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Sponsor Spotlight
Building "good will" is good for business!
Thank you to all our sponsors for helping bring quality public radio and television programming to the prairie region We hope you'll take note of the businesses and organizations that sponsor Prairie Public programming, and thank them when you do business with them!
"Eventide is proud to be a long-time supporter of Prairie Public in its delivery of high-quality arts and educational programming. As industry leaders, Prairie Public and Eventide share a long-standing commitment to excellence in the communities they serve. Eventide offers a full range of healthcare and lifestyle options for seniors at its four locations in North Dakota and Minnesota." Alicia Gorder, Marketing Director
"Rhombus Guys has been a sponsor of public radio for years. We feel it is a valuable asset to our community and the area … plus we love listening to all of the fun shows, especially Science Fridays! Don't be a square, keep up the good work!" Matt and Arron
"Scan Design provides modern home and office furnishings with high quality design and high value in the northern plains region. We support Prairie Public because the radio station's in-depth news and thoughtful on-air professionals are invaluable." Mary Larsien Cantrell, Scan Design
"On Time Electrical, Plumbing, Heating and Air believes credibility means everything to the success and longevity of our business. This is part of the reason why we support such long standing and credible programs like This Old House. Our philosophy is simple: if we can earn your trust with one project, we hope you would keep us in mind for your next project!"
"A&R Carpet Barn of Winnipeg supports one of the longest withstanding home improvement shows in television history, This Old House. Whether it's a homeowner or contractor, A&R Carpet Barn has been supplying Winnipeggers' flooring and carpeting needs at either location, 50 Archibald and 655 Pembina, in Winnipeg for over 30 years."
"Frontier Americana, located in historic downtown Fargo's Black Building, offers the regalia, tools, and fire arms of frontier America's western expansion, military collectables from World War II, and original western art. Sponsoring programs like Antiques Roadshow is the perfect way for us to communicate with collectors in the region." —Pete Erickson, owner
"Krevco Lifestyles owners Don and Nancy Carson support Prairie Public's commitment to provide educational and family oriented programming that encourages families to grow together. They also believe that a family that plays together, stays together—which is why they love the business they are in. The business has grown to include three locations in Winnipeg and one in Brandon and Kenora. Pools, spas, grills, hotubs, accessories—Krevco Lifestyes provides a complete line of indoor and outdoor lifestyle products that the whole family can enjoy."
"Hornbacher's Foods has been committed to a strong community since 1951, and sponsoring Prairie Public is part of that effort. We support Prairie Public because they provide a quality of programming for children and families that is simply not available on the other television channels." Matthew Leiseth, President
"United Tribes and North Dakota's other Tribal Colleges are an indispensable resource. Education and understanding strongly influence the quality of life for everyone in this place we love. We are grateful to partner with an organization that strives to pursue like-minded values that are inclusive of the state's ethnic diversity and cultural heritage. Thank you Prairie Public. Pilamaya." – David M. Gipp, United Tribes Technical College President
"AA Clean Line Sewer & Drain is a proud sponsor of This Old House and Masterpiece, including Downton Abbey. We have provided residential and commercial service in Winnipeg and the surrounding areas for over 31 years with friendly, courteous, clean and respectful service of your home or work place."
"We tend to support efforts that promote home and family values. This includes sewing. Sewing is a passion for the majority of our customers with many of them giving away the quilt or embroidered item they have worked so diligently to produce. Like our store, Prairie Public Broadcasting promotes home and family values consequently, we proudly support sewing programs on Prairie Public. Simply put, Prairie Public Broadcasting presents a great way to reach our present customers and invest in that new sewer that may just be getting started with their hobby." Jim Barnhardt
"Sutton Smithworks is pleased to support quality television in the region by sponsoring programming on Prairie Public. Sutton Smithworks offers fine jewellery and jewellery services and invites you to stop in."
"The attorneys and staff of Zuger Kirmis & Smith are proud to support Prairie Public Broadcasting. As a law firm with deep roots in North Dakota, we appreciate the work that another North Dakota original, Prairie Public, does to enhance life in our state." Constance Hofland, Partner, Zuger Kirmis & Smith Counselors and Attorneys at Law
"Humphry Inn & Suites is pleased to support quality television within the region by sponsoring programming on Prairie Public. This provides Humphry Inn & Suites the opportunity to welcome travelers to Winnipeg from both sides of our border." Andy Zhao, General Manager, Humphry Inn & Suites Winnipeg
"Innovative leadership plus creative and helpful programs not only are consistent with Prairie Public's mission, but also that of Elim Rehab and Care. Elim's new addition—5th Avenue—provides short-term rehab services for those transitioning from hospital to home. Discover a better way to care at Elim—proud sponsor of Prairie Public." Joyce Eisenbraun, Director of Marketing/Development
"The State Historical Society joins Prairie Public and its members in celebrating May as Historic Preservation Month. The programs produced by Prairie Public help preserve and promote the state and region's history while keeping an eye on the future. The Historical Society is honored to be a partner in and sponsor of Prairie Public programming." Claudia Berg, Expansion and New Initiatives Coordinator
"EAPC Architects & Engineers offers architectural, engineering, wind energy, and industrial consulting and design services to a variety of clients throughout Prairie Public¹s listening area, so we feel supporting programming on Prairie Public is a great fit. We are very happy with our partnership with Prairie Public." —Lori M. Bakken, Marketing Director
"The Winnipeg Art Gallery is pleased to collaborate with Prairie Public in highlighting American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the WAG March 2-May 20, 2012. This historic retrospective exhibition features over 40 major paintings, the complete set of 323 Saturday Evening Post tear-sheet covers, and a group of rarely seen preparatory works and artifacts. For details, visit rockwell.wag.ca." —Stephen Borys, PhD, MBA Director, Winnipeg Art Gallery
"We at Family Vision Clinic have supported Prairie Public's radio service for many years. Of all the different media we've sponsored, only Prairie Public listeners have come forward to thank us for our support. In recent years, thanks to Dr. Amy Fleck's interest in Victorian England, we've also sponsored Masterpiece on public television. Now we reach Prairie Public's dedicated and loyal audience through television and radio, and we're proud to help make great programming possible."
