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Pelican Sound Golf & River Club-Former model in Estero
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Pelican Sound
- rates (USD) $ 3,000 - $ 4,100 / month
vacation rental description
This Turnberry second floor corner unit was the former Vista
model for the developer. The interior decorator has woven
together a luxurious, but comfortable ambiance; there are multiple
upgrades throughout the home. Privacy and views are featured in this second story home, which overlooks the 9th tee, a 5-acre pond and preserve area and the
The building has an elevator and trash chute on each floor. Covered
parking is included for each unit. The Jacuzzi, pool and barbecue area
are a short walk from this suite.
The kitchen comes complete with smooth top range, an icemaker side-
by-side refrigerator, dishwasher, and an over the range microwave
loads of counter space, cabinets, a double sink and a garbage
disposal. There is a large pantry complete with all the small
appliances, dishes, pots and pans, serving pieces, glassware,
storage containers, etc. necessary for a great vacation.
The dining room seats 6-8 guests comfortably and overlooks the pool
area. The living room is elegant and comfortable with sliders to a
private screened lanai.
The master bedroom suite also opens out to the lanai. It has a
king size bed, a chaise lounge, an armoire entertainment center
complete with cableFlat screen HD- TV, a huge walk-in dressing room,closet and a
separate master bath with double vanity and a linen closet.
The guest bedroom has two twin beds, a desk, a closet and
an adjacent bathroom. The den is comfortably furnished with a pull
out queen-size sofa bed, a love seat, HD-TV, DVD and a
walk-in closet, which houses a computer and a printer/fax/ copier. Wi Fi high speed internet is available.
There is a separate laundry room within the home and a
second floor storage area with 2 bikes, swim noodles and 5 beach
chairs. Just bring your clothes!
condo rental amenities
Pelican Sound Golf and River Club is located between Naples and
Ft. Myers in Estero. This gated community offers maximum versatility
with 27 holes of championship golf, masterfully designed to present
the most breathtaking challenges, from shifting Gulf breezes to
carries over tidal marshes to rolling fairways lined with oaks and
pines. The driving range was totally renovated in 2004 and also
offers chipping and putting areas. There are private and group
lessons offered almost daily. Both men's and women's 9-hole groups
and 18-hole groups, as well as couples groups have weekly scheduled
competitions. The reciprocal golf available through Pelican Sound
affords golfers access to at least 60 of the top golf courses in
southwest Florida.
Tennis players can enjoy 6-lighted Har-Tru courts adjacent to the
Clubhouse and numerous opportunities for lessons and competition.
With both the 18,000 sf Clubhouse and the 5,000 sf River Club
amenities abound. The Clubhouse has both casual and formal dining, a
grille room, outdoor dining and an exterior snack bar, a pro shop
and men's and women's locker rooms. The clubhouse has a full time
activities director and hosts an extensive activity schedule which
includes a game night, group travel opportunities, a scuba club,
fishing club, ladies bridge, a book club, etc.
The River Club, located on the Estero River, has casual dining
indoor and outdoor as well as a sports bar, a Fitness Center, and a
swimming pool with a large sun deck. Adjacent to the River Club
there's a launch for your boat, or feel free to use the community
canoes and kayaks for paddles up or down the Estero River. At the
Pelican Sound dock, you can catch a ride on the community owned
water taxi to the beach at Lover's Key State Recreation Park. It's
a great round trip down the Estero River then out into Estero Bay,
under the Schooner's Pass Bridge and out into the gulf to Lover's
Key, the wildlife sightings are worth the trip even if you decide
not to stay at the beach. Additionally, there are miles of bicycle
and walking trails through out the property.
activities and attractions in Estero Gulf Coast South
Area attractions include;
Corkscrew Village offers shopping, banking, dining and more
directly across from the Pelican Sound's Corkscrew entrance.
The brand new Coconut Mall and Town Center, located 1/4 mile south on Rt. 41, provides a phenomenal array of activities-upscale shopping, a wide
selection of restaurants and movie theatres.
Germain Arena- home of the Florida Everblades Hockey team is less
than 5 miles east.
The Miromar outlet mall is adjacent to Germain Arena
Fort Myers- hosts several major league baseball spring training
camps including the Boston Red Sox and is less than 30 minutes
Everglades City-offers a 9 mile boardwalk through the everglades
Corkscrew Sanctuary-offers a wildlife filled boardwalk through
Audubon Society protected marshlands.
The Thomas Edison and Henry Ford winter homes are less than 20
minutes north of Estero.
Bonita Springs Greyhound track is a short 15 minute drive south.
Sanibel & Captiva Islands are a 30 minute drive.
vacation rental rates
May-November 2012 $3,000/month
December 2012-$3,500
January 2013-$3,800
February 2013-rented
March 2013-rented
Florida state and county taxes are 11% of gross rental
Cleaning fee $100
Security Deposit $1,000 (refundable)
Amenities Membership Transfer Fee-$300
Condo Association Approval Fee-$100
Condo documents require 30 day minimum rental and no pets.
No Smoking


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will take the largest hit—nearly $19 million—if the county goes through with a plan to divert property tax money earmarked for schools to county coffers, officials with the county Department of Education said today.
By law, the state is supposed to cover the shortfall, said Darren Dang, director of business services. But even if the state is able to bridge the gap, it would create massive cash-flow issues for school districts.
County Superintendent Bill Habermehl has told Patch .
Ron Lebs, deputy superintendent of business services for the Capistrano Unified School District, isn't either.
"It's living in the ambiguity, and not really knowing and trying to be prudent," Lebs said.
In announcing its plan last week, county officials said they would redirect $73.5 million away from local schools so that they could plug a $49.5-million budget hole of their own and stave off planned layoffs. But education officials were already expecting a $30-million to $40-million shortfall in property taxes in an account called the " education revenue augmentation fund."
