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SANTA CRUZ -- A county program that shifts local inmates to home confinement is being honored as one of the most innovative programs in California by a statewide organization that advocates for counties.
Run through the Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner's Office, the Custody Alternatives Program is one way local officials are dealing with a controversial prisoner shift under a 2011 state bill, known as AB 109. With some counties scrambling to add jail beds, the program is helping Santa Cruz avoid that route.
"The CAP program was implemented to address the redistribution of offenders in state prison to their local jurisdiction while still maintaining high standards of public safety," Sheriff Phil Wowak said. "We are very pleased to be honored."
The Merit Award was announced last week by the California State Association of Counties, and is one step below their top Challenge Award, which Santa Cruz County won for a separate program in 2011.
It is also one of several AB 109-related program to have received awards. Tehama County, for example, built an auto body shop to train inmates to service county vehicles there.
"(The program) has resulted in the safe management of the jail population," said county Probation Chief Scott MacDonald. "Consequently there is room in our jail for dangerous and high-risk offenders. This is both good public safety and good stewardship over the public dollar."
With the County Jail near capacity, the county has been looking for ways and places for defendants to serve sentences other than behind bars. Under AB 109, all counties have seen an influx of inmates serving sentences in local jails, but the responses to that problem have varied widely.
While many counties are looking to add jail beds -- Monterey County just secured $44 million in state funds toward a new jail, for example -- Santa Cruz County is not, even hoping to convert a minimum-security facility at Rountree Detention Center into a training center.
Since AB 109 was implemented two years ago, 370 inmates have been diverted to the CAP program, which includes home confinement and electronic monitoring. Inmates typically must serve at least a third of their jail sentence before they are considered for inclusion.
It has an impressive record so far. Just three people have sliced off their ankle bracelets -- all three were recaptured -- and only two have reoffended after exiting the program, according to Deputy Chief Jeremy Verinsky.
In response to AB 109, the county also has deployed a variety of novel criminal justice approaches, and it has been asked to make presentations about its approach around the state.
The award may help further that effort. David Liebler, California State Association of Counties' deputy director for public affairs, said the awards program originally was created in the mid-1990s partly to spread good ideas from county to county.
"Essentially is was created to recognize the most innovative programs that counties organize and develop," Liebler said. "They really look at how replicable a program could be."
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There must be some kind of synchronicity in this world. A couple of weeks back, I discovered Todd And and his Power 150 list ranking the top Media and Marketing Blogs in the world. Todd has been running this list for a while based off of a simple algorithm he created around these pillars: Google PageRank, Bloglines Subscribers, Technorati Ranking and his own subjective, Todd Points. When I first saw his list and noticed that this Twist Image Blog was not ranked, I was a little surprised, especially considering that I knew a lot of the other Blogs' traffic compared to this one (as some of the people on the list are close friends). I emailed Todd and he quickly responded and added Twist Image on the list (not critical, but lists like this do generate new forms of traffic if people are looking for this sort of content). Here comes the synchronicity: about a week later I see an announcement that Advertising Age has now partnered with Todd to promote and market this Power 150 list (whew, made it in just under the wire).
Then, yesterday, the news broke: Who Has The Top Blog? Find Out At Adage.com - Power 150 Ranking System Now Part Of Ad Age. The story goes on to say:
"In hosting the ranking, Ad Age has done little to change it. The design has been tweaked to work within the current Adage.com specifications, and there's a new search function that allows users to find specific blogs.
'I'd be lying if I said that we weren't thinking about attracting more readers and more links by adding the Power 150 on our site,' said Ad Age Editor Jonah Bloom. 'But we also believe this is a useful service to our readers, showcasing and linking to all the marketing and media blogs in one place and giving our readers a sense of how influential they are. Ad Age has always been the leading source of data and rankings on marketers, brands, agencies and media companies, so it made sense to us to also provide a ranking of blogs. Todd had a great idea here. I hope Ad Age can help sustain and build on this service.'"
I'm proud to report that this Twist Image Blog ranks at #68. The only other Canadian Bloggers ahead of this one are: AdGoodness (#13), One Degree (#47) and Canuckflack (#63). We're in good company.
While those of you who are regular readers know how little importance I place on winning awards or ranking on lists, seeing Ad Age take this Power 150 so seriously and watching the traffic spikes since the lists' mainstream launch yesterday gave me moment to pause and appreciate any new found readers that the Power 150 might bring to the conversation.
The other additional feature that I'm really charged about is that they offer the entire Power 150 as an OPML file, which means anyone using a tool like Google Reader just needs to import the file and can have immediate access to the full Power 150 list. I love this function because there were many Blogs I wanted to subscribe to, but the tedious action of clicking on each link and adding it to my Google Reader set my procrastination senses to overload. Now, no worries_ I've got them all with just a few clicks.
The only change I think they will have to make in the coming months to the Power 150 ranking system will be the "Bloglines Subscribers" as a key metric. With the growth of RSS capabilities in places like Google Reader and even directly within browsers, I don't hear of many people who still use Bloglines as their main reader, and I think Bloglines will continue to shrink as more places like My Yahoo!, Facebook, etc_ enable RSS feeds.
Who owns the coveted number one position on the Ad Age Power 150 list? Why, of course, it's Seth's Blog by Twist Image friend and Marketing Guru, Seth Godin.
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I was doing my daily Jeep parts search on CL and I just had to share this: http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/pts/4018919094.html. $10,500 for a 99 XJ. Maybe if the plow on the front of it was worth $6,000...People are awesome!
The price isnt to far off. I'm sure its jacked up for people to heckle it down.
I've seen xj's with similar mileage go for 7-8k$ at dealerships, no plow included..
If it has zero rust on it, is well optioned for a Sport, comes with a plow, and with that low of miles, I wouldn't be surprised if he got 8 grand for it.
I got $7,000 for my slightly beat 2001 Limited a year and a half ago. It had about 120,000 miles on it.
$7000 is within the realm of possibility. I paid 8000 for mine 7 years and 30000 miles ago. And, IMO, the plow makes it worth less for 2 reasons: plowing is a tough job that wears lots of parts and most people don't want to look at some ugly plow frame on there all year round. Seriously, if he was asking 7000 I'd consider giving 6000.
