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My name is Anne M. Coughlin, and I am the Class of 1948 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Before joining the law faculty at the University of Virginia, I was an Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. I also practiced at private law firms in New York, New York and Washington, D.C., and I served as law clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Lewis F. Powell of the United States Supreme Court. My areas of substantive expertise are Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, including especially the jurisprudence developed under the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. I also do research and teach courses on Sex Discrimination and on Feminist Legal Theory, which evaluates, among other things, the laws aimed at eradicating sexual violence in our culture. I am co-author of a Criminal Law casebook, and I have published law review articles on the topics of domestic violence, the historical origins of contemporary rape doctrine, and the regulation of pornography.
When debating the provisions of S. 2520, the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today ("PROTECT") Act of 2002, the Committee faces a difficult and sensitive task. It must design a prosecutorial mechanism that balances two significant and potentially conflicting legal imperatives. As I understand it, the Committee aims to develop a penal statute that (1) will protect the nation's children from the serious harms caused by child pornography, but that (2) will not infringe our cherished constitutional liberty to think and speak free of governmental interference, including the right to think and speak about human sexuality. Up until the closing decade of this century, federal and state governments have been, for the most part, able to accommodate each of these imperatives by criminalizing only those pornographic materials that are produced by using real children, as well as (of course) by continuing to outlaw all pornographic materials that are legally obscene. These familiar criminal prohibitions have been scrutinized by the Supreme Court and have been found to be fully consistent with the First Amendment free speech guarantees. See New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747 (1982) (upholding the prohibition of pornographic, but non-obscene, materials produced by using real children), and Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) (defining as obscene those works that, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest, are patently offensive in light of community standards, and lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value).
With the emergence of new technologies capable of producing "virtual" child pornography, however, prosecutors have found themselves facing significant obstacles to winning just convictions in child pornography cases. In 1996, Congress recognized and aimed to ease this law-enforcement burden by passing the Child Pornography Prevention Act ("CPPA"), which added some forms of virtual child pornography to the list of actionable images. Earlier this year, in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 122 S.Ct. 1389 (April 16, 2002), the Supreme Court threw out key provisions of the CPPA on the ground that they infringed First Amendment freedoms. Therefore, this Committee finds itself back at the statute-drawing board, once again faced with the obligation and the opportunity to develop criminal prohibitions that will deter and punish those who sexually abuse children, but without infringing the free-speech rights of adults.
In Free Speech Coalition, the Supreme Court invalidated two specific prohibitions embodied in the CPPA. First, the Court rejected § 2256(8)(B), which criminalized a visual depiction that "is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct." Second, the Court disapproved § 2256(8)(D), the so-called "pandering" prohibition, which criminalized a visual depiction that is marketed in a manner that "conveys the impression" that the material depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The Court determined that each of these prohibitions was substantially overbroad. In particular, the Court concluded that the prohibitions covered materials (1) that were not regulable under Ferber because they were not the product of child abuse -- as the Court put it, images were criminalized even though they "record[ed] no crime and creat[ed] no victims by [their] production" -- and (2) that were protected by Miller because they were of serious literary, artistic, scientific, or other value. As such, these provisions of the CPPA went far beyond the boundaries established by the Court's First Amendment cases, and the Court refused to sustain them.
So far, Congress has responded to the decision in Free Speech Coalition by offering two pieces of proposed legislation, S.R. 2520 (the PROTECT bill) and H.R. 4623 (the House bill). Each of these bills represents a judgment that Free Speech Coalition permits some room for regulation of virtual child pornography, a judgment that I think is substantially correct. As is so often the case, moreover, each bill embodies a different response to the Supreme Court's criticisms, and each therefore proposes different methods for revising the objectionable provisions of the CPPA. As I amplify below and will do further in my oral testimony before the Committee, I believe that the PROTECT bill is a nuanced and responsible law-enforcement measure. The drafters of the bill have continued to search for legitimate solutions to problems that may hamper federal prosecutors in their effort to shut down the child porn business, and, at the same time, the drafters have made a conscientious and good faith effort to respond directly to the specific First Amendment concerns identified by the Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition. While it is difficult to offer accurate predictions in this sensitive area -- certainly, guarantees are impossible -- it is likely that, perhaps with some reworking, the PROTECT bill would survive constitutional scrutiny, and it therefore would be available to provide vital assistance to law-enforcement efforts in this area.
By contrast, the House bill seems to be both too broad and too narrow. A key definition contained in the House bill suffers from precisely the same form of overbreadth that killed the CPPA. Indeed, the House bill seems designed to reenact the very definition of child pornography that the Supreme Court so recently struck down on First Amendment grounds. Even more curiously, the House bill incorporates an affirmative defense that exempts from prosecution forms of child pornography that the government should be very interested in regulating and that the government seems likely to be allowed to regulate consistently with the constitutional strictures imposed by the reasoning in Free Speech Coalition.
As I see it, the proliferation of virtual child pornography gives rise to two potential arguments by defense counsel that might unjustly thwart prosecution of those who manufacture, distribute, and possess child porn. I describe these potential defense claims as unjust not to fault defense lawyers for raising them, nor to discredit the notion that defense counsel should do their utmost to protect the interests of clients accused of violating any criminal prohibition, including the prohibition on child pornography. As the Supreme Court emphasized in Free Speech Coalition, we must jealously guard against governmental infringement of First Amendment freedoms, and defense lawyers always have played and must continue to play an important role in upholding these and other constitutional rights. Rather, I aim here to isolate a class of cases in which the proliferation of virtual child porn is going to make it very difficult, maybe even impossible, for prosecutors to secure convictions that are legally justified and that should be constitutionally permissible.