"The Listening Room Music Series at the Spirit Room in Fargo has been going for nearly three years. The exposure we have had on Prairie Public has had a dramatic effect on our attendance. Often the people who enjoy the music we present are public radio listeners. That's where I discovered folk music—on my local public radio station in Houston in the early '70s!" —Scott Curfman, Listening Room Series Manager
"Prairie Public gives Valley Imports an opportunity to reach a demographic that traditional advertising doesn't provide. Being a sponsor has enabled us to be in touch with a whole new group of potential 'Customers For Life'! Valley Imports provides service above and beyond expectations, to those who need transportation. This simple philosophy underscores everything we do and has made us very successful." Jeff Richmond, General Sales Manager, Valley Imports


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Hello Bronco Nation! I've been lurking on this site for quite sometime but am not one to usually chime in. I wanted to throw out another trade possiblity that I haven't heard of yet, but makes perfect sense, at least to me; the Houston Texans.
I think we all know that the Texans aren't sold on Matt Schaub and that Cutler and Kubiak know each other well. Kubiak runs the same kind of offense that cry baby Jay is comfortable with and has a formidable target in Andre Johnson.
What does everybody think of trading Jay for Shaub and the Texans #15, #46, and #77. Houston also has many young defensive players that could be packaged.
The Texans have not come up as possible trade partners, but it makes perfect sense! I would love to hear all your comments!

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Week of 4/28/14
Why Yom HaShoah matters
(Opinion, The Virginian-Pilot, April 20, 2014)
By Annette Finley-Croswhite
My teeth chattered in the bitter cold as I stared hard into the eyes of my students. I wanted to convey to them not just the history of this place where we stood, but also a lesson in human responsibility. They had to understand that, because of this journey we had taken together, we were now morally responsible for bearing witness to the horrors of the past.
The place we stood in the ash and snow that day was the death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest extermination camp created by the Nazi regime and the site of destruction of nearly 1.3 million Jews in addition to 200,000 Poles, Gypsies, Roma, Sinti, political prisoners and homosexuals.
In spring 2013 I took 11 Old Dominion University students on a Study Abroad trip called Paris/Auschwitz to explore the history of the French Holocaust or Shoah and the 75,721 Jews deported from France almost exclusively to Auschwitz.
In Paris, we met two Holocaust survivors. Jacques Altmann, 88, held onto me while he recounted his story. Once finished, he let go of my arm and rolled up his sleeve to reveal his numerical tattoo. In that one extraordinary moment, I understood this survivor had purposefully transmitted to us a moral responsibility. He explained he had few years to live, but we could tell his story after he was gone. Never in my two decades of university instruction have I felt such purpose generated in my students.
In Holocaust history, scholars frequently discuss perpetrators, bystanders and victims, categories that were both fluid and ambiguous. Even so, contemplating the role of the bystander is indispensable because by emboldening perpetrators, bystanders made the Holocaust possible. ...
Annette Finley-Croswhite is a professor of history at Old Dominion University. (More)
Norfolk children with disabilities compete in Little Feet Meet
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 28, 2014)
Old Dominion University football player Connor Mewbourne estimated he had been tackled about 50 times that day and he expected about 50 more.
Fortunately for Mewbourne, the hits were coming from Norfolk elementary school students participating in the Little Feet Meet at Foreman Field on April 22.
The event, in its fifth year, is an endeavor between the university, Norfolk Public Schools and the Special Olympics.
Elementary students with disabilities bowled, tossed bean bags, made their way through obstacle courses and more. For each station they tried, the young students got a sticker on their "passport."
About 200 children were guided by ODU Parks, Recreation and Tourism Studies majors, and each station was manned by college therapeutic recreation students. ODU professor Betsy Kennedy said the meet is "real world" training for her students and teaches them how to run an event.
Junior Jessica Beach was in charge of "around the world" where children rolled a 4-foot ball around to different bases.
"Can I get a high-five?" Beach asked as students reached home base with the massive ball.
"I love being able to have the opportunity to help people out," she said. (More)
Old Dominion researchers eye mason bees for duty
(Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2014)
The brand-new posthole digger made barely a dent in the ground outside the strawberry patch.
Necessity being the mother of substitution, Lisa Horth abandoned the tool and instead used a hatchet to whack a hole in the turf deep enough to plant the wooden post of a bee house.
The assistant professor of biology at Old Dominion University abandoned the hatchet for a moment, too, when a small, blue-black insect flew past to hover in front of another house, freshly planted a few feet away.
"Oh, oh, ohh! That was a mason bee!" Horth exclaimed.
So far, so good.
Mason bees resemble flies. They live alone. Only females sting, and it's mild.
Plus, they're native to America.
They're not much like honeybees, the quintessential bee-looking bee, which live in colonies and sting.
Honeybees are European, imported to Virginia in the early 1600s by English colonists who wanted a familiar insect to pollinate crops. Since then, they have spread across the country, making themselves indispensable to the agriculture industry. Trucking honeybee hives from state to state has become big business.
But in the early 2000s, honeybee colonies started to vanish. Overnight, an active hive could empty out - abandoned, apparently - with few or no dead bees around. Beekeepers found themselves losing up to 90 percent of their colonies for no apparent reason. The problem has been named Colony Collapse Disorder, and although various culprits have been suspected - neonicotinoid pesticides, mites, viruses - no cause has yet been determined. (More)
SHERI COLBERG-OCHS: Researching (and Experiencing) How Exercise Improves Diabetes
(Today's Dietitian, April 22, 2014)
Sheri R. Colberg-Ochs, PhD, may not be a household name to all dietitians, but she's a standout in the diabetes community, having spent the past two-plus decades researching the specifics of just how exercise affects (and aids) diabetes management.
Having type 1 diabetes herself, Colberg-Ochs knew from a young age that diet and physical activity offer significant benefits for people with diabetes because she experienced those benefits firsthand. "I found that I gravitated toward eating lower glycemic index foods naturally when I was a kid-and did not have a blood glucose meter-because eating foods that spiked my blood glucose rapidly made me feel sluggish," she says. "I also found that being active always made me feel better physically and more in control of my diabetes when I was young, and it still does now."
Colberg-Ochs took that experience and added to it a wealth of education, with degrees from Stanford University; the University of California, Davis; and the University of California, Berkeley, all of which she's used in her research endeavors.
(She's currently investigating how the Wii Fit Balance board may help patients with type 2 diabetes.) ...
