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State Treasurer Ken Miller is marking National 529 College Savings Day on Tuesday by starting out the state's summer reading program and announcing a sweepstakes to help students save for college.
Miller and two Oklahoma City Thunder Girls will read to Capitol Hill Elementary students and kick off the Think Big! Save for College! Sweepstakes, a partnership between the Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
"The state's Summer Reading Program is a chance for Oklahoma children to continue learning during the summer months through reading and other activities," Miller said. "While kids are engaged in these activities, the sweepstakes reminds families about the importance of saving now for a child's college education."
The sweepstakes will award $2,529 for an Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan account to two Summer Reading Program participants. One winner will be selected from the children's program and one from the teen program. Additionally, the library of each winning reader will be given $1,000 to help fund its summer reading programs.
The Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan is a state-sponsored, tax-advantaged 529 college savings plan managed by TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing Inc. Introduced in April 2000, the Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan has more than $468 million in total assets and more than 47,000 accounts.
Libraries across the state will make the sweepstakes entry forms available to parents and guardians of all children signing up for the 2012 Summer Reading Program. Sweepstakes entry forms can be completed and returned to the library or returned by mail.
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On my current machine I have two 500gig SATA hard drives both in working condition, one running windows 7 and the other used for storage.
Now I also have an 80gig IDE hard drive running Ubuntu; which I have from my old machine. The 80gig IDE ran perfectly with a different SATA hard drive in the old machine (all I had to do was switch the boot order to use either Ubuntu on the 80gig IDE or Windows 7 on the old SATA hard drive).
I just recently tried bringing the 80gig IDE drive over to my new computer but it doesn't seem to be working. The Bios recognizes it as a 2500mb drive for some absurd reason. Any Ideas on how to get this to work?
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minky: most Unsatisfactory.
as in: he's a minky chief
(he's a very unsatisfactory person)
(he's a very unsatisfactory person)
door PhilLondon08 17 juni 2008
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The couple name of the characters Mini Mcguiness and Franky Fitzgerald from the fictional UK show 'Skins' on channel E4.
Keep calm and ship Minky
door minkyshipper 23 maart 2011
A non offensive way to discribe a cunt!
Come here you sexy bitch and let me lick your minky til you cum!
door Royal General 26 juli 2005
A nice piece of pussy to stick your length into
Loook at that Minky over there, i'd have a rip on it!
door Chris Lomas 18 augustus 2006
A word used to describe a particularly sexy woman or women.
1. Check out that bit of minky over there...
2. The boozer is full of minky on Saturdays!
2. The boozer is full of minky on Saturdays!
door Robbo 2 februari 2004
Used to describe someone/something that is particularly dirty, smelly etc.
You're a pure minky basturt
door Stuvo C 10 augustus 2004
1. Minky = a pretty fanny, vagina, or a pretty lady
2. Minky mouse = tampon
2. Minky mouse = tampon
Why thats a lovely Minky you've got there!
I need a Minky Mouse!
I need a Minky Mouse!
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Colleagues say Sgt. Nicholas Hausner, who was wounded in a domestic-violence call near Eatonville, has a gift for training fellow deputies.
With his family and friends congregated around his hospital bed Tuesday, Pierce County sheriff's Sgt. Nick Hausner worried about his colleague's health.
Hausner, a 20-year veteran, and Deputy Kent Mundell were wounded Monday night when they responded to a domestic-violence call in Eatonville. Hausner is recovering from his injuries at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, and Mundell was in critical condition Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Hausner, 43, and his wife, Melanie, live in Eatonville. They have two children, a 12-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter.
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Larry Erb, Melanie's uncle, said that he spent time with Hausner at Madigan on Tuesday.
"I saw Nick this morning; he's in good spirits," Erb said Tuesday. "He's looking fine. He's actually more worried about his partner than himself."
Melanie Hausner appeared calm and collected at the hospital — something Erb attributes to her previous job working as a 911 dispatcher. Erb said his daughter was watching the Hausners' two children Tuesday.
"For the situation, he's doing quite well," Erb said.
In the more than 20 years since he met Hausner, Erb said their families have regularly spent holidays together. He admires Hausner for his devotion to work and his family.
"He's a real family guy, a real salt-of-the-earth person who would help anybody," Erb said. "He's a throwback to the good old days when families were close-knit and tight."
Hausner knew everything about his children and was always present for events in their lives.
Donna Baker, who lives across the street from the Hausners, described Hausner as a great neighbor, someone who would cut her lawn, power-wash her roof and remind her to shut her garage door when she forgot to close it.
Keri Guarez, a clerk at Gary's Video store in Eatonville, teared up Tuesday when thinking of Hausner, a regular customer.
"He's very fun-loving, very kind. I think he just wants to make people happy. If you're having a bad day, he tries to cheer you up," Guarez said.
Lakewood Police Chief Brett Farrar, who has known Hausner almost 20 years, said that when he heard about the shootings — just weeks after four of his officers were slain on Nov. 29 — he was in disbelief.
"He is a good deputy. A smart, sharp guy and a good family man," Farrar said.
Farrar also said Hausner has endless patience.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Ed Troyer said Hausner helped transition deputies from handwritten reports to learning to type reports on laptops inside their police cruisers.
