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The year 2011 was an exciting time in Homer Glen. On April 17th, the Village celebrated its 10th anniversary as an Illinois municipality. This celebration was a major milestone for hundreds of Homer Glen volunteers who, over the years, have worked hard to create a uniquely vibrant and environmentally responsible community.
During these challenging economic times, the Village has continued its ongoing commitment of not levying a municipal property tax. Homer Glen remains one of the few communities in Illinois that does not levy a municipal property tax. Instead, a majority of the Village's operational expenses are paid for from sales tax receipts. This is a unique way to fund a majority of municipal operations and Homer Glen residents continue to benefit from this model. Sales tax receipts help to pay for police protection, street sweeping, road repair, intersection improvements, park land development, staffing, bike trail development and so many additional, important services. Also, unlike most communities, the Village ends 2011 as it started, with no (zero) municipal general operation debt. The Village of Homer Glen remains committed to not levying a municipal property tax!
New Homer Glen public improvements were plentiful in 2011. The year saw completion of the first phase of our outstanding new 3.4 mile Village of Homer Glen Heroes Trail. Not looking to rest on our achievements, the Village already applied for and has received yet another grant to build a 1.6 mile extension to our trail system. That new trail extension project will begin construction in 2014. The Village of Homer Glen is committed to developing one of the best bike and pedestrian municipal recreational trail systems.
The year saw continued efforts by the Village to identify and fix long-standing drainage challenges that exist in the community. Specifically, the Village completed the engineering plans required for drainage improvements in the Oak Valley Subdivision that will occur in the spring of 2012. Additionally, the Village has authorized a comprehensive review and analysis of seven specific chronic drainage problems that are scattered around Homer Glen in various locations. This analysis, when completed in early 2012, will help the Village to prioritize our ongoing work to fix drainage issues. The Village is committed to fixing long-standing drainage challenges!
Homer Glen has welcomed many new businesses to our community in 2011. One of the most visible business redevelopments is the outstanding new Speedway Gas Station located at the corner of 159th and Will Cook Road. Speedway estimates that this new facility will increase their sales, and thus, the Village's sales tax receipts, by 30%. The Village continues to look for ways to support businesses and to work with them, as in the case of Speedway, to maximize the development potential of every commercial lot in Homer Glen. The Village is committed to economic development!
2011 was an exciting year in the Village…but we are a forward looking community! We're already busy planning for a successful 2012…protecting, preserving, improving and building an ever stronger Village of Homer Glen!


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Matt Boni's House for Sale
Friday, April 26, 2013 | 12:30 PMFormer professional motocross rider Matt Boni's house is for sale. Check out the details below.
20 acres high and dry
2,500 SQF home 3/2 built in 2002 plus game room
1,400 SQF insulated and Air Conditioned garage
2,000 Gallon International water truck
seperate 4" well for water truck
John Deer tractor with all attachments needed for track and property prep
11,000 yards of great clay ontop of existing clay on land
NO noise ordnances or Zoning restrictions
located in the booming MX town of Groveland,FL
$485,000 Firm
contact Matt at 407-748-2515 or [email protected]
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That is a DAMN good price for what's included.
That is a sweet turn-key type of setup at any price ... for under $500K I would imagine it would get snapped up quickly. I guess this is really the end of the pro-career line for Matt - very talented guy and last I read he was enjoying living "the normal" life and had embraced having a steady income vs the uncertainty that comes with being a pro outside of the few guys. Hope he still will make an appearance in future years at special events and races.
I live 20 minutes from groveland and currently rent a house and bum off my buddies private tracks, come on powerball!!! just bought a ticket yesterday lol
With nearby neighbors like Josh Grant and Ryan Villapoto, who would have thought Groveland Fl, would indeed become a MX Boom-Town?!?!
Also folks, within a very short distance is the National Training Center in Clermont, FL. This is one extraordinary athletic facilitate that sent 14 athletes to the 2012 Summer Olympics last year in London.
Near Orlando AND Walt Disney World AND your own personal MX facility! Good stuff Matt! Hope all is well!
He has been trying to sell it for awhile now.
STOP with the dream of selling to a person who has 500K for a house that LOVES motocross. Flatten the track/sell dirt...plant a field and sell it for market value of the house and land. Sell tractor and water truck seperate.