Her postdoctoral research position was at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and she's been teaching the tenets of nutrition and exercise physiology to underclassmen at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past 17 years. In addition, many days she can be found at nearby Eastern Virginia Medical School, where she's an adjunct professor of internal medicine.
Much of what she's gleaned from her research findings, she's passed along to readers through 10 books, including Exercise and Diabetes: A Clinician's Guide to Prescribing Physical Activity, which she wrote for the American Diabetes Association last year, and The Diabetes Breakthrough, which she coauthored with a doctor from the Joslin Diabetes Center this year.
Newport News Shipbuilding's Apprentice School Teams With ODU to Offer Bachelor's Degree Program
(Money, April 23, 2014)
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that apprentices at Newport News Shipbuilding will now have the opportunity to earn a bachelor of science degree while completing a marine engineer apprenticeship, thanks to a partnership between The Apprentice School and Old Dominion University.
The new program allows apprentices to earn a mechanical or electrical engineering degree from ODU while gaining related on-the-job engineering experience in manufacturing, construction, maintenance and overhaul of some of the most complex ships in the world.
"This is not just a degree program," said Everett Jordan, The Apprentice School's director of education. "This program aligns academics with real-life, on-the-job utilization of skills in a 550-acre laboratory. Our relationship with Old Dominion University has helped to make it happen, and this program puts us on solid footing to continue attracting the best and the brightest to Newport News Shipbuilding."
A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/ImageLibrary/detail.aspx?MediaDetailsID=866.
Instruction will be delivered by faculty at The Apprentice School and ODU. Students selected annually to participate in the program will complete their apprenticeship and engineering degree in five to eight years. Graduates will complete the program as engineers at the shipyard and be paid starting salaries of up to $60,000.
Oktay Baysal, dean of ODU's Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, said the partnership aligns well with the goals ODU has as an engineering school.
"ODU Engineering has long held the philosophy of extending its impact, both by partnering with industry leaders as well as by taking education to those who desire it, a practice that balances access and success," Baysal said. "Through these commitments, ODU Engineering has widened its presence throughout the Peninsula of Hampton Roads and farther beyond. More than 1,000 Newport News Shipbuilding personnel call ODU their alma mater, a true testament to the decades-lasting, secure relationship between ODU and Newport News Shipbuilding." (More)
For Va. Beach company, cleaning ponds a sparkling success
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 27, 2014)
After Kevin Tucker left college with a business degree, he worked at his family's landscaping company. It was all about plants and soil. Then one day a client asked him to clean a pond. From that experience, a new multimillion-dollar niche business evolved.
Tucker turned what he learned on that first job into what eventually became SOLitude Lake Management, a Beach-based company with customers from New Jersey to North Carolina.
All of them have an enemy they depend upon Tucker to subdue.
It's algae - stagnant green mats of it that can quickly cover a pond and turn it ugly and smelly. ...
Ellison graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in biology. He has seen ponds in deplorable conditions, smelly and completely covered with algae and weeds. "Like a layer of carpet you could walk across," he said.
SOLitude solves problems like that. In recent years, the company has minimized its use of herbicides, taking advantage of advancements that have made products more effective in low doses, Tucker said.
Educating clients has become an important part of SOLitude's customer service. The company teaches clients things they can do to prevent algae, including planting vegetative buffers to filter nutrients. (More)
Apprentice School, ODU create partnership
(Inside Business, April 25, 2014)
Old Dominion University and Newport News Shipbuilding have ties dating back to the 1960s, and the 1,000-plus ODU grads at that company are the largest contingency of alumni from any one school.
Last week, those ties just got closer after the region's largest university and the state's largest industrial employer announced a partnership that would streamline workers' paths to a bachelor's degree.
"This is not just a degree program," Everett Jordan, director of education at Newport News Shipbuilding's Apprentice School, said in a statement.
"This program aligns academics with real-life, on-the-job utilization of skills in a 550-acre laboratory."
The primary partners are the apprentice school and ODU's Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology.
Founded in 1919, the apprentice school takes about 250 current and prospective employees annually and offers four- to eight-year tuition-free apprenticeships.
Apprentices work a regular 40-hour week and are paid for all work, the company said, including time spent in academic classes. (More)
Shakespeare's influence on Virginia
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 26, 2014)
For some, his plays seem to last forever. For others, his influence should last for eternity.
This week marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Records show the poet was christened April 26, 1564, leading scholars to believe he was actually born April 23.
Celebrations are being held around the world. But few places in America owe as much to the influence of Shakespeare as Virginia.
Not only are many city names - like Norfolk, Hampton and Newport News - drawn from Shakespeare's England, but there is a chance some of our earliest settlers were sold on the colony by the Bard himself.
Shakespeare's chief patron, Henry Wriothesley, was an investor in the Virginia Company of London, according to the Encyclopedia Virginia. The poet dedicated a pair of narrative poems to Wriothesley, the earl of Southampton, who is thought to be the fair youth mentioned in several sonnets. ...
Old Dominion University English professor Imtiaz Habib said the Virginia Company engaged Shakespeare and his several well-known contemporaries to promote and encourage new settlements.
The sales pitch may sound familiar to urban dwellers: leave the crowded, plague- ridden London for virgin lands.
They left out a few details, Habib said: "the swamp, the mosquitoes, the hardship." (More)
Wheeler offers stock to raise $15M to $17.5M
(Inside Business, April 25, 2014)
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust Inc., a Virginia Beach-based REIT that went public in fall 2012, is looking to raise $15 million, expandable to $17.5 million, through a stock offering to grow its commercial real estate portfolio.
This is the fifth offering since the company's initial public offering on Nov. 19, 2012. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the firm stated it was looking to issue 600,000 shares of preferred stock and warrants to purchase 720,000 shares of common stock and use $6.6 million of the proceeds to acquire three mid-Atlantic shopping centers.
The rest is planned for future acquisitions and general working capital, the company said in the filing. The stock sale is expected to close this week.
"We are a growth company that has growth needs," CEO Jon Wheeler said in a phone interview. "And we will be continuing to buy real estate in our existing footprint, which is in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest. And this current offering will support just that." ...
Mark Lane, an Old Dominion University associate professor who studies REITs, said REITs typically borrow money for property acquisitions before engaging in a stock offering. The reason, he said, is interest rates on loans are near historic lows and issuing new shares may dilute the value of existing shares.