Adding it all together, the potential hit to local schools throughout Orange County is upward of $110 million, Dang said.
Capistrano Unified's share of that $110 million is $18.9 million, Dang said. The pain is distributed to school districts based on the property taxes collected in a school district's area. The high value of property in south Orange County and the size of Capistrano Unified means CUSD takes the biggest hit.
While all counties deal with shortages in their education revenue augmentation funds, and the state has consistently made school districts whole in the past, the $73.5-million more the county seeks is "unique to Orange County," Dang said.
Last year, the fund was short $23.5 million, some of which was repaid locally by the Orange County auditor-controller, said Chris Lombardo, coordinator of accounting for the Orange County Department of Education. Capo's share last year was about $4 million.
"The state has always backfilled the schools," Dang said.
But even if the state—which as Dang says has a "bigger nut to crack" with its own multibillion-dollar shortfall—repays the local school districts, the funds won't come fast enough, and schools will face cash-flow problems affecting their ability to pay the bills, he said.
At Capo, Lebs said the district was already anticipating a $6.5-million cash-flow problem by year's end without the additional bad news from the county. The Board of Trustees has approved borrowing up to $75 million in short-term loans, but those loans must be repaid by April, so the concern is "what happens in the April, May and June arena," he said. The fiscal year ends June 30.
The district will feel the first impact of the county move as early as December, when school officials now expect to receive $7.2 million less in property tax revenue than they were counting on, Lebs said.
All of this is on top of news that the state may "" on mid-year state budget cuts that kick in if tax revenues fall short. So far this year, the state is $3.7 billion behind, reports the Sacramento Bee.
If the state makes the full cut to K-12 education outlined in the budget should $4 billion in revenues not materialize, CUSD would need to make a $14-million cut in the current year's budget.
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Northwest Mechanic Strike Over? AMFA Too?
written & posted 10/06
by Carl Finamore
The Aircraft Mechanic Fraternal Association (AMFA) and
Northwest Airlines (NWA) reached a tentative agreement
on October 9, 2006, that, if approved by the membership,
ends the 14-month strike.
The deal includes NWA withdrawing all protests against
strikers receiving unemployment benefits; offering
vacation accrual with a maximum 10 weeks severance pay
for resignations or, as an alternative for those
strikers who elect to remain with the company with 2-
year recall rights, vacation accrual with up to 5 weeks
Since NWA shut the doors of its Minneapolis maintenance
facility and contracted out janitorial and cabin
cleaning jobs, few expect many of the 4400 original
strikers to be recalled.
All 800 mechanics who crossed picket lines, mostly AMFA
members, will remain working and cannot be displaced by
strikers according to the tentative agreement.
It is a tragic end to a dismal chapter of failed AMFA
leadership and strategy.
Most unions considered the strike ill conceived from the
very beginning.
AMFA had no strike fund and, reflecting its separatist
philosophy of mechanics acting alone, went on strike
while the Pilots, Flight Attendants and Machinists'
Union were still negotiating under pressures of
bankruptcy court proceedings.
AMFA bolted ahead of all the other unions,
characteristic of their often-stated mantra that
"strength in numbers doesn't necessarily mean strength."
This was the wisdom offered by AMFA Assistant National
Director Steve MacFarlane on the eve of the August 2005
He couldn't have been more wrong.
Underestimating solidarity with other unions on the
property was only one of AMFA's strategic mistakes.
Extremely damaging to unity with other unions was AMFA's
negotiating proposal that NWA take more concessions from
IAM members and less from AMFA members.
As reported by Robert Roach Jr., IAMAW General Vice-
President Transportation: "AMFA, as an institution, has
proposed and is actively advocating, that Northwest
Airlines demand $150,000,000 more [from IAM members] in
concessions than the $107,000,000 Northwest has
requested from our membership."
While AMFA supporters dismiss these claims as slander,
most 'unskilled' airline workers who have been the
target of AMFA's scorn since their formation in 1962,
are not at all surprised by AMFA's breach of solidarity
at NWA during the 2005 summer contract negotiations.
In fact, this breakdown in solidarity is exactly what
occurred only a few months earlier in an AMFA settlement
with United Airlines that directly led to 550 IAM jobs
being contracted out.
As a result of complex legal proceedings between AMFA
and the IAM over the jobs in question, AMFA negotiators
demanded and received from UAL financial 'credits' for
this IAM job loss; thus increasing the hardship on
fellow workers, IAM members, but reducing concessions of
AMFA mechanics.
The whole AMFA experience has been a bitter, devastating
blow to airline workers. It has led to division and
defeat by an organization that claimed to be more
militant and democratic than established unions but was
None of AMFA's major claims have stood up; they are
neither more democratic nor more militant than
traditional unions they seek to replace.
AMFA suffers from the same political weaknesses as other
unions only compounded by active attempts to split
unions and separate 'skilled'workers from other employee
Less than 3 years ago when AMFA won an election to
represent 9000 UAL mechanics, AMFA's major campaign
slogan was that they would never negotiate concessions.
They claimed to always have rank and file observers at
They claimed to be the most democratic.
None of these claims have stood up; during NWA
concession bargaining for example, AMFA members were
never given an opportunity to vote on the 'Final and
Best Offer' by NWA before the strike was called in
August 2005 and 'rank and file observers' were barred
from the recent negotiations with NWA on the tentative
Only 10 years ago, AMFA's divisive sales pitch attracted
a measly 439 total members, picking up steam only during
recent years of devastating rounds of airline concession
bargaining. After only a few short years with a
significant membership, their numbers have dwindled, the
organization is in crisis and the whole project can be
declared a miserable failure.
Instead of division into smaller,craft unions, we need
to confront employers with unity. 'One Airline, One
Union' is the answer to AMFA's retrograde separatism.
Perhaps some misled radicals are infatuated with AMFA's
talk of more militancy and democracy. Most airline
workers are not.