Hausner dealt with the flak from the old-timers, deputies who didn't want to change over to the new report-writing system, said Farrar, who worked at the Pierce County Sheriff's Department for 15 years.
In 2002, Hausner even won a Sheriff's Department award for coordinating training for the new system, called "Enforcer."
"Nick did a whole lot of training. He had a gift for that," Farrar said today. "He told a whole bunch of us which buttons to push."
The Mountain Detachment, where Mundell and Hausner worked, is sort of its own separate world within the Sheriff's Department, said Lt. Cynthia Fajardo, president of the Pierce County Deputy Sheriff's Guild.
Those who work there are a small, tight-knit group, with big responsibilities. Often, there are just two or three deputies patrolling an area that stretches all the way from Mount Rainier to the Nisqually Valley, more than an hour's drive.
"It's an amazingly huge area," she said. "One officer can be up at Ashford, the other one down in Roy. They're out there by themselves. They've come to rely so much on each other … They have to be close because of the amount of responsibility they have."
Jennifer Smith, owner of Truly Scrumptious Bakery & Cafe in Eatonville, said both Hausner and Mundell were regular customers.
"We're just praying for their families right now," an emotional Smith said this morning.
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As a member of the IBM WebSphere foundation SWAT team, my daily job typically revolves around solving problems that customers run into using IBM software such as WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere eXtreme Scale. Much of the time I'm working out what diagnostic material is needed to draw the inferences and conclusions into the light so an actionable resolution can be put in place.
As customer environments grow in both on-premises data centers and in the hybrid and public cloud models, the sheer amount of data that needs to be consumed and analyzed grows too. Effective tools are needed to help expedite this consumption of diagnostic material, and that's why I can appreciate the amount of work that goes into the IBM Support Assistant (ISA) and IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java platform.
The ISA tool has been around for some time now in the form of an Eclipse-based workbench that can be downloaded at no charge from IBM and used to install tools, search knowledge bases and product documentation, and manage your problem management records (PMRs). Recently, ISA advanced into a Web 2.0 model with the introduction of the IBM Support Assistant V5 Team Server, which provides all the key features the previous workbench did and builds upon that success by adding a new WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core-based web runtime, case management features and Java Web Start–enabled tool launches. I mention ISA first because it enables you to utilize the ready-to-use IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools. Couple this with the integrated case management capabilities, and you walk away with a powerful self-assist tool set that can be used in-house to resolve many problems you likely have turned to IBM Support to address in the past.
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Agroforestry in the Spotlight
November 27, 2011
- Everyone in the natural resources business may have heard of 'agroforestry' but few actually take it seriously as a land use system. That may be changing.
3rd Quarter 2011 is up
November 21, 2011
- The 3rd quarter 2011 TMR is up and can be accessed by clicking the above link.
Dr. Jacobson's 3rd Quarter 2011 Comments
November 21, 2011
- This may be the worst I've seen average stumpage prices since I've been reporting. The Southeast remains the only bright spot. When average prices for all species in Southeast exceed those in the Northern tier counties, except for Black Cherry, we know there is a problem. The Northwest and Southwest are not only suffering from the poor economy, but the rapidly expanding natural gas industry is taking jobs and income away from the forest sector.
Best management practices in PA
November 20, 2011
- An evaluation of Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPS) showed Pennsylvania near the bottom of the pack, relatively.
Tell Your Woods Story with and to Your Heirs
November 17, 2011
- With the holidays approaching, it's a great time to share your story of the woods with those you hope will care for it after you.
More 'Bad' News for Woody Biomass
October 29, 2011
- An Oregon State study indicates that forest biomass harvest and use for bioenergy will release more carbon dioxide than forests currently release.
Forests, Trees and Human Survival
October 4, 2011
- Forests have become central to the global warming/climate change debate.
Fall Woods Cleaning
September 26, 2011
- Messy woods are good for wildlife - creating snags, cavities, brushpiles, and other structural elements that protect and provide cover and resources for a diversity of wildlife.
More "News" for Biofuels
September 15, 2011
- Europe, a leading proponent of biomass through massive mandates has reported that they over estimated the greenhouse gas emission reductions from biofuels.
New Plan to Restore Forests
September 3, 2011
- What will it take to restore 50 million hectares (580,000 square miles) of deforested and degraded forests? The latest effort is the Bonn Challenge.
Dr. Jacobson's 2nd Quarter 2011 Comments
August 10, 2011
- Although logging conditions were good, higher fuel prices along with a flat economy didn't help the timber market. The western parts of the state see prices keep slipping while in the Northeast prices are a mixed bag. The only signs of higher than last quarter stumpage prices are in the Southeast where prices crept up. However, there is still a long way to go to get back to pre-recession price ranges.
How Sustainable Are Our Nation's Forests?
August 2, 2011
- Sustainability is desired level of success when we look at how we're doing in relationship to the natural world. A new report on the sustainability of our nation's forests can now give us some ideas of how well we're caring for our forestlands.
We don't want no state gas money
August 2, 2011
- Local municipal township impacts from gas development, especially fiscal ones, are a big issue these days as the state contemplates an impact fee/severance tax. We recently completed a study trying to identify these fiscal impacts.