I usually get super lucky when I pick up Jeeps.
Last fall I paid $2,000 for my one-owner 1998 Sport. It had 173k on the clock when I bought it. The body is next to flawless with the exception of a few minor surface rust spots that have been fixed. The interior is immaculate. I have receipts dating back to day one. They pretty much took care of everything, but it's at the point where it needs all new suspension parts and other various things. I just rolled 195k on the odo yesterday.
My 99 Classic I've had for about a week. It's got a little rust here and there, the driver's side window doesn't roll down, and the headliner is sagging. I think it may have a cracked exhaust manifold (common). I got it so cheap I'll probably fix it up a little bit and sell it for a profit. I mean, KBB on it in "fair" condition is $3,200. I need three XJ's like I need a hole in my head, but it was too good of a deal to pass up. Sometimes, people don't know what they have.
Well, KBB on the one in the ad is about $6000 (yes, that takes into account mileage). So, how they think they're gonna get 4500 above that is nuts. That's 75% over what it's worth.
Yo Wildmann what's up. Your right about that price for our area. By that rationale, the red 01 up-country I acquired with under 100k and zero rust would be worth even more. If any one who disagree's with us wants to offer me $12500 for mine, come and get it. I promise you I won't hesitate. I won't tell ya what I paid for it and all it needed was a rear diff. :thumbsup:
Yo Benez! I never thought about it that way either. If that one's worth 10,500, then I ought to be able to get at least 10000 for mine. And if I were to sell mine, and ask a reasonable price, I'd probably start at no more than 6000. In reality, I started this thread to offer a little amusement and really didn't intend for it to be the source of argument. I hope no one was offended. It's a nice looking Jeep, but the price is just way outa line.
It all just depends on the buyer.
I wouldn't pay more than $3,000 for any XJ unless it was a 2001 Limited with low miles. And $5,000 would be my max, considering I can turn a Sport into a Limited with a little elbow grease and money.
I need another ORF frt bumper for the 01, You don't have another one lying around do ya ?:laugh: If anyone got offended by what you said, Screw em. Your not an offensive type of guy. Me on the other hand, it's more than likely that I'll offend them twice as much so no worries. It's just what I do. All joking aside, You are correct for the area we live in. However someone will always try to refute anything anyone says on JF. Isn't that what forums are for ? Good to see your still upright and breathing buddy. Remember, $12,500 and my 01 is yours. :hahaha::laugh::confused:
I don't have another one of those ORF bumpers. I do, however have a nice Logan's winch bumper I would sell you to put on your $12,500 XJ. And since it would be mounted on what I would expect to be a gold plated Cherokee, I would ask a mere $2000 for it with it's custom rattle can black paint job. For an extra $1000 I could have it powder coated, or for an extra $3000 I could have it gold plated to match your $12,500 gold plated XJ. It would look good, think about it. U ever gonna be out to Rausch Creek? We need to go break stuff together...
S'cuse me while go I google what a logan's bumper looks like.....
Depends on how you want it finished. Like I said, as it sits $1000. I really don't want to have to take it off though. But for you (and $1000) I'd do it! It's this one: http://www.logansmetal4x4.com/jechxjfrwibu1.html.
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T-Mobile is somewhat of a variable with no clear read as to whether there will be availability on this launch day.
6. The T-Mobile store in Boca is located at 2301 Glades Road, a few doors down from Chipotle.
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The weights are in for tomorrow's crunch rematch between heavyweights Tony Thompson and David Price. Thompson, who shocked Price via 2nd-round stoppage back in February, tipped in at 18 stone and 7lbs or 259-pounds. While Price, who is hell-bent on avenging his sole pro defeat, came in at 17 stone and 12lbs or 250-pounds.
Price looked in great shape, while "The Tiger," as southpaw Thompson is known, while he certainly looked to be in far better shape than he was upon entering the ring for the first fight, looked to again be carrying some excess weight.
Still, body types may well be the least of it once the bell rings at The Echo Arena in Price's hometown of Liverpool tomorrow night. Thompson looked flabby and soft at a career-high 262-pounds five months ago, yet he still won via massive upset. Price has pushed himself incredibly hard with new advisor Lennox Lewis, but will the 2008 Olympian again fall foul of one of the veteran's tricks?
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Browns linebacker Chris Gocong has been carted off the practice field with a right leg injury.
The 28-year-old Gocong was in obvious pain as he couldn't get up after a play Saturday. Trainers took off his right shoe and checked Gocong's ankle. As he was lifted onto a cart, Gocong kept his entire leg straight in protection.
Gocong has started all 32 games for Cleveland since being acquired from Philadelphia in a trade in April 2010. An Eagles third-round pick in 2006, he missed his rookie season with a stinger, and has played every game but one since.


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CLEARWATER Florida Highway Safety is adding seven highway patrol officers to serve Pinellas County.
Sen. Jack Latvala said the increase in staffing is possible due to successful efforts of lawmakers to secure funding for 28 additional state troopers in its $77 billion state budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.
Additional highway patrol officers will be a great benefit to Pinellas County, where media reports last year described the impact that the shortage of state troopers was having on local law enforcement resources, Latvala said in a press release. To offset the shortage of state troopers, the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office has been using its own deputies for incidents occurring along state roads, even though those roads are outside of the countys jurisdiction.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri outlined the problem during an in-depth overview of his department with Pinellas County Commissioners June 5, 2013. He said during 2012, the sheriffs office assisted FHP 1,468 times, an average of 122 times a month. Each assist required an average of 2.3 people. The average time spent by deputies on an FHP assist was almost an hour and a half.
Gualtieri told commissioners that FHP was understaffed with inadequate resources and not enough troopers.
Thanks to improving economic conditions and our commitment to a budget that prioritizes public safety, we were able to provide enough money in the budget for these much-needed highway patrol officers who will help keep our roads and residents safe, Latvala said. Being a highway patrol officer is a very dangerous job, and we need to provide a strong law enforcement presence in the areas where officers are needed most. I am especially pleased that seven of the 28 additional officers will be provided to Pinellas County. We worked very hard to make this happen.