Lane said he wasn't familiar with the specifics of Wheeler Inc.'s offering, but said, "It could be that they borrowed as much as they can with the equity they have, so now they have to raise more equity." (More)
Younger self
(Letter, The Virginian-Pilot, April 26, 2014)
Re 'A talk with a younger self' (Hans-Peter Plag Sunday Forum column, April 20): Plag's column is an excellent summary of the climate-change situation, the facts and our options.
Plag sums it up so well when he writes that we are living at the crossroads for our civilization; what we do, what our groups do, matters. For this reason, I'm sharing the column with my church's green team and my contacts.
I appreciate The Pilot's coverage of climate change and am heartened that Old Dominion University and members of the larger Hampton Roads community are addressing the issues.
Plag considers the question of his 20-year-old self. Why weren't heads of state and the general population listening 20 years ago? United Nations conferences on climate change have been held since 1992. The United States never agreed to the Kyoto protocol, which was adopted in 1997 and now has elapsed. The information has been known; we just haven't embraced it.
Monica Lewis, Richmond (More)
ODU waits to set tuition with state budget in limbo
(The Virginian Pilot, April 25, 2014)
Virginia's state budget stalemate has prompted Old Dominion University to delay a decision on next year's tuition rates.
If it had followed the normal schedule, ODU's governing Board of Visitors would have adopted a budget and set tuition rates for the 2014-15 academic year at its meeting Thursday.
But the board decided to wait, hoping to get more clarity on the level of state funding the university will receive.
That's unclear now because the General Assembly, deadlocked over whether to expand Medicaid, has been unable to agree on a state budget. (More)
Virginia International Tattoo participants come from the U.S., other countries
(The Daily Press, April 24, 2014)
Each year, the Virginia International Tattoo brings together more than 800 performers from the United States and other countries. Here's a look at some of the 2014 participants:
United States
Scottish Dance Theatre of Virginia - The company of young performers based in Virginia Beach appears at every tattoo.
The Reel Thing Irish Dance and Rhythm of Ireland Irish Dancers - The Reel Thing and Rhythm of Ireland dancers of Virginia Beach and Yorktown perform traditional Irish dance styles.
Governor's School for the Arts Dance Department - This magnet school for arts students is based on downtown Norfolk.
Granby High School Navy Junior ROTC - Nationally ranked for excellence, this high school unit carries the NATO flags in the tattoo.
Hampton Roads Police Color Guards - Units from Newport News, Norfolk and Chesapeake make up this color guard.
Headquarters Supreme Allied Command Transformation Multi-National Ceremonial Detail - Comprised of active-duty non-commissioned officers, this unit represents the 28 European nations in the NATO Alliance,
Old Dominion University Drumline and Flag Corps - This ensemble is made up of 160 members affiliated with ODU's Monarch Band. (More)
Layne talks project priorities
(Suffolk News-Herald, April 24, 2014)
The state secretary of transportation addressed a joint meeting of the Hampton Roads and Peninsula Chambers of Commerce at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center on Wednesday afternoon.
Aubrey Layne, a Hampton Roads native, covered a variety of topics ranging from a new prioritization process for statewide transportation money to issues with the Port of Virginia during the meeting with about 70 business leaders. (More)
Shipbuilding apprentices offered ODU degrees
(The Washington Post, Associated Press, Marine Link, numerous other media outlets, April 23, 2014)
Newport News Shipbuilding has signed an agreement with Old Dominion University to offer a bachelor's degree to some of its apprentices.
The company is the largest industrial employer in Virginia and the only one in the world to build aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. (More)
Newport News Shipbuilding apprentices can now earn a bachelor's degree at ODU
(The Daily Press w/ Video, April 23, 2014)
Students seeking an apprenticeship with Newport News Shipbuilding can now also earn a bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering thanks to a new partnership with Old Dominion University.
The program formally kicked off Wednesday morning with the signing of a memorandum during a ceremony at the Apprentice School in downtown Newport News.
"Today marks another milestone in the 94-year legacy of the Apprentice School," Everett Jordan, the school's director of education said to about 50 attendees. "I can think of no better partner (than ODU)." (More)
ODU, Apprentice School to offer new degree option
(The Virginian Pilot, Find Law, Marine Link, April 23, 2014)
Old Dominion University and Newport News Shipbuilding are teaming up in a new bachelor's degree in engineering option for students at the shipyard's nearly century-old Apprentice School.
Today, top officials from both institutions will sign a memorandum of understanding at the school's new downtown complex, formalizing a new marine-engineering apprenticeship that leads to a bachelor's of science degree in mechanical or electrical engineering from ODU.
"What we're trying to do is balance access and success," said Oktay Baysal, dean of ODU's Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology. (More)
Special needs kids get active at Norfolk event
(The Virginian Pilot, Find Law, April 23, 2014)
Karla Mihok paced the sidelines of Old Dominion University's Foreman Field, cheering on her daughter.
Katharine, 8, wasn't wearing cleats, or a uniform, for that matter.
She has a rare chromosome disorder that affects her intellectual development and physical movement. She wears ankle braces, but they didn't stop her from participating in track and field events Tuesday with about 200 other children.
Some children sprinted across the field. Others used wheelchairs.
The fifth annual Little Feet Meet drew dozens of parents and volunteers to cheer for elementary-age children with various disabilities as they tackled physical education activities. The event, sponsored by Special Olympics Virginia, Norfolk Public Schools and ODU, offered specialized equipment for young students who have participated in customized physical education classes. (More)
Does staging really raise a home's price?
(Yahoo Finance, April 20, 2014)
Nearly all real estate agents give sellers this advice: Stage your property before showing it to buyers. While that advice is a truism in the real estate business, an academic study says that staging:
Might not be as important as many Realtors think.
Likely doesn't raise the home's sale price.
Study used virtual tours on computers
The study surveyed 820 homebuyers, walking them through a series of six virtual tours of a single home. Each tour focused on either wall color or furnishings, which are two of the most popular staging elements, according to study co-author Michael Seiler, professor of real estate and finance at the College of William and Mary. ...
The study is titled, "The Impact of Staging Conditions on Residential Real Estate Demand." Its co-authors are Mark Lane, associate professor in the finance department at Old Dominion University, and Vicky Seiler, researcher at Johns Hopkins University. (More)
Trainee crimebuster who'll spend year learning tricks of trade at the FBI
(The Belfast (UK) Telegraph, April 21, 2014)
Stephanie Gibson, from Banbridge, is one step closer to fulfilling her dream of being a criminal profiler as she is set to work shadow the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after landing a one-year university placement in the United States.