What a Tree?
June 26, 2011
- Can someone tell me how this is real?
MIT report on shale gas
June 26, 2011
- An optimistic report by MIT
Climate skeptic sees the light
June 26, 2011
- Is been a while since I discussed global warming. The issue has died a little given other issues like wars and the economy.
Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush
June 26, 2011
- From the article: "But the number of e-mails, the seniority of the people writing them, the variety of positions they hold and the language they use — including comparisons to Ponzi schemes and attempts to "con" Wall Street — suggest that questions about the shale gas industry exist in many corners."
The USDA Agroforestry Strategic Framework
June 10, 2011
- As I mentioned in a previous blog the new USDA Agroforestry Strategic Framework was unveiled. This is a link to the press release and to the document itself. I see new light in the future of agroforestry. Lets hope this momentum continues.
Slash and Burn Agriculture on PBS NewsHour
June 10, 2011
- Great story about agroforestry as a solution to deforestation.
NY assembly extends fracking ban for another year (Reuters)
June 10, 2011
- Interesting, so New York decides to wait and see and learn more from PA. As an economist one has to think of the costs of delay. Also, what if you are a landowner sitting on money but unable to tap it. Interestingly we also have more and more calls for a moratorium.
New National Agroforestry Strategic Framework
June 8, 2011
- Deputy Secretary Merrigan, USDA unveiled the new national agroforestry strategy at the North American Agroforestry Conference in Athens GA.
Marcellus and Beyond
June 6, 2011
- Marcellus is not the only game in town. From the article: "Until more exploration is completed on the triple shale play formations, especially Utica and the upper Devonian shale(s), many of the rumors will remain only rumors. There is clearly momentum building for new shale exploration in some areas, especially the Utica, but not all shale will have the same production potential across Pennsylvania, nor will development be evenly distributed across Pennsylvania."
Conservation through cultivation may save ginseng
June 6, 2011
- Always good to to see my student's work getting some press.
Leafsnap - Learn Your Tree Species
June 3, 2011
- For you tech enthusiasts this looks like a great learning tool.
Biomass feedstock – wood vs grasses
June 3, 2011
- At a biomass meeting and hearing about problems with growing switchgrass on lousy soils in central PA from this grower in the photo.
Passionate Agroforester slain in Amazon
May 29, 2011
- Another anti-logging activist was slain in the Amazon. He harvests nuts and makes baskets for living.
Link to Dr. Jacobson's Forest Finance Page
May 10, 2011
- Dr. Jacobson's new forest finance page is up! Click the news link above to visit it.
Dr. Jacobson's 1st Quarter 2011 Comments
May 10, 2011
- There is no distinctive pattern to short term price trends of the major species across the TMR reporting regions. In percentage change, species' prices in the Southwest region gained the most. Timber sales as evidenced by reports coming in seem to be increasing slightly. This probably means signs of recovery as mills replenish inventories. For continuing information between price reports visit my website and blog at http://extension.psu.edu/forest-finance. Finally, we are thinking about doing away with reporting mill prices. Please drop us a note as to your thoughts on this change. Enjoy the late spring.
Wildfires: Not in My Backyard!
April 11, 2011
- A new publication in the popular From the Woods series, titled Wildfire, focuses on fire in the Eastern forest. An overview of eastern fires, how to protect your home and property, and the benefits of controlled fires are covered.
Dr. Jacobson's 4th Quarter 2010 Comments
February 9, 2011
- Timber sales are picking up, probably due to low inventories in mills, but stumpage prices remain sluggish for most species in most regions. In fact, there was quite a drop in the last quarter of 2010 for some of the major species. A number of factors are at play, some of which I have mentioned before. A growing concern is the impact of Marcellus shale gas drilling. Labor force in the timber industry is suffering to some degree as gas jobs pick up.
4th Quarter 2010 TMR
February 9, 2011
- The Timber Market Report for the 4th quarter 2010 is up. You can use the above news link to get it directly, or browse to it from the left hand side. Thanks again to all those who contribute to the report. If you would like to contribute, please contact Kyle Kovach by email, listed under "contact us"
The New TMR Web site
January 4, 2011
- The newly designed and renovated TMR web site went live the end of December and the number of visitors to the site has substantially increased. We hope that are visitors can find the information they are looking for and come back to visit regularly. Thank you!


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Sophomore Alex Sanchez was named the Big West Player of the Week after leading the 49ers to a 2-0 start in conference play.
Jan. 7, 2013
IRVINE, Calif. - Sophomore Alex Sanchez (Anaheim, Calif./Troy HS) was named the Big West Women's Basketball Player of the Week the conference office announced Monday afternoon.
Sanchez led Long Beach State to a 2-0 start in Big West play last weekend. The 5-foot-10 guard registered a game-high 15 points to go along with eight rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 62-52 victory over Cal Poly. She positioned the 49ers for the win with six-straight points to start a 10-2 run late in the game. Sanchez also finished the evening 7-for-8 from the free throw line.