AMFA's program is nothing more than elitism starkly and
tragically revealed in the failed 'go-it-alone' strike
strategy at NWA that in the end proved to be just as
arrogant as it was misguided.
Not surprisingly, lessons are being drawn by AMFA
mechanics themselves who are abandoning the sinking ship
in droves. There is an active AMFA decertification drive
at the United Airlines San Francisco Maintenance Base,
the only remaining viable AMFA unit in the country.
AMFA leaders are feeling the heat. Several months ago in
an election, 12,000 NWA Flight Attendants, ousted their
AMFA-originated union in favor of the Association of
Flight Attendants, AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO.
There are other signs of internal problems. AMFA
recently fired its founding national attorneys, moved
its national headquarters thousands of miles away from
where its aging National Director resides, declared
itself to be in major debt and announced,in a huge
reversal of direction, that it is openly investigating
affiliations and mergers with the AFL-CIO.
The fundamental tenets of AMFA have been discredited.
Sadly, lessons of unity and solidarity had to be
relearned at the cost of thousands of jobs and disrupted


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Background -
I created a vb add-in that creates standard sheet setups using a .pc3 file called BATC PDF.pc3 . (This .pc3 file was created using the DWG To PDF.pc3 plot config - Margins were set to 0)
The add-in accomplisheds the following :
I am testing the application functionality with a wide variety of our AutoCAD drawing library. I have ran into some anomalies with some of our drawings that have a large number of sheets:
Routine works well with drawings that have smaller sheet counts(10 or so) sheets.
I am configuring the Visual Studio solution so that it can be executed without the supporting database
Solved! Go to Solution.
Here is the section of code that is failing (during Publish Execute).
Note that the exception is not captured by the try-catch block
TryDim CurrAcadDoc AsDocument = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Application.SetSystemVariable("BACKGROUNDPLOT", 0)
Using DSDDataFile AsNewDsdDataUsing PPD AsPlotProgressDialog = NewPlotProgressDialog(False, my_PresentFormats.BaseCollection.Count, True)
PlotMessageIndex.DialogTitle) = "PDF Creation Progress"
PlotMessageIndex.CancelJobButtonMessage) = "Cancel PDF Creation"
PlotMessageIndex.CancelSheetButtonMessage) = "Cancel Sheet PDF Creation"
PlotMessageIndex.SheetSetProgressCaption) = "Multi-sheet PDF Create job Progress"
PlotMessageIndex.SheetProgressCaption) = "PDF Sheet Creation Progress"
PPD.UpperPlotProgressRange = 100
PPD.LowerPlotProgressRange = 0
PPD.UpperSheetProgressRange = 100
PPD.LowerSheetProgressRange = 0
Dim oPublisher As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Publishing.Publisher = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.Publisher
Dim PDFPlotConfig AsPlotConfig = PlotConfigManager.SetCurrentConfig("BATC PDF.pc3")
oPublisher.PublishExecute(DSDDataFile, PDFPlotConfig)
Application.SetSystemVariable("BACKGROUNDPLOT", 1)
Catch sys_ex As System.Exception
Sorry, this is easier to read.
Public Sub ExecutePublishProcess() Try Dim CurrAcadDoc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.S
etSystemVariable("BACKGROUNDPLOT", 0) Using DSDDataFile As New DsdData Using PPD As PlotProgressDialog = New PlotProgressDialog(False, my_PresentFormats.BaseCollection.Count, True) PPD.PlotMsgString(PlotMessageIndex.DialogTitle) = "PDF Creation Progress" PPD.PlotMsgString(PlotMessageIndex.CancelJobButton Message) = "Cancel PDF Creation" PPD.PlotMsgString(PlotMessageIndex.CancelSheetButt onMessage) = "Cancel Sheet PDF Creation" PPD.PlotMsgString(PlotMessageIndex.SheetSetProgres sCaption) = "Multi-sheet PDF Create job Progress" PPD.PlotMsgString(PlotMessageIndex.SheetProgressCa ption) = "PDF Sheet Creation Progress" PPD.UpperPlotProgressRange = 100 PPD.LowerPlotProgressRange = 0 PPD.UpperSheetProgressRange = 100 PPD.LowerSheetProgressRange = 0 Dim oPublisher As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Publishing.Publisher = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.P ublisher DSDDataFile.ReadDsd(DSDFileName) Dim PDFPlotConfig As PlotConfig = PlotConfigManager.SetCurrentConfig("BATC PDF.pc3") oPublisher.PublishExecute(DSDDataFile, PDFPlotConfig) End Using End Using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.S etSystemVariable("BACKGROUNDPLOT", 1) Catch sys_ex As System.Exception MsgBox(sys_ex.Message) End Try End Sub
You did not mention if your code does something to prepare the layout (sheet) prior to publish. But here is one thing I learned from my PDF proltting development: if you have a layout created and have not saved the drawing prior to publishing, the publishing process will failed (Acad crashed). That is, if there is new layout, the drawing must be saved.
In my case, since I need to use code to create layout for present the printable content in desired scale, size... I have to give up on publishing, and do the plotting PDF one page at a time and then use PDF tool to stitch them into multiple page PDF file (which turned out to be quite easy and more flexibale then using Acad's "DWG to PDF.pc3".
I have tried saving and not saving.
The Page Setups are in the drawing and have been saved.
The Application sest the current plot config (which was active during the last save) and starts the PublishExecute.
It would be too bad if I had to resort to a piecemeal approach. I would then be subject to all of the other problems related to merging a bunch of pdf files.
Well, I sort of gave up.
Norman is right. It is apparent that as of the 2013 release, the API publish functionality is far from robust using the .net API interface. If you want to save time and end up with something robust, use single sheet plot output and an external pdf merge utility.
I re-wrote my application to create individual sheets and utilized iText.Sharp to merge them together.