The additional troopers will allow for quicker response times for commuters and residents who find themselves stranded on the side of the road, waiting for help, Latvala said.
Gualtieri talked about that issue back in 2013.
Local citizens dont understand that when they see a deputy pass by as they wait two hours for FHP, he said.
The sheriff welcomed the news of more troopers.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office strives to make our communities safer every day, Gualtieri said. We appreciate Sen. Latvalas efforts to help secure the funding needed to hire these additional law enforcement officers so that our county can be an even safer place to live and work.
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"There was about a half a dozen of them who really got cold this year, and I think it's because the ferry boats were so packed" and participants had to wait on the shore, Boaz said. "By the time they jumped into the water, they were already cold. The air temperature was cold."
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My Ambivalence About Myspace
Yeah, it's the cool new social networking space for young folks, and just about everybody seems to be on it these days. The cybersurfer in me loves the fact that you can dip into a new universe with every mouse click -- one moment you're commiserating with fans of a cool new band, the next minute you're checking out the hotties who have applied for Playboy's Girls of MySpace pictorial.
As a musician, finding a site with the ability to post some of my music has been gratifying. And entering into a network with others with similar interests is a powerful, addictive opportunity.
But the parent in me knows that passels of 14-year-olds (and younger) running around unchecked in a service where porn stars and skin mags keep prominent pages is an awful idea. (before you shrug that off, think about it: Would you let your 11 or 12-year-old sibling/child run around Times Square with no adult supervision and any time of night?)
That's why I tried to cover the waterfront a bit in my story on MySpace from today's paper; presenting a little of good, bad and ugly about the site. The fact remains: If those who run MySpace don't figure out a way to keep the younger users a bit more isolated and protected, some awful incident will send advertisers running and shut down the service.
It's good news that the News corp.-owned site plans to install a safety czar to develop plans for safeguarding children on the service. But it's hard to know how they will make this vibrant, ever-changing landscape safe for kids without killing the volatile energy that makes it so much fun in the first place.
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Some things deserve more attention than Washington political battles
One cannot live by politics alone. The past few weeks we've certainly had our share of it. Wall-to-wall coverage of the fine and not-so-fine points of government and politics is the norm when not much is going on. When real news happens, as has been the case recently, there is seemingly no escape.
The news is everywhere. It's on every television channel, in every newspaper and magazine. It's what everyone is talking about everywhere you go. You can't get away from it. It's the downside (there is no upside) of the 24-hour news cycle.
Fortunately for this family, though, one of life's milestones came along last week and provided a pleasant diversion from the constant chatter about debt ceilings and taxes and spending and deficits and cutting this and cutting that and on and on and on.
It's all important — very important. But there are things that matter more. We were reminded of that last Saturday when Kathy and I and my daughter and son-inlaw, their four-month-old son, Beck, and Beck's other grandparents and aunt and uncle gathered in the Chapel of the Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park for Beck's baptism.
The Chapel of the Transfiguration is an Episcopal Church that sits on about one acre of private land inside the national park.
It's a tiny log building that seats 70 people. The cross on the altar is nothing more than two small logs fastened together. A large window behind the altar frames the Grand Teton, perhaps the most iconic of all the peaks in the Rockies. It was the backdrop as original sin was symbolically washed away from our only grandchild.
That Sam and Liz decided to have Beck christened was not totally serendipitous. Nor was it something I always thought they would do.
My late father-in-law always said I was part of the "C and E crowd" at church. That translates to Christmas and Easter. He wasn't too far off. My wife and daughter did a little better. As did the Meyer family, who were to become Liz's in-laws.
Liz and Sam both grew up as somewhat regular members of St. Matthews Episcopal Church. They were often acolytes together. I remember Pat Gormley saying one time after watching them fire up the candles at St. Matts that he thought there might be something between the two of them. I don't know what he saw, but he was correct.
One thing, as they say, led to another and four months ago little Beck Meyer joined the clan. Since Liz and Sam and Beck live in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the fact that we all gathered last week in Grand Teton National Park makes perfect sense.
That's the very abridged history of what led us to the Chapel of the Transfiguration. It's condensed because what I did on my summer vacation is of little interest to you.
It was instructive to me because it was a reminder that it's too easy to get too wrapped up in things that may seem like they're important when they're really not. Or at least not as important as they seem. The trip to Wyoming came at the end of several days of too much immersion in the minutiae of the debt-ceiling debate.
There comes a time when we mere mortals, those of us who can't really do anything about the problem because we're not members of Congress, need to step back and let the politicians do the heavy lifting we elected them to do. They'll bungle it just fine for a few days without our help.
That's what I did. I'm not a terribly religious person, just a C and E guy really. Some years I'm just a C guy, or an E guy, and some years no letter at all. But in a little log church in the far northwest corner of Wyoming last week, I was reminded of what's really important in this world.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Steven Spielberg has made a pretty fair living over the decades making audiences cry. And the Oscar winning director of "E.T.," "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" isn't immune to that impulse, either.
He knows a good weeper when he sees it.
"I saw the play 'War Horse' in London back in January of 2010, and I was moved to tears," he recalls. "The story rolled over me."
Spielberg knew that a play that made him cry, a play which uses puppets as horses, would make for an epic film. All the things that the stage can't give you — the vast canvas of World War I, real explosions, real horses — would come to the screen. He could picture it all, leaving the theater.
"On the Somme, in France, No Man's Land was hundreds of miles across. Nothing grew there for years. It was just a blasted, burnt, defoliated and desolate land, made that way by four years of entrenched fighting — endless mortar and artillery fire. The lines there hardly budged, and the fighting was almost endless.
"It was a terrible war, and certainly a war that no one expected to last as long as it did. These young British boys would march off, smiling, and their parents would smile back and wave them off, everybody thinking they'd be home by Christmas. Everybody wanted to take part in the war, at first, because nobody wanted to be the one to see all their friends come home with all these glorious war stories and be the one who never served. So everyone served, a whole generation from Great Britain served. And for those young men, it was a tragic awakening."
But the setting wasn't what sold him, Spielberg says. "World War I is not the heart of the story. The principal players are the cast of characters that Joey the horse meets on his World War I odyssey, this nightmare dreamscape of war, and his first owner, the boy whose father takes the horse from him and sells the horse to the British cavalry.