Sanchez returned two days later with a team-best 12 points in LBSU's 52-45 triumph against UC Santa Barbara. She hit a pair of 3-pointers, including one that broke a 41-41 tie with 3:32 remaining. Sanchez also made a crucial free throw with 53.9 seconds left.
On the week, Sanchez totaled 13.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game, while shooting 47.1 percent from the floor and 81.8 percent from the charity stripe.
This marks Sanchez's first career Big West Player of the Week award, and it is also the first for Long Beach State this season.
LBSU (9-5, 2-0 Big West) returns to action on Wednesday, Jan. 9, when it heads to Cal State Northridge for its first conference road game. The 49ers and Matadors are set to tip-off at 7 p.m. at The Matadome.
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Collections in backbone js don't allow you to
set attributes, but I often find that there is need to store some meta-information about a collection. Where is the best place to set that information?
Collections in backbone js don't allow you to
It's probably best to use Collection in exactly the way it was intended: as a bundle of models. (Julien already commented this on the OP, I'd like to give an explanation why I think he is right)
Let's say you are thinking of a Library (collection) of Book (model) as in Backbone's documentation examples. It makes sense that you've got meta information about the library which you want to store, like the address where this book library is located.
The trick is not to think of it as meta information. You've got a library that has a lot of properties, and one of those properties is its collection of books.
In this example I've defined Library as a plain JavaScript object. Obviously you can also make Library be a model, so that it has all the Backbone bells and whistles. My point here is that you need to represent reality in a more realistic way by taking one step back and seeing that extra properties that you want to assign to the Collection are in fact sibling properties of an object one level up: the Library in this case.
There may be better places for storing specific meta data but this depends completely on what the meta data is.
For storing generic meta data extending your collection constructor with a method to do deal with that should work.
Be wary that if this meta data needs to be stored and loaded from the server then you've got a bigger task at hand.
I've upgrated Raynos's approach with event triggering, so we can bind to collection's attributes update.
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To me, equality goes hand in hand with welcoming diversity.
There was a recent study by the CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center) that made this shocking revelation:
Of the 3,600 books the Cooperative Children's Book Center reviewed in 2012:*
3% were about Africans/African Americans; 1.8% were written by Africans/African Americans
1.5% were about Latinos; 1.6% were written by Latinos
Less than 1% were about American Indians; less than 1% were written by American Indians
2% were about Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans; 2.3% were written by Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans
This article can be found here, from First Book.
Here is another infographic, too.
Update about the CCBC's method of review- read this blog post.
This image has been hugely popular, so I did a full color version!
Above is the original rough scribble I did for Illustration Friday, "Equality."
I am very pleased that the first picture book I am illustrating, THE CHANGE YOUR NAME STORE by Leanne Shirtliffe, has an Asian-American main character. I hope to see these numbers shift in the children's book industry.
Update: Looking for a picture book about self-acceptance with an Asian-American main character? THE CHANGE YOUR NAME STORE is now available!
I grew up going to pow wows and reading picture books by Gerald McDermott and Byrd Baylor. (The little girl in my illustration is a Jingle Dancer.) My grandmother, the primary picture book buyer in the family, grew up on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin. She taught art at the first Indian Community School in Milwaukee, where her sister, my Great Aunt Dorothy, was principal. I would LOVE to see more Native American picture books! And I would be floored at the opportunity to illustrate one.
If this gets you inspired to write a children's book, the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SBCWI) is a great resource!
If you wish to use this image for your classroom or library (or in another not-for-profit setting), you may do so, provided you give me illustration credit. Thank you!


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Care People...Sierra LeoneFoodFunding via Association for Rural Development (ARD)
Sda Primary School Group
SDA Primary School suffered a lot of setbacks over the past years. However, with the intervention of Mr. Benjamin K. as the new headmaster at the school, the school has experienced vast improvements. The new administration under the leadership of Benjamin K. has been able to buy benches for classes five and six through school fees subsidies and development funds. The school has also been able to hire two security guards to keep thieves at bay. And for the first time in the history of the school, it has been able to organize athletics for the pupils. This has added popularity and fame to the school.
This will be the second loan SDA Primary School will be accessing from SMT/Kiva. (See their journal update through the following link: http://partners.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=96443.)
Teachers from this institution, like many other teachers within SMT's operational areas, come to SMT to apply for loans. With the help of these loans, they can accomplish certain tasks that they would otherwise not have been able to accomplish with their mere salaries alone. But with the help of this loan, some can pay school fees for their children; others can use the loan to buy pieces of furniture, a plot of land, house-building materials, or to invest in business. At the end of each month, these teachers can repay the loan out of their monthly salaries. The institution's bursar is directly responsible for deducting the repayment and pays SMT on their behalf.
Benjamin M. K. is the head teacher at the school. Thirty-eight-year-old Benjamin (left) is married to a student and they have one child who is still not of school-going age. Benjamin was born in Makeni city. With his share of the loan, he will buy house-building materials – cement, rods, iron, corrugated tin, etc.