My final solution creates an infrastructure so the user can utilize the AutoCAD publish engine to create merged pdf output. I am running into issues with that functionality (I programically create standard plot setups and matching dsd files and allow the user to use the publish engine via the command line interface.)
I am running into issues right and left.
I would encourage Autodesk to consider the following:
When creating electronic output, some customers are concerned about scaling (we want 1:1 output). We want this so that versioning, compare and and markup functionality (leveraging different versions of .pdf files) embeded in our PLM system works correctly. This also enables reasonably accurate "measure" functionality within our PLM system.
It seems as if all electronic format engines have "margins" built in and after several layers you end up with scaled output. I think the root of the problems that I am experiencing are related to specifying 0 margins in output.
Like many companies, we are also interested in bolstering our PLM environment with automated links that are built on a reliable content publishing foundation. I would encourage Autodesk to address issues with their publishing infrastructure
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---- — Throughout history, farmers have been an independent and somewhat self-sufficient group of men and women who produced the food, fiber and other farm products that fed our population and fueled our economy.
As our country has grown, farms have become more and more efficient and specialized. Every region has a special combination of weather conditions, soil fertility and climate that lends itself to certain crops or livestock production.
In the 1800s, New York was actually a major producer of such crops as hops, wheat and other grain crops. As the West was settled, new areas were opened up that had advantages to these crops, leaving farmers in New York at a disadvantage.
This was the beginning of the regionalization of agriculture. Gradually, each region of the country became more and more focused on growing the crops that were most profitable in their region.
Although New York is a large state with a wide variety of regions, it has become primarily a producer of dairy products, tree fruits, vegetables and greenhouse/nursery products. While the dairy industry is by far the largest portion of our agricultural economy and it is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, there is a recent trend towards more diversification in farm enterprises.
Maximizing the use of unused farm assets is key to generating the cash flow to support the farm enterprise during the current economic down times.
Traditionally, local dairy farmers would raise a few beef cows, tap some maple trees in the spring and plant some sweet corn in the summer. While many farms have become more specialized, some farmers are once again looking at opportunities to diversify.
By adding or resuming farm enterprises discontinued in the past, farmers can generate additional income to help bridge the gap during these difficult economic times. Because existing farmers already have land, machinery and lots of farming know-how, it is logical that they would consider alternative farming enterprises.
Which alternative is appropriate depends on many factors. In many cases, farms have resources that are not being fully utilized by the current farm enterprise. Unused land, buildings, machinery or labor could be put to use generating additional income.
One area of the farm that is often underutilized is the farm woodlot. Timber sales, firewood, Christmas trees, fence posts and maple-syrup production are all potential income generators that many farmers may not have been actively managing in recent years.
Leasing the farm woodlot or fields for recreational or hunting purposes can also bring in much needed income. While dairy farming is less seasonal than it used to be, many of these supplemental activities can be performed in the fall and winter when the busy planting, growing and harvesting times have concluded.
Closer to the homestead, unused barns or storage sheds could be rented to neighbors for livestock housing, machinery storage or winter camper and boat storage. More than a few farmers have added a roadside vegetable stand or have planted some sweet corn along the field corn.
With abundant home-grown corn silage and hay, raising a few beef cows is also a way to utilize extra feed to produce local beef for sale or home consumption.
Farmers are resilient and very seldom give in to poor economic conditions without a fight. Toughing out the bad times has been a way of life for many farmers and making the best of bad economic times is essential.
For the past 100 years, the Farm Bureau and Cooperative Extension have been helping farmers to adapt new methods and technologies that have led to increased efficiencies, improved production practices and a better quality of life on the farm. To find out more about what Cornell Cooperative Extension has to offer, you can contact me at 561-7450 or email email@example.com.
Peter Hagar, agriculture program educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension Clinton County, 6064 Rt. 22, Plattsburgh, 12901. Call 561-7450


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But he's certainly not sad to see the replacement officials go.
"It's always good to have the experts back at work," Smith said. "I thought the old officials, I thought they did good pending the circumstances. I think it's going to be good for player safety that we have the right officials in."
Most in the Saints' locker room expressed similar feelings Thursday, basically thanking the replacement officials for doing the best they could under difficult times.
Those officials came from lower levels of college football or the high school game, vastly overmatched by the speed of the NFL game.
Their inconsistency was one of New Orleans safety Roman Harper's main complaints.
"If you're going to call it one way, you've got to call it both ways," Harper said. "We don't need any indecision. When you've got to challenge the play all the time, it kind of takes away from the game, takes away from the rhythm and the flow of the game."
Harper pointed to at least two instances the replacement officials hurt the Saints, including one penalty against him in the Washington game that he's still confused about.
"Each game it seems like we had a play that could have affected (the outcome) and could have went both ways and really was momentum wise," Harper said. "You had last week clearly the tackle almost tackled Martez Wilson on the long run but nobody wants to talk about that. First week against Washington, the pass interference call against me. I turned around. I played the ball. I don't know what I was supposed to do differently.
"That's a big call. It goes from our ball on the 35 or so and we get the momentum to now they've got the ball on the 1-yard line and they punch it in next play. All those things count."
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PEKIN, Ill.-- Thousands of kids spent the morning swimming towards a world record.
On Tuesday morning young swimmers all over the world learned about swimming safety.
It was part of an attempt to break the world record for the largest swimming lesson.
The free class was offered at locations worldwide including the YWCA in Pekin.
"There are hundreds of other facilities across the world that are participating in this event at the exact same time and because of that it is all technically together and can be called the world's largest swim lesson," said YWCA Aquatics Director Mitch Richards.
About 50 swimmers ages 3 to 14 were at the YWCA and for them to be part of the official worldwide count, strict guidelines had to be followed.