"I wanted this to be a celebration of the empathy that people and animals share. And not just what people impose on animals, but what animals can give back. This animal gives every human being he encounters something. He changes that person forever.
"So my movie's not about the heart of darkness. It's about the heart of courage and tenacity. It's a story of a rare relationship."
It's something of a specialty of one of the cinema's master storytellers. Even the epics have intimacy, even the sprawl of war is made personal by a handful of characters.
"Even in the huge spectacles that he makes, the honest human stories are what you remember," says Joseph Gordon Levitt, who has a role in the Abraham Lincoln bio-pic Spielberg filmed in Virginia this fall. "'Jaws' is good because of the people, not because of the shark."
But Spielberg is a realist. The shark, or the alien or horse, has to be good, too. He cast his war horse for the film first. Then he spent months finding the right young man to play the boy, Albert, whose father sells his horse to the British Army and who follows the horse, Joey, across the English Channel and onto the battlefields of World War I.
"I was looking for an unknown, and I tested all the boys who were finalists with the horse," Spielberg says. "I'd put them in the barn with the horse and a video camera, just to see if they clicked. They weren't going to get the job unless A) I liked them and B) the HORSE liked them. They couldn't be afraid of the horse, first off.
"When we taped Jeremy Irvine, the horse gave Jeremy some good love. The horse helped me out a lot, there. He told me I had a match made in heaven.
"Kids don't necessarily grow up around horses any more, which is strange, considering how long the world couldn't get along without horses."
Spielberg is competing against himself at the multiplex this holiday season, with his motion-capture animated "The Adventures of Tintin" (Dec. 21) opening just ahead of "War Horse" (Dec. 25). But "Tintin," "a good ol' fashioned adventure flick that harkens back to the filmmaker's action-packed, tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers" (The Hollywood Reporter), is rated PG. "War Horse" is PG-13. "And that's very accurate in terms of what it suggests parents watch out for," Spielberg says.
Having two films out at once isn't unusual for an actor, but it is for a director. Might Spielberg, who turns 65 in December, be feeling a little urgency in the work these days? He took years to finally get around to his Lincoln film, and he has a Martin Luther King Jr. bio-film and assorted science fiction projects in the works.
"It's all about timing, for me … If something comes up and it's vibrant and it needs to be dealt with, you'd better deal with it or you'll lose that opportunity."
So he couldn't turn down "Tintin," "because I have been a fan of the Herge comic books since some French film critic compared "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to a Tintin adventure. I picked up 'The Secret of the Seven Crystal Balls' back in 1981, and I knew that someday, the technology would exist to allow me to make it."
And his Lincoln film, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals," "is really a movie about the great work Abraham Lincoln did in the last months of his life — uniting the country, the political parties. But there's no urgency to that one, either, The movie will be purposely coming out AFTER next year's election. I didn't want it to become political fodder."
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Douches and Red Bull often go together, but not like this. Mandy Moore totally nails the '70s lady-commercial voice and the fashions in this parody ad for Red Bull Douche, "the world's first feminine hygiene product with Red Bull." Admittedly, I've sometimes wished I could mainline energy drinks — just not down there. Be sure to watch until the tagline at the end.


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Long Hair: It's Not Just For Teenagers
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- 18 beauty myths way too many people believe — Real Simple
- Models are unionizing. In other news, protests are about to get uber fashionable — Styleite
- Soon, we'll all be buying our makeup from the backseats of cabs — Beauty High
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They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines…Direct from Broadway comes NEWSIES, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing new musical from Disney. Winner of the 2012 Tony Awards® for Best Score and Best Choreography, NEWSIES has audiences and critics alike calling it "A MUSICAL WORTH SINGING ABOUT!" (The New York Times). Filled with one heart-pounding number after another, it's a high-energy explosion of song and dance you just don't want to miss.
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San Marcos Baptist Academy presented diplomas to 62 high school graduates during its 106th annual commencement. David Hardage, executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, delivered the commencement address (see photo above). The class of 2014 included students from 10 foreign countries, three states other than Texas and 11 Texas cities.
East Texas Baptist University conferred degrees on 145 graduates during its spring commencement ceremony. One hundred twenty-seven received bachelor's degrees, and 18 earned master's degrees. Evangelist James Robison delivered the charge to the graduates and also received an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Robison entered East Texas Baptist College in 1962 as a freshman but left school to pursue his evangelism ministry. He is the founder of LIFE Outreach International, which helps feed more than 400,000 children throughout Africa each day and has provided more than 4,000 water wells in 40 countries.
Buckner Children and Family Services will host a prayer vigil for the 2,500 children in foster care in Dallas County May 27 from 7:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Buckner office, 5200 South Buckner in Dallas. People of all ages are invited to participate. For additional information, click here. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
The eight choirs of the Singing Women of Texas will combine to present their 20th anniversary concert at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas at 7 p.m. June 28. Concert admission is free, but an offering will be taken to benefit Texas Baptist Disaster Recovery.
Hardin-Simmons University presented 217 bachelor's degrees, 48 master's degrees and four doctorates to students during spring commencement ceremonies. John Neese, HSU director of athletics, gave the charge during the morning ceremony, while Leta Tillman, professor and interlibrary loan librarian, held that honor in the afternoon.
One hundred fifty-five Howard Payne University students graduated during its spring commencement ceremony. An honorary doctor of letters degree also was presented to Carol McDonald. HPU President Bill Ellis delivered the charge to students.
Wayland Baptist University celebrated spring commencement with 105 students participating in graduation exercises. Wayland President Paul Armes delivered the address to graduates.
The Snider Scholarship for Women in Ministry has been established at the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. The scholarship will provide financial support to female students training for a master's degree in counseling.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary awarded degrees to 200 students during spring commencement, including 27 undergraduate degrees, 153 master's degrees and 26 doctoral degrees. Twenty-six of the graduates claimed Texas as their home state. President Paige Patterson gave the commencement address.
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Check out these two great volunteer opportunities that just popped up. One is with the Community Cycling Center's youth bike clubs program and the other is with the City of Portland's Transportation Options division.