If you think you are going to add to a price of a house because of tractors and water trucks...you are nuts. Who would roll a used tractor into their mortgage?
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Will (The) Hope Spring Eternal For The PGA Tour?
Like most everybody else, I have only the vaguest of notions of what Hell is like. The whole fire and brimstone thing never actually clicked with me – hey, if it's warm it can't be all bad. No, my vision of Hell involves mostly images of cold and dark. And reality television. I'm guessing that Keeping Up With The Kardashians is broadcast 24/7 there.
The reason I bring this up is because the end result of my recent trip to the Bob Hope Classic is a guaranteed reservation in Hades. You see, I snuck a Flip Videocam into a PGA Tour event. And used it. Here is the damning evidence…
To enjoy golf in January in the desert, you have to acquire a taste for sunshine, zero humidity and temperatures in the upper 70's. It's not too bad, if you like that sort of thing. As luck would have it, I do – but that was not the motivating factor in including the Classic on the "It's Game Time Somewhere" Tour schedule. I was actually there to see a celebrity.
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Still Waiting For A Jeff Lebowski Sighting At The World Series of Bowling
…Continued from the previous post.
Most casual fans of bowling know that rolling three strikes in a row is called a Turkey. It is now my pleasure to add to that body of knowledge by sharing with you that four strikes in a row is called a Hambone.
Why? I don't know – nor did anyone sitting near me at the World Series of Bowling. But each time a bowler recorded a fourth consecutive strike, the "Hambone" signs and cheers invariably went up in the bleachers.
Your curiosity now piqued, you may ask "What is five strikes in a row called?" Simple – "Five strikes in a row." Or in my case, "Impossible."
My trip to Las Vegas for this event was timed to miss all of the qualifying play that had been going on for almost two weeks at the South Point Resort's Bowling Center. In each of the five Championships that make up the WSOB, bowlers had been progressively keggling through 12 games of medal play to narrow the field to 16, and then 9 match play games to finalize seeding.
I skipped all that and went right to the dessert – the Championship Finals, which featured the five bowlers who had accumulated the most points during that 21 game grind. And I took two helpings of the good stuff, plunking down $20 each to be part of the studio audience for the taping of the Viper and the Chameleon Championships.
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I Was A Prop At The PBA World Series Of Bowling
It's a funny thing about Las Vegas – the city seems to be suffering through a chronic and debilitating shortage of chairs.
If you don't believe me, try this simple experiment on your own: Enter any Vegas casino and sit down – but not in any of the 12,594 seats at which doing so requires placing a bet or ordering food and drink. See what I mean? Spooky, huh?
So it was that I recently found myself luxuriating in the comfort of a cement bench at the taxi stand outside of South Point Resort Casino, waiting for the gates to open for the PBA World Series of Bowling. It was either that or idle away the time at the slots. Since the Demon Deacon Fantasy Football League reminds me each year that I am the world's least talented gambler, the choice was an easy one.
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The Origins Of Team USA Archery
…Continued from the previous post.
It's pretty easy to see how archery came into existence as a sport.
Long, long ago, in a time that predates even ESPN, people had to eat. They noticed that animals that just might fill that express need seemed to be running by with regularity. Somebody decided to take a curved tree limb, stretch some twine between its ends and use it to propel pointy sticks at these animals.
Poof. Instant supper. After which they invented beer to wash it down.
Naturally there emerged some down time between animals running by, so the enterprising among these folks began to proactively venture out after them. They decided to call it hunting. Somewhere in there green tights and pointy leather hats came into vogue, but that's a different story.
Here's the point. In every group of people there's inevitably somebody who says something like "I bet I can shoot my pointy stick closer to the middle of that tree over there than you can." In this particular case, that guy's name was Archie.
I'm really, really sorry, but you have to admit it – that joke was just sitting there for somebody to use.
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The SoCal Showdown: I Shot An Arrow Into The Air
There are perfect days and then there are perfect days. And one notch ahead of that was the day that I found myself at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA to witness the USA Archery SoCal Showdown tournament.