"The world's largest swimming lesson gives us a curriculum to follow and you have to follow it minute by minute. It says from 10:01 to 10:03 teach this," said Richards.
The current record is just over 29,000 swimmers.
Richards says even though the reason for the lesson is to break a record, any reason is a good reason to teach water safety.
"They taught me about the water and how safe it is and what to do in case of an emergency," said 8-year-old Clayton Bell of Peoria.
"If you're all by yourself in the pool and your drowning and your freaking out you can float on your back and calm down," said 11-year-old Jada Hart of Pekin.
As Hart learned, you should never be alone in a pool, you should only swim if there is a lifeguard on duty.
"If you can't get to the side of the pool you can always call lifeguard and they'll come get you," she said.
The swimmers will find out if they helped break the record in a few days.


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Explore the history of the ancient Mayan civilization during this scenic and informative journey to Northern Guatemala's renowned Mayan ruins of Tikal.
Depart the pier for the brief transfer to the airport, and a chartered 1-hour flight to the vast northern region of El Peten. Upon arrival, you will board a coach for the scenic 1-hour drive along rainforest-lined roadways. Along the way, your guide will inform you about the region in preparation for your visit to Tikal, the greatest Mayan city known and studied to date, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Upon reaching the entrance of the 231-square-mile Tikal National Park, you will leave your coach and begin your guided hike along dirt roads and pathways. As you enter the forest surrounding the ruins, your guide will explain the cosmic vision of life at the apex of Mayan rule. After walking approximately 1 mile, you will discover and climb to the top of Temple IV, where expansive views of the park will come into view. You will then continue on to past Temple V before reaching the Great Plaza, which is comprised of Temples I and II, the North Acropolis, Central Acropolis and the Maya royal residential complex, known as the Mahler Palace. Their magnificent architecture is still intact after hundreds of years, and some time will be made available for you to explore the ruins.
Next, you will re-board your coach for the return drive to Santa Elena, and proceed directly to the Maya International Hotel for lunch accompanied by scenic views of Lake Peten Itza and the Island of Flores.
After lunch, you will be transferred to the Mundo Maya airport for your return flight.
Please note: You will spend 3 hours at Tikal National Park, and cover approximately 2.5 miles on foot. Wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and comfortable walking shoes, and bring biodegradable sunscreen, insect repellent, a hat and sunglasses from the ship. Rain jackets, ponchos and umbrellas are also advised to provide coverage during cloudbursts. This tour is not recommended for guests with limited mobility and guests who utilize a wheelchair. A minimum of 12 guests is required to operate this program.
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Q: If the wolf has been delisted from the Endangered Species List, does that mean the population is recovered and ready for a hunting and trapping season?
A: No – after being driven to the brink of extinction, the gray wolf in Michigan has been under full legal protection for nearly 50 years, and on the federal Endangered Species List for nearly 40 years. Although wolf populations have been slowly recovering in the last four decades, there are still fewer than 700 wolves in the entire state, and wolves currently only occupy 5% of their historic range. Opening a hunting season on wolves so soon is premature and could be disastrous to their fragile population.
Q: Do wolves attack and kill livestock and pets, requiring a hunt to reduce these conflicts?
A: Though cases of wolves killing livestock are rare (fewer than 8% of U.P. ranches have experienced depredations [1]), Michigan law gives property owners the legal authority to protect their livestock and dogs. Opening a season on wolves is unnecessary because there is already a way to deal with wolves that kill livestock or dogs. Allowing the hunting and trapping of the animals just for trophies will accomplish nothing. A combination of state and private funding compensates ranchers for any livestock losses from wolves.
Q: Do people eat wolves?
A: No - wolves would be hunted only for trophies, and it means killing rare animals for no good purpose. Wolf hunting could mean allowing the same extreme practices that nearly wiped out this majestic species, including painful steel-jawed leghold traps and shooting them over piles of bait.
Q: Are wolves dangerous to human safety?
A: There has never been a recorded wolf attack on a human in Michigan. Wolves are afraid of people and do all they can to avoid them. Although wolves are predators, they pose no threat to public safety. An irrational fear or hatred of wolves should not drive the trophy hunting of these majestic creatures.
Q: Are wolves killing too many deer, and making it difficult for hunters to find deer to put meat on the table?
A: No. Wolves are an essential part of Michigan's ecosystem. The percentage of hunters harvesting deer in 2011 was actually higher than the percentage in both 2010 and 2009. On November 16, 2012 the Michigan DNR's "White-Tailed Deer" website stated, "checkstation numbers across the U.P. are above last year and some areas are double what they were last year indicating a very positive start to the season for many hunters." [2] It's important to have wolves in Michigan because they help to control the population of deer in the state, which is often a concern for farmers, motorists, and other residents who worry about the impact of highly abundant populations.
Q: Would allowing a wolf hunt help our economy?
A: Michigan's wolves are much more valuable to the economy through tourism opportunities than through a wolf hunt. Michigan residents and out-of-state visitors travel to the Upper Peninsula to see wolves, moose and other wildlife. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, wildlife watchers who traveled to Michigan – both resident and non-resident – outnumbered people hunting in the state by 6 to 1.[3] Continuing tourism opportunities to view wolves could be a far more lucrative and sustainable business, rather than a hunting season on wolves, which could deplete the wolf population and impose a negative public perception on Michigan's wildlife management policies. In their final report to the DNR's director, the Michigan Wolf Management Roundtable even advised against reducing wolf abundance at large geographic scales, because it could "unacceptably restrict positive interactions desired by the public."[4]
Q: How do Michigan's Native American Tribes feel about opening a wolf hunt?
A: Michigan's Native American Tribes oppose the hunting of wolves. They believe the wolf is a sacred animal who fits prominently in their history and their connection to the land. The wolf returning and gaining strength has been symbolic and important to tribes in the Upper Peninsula because it shows that with respect and appreciation all living things can regain strength.