Starting in early April 2011 we'll be implementing six Bike Clubs in North and Northeast Portland. Our Bike Clubs are free, youth earn-a-bike after-school programs where 9 to 12 year-olds from families with a low income learn safe riding skills, basic bike maintenance, and build their confidence as road users.
We are seeking enthusiastic community members to help support student success throughout the program. Working with two trained bicycle safety instructors, you will gain experience in experiential education program facilitation, safe bicycling, bicycle mechanics, and working with diverse and low-income youth.
Want to help on guided bike rides or walks? Want to share your knowledge of how to get around Portland using active transportation? Come join us as an Ambassador!
The City of Portland Transportation Options Division is looking for volunteers. This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience with the Options staff to reach out to Portland residents through guided walks, guided bike rides, and outreach at community events, such as street fairs and farmers markets. Our focus area this year for SmartTrips is North and NE Portland.
Ambassadors are amazing volunteers that represent the Bureau of Transportation and present information to encourage pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers and transit riders to travel safely together. As part of our SmartTrips program, Ambassadors will assist on guided Ten Toes Walks, Senior Strolls, and Portland By Cycle and Women on Bikes rides. By being an Ambassador you will have a great time while seeing some of North and NE Portland's beautiful neighborhoods. We also have opportunities to volunteer with our Safe Routes to School and Portland Sunday Parkways programs.
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"Gotta lot of struggles, and I gotta lot of pain, but Jesus Christ is my umbrella in the rain. He always held me up when standin' was a strain. So I am gonna praise His name, yet again."
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On the north end of ODVA's grounds stands Oregon's Medal of Honor monument. edicated on Jan. 20, 1984, this monument honors Oregon's recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest military recognition for bravery that can be awarded to a member of the U.S. Armed Services.
Carved from granite that was saved from the remodeling of Oregon's state capitol, the monument was dedicated by the late-Gov. Vic Atiyeh in 1981.
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There are 13 cedar trees that have been planted around this monument - one for each Oregon Medal of Honor recipient.
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When it comes to Cher's past lovers, Tom Cruise ranks among the top in her list.
The star stopped by Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" on Thursday, where she dished on dating the actor in the 80s.
Host Andy Cohen asked Cher who her best past lover was, something she had trouble pinpointing.
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"A lot of them kind of came in first," she said with a smile. "I've had just the greatest lovers ever."
"Where does Tom Cruise rank on that list?" Andy asked.
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"He was in the top five," Cher admitted.
The 67-year-old said her past lovers list is short and sweet.
"It's not a long list, just a good list," the "Woman's World" singer said.
"It was pretty hot and heavy for a little minute," she said of time with Tom. "He's also a great guy. The person I knew was a great, loveable guy."
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Andy also asked Cher if she's ever been with a woman.
"Oh God, who hasn't? Yeah," Cher said, and then put it into perspective with the rest of her extensive life events. "I stole a horse when I was 13, you know, so why wouldn't I?"
As for her current love life, Cher explained that she likes to keep it very private.
"The moment anyone knows you have a boyfriend, you don't have a boyfriend because it's just too hard. People don't want to be hounded to death," she added.


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A glass coffee table with a removable top and a base gives you a palette for arranging pictures that suit the mood you want to create in your living room. Display photographs of people, children's drawings, a collection of vintage postcards or, if your coffee table has depth, intersperse vacation pictures with small objects you gathered on the trip. Placing pictures under a glass coffee table personalizes the furniture without altering it permanently.
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Remove the glass table top. Place it somewhere where it will not be stepped on, preferably leaning against an out-of-the-way wall.
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Gordon Getty cancels his 74th birthday bash, and the evening's limousine service finds its biggest contract of the year kaput, not to mention the caterer and all its personnel, the entertainers, and everyone else who would have been involved.
Individuals decide to give less or nothing to their favorite charities without realizing that other donors are also cutting back. And this is at a time when people need food banks and other help more than ever. Now is probably a time to increase donations if at all possible.
Stand! Against Domestic Violence, which serves the county with hotlines and emergency and interim shelters, says that not only have contributions fallen but its services are needed more than in good economic times. It reports that since fall 2007:
* Emergency calls to its crisis line have doubled;
* Requests for emergency shelter are up 20 percent; and
* Requests for victim assistance from police, hospital and BART stations have increased eight-fold.
"It's no secret that funding has become significantly more challenging during the past couple of months with the economic downturn," said Gloria Sandoval, Stand! executive director. "But we're relying on the fact the compassionate local residents value our services and will continue to support the life-saving work of Stand!"
One way to help others without a financial output is to sign up for Scrip. The schools have been soliciting their communities for decades to benefit them this way while buying groceries and other everyday purchases, although the actual paper scrip is a thing of the past. Now anyone can go online and enter Stand! or any other worthy organization, put in a credit card or a discount store card such as Safeway and have a portion of purchases automatically donated. The Web site is www.escrip.com and nonprofit groups to benefit can be found by ZIP code. The ZIP code for Stand!, by the way, is 94520.


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The success of an animated family film isn't just measured anymore by its box-office receipts.
There are, of course, the action figures and related merchandise. And one also must look at whether it has "legs" after it's left the big screen, in terms of DVD sales, sequels and spinoff projects and theme park attractions. Now there's one more forum — the theater.
Two of DreamWorks' biggest properties, "Shrek" and "Madagascar," have been transformed into theatrical spectacles. Now, the studio is bringing another one of its giants to the live arena. "DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular," based on the studio's hit 2010 film, flies into HP Pavilion in San Jose for nine shows beginning Wednesday.
"Every property has its own DNA and its own life. You try to figure out if there an opportunity to extend it and how best to do it," says Eric Stevens, DreamWorks' head of Live Entertainment. "Some things belong in a theater, and some things belong in a theme park."
When it came to "Dragon," the answer was pretty obvious.
"When thinking about dragons, we went, 'Well, you know, if you are really going to be true to this — where could you bring a dragon to life?' When you start thinking about making it life-size and real and 40-foot wingspans and flying, there aren't a lot of places you can do that except an arena."
It's the studio's first foray into the live-action arena world, a genre that is taking the touring entertainment business by storm. Productions range from musical theater productions to immersive concerts and have featured such titles as "Batman Live" and "Star Wars: In Concert," "Video Games Live" and "Walking With Dinosaurs."