It was amazing to consider that I had been at another Olympic training facility just two weeks prior to that, and the environment couldn't have been any more different. At the Bethesda Center of Excellence a drizzly morning and the mist rising from steam-heated water gushing down the whitewater river course combined to provide an almost surreal backdrop to the Canoe/Kayak Nationals.
At Chula Vista, it was brilliantly sunny and warm, with literally not a cloud in the sky. A very slight cooling breeze topped off the kind of day that needed no studio retouching to go directly to a Chamber of Commerce highlight reel.
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Tour de Golf Tours: Nationwide Tour (Better Late Than Never)
This was where it all began. Well, not exactly here in San Jacinto, CA. But it did begin with this tournament. Back when it was called the Buy.com Inland Empire Classic, and it was played at Empire Lakes Golf Course in Rancho Cucamonga. And I was the Special Assistant to the Operations Director. In other words, I was a volunteer with a job description heavy on "Other Tasks As Asasigned".
Tasks like pounding hundreds of stakes into the sun-baked desert ground, and then stringing miles of yellow nylon rope along them, so as to keep the anticipated crowds from surging onto the course and interfering with play. You know how rabid those golf fans can be.
It was my very first event in my newly chosen career in the golf business, and I went at it with gusto. A week of precious little sleep and not much to eat. Days filled with long hours in the hot sun. It was heaven. The first step on my eventual path to succeed PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem – a progression so natural they wouldn't even have to change the monogramming on the executive suite hand towels.
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The Friendliest Invisible Sport In America
…Continued from the previous post.
The very first thing I noticed about the 2010 Lawn Bowls U.S. Open was the smell. It smelled like golf – more specifically like a putting green first thing in the morning. Which was no coincidence, since the Newport Harbor Lawn Bowling Club's entire playing area was one big painstakingly manicured putting green.
I liked the place immediately, even if it did evoke suppressed memories of 90-hour work weeks as a golf course GM. I managed to fight off the reflexive duck and cover response and find a bench from which to survey the scene.
I had been surprised to learn that the Newport Harbor Lawn Bowling Club was not a private facility. It is actually part of a larger, meticulously maintained public recreation facility in Corona del Mar, California. Open to anyone who wants to learn the game. That in a nutshell, encapsulates the vague public perception of the sport – for the small portion of the population that even holds a perception.
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The U.S. Lawn Bowls Open: Who Knew?
I don't get it. I just don't get it. How can it be that lawn bowls not one of the most popular games played in the country?
OK, the name is kind of quirky – I'll give you that. Why not call it lawn bowling? That would at least give people a head start on relating to the concept. That will also cut down on the confusion created by the fact that "bowls" is the name of the game, the equipment AND the action taken. As in "One bowls with his lawn bowls in lawn bowls". But I digress.
Let's get one thing straight right from the start. Lawn bowls is NOT bocce. Yes, it bears a family resemblance. But lumping them together is like saying that the Soapbox Derby and NASCAR racing are the same thing because both involve something with four tires and a steering wheel.
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Kelli Shean: Not Necessarily An Unknown To Everybody
The U.S. Women's Open started play today in Oakmont. And while Brittany Lang ended up as the first round leader, it was the leader in the clubhouse for most of the day that received the most attention. And absolutely nobody knew who Kelli Shean was.
But I did.
In fact, while attending the NCAA Women's Golf Western Regional in May, I had a nice conversation with the father of Kelli Shean's University of Arkansas teammate, Kristin Ingram. While we were talking, Kelli walked by and said something to Mr. Ingram, using a combination of spoken words and sign language.
After she had passed I asked if she was hearing impaired, and was told that yes, she was – but that she hated that term and didn't consider herself handicapped at all. In fact, she was a decorated junior golfer that had been recruited from her native South Africa — and had been Arkansas' #1 player all year.
I thought that to be noteworthy and included it in my Mother's Day post, "For The Golf Parents". So as the golf media scrambled today to get some background on this unknown golfer, I recognized her immediately. And I was happy to see that dozens of people received their first introduction to her background information via my blog today.
Ahh, the advantages that come with always knowing that It's Game Time Somewhere.
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Tour de Golf Tours: The PGA Tour
Show of hands – How many of you think I picked the PGA Tour to wrap up my Tour de Tours because it's the best of the four that I covered?
OK, it's an intelligent guess…but it's wrong.