The two potential defense arguments are the following. First, the defendant might argue that the government could not prove that the child pornography was made using real children, as opposed to virtual ones. As I read the legislative record, there is evidence that defendants have started making this argument, and advances in technology have made it very difficult for prosecutors to negate the claim. The material contains graphic sexually explicit images of real minors, but the prosecution cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that real minors were involved. There is a second defense theory that I have not seen mentioned in any materials I have reviewed, but it is one that I expect defense lawyers will start making very soon, if they have not done so already. Under this theory, the defendant's claim will be that he did not possess the guilty knowledge required for conviction because he thought that the images had been produced using virtual children, rather than real ones. Notice how this claim works in tandem with the first one, and notice how plausible this claim appears to be in a world where virtual child pornography (apparently) is increasingly common and is (according to federal prosecutors themselves) almost impossible to distinguish from the "real" thing.
The PROTECT bill provides a mechanism for short-circuiting these claims, and, if carefully drafted, the mechanism is one that can be calibrated to satisfy the Supreme Court's analysis in Free Speech Coalition and thereby accommodate First Amendment rights. In effect, the PROTECT bill enacts a new congressional definition of illegal child pornography. Under this new definition, illegal child pornography would be defined to include not only those sexually-explicit materials that are made with real children, which is the definition that Ferber expressly allows. Rather, the definition of illegal child pornography would be expanded so that it also includes materials (1) that "appear" to depict minors engaged in sexual activity and (2) that "lack[] serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." The Committee should expressly notice that it is on the verge of endorsing a new, somewhat expanded, definition of child pornography. The Committee should evaluate the merits and wording of this new definition. And the Committee must consider carefully whether the new definition is one that is authorized, albeit implicitly, by the Miller standard as modified for the child-pornography context by the reasoning of Free Speech Coalition.
There is no doubt that this new, more expansive definition of child pornography will be challenged in the federal courts. Likewise, there is no doubt that the courts will carefully evaluate such challenges precisely because the PROTECT definition does not track the Supreme Court's holdings in the Ferber and Miller cases. At the same time, there is no doubt that the Supreme Court has been willing to allow governmental regulation of child pornography that is more stringent than the prohibitions authorized under the Miller obscenity standard. As I suggest above, it is plausible to read Free Speech Coalition as offering a modification of the Miller standard, one that is designed for the child porn context and that is sensitive to the specific law-enforcement problems created by the phenomenon of virtual child pornography.
I am much less sanguine about the prospects for the House bill. Indeed, it is difficult to understand how the House bill could be interpreted as an effort to correct the defects in the CPPA that were identified in Free Speech Coalition. Instead, the House bill seems to embody a decision merely to reenact the CPPA all over again. Thus, the House bill offers to define child pornography as encompassing virtual child porn that is "indistinguishable" from porn produced by using actual minors. Of course, this definition was considered and expressly rejected in Free Speech Coalition. In his opinion for the Court in that case, Justice Kennedy heavily criticized the CPPA for banning sexually explicit materials that "appear to depict" minors because, among other things, such materials often possess literary or other significant value. Along the way, Justice Kennedy noticed that the government sought to remedy this defect in the CPPA by arguing that the prohibited speech was "virtually indistinguishable" from the child porn that the government is free to regulate, and he disapproved this proposed understanding of the statute. Nonetheless, the House bill continues to offer this precise definition as the basis for its prohibitions but without any explanation for why this definition would be greeted by the Court as an improvement over the definition it just rejected in Free Speech Coalition on overbreadth grounds.
Even more strange, the House bill proposes to put in place an affirmative defense that could be read to authorize child pornographers who produce and peddle materials that possess no redeeming social value to escape prosecution on the ground that the materials were made without using an actual minor. This proposed affirmative defense is so broad that it might offer a loophole to those who create and sell virtual child pornography that is obscene under the Miller definition. Under the definition of child pornography that would be put in place by the PROTECT bill, however, the affirmative defense would not sweep nearly so broadly. Rather, the affirmative defense included in the PROTECT bill would not be available in cases where the sexually explicit materials either (1) were obscene within the meaning of Miller or (2) constituted illegal child pornography under the new definition derived from Free Speech Coalition. And, as I explained above, it is plausible and, in my judgment, correct to conclude that no affirmative defense should be extended to those cases because they involve materials falling outside the scope of the First Amendment protections.
As was the case with the CPPA, both the PROTECT bill and the House bill are based on empirical findings and deep societal beliefs about the harms that sexually explicit materials inflict on children in our culture. The legislative record contains ample evidence concerning those harms, and I here want only to comment briefly on the rhetoric we use to capture the nature of those harms. The legislative record and the decision in Free Speech Coalition use various terms to identify the harms, including phrases condemning the "sexual abuse" of children, the "sexual exploitation" of children, the "sexual enticement" or "seduction" of children. This nomenclature -- abuse, exploitation, enticement, seduction -- is sensible and balanced, but it does not fully capture the core harm to children that the criminal law here aims to deter and punish. The harm involved in many of these cases is not merely sexual exploitation or seduction or (even) abuse. Rather, the harm is rape. For many years, the criminal law of every state has defined sex with a child under the age of consent to be a form of rape. (Sex with a minor is rape -- period -- full stop.) To put it bluntly, as our criminal law previously has been inclined to do, the people who use children to make pornographic movies are arranging for children to be raped so that they can record those rapes and then sell the rape recordings to other people. Likewise, the people who use pornographic images to convince children to have sex with them are raping those children. I realize that the fashion these days has been to move towards more neutral rhetoric when describing the sexual activity of children, including especially adolescent sexual activity. Nonetheless, with the category of materials and behaviors at issue here, it seems crucial to recall that the harm we are describing is rape and, emphatically, not seduction.