It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the hardworking and talented 25-year-old. She is the only student from the UK to gain a place at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, starting this summer.
The second year criminology and social anthropology student at the University of Essex in Colchester will be able to shadow the teams at the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), as well as being in close proximity to the National Security Agency (NSA) and other crime agencies.
"In order to secure this opportunity, I had to adhere to a number of stipulations, as well as writing a personal statement and getting recommendations from my lecturers," Stephanie said.
"There was only one placement available to students in the UK and I was fortunate enough to have been offered it." (More)
"Fugitive dust" from Norfolk coal cars stirs health fears
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 20, 2014)
Cathy Henry wondered about the black stuff. It coated the hands and feet of her 19-month-old twin girls when they played on the balcony of her West Ghent duplex.
Environmental activists going door to door recently told her what it was: coal dust.
Henry, 30, and her Navy pilot husband, who moved to Norfolk in October, were outraged.
"You try to raise your kids right - buy the organic stuff, try to keep them healthy - and then there's this," she said.
Residents and environmentalists say the coal dust blows in from the Lamberts Point coal terminal on the Elizabeth River and off uncovered Norfolk Southern rail cars that bring coal there from the mountains of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. ...
A recent forum on coal dust at Old Dominion University sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network drew about 100 people. Residents and environmentalists plan to ask Norfolk Southern officials to meet with them to talk about what could be done to limit the dust.
A Norfolk Southern spokesman said he didn't know whether the company would agree to a meeting.
"It's not just an aesthetic problem," said Glen Besa, director of the Virginia Sierra Club. "It's a health problem." (More)
ODU helps develop evacuation model for disasters
(Richmond Times-Dispatch/The Virginian-Pilot, April 22, 2014)
It took nine hours to get most of the people to the interstate across the river when the zombies closed in on Charleston, West Virginia
If a major road had been rendered impassable (as has been known to happen in such attacks), the authorities could have jumped on a computer (in a locked room), run a new evacuation scenario (in minutes, thankfully) and seen where best to redirect vehicles (thanks to researchers from Hampton Roads).
The zombie takeover in West Virginia is among the more whimsical of the hundreds of what-ifs that have been run by people across the country on a web-based evacuation model that was developed in part by Old Dominion University.
Plagues of undead aside, the online tool, called the Real Time Evacuation Planning Model, allows emergency managers and government planners to run countless hypotheticals on locations in the United States to see how long it would take to get people out. It can be tailored to show large-scale evacuations caused by a natural disaster or terrorist attack, or scaled-down to look at potential bottlenecks for crowds leaving the county fair or an air show. (More)
Smigiel known for independence on Norfolk council
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 22, 2014)
Political observers didn't give Tommy Smigiel much of a chance four years ago.
But he defeated longtime Norfolk City Councilman Randy Wright by a slim margin in 2010 and has carved out a reputation as an independent voice who sometimes is a minority of one.
In May, Smigiel faces his first election as an incumbent, squaring off against former School Board member Jim Driggers for the Ward 5 seat, which represents most of Ocean View and other northern parts of the city.
"I think I've brought balance to the City Council," Smigiel said. "I think I'm not afraid to ask questions." ...
Aren't they aware Beach officials, in the late 1990s, turned down Morris' proposed maglev route near the Oceanfront and declined to give any public money to that venture?
Or that, a decade ago, the top maglev scientist for the Federal Railroad Administration, John Harding, said Morris "exaggerates what he's accomplished."
Better yet, haven't they traveled past Old Dominion University in the last decade and a half? Morris' speculative maglev project that began in 1999 left ODU with a 3,200-foot elevated track, lots of concrete pillars and a huge embarrassment. ...
So I'm dumbfounded the Beach would give Morris the time of day. Yet some officials seem mesmerized by his latest pitch. (More)


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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Two North Texas men have been indicted in the fatal shooting of a teenager who police say was the mastermind of a robbery gone bad.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday that a grand jury has indicted 21-year-olds Terrance Crumley and Curtis Fortenberry on capital murder charges. Prosecutors have not said whether they'll seek the death penalty against the Fort Worth men.
The case involves the June 28 fatal shooting of Claudia Hidic of Fort Worth. A resident called 911 after finding Hidic's body outside his home. Police initially were not sure of the circumstances of the death.
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Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson insists he is pleased with the job done by interim head coach Scott Johnson - but warns a decision on whether to hand him the job permanently is still some way off.
Australian Johnson took over from Andy Robinson and guided the Dark Blues through their recent RBS 6 Nations campaign. Victories over Italy and Ireland and a joint-third place finish was a reasonable return from a squad that ended the previous championship with five defeats and the Wooden Spoon.
Dodson told Press Association Sport: "We are still talking to Scott and have been doing so pretty much since the Six Nations ended. We said we would sit down at the end of the tournament and talk about the next steps and we are still doing that."
But 50-year-old Johnson - who was assisted by former England forward Dean Ryan during the tournament - has refused to confirm whether he will stay on as Robinson's permanent successor until after talks with the SRU.
Press Association Sport understands Murrayfield chiefs are keen to retain the former interim Wales head coach's services but Dodson admits an agreement is still to be reached.
A report in the Daily Telegraph suggested a sticking point on a deal concerns whether Johnson's role will be expanded to cover player development, with the title of Director of Rugby being considered.
But Dodson added: "The Telegraph story is just supposition. I wouldn't like to be too categorical about anything because Scott and I still have a lot to talk about.
"The Six Nations are only just finished and this is going to take a certain amount of time to wash through. But we are very happy with what Scott and Dean did over the whole of the Six Nations period. The talks will take place and we will make an announcement in due course."
Dodson refused to rule out handing Johnson an expanded portfolio but did say that the entire SRU coaching structure could be redrawn. He recently named former Scotland hooker Stevie Scott as interim Edinburgh head coach following Michael Bradley's failed reign but will make an announcement of a full-time replacement following his talks with Johnson.
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Stick shift, plus hill, plus red light: Help!
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My trips to the YMCA since the beginning of this year have been challenging. I have been dealing with a problem I had not experienced in the past. I used to drive onto the parking lot and circle around for a few minutes waiting for a space to become available.