Additional Information
About Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT)Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT) is Kiva's oldest field partner in Sierra Leone. SMT began operations in 2002 as a microcredit program of the NGO Child Fund Sierra Leone under a USAID program to assist the reintegration of ex combatants back into their communities. Today, SMT offers group, agricultural, individual and salary loans to micro-entrepreneurs through six branches and one sub-branch in rural, urban, and peri-urban areas. By providing small loans and other financial services, SMT empowers poor clients to generate more income to help their families, improve their wellbeing, and create a more vibrant private small-business sector in Sierra Leone.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
About Housing Loans
Many poor families cannot afford housing that meets their needs. When you make a housing loan on Kiva, you give people access to flexible capital to obtain or improve their homes. Better housing means better health, sanitation, and even educational outcomes for children. A house can also be much more for entrepreneurs who run businesses out of their homes. In this way, housing and small business loans on Kiva share a common purpose: to alleviate poverty and enable families to enjoy more stable lives.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
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11 Parks near Homer, Alaska
Anchor Point, Alaska 11.64 miles NW
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-1997
Sites: 7 | Latest Rate: $45.00 | 7 Reviews
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May 2014 - $45.00
Came for a week stayed for 2. Great location very friendly staff and very helpful. Moose walked right thru our campsite! Just a real friendly place, I will stay here every time while in Homer. Its not a giant park but great level spots. You can buy any kind of fish or King Crab here too. And very Quiet too. The restrooms are the cleanest I've seen. Do yourself a favor, stay here. - Terry Buholm
Jul 2012 - $38.00
We enjoyed our stay here, it's a better location than down on the spit as it's sheltered from the prevailing wind. The sites are good sized. We had no problem with the box for cable TV. It is behind the fish processing and Fisherman's Lodge but we were at the farthest site and were not bothered by any noise or smell. The one bathroom is unisex and also used by the employees of the fish processing. We were in a self contained rig so had no reason to use the bathroom. The manager and staff were friendly and helpful. - Xtensive Traveler
Jun 2012 - $45.00
Firstly we could not find this park as the sign advertises their main business which is fish processing, with the RV park in smaller letters that are hard to read. The processing operates from very early to very late with the generator running noisily most of the time. The smell of fish is strong and the sites are small and just gravel. We would not stay there again. There are much better parks around the town. it definitely was not good value for the dollars. - rossh
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 435-7995
Sites: 45 | Latest Rate: $50.00 | 21 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $50.00
We stayed one week for $300. ($50/night, 7th night free). Pretty pleased with that rate considering after a day of sightseeing, fishing, shopping or sailing we came back to a quiet, full hook up sight with amazing views. Also, it is about 8 - 10 degrees warmer on that bluff than ocean side Homer Spit with all its wind. It is about 4 miles from Homer Spit and not a large, crowded campground. There were good restaurants on that road along with a market. We were on an end site (17) so we had some privacy also. We found restrooms and laundry nice and clean. Loved it here. - Buckie
Aug 2015 - $45.00
I agree with the previous reviews. The best campground we have stayed at in Alaska. What a view of the Inlet and mountains. Eagles flying around your campsite and boats and whales in the Inlet. You are on high bluff overlooking the Cook Inlet, nothing between you and the view. Site have grass behind them and between them and are level gravel. The new owners are working hard to make this a really fine RV park. Showers are clean and they give you two free showers when you check in. The WiFi is among the best we have found in Alaska. Cell service works great. We planned on staying two days and stayed three and if it had not started to rain, might have stayed another day. Much better than staying on the Spit. Easy drive to town and the Spit. Nice campground host that had lots of suggestions on the area. Would stay here again in heartbeat! - Bud in Florida
Aug 2015 - $45.00
Wow! I don't think we have ever stayed at a park with such a stunning view: the park is on a bluff overlooking the entire bay which is surrounded by snow-capped mountains and even a couple of volcanos. Amazing! Ask for a site up front; we had 13 and it was perfect. Sites are fairly level and roomy. They stagger the front ones so you aren't completely locked by someone else's rig. Wifi and phone service is excellent. Very nice staff. New owners didn't get their advertising going this year, but once people find out about this place, it will be packed in season. Nothing comes close. The parks on the spit are gravel lots with ok but closely-spaced water front lots, but when you see the views from this park, you'll choose Baycrest. The park is located just before you get into Homer, turn right at the Tesoro gas station. - alm
Homer, Alaska
Sites: 12 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 1 Reviews
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Jun 2014 - $25.00
This park was located right on Homer Spit facing the ocean. You could watch the boats coming and going. Great views. Sites right next to each other but the price was right. Wi-Fi was available and worked. - North Carolina Girl
Homer Spit Road Homer, Alaska (map) | 907-235-3170
Sites: 40 | Latest Rate: $15.00 | 1 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $15.00
This camping area just across from the Fishing Hole is named Tent Area 1&2 on the City of Homer website. But RV's up to 20' are allowed too. In fact nobody measures your RV, so a foot or two longer is OK too. Right on the beach with gorgeous views over the sea to the mountains, it's hard to beat. However, watch out for soft spots and bring some levelling equipment. Quiet at night, but traffic picks up very early in the morning when people head out fishing. No amenities but a pit toilet. More toilets and a water spigot at the fish cleaning station a few hundred meters down the road. - TheSchweitzers