"Mii'angin (wolf) is sacred to our Tribe and, to our members, encounters with gray wolves are not inherently negative. We are deeply concerned with legislation that seeks to minimize Gray Wolf encounters. We implore the state to seek legitimate methods to deal with habituated wolves that will not infringe on our right to sacred encounters with Mii'angin." -Aaron Payment, Chairperson, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Q: Will a wolf hunt impact the Upper Peninsula's ecosystem?
A: Wolves play a significant role in the Upper Peninsula ecosystem, and it is important to have natural predators like wolves because they help reduce densities of deer, beavers, and other species that are known to have an impact on crops, trees and plants, and even stream flow and other water bodies. Allowing a wolf hunt could reduce the benefits that wolves bring to agriculture, public safety, and ecosystem health.
Q: Why is a hunt being considered so soon after wolves have been delisted?
A: No species has been removed from the endangered list at such a low population level and then immediately hunted. The legislation to allow wolf hunting and trapping was rushed. Although it was in front of legislators for months, it was only brought up after the election with just a few weeks left in the year. The legislature decided to debate the issue during the holiday season and vote on it hoping the public was not paying attention. That is wrong. A wolf hunt is too important to leave to politicians trying to serve special interests.
Q: Does sound science support the opening of a wolf hunting season?
A: No. History has demonstrated that wolves can be severely impacted by predator control. Because people do not eat wolves and don't use the animal in any way, wolves would be hunted only for trophies – meaning that these rare animals would be killed for no good purpose. Allowing wolf hunting could mean especially inhumane and unfair practices, such as painful steel-jawed leghold traps and hunting over bait. This not science-based wildlife management – it's cruel and unsporting, and just pointless trophy hunting. The Wolf Management Roundtable group also agreed in its final report that a quota hunt was not a scientifically sound method of addressing wolf management. Wolves provide many ecological benefits to the ecosystem by preventing the overpopulation of deer and other wildlife, which can assist in curbing the spread of deadly diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease.
Q: Now that Public Act 520 has qualified for the ballot does that mean we have stopped the wolf hunt?
A: Not yet. Like any referendum, once the signatures have been gathered and the referendum has been certified we still need a NO! vote at the ballot box in November 2014. We have an additional hurdle to protecting the wolves since the passage of Public Act 21 (formerly SB 288). Only by defeating both of these bills can we hope to stop the cruel and pointless hunting and trapping of wolves.
Q: What is PA 21?
A: In an egregious power grab and heavily influenced by powerful special interest groups, politicians passed Public Act 21 of 2013 just weeks after our qualifying signatures were submitted. PA 21 allows the Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC), in addition to the legislature, to add animals to the list of game species (animals that can be hunted). This means that if the NRC makes such a designation, Michigan voters would be unable to reverse that decision because it is an act of a regulatory body and not the legislature. This is a contemptuous move to subvert Michiganders' longstanding constitutional right to voice their opinion on what happens to the state's wildlife.
Q: Why do we need to do a referendum of both PA 520 and PA 21?
A: If either PA 520 or PA 21 is allowed to stand wolves will be listed as a game species in MI and the Natural Resources Commission will be able to set a hunting and trapping season. It is only by defeating both of these bills that we can hope to keep wolves protected from pointless trophy hunting and cruel traps.
Q: If we are successful in voting down both PA 520 and PA 21 will the wolves be safe?
A: For now. We must remain vigilant in our fight to protect this fragile and recovering species from powerful hunting and trapping special interest groups. Our wolves are held in public trust and we must all continue to work to defend them.
Q: Isn't there some legal action that can be filed to stop the wolf hunt?
A: We aren't ruling anything out, but we feel that the best, most effective use of our resources is to move forward with referendums of both PA 520 and PA 21.
[1] http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/featured/pnr-federal-grants-for-nonleth...
[2] http://deer.fw.msu.edu/
[3] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2012. 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation: State Overview: U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved from: http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/ref/collection/document/id/858
[4] Peyton et al. (2006). Report of the Michigan Wolf Management Roundtable to the Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved from http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/Final_Roundtable_Report_178862_7.pdf.


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Joyce I. Pinney, 85, of Rutland, died January 31, 2013, in The Pines at Rutland. She was born October 10, 1927, in Rutland, Vt., the daughter of James Lucius and Ethel Leona (Nutting) Taylor.
Joyce graduated from Meldon School.
On September 14, 1947, she was married to Robert P. Pinney Sr. He predeceased her on April 27, 2002.
Before Joyce was married, she worked at New England Telephone Co. and later as a bookkeeper for many years with her husband at Pinney Electric Co.
She enjoyed volunteering at Rutland area schools and with the 4-H Club, and was a member of the Rutland Home Dem.
An avid reader, gardener and homemaker, she also loved dancing, attending her childrens sporting events and all family gatherings.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Robert P. Pinney Jr. of Rutland; three daughters, Cheryl Muscatello of Mendon, Linda Chicoine of Milton and Michele Weeks of Wallingford; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The memorial service will be held Sunday, February 3, 2013, at 2 p.m. in Tossing Funeral Home, with the Rev. Mark E. Heiner, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating.
Friends may call on Sunday from 1-2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Haynes House of Hope, 7187 Route 149, Granville, NY 12832; or The Pines at Rutland Activity Fund, 99 Allen St., Rutland, VT 05701.
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Explore one of nature's most spectacular creations during this scenic and exhilarating cruise to Misty Fjords.
Depart the pier aboard one of Alaska's fastest and most luxurious sightseeing vessels for the scenic cruise out of Ketchikan's picturesque harbor. Along the way, you will pass by colorful fishing boats and float planes, and watch for marine and coastal wildlife.
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While gliding quietly beneath its 3,000-foot vertical cliffs, you will learn about the fjord's natural history, feel the mist of glistening waterfalls and listen to the call of seabirds nesting on a rock face sculpted by glacial forces.