To be sure, the Supreme Court's Free Speech Coalition decision rejected the notion that virtual child pornography may be banned on the basis of the second kind of harm to which I just alluded. According to the Court's analysis, the criminalization of pornography is not justified based on claims about secondary harms -- no matter how painful -- such as the role pornography plays in inducing children to have sexual intercourse with adults or in feeding pedophiliac desires and behaviors. But Free Speech Coalition creates no obstacle to legislation that targets those painful, if secondary, harms directly, and the PROTECT bill contains several provisions that do just that. Thus, the bill would extend victim shield protections to children who are depicted in child pornography. These protections are analogous to some of the privacy protections that our criminal law and rules of evidence currently extend to the victims of rape, and they are an appropriate, even necessary, part of the law enforcement response to child victims of the crimes punished by this legislation. The PROTECT bill also takes aim at another secondary harm caused by child porn, namely, its use to persuade children that it is acceptable for them to engage in the sexual activities that the porn depicts. In a new provision, the PROTECT bill recognizes that the perpetrators of this particular harm should be stigmatized and punished; hence, the bill proposes to make it a crime to provide minors with child pornography. The bill also would make available a private cause of action to the victims of child pornography. Whatever their merits and potential justifications in other areas, private remedies seem especially appropriate, even necessary, in a context such as this one where injuries are inflicted for the very purpose of creating commodities that profit perpetrator of the harm. Certainly, to the extent that pornographers are making money by the criminal harms they inflict, we should not hesitate to allow victims the right to obtain monetary damages in our civil courts.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Point Pleasant's football team cruised through the 2012 football season with an 8-2 regular season record en route to a Class AAA playoff appearance.
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The Big Blacks avenged one of those losses last weekend when they traveled to Brooke County and rolled to a 35-7 win over the Bruins.
Tonight, Point Pleasant will have another shot to make a 2013 statement when it hosts Oak Hill at the Point Pleasant High Athletic Complex.
Point Pleasant (5-0), ranked fourth in the latest Secondary School Activities Commission playoff ratings, will look to return the favor to the fifth-rated Red Devils (5-0), who earned a 34-14 win in Fayette County last season.
"I think the kids are pretty excited because they know this is a very important ballgame on our schedule," Point Coach David Darst said. "We played them last year on the road and we didn't play very well. Our kids remember that because a lot of those kids are back this season."
The biggest key to success for the Big Blacks will be controlling Oak Hill's rushing attack, spearheaded by senior back Jalen Jones.
Jones, who gashed the Big Blacks' defense for 325 rushing yards last season, enters this contest as the fifth-leading rusher in West Virginia.
Jones has amassed 970 yards on 96 carries (10.1 avg.) and 11 touchdowns this season.
"We've got a big test this week dealing with Jalen Jones," Darst said. "The biggest thing about him is that it's hard for one guy to tackle him. He's fast, but he can run over you, too. He cuts really well and when he comes through you, he does a good job of finishing his runs.
"Our kids struggled with tackling him last year, so we're going to have to tackle better this time around."
Tackling hasn't been an issue for the Big Blacks this year, having allowed just 225 rushing yards all season, while limiting opponents to just 56 total points in five games.
Oak Hill Coach Eddie Souk has been around the game enough to know that something will have to change when the two teams square off.
"We're not going to change and I doubt they're going to change anything," Souk said. "You do what got you to this point. We run the football and they seem to be doing an awfully good job of stopping the run, so something's got to give somewhere.


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Johan Huibers will soon start boarding passengers and sailing down the canals of Holland with the Ark he has been building since the fall of 2005. As he has fulfilled a call in his life to bring a renewed interest in Christianity to the Netherlands, many questions have been asked by curious onlookers as they witness the building of an Ark that is one-fifth the size of Noah's Ark.
One 94-year-old-man asked Johan a question that seemed rather odd—and completely unrelated to the building of the Ark.
"Why won't my children come and see me any more," he asked Johan.
While this man's question had nothing to do with the Ark, the man saw Johan as someone who could connect with the Bible. In a sense, Johan has been seen by others as a preacher—a modern-day Noah. Through numerous conversations, the older man started reading the Bible and then later found his children started coming back around.
Just in time for the blooming of the tulips, Johan says that he hopes to open the Ark to the public by April 10, 2007, but much work remains to be done. According to Jacky Baken who was recently hired to help with this unique outreach, a number of towns and cities have already invited Johan to visit their area with the Ark. It will remain in Schagen until August and then will head to the Dutch port of Rotterdam, which is the busiest seaport in the world.
Following are some recent photos of Johan and his Ark.
Another area of the Ark includes a Bedouin tent, which represents the dwelling place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. According to Johan, the tent symbolizes hospitality, which is something that is missing in Holland these days.
Other features of the Ark include various computer games where children can learn more about the Ark and the Flood, and an area for coffee and snacks.
For more information on Johan Huibers and the Ark project, see www.arkvannoach.com (site is in Dutch, with some videos in English).
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The Rhododendron Park (Rhododendronparken) in Brønderslev. It was established in 1994 in an existing park from 1890 and is therefore surrounded by old beech trees, which are more than 100 years old.
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15 Things to Consider about Abortion
Given that today is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, here are 15 things to consider about abortion:
1. Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother's womb (except in the case of abortion).
2. Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to save them while another child the same age is being legally destroyed.
3. Babies can sometimes survive on their own at 23 or 24 weeks, but abortion is still legal beyond this limit.
4. Living on its own is not the criterion of human personhood, as we know from the use of respirators and dialysis.
5. Size is irrelevant to human personhood, as we know from the difference between a one-week-old and a six-year-old.
6. Developed reasoning powers are not the criterion of personhood, as we know from the capacities of three-month-old babies.
7. Infants in the womb are human beings scientifically by virtue of their genetic make up.
8. Ultrasounds have given a stunning window on the womb that shows the unborn at eight weeks sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, and responding to sound. All the organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. Virtually all abortions happen later than this date.
9. Justice dictates that when two legitimate rights conflict, the limitation of rights that does the least harm is the most just. Bearing a child for adoption does less harm than killing him.
10. Justice dictates that when either of two people must be inconvenienced or hurt to alleviate their united predicament, the one who bore the greater responsibility for the predicament should bear more of the inconvenience or hurt to alleviate it.
