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If you need to be close to the Phoenix city limits for a visit to Phoenix, this probably will suit your needs ok, but for a recreational camp weekend, I can't say this is the place to go. The surrounding neighborhood is iffy. The campground itself is very clean. The sites are pretty tight especially up near the front. Most likely your front door will be about 10 to 15 ft from your neighbors sewer hose. The office staff were friendly enough. They came around often to sweep gravel off of concrete pads. The grills were kept very clean for sites that had them. Having a picnic table and a grill is considered a premium spot and there are only a few! WiFi only worked for us for one day out of a 3 night stay. The pool looked clean although I didn't use it. Again, if you needed a place to stay in or near the city of Phoenix it was safe enough and clean enough. I can't consider it resort camping however.
Date of Stay: August, 2007
This place was the perfect place for us. If you want to camp off the beaten path, under the stars, with a campfire, have plenty of room for spreading out, with sweeping views of mountains and Henry's lake; This is the place. The hosts and workers went out of their way to help in every aspect of our stay including parking our large rig. They made sure we had a map with things to do, places to see, and not to be missed places to eat. It is only a short 20 minute drive from West Yellowstone entrance. We saw moose nearly every night grazing on fireweed a short 2 mile drive from the campground. This is the perfect place for big riggers that need the hook-ups, but still want to feel like camping and want a view. You do share a power pole and water spigot with a neighbor but each site had a large grass front yard. We drove the entire Yellowstone area, and we thought this was the best bet for a good camping experience at Yellowstone. Shhhh it's quiet here!
Date of Stay: July, 2007
We went camping at Newport Dunes in Newport California for three nights including a weekend. They self proclaim themselves as "The Ritz of Campgrounds". First lets start with the good. Location! The campground is located on the bay with some sites along the water. It looks more like a lake but it is ocean water, but they consider it ocean front. If you come in wanting an upgrade to one of those spots, expect to pay, I'll talk more about this in the "bad" section of the review. However, the surrounding area has plenty to do and see. The women will love the nearby shopping at the Fashion Mall where they can shop in "hoity toity" shops such as Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus, etc, etc. Macy's would be considered the budget store at the Fashion Mall. Crystal Cove is about 4 miles down the road and is a wonderful spot for biking, hiking, and swimming, and sitting by the surf pounding against the rocks. Most of the restaurants nearby are valet parking only and we ate at the Rusty Pelican. Food was expensive, but acceptable. The campground is very nearby The Back Bay Cafe restaurant. We did not sample the food there so I cannot comment on it's value or taste. The campgrounds are kept clean, and the help seemed friendly, but most do not speak English. We had an issue with our original camp spot where a tree branch threatened to tear off my rubber roof if I backed it in, and they gave me a free upgrade a little closer to the water. However, unless you are at a designated water front spot, you probably will not have a view at all except of other campers. The campgrounds had activities for kids such as movies on the beach at night which was nice although we didn't have any kids with us. But for families it looked like lots of fun. There are also boat rentals, an arcade and plenty to keep kids busy. Now the bad: My number one complaint is price. If you plan on upgrading after you get there, expect to pay 299.95 a night for a waterfront spot. Only the waterfront spots have some grass, and enough room to sit comfortably outside your camper. I understand that if you reserve a year in advance you can get one of those sites for just under $200.00. Gee.. what a bargain! The sites throughout are very narrow. If you have a triple slider like ours, you will probably not be eating outside, unless you don't mind eating a few feet away from the neighbors sewer hose. The campers and motorhomes with no slides had it the best here. Each site is separated by a fence. This is a blessing and a hassle. At least if you went with friends and got two sites, you could make some room between campers, but the fence gets in the way. On the plus side, it keeps your neighbors from crowding you because of their lack of space. There is basically no room for a tow vehicle. You are forced to park perpendicular to your camper sticking out in the road. I had to pull in my tow mirrors feeling they might get swiped off by a passerby or a kid on a bike. On the weekend, this place is crowded. The inconveniences certainly do not keep crowds away, and there is obviously a lot of people with disposable income that forked out the money for the premium water front spots. By Saturday evening, it was difficult to drive through or even ride a bicycle through because of all the people and children in the streets. They are in the streets, because there is no room in their campsite. The swimming pool is kept clean but my wife and I found the Jacuzzi to be filled with little kids using it as a kiddy pool. There is a sign posted that says no kids under 12 should be in it. No adults were watching them, and some were around age 5. We went to complain, and the office said they would handle it, but security did not arrive for about a half hour. By that time we handled the situation ourselves. The Jacuzzi was also not working properly. Although the water was hot, there were no bubbles and only two working jets. In conclusion, camp here only on weekdays. It's not as crowded and you might get to eat outside your camper without being next to a sewer hose. Off season would also be helpful. The sites in the back row are still priced high at around $80.00 per night, but they are just as large as the rest of the campground and just as much view as the rest of the campground excluding the waterfront sites. It's really the only game in town and it shows because they demand such a premium price for camping and seem to get it. It's NOT the RITZ! Not even close. I have been to much nicer camp resorts for a LOT less money. The ocean view sites are the best sites, but it's still just like looking at a lake because it's in a small bay. Don't expect to see surf here, but surf is a short 4 miles drive away. The waterfront sites do offer a lot more room for picnics and BBQs. Personally, a nice hotel would be more comfortable and for the same amount of money. If you must camp, and have to be in Newport Beach, it's the only game in town. Bring your wallet.
Date of Stay: July, 2007
This place is in need of some work. The trees are in great need of pruning. High profile vehicles should beware. The staff was friendly toward us and helped us find a place that would be suitable for our high profile 5er, but it still required some very slow going and we watched branches rub across the roof. There were some iffy looking campers that may have been long term residents next to us. Their camper had flat tires and the holding tanks were leaking. It was very rusty, old, and an eyesore. We stayed here simply as an overnight stop on the way to Yellowstone. We didn't need to use the picnic tables but they were old and in need of repair and paint. There was not much room between campers for any outside activity. This might be an OK place for an overnight stay for a small travel trailer, but not so great for a high profile 5th wheel or motorhome.