I came to Hartford for the final round of the Travelers Championship for much the same reason that I started my mini-journey with the Futures Tour's City of Hammond Classic. It gave me an opportunity to go home. And while the Futures Tour represented going home professionally, the Travelers Championship involved going home personally.


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Do you see advertisements and think "I could do better"? Do you wonder why some marketing campaigns are successful when others are not? Do you want to help promote products, services, and ideas?
As a member of Advertising and PR: Opening the Door to Communication Careers, you will explore careers in advertising and public relations. You will live in Sandoz Hall with other members of Bullseye and the members of the other learning community sponsored by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Media Smarts: Broadcasting, Journalism, and Sports Communication.
You will connect with professors, upperclass students, and alumni working in advertising and public relations and visit local advertising and PR companies.
Open To: | First-year students interested in advertising and/or public relations |
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Jamie Ewan |
For two weeks during September, RAF Coningsby became a hive of activity with the base hosting guests from the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF - al-quwwāt al-ğawwiyyah al-malakiyyah as-suʿūdiyyah) as they joined the Royal Air Force to take part in Exercise Saudi-British Green Flag. | ||
Ben Montgomery |
Exercise Joint Warrior 13-1, running from 15-29th April 2013, once again drew participation from multiple nations in one of Europe's largest military exercises. The aviation contingent was based at RAF Leuchars and Lossiemouth, from where Ben Montgomery reports for AeroResource. | ||
Jason Grant & Mark Forest |
Red Flag is the United States Air Force's premiere training exercise and involves aircraft from the United States and its Allies. Jason Grant explains the history behind the exercise and then travels with AeroResource's Mark Forest to Nellis AFB to experience the first Red Flag of 2013, known as Red Flag 13-2 | ||
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Every six months the United States Air Force (USAF) holds a Weapons School graduation exercise, known as the Mission Employment Phase. Units from the USAF and United States Navy (USN) join for the two week long exercise held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada and the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). AeroResource's Mark Forest visited Nellis AFB during December 2012's ME to find out more about the Weapons School and the participating units. | ||
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Twice a year the United Kingdom hosts the biggest European military Exercise – Joint Warrior. During the second exercise of 2012, RAF Leuchars played host to the exercise's Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) contingent, and a detachment German Air Force Tornado's. Duncan Monk reports from the Kingdom of Fife. | ||
Mark Forest |
The annual Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT) exercise was hosted in 2012 once again by Gando Air Base, on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. On April 24th enthusiasts and photographers were invited to attend the "DACT" Spotter's Day. Mark Forest reports for AeroResource on the events of the day, from Gando. | ||
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On the 14th March, the second 2012 Red Flag Media Day was held, under the direction of a new PAO. Represented by Robert Chapman and Mark Forest, AeroResource was along for the ride with many other photographers from around the world. | ||
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In 1966 the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Centre was activated at Nellis AFB and in 1975, Red Flag air-to-air exercises started. Mark Forest reports from Red Flag 2012-02. | ||
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Fighter Control Forum member Tony Osborne attended this years Nato Tiger meet for Artic Tigers 2007. This was the first time a Tiger Meet had been hosted in Norway. Despite the goings on in the worlds war zones involving Nato nations. Over one thousand personel from Twenty One squadrons represented by Twelve countries were able to attend. | ||


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Lake Merritt, Oakland
Ahhh Lake Merritt, the lake of a thousand smells. I've heard a lot of rumors regarding Lake Merritt and it's origins. So I decided to write this article about the history and facts of Lake Merritt. I hope this article helps spread some proper and informative information for all. Please share with fellow Oaklander's.
Is Lake Merritt Man Made?
For one, I often hear that Lake Merritt is a man made lake, as if it never were. Truth is it is not even really a lake when you get all technical. It is a natural salt water tidal lagoon connected to the Oakland / Alameda Estuary. So that means the Bay and yes the Pacific Ocean.
Currently there is a dam under 12th Street but it is still open and the water runs freely so that you can see the tide coming in and out every day. Also this dam can be opened and closed to help prevent flooding during heavy rains. Lake Merritt is also an outlet for 5 or more fresh water creeks running through Oakland and for 62 storm drains. The creeks include the Park Boulevard Creek, Indian Gultch Trestle Glen Creek, Wildwood Creek, Pleasant Valley Creek, Glen Echo Creek and a few other small ones.