"Dragon," by most accounts, is a real doozy, having wowed critics and fans alike in multiple cities since making its debut in Australia earlier this year.
DreamWorks partnered with Australia's Global Creatures, the company that hit gold with the "Walking With Dinosaurs" arena tour. It's easy to see how watching "Dinosaurs" could inspire a show like "Train Your Dragon."
"That's really when the fun began," Stevens says of the early days of the project, which started roughly four years ago. "We all sat back and said, 'Imagine if dragons could fly. What would that be like?' "
In a word? Massive.
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The show features 13 dragons, representing nine different "species," and each requires multiple people to operate it. These moving beasts are downright gigantic, weighing as much as 2.6 tons and featuring wingspans as wide as 46 feet.
And, oh, yes, they can fly — at speeds up to 15 to 20 mph — thanks to a state-of-the-art track system that borrows from technology used in car manufacturing plants, railroads and roller coasters.
Yet, the challenge didn't end there. We're not just talking about generic dragons, after all, but ones that starred in a hit movie. Get one little detail wrong, and heaven forbid, the creators would have to answer to thousands of passionate young fans.
In essence, they had to match both the look and the personality of each dragon — especially for the lead dragon, Toothless, who was a well-developed character in the film. That required adding a level of rich detail to the creations.
"The eyes have emotion. The mouths move, in many directions," Stevens says. "They are really the most advanced puppets and animatronic creatures ever developed."
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The production closely follows the storyline of the film, which, in turn, was based on a 2003 book of the same name by British author Cressida Cowell. The property also spawned an animated TV series, "Dragons: Riders of Berk," on the Cartoon Network as well as a video game for multiple platforms. A full-length theatrical sequel, "How to Train Your Dragon 2," is in the works and should be in theaters by summer 2014.
"The film was incredibly popular," Stevens says of "Dragon," which has earned more than $217 million in the U.S. "I think what connected with audiences at the end of the day was a great story. It's really, at its core, a boy and his dog story. It just happens to be with a dragon. There are great personal relationships, such as between the father and the son. There is a strong female character in it. It's about friendship. So I think it really resonated at a lot of different levels, as a film. The challenge (in making the arena show) was how do we bring that to life in a way that really pushes the boundaries of imagination?"
Beyond the dragons, the production features a full cast of the film's characters — including the hero, Hiccup, played alternately by Riley Miner and Ramian Newton on tour. Miner sees this show as a great way to introduce young fans to the joy of live theater.
"No kid really likes to go to the opera or the ballet or Shakespeare," he says. "This is definitely an awesome family thing to do."
The show re-creates the film's setting — the fictional island of Berk, a Viking outpost dealing with major dragon issues — through the use of multiple movie screens, both set on the arena floor and behind the stage.
"It lets us transport the audience over mountains and oceans as the dragons fly," Stevens says. "You really are immersed in this incredible environment and experience — and that can only be done in an arena. So, at HP Pavilion, what is so exciting is it's really like you are transported to another world. For two hours, every family kind of goes on this adventure together."
Follow Jim Harrington at Twitter.com/jimthecritic, Facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts.
'How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular'
A theatrical staging based on the movie
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 27-28,
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Where: HP Pavilion, 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose
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cute girl knitting wool
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You clever girl, you! Love her design and the tee is just so swanky :D
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Discussion in 'Virgin Mobile' started by XurXes, May 11, 2011.
As long as you don't let your account expire your $25 rate will stay the same!
Expire as in miss your due date by a couple days? Or expire as in go 90 days without topping up?
just saw the other thread. Ill keep an eye on that one
Soon VM is doing away with top-up cards. It was in the insider publication that was leaked and is posted around in the rate hike threads.
really? I don't see the post regarding no more top up cards in the price hike thread. What happens to those who use top up cards if they don't use or have a credit/debit card?
After reading and rereading, I think they're going to be like the old iTunes cards; Just a card that has no preset amount. You buy the card and at the time of purchase specify how much will be put onto the card.
Here it is.
http://www.hyperlinkusa.com/admin/ClientDocuments/TheTimes_Indirect_English_July 2011.pdf
Thanks for that. I top up 3 phones (mine and 2 kids @25 ea) so saving $3 or so per line is like a a pizza or ice cream or something
Coupon CA3P-1207 is still valid, it gave me a 3% discount today.
I tried calling mart and customer service sucked. They billed my debit card then cancelled my order. (the charge went away in a week). Went to walmart, got it for something like 24.75, for the $25 card. Got the code in 15 mins to half an hour. Will continue to use walmart for ease of use. Even though they're the big dogs
I've started buying mine at Walmart.com.
$24.58 and no tax.
They email me the code in about five minutes, I cut and paste it over at Virgin's site, and in fifteen minutes total I'm up and running again.
Compared to going into the store and buying it and paying tax, I save almost $2 a month. Which is basically an extra month free each year.
This code is still valid, as of 8/15/2011.
CallingMart is great - they take PayPal so I don't even have to get up to find my credit card.
Just be aware, if you buy too many times a month from CallingMart they will have to call to verify the purchase. I manage both my own account as well as my wife's account, so I got flagged with the last purchase. They said it should only happen the first time though.
Just confirming. Going here and purchasing the $25 card will give me $25 that I can dump into my VM account, and that will pay my $25/mo phone bill. Correct?
Yes. That's the same place I go to get my topup cards.
I got flagged again at calling mart. I'm going to pay the extra 75 cents and get my cards at Target.
Just paid $24.01 for my $25 bill. =D
Edit: ez pz!
honored my call time request, verified who I was (by basically asking my billing address), asked how often I would load a month (and what carrier/s) and as soon as I hanged up, I got the pin in my email!