Date of Stay: July, 2007
We arrived at this resort and were greeted pleasantly by the workers. They were sure to give us a schedule of the activities there in the resort as well as information about nearby Zion. This park seemed to be the most convenient to Zion in terms of easy in and out for big rigs. Many sites are situated along the Virgin River, however the banks are up high so no sites really have a view of the water. The sites along the river are back-in. Thankfully the banks were up high because there was a flash flood while we were there. If they had not been raised, it could have been a disaster. There are many pull through sites available. They held activities for children and had a movie night as well. The park was very clean and well kept. Although the park was only about half full when we were there, the 50 amp power was slightly on the low side showing in the red on my power meter. There are some nice views of the mountains and beautiful sunsets to be seen there. Campfires were allowed. The pool was clean, but a little small for the size of the park. There is an outside cafe/grill where reasonably priced food can be ordered. There is a hotel with RV park close to the Zion entrance gate which looked like it might have nice views of a beautiful mountain side, but it looked much more difficult to get in and out of. Zion River Resort was very easy to drive around in with a big rig. I would definitely come again.


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You've done some traveling my brotha. I've read your blog starting when you went to Peru. Now you are in Thailand. Be sure to give us your impression of Thailand. Additionally, I'm a brotha that is moving to Cuenca Ecuador. My first choice was Medellin. I kind of chickened out because of the higher crime rate in Medellin vs Cuenca. How do you compare Colombia to Ecuador?
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The food is excellent here but I found this city very hard to get around. Everyone of my friends told me that t was just another crowded city. But the nice part is the people, very sweet and kind. I found that very refreshing coming from the western world especially South America. The people are still for the most part poor and taxi cabs ready to take advantage of 'Farangs' (foreigner) as much as possible but im used to that.
Ive been researching and talking to people about going south or north, I believe South has the prettiest beaches so in four days I go to pattaya with a buddy I met while down here. A wing man so to speak.
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ok, cool, Cuenca to medellin colombia. Ive gone to several other cities in Ecuador but not cuenca. I livied in Ecuador for 9 months so I feel confident about my comparisons. The comparison is that there is no comparison! The infrastructure in medellin colombia is outstanding, really. Its the first and only country in Colombia where you can drink the water straight from the tap. There is a metro train. The women are the most beautiful in the world. Thats no exagerration. While cuenca is more tranquil, I think you should at least visit medellin. The crime is in Bogota, which is the capital. Medellin has some crime but 'dont believe the hype' of the news its just like any other city. The crime is in the jungle with the farc and usually never touches medellin as the city of medellin is ' the crown jewell' and best city in colombia. Ill be back there in June. I have a residency there.
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Everybody's been talking about this super-slick and very stylish little cafe since it opened a few months ago, specialising in New York-style bagels with imaginative toppings. These include the Wilbur (with spiced pulled pork) and the Kransky (with Westmere kransky sausage), though there are other interesting items on the menu too, of course: soups, salads and so on.
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The Cove Rotana Resort places you within a 10-minute drive of Iceland Water Park and Khuzam Family Park. This 345-room, 5-star hotel has 2 outdoor pools along with a private beach and a full-service spa. Al Hamra Marina and Yacht Club is also within a 15-minute drive.
Enjoy dining at one of 2 onsite restaurants including Cinnamon Restaurant, which specializes in international cuisine. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café. Start each morning with buffet breakfast, available for a fee from 7 AM to 11 AM.
The 345 air-conditioned accommodations feature patios and afford space to spread out with sitting areas. Guests can expect free WiFi and 32-inch LCD TVs with satellite channels. Bathrooms offer hair dryers, free toiletries, bathrobes, and slippers. Minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers are other standard amenities.
The Cove Rotana Resort features a private beach, a full-service spa, and 2 outdoor pools. Free valet and self parking are available—or if you're not driving, take the airport shuttle (available 24 hours) for AED 375 per vehicle one-way. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this beach hotel include a children's pool, a health club, and free WiFi in public areas.
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- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free valet and self parking
- Onsite dining
- Spa
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Step outside to unwind on the sand beach. At The Cove Rotana Resort you can cool off in one of the 2 outdoor swimming pools and indulge in a pampering afternoon at the full-service spa.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 4 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This luxury hotel also offers a children's club, a children's pool, and a health club. Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
The Cove Rotana Resort has designated areas for smoking.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 345
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of bars/lounges - 4
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 3
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Garden
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- On private beach
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Year Built 2009
- Free area shuttle
- Number of restaurants - 2
- 24-hour business center
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach towels
- Free self parking
- Spa services on site
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Children's pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
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- Family Hotel
- On private beach
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
The Cove Rotana Resort offers 345 air-conditioned accommodations, which are accessible via exterior corridors and feature minibars and safes. Rooms open to patios. Accommodations offer separate sitting areas. 32-inch LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Bathrooms include bathrobes, slippers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and complimentary newspapers. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and coffee/tea makers. Housekeeping is offered daily and in-room massages can be requested.
- Patio
- Separate sitting area
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room massage available
- Free newspaper
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Cinnamon Restaurant - This buffet restaurant specializes in international cuisine. A children's menu is available. Open 24 hours. Open daily.
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM.
Basilico - This poolside fine-dining restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Breeze - This poolside bar serves light fare only. Open daily.
Breakers - This bar is located on the beach. Open daily.
24-hour room service is available.
Sunset Bar - This bar is located by the pool. Open daily.
Start your morning with a buffet breakfast, available each day from 7 AM to 11 AM for a surcharge. Room service is available around the clock.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach and a health club are featured at the hotel. 2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Kayaking on site
- Volleyball on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Boat tours nearby
Spa Services
The onsite spa has 7 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Massages are available on the beach and in the spa; other services include facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
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- Number of treatment rooms 7
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- Couples treatment rooms
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- Massages
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at noon
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 5 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for AED 220.0 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
- Tourism fee: AED 20 per accommodation, per night
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: AED 110 for adults and AED 55 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: AED 375 per vehicle (one-way)
- Rollaway bed fee: AED 220.0 per night
Hotel Name
- Cove Rotana
- Cove Rotana Ras Al Khaimah
- Cove Rotana Resort
- Cove Rotana Resort Ras Al Khaimah
- Ras Al Khaimah Cove
- Ras Al Khaimah Rotana
- Rotana Cove Ras Al Khaimah
- Rotana Cove Resort
- Rotana Ras Al Khaimah
- Rotana Resort Ras Al Khaimah
- Cove Rotana Resort Ras Al Khaimah Hotel Ras Al Khaimah
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. One child 5 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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The development and recognition of research in the architectural profession: An Australian update
Whitman, Paula (2003) The development and recognition of research in the architectural profession: An Australian update. In Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 12-15th January 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Charley drove a Lumina. It was the kind of car, he once quipped, that Jesus would drive. "Because He is the Light of the world," he said. Charley was my oldest brother. He and his wife, Barbara, were driving that Lumina on Christmas Day, with their youngest son, Ivan, 20, in the backseat. It was the feast of the coming of the Light into the world.