Creek Map
Measure DD
Currently Measure DD is in full force and the Lake is undergoing a massive beautification project. Measure DD was passed in 2002 with a price tag of $198 million dollars. The Lakeshore side has already undergone a massive makeover and does look a lot better than it did a few years ago.
Presently construction is undergoing on the 12th Street Project which includes dam removal, a pedestrian / bike bridge and converting the old 12 lane expressway(also known as the "worlds shortest highway") to a 6 lane boulevard with trees and a park. It seems they will also change the name to Lake Merritt Boulevard. Interesting because East 14th(now International Blvd.) and 14th St. connect there. There will now be a gap between the two with a whole new street.
Anyways, with the 12th street project on the verge of being completed it will be even less of a lake and even more of a tidal lagoon. When the 12st street construction is completed in August 2012 it will actually allow for small boats, crafts, kayaks and what not to pass under the bridge. Eventually they will redo the 7th and 10th street bridges as well.
You can see the before and after below.
1857: Open to the estuary, full on salt water tidal lagoon.
2006: Dam in place but still water flowing in and out from the estuary making it a salt water "lake".
August 2012?: The current Measure DD project's projected outcome. I like.
So as you can see the tide comes in and exits at the foot of the Lake on the Henry J. Kaiser side. The wiki article claims it is not a tidal lake, but I have no idea who put that there and maybe they are not aware of the tide connecting under the the 12 street bridge. You can actually stand there and watch it come in and out and watch the local bird wild life fishing as the tide comes in or goes out. It's pretty neat. Actually you can't see that anymore because of the construction. But when it's done!
The Nations First Wildlife Refuge
Another thing no one seems to know is that Lake Merritt is the nations very first declared Wildlife Refuge. Declared by Dr. Samuel Merritt himself when he was mayor of Oakland back in 1869 and it was approved in 1870.
Today the Bird Sanctuary is just the 5 man made bird islands which began construction in 1925. It's kind of neat that we have the Nations first wildlife refugee right here in Oakland. Cool! As of 1963 it is registered as a national historic landmark.
Actually while doing research for this article I have become slightly confused. Is it the FIRST or just the last standing / oldest? Can anyone help with this? I was always taught it was the first. The gov site says Florida in 1903, so yes we would be first but they don't even have us listed?
To learn more about Lake Merritt and it's wildlife you can visit the Nature Center in Lakeside Park near the Bird Sanctuary.
How many miles around Lake Merritt?
I keep hearing the lake is 5 miles around?
It's only 3.1 miles! Which happens to be 5 kilometers. So maybe that's why people keep saying 5 miles?
The 3.1 miles is if you take the inner foot path and do the whole lake. But if you cheat and take the sidewalk and skip parts it's only 2.7 miles.
Either way, it's a beautiful walk and I do it all the time. Nothing beats the Taco Truck, a beer and the Lake for sunset. Ghetto Gourmet.
How long does it take to walk Lake Merritt?
Well at 3.1 miles long and the average human walking 3 to 4 miles per hour it would take 45 minutes to an hour.
But you should give yourself more time to walk around Lake Merritt because you're going to want to soak it all in, sit on a bench or two, people watch, lay in the grass, etc.
Cleveland Cascade
While walking the lake you can also cross the street and visit the Cleveland Cascade, another old Oakland secret. Built in 1923 by Howard Gilkey. Unfortunately this gem was later ignored. It was actually a fountain at one point but they shut it down in the 1950′s and filled it in with dirt. Overtime it became pretty beat up with neglect however thanks to locals with a passion in 2004 it has been brought back and is now a place for joggers and walkers to hang out. Measure DD actually did allocate some funding to bringing the fountain back to life. It would really be awesome if the water fountains worked again. If you would like to help visit their website.
Necklace of Lights
The Necklace of Lights was put up around the lake in 1925. It consist of 126 lamppost and 3,400+ lights. In 1941 during World War II they were shut off for the blackout and remained off for many decades. They were finally brought back to life in 1985.
In 2006 they were replaced with a new modern more green lighting system saving the city thousands of dollars.