11. Justice dictates that a person may not coerce harm on another person by threatening voluntary harm on themselves.
12. The outcast, the disadvantaged, and the exploited are to be cared for in a special way, especially those with no voice of their own.
13. What is happening in the womb is the unique person-nurturing work of God, who alone has the right to give and take life.
14. There are countless clinics that offer life and hope to both mother and child (and father and parents), with care of every kind lovingly provided by people who will meet every need they can.
15. Jesus Christ can forgive all sins and will give all who trust in him the help they need to do everything that life requires.
This post is adapted from Pastor John's article on Desiring God. For more on abortion, watch a biblical theology of the issue in this sermon from Pastor Mark.


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Not a bad place for a short stay, but too many permanent residents for my liking. It was clean and close to attractions. Our site was level and they offered free Wi-Fi which didn't always work all that well. They advertise Good Sam and Passport America rates, but honor neither on the weekend so we received no discount at all. They do state that on the website, but I thought they should at least offer a Good Sam discount. All things considered, we would probably stay there again.
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Pulled in after the office closed and were able to use the after ours check in to secure a pull thru site. Site was gravel and level. The downside.. The restrooms near our site were padlocked and the next nearest facility was quite a walk away. Also, this not your typical KOA friendliness with yellow shirts everywhere. The employee at the counter was not rude, but not overly friendly either. The store did not seem all that well stocked and they didn't have the lights on inside. They also lost points with us for what I feel was a misrepresentation of the Wi-Fi. They clearly advertise free Wi-Fi on their literature, but there is NO free Wi-Fi within the park. We paid $11 for 24 hours of access. When I inquired at the office I was told that the free Wi-Fi was near or in the office only. This is the first KOA we have stayed in that charged for Wi-Fi. The upside? Lots and lots of trees, a very beautiful and serene setting. All things considered, we would return again.
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Probably a nice place to stay in the Summer when the entire park is open, but a large part of it had been closed for the season on our arrival in late Nov. Not one of the nicer KOA's we have ever stayed in, there were piles of gravel everywhere and some junk strewn outside some of the trailers gave the park an unkept appearance. Didn't really like being parked under the high tension power lines but it was only one night so no big deal. Park is located right beside I-25 so easy access, but lots of road noise.
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Blazing Star Luxury RV Resort
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Nice enough RV park, lots of trees and well manicured. Very quiet during our stay. Very large rigs may have trouble navigating the narrow roads with all the trees. I wouldn't call it a luxury park either, but it is nice. They lost points for not being able to receive an important fax for me, and having to pay for WiFi. For what they charge, it should be free.
Kalispell, Montana
Rocky Mountain Hi RV Park & Campground
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Very nice park, lots of trees and big rig friendly. Pet area was outside the campground and a bit of a walk but not bad. Nice and quiet no road noise. Rate published is with Good Sam discount. Would definitely stay here again.
Moses Lake, Washington
Sunrise Resorts-Pier Four
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There are two different areas in this RV park. A large well manicured grassy area and an area next to the lake with gravel pads. We were placed in a pull through site close to the water with some shade trees. No issues with the park at all, except as mentioned in a previous review about the distance to the dog walking area. Other than that, it's a decent enough place.
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Billings KOA
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Great RV park, one of the nicest and cleanest we have seen. Wish we could have stayed longer.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek / Colorado Springs W. KOA
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Arrived in the latter part of September. Didn't seem to be much lighting throughout the campground at night so we had a bit of trouble finding our spot, but overall we really enjoyed the campground mainly for the beautiful location. We had some trouble leveling up, due to the slope of the site, but the hosts were gracious enough to bring some wood blocks to our site.
Fort Stockton, Texas
Fort Stockton RV Park
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Pulled in very late, did not register just occupied a site. Walked into the office right after they opened to pay. Very rude woman working that morning. Restrooms were dirty, mold in showers. Campground was ok. Won't stay there again.


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Museum of Art organizes exhibitions of textile installations and works on paperA Maine artist examining humanity's foibles, a German printmaker of the early 20th century and a contemporary Dutch textile artist known for her color sense are represented in winter 2013 exhibitions at the Bates College Museum of Art. |
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As nation ponders rich-poor divide, King Day observances to explore debt and inequalitySpotlighting a less-known aspect of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work, King Day at Bates will explore issues of economic justice. |
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Video: 'Bird's Eye Bates' — see the campus in a high waySee the Bates campus and its environs in a delightful, new way, from up on high by a multicopter. |
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Video: 'Nothing in the World That You Cannot Do' — MLK Day's Sankofa performanceAlex Bolden '15 prepares Bates artists for the annual Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2013. |
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Keri Gans, RD, author of The Small Change Diet, reveals the best strategies to lose weight and keep it off through a balanced approach to healthy eating, exercise, and lifestyle habits.
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Today's article is reprinted with permission from GeoRiot's latest blog post.
Three Indie Authors Share Advice around Publishing, Marketing, and Earning Additional Revenue.
Writing a book is hard work. Publishing, marketing, and selling that book independently can be even harder. However, thanks to iTunes's iBooks Author, Amazon's CreateSpace, and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) services paired with social media, it's been much easier for authors to get their work out to the world. Scrappy authors are also finding they can earn additional income, on top of their book sales, when using the iTunes and Amazon affiliate programs – just for referring someone to their own book!
We recently reached out to three different independent book authors, (Nick Daws, Alana Woods, and Dustin Rabin), who have all published books using the iTunes and Amazon services to see what advice they had for other indie authors, and to discuss the tools and methods they use to successfully market their books.
Where to publish.
We started the conversation by asking how they felt about publishing digitally versus offering physical copies of their books. All three firmly believed in the power of offering their books digitally because of the low barrier to entry.
"If you're talking about self-publishing, digital is the way to go," states Nick Daws. "Kindle in particular has become hugely popular, and Amazon has made it very easy for indie authors to publish their work using KDP."
Dustin also agreed. "I would love to do a physical and digital version of every book, but the upfront costs with printing are too risky in some situations."