They spent the morning at their church, a Catholic church in the Byzantine rite that had sprung up in North Carolina as more Catholics migrated to the state in the 1980s. Charley loved the church and its Orthodox liturgy so much that a vocation to the diaconate grew in him.
The pastor told us that one of the last things Charley did after serving on Christmas morning was to set aside Communion for a woman who could not make it to Divine Liturgy that day.
Then he and Barbara set out for a Christmas gathering at their eldest daughter's house. No doubt the melodies of the liturgy echoed in their heads. Perhaps their minds continued pondering the mysteries of the Incarnation.
The day was a rainy one. Soon after they merged onto a highway east of Raleigh, something happened that is the kind of thing that makes us think things like, "If only they had spent more time at the coffee hour" or "If only they hadn't stopped for gas."
But they left when they did, and whatever speed they drove and whatever stops they had to make put them in that spot at that time — when a young man driving an SUV in the westbound lane hit a wet patch and hydroplaned. It was a spot where a truck had broken through the wire guardrails two months earlier. The rails had never been fixed, and the SUV came at the Lumina like a missile.
Emergency teams did what they could, but they could not save Barbara and Ivan. They managed to keep Charley alive, but there was bleeding deep in the brain, in the basal ganglia, an area that acts as a kind of switchboard controlling communication with other parts of the body.
He was in a coma. His doctors felt that if he survived, the best possible outcome would be complete dependency on caregivers for the rest of his life, with paralysis on one side of his body and an inability to speak.
My wife and I prepared to leave our home in the Northeast, where Christmas lights that had added color to darkened streets now went dark. Into our lives came a symbol — but more than a symbol — of another season: the Cross. A bright star lit the fields around Bethlehem when Christ was born. Darkness covered the earth when he died.
As we drove down Interstate 95, two thoughts kept running through my mind. One was that God allows things like this to happen, but he won't let us walk through it alone. He's walking next to us.
Or, perhaps it's more accurate to say that we're walking next to him, as he drags his cross up a hill outside Jerusalem.
The other thought was a line from the Bible: "A people that walked in darkness have seen a great light." That reference to the coming of Christ is cemented into my head from countless hearings of Handel's "Messiah."
Charley was in love with light. He was one of the most logical persons I've known, figuring out a problem in a methodical way and seeking clarity amid confusion. He was able to shed light when we sought advice.
As a landscape architect, he was conscious of the way the natural light would fall on a particular setting at different times of the day and various seasons of the year. He built a sunroom onto the back of his house with long windows that would allow someone to look out at the garden as if he were viewing a painting through a frame. He was an early riser and must have sat there many a morning enjoying the growing light of dawn.
As a young man he built a telescope, probably after reading a how-to in Popular Science. He was fascinated with constellations and sunspots and the aurora borealis, and must have marveled when he thought of the multitudes of light years that stood between the stars and us.
But he knew that there was an Infinity even greater than all that.
His prayer life and his studies for the diaconate — and his ongoing spiritual reading — had divine light as their focus, that illumination that is perhaps a foretaste of the day when we will gaze upon God, the Ineffable Light.
Now Charley entered into a kind of darkness, unable to speak to us. His eyes were unclear and glazed over. He occasionally tried to look around the room and at us. What was he thinking? Could he comprehend? Did he know who we were? Did he recognize our voices? Did he understand what we were telling him?
Now that I ponder those questions, it seems to me that we were the ones who were in darkness — because we had so many unanswered questions. Would he live? What exactly was his condition? What would happen to him? Was he feeling anxiety because he couldn't communicate with us?
Or was he already being comforted in contemplating a light we could not see?
He died nine days after the accident, still in the season of that feast of light. We went back to his house to visit with my nephew and two nieces — three young people who had just lost half their family. Charley and Barbara's life was everywhere you looked — photos on the wall, leftovers in the freezer that Barbara had made only days earlier, Ivan's motorcycle in the sunroom, a home office with unfinished landscape designs on Charley's drafting board.
The only thing that wasn't there was the car that "Jesus would have driven" — the Lumina. But there was something else.
Barbara's ancestors were Ukrainian, and several years back she asked Charley to help her revive a tradition from the old country: the Advent star. And so he crafted a wooden model of a star that could be illuminated and fixed it onto a pole. Each night during Advent, he and Barbara would move that star closer to the house, symbolizing the increasing proximity of the Light of the world in our darkened lives.
I don't know if that star is still out there, hovering above the place where Barbara now surely would be cultivating garlic and basil. Charley and Barbara now would be in the midst of Great Lent, abstaining from meat, fasting, praying, spending Wednesday evenings at the church for the liturgy of the pre-sanctified gifts and the lamp lighting at vespers, all the while enjoying the lengthening of the days.
Their spiritual discipline and quieting of their busy lives would let a greater "amount" of light in, even as they contemplated a very "dark" event in history — the handing over of Jesus in the black of night, the darkness of betrayal and abandonment, of suffering and torture and death, the fear and sadness of Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
But this year, their Calvary took place during their Bethlehem. Darkness covered their feast of light.
I like to think that Advent star is still hanging over their garden, even during Holy Week. Even if it has been taken down, it's still there in my memory.
A people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. But the light wasn't extinguished after the Holy Family picked up and moved on from Bethlehem.
What appears to us as darkness on Calvary is the sacrifice that, if we allow it, will lead us to unending light.
John Burger is the
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UPPER KEYS -- Concerns are rising in Islamorada that recent water access closures on Card Sound Road will bring even more people to the already-crowded Indian Key and Tea Table fills.
"I think it can happen. I definitely do," said Islamorada Sheriff's Office Capt. Corey Bryan. "It's typical. You move people around and it puts stress on other areas."
Bryan's comments came last Wednesday, a few days after what the Islamorada Public Works Department said was an unusually busy weekend along the fills.
Crowds on the 2-mile stretch of highway between Upper and Lower Matecumbe keys typically increase in the hot summer months, when mainlanders travel south to swim, fish, ride personal watercrafts, barbecue and party.
Clean-up after busy weekends, including the recent weekend of April 26 and 27, takes days, Public Works Director John Sutter said.
Monroe County, at the urging of Mayor Sylvia Murphy, closed several Card Sound Road water access points early last month, saying Miami-Dade residents were creating a mess there for law enforcement officers. Illegal personal watercraft usages also kept on-the-water officers busy, she said. Murphy complained of loud partying, litter and even religious animal sacrifices.
The county, with the assistance of Monroe County Sheriff's deputies, closed off spots people for many years have used as a staging ground for recreational pursuits. Personal watercraft and flats boats came down and launched on the weekends, while families held picnics along the shore.