Not in recent weeks. A couple of YMCA regulars told me the crowded parking lot will be nonexistent for another month or two as the increased numbers we now see represent the "resolution crowd." On a day when the lot was really jammed, a little patience enabled me to eventually find a place to park as people left. Perhaps patience is an understatement, as my wait was much longer than anticipated. In fact, several times I considered going home and returning on another day.
My waiting, however, had an unexpected benefit as what I observed was the inspiration for this column. It was not the waiting, but what I observed as drivers tried to get in and out of parking spaces. You have seen similar sights; people taking up two parking spaces; people being cut off by other drivers; automobiles parked so close it is almost impossible for the driver to leave; and the overall disrespectful behavior of drivers who take their time to exit a parking place.
My mind went back to those days when I did not know how to drive. I will not suggest that learning to drive today is different from learning to drive in the past. Some things, however, we did in the past that we do not do today. Reflect on your first day behind the wheel of an automobile and some of your experiences leading up to obtaining your driver's license.
Anyone can learn to drive with time, patience and a good teacher. But the process is incomplete without access to an automobile. If you grew up in the '50s, an automobile would have been scarce. Many of those automobiles that may have been accessible to practice driving were not in great shape. Most presented real challenges. Just think about manipulating those old De Soto, Buick Dynaflow and Hudson automobiles. They were built like tanks and were the size of a mini-tank. The experience was not simply pressing down on the accelerator and steering down the street, there was also the need for coordinating the movements of the clutch and the gear shift, located on the floor or on the steering column. There were few automatic transmissions back then. Automatic transmissions are standard today. If you want manual transmission, which allows you to shift gears, you must pay extra. If you learned to drive on a car with a manual transmission, you obviously had the experience of stopping on a hill. An inexperienced driver would find the automobile drifting backward. I learned to drive on a stick-shift automobile and the experience of stopping on a hill while waiting for the traffic light to change created great anxiety. The anxiety was sometimes so great that an inexperienced driver would put on the emergency brake and switch seats with the instructor. Do you recall the hand signals for a right or left turn, and for stopping?
So, who was that teacher who put you on the path to obtain your license? Fathers are generally cited as the ones that taught us how to drive. I can definitely relate to this. I will never forget sitting behind the steering wheel of my father's 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air. I can still see this blue automobile, parked directly in front of our home, on a sunny Saturday morning with my father in the passenger seat. While this was more than 50 years ago, I can still remember my first driving lesson. I was ecstatic when my father reached over to give me the keys; it was a signal that I was graduating from adolescence to being a young adult. Unfortunately, the excitement lasted for a minute. I put the key in the ignition and started his automobile. The excitement reached another level. When I was told to move the gear to the drive position, my heart raced faster. But when my father told me to slowly push down on the accelerator, the automobile jumped onto the pavement; not on the curb, but squarely onto the pavement. My father prevented any damage as he was able to slam down the brake. Needless to say, this was my first driving lesson with my father and my last. He did accompany me for my driver's test, but this was months after I learned to drive through a means by which many of you may have learned, back in the day.
Stories about learning to drive with the help of fathers are precious! I could not find anyone from back in the day who learned to drive from his or her mother. But the stories of fathers as driving teachers are numerous. One story shared by a colleague was of his father taking him out for his first driving lesson. Upon returning home, his father drank several glasses of Scotch and overdid it with the amount of aspirin he put into his system. So, his future driving lessons came from his brother. He recognized that it was necessary to be comfortable with the person who was your teacher. The experience with his father eliminated any possibility of this being a comfortable driving experience. Yet, as most of us know from being on the learning side and in more recent years being on the teaching side, helping a child learn to drive is one of those things you want to do for your child, while at the same time, it is something you dread. The thoughts that go through your mind as a parent are many. Challenges include being out late at night, having the proper insurance and financial demands with regard to purchasing or co-signing for an automobile or simply involving its regular upkeep.
A number of young men, describing how they learned to drive clearly had more guts than I. I could not imagine stealing my father's automobile while he was at work, asleep or out of the area. Now, those who admitted such behavior did not refer to it as stealing; their description of using their father's automobile without permission was characterized as "borrowing." Speak with your friends or review literature on how people learned to drive, and you will find that "borrowing" Dad's automobile was and remains a somewhat common practice.
The risks involved with a young person borrowing a parent's automobile are greater today. The likelihood of police stopping a group of kids piled into a parent's automobile was not likely back in the day. Any group of teenagers in an automobile today is a prime target for a police stop. Furthermore, the use of illegal substances was not the threat, back then, as it is today. Insurance was a non-issue in the '50s; quite different from the mandatory requirements of today. Thus, the risk of driving without proper permission and credentials did not factor into the decision to "borrow without approval" a parent's automobile, back in the day.
For those who grew up in the country, the process by which you learned to drive was simple. My mother, who never had a driver's license, told of going out in the woods in Walterboro, S.C., where she drove a tractor, truck, automobile or some other type of vehicle. She received no lessons from anyone; she learned on her own in the wide open spaces, like many of you or your ancestors who grew up, "down home."
Some of you learned through private driving lessons. Economic conditions did not make this a reality for many of us. Thus, for a number of us, learning to drive was a result of an activity I alluded to earlier. Like me, a number of you learned to drive through driver's education programs in school. These have virtually disappeared from high school curricula today. You would get better insurance rates if you learned to drive through driver's education.
Obviously, obtaining a driver's license involves passing a test. If you sat on a parking lot as I have done and watched people fly recklessly through the streets, I know you crave the responsible driving, in the responsible ways we learned in the past. Today, most old-timers also yearn for that respectful and courteous driving behavior that was basic to most drivers, back in the day.


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ATLANTA (AP) - Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher says Christian Ponder is back as the team's starting quarterback for the Chick-fil-A Bowl against South Carolina.
Fisher said Tuesday Ponder will start but could split time with backup E.J. Manuel in Friday night's game against No. 19 South Carolina.
Ponder missed the Seminoles' 44-33 Atlantic Coast Conference championship game loss to Virginia Tech with a right elbow injury.
He has had problems with the elbow through all season but has played in 11 games.
Fisher praised Ponder's toughness and said other players would have made it through only two or three games.
Ponder set a career high by throwing 20 touchdown passes for the No. 23 Seminoles.
He says he has no swelling or pain in his elbow.
