feature that portrays him as the NFL's dominant defensive player, and builds a case for the Texans as the league's best team. Adjacent to the piece on Watt and the Texans is one on the Cowboys that attempts to explain why they remain so popular both in the Lone Star State and nationally. Interestingly enough, it doesn't mention the fact that owner Jethro Jones got soundly booed when his likeness appeared in a public service announcement last Sunday on the massive video screen at JerryWorld. . . For those who find betting trends fascinating, there's one at work with both the Cowboys and the Texans. In Dallas' last 28 games, the favorite has covered only five times. As for Houston, it has covered the point spread in 15 of the last 18 games Matt Schaub has started at quarterback. The Texans are favored by 10 over Buffalo, while Dallas is getting four at Atlanta.
Don't think I've read many sports stories sadder than the one in Thursday's Port Arthur News about what Alzheimer's has done to Darrell Royal, and that his deteriorating condition has led to wife Edith deciding to put much of his personal memorabilia up for auction. Actually, the latter is not a bad thing, because you have think the items that are up for bid will generate several hundred thousand dollars from his many admireres for the Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer's Disease. The auction, for those who may have missed the story, will take place in Austin next Sunday . . . Put the name of Donald Reed alongside so many others who have used athletic success in Port Arthur as a springboard to making their presence felt in a positive way. A TJ basketball star under Willie Williams from 1980-82, who went on to play for North Texas and earn a Masters of Science in Kinesiology/Education and Sports Administration, Reed is now the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Academic and Athletic Performance at the University of Buffalo. Prior to moving to Buffalo, he served in athletic academic roles at New Mexico State, Arizona State and Iowa State. In addition to his masters degree, Reed received his Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management and Development at New Mexico State. Pretty impressive stuff . . . Early odds from RJ Bell of Pregame.com will do little to relieve pessimism surrounding another 100-loss season for the Houston Astros in their move to the American League West. Two division foes — the Angels at 12-to-1 and the Rangers at 13-to-1 — have the best odds of winning the 2013 World Series. The Oakland A's, at 25-to-1, are in the top half of the pack. Houston, meanwhile, has the longest odds of 150-to-1.
By the time you read this, ESPN's sharpest college football analyst Kirk Hebstreit will either have a chance to look awfully smart, or the limb he crawled out on will have broken off. On Randy Galloway's Wednesday radio show, Herbstreit said Texas A&M will be much more of a threat on the road next week at No. 1 Alabama than No. 5 LSU was going to be against the Crimson Tide Saturday in Baton Rouge. Herbstreit's reasoning was that the Aggies have an offense that's going to be much more of a problem than LSU's. He even said he figured LSU would average about 0.3 yards per carry against Alabama . . . It probably won't happen this way, but think of the fallout if it does. Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame all finish the regular season unbeaten. Alabama and either Kansas State or Oregon get matched by the BCS computers for the national championship. An unbeaten Notre Dame gets left out. What an unthinkable human tragedy. Vegas oddsmakers, by the way, believe Oregon would have the best shot at beating Alabama. As of Friday, they had the Crimson Tide a 6-point favorite over the Ducks, 10 over Kansas State and 13 over Notre Dame, assuming the teams played on a neutral field . . . The good news on Memorial ex Jamaal Charles, following a scary helmet-to-helmet hit Thursday night in San Diego that left him down on the field for several minutes, is that he's fine and is expected to be ready to play for Kansas City next Sunday in Pittsburgh. The bad news, as so many saw Thursday night, is that a great talent is stuck in a hopeless situation on a bad, poorly coached team which may have already thrown in the towel on the 2012 season. Because opponents don't respect KC's quarterbacks, Charles is often dead in his tracks when he gets the ball. There will be a housecleaning at the end of the season, followed by a rebuilding period. Jamaal's best hope for the future is to get traded.
Here's something I didn't know until reading a release that the Southland Conference will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. Although I was aware that Lamar Tech, along with Abilene Christian, Arkansas State, Arlington State and Trinity University of San Antonio were the original members, I didn't know that the Cardinals played in the first ever SLC event. Jack Martin's basketball team routed Trinity 80-50 in San Antonio on Nov. 30, 1963. That, of course, was eight days after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas . . . As part of that 50th anniversary celebration, the SLC will be picking all-time and all-decade teams in all sports. The most fascinating of those to me will be in basketball, because the Southland in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was home to some terrific talent. Lamar fans are aware of Cardinal greats like Don Bryson, Mike Olliver, Clarence Kea, B.B. Davis and James Gulley, but if the all-time team consists of five players I'm not sure any of them will make it. Karl Malone of Louisiana Tech, Joe Dumars of McNeese State and Andrew Toney and Bo Lamar of Southwestern Louisiana are virtual locks. Trinity had an amazing star named Larry Jeffries, with a four-year career scoring average of 25.0, who is certain to be in the mix. So will Louisiana Tech's Mike Green, who posted career averages of 22.9 points and an SLC best 15.4 rebounds from 1969-73 . . . Next time the New England Patriots appear on the St. Louis Rams schedule will be too soon for Rams coach Jeff Fisher. Last year, in his final season as Tennessee's head coach, the Patriots administered a 59-0 beatdown to the Titans. Last week in London, Fisher's Rams took it on the chin, 45-7. That's 104-7 in eight quarters.
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The theory, which has been embraced by some courts and rejected by others, holds that federal marriage benefits are offered because the government has an interest in promoting stable families in which children are raised by their two biological parents. Because gay couples can't have children who are biologically related to both parents, the reasoning goes, they shouldn't receive any of these federal marital benefits.


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CUMBERLAND — A company that already owns rental properties in the area is hoping to purchase and renovate Old Towne Manor. The Hampstead Companies are asking the county to accept a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with Hampstead Old Towne Partners.
"The best example of our work is the former William Booth Tower (now Mountain View Apartments). It's a great visual of what we can do ... about rehabilitating and making use of an old property," said Patrick Harper, a representative of Hampstead.
The company recently bought The Cumberland Arms Apartments, a 69-unit retirement facility on Liberty Street, for $4.1 million. Harper discussed the planned project with Allegany County commissioners on Thursday.
Old Towne Manor has 138 apartments with a 95 percent-plus historical occupancy rate. The property has not been fully remodeled since construction in 1969, although windows and siding were replaced recently. The current apartments need kitchens, baths and other remodeling. A new community center is also planned for the property, Harper said. The cost of the upgrades will be about $35,000 per unit.
Harper said the remodeling would likely generate 13 local jobs and 31 spin-off jobs. Allegany County Commissioner Michael McKay said he wanted to make sure those jobs were staffed by local workers and not from people brought in from out of town.
If the property purchase closes in March 2014, as expected, work will begin within 30 days and be completed by the end of 2014, Harper said.
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The company's main office is in California, but it also has an office in Maryland. The company specializes in acquiring Section 8, or Housing and Urban Development, facilities. The company has renovated about 4,000 affordable units nationwide, Harper said.
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President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appointed Tom Ridge to be its head. Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the international space station, delivering one American and two Russians, and another girder for the orbiting outpost.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned from exile to an ecstatic welcome from thousands of supporters and immediately stepped up the pressure on U.S.-backed military ruler Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule.
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