"Those areas are not boat ramps," Murphy said last week. "They are not access at the end of the road."
The mayor also says she wants to create a more appealing Card Sound Road, which is used heavily by Ocean Reef Club residents as well as those needing an alternate route to the mainland.
"When I drive that road, I want to see a prettier Card Sound Road," she said.
More closures are to come. Access points at Mosquito Creek and Steamboat Creek on Card Sound Road will soon be cut off. Murphy said the closures are further necessitated by Miami-Dade County beginning to close off areas to personal watercraft users, which has pushed them south to Monroe County.
Roberto Aguirre, a Miami-Dade resident who says he has regularly fished along Card Sound Road for seven years, hopes the county won't close the remaining creeks.
"I love coming down here and fishing on the weekends," he said.
The fisherman said not all visitors to the area leave the type of mess Murphy claims as he pointed to a nearby trashcan. He also noted there was no trash on the ground.
The closures, though, don't only impact fishermen and personal watercraft users. For kayakers, paddle routes featured in local guidebooks along Steamboat Creek and neighboring waterways are effectively closed.
"They're just going to have to paddle somewhere else," Murphy said.
Murphy described the moves as routine right-of-way maintenance for the county, which is why the placement of concrete barricades and no trespassing signs didn't need to be brought before the Monroe County Commission. The county didn't discuss the closures publicly, Murphy said, because the access points were not official boat ramps.
Aguirre, meanwhile, said he thinks the county just wants people to be forced into using a for-fee boat ramps.
Indeed, when asked where visitors from the mainland should launch their boats, Murphy said they could use the ramp at the Caribbean Club, which costs $10. If they are looking for a free boat ramp, she suggested they go south to Islamorada.
That's what villagers are afraid of.
Sutter said his staff spoke with a couple personal watercraft users during the April 26-27 weekend who had ventured to the fills because they could no longer use the Card Sound area.
"We're going to see an increase," he said.
Islamorada has long pushed for tougher usage rules along the Indian Key and Tea Table fills, but unlike the county, which owns the south portion of Card Sound Road, its hands are tied. The fills are part of the Overseas Highway and are controlled by the Florida Department of Transportation.
Last summer, FDOT installed 20 additional no parking signs along the fills, agency spokesman Brian Rick said.
But some village officials and residents want the state to do more.
"The council must, in a proactive effort to preserve the integrity and sustainability of our village, insist unequivocally that FDOT respond to the area of Tea Table Relief," former Lower Matecumbe Key Association President Donna Gleason wrote in an April 29 letter to Mayor Ted Blackburn.
Sutter, too, has grown frustrated with the state. Last summer, FDOT officials installed the new signs, helped the village control parking along Lower Matecume Key's Sea Oats Beach and talked about installing riprap along the shoreline of the fills to head-off erosion and to limit personal watercraft entry points.
But beginning with a meeting last August, Sutter said, the agency's attitude changed.
"What does the village have to do get FDOT to take responsibility for managing their own property?" he asked rhetorically.
In an emailed response to Free Press questions last week, Rick said the road authority strives to strike a balance between access and resource protection.
"Even though requested to do so, we really cannot prevent the use of publicly owned property," Rick wrote. "FDOT acts as the steward of such property and tries to ensure safe use by creating paved access points to enter and leave U.S. 1 and, through posting of no parking signs, re-directs users away from areas where there is no paved access, eroded shoreline or where there has been boat launching activity at sites other than boat ramps."
Sutter said that with crowd problems having emerged in late April, he's bracing for a long, busy summer on the fills.
"I'm concerned with the size of the crowd that was there already," he said.


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So now that the game is over and the Giants got the Lombardi Trophy, I can ask what everyone did to indulge their personal superstitions during the playoff run.
Ever since Christmas Eve, I had the same pic on my Facebook profile of me in front of the 3 Lombardi's and 4 Halas' at MetLife Stadium. I wore the same outfit every week (SB XLII Champs T-shirt, white NYG turtleneck with Eli jersey over that). For the Super Bowl, it was obviously all the same, and my wife wore the same long-sleeve NFC Champions T-shirt she got me in 2008.
Oh, and now that the season's over, I can get my hair cut.
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Waukegan teen's bond set at $3.5 million in fatal shooting
There are 77 comments on the Chicago Tribune story from Jun 23, 2008, titled Waukegan teen's bond set at $3.5 million in fatal shooting. In it, Chicago Tribune reports that:A judge Monday morning set bond at $3.5 million for a Waukegan teen accused of shooting two other teens, one fatally, in what authorities say was a gang-related shooting.
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#2 Jun 23, 2008
Gang-bangers vs. Gang-bangers, where is there a downside to this story?
Yes, I'm that sick of the gangs.
#3 Jun 23, 2008
sweet. nothing like a ride-by shooting.
kill each other off.
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#5 Jun 23, 2008
Sounds to me like the kids in the car bit off a little more then they could chew. And talk about insane bail 3.5 million dollars why don't they just remand with out bail. And on the other side of it the Defendant does nothing and he ends up dead next week. I don't live in the hood anymore but used to and its a dog eat dog world. USE the Rod and beat the Child.
#7 Jun 23, 2008
This scenario is coming to your neighborhood as former project dwellers are scattered to the four winds and concentrated in section 8 housing. Our little suburb used to have just the Latin Kings, vile enough, but the the GD's have arrived and there has been an uptick in gang idiocy.
Since: Apr 08
#8 Jun 23, 2008
Right... agreed. And as a result, Waukegan is just a tiny bit safer today as a result. One dead, one wounded, and one going away for life most likely. And no innocent people hurt... win-win.
#9 Jun 23, 2008
Gang Bangers are punks, low lives. Takes 6 usually to beat up on just 1 person. What goes around comes around ladies!
#10 Jun 23, 2008
I have no pity. Maybe they will all exterminate themselves. Even animals don't behave the way gang bangers do,to much class.
#11 Jun 23, 2008
Just another scum bag that the tax payers will be supporting for the rest of his life. The only way this is different because instead of section 8 and welfare its jail.
#12 Jun 23, 2008
how is this a win win? u got one kid dead, another going to prison, probably for a long time, with only your tax dollars to support him, and then finally the Latin Kings will retaliate and hit some innocent kid. yea real win win
#13 Jun 23, 2008
With the first two paragraphs I just had an image of a young man peacefully riding his bicycle, then he pulled out a .38!! Talk about shifting imagery!