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LONDONDERRY — The town's highway garage will see some renovations if voters agree to spend the money at the polls in March.
A town warrant article will ask residents to spend $180,000 to upgrade and renovate the existing 40-year-old garage on High Range Road.
The building needs a lot of work, officials say, and is inadequate for the equipment and vehicles that need to be stored there.
Public Works director Janusz Czyzowski said one of his main concerns is the status of the garage and its condition. He said there is a desperate need for improvements and upgrades.
That project has been on the radar for a long time, he said.
"We've been wanting and begging since 1988 to do improvements to the garage," he said. "For maintaining 180 miles of roads and 4,000 streets, (the garage) is nothing very impressive."
Czyzowski said the garage area currently consists of the 4,000 square-foot main garage building, two salt sheds, and several other storage containers and out buildings.
The garage is home to 11 Public Works employees and approximately 30 pieces of heavy equipment.
The open area of the property stores the Highway Division's large equipment and materials.
The main concrete block building was constructed in 1971 as a one-story, drive-through garage.
The interior of the building is out of date, Czyzowski said, and has no fume or exhaust evacuation system, and has minimal storage space.
Restrooms also need upgrades as there is no separation for male or female use at this time.
Instead of constructing a new facility that would potentially cost the town approximately $1.5 million, the warrant article calls for $180,000 to construct an addition to the existing garage to house a foreman's office, lunch room, lockers and bathrooms.
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EUR/USD hit session highs of 1.3650 and was last up 0.22% to 1.3634.
The pair was likely to find support at 1.3552, the low of January 8 and resistance at 1.3675.
The U.S. dollar slipped after the Department of Labor said the number of people filing continuing unemployment claims rose back over three million level, increasing to 3.03 million, up from 2.85 million, in the week to January 4.
U.S. employment data is being closely watched by investors since the latest nonfarm payrolls report showed that the economy added just 74,000 news jobs in December, well below expectations for 196,000.
However, the number of initial jobless claims fell by 2,000 last week to a six-week low of 326,000.
Another report showed that the annual rate of consumer inflation in the U.S. rose 1.5% in December, up from 1.2% in November. Consumer prices were 0.3% higher from a month earlier.
Core inflation rose 0.1% from a month earlier in December and was up 1.7% on a year-over-year basis.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said that its manufacturing index improved to 9.4 this month from 6.4 in December. Analysts had expected a reading of 8.6. Indicators of future activity moderated, the report said, but continued to indicate general optimism about growth over the next six months.
Earlier Thursday, European Central Bank governing council member Jens Weidmann played down fears over the threat of deflation in the currency bloc, saying the risk of broad deflation was limited.
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Eurostat said consumer price inflation rose 0.8% on a year-over-year basis in December, in line with expectations and unchanged from a preliminary estimate.
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Teen Titans Go! Premiere Date Revealed
- Written by Zechs on Thursday, March 14 2013 and posted in News with Benefits
The show will be debuting on Tuesday April 23 with a repeat showing on Saturday April 27.
In a curious move, Cartoon Network announced today that of two animated programs, Teen Titans Go! (the other being Beware the Batman) that would be replacing fan favorite shows Young Justice and Green Lantern: the Animated Series would be making it's debut NOT on the DC Nation Saturday morning block, only reair repeat episodes on it. Instead the regular timeslot for the show will be on Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.
The show will be paired with the infamous Johnny Test (7:00 pm ET) and the Looney Tunes Show will be following it (8:00 pm ET). Interestingly, repeats will begin airing of Teen Titans Go! on the DC Nation block at 10: 30 am ET. There is still no official word if Cartoon Network will be doing the same for Beware the Batman. Regardless, the move hints that the network might be moving out of original new programing for Saturday mornings.
Teen Titans Go! will feature the returning voice cast of the early 2000s Teen Titans cartoon, though now the focus will be fully on the comedic elements than dramatic.
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Isamu Noguchi, born in 1904 in Los Angeles to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and the American writer Leonie Gilmour, studied at Columbia University and the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. He subsequently established his first independent studio and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. He then worked as an assistant to Constantin Brancusi in Paris and presented his first solo exhibition in New York. He studied brush drawing in China and worked with ceramics under Jinmatsu Uno in Japan. His experiences living and working in different cultural circles are reflected in his work as an artist. Isamu Noguchi is considered a universal talent with a creative oeuvre that went beyond sculpture to encompass stage sets, furniture, lighting, interiors as well as outdoor plazas and gardens. His sculptural style is indebted to a vocabulary of organic forms and exerted a sustained influence on the design of the 1950s. "My father, Yone Noguchi, is Japanese and has long been known as an interpreter of the East to the West, through poetry. I wish to fulfill my heritage", he wrote in his proposal for a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi died in New York in 1988.
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It's still hard to tell just how much of an effect the NHL lockout has had on attendance figures at minor league hockey venues including Ontario, the subject of The Column, but it's not hard to figure out the effect on the guys who actually play the games.
Not only do they not have that carrot at the very top to strive for, for an unknown period, but player movement throughout the minors has been stifled. Most NHL franchises made sure their best young players were on American Hockey League rosters before the lockout began, including some that otherwise might have been on the parent club.
That has had a trickle-down effect, and so has the migration of some NHL-caliber players to the ECHL, such as defenseman (and Murrieta resident) Paul Mara, a veteran of more than 700 NHL games, who now patrols the Reign's blue line and had two assists in Sunday's 5-2 victory over Bakersfield.
"The league has a lot of good guys, so it's even better than it's probably ever been," said Ontario center C.J. Stretch, who had a goal and two assists Sunday.
"We just have to keep playing the same way, keep battling. If the lockout ends, some guys might get called up, but you never know when it's going to happen, so you've gotta keep playing."
Stretch earned himself a couple of callups to the American Hockey League's Houston Aeros last year. Center Alex Hudson of Corona, who joined the Bakersfield club last January, earned himself a callup to the Kings' Manchester AHL affiliate for a while later last season. Such callups won't be happening during this lockout unless there are injuries in the AHL.
In fact, Hudson considers himself fortunate. He was with the Reign in training camp, but the idea of playing just down the road from his hometown didn't pan out.
"I got released," he said. "Obviously they didn't feel I was a player that fit their system. Luckily, Bakersfield was willing to take me back and give me a spot to play.