Bellevue-Staten Building
Have you ever wondered what that red orangeish gothic looking building is at the top of the lake? It's the Bellevue-Staten Building built in 1929 by Herman C. Baumann. I find it to be a really great addition to the Lake Merritt skyline.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Below is one of my photos of it.
Children's Fairyland
Lake Merritt is also home to Children's Fairyland which opened 1950. It was sponsored and created by the Lake Merritt Breakfast Club. It is claimed to be the first theme park in the United Sates that catered specifically to families with small children. A great place to take your kids with a fully fairytale themed park, art installations you can climb on and a key that can bring story tale audio to life. My Dad took my sister and I there a lot as a kid. We sure loved it. If you have children please do them a favor and take them there.
Bonsai Garden
Also in that area of Lakeside Park there is the Bonsai Garden. I haven't been in there since I was like in elementary school on a field trip so I don't have much info other than their website. But if you're into that sorta thing, go! It's waiting for you.
Water Fountains
The four semi newly installed fountains are very pretty but also serve a purpose which is aeration of the water. Keeping it moving and cycling helps to prevent it from becoming stagnate, oxygen deprived and smelly. That is another added benefit to Measure DD. Opening the waterway wider will allow for more tide to roll in and out keeping the water moving and fresh which should in return enhance the local micro-climate and habitat for the wild life. Be excited!
Cell phone photos taken with the Best HDR Android Camera App.
Lake Chalet
Lake Merritt also has a restaurant now! The Lake Chalet Oakland which is a semi new establishment right on the water that I encourage you to check out. They have a deck on the water and great Happy Hours every day from 3pm to 6pm and 9pm to close. The building itself was originally built as a high pressure salt water pumping station for the Oakland Fire Department back in 1909. It has undergone a lot of changes and was closed down for most of my childhood. Reopened in August 2009 for the beautiful Lake Chalet. I myself have never eaten dinner there and heard it is over priced for what it is, however the Happy Hour is very affordable and you have a great view on the water. It is actually the sister restaurant of the Beach Chalet in San Francisco near Ocean Beach. I say you must try their specialty beers such as the Lake IPA. Taco Tuesdays are my favorite.
You can also take gondola rides from the dock out on the lake!
Cell Phone Pic.
View from.
Boat Rentals
The Boating Center is actually still active and they do rent paddle boats and other small crafts. I did this a lot as a kid but have not in my adult life. Soon, soon. It's a great idea, bring some food, have a picnic in the water. Just don't go swimming! Actually, you can't. There are no swimming signs at various places around the lake. But the rentals are affordable and from what I can see pretty underused. Maybe most people don't know about this or they are just like me and keep saying later. Do it!
Camron Stanford House
Ever wonder what that big white house on the corner of 14th and Lakeside / Oak st is? It's the Camron Stanford House, one of the original Victorian mansions built around the lake. It was later used as the City of Oakland's Museum and now give tours and cater to events.
Lake Merritt Birds
The lake is home to many types of birds including but not limited to the Black Crowned Night Heron, Great Blue Herons, California Brown Pelicans as well as White Pelicans, Mallard Ducks, Cormorants, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets, Cranes, Forester Turns, Canadian Geese, Coots and many more! With the wildlife refuge it is truly a home to many kinds of species. Lucky for me growing up here and my mom being a bird watcher I got to learn them all as a kid.
I know everyone hates the Canadian Geese, me included because they crap and get feathers everywhere. But did you know the year round population is only about 140? With a surge in the summer to 2,000. I thought there were way more than that.
Some of my cell phone pics.
Festival at the Lake
If you recall back when we were kids Lake Merritt used to host Festival at the Lake. This was such an awesome event for me as a child starting in 1980 and running till 1997. It's sad but the festival ran into problems when a small riot occurred in 1994. The attendance and funding dropped severely after that year and it was canceled. Luckily now here in Oakland we have so many more festivals that have sprung up over the last decade. We truly do live in an amazing city. Thank you all for being a part of it.
Lake Merritt Trivia
What Dreams May Come staring Robin Williams featured Lake Merritt in the final scene where they agree to meet in their new life. They mention meeting again in New Jersey but the scene is on Lake Merritt before The Essex was built.