Once the book is published, the "easy" part is done. The real push starts when finding a way to show off what you've accomplished and build an audience to buy your masterpiece. When asked about how they reached their audience, each responded with a common thread: social media.
Alana offered up her favorite places to market her material: "In the early days, I plugged the books anywhere and everywhere that was free. I gradually abandoned those from which I saw no return. I now concentrate on the core social media sites: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Goodreads and to some extent LinkedIn. And, of course, my website."
Additional Revenue.
Most authors focus on royalty payments from selling books as their return on their investment and don't realize that when you use the iTunes / iBooks and Amazon storefronts, there is an additional way to earn revenue – using the iTunes and Amazon Affiliate Programs. All three authors that we've talked to saw this, so we had to ask about what benefits they offer for independent authors. Nick had some great insights.
"A lot of indie authors are missing a trick by not using affiliate links when directing potential buyers to their books' Amazon sales pages. As well as boosting your income from book sales themselves, you will also receive commission on any other purchases made by the visitor at that time. This can greatly boost your profits compared with sales of your books alone."
How GeoRiot Helps.
Finally, we had some questions about marketing to a global audience because of the challenges iTunes and Amazon present with their international collection of separate country / region specific storefronts. We also asked them about the link translation, management, and reporting services that GeoRiot offers by seeing if they felt it was useful for independent authors using the affiliate programs as a whole. Luckily for us, all gave rave reviews, and great advice.
Alana explained, "It's a time saver, and that's invaluable. And let's not forget the value for readers, because the one link/click takes them to the book they're interested in at their local store. And anything that improves a reader's experience is valuable to authors."
Nick also chimed in with what he thought about the reporting that GeoRiot offers: "I love the detailed stats that you provide, so I can see exactly where my visitors come from. Before I started using GeoRiot I had no idea such a high proportion of my visitors came from the US. Being a Brit myself, this surprised me, although I'm clearly delighted to have so many American followers!"
Dustin finished with "I definitely think the service is useful. There is no upfront cost, and the peace of mind of knowing that readers will not get any [error messages in iTunes] is invaluable."
"It was simple to set up, and now I'm confident that all of my affiliate links are working properly globally. Being new to it all, I was stressing about it just before launching the eBook, but [GeoRiot] really helped me get set up."
Your Turn.
If you're interested in checking out the GeoRiot service, you can sign up for an account for free. The GeoRiot website offers step by step guides on how to sign up for both the iTunes and Amazon affiliate programs. If you're wanting to get a piece of the affiliate program pie, but aren't sure where to start, we're here to help. Feel free to contact us with any questions and let us know what we can do to assist you in earning those extra commissions.
Nick Daws has been writing professionally for about 20 years and resides in Staffordshire, England. He's published over 100 books, distance learning course materials, articles, and short stories and has been self marketing his materials for around 15 years out of those 20. You can find his books on Amazon and his website.
Alana Woods, an author for 30 years, hails from the UK as well, but has her home base in Australia. Her debut novel, Automaton, is an award-winning best seller down under. She has since written another novel entitled Imbroglio, and is working on a third. You can find her books on Amazon and her website.
Dustin Rabin calls Toronto home and has been a photographer for the last 20 years. Dustin is currently trying his hand at independently selling a photography ebook around the band "Alexisonfire." He's worked with many of the world's top personalities and has photographed the likes of Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age. You can find his book on iTunes and his website.
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Dr. Kevin W. Houser, P.E., LC, LEED AP was named a Fellow of the Illumination Engineering Society. The rank of Fellow is awarded in recognition of valuable contributions to the technical activities of the Society and the art of science of illumination. A certificate and pin will be presented to Dr. Hourser at a luncheon ceremony to be held in conjuction with the Society's Auual Conference later this month.
Dr. Ali M. Memari was named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). Professor Memari holds a joint faculty position in the Departments of Architectural Engineering; and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair of Residental Construction; the Director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC); and Director of the Building Envelopes Research Laboratry (BCERL) at Penn State.
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Michael Royer, '08,'11g Lighting Engineer/Research, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, will be awarded the 2013 Taylor Technical Talent Award from the Illuminating Engineering Society. The Taylor Technical Talent Award recognizes outstanding application papers published in LD+A, LEUKOS, or presented at an IESNA conference. One award has been made each year since 1992. Prof. Kevin Houser was also coauthor of the papers that won the 2005 and 2011 Taylor Technical Talent awards.
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Helen K. Diemer, (BAE 1981) President of The Lighting Practice in Philadelphia, PA, was recognized in the July 2013 issue of SmartCEO Magazine as a 2013 Philadelphia Brava Award Winner.
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Ken Lindsey, (BAE 1999) Contract Executive with Southland Industries in Garden Grove, CA has been selected by Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine as one of the 2013 40 Under 40 Read more>>>
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Sara Schonour, (BAE 2007) Senior Associate with Cannon Design in Boston has been selected by Building Design + Construction magazine as one of the 40 Under 40 class of 2013: Forty individuals who have distinguished themselves by their career achievements, service to their professions and communitites, and activie participation in charitable work. Read more>>>
Outstanding Engineering Alumnae
Roberta Levy Liss, Executive Vice President Leasing and Marketing, BECO Building West in Rockville, MD, has been selected as a 2013 Outstanding Engineering Alumnae of the College of Engineering. The award was conferred at a ceremony held on campus on April 9, 2013. This is the highest honor bestowed to an alumni by the College of Engineering. Read more>>>
Young Engineer of the Year
Alyssa Wingenfield, LEEP AP, (BAE 2009) has been selected by the Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council to receive the 2013 Young Engineer of the Year Award. Alyssa is a member of the Central PA Chapter of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. She is an energy services specialist for McClure Company, located in Harrisburg, PA. Alyssa currently resides in Elizabethtown, PA with her husband, Justin Wingenfield (BAE 2009).