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-8019
Sites: 107 | Latest Rate: $41.00 | 13 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $41.00
Very nice staff. Most sites were tight but acceptable. Wifi worked good as did utilities. I could not get the cable to work but it was not their fault. Hooking up a separate box to my system was more difficult than I expected. Good central location to Homer. If you pay for a water/bay view site make sure it is unobstructed. There are only 2-3 and the one we were originally assigned to was blocked by trees and bushes. We could see the bay but not real well. Staff agreed to move us to a different site and credit the difference. We would stay here again. - RayN
Jul 2014 - $57.00
Beautiful views from our site of Kachemak Bay although this is not a "waterfront" site there is nothing between the site and the bay but a road and berm. The campground is tight for a 40' motorhome but it did fit. Staff was very friendly and helpful, WIFI, cable & utilities were good. Convenient to everything in Homer but a bit on the pricey side for the amenities. If you stay here be sure to check out the lounge area next to the office, very nice and "cozy". - Bob & Stephanie
Jul 2013 - $37.00
Small gravel sites, no trees, but right on the water with mountain views. Two blocks from downtown, clean and friendly. Very good Wi-Fi and cable TV. Extremely helpful staff. - outoftown
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-6090
Sites: 80 | Latest Rate: $15.00 | 8 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $15.00
Great park situated on he Homer Spit. Thee park is within walking distance to shops on the homer spit. Have a beer at Salty Dawg and walk home. The sites are gravel w grass n picnic table and firepit. Just feet away from the famous Fishing Hole where many people fish for salmon in the small inlet 24 hours a day. Low tide I was able to walk and gather mussels three days in row. Ate damn good. - crashm59
Sep 2013 - $15.00
Public campground with some seasonals. Great location very near the spit shops and fishing fleet. The fishing hole was mostly unproductive during our one week stay. I do not think it is as good as in years past for some reason. View of fishing hole and area was good. No facilities other than a dirty rest room, fish cleaning station and a dump site. Public campground in Seward is nicer and cleaner with electrical hook-up option--for a fee. After several trips to Homer area, it is not as appealing as in years past--in my opinion. There is a lot to do in Homer and it is a special place not to be missed! - grizd
Aug 2010 - $15.00
This review is for the City of Homer campground. There is a commercial site with this same name at the end of the spit (much more expensive and not any nicer for motorhomes). Level gravel parking lot with tight sites right on Kachemak bay and roomier sites just back a little bit. Spectacular views of mountains and glaciers. Many folks stay here with their boats. Fishing cleaning station and dump station available ($2). Easy walking to tourist activities: fishing, flight seeing, bear viewing, water taxis. Bike/walking trail nearby. Watch for eagles on the lampposts. A bit noisy and a somewhat of an industrial feel. We'd stay here again. - panafoot
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 226-4500
Sites: 100 | Latest Rate: $68.00 | 22 Reviews
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Jun 2015 - $68.00
The only place to stay in Homer. Yes it is expensive, but look what you get compared to the other places. Pull in for motor homes to face the ocean. Next door to the free fishing hole. 30/50 amp FULL hookups. Level gravel sites. Well lit fire and picnic areas with plenty of free driftwood. Well stocked store and very clean. I've only rated a couple of campgrounds as excellent. Take my word and stay here if you can get a very early reservation. - teepee51
Aug 2014 - $73.00
This is the most expensive campground we have ever stayed at. We wanted to extend our stay in Homer but could not extend where we were. This campground seems to have everything. The sites right along the bay are set up for motorhomes to pull into so the windshield faces the bay. 5th wheels and travel trailers backing into these sites will have the utilities on the wrong side. We elected to take a pull thru site away from the water. Site was gravel, long, and narrow. 50 amp electric was available along with water and sewer, a rarity in Alaska campgrounds. Nice office with store and little cafe. If you are on a site that allows fires, firewood is delivered to your site. Did not use laundry/bathhouse so cannot comment on their condition. Verizon cell and mifi worked adequately. This campground is located right next to the fishing lagoon on Homer Spit. For us, it was a splurge well worth the money. We would stay here again. - roadking
Aug 2014 - $0.00
We found this park to be nice, in an excellent location with a great view of the bay. The sites were nice, we slept well, and the hookups worked. We enjoyed the area walking from the park. We stayed 4 days. We were with a Winnebago caravan and would stay there again. - TrekNsee
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-8206
Sites: 122 | Latest Rate: $45.00 | 12 Reviews
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Jun 2015 - $45.00
If you want to stay right in Homer, this is OK. Sites are very tight, we had W/E only, there are a few FHU available. Antenna TV picked up a few stations, no service for Verizon Wifi, Sprint phone worked OK. Restrooms are adequate, room to walk the pup on beach, around town. Dump available. We like Homer, but we would stay north of town next time. We stayed here in a Travel Trailer. - Living the Dream
Jun 2014 - $43.00
Pricey park on the spit. When we checked in they said that the "ocean view" row was the second one back from the beach, elevated and cost more. The front row was dry camping and the attendant said that normally the tent campers get those spots. As it ended up the front row was filled with Class C units that created a solid wall of RVs and blocked our ocean view. - moosewatcher