Lake Merritt Fireworks
Well I could not find any information on the fireworks that used to happen at Lake Merritt back when I was a kid. I even emailed the City of Oakland and Jean Quan referred me to someone who I emailed and they referred me to someone else who never responded. Wait to go guys! Maybe I'll try again sometime but for now just know there used to be a huge firework display at Lake Merritt like Jack London has hosted.
Lake Merritt is not a even lake….
So in conclusion, Lake Merritt's not even a lake! Really, in conclusion we live in an amazing city full of history and character. I appreciate you all whether you were born and raised here or just got here. Oakland has grown so much since I was a kid and it is continuing to grow with all the local Oakland love being spread. You guys bring it and help it grow.
If you feel there is anything you would like me to add to this article please contact me. And please do share this article with your fellow Oaklanders by hitting the facebook share on the left hand bar.
Several old maps of Oakland
Measure DD Progress Map
Waterfront History Map
Wetland Overlook Measure DD
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I have lots of great memories of the "Lake" I learned that it was former mayor's Merritt's back yard. Can you imagine what his home must have looked like ?
this was a great article! I love the lake! I can remember when my da took me there for the first time and said we going to run it. I was six then, now im 30 and I do it everytime im home.
me too. how funny, but great article.
I just Googled "How many miles around Lake Merritt and your article was #2. Ba-Bam!
This was quite an insightful read. Thanks! I grew up around the lake and jog there, but never knew it was a salt water body. This will be interesting, as I have promised friends that I'll drink from the lake to test my new zeosleeve water bottle filter (and yes, I'm aware that the water is disgusting and full of poop). I was informed that my ARIIX filter can remove viruses & bacteria up to 99.9999%, so I'm not too worried. However, I know that the filter cannot remove salt, so I'm not too excited about the salty taste. Overall, I'm thankful your blog has prepped me for it and taught me a little more about the city I've grown up in. Keep up the good work Gerry!
Thank you for this! I was born and grew up in Oakland, watched fireworks over the Lake as a kid, hung out at Fairyland, my brother learned to sail at the Sailboat House. It's a beautiful place …
Yes so the Lady Of The Lake and Lake IPA beer is actually made in San Francisco for the Beach Chalet then renamed and shipped to Oakland.
Great article. Thank you. I didn't know the two Chalets were sister restuarants.
Great post. A couple of typos: it should be "Camron-Stanford" (no 'e') and "Cleveland" (two 'e's,one 'a')


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SANFORD, Maine - Police are asking for the public's help in locating a Manchester, NH man wanted for robbing the York County Federal Credit Union.
About 1:40 p.m. Thursday, a man entered the 870 Main St. credit union, told a teller he was armed and demanded cash. The teller gave the robber an undisclosed amount of cash and he ran out of the credit union with it.
A witness provided police with information about a vehicle seen speeding away from the scene. Investigators located that vehicle in Manchester and impounded it. The investigation ultimately led to Justin Brady, 23, of Manchester, who is now wanted for the robbery.
Sanford police, in a news release, said they spoke on the telephone with Brady, who became despondent and abruptly ended the call He is believed to be in the Manchester area and local law enforcement officers are searching for him.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Manchester police at 603-792-0219 or Sanford police at 207-324-9170 ext. 262.
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Reading Nonfiction Practice Exercises: GED Language Arts, Reading
Reading nonfiction will use many of the skills you developed in the last chapter on reading fiction—but there are two important differences between fiction and nonfiction. First, nonfiction is not fictional—that is, it purports to be a factual and accurate recounting of actual events involving real people and places. Note that we say it purports to be true—in other words, nonfiction writing claims to be true. This will be a very important distinction to understand in some areas of nonfiction. Nonfiction writing addresses real issues and people and events—but it may also be presenting a matter of opinion rather than simply stating a string of facts. We will discuss this more fully as we go along.
Second, nonfiction does not use a narrator in the way that fiction does. You'll remember that some fiction might be told by a first-person narrator referred to in the text as I and me. In nonfiction, however, the words are directly those of the author, not of some fictional narrator who is created for storytelling purposes.
This is an important distinction as you move from fiction into nonfiction. Keep in mind that in fiction, an author might use a narrator to say things that are directly contrary to what the author believes.