I will be using callingmart from now on! But hopefully that would be the first and last time they verify me and my purchase!
here's what i got after a consecutive purchase from callingmart. (using a verified paypal)
i bought a $25 virgin mobile top-up initially using paypal. that was no problem - i got the code right away. after 30 minutes, i then proceeded to buy a $25 at&t gophone refill... and then that message appeared! needless to say, i dont have the code for the at&t go phone refill yet.
i emailed them - email@example.com - stating what's the best time for them to call tomorrow. no reply not even an autoreply email but hopefully they do honor my 'call time' request.
i will update as soon as this is resolved.
the site is really promising but this 'phone verification' is really an inconvenience imo!
here's what i bought btw: *one penny less of a $3.50 savings! pretty neat!
$24.75 USD Virgin Mobile® Refill (Retail $25.00)
-$0.74 USD 'ca3p-1207' coupon (3.0% off)
$24.25 USD AT&T GoPhone Prepaid Wireless Airtime Minutes Refill (Retail $25.00)
-$1.75 USD 'Rmdn11-10' coupon (For a Total 10% off Retail)
I buy two topup cards at the same time each month from them and have not had this issue (knock on wood!!!).
Yeah, I should have bought them together in one purchase instead of buying again after 30 minutes. That probably triggered it! But all is well now! I'll start buying from them from now on. A buck or two saving adds up!
PM me for referral e-mail for Callingmart. I need some one else's referral e-mail address too so please PM we can start saving more money!
3% off: ca3p-1207
5% off, always. no tax.
Referral code: 32svxb
Just wanted to give everyone who uses CallingMart for top ups a heads up - according to CallingMart's facebook page:
"To All our Virgin Mobile Customers, coupon code ca3p-1207 will no longer apply to Virgin Mobile Refills after 5/30. Unfortunately Virgin Mobile is reducing their discounts to all re-sellers by June 1st, to the level that it won't be profitable even if we sell it at non-discounted price!"
In regard to whether they'll continue to offer the 1% discount they usually offer, they stated:
"Yes, will do our best to keep providing Virgin Mobile for our customers' convenience but it will be with no discounts ($25 refill will cost $25 and still no taxes or fees), there is a chance we can continue to provide the rewards points on them if we can at least break even."
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Walmart: Virgin Mobile USA Topup $24.88 USD :thrasher:
guys, i know i'm new here but this site is legit. i've used it about 4 times now and the code comes through immediately. they offer 5% off, which comes to $23.75 with no taxes or fees.
and they take paypal in case you're worried about CC info.
Just wanted to advise anyone looking for top up cards to NOT buy them from Bestbuy.com. On the plus side, they didn't charge taxes or fees on it. I purchased one yesterday and it said that was "immediate delivery"...well, nothing could be further from "immediate". It has now been almost 24 hours and I still have not received my top up code. I checked my order status on their website and it still says that it is "in process". I called their customer service number yesterday afternoon to find out what the hold up was (at that point it had been 6 hours since I placed the order). They told me that their email system can sometimes take 24 hours or more and that I should just wait. Best Buy advertising their top up cards as being immediate but really taking up to 24 hours is deceptive. Just wanted to warn anyone considering purchasing through them!


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PCMR v. Talisker Corp.: why July 30 could be a critical day
July 16, 2013
Park City Mountain Resort and a firm under the Talisker Corporation umbrella are scheduled to appear in Third District Court in late July for a conference that could clarify the upcoming steps in a closely watched lawsuit that PCMR says is critical to its survival.
Attorneys for the Talisker Corporation side on July 11 submitted a two-page request for what is known as a Rule 16 conference. A Rule 16 conference provides the opportunity for the sides in a legal case to discuss a range of matters as a trial approaches. Topics during a Rule 16 conference could include timelines for the discovery process, a timeline for the filing of motions and setting a trial date.
The PCMR side agreed to the conference, the Talisker Corporation attorneys said in the filing.
The conference will be held in a public setting. It is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. on July 30. The filing indicates the conference will focus on "scheduling and case management."
"Such a conference with the Court will facilitate prompt and efficient resolution of the remaining issues in the case," the Talisker Corporation attorneys said in the filing, indicating that they want to discuss the discovery process in the case and establish a trial date.
The conference on July 30 could provide the best projection yet of the timeline of the case. The two sides will likely have the chance to engage Judge Ryan Harris in a detailed discussion about dates, including the possibility of either setting a trial date or providing an indication of when one might be scheduled.
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The conference will be held more than three months after a document was filed in Third District Court outlining a schedule for the case starting in early 2013 and ending in March of 2014. In that document, filed April 24, the fact discovery process was set to be completed by Oct. 11 followed by expert depositions or reports through March 7.
The schedule outlined in the April 24 document called for mediation or alternate dispute resolution to be completed by March 7, the same date identified for a certificate of readiness for trial.
Alan Sullivan, the lead attorney for PCMR, has said he anticipates the schedule outlined in the April 24 document will be extended, possibly by months. The conference on July 30 could provide a more detailed and more current timeline for the case. Sullivan said a Rule 16 conference is "perfectly normal for cases."
Vail Resorts, which is handling the Talisker Corporation side of the lawsuit, does not comment about legal matters. Vail Resorts in May reached an agreement with Talisker Corporation to lease and operate Canyons Resort. As part of the agreement, Vail Resorts took control of the Talisker Corporation side of the lawsuit.
PCMR in the spring of 2012 filed the lawsuit, claiming that the Talisker Corporation side is attempting eliminate the resort as a competitor to Canyons Resort. The lawsuit centers on a dispute about whether PCMR in 2011 renewed two leases with a firm under the Talisker Corporation umbrella for most of the land where the resort operates.
The judge in November dismissed key points of the lawsuit. The two sides are pressing forward on the remaining points. What are believed to be the first subpoenas in the case were issued by the Talisker Corporation side in mid-June. They sought documents from Bank of America, a law firm and an accounting firm.


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Unit: Offensive line
Player to watch: Jeromey Clary.
AFC West ranking: tied for first with the Broncos.
Overview: The Chargers have rare continuity up front, pending two comebacks from injuries. They employ all five top starters from 2013, plus swing tackle Mike Harris, backup center-guard Rich Ohrnberger and swing guard Johnnie Troutman, who started nine games last season and the Divisional Playoff. Rookie guard-center Chris Watt had a productive spring camp and could push Troutman.
The biggest concern is health. Clary, a 30-year-old coming off shoulder and hip surgeries, sat out all 12 spring practices and was still using crutches June 18th after the final practice. Harris sat out the spring session, too, owing to the Game 5 ankle injury that ended his '13 season.