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Two AE alumni have been named to Engineering News-Record's (ENR) Top 20 Under 40 list for 2013 in the Mid-Atlantic region, which "celebrates the excellence of young design and construction professionals in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia"...watch for the March 25, 2013 Mid-Atlantic issue of ENR.
Dr. Jonathan Dougherty, (BAE 1999; Ph.D. 2006) is the Director of the Corporate Knowledge Center at James G. Davis Construction Corporation in Rockville, Maryland. He is also President of the Penn State Alumni Society of Architectural Engineering (ASAE).
Dr. Christopher Magent, (BAE 1996; Ph.D. 2005) is the Business Development and Strategic Initiative Director and General Manager of Butz Enterprises, Inc. in State College, PA. He has also served as a Practitioner Instructor in the AE Department.
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CBD and Warehouse District
View MapCatchy flags hung in the Warehouse District bear a repeating pattern of encouraging slogans these days. "Welcome to your blank canvas." "Raise your own bar." "Get caught in our brainstorms." These banners reflect the ongoing growth of new and established businesses and cultural sites in this neighborhood, which is a particularly ripe atmosphere for art, design, and entertainment. No longer just bland commercial and urban residential neighborhoods, the CBD (Central Business District) and Warehouse District (also, appropriately, known as the Arts District) now comprise a vibrant, vital sector of downtown New Orleans.
Maybe it's that the Warehouse District does truly feel like a blank canvas—the landscape is one of solid, old, brick-and-stucco walls that, though aging, somehow feel fresh and make one think of starting anew. (To wit, some artists have even used them as literal canvases for mural work—local favorite Michalopolous, famous for his impressionistic images of New Orleans houses, painted a creamy-yellow classic home on the side of a building at the corner of Commerce and Girod; there's also a soothing mural of rural life at the site of the weekly Farmer's Market.) Maybe it's the expanses of blue sky here, where the buildings feel a bit more spread out than in the French Quarter, or the spirit of creativity that pervades a neighborhood chock-full of art museums and galleries. Perhaps it's the more modern, sleek feel of the CBD in close proximity—or the bevy of contemporary restaurants and bars popping up or gaining renown here. Whatever the "it" factor is, this neighborhood has got plenty, and it's inspiring a new host of entrepreneurs, creative types, and their patrons to flock to the Warehouse District and the CBD. Confidence in the area is reflected in the fact that the American Institute of Architects opened AIA New Orleans here in November 2010, Louisiana's only design center and one of only seven AIA Centers in the United States.
By day, the CBD hums with commerce and productivity, and the Warehouse District hosts visitors to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center and to this neighborhood's many museums and art galleries. You'll find the National World War II Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Arts Center, the Louisiana Children's Museum, and Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall—all within a three-square-block radius. Art lovers will appreciate the concentration of upscale contemporary-art galleries and artist studios in the Warehouse District and can even try their hand at glassmaking and printmaking. Discerning palates with a taste for culture and cuisine are sated, feet itching to dance are scratched, and throats craving custom libations can be slaked in this up-and-coming cosmopolitan playground.
By night, you'll find hip, successful restaurants, bustling live-music venues old and new, and numerous neighborhood and hotel bars ranging from the most casual to the very chic. All of these places are patronized by scores of young professionals and graduate students, who mix with tourists and longtime residents who know what's up.
CBD and Warehouse District at a Glance
- AIA New Orleans Center for Design
- American-Italian Renaissance Cultural Center
- Arthur Roger Gallery
- Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World at Kern Studios
- Contemporary Arts Center
- Crescent City Farmers Market
- Gallier Hall
- Harrah's New Orleans
- John Minor Wisdom United States Court of Appeals Building
- Julia Street
- Lafayette Square
- Lee Circle
- Louisiana Children's Museum
- Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall
- Mercedes-Benz Superdome
- National World War II Museum
- New Orleans ArtWorks at New Orleans Glassworks and Printmaking Studio
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- Riverwalk Marketplace
- Southern Food and Beverage Museum
- Spanish Plaza
- St. Patrick's Church
- Wine Institute of New Orleans
- The Ambassador Hotel
- Best Western Plus St. Christopher Hotel
- Courtyard New Orleans Downtown Near the French Quarter
- DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel New Orleans
- Embassy Suites New Orleans-Convention Center
- Hampton Inn and Suites–Convention Center
- Hampton Inn Downtown
- Harrah's New Orleans Hotel
- Hilton New Orleans Riverside
- Homewood Suites by Hilton New Orleans
- Hotel Modern
- The Hyatt Regency New Orleans
- InterContinental New Orleans
- International House
- Lafayette Hotel
- Le Pavillon Hotel
- Loews New Orleans Hotel
- Loft 523
- Pelham Hotel
- Renaissance Arts Hotel
- Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
- The Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans
- Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
- Staybridge Suites New Orleans French Quarter/Downtown
- W Hotel New Orleans
- The Whitney, A Wyndham Historic Hotel
- Windsor Court Hotel
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The Barbour Westmorland Waistcoat I was wearing, not too long ago, had a substantial tear in it. And for less than thirty dollars at their Milford, New Hampshire repair facility, they performed what I think is a clever repair, making it appear as though there was a double hand-warmer pocket.
Where else these days can one get this kind of expert work done at such reasonable prices? This is just one of the reasons I am so very fond of the classic (read that, waxed) Barbour items.
Of course I have been wearing it everywhere, including at two new bovine deliveries (of sorts). The first was of a heifer, Betsey, who arrived down at our friends' saltwater farm to keep their other heifer, Mabel, company.
The other "delivery" was some of the raw material needed for a third cow.
An expert at breeding, she always wins Grand Champion at dairy shows for her Jersey Cow herd which, in turn, produces the highest quality raw milk.
We were able to help out in smaller ways, by delivering some of her fresh yogurt to a local store...
...and to be there at the set-up of a farmer's market.
Being close to the manufacturing process has many advantages...
...including some of the company one meets.