That said, now I know why people tell me that Waukegan is no place to live. And here I thought that all the Northern Suburbs were upper-class Utopian Villages. Shame on my ignorance.
#14 Jun 23, 2008
I say put them all on their own island. Put a huge fence around it and let them all kill each other. Good riddens to bad rubbish. Parents have enough to think about now days without having to worry about stray bullets or car jackings, etc... from these punks. They want to die for a cause and act like animals, send em all to IRAQ.
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#15 Jun 23, 2008
this situation is such a shame, these boys can be doing something much more valuable with their time instead of burying their friends and taking it in the a**. i wish these boys were big and bad enough to go to war and fight the real enemies. as a minority they bring embarrasment and shame to the whole race and make a mockery of the american dream their parents wished for them. whatever, you reap what you sow, no sympathy they never show any when they commit their crimes so i won't show any for them.
Since: Apr 08
#16 Jun 23, 2008
Well the dead kid won't cost us anything anymore. Good riddance. The one going to jail will only cost us ONE trial instead of the several you figure he would cost us over his regular gang life span otherwise, and we will still pay the same for his "upkeep" no matter what. But we save on trial expenses.
I did not think about the retaliation so you may be right, but hopefully if it happens, they shoot straight and only whack a gang banger or two. Or three.
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#17 Jun 23, 2008
While everyone on here is saying good, one less and another to support while he goes to jail I'm showing my respect to A.Rubio and his family and his Girlfriend who is apart of my family. RIP A.Rubio.
Everyone has something negative to type and always complaining and showing no sympathy for the dead on this BS forum. Why don't you take that energy and use it to do something about it? Something Positive. Really your just as bad as the gangbangers.
#18 Jun 23, 2008
Sympathy is a human emotion. These punks are not human. They are low life's who steal and kill for what? A pair of shoes? A piece of street to deal drugs? We need tighter gang laws and more armed federal agents on the streets to combat this virus - with permission to shoot the little idiots if they wave a gun at the enforcement agents. Prison is like the Ritz to these guys... forget prison - chain them up - put them in tents - give them a piece of property - a well and some wooden tools - and make them fend for themselves. Maybe then will they learn that hard work puts food in their mouths, not guns and bullets.
#19 Jun 23, 2008
I Know The Dude That Did The Killing i Went 2 School Wit Him....i understand most of yall dont like gang members and i know the reasons y i grew up around it...but for yall 2 be cheering that the fact soomebody life has been takin is a damn shame and i bet half of yall call urselves christians or whatever religion u represent this comin from a 19 year old and i bet half of yall are grown yall should truely be ashamed
Saint Petersburg, FL
#20 Jun 23, 2008
No. You are wrong. You are what you do. I doubt that any of these people posting who are sick of that "gang" culture would try to kill others who has different opinions than them.
#21 Jun 23, 2008
You mean like work, pay taxes, and stay out of gangs?
Oh really? SO everyone here is engaging in criminal activity like gang mayhem, illicit drugs, drive by shootings? Your value system is out of whack!!
#22 Jun 23, 2008
If you want to flash gang signs...prepare for the consequences...when will these low lifes learn...
Since: Apr 08
#24 Jun 23, 2008
Whether you write the truth or not means nothing to me... it's WHAT you wrote that matters. We cheer because it's one less gang turd that good, honest, hard working citizens need to worry about. God forbid some poor slob should be sitting in his car driving to work and wearing the wrong color cap, or have to pick his nose and have it interpreted as a gang flash.
You live in a world where this is an every day thing and you do nothing... nothing... to stop it. Think about it. You want US to show up in your rat-azz neighborhood without automatic weapons, and do what? Be a target? Nope... not me. I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I'm smarter than that!
So as long as a gang banger kills another gang banger, and no one else is involved, I'm ok with it.
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I was a bit skeptical in purchasing this ST suspensions seay bar as the price was too good and I don't know their reputation. After learning they are a division of KW I felt better. I used the rear sway only and it has made the handling characteristics of my 2011 GTI much more neutral. Significantly less understeer. I installed with new VW bolts as this kit comes only with bar, brackets and bushings. Used no lube as suggested and hear no squeaks so far with about 4000 miles on it.
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SMART 2015 Committee Descriptions
Revised May 2015
PROGRAMS - Develops programming to be offered at the SMART Annual Convention, SMART Regional Meetings and other training/networking programs to be developed by SMART, including webinars; this includes the development of the agenda, speakers, topics, sponsorship program, breakout sessions and any other activities to be included during SMART events; committee will also evaluate opportunities for SMART to participate in trade shows or recycling events in order to raise awareness about textile recycling, promote SMART's efforts related to enactment of SMART ordinance on collection bins; and/or to increase SMART membership; committee will also work with SMART staff to suggest regional meeting and convention locations to the board.
David Bloovman - Chairman, Eric Warshaw, Robert Goode, Lee Benovitz, Sukhi Kang,
Carren Kay, Sandy Woycke, Elaine Birks-Mitchell, Nazia Mirza, Heather Lester
EXECUTIVE - Acts on behalf of the Board of Directors on matters requiring immediate attention or urgent dispatch.
President, Jeff Pearl - President, Eric Stubin – Vice President, David Bloovman, 2nd Vice President, Carle Shotwell – Treasurer, Lou Buty – Past President and Jackie King
FINANCE - Monitors the entire financial process of SMART. The association's treasurer chairs the Committee.
Carle Shotwell – Chairman, Jeff Pearl, Eric Stubin, David Bloovman, Lou Buty and Jackie King
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND RETENTION - Monitors and helps develop new membership programs that enhance the tangible and intangible benefits members receive by joining and supporting the organization. Actively targets audiences for membership, successfully enrolling new members while retaining current members. Assists in developing member communications that show the value of membership to encourage member retention and acquisition.
Steve Marks- Chairman, David Bloovman, Michael Glazerman, Mindy Levine Kahn, Scott Nowlan, Joy Fenton, Carle Shotwell, Todd Wilson, Sukhi Kang, Sandy Navidi and Heather Lester
NOMINATING - Submits to the membership nominations for officers and directors.
Lou Buty, Chairman, Jeff Pearl, Eric Stubin, David Bloovman, Carle Shotwell and Jackie King
PUBLIC RELATIONS - Oversees the SMART public relations initiatives.
Eric Stubin - Chairman, Sunny Khatra, Jeff Pearl, Lou Buty, Larry Groipen, and Debra Stevenson
STRATEGIC PLANNING - Works to analyze how the current association serves the members and meets future needs.