Jul 2013 - $48.00
Electric hookups only, gravel lots, narrow in width. View of ocean is great, not a beach, but a shale shore with many rocks. Believe it or not this is a good deal price-wise for the area. But after seeing Homer once, we won't be back, really not much there other than a few shops and charter fishing. - Teacher's Pet
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-6090
Sites: 50 | Latest Rate: $1.00 | 14 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $1.00
Other than the frightening knife wielding man dressed like Daniel Boone or the naked European tourist, it was a good city park. The sites were literally a parking lot next to the beach. The view of the inlet and mountains was unbelievable; the beach with long tides was kind of an adventure to walk on. There were portapotties and no showers. Seriously there was a knife wielding man and a naked guy from Prague. We moved on after one night so we could to get away from knife guy. The little old lady next to us said not to worry that she was packing. - barkingbear
Jul 2015 - $15.00
Spaces here are pretty tight, but there is enough room to get your slides out. If you are lucky enough to get a spot on the water, you have a great view of the water and can watch the boats, wildlife, etc. It rained when we camped here, so it was pretty muddy in spots. It took about 1 day for the ground to dry up once it quit raining. Our AT&T phones worked really well here, but the Verizon MiFi was spotty. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Still, even though it had some negatives, this is a good place to camp if you are visiting Homer. Get here before noon if you want a spot in this campground as it's pretty popular and only a few spots become available each day. - Bobbi1948
Jul 2013 - $15.00
This is a city campground (parking area) right on the Bay out on the Homer Spit. It is the first campground that you come to (on the right) as you enter the Spit. At first glimpse, it is not very appealing as it is a gravel lot on the Bay with somewhat disorganized camping. The spaces are not marked, so you stake out your own space. Often it is tight between spaces, sometimes with wide spacing, depending on how folks park and what space you can stake out. Even though we were not attracted at first, we came to really like this campground. It has views right on the bay with your own beach with lots of activity, such as wind surfing. We think that is the best of the city campgrounds on the spit. There are no hookups of any kind. There are no dumps or fresh water fill, but there are two city dumps within a couple of miles. For $70 per night you can get the same type of view with full hookups at a commercial campground a little further out on the spit. We elected to spend $15 and use our generator. There is some noise from the road, which is close by, but the main sound is of the ocean. Yes, it is pretty much unregulated and you do hear generators at non-generator hours, but that is not really much of an issue. The main feature is the Bay. Our Verizon phone worked well, but the Verizon data plan (MiFi) did not work. It is on the open so our satellite worked well here. Visiting Homer again, we would stay here. - TheJim
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-3951
Sites: 100 | Latest Rate: $47.00 | 35 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $47.00
View is fabulous. Close to the spit. Our site was not level. Showers were free. Women's room was very nice. Husband said men's was not that great. Our picnic table couldn't be used as our site was so uneven. - Wyboo
Jul 2015 - $44.00
Park is on a terraced hillside with views of the water and mountains. Staff was helpful. Laundry was adequate but could use some TLC. No set time for cleaning restrooms, sign was up but no one cleaning. Very expensive considering water and electric sites were the same as full hook-up. No dump station. We camped in a truck camper but for large rigs it would be very tight. - Sharlou
Jul 2015 - $44.00
Very friendly staff. Washer / dryers are small but, affordable. Oceanview is limited when campground is full due to blocked view by adjacent RV units. Walking distance to all downtown shopping. Quiet setting closer to water with ocean waves masking highway sounds. Beach access down trail / embankment. No table nor fire pit for the price. Would stay here again. - Sasquatchewan
Homer, Alaska (map) | (907) 235-2617
Sites: 10 | Latest Rate: $35.00 | 3 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $35.00
Great fun place to stay. LH,the owner showed us our spots and was very helpfull. He owns the closes fish supply and bait srore to the Homer small boat harbor. Also has 9 back in spots. If you are in an rv after you back in, the view is of the harbor, Ketchamack bay and snow covered mountains. Absolutely beautiful! ! Will stay with LH again. 43 foot rv towing. - rmartin
Aug 2012 - $40.00
The location is great--walking distance to most Spit businesses, just across from the marina. Hosts were nice and helpful. Basic sites. The store included RV supplies, and free borrowing of DVDs. Would definitely stay here again. - cmcwbl
Jul 2010 - $40.00
This park is on the spit in Homer and is located on the same road that the small boat harbor is on. The sites are long but not wide, will accept a rig of any length but once your slides are out there isn't a lot of room either side. Basically you back in 15 feet off Freight Dock road. This park is basically a place to back in and spend the night. We used it as a base and spent our time away. Not our first choice for a park in Homer, but not bad given the choices available. - mamestra


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Lasting Peace? An Iraq Town Shrugs Off Terror
Severed heads dumped at the market, deadly road-side explosions. That used to be the depressing reality in the small town of Rawah in Iraq's Anbar Province. Now, though, peace may be at hand -- and the locals are cooperating with the US Marines.
It is a pleasant evening for Police Chief Tarek Subhi Hussein in the small Iraqi town of Rawah. Dinner with the US Marine Corps officers stationed in his city, located in the Anbar Province, was a complete success. The chit-chat -- at a table heaped with chicken and kebab -- centered on the police chief's two wives, his children and his grandchildren. His plan of taking a third wife was met with a grin from the Americans.