I really do not like box stores. I do not believe I have been in any in over five years. In my life I have been to Target perhaps twice. I have spent in total less than ten minutes in Best Buy, and I have not visited most at all, including Ikea.
(And I am far from pure. Some may call me hypocritical, and they would not be inaccurate in too many instances. I do shop regularly at chain supermarkets, including Hannaford's and Shaw's, some "almost box" clothing companies like L.L. Bean and Ralph Lauren, as well as the boxless box store Amazon.)
It is an increasingly challenging activity to not accept the assumptions and products of the ever-more influential corporations' managers and sourcing, marketing, and logistics departments. And it is also increasingly worthwhile.


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Granted he is a cracking looking lad but my god he's all BnB
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Bang and Bounce. This is referred to a one night stand. Or having sex with someone and leaving right after
After i left the club last night i had a bnb with this one chick i meet there.
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January 02, 2011
abbreiviation for "Bad News Bears" often spoken in letters just as b.n.b
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person 2: I know...it's BNB
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DEC Truck Crashes on Vandalized Bridge in Disputed Champion Lands
Sep 30, 2005 — State officials are investigating the vandalism of two bridges in the Champion Easement lands near Santa Clara in the northern Adirondacks. One of the bridges collapsed earlier this month, causing a state Environmental Conservation dump truck to roll into the St. Regis River. The driver of the truck wasn't injured. As Brian Mann reports, the Champion lands are still controversial, five years after the state signed one of the biggest conservation deals in New York's history.


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Beatings, with no sign of bruises. Captives, who came and went as they pleased. Repeated rape, yet nobody cried it.
"Does this even make sense, ladies and gentlemen? It doesn't make sense at all," said Hackensack defense lawyer Nina C. Remson during closing statements in the trial of former Paterson resident Aswad Ayinde.
Remson denied allegations that the 54-year-old entrepreneur and music video producer savagely beat, raped, and impregnated his daughter in an effort to keep his blood lines pure in the name of Christ the prophet. "Just because someone says something doesn't make it true. Lies said over and over are still lies," she told jurors in state Superior Court Judge Raymond A. Reddin's Paterson courtroom.
Not that anyone is denying there was an incestuous relationship that resulted in children, Remson told jurors. But it was a mutually agreed upon "lifestyle" among father, daughter and mother that actually occurred when the girl was 18 and older, not prior, she argued. The girl's children were all home-birthed and didn't get birth certificates until years after the girl was no longer living in Ayinde's home, making it impossible to verify how old the daughter was when the children were born, Remson maintained.
The legal age of sexual consent in New Jersey is 16. While incest is not against state law, sex between a father and daughter is only legal if the offspring is 18 or over, since the father is in a position of authority before then.
Passaic County Senior Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Squitieri dismissed the defense theory about mixed-up birth years as a desperate last-ditch attempt to cover up the truth. "She had four children by her father, by her attacker, by her rapist," Squitieri said during her closing statement to jurors. "You can't look at her (the victim's) life before her 18th birthday and call it 'consent'… She had no choice here. She was forced to do things that no little girl should have to do." She later described the girl as Ayinde's "sex slave."
Much of the week-long trial was consumed by testimony from Ayinde's former wife and the daughter, now in her 30s, who talked of sexual abuse, mind-control and isolation from society. The alleged abuse spanned more than a decade in Paterson starting in the 1980s and continued in Eatontown, the Oranges and other local communities up until 2006, according to the state.
By the time the family had the courage to break free from Ayinde's psychological and physical control, the state says, the alleged victim had borne four children with him, the first when she was 13.
Remson did not deny what the DNA evidence shows – that all four children were Ayinde's. But, she maintains, the wife and daughter were willing participants in what might be viewed as a repulsive lifestyle to many, but is not an illegal one. "There were no guns to her head. There was no knife to her throat. She had the opportunity and the means to leave him if she wanted to," Remsen said.
"A lifestyle choice?" Squitieri countered. She recalled her questioning of the alleged victim on the witness stand. "I asked her many, many, many times – was this a 'lifestyle choice'? Did you want to have sex with your father? 'No. No. No,'" she said of the woman's replies.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State tax collections for June fell about 6 1/2 percent below estimates -- in part because taxpayers claimed $29 million in tax credits for alternative-fuel vehicles, according to Deputy Revenue Secretary Mark Muchow.
Legislators passed a Tomblin administration bill in April limiting such tax credits only to vehicles fueled by natural gas or liquid propane. The legislation took effect April 15. The law had allowed a credit equal to 35 percent of the purchase price of the vehicle, up to $7,500 for passenger vehicles.
"The Legislature has fixed the problem prospectively," Muchow said of the law eliminating the tax credit for electric or hybrid vehicles. Vehicles powered by natural gas accounted for about 0.01 percent of the tax credits in June, he said.
Media coverage of the pending elimination of the tax break apparently set off a flurry of purchases of hybrid vehicles.
Overall, tax collections for June came in at $341.9 million -- $24.4 million below estimates for the month.
Besides the alternative-fuel vehicle tax write-offs, the other major drop-off in tax collections was in severance taxes, Muchow said. Severance tax collections for the month were $26.3 million, $14.2 million below estimates, and nearly 22 percent below June 2012 collections.
The downturn in coal production continues to be the major factor, although Muchow said there are signs that the market is leveling off. Natural gas prices are also beginning to increase, which should improve severance tax collections, he said.
Sales tax collections for the month were $12.1 million over estimates, at $96.7 million.
Part of that increase was technical, in that a transfer of a portion of sales tax collections to the Division of Highways that normally occurs in June had been pushed up for the 2012-13 budget year.