Jeff Pearl- Chairman, Lou Buty, Eric Stubin, David Bloovman, Carle Shotwell, Lee Benovitz, Paul Curry, Nir Katz, Richard Sprinkle, Todd Wilson, Steve Marks, Justin Woycke and Jackie King
TECH COMMITTEE - Oversees the SMART website, social media and online services.
Justin Woycke - Chairman, Jeremy Berg, Elaine Birks-Mitchell, Calla Fankhanel, Jason Daniels and Heather Lester
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS - Guides the direction of our government affairs initiatives.
Eric Stubin– Chairman, John Paben, Bill Schapiro, Jeff Pearl, Larry Groipen, Eric Warshaw, Jackie King and Jessica Franken
CLOTHING COLLECTION BIN - Works on developing a strategy for being proactive in disseminating SMART's bin position paper and draft ordinance to municipalities and states considering ordinances governing clothing collection bins; helps develop association policies related to members involved in clothing collection bin business.
Nir Katz – Chairman, Sunny Khatra, Mattias Wallander, Elizabeth Norris, Trish McCully, Gilbert Regalado, Robert Goode, Ed Degen, Paul Curry, Jessica Franken, and Jackie King
WOMEN OF SMART - Provides a forum for women affiliated with the association.
Lynne Warshaw and Kim Woycke- Chairs, Colleen Cole, Pam Goode, and Kaymie Owen


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Mexican cuisine combines the traditional indigenous foods of the Aztecs and Mayas, like chocolate, corn, tomato, avocado, beans and chile peppers, with the meats, rice and garlic brought to Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores.
By Reed Hearon
The Mexican grill relies on two key methods of flavoring foods. One, the recado, is used to season food before it is cooked. Sometimes, foods need to be marinated for hours or even overnight before grilling. Do not stint on marinating times given in the recipes; the times reflect how long it will take for the recado to reach the interior of the food to season and tenderize fully and to help maintain moisture. When salt is listed as an ingredient, it is usually not only there to add flavor but also to raise the moisture level chemically in the food. If you alter the level of salt in some of the recipes, it may result in a dish that is dry as well as bland.
The second method of flavoring is the salsa. Salsas are used as an accompaniment to grilled foods. Whereas recados tend to heighten the natural flavor of the foods being grilled, salsas provide contrast or counterpoint—setting the natural flavors in relief. Salsas rely in part on chiles to provide both flavor and heat. While it is possible to reduce the heat of a salsa by reducing the number of chiles, you also reduce the very flavor of the mixture itself. Instead of using fewer chiles, try making a different salsa based on a milder chile.
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Chronicle Books, 1996
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Rage will definitely run at 60 frames per second on all platforms at release, says id Software.
Originally Posted by Gunsmith
life would be a lot easier if he stopped ****ing around with the console market and stuck to what hes good at!
Originally Posted by Lepermessiah
Fallout 3 done right? Despite no RPG experience, or the fact IS have not made a good game in eons? lol.
QFT.Originally Posted by Star*Dagger
If Carmack says it is hard, it is hard.
Originally Posted by hardski
So you dont think Xbox 360 has a piracy problem? lol
Every game is easily available to download, normally well before UK release dates eg. Ghostbusters.
Console piracy is more tempting because of the ridiculous prices and awful FPS controls.
Originally Posted by cjoyce1980
maybe if the PC market wasn't flooded with copied version of everything on the planet, maybe, just maybe this would of been a PC only release, but time and time again developers know they get a good return on console development.
Take COD for example, Infinity Ward know that the 360 version will sell more copies than the PC, so for them not to pay attention to the console market would be a stupid idea and the this series of games would of never reached the acclaim that it has achieved.
+1Originally Posted by perplekks45Quote:QFT.Originally Posted by Star*Dagger
If Carmack says it is hard, it is hard.
End of story.
Originally Posted by talladega
atleast the PS3 has yet to be cracked to play pirated games. :)
Originally Posted by exceededgoku
because you need a base of users to actually play said pirated games...
My PS£ *cough* PS3 is gathering a layer of dust until I find a game that doesn't play and look better on the 360.
P.S. Awaits the legion of fanboys to start quoting unreleased games with "true next gen graphics" - what a ploy!
Originally Posted by themax
I didn't realize a user base barely 8 million behind it's competitor constituted not having one at all.
I'd have thought it because even now, Blu-ray burners aren't as common as DVD burners, and the discs are far from cheap. I'm ignoring the fact that Sony probably has mountains of DRM in the console for the games, as well.Originally Posted by exceededgoku
because you need a base of users to actually play said pirated games...
I can't speak for every PS3 owner (and I wouldn't want to) but as I've got both consoles, I'll buy exclusives that interest me (kinda interested in inFamous right now, but want it to drop in price a bit before I buy it) but with games that are released on both, I'll buy whichever is cheaper. Which is usually the 360 version. PS3 games seem to hold their prices high for ages. I think Sony deliberately keeps the price high as long as they can. I just picked up Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena on the 360 because it was half the price of the PS3 version. I did the same with Mirrors Edge and Resident Evil 5 (although the price difference wasn't more than £15 on RE5). But I picked up Tony Hawk's Project 8 and Proving Ground on the PS3 because they were cheaper than the 360 versions at the time.Originally Posted by steveo_mcg
Look at this chart, the cross platform games out sell on the x360 vs the ps3 in nearly every case.
Originally Posted by hardski
PS2 is outselling PS3 so hardly a good advert for the non pirated PS3. Both Xbox and Wii are fully available to flash and play backup copies "cough" and both console sales are very healthy.
Lack of region locking doesn't mean that the console doesn't have DRM on the games. Simply that Sony are no longer enforcing something which was seriously unfair. Used to wind me up no end that I could import games, but then wouldn't be able to play them due to region locking without getting a US or JP console as well.Originally Posted by rollo
ps3 has no real drm as the games arnt region coded. I came back from business trip from japan the other week games all worked that i brought back.
Originally Posted by themax
That's a bit far fetched. Even if they did, what would it matter? It's not like a PC. The DRM is usually the disc itself anyway that prevents it from being copied and played unless you have an already illegally modded system as well. Infact, every console save the Dreamcast had similar DRM on the disc preventing such things.
Originally Posted by themax
Of couse games downloaded via PSN can't be backed up and played on another console. But again what does it matter that that platform itself has DRM in place? You make it seems as if that's not in place on any other console.
Originally Posted by Paradigm Shifter
It does make me interested in the reasons why the PS3 isn't more popular for publishers. The install base might not be as great as the XBox360's or the Wii's... but piracy doesn't happen. As far as I am aware, there is no piracy on the PS3 (at least when it comes to games, I'm sure there are people out there pirating Blu-ray films or DVDs...) from the developer standpoint PS3 games aren't as easy to code so they aren't going to like it... but for a publisher the PS3 is a dream platform where they don't even have to contemplate piracy.