There isn't much to Rawah: a few thousand flat-roofed houses, a few vegetable gardens and dusty palm trees. A handful of junk-shops line the streets along with stands selling gasoline -- often not readily available in Iraq -- in plastic bottles. The sewer system is leaky and putrid effluent lies puddled in the street. Like most cities and towns in Anbar Province, Iraq's biggest, Rawah is located on the Euphrates River, which waltzes its way through the moonscape of the Iraqi desert. Some 25,000 people live in Rawah, many of them former soldiers.
Regional Center of the Insurgency
Before the war, Rawah was a haven for retired functionaries in Saddam Hussein's regime. Saddam's trade minister was likewise from Rawah; he made sure that his hometown was always well taken care of. The town's four police officers had it pretty easy. But then the war came, and after that, terrorism. Rawah became the regional center of the insurgency. The first targets attacked by al-Qaida of Mesopotamia -- the Iraqi offshoot of the terror organization -- were US troops stationed in Rawah: first Army units, then the Marines.
At the beginning the population supported the fight "against the occupiers," says Chief of Police Subhi. But that changed when the citizens themselves became targets of the insurgents. "Terrorists wanted to make Rawah the center for al-Qaida and took their revenge for those who opposed it," Subhi says. More than 20 were unlucky enough to be killed in attacks on the Marines, but many others were slaughtered at night in their homes by Iraqis and foreigners belonging to al-Qaida of Mesopotamia. The 16 men who joined the police force shortly after the US invasion found themselves in an especially precarious position; five of them were murdered. One was beheaded, his head thrown into a banana crate in the market square. The father of one of the other officers was killed when his house was blown up. For fear of what else might befall their families, most of the other officers gave up, leaving only four to combat the overwhelming violence. "To be a police officer was a death sentence," Subhi says.
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So what changed? Why, suddenly, do 79 men apply to join the police in a single day? Rawah has, relatively speaking, become a peaceful place once again. The last attack -- an insurgent threw a hand grenade over the wall of a barracks where some 60 Marines were stationed -- took place over a month ago. And life on the streets seems to be returning to normal. During the day there are boys running around on the streets; in the café of the little market hall, young men play pool. Mothers take their daughters shopping. Even at night there are people outside on the streets. One night recently, a group stood outside of a well-lit hair salon warming their hands over a little fire. And just talked.
"At some point, people simply had enough," Subhi says. The men in the town wanted a future for their families and decided the path to that future involved working with, rather than against, the Americans. Whereas before, people had been paralyzed with fear, they began informing US troops about insurgents' activities. Others would speak up if they saw suspicious-looking characters on the streets of Rawah.
The situation, Subhi is quick to point out, remains explosive, and he opens up a few photos on his laptop. They're images of weapons and troves of explosive material confiscated in the past few weeks -- enough material for a dozen car bombs and IEDs, enough assault rifles and ammunition for a long fight. Things are not as peaceful in Rawah as they look. The enemy is not gone, he's just out of sight for the moment. "Of course they're still out there," Subhi says.
The end of the reign of terror in Rawah was made possible by the so-called "Sunni awakening" in Anbar Province. Influential sheiks in the province decided to change their allegiances in the middle of the year, and Rawah followed suit. This situation, noticeably eased, enabled the Marines to change their tactics. Whereas before they could only drive around in armored vehicles, they could now patrol on foot.
'Making Ourselves Superfluous'
"To win hearts and minds," the slogan goes. And the people of Rawah seem to have developed a certain amount of trust in the heavily-armed, still-daunting US soldiers in their midst. The Americans, accordingly, have given the growing number of police more responsibilities: they are now accountable for the town's security -- for the security of their families -- themselves. The Marines came to Rawah to guarantee security and then hand over the job to the Iraqis, says First Lieutenant Brobyn. "We are here to make ourselves superfluous."
That this seems to be working became clear when Police Chief Subhi got an urgent message late one night. A police report came in that scouts had spotted a local al-Qaida heavyweight at a farm outside of town.
There are now 345 Iraqi police and 100 Marines policing Rawah. For now, the town is peaceful, if only barely. There is still a long way to go to until peace is established in Anbar Province. Rawah, like many of the cities in the region, is still in the middle of a war, but perhaps the decisive phase has arrived.
In the coming months, many still-open questions will have to be answered. What will happen when the Marines leave? Is the local police force strong enough to keep the peace? What will happen when the money gets tight and hopeful police cadets find themselves on the streets again? Will these frustrated men use their new skills in the service of the insurgency? "I wish I had a crystal ball," says First Lieutenant Brobyn, whose Apache Company has been stationed here four times already, for six months each time. "I hope that the people of Rawah can succeed in making things go forward."
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- Photo Gallery: An Iraqi Town Takes on Terror
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- Get Rich or Die Trying: German Mercenaries Seek their Fortunes in Iraq (11/12/2007)
- Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: 'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' (09/28/2007)
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The Senate agreed Wednesday night to give $17.5 million to pay down the $40 million the Global TransPark's owed the state Escheats Fund. The TransPark then would be required starting in July 2013 to make quarterly payments totaling $5 million annually to help pay down the remainder.
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