On the cruise back to Ketchikan, you will be served a selection of snacks and beverages while watching for whales, seals, eagles and other wildlife species. Your crew will be on hand to serve you and provide interesting commentary throughout the tour. You will also have the opportunity to experience native culture and history presented by a Tlingit storyteller, observe a native artist at work or watch a tour-related video presentation.
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The Sutton-based team beat Cheam Park School 4-3 in the final of the Friday tournament, while Meadow Primary School, in Epsom, won the third place pay-off.
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Almost 100 football fanatics took to the pitches in 10 teams, who had to get through a five-team group phase to reach the semi- finals, before even having a shout in the final.


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Good morning!Four days ago I was leaving Uvalde for Orlando via San Antonio. It was raining for the first time in a long time in Uvalde and everybody participating at the WGC was nicely dressed and ready for the closing ceremony and airshow. Although it was the same noisy and happy crowd as always, for the first time we were all kind of silent and saying good bye in lower voices.I hugged some (the ones I could spot) of my old and new friends and left for the SA airport. Everybody was crowded under the 2 tents as it was still raining.About 8 hours later I was in Orlando looking at my computer and seeing pictures of the champions and ceremony. It was wonderful to see such a beautiful end to this great WGC edition.Since I've been back I am only telling and re-telling the stories from Uvalde. And this got me to realize what a great experience this has been and how many wonderful people I've met and worked with.
32nd World Gliding Champions
15 Meter Class - Sebastian Kawa POL 11062 points
18 Meter Class - Zbigniew Nieradka POL 12170 points
Open Class - Laurent Aboulin FRA 12084 points
Congratulations to everyone for a great competition. Thank you especially to the many volunteers that have made this event possible. It has been my greatest pleasure to be a part of the large team that has done such a wonderful job. Most of us, maybe all of us, had no idea what we were getting into. In spite of that, you volunteers have all done a terrific job and have made me proud to be a part of the team. Thank you.
A special thank you to John Good, our Deputy Director. John and I worked together closely as a team throughout the competition and John was responsible for tasking.
Thanks to our chief steward Dick Bradley for all your help. Dick came last year as well and helped me tremendously this year by providing sage advice on many matters.
Al Tyler has already sung the praises of the Uvalde town people, but I can't close without saying that this is absolutely the most soaring-friendly town I have ever known.
Now for some interesting statistics: I believe that the winning scores of this championships are more points than have ever been earned at a glider competition. The second highest scores were earned here at Uvalde in 1991. You pilots flew 13 competition days. Many of you also flew 7 official practice days. Some of you started flying here well before that. About halfway through the competition I mentioned that the total km flown took us the distance from the earth to the moon. You'll be glad to know that we didn't leave you hanging out there in low earth orbit. The total distance flown including the official practice period was almost 800,000 km, more than the distance to the moon and back.
Thank you for coming. Maybe, we'll see some of you back here in less than another 20 years.
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enerGaïa December 9th to 12th in Montpellier, France
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The internationally oriented solar technology company Gehrlicher Solar AG is now in France. With high-quality system components from the gehrtec product line, the company is at enerGaïa for the first time. Turnkey solar systems from Gehrlicher are now available especially for the French market.
Montpellier/Dornach b. München, December 9th, 2009. For the fourth time now, enerGaïa is taking place from December 9th to 12th. enerGaïa is a trade fair in Montpellier, France for technologies and products in the renewable energy branch. Gehrlicher Solar AG, a solar technology company and builder of turnkey rooftop and ground-mounted solar power systems, has a stand at the fair for the first time. The company with headquarters in Dornach b. München has branch offices across Europe: in Italy, Greece, Spain, on the Canary Islands – and now in France as well.


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The misconduct of State Bureau of Investigation Agent Mark Isley has rung up all sorts of costs: a $7.85 million payout for taxpayers and their insurers; 14 years behind bars for an innocent man with a severe mental disability; and another scar for law enforcement.
Isley, however, still has his job at the SBI, and theres no indication from Attorney General Roy Cooper that its in jeopardy.
Cooper, a four-term Democrat, refused to be interviewed last week about Isley and the Brown case. Isley, head of the bureaus Medicaid Fraud Section, could not be reached for comment.
Jim Coleman, a Duke University law professor and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, says wrongdoers in law enforcement are rarely held accountable.
The misconduct in this case is another black eye for the criminal justice system, Coleman said. They simply take the loss and move on as if nothing happened. Until there are consequences, nothing will change.
The recent settlement ended three years of litigation between the SBI and attorneys for Floyd Brown, a 49-year-old man with an IQ around 50. Records from the lawsuit reveal new details about Isleys attitude toward the case and his handling of it.
In 1993, Isley wrote Browns confession by hand, an elaborate six-page document told in the first person, as if Isley was copying Browns story word for word. The confession was the only evidence linking Brown to the murder of Katherine Lynch, a retired school teacher in Anson County, about an hour east of Charlotte.
In his deposition, Isley acknowledged that he did nothing to corroborate Browns alleged confession, failed to interview key witnesses and didnt explore obvious suspects.
Isley testified in 2005 that the confession was Browns verbatim account.
But in 2007, a Charlotte Observer investigation found more than a dozen instances in the confession of phrasing and words inconsistent with Browns level of competence. Later that year, a judge freed Brown from a psychiatric hospital after doctors agreed that he lacked the mental capacity to have offered such a detailed and complex statement.
During Browns civil lawsuit, Isley backtracked, saying in his deposition that confession was just a summary.
Isley is firm on one point: He had no idea that Brown was mentally challenged.
Brown sees the world through the eyes of a 7-year-old. He struggles to make sense of the extraordinary detour that pulled him away from his Anson County home to a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital in Raleigh. He was there because he lacked the competency to stand trial.