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When Christine Gibson was 5 years old, she fell into her parents' swimming pool, unable to swim. Her mother found her floating in the water.
Gibson survived, but the experience of nearly drowning has stuck with her into adulthood, and it's made her intent on making sure it doesn't happen to her 9-month-old twin daughters, Samantha and Madison.
"It's huge," she said.
She and her husband, Alan, came across YouTube videos showing a bold technique designed to prevent infants as young as 6 months old from drowning: Instructors place them face-down into the water and allow them to flip themselves over and float on their backs. The idea is to teach children who fall into water to rest in a safe position until they're rescued .
Kirk Weatherby learned about the technique while he and his wife were searching for swimming lessons for their daughter, who was 6 months old at the time. Like the Gibsons, they found infant survival videos online.
"We were just blown away," he said. "We didn't know that kids were capable of doing that at such a young age."
The problem was he couldn't find anyone in Central Oregon who specialized in the survival training. The solution: He'd do it himself. This time last summer, he had just graduated from a six-week training program in Colorado led by an infant water survival company called Infant Aquatics.
He converted the garage of his modest, northeast Bend home into an indoor pool room, and opened his business, Little Splashers Swim Academy, in September.
On a recent weekday afternoon, Christine and Alan Gibson cheered and shot cell phone videos from plastic chairs near the pool as they watched Kirk work with their twins one-by-one. It was their second lesson. Both girls wailed as Weatherby held them at their waists and carried them through the water. Madison was first. Crying and slapping the water with an open hand, she suddenly became silent when she sensed it was time to go under. After some struggling and kicking, she was able to pull her head out of the water, flip herself over and float on her back.
"They're doing awesome," Christine whispered with a smile, Samantha watching on from her lap.
Training catching on
Infant survival training is not a new idea, but its popularity is spreading internationally as more people learn about it, Weatherby said. Water safety is especially important in Central Oregon, where the landscape is dotted with rivers, lakes, canals, ponds and pools, he said.
"You can't escape it, it's everywhere," Weatherby said. "It's such a big part of our lives here."
Weatherby appears to have landed in a sweet spot; his classes are booked solid. Once his current students graduate, he'll have put more than 40 kids through his one-on-one programs, which take students as young as 6 months old. For kids less than 1 year old, the classes are purely survival training, as Weatherby said research shows kids younger than 1 are too young to learn to swim. For kids older than one, the classes are a mixture of survival training and traditional swimming lessons.
The classes aren't cheap. Infant survival, a four-week program held four days a week, costs $320 plus a $60 registration fee. For the older kids, it's $480 plus the $60 registration fee.
The infant survival classes are only 10 minutes long. That's because at that age, attention spans don't last much longer than 10 minutes, Weatherby said. In addition, kids learn from repetition, so keeping a class short and full of repeated drills is the best way for a child to learn, he said. Once kids hit 4, they move up to 20-minute lessons.
Throughout the programs, the children gradually don more and more clothing as they learn to flip over in the water. This is meant to simulate an actual drowning event, Weatherby said. They start out in a swimsuit and then move to shorts and a T-shirt, then a long-sleeved shirt and jeans and then add a sweatshirt. Kids 1 and older graduate by flipping over in a snowsuit, he said. For kids younger than 1, they graduate in heavy fleece pajamas, or something lighter than a snowsuit.
"So no matter what clothing they're wearing if they fall in, they've done it before," Weatherby said.
Experts stress supervision
Drowning prevention experts at hospitals, however, offer a much more cautionary perspective compared with Weatherby's reverence for the technique.
Linda Quan, a pediatric emergency physician at Seattle Children's Hospital and professor at University of Washington School of Medicine, has spent her career researching drowning prevention strategies. When it comes to the flip and float method, she said simply that no research has been published demonstrating its effectiveness, so it's impossible to know whether it works.
Even if it's anecdotally made a difference for some kids, that does not mean it will be safe or effective for everyone, she said.
"I wouldn't put a nickel on it, much less my child's life," she said.
Quan said her biggest fear with respect to the technique is that it will make parents feel overconfident that their child is safe in or near the water. She said the most important drowning prevention technique is supervision.
"Around water, it's a job," she said.
Ben Hoffman, the medical director at the Tom Sargent Safety Center at Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, agreed that supervision is critical, and it's not an easy task.
"Anybody who has kids will tell you that the supervision is tricky because they're fast and they're impulsive," he said.
Hoffman said he shares Quan's concern that parents could let their guards down around water if their kids take drowning prevention classes.
"If one child gets hurt because parents change the way the supervision was on that child, that's one too many," he said.
As with anything, Hoffman said he simply needs data on the technique's effectiveness before he would recommend it to parents. Similarly, although research has proven swimming lessons between the ages of 1 and 4 can decrease the risk of drowning, that evidence didn't accumulate until 2010. Before that, Hoffman said he didn't recommend any children under 4 learn to swim.
"Now that there is proof, we can say with some degree of confidence that that's a good idea," he said.
Quan said there are also concerns that the technique, which involves repeatedly submerging infants, could be traumatizing and cause them to fear water later on.
"Are these the kids that when they're 3, 4 or 5 will go to swim lessons and put up a kicking, screaming fight because they're terrified?" she said.
'They're just calm'
For Weatherby, though, all of the children he's seen learn to flip, swim and be comfortable in the water have convinced him it works. His 2-year-old daughter, for example, went through the program when she was 13 months old. Now, she's an "absolute fish" who loves to experiment with new swimming techniques, he said.
Even during his training in Colorado, Weatherby said he witnessed impressive transformations. The group would teach about 30 kids per day.
"It's amazing, just watching these kids change from being super timid and afraid of the water to just being super confident, launching themselves into the water, just fearless," he said. "They're just calm."
And the benefits go beyond just swimming, Weatherby said. The kids are more confident and social afterward, he said.
Regardless of which techniques are best, parents, swimming instructors and doctors all want the same thing: fewer kids drowning in preventable situations. Unintentional injuries are the most common cause of death for kids ages 1 through 4, and drowning is the most common unintentional injury they suffer followed by car accidents, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It's like America goes through the roof on car seat safety," Weatherby said. "You can't even leave the hospital until your car seat is in properly, and then no one does anything about water. I'm trying to change that."
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There is still something special about newsprint in these digital days. A local website that covers a community in South Wales, Caerphilly Observer, has now launched a 16-page fortnightly newspaper.