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A Mother (guest star Hope Davis) is forced to confront the disturbing truth about her son (guest star Ethan Cutkosky) as his viloent tendencies grow out of control. watch
A gang of rich boys are under suspicion for the rape and murder of a young socialite, but an evil outsider with a criminal past is the real suspect. watch
As the warhead races to an unknown destination, Marwan escapes from CTU custody; the CTU discovers the link Marwan used to plan Heller's kidnapping. watch
Welcome to Universal Pictures' supernatural thriller with M. Night Shyamalan's (The Sixth Sense, Signs) signature touch, Devil. Directed by John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine, The Poughkeepsie Tapes) from a screenplay by Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) and a story by Shyamalan, Devil stars Chris Messina (Julie & Julia), Logan Marshall-Green (Brooklyn's Finest), Geoffrey Arend (500 Days of Summer), Bojana Novakovic (Drag Me to Hell), Jenny O'Hara (Mystic River), Bokeem Woodbine (The Last Sentinel) and Jacob Vargas (Death Race). In the film, a group of people is trapped in the elevator, and one of them is the devil. Devil is produced by Shyamalan and Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and executive produced by Drew Dowdle (Quarantine) and Trish Hofmann (The Ruins).
In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation in Brooklyn's Finest, a searing new crime drama from acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Golden Glober-winner Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Oscarr nominee Ethan Hawke) has discovered there's no line he won't cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence "Tango" Butler (Oscarr nominee Don Cheadle) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes), one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces daily tests of judgment and honor in one of the world's most difficult jobs. When NYPD's Operation Clean Up targets the notoriously drug-ridden BK housing project, all three officers find themselves swept away by the violence and corruption of Brooklyn's gritty 65th Precinct and its most treacherous criminals. During seven fateful days, Eddie, Sal and Tango find themselves hurtling inextricably toward the same fatal crime scene and a shattering collision with destiny. The film captures the volatile and deadly world of one of New York's most dangerous precincts through the eyes of the men and women pledged to protect and serve, as they face the wrenching choices that make them Brooklyn's Finest.
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In the first part of the two-part season finale, Carter, Dean and Jaimie go undercover to corner two drug-smuggling brothers who use a flower importing business as a cover for their activities. But things go awry when Homeland Security requests that the team keep the smuggling business open so they can trap a potential terrorist. Meanwhile, Dean asks Jaimie out on a proper date; Ty has second thoughts about his impending divorce; and, for Carter - a major life change. Recurring guest stars include MICHELLE BORTH (The Forgotten, Tell Me You Love Me), SEAMUS DEVER (Castle) and JOHNNY MESSNER (Chuck, Cold Case, The O.C.).
In the second part of the two-part season finale, the team continues to infiltrate the drug-smuggling ring run by two brothers in order to corner a terrorist looking to bring dirty bomb parts into the country. But the two sides of the case conflict with one another, forcing Carter and his team to choose sides. Meanwhile, Alex is offered a promotion in Miami, and Ty continues to struggle over his divorce. Recurring guest stars include MICHELLE BORTH, SEAMUS DEVER and JOHNNY MESSNER. NAVID NEGAHBAN (24, Brothers) guest stars. Also Available On Amazon Prime
In the first part of the two-part season finale, things go awry when Carter, Dean and Jaimie go undercover to corner two drug-smuggling brothers. Dean asks Jaimie on a proper date.
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This may have been the worst breakup Ive ever had. I began this blog with the hopes that Traveler would survive the bad decisions of network executives and continue to have a great story line. And although its great story line continued, it did not survive the network ax.... I hate ending relationships with no closure. I was left hoping that ABC had extended the episode to 75 minutes, and then the 11 o'clock news came on. What happened?The episode seemed rushed and unfulfilled. We were shown so much in one hour, but the content wasn't nearly as entertaining as the other seven episodes. There were also more commercials tonight than any other Wednesday before. Usually we get two to three bathroom/snack breaks, but tonight we could have finished laundry and taken out the dog.First, the Trio known as Jay, Tyler and Will, escape the FBI. Will (Aaron Stanford) was shot, Marlow (Viola Davis) was pulled off the case and Kim (Pascale Hutton)was arrested. Then, we get to carpool with th... read more
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Fort Oglethorpe Mayor Lynn Long has made a last-ditch effort to keep a 42-acre piece of prime real estate in his city.
Northwest Georgia Bank wants to deannex the property on Battlefield Parkway east of Dietz Road and make it part of Catoosa County, because a developer who's eyeing the land wants any restaurants that build there to have the option of selling alcohol on Sunday.
The county allows such sales but Fort Oglethorpe doesn't.
The Fort Oglethorpe City Council balked at the bank's deannexation request, so now bank officials hope to get the General Assembly to approve the deannexation.
Long sent a Feb. 25 letter to state Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, asking him to hold off on legislation to deannex any property from Fort Oglethorpe.
"Hopefully, I will have on the ballot in November the question of alcohol sales," Long wrote.
Contacted by phone, Long said he doesn't fault Northwest Georgia Bank.
"They have a property they foreclosed on, and they need to move it as fast as they can," he said.
The mayor said he doesn't like the idea of deannexations.
"It's setting a precedent that I think is bad," Long said.
Through an email through the Georgia Senate Press Office, Mullis was noncommittal about what might happen in Atlanta with the bank's deannexation request.
State lawmakers who represent Fort Oglethorpe are "carefully considering all sides of the issue," Mullis stated, and they will make a decision soon.
Bank Executive Vice President Kerry Riley didn't return a call Thursday.
In a previous interview, Riley said the bank will proceed with deannexation efforts in Atlanta because it can't count on Sunday sales being approved inside Fort Oglethorpe city limits -- even if the matter makes the ballot.
"We can't afford to take that chance," Riley said.
Tim Omarzu covers Catoosa and Walker counties for the Times Free Press. Omarzu is a longtime journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at daily and weekly newspapers in Michigan, Nevada and California. Stories he's covered include crime in blighted parts of metro Detroit and Reno, Nev.; environmental activists tree-sitting in California's Sierra Nevada foothills; attempts by the Michigan Militia to take over a township¹s government in northern Michigan. A native of Michigan, ...