Browns world is black and white. The lawyers that got him out of Dorothea Dix Hospital in 2007 are heroes; the SBI agents and sheriffs deputies who pinned a murder on him are bad guys.
Now and again, he gets sad when he thinks about the 14 years he languished in Dix. The ache that never heals is the death of his mother, Rose, who got ill and died while Brown was held at Dix. He never got to visit and tell her he loved her before she died.
When the first bit of money arrived a few months ago from his settlement with Anson County, Brown asked his guardian to drive him to the funeral home.
He bought a tombstone for his mothers grave.
A mysterious crime
On July 9, 1993, Lynch was found beaten to death in her small frame house in Wadesboro. Within days, Isley settled on Floyd Brown as the prime suspect.
A week later, on July 16, Isley and fellow SBI agent Bill Lane interviewed Brown for four hours in the Anson County sheriffs office. Isley said that Floyd Brown immediately and voluntarily confessed in detail to the killing. Isley said that Brown confessed a second time, and then a third time, telling the same story each time.
Isley said he transcribed the third confession in longhand, a detailed and first-person account. He then read the confession back to Brown, who is illiterate, and Brown signed it.
Every medical or psychological expert who has examined it, including Isleys own expert witness, has concluded that it was impossible for Brown to have made the confession.
The confession is replete with details and structure that far surpass Browns abilities. He could not tell time or left from right. He could not read. He couldnt tell the difference between a $1 bill and a $20 bill.
The confession is a coherent, chronological story that the states own psychiatrist testified was too educated, too sophisticated, too relevant, too cohesive for Mr. Brown.
Failing to investigate
Isley was the lead investigator in the murder. He was assisted by Lane, a crime-scene specialist, and two Anson County sheriffs deputies who were later convicted of racketeering.
In his deposition, Isley acknowledged that an unsubstantiated confession has less weight before a judge or jury than a confession backed with corroborating evidence.
But Isley said he didnt think it important to talk with the van driver who, according to the confession, drove Brown to his vocational center after the murder, to see if Browns clothes were bloodstained or to check whether the suspect was acting differently that morning. He never posed similar questions to Browns father or sister, or to the staff of the vocational center in Hamlet, the McLaurin Center.
In the confession, Brown mentioned that he saw Hattie Little, neighbor of Katherine Lynch, as he left the scene. Neither Isley nor any other investigator spoke with her or any other neighbors to see if they saw Brown there that morning.
The suspected murder weapon was a walking stick with a bloody palm print found under Lynchs body. The SBI lab compared the bloody print to Brown and found that they didnt match. That was a tentative result; lab protocol required a new set of Browns prints to definitively confirm the results.
Isley never obtained the new prints requested by the lab.
One of the more puzzling lapses was the failure to look at alternative suspects. In 1991, two years prior to her murder, Lynch was beaten in an attempted robbery at her home. Two men confessed, saying they were looking to rob a drug dealer who was living in Lynchs house.
Isley listed the two men as leads and assigned himself and an Anson deputy to interview them, documents show. No one ever did.
Slow to notice
In his 2011 deposition, Isley said he never thought that Brown was mentally handicapped.
Thats a key point; an SBI agent cannot interview someone who cant understand his rights.
He didnt give you any reason to suspect that he was mentally impaired in any way, correct? Browns lawyer asked.
He didnt give me any reason to suspect that, Isley replied.
Isley was insistent through two days of depositions. He didnt know Brown could not read. He never saw Brown confused by any question.
I never concluded Floyd was mentally retarded, he said.
There were clues.
In the 24 hours leading up to the handwritten confession, Brown signed four forms for Isley, who acknowledged that Brown had difficulty signing his name.
Brown never spelled his name the same way twice:
One form was a release giving police access to Browns medical and psychological records from the McLaurin Center. Those records showed that Brown had an IQ of 54, in the mildly to moderately mentally handicappedrange.
On the day of the arrest, Isley came to find Brown at the McLaurin Center. The center provides training and day activities for adults with developmental disabilities.
Looking over his shoulder
Each day, a few dozen adults with limited abilities come to the McLaurin Center in Hamlet to practice counting money, folding cardboard boxes and steam pressing bandages.
On Wednesday, two days after the state and its insurers agreed to compensate him with millions, Brown walked into the McLaurin Center, cradling his lunch bag just as he has for years.
Instructors and office managers met him with hugs and warm wishes for finally reaching a settlement with the state government that had derailed his life. Brown grinned and told them that as soon as he got his money he wanted to treat them all to lunch.
Im gonna get you a big lunch, he told office manager MaryAnn Pervatte. A buffet.
What kind of buffet? she asked.
All you can eat, Brown answered.
Since Brown got the news of his settlement Monday night, each hour he thinks of a new possibility for a life with money to spend.
Brown has never traveled outside the state; hed like to go on a road trip to Washington, D.C., and Baltimore and New York City and Tennessee.
I want to see how it all looks, Brown said.
Brown keeps a shopping list in mind. He wants new shirts and slacks and money to treat his foster mother, Bernice Harris, to lunch once in a while. He wants a snazzy suit to wear to the upcoming wedding of the two attorneys Mike Klinkosum and Kelley DeAngelus who worked to free him in 2007.
Mostly, though, Brown means to live simply and quietly. He will stay with his foster mother and continue to work some days at the McLaurin Center.
A few things have changed. Though Brown cant drive, he bought a shiny used BMW with some of his settlement money.
As Brown and Harris left the McLaurin Center on Wednesday, Harris told Brown he could sit in the drivers seat for a few minutes if he wanted.
Brown looked alarmed: I dont want behind that steering wheel.
Harris smiled and assured Brown he couldnt get in trouble if the engine wasnt running. Brown looked left, then right and turned to look over his shoulder.
Dont worry, Floyd, Harris said. There arent any police out here.
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