Some 10,000 copies of the first issue were published yesterday. They are being distributed free to shops and newsagents across the borough of Caerphilly.
Caerphilly Observer's founder, Richard Gurner, says he is exploiting a gap in the market because the borough doesn't have a paper dedicated exclusively to the entire area.
He was able to move into newsprint after securing a European Union-funded business grant from the county borough council.
Gurner, a former Brighton Argus journalist, launched his online news site in July 2009 and eventually attracted an average of 50,000 page views and 20,000 unique visitors a month. Despite those traffic numbers he believes the print edition will expand his audience.
He said: "Seeing the first edition roll off the press at 3.30am made all the effort worthwhile. Caerphilly Observer is now a physical presence in the world… the support we've had from advertisers has been nothing short of phenomenal."
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Greenpeace, U.S.A. v. Evans
Citation: 17 ELR 21207
No. No. C86-1676R, 688 F. Supp. 579/(W.D. Wash., 06/12/1987)
The court holds that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it issued a permit under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) authorizing scientific research on killer whales in Puget Sound without preparing an environmental assessment (EA) or environmental impact statement (EIS). The permit allowed harassment of the estimated 86 whales in Puget Sound for research analyzing the impact of harassment on the whales' behavior, and authorized the collection by dart biopsy of 45 tissue samples over a five-year period for the purposes of studying contamination, diet, and group integrity. The court holds that NMFS unreasonably concluded that the issuance of the permit qualified for a categorical exclusion from NEPA's requirement that an EA or EIS be prepared for major federal actions significantly affecting the environment. Although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NMFS' parent agency, has determined that permits for scientific research under the MMPA usually qualify for a categorical exclusion, NOAA also requires the preparation of an EA or EIS where the activity could result in any significant impacts. The court holds that plaintiff has demonstrated that the proposed research may have significant effects on the quality of the environment according to factors set out in the Council on Environmental Quality's NEPA regulations. First, the effects of the research are highly controversial. All but one of the commenters on the proposal opposed it, and among the critics were scientists knowledgeable in killer whale behavior. The regional NMFS office and the National Marine Mammal Laboratory expressed concerns about the darting process and the impact of the harassment on the whales' social structure. The many restrictions and conditions placed on the permit also point to the conclusion that the potential effects were controversial. Second, the potential effects are highly uncertain and may involve unique or unknown risks. Although NMFS concluded that no adverse impacts on the Puget Sound whale population or its ecosystem were anticipated, whale behavior specialists and NMFS personnel disagreed. Moreover, the administrative record is deficient on the subject of potential risks, since the final decision memorandum does not address the objections. Rather than addressing the uncertainty posed by the research, NMFS chose to impose restrictions on the permit, assuming the restrictions would resolve any problems. This approach was rejected by the Ninth Circuit in Jones v. Gordon, 15 ELR 20920, which also involved the NMFS' issuance of an MMPA permit for the taking of killer whales. Third, the NMFS's action could set a precedent for future proposals involving invasive techniques. Finally, the proposed research may result in cumulative impacts.
Counsel for Plaintiff
Stephan C. Volker
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
2044 Fillmore St., San Francisco CA 94115
(415) 567-6100
Counsel for Defendants
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Civil Division
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Day camps deserve support: Jewish day camp has the potential to impact positively those children unable or unwilling to bunk away from home, writes Eileen Price. (eJewishphilanthropy)
'Yids' with cleats: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in England has an anti-Semitic slur for a nickname, even though none of its players and few of its fans are Jewish. (PRI)


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Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill
The House Legislative Branch appropriations bill provides $3.3 billion in discretionary budget authority. By longstanding convention, the House bill includes only funding for legislative branch agencies (e.g. GAO, CBO, and the Library of Congress), joint congressional activities (e.g. the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Architect of the Capitol), and House accounts. The bill at this point, contains no funding for the Senate, which will be added by that body when it considers this legislation. Excluding the Senate, the bill reduces overall funding by 3% from the current year's funding levels and 7% below requested levels.
The spending levels in the bill do not exceed the 302(b) allocations adopted by the Appropriations Committee which are consistent with the overall spending level approved by the House in the Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 112).
House of Representatives operations. The bill proposes $1.2 billion to fund Legislative Branch operations, continuing the 6.4 percent cut that was put into place in FY 12. This account covers operations and maintenance for House leadership and committee offices, Members' representational expenses (MRAs), and employee salaries. This legislation allows any funds remaining unspent at the end of the fiscal year to be used for deficit reduction.
Capitol Police. This legislation provides $360 million in funding for the Capitol Police, a 6 percent increase over FY 12 and 4 percent below the President's request. Funds will be dedicated to the continued supports of the force's 1,775 officers and 370 civilian positions as well as to ensure the safety and security of Members' district offices.
Architect of the Capitol. The bill funds the Architect of the Capitol at 22 percent below the 2012 enacted levels and 34 percent below the 2013 request. Budget limitations will require continued prioritization of projects most critical to operational needs. Priority will be given to projects that protect and promote the health and safety of those who visit and work in the Capitol complex.
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Scientists have identified bacteria found in the guts of pandas that can break down plant material into ethanol for use as an alternative fuel.
Researchers have isolated 40 species of bacteria from the faeces of two pandas at Memphis Zoo, Ya Ya and Le Le, capable of improving biofuel production.
They found the microbes were highly efficient at breaking down the fibrous material in plant into sugars that would then be fermented by other bacteria.
They were looking for the bacteria in pandas because the endangered species eats almost exclusively a diet of woody bamboo.
Their guts have evolved to digest the bamboo rapidly to allow them to get enough nutrients from this nutritionally poor food.
Dr Ashli Brown, who is leading the research Mississippi State University, said the bacteria in pandas produced highly potent enzymes capable of breaking down touch woody materials.
She said: "The time from eating to defecation is comparatively short in the panda, so their microbes have to be very efficient to get nutritional value out of the bamboo.
"Efficiency is key when it comes to biofuel production — that's why we focused on the microbes in the giant panda."
Dr Brown presented the findings at the National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Indianapolis.
Currently plant waste from crops such as corn and soya requires special processing to break down tough lignocellulose material before it can be turned into biofuel.
Working with scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr Brown's team identified bacteria from the pandas that break down lignocellulose into simple sugars, which can be fermented into bioethanol.
They also found bacteria that can take those sugars and transform them into oils and fats for biodiesel production.
Dr Brown said "We have discovered microbes in panda faeces might actually be a solution to the search for sustainable new sources of energy."