Yet compared to last July, when Nick Hardwick was the lone fixture and two new positional coaches were putting in a new system, it's a far more cohesive unit. While the Broncos may have the AFC West's two highest-rated blockers in Louis Vasquez and Ryan Clady, himself coming off season-ending injury, the Chargers expect by September to have their top-8 from last season plus the heady Watt, who'll be 24 in August. This could be one of the NFL's sneaky-good lines, especially if it has better health than in a tumultuous '13. While there may not be a first-team All Pro candidate here, it's a unit long on know-how, grit and versatility.


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Flood-prone houses getting a boost from FEMA
Flood-prone houses getting a boost from FEMA
WESTERLY — Thomas Retano's house on Breach Drive has been flooded nearly every year since he bought it in 1999. He's hopeful that by raising the house 3 feet above base flood elevation he'll spend fewer hours and less money replacing floors, sheet rock, appliances, and anything else that has been ruined, over the years, by flood waters.
Retano is one of eight Misquamicut property owners to benefit from a recently announced $903,816 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant awarded to the town to assist property owners with the cost of raising their houses or commercial structures at least 1 foot above base flood elevation, the standard required under current building codes. The property owners will pay for 25 percent of the cost of the work, or a total of $225,954 of the grant.
The funds, part of FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, were made available after Tropical Storm Irene. Amy Grzybowski, the town's director of planning, code enforcement, and grant administration, who worked closely with property owners as well as with state and federal emergency officials, on the grant applications, is in the process of submitting a new round of applications for money made available after Superstorm Sandy.
"The mitigation project is extremely beneficial because it elevates people out of harm's way. What we saw after Sandy was that houses and structures that were built to code didn't sustain near the damage that houses that were not elevated did," Grzybowski said.
In addition to Retano's house at 23 Breach Drive, the following properties will be elevated under the grant: 5 Lawton Ave., 29 First St., 18 Montauk Ave., 4 Benson Ave., 340 Atlantic Ave., 338 Atlantic Ave., and 88 Atlantic Ave.
The elevation projects will result in a different look for parts of Misquamicut, where many houses are built on concrete slabs. For example, one of the houses approved for a grant has a current elevation of 5.7 feet. Base flood elevation for the house is 13 feet. The building code calls for 14 feet for new construction. The property owner receiving the grant can elevate the house to 16 feet.
The grants will make possible what many property owners could not afford to do on their own, Grzybowski said, noting that the cost of elevating a house or other building can range from $75,000 to $150,000 or more.
Misquamicut property owners who registered with the town for email updates immediately following Superstorm Sandy were notified of the grant program by the town. The program was also announced on the town's website, through social media, and by word of mouth. The small number of contractors who perform the elevation work also spread the word, Grzybowski said.
The town received 10 applications. One of the applications remains incomplete and one property owner was disqualified because he started elevating his house before his grant application was completely reviewed.
The applications were subject to a cost-benefit analysis by FEMA. The analysis accounts for the size of a building, its current elevation and exact location in the flood plain, and its likelihood of reaching the useful life of an elevation project as set by FEMA — 30 years.
Projects were viewed in the aggregate, meaning if one project failed to attain a high enough score in the FEMA ranking system, but enough others exceeded minimum scores, all of the projects would be approved.
Under new FEMA rules, elevation projects that are deemed to cost less than $175,000 can be submitted for FEMA consideration individually without being subject to the group cost-benefit analysis. Municipalities can continue to submit groups of projects to take advantage of the aggregate approach — a scenario Grzybowski said is likely for the new round of applications.
Applications not submitted for consideration for money made available after Superstorm Sandy will be submitted for consideration under a different, national hazard mitigation program, Grzybowski said.
The town is hopeful that some of the 40 Misquamicut properties designated by the National Flood Insurance Program as repetitive loss properties and the 12 properties designated as severe repetitive loss properties will eventually be elevated.
Repetitive loss properties are those that have two or more losses of at least $1,000 within any 10-year period since 1978. Severe repetitive loss properties are those that receive at least four claim payments more than $5,000 each and the cumulative amount of such claims payments exceeds $20,000; or for which at least two separate claims payments (building payments only) have been made with the cumulative amount of the building portion of such claims exceeding the market value of the building. At least two of the claims must have occurred within any 10-year period, and must be greater than 10 days apart.
The exact addresses of the 52 repetitive and severe repetitive loss properties cannot be released because the information is considered private under National Flood Insurance Program policies, said Michelle Burnett, who coordinates the state's National Flood Insurance Program for the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.
The town will monitor the elevation projects during the normal building inspection process. While the grant applications were based on a single quote, property owners must receive three quotes from contractors prior to starting work. The grants will be released to the property owners as reimbursement after each elevation project is completed.
As a condition for receiving a grant under the program, property owners must agree to maintain flood insurance on their property whether or not they have a mortgage. The flood insurance requirement will continue for future owners of each property as a deed restriction.
The elevation projects are expected to result in significantly lower flood insurance premiums for the property owners. The cost of premiums has shot as high as $54,000 per year, Grzybowski said. "The premiums are increasing based on risk. For people below base flood elevation, their risk is exponentially higher than for somebody who is already where they should be by code," she said.
In addition to benefiting individual property owners, the elevation projects will help neighbors and the town by potentially increasing or maintaining property values. Also, Grzybowski said, houses that withstand floods will cut down on the amount of debris that can cause damage to other houses and ultimately must be cleaned up by the town.
Superstorm Sandy pushed 4 feet of water onto Breach Drive, a peninsula-like roadway that juts out into Winnapaug Pond and is bordered by the waters of the Weekapaug Breachway. Retano ended up with 14 inches of water in his house. He and his family had talked over the years about trying to raise the house.
"The affordability is pretty crazy. A few people on my street did it and I watched with great interest but we just didn't have the money to do it," Retano said.
Having been approved for the grant, Retano said he hoped to "save my house for the future and for my children."
The town is conducting a meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. at Town Hall with property owners approved for the grants to review project requirements, including local zoning and building policies, as well as those set out by the state Coastal Resource Management Council.
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