" … With the NHL on lockout, players who really want to keep playing are going to play wherever they can. Coaches want them, and it's just a trickle-down effect. It's definitely tough to get a job right now, and there's a lot of pressure on players to play well because there's plenty of kids out there that are just praying to get an opportunity.
"You just have to stay focused, put your head down and work hard, and not be too concerned about getting to the next level right now. You've got to do the little things so hopefully, when the NHL starts up, if you're doing the right things you'll get your opportunity."


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BELLINGHAM - After April Barker bought her Birchwood home five years ago, she wanted to explore the city's Greenways trails connecting her neighborhood with Squalicum Beach. She and a friend took their young children along in strollers.
On the way back, they ran into a dead end on the trail, along Squalicum Way about 30 feet short of the Northwest Avenue Bridge.
"It literally dead-ended us into 10 guys under the bridge, hanging out," said Barker, recalling the moment in an interview on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
It was late, and the children were crying. The only reasonable option was to carry the strollers, one at a time, up the uneven bank.
"Nobody hurt us," Barker said. "Luckily, no one asked us if we needed help."
The issue for Birchwood residents is not whether any real danger is posed by the people who spend their days on the streets, sharing 12-packs of beer or going behind buildings to do something more illicit. What matters, said Barker, president of the Birchwood Neighborhood Association, is that residents have ceded their neighborhood to homeless and transient people.
Her neighbors tend to avoid the corner where Northwest, Birchwood and Cedarwood avenues meet, Barker said. Some women said they won't go alone on the Cedarwood Trail to the beach.
By pulling back from parts of their own neighborhood, Birchwood residents have "enabled" the homelessness problem, Barker said.
"The businesses don't even chase after people when alcohol is stolen. ... We've just had this culture where we've allowed this," she said.
Eventually the problems became too large to ignore. Sleeping bodies blocked the sidewalk. Trash was everywhere, and excrement fouled the entrance to Cedarwood Trail.
"There would be sleeping bags. They'd leave their booze in the bushes so they could come back for it," Barker said. "In the morning when I would go to clean up, there'd be a puddle of urine on the sidewalk."
In response, the neighborhood association late last year formed a committee, Take Back Birchwood, to put an end to the uninviting atmosphere homeless and transient people had created in the neighborhood.
Neighbors have begun talking to officials from the city and homelessness service agencies to find a solution. They all met Feb. 10 at Morrie's Drive-In, where they could see out the window the comings and goings of transient people under the Northwest Avenue bridge.
Much of the talk at the meeting was about a proposed extension of the trail that now dead-ends just west of the bridge. The trail spur, which has been planned since the 1990s, would lead under the bridge and up the slope to the parking lot at Morrie's.
It may seem counterintuitive, Barker said, but designating a trail through the homeless camp would discourage use of the camp by making it less hidden.
The trail is in the early planning stages and probably won't be built this year, said Leslie Bryson, design and development manager for the city Parks and Recreation Department. The city first must secure the right to use the railbed that stands between the end of the trail and the bridge, Bryson said.
After the meeting, the Whatcom Homeless Service Center and the church-based outreach group Hope House started to focus on Birchwood, said Greg Winter, director of the Homeless Service Center. Hope House volunteers will try to separate the truly homeless from transient people who have roofs over their heads at night but choose to spend the day drinking in Birchwood.
"Our intention is to get back together with leadership at the neighborhood association ... when we have more to tell them about what we found," Winter said.
The city needs to be on the same page too, said Theresa Meurs, coordinator of street outreach for Hope House. An apparent push recently to get homeless people out of downtown Bellingham made the problem worse in surrounding neighborhoods such as Birchwood, she said.
"We're better off if we have a planned outreach and work together," Meurs said. "The city really needs, and I know the mayor would like to see, some kind of combined effort."
In an email to The Bellingham Herald, Mayor Kelli Linville said her Community Solutions Workgroup for downtown was convened with coordination among these groups in mind.
"We need more coordinated efforts between the city, social services and outreach providers to make sure we are meeting the needs of the community and not duplicating efforts," Linville wrote.
Barker said there is no ready solution to the problem of homelessness and vagrancy in Birchwood or elsewhere in Bellingham. But Birchwood neighbors can do their part, she said.
"I can't stand the 'NIMBY,' where we just push them out into somebody else's backyard," Barker said. "There's no easy answer, but there could be if we educated our neighbors on the issue of taking back Birchwood. This is your neighborhood. These are your trails. If you're afraid to walk on the trails, then you need to address that."
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In the comments section of the max starks post, maryrose mentions that the steelers currently have $11 million dollars left. Last year the steelers spent around $4 million to sign draft picks.
As the front office of the steelers you are left with $7 million dollars to spend. What REALISTIC moves, REALISTIC restructuring and REALISTIC signings do you attempt to make in the off-season?
There are a few things hanging over the Steelers head right now including the resigning of certain RFA's to the squad (like Colon, Kemo, etc.) and extensions to players that will likely affect the cap room (Deebo, Heath, etc.).


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Be prepared, this is going to be a doozy. When I was asked to photograph Kinzie and her horse, I was excited. As a child, my family had Morgan horses, and I spent many hours riding. It has been a long time since I've been around horses, though. This session was originally going to happen in October, but on the day of their shoot, it rained. We decided to wait for snow, and I immediately had an image in my head of a snow covered winterscape, a girl in white or cream on the horse and a flowing red scarf. I got so hooked on this mental image that I decided to make it the main image in my viewing room at the studio (without even having taken the picture, yet). Thank goodness it turned out beautifully.
This is being made into a 30×40 canvas to hang above my red couch:
This day was COLD. I photographed with snow boots, gloves, scarf wrapped up to my nose, hat, and snow coat, with two layers underneath. LOL Kinzie was certainly a trooper, and her beautiful horse, Shiloh was a sweetheart. I have to say one more thing about the above image. We left Shiloh's pen to go into a large open area where several other horses were. One was immediately nosey and wouldn't leave us alone, but was gentle. While I shot this, Kinzie calls over "watch out". I turn to see a large stallion trotting quickly at me. I stopped and held my ground and started backing away. That horse didn't want me there and was making it clear. I got thee shots in and quickly backed away and back into the safe pen. Whew!
Ok, on to the rest of the session. This high school senior was beautiful. I loved every minute of the session. I'm so excited to be able to be a Naperville senior photographer.