This is generally not the case in nonfiction, however. In this sense, reading nonfiction is more straightforward and less complicated than reading fiction. The exception to this, of course, is when an author uses irony to make a point, saying the opposite of what he or she means in order to underscore a point. We will discuss this further in this chapter.
There are countless types of nonfiction writing. Every time you send an e-mail or jot a note for someone, you are writing nonfiction. If you write a memo or fill out a report at your job, you are writing nonfiction. There are as many types and styles of nonfiction writing as there are people and careers in the world. But, for purposes of preparing for the GED, we will divide nonfiction literature into three broad categories: informational nonfiction, literary nonfiction, and visual communication.
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The term informational nonfiction refers to written pieces whose sole purpose is to inform the reader of something. This is probably the broadest of the three categories, as it includes almost anything that is written for the purpose of passing on information. If you leave a note for your spouse or roommate saying where you've gone, you are writing informational nonfiction—assuming, of course, that you are telling the truth!
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Attending the Conversion Conference (my Live Blog Notes) and can't sleep. My version of counting sheep is to think about Internet marketing. I woke up thinking about what someone said to me today about re-branding. "We are going through a bit of a re-branding exercise," they said. The problem is you don't ever really "re-brand".
Re-branding implies we are in way more control than we are since brands are organic almost sentient pieces of our tribal cultural. All brands are memes or cultural ideas sticky enough to be passed around. If you create a "meme with legs" capable of being passed around your brand/meme walks around on its own much like a 2 year old. Ever notice how 2 year old experiment with new wobbly legs? They climb up on things using chairs and tables as rails and then, as soon as possible, go randomly mobile. Blink an eye and your toddler is running down the hall for no other reason than that they can (lol).
Brands are culturally much like a two year old. They run out into traffic and seem to have willy nilly patterns because they are blown by the emergent weather of the cultural meme. Brands and memes have core ideas that are less in flux than information on the margins. It takes a mighty shaking to change core ideas. It takes less shaking to impact information on the margin. Think of how snakes shed skin. They molt their outer layer and leave it behind. Memes and brands molt too.
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Buildings may seem permanent and impenetrable, but anyone who owns a home knows that is not the case. Buildings, like memes and brand ideas, need constant maintenance. Weather, use and time can crumble concrete and steel. Brands are subject to decay too. Brands decay from the margins in.
Morton Salt's famous logo of the girl with the umbrella proves the brands molt but core remains point. If you can brand salt you can brand anything. In the 1930's when the brand genius at Morton Salt created the girl with the umbrella and the famous, "When it rains it pours," tag the company successfully branded a life sustaining commodity. Morton salt was better, more pure because when it rains their salt continue to pour and that is pure marketing genius. The value of Morton's efforts must be in the billions since they've owned "salt" ever since. Scoff if you like, but nothing and I mean NOTHING is without vicious competition these days. Morton created enough of a power position there haven't been any, "We are better than Morton," ads in a hundred years.
Salt isn't sexy and Morton's 1930's branding is looking long in the tooth, not as relevant now as it was then. Morton has molted several times, but it is easy to see the unchanging core. I used to live near a Morton plant with that distinct logo painted on the roof. Morton knows branding.
My point from this long open is you don't re-band Morton Salt. You molt it on the margin or kill it outright. In Morton's case killing such a well established brand would be goofystupid. If architects know buildings will go through changes then brand architects must expect brands to do the same. My new friend who told me about his re-branding "exercise" doesn't realize there is no such thing. There is molting an existing brand at the margin or killing it outright and no part of it is anywhere near an "exercise".
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When you, as brand architect, are mucking about inside your brands put on a HazMat suit and proceed with extreme caution. Here are 5 rebranding mistakes to avoid:
- Operate only on the margins, never on core brand values.
- Never attempt to change 2 marginal brand properties at once.
- Brand visuals and language are synced so change one, change them both.
- There is no way to test meme changes.
- Rebranding is disruptive so expect and plan for loss.
Morton Salt could lower the girls skirt and then after acceptance of the first edit change her hair style. These are marginal changes. Morton can't change core values such as that amazing tag. When It Rains It Pours is inviolate. Morton's brand tag can't be touched without destroying the brand. The typeface and color are core values that can't be changed (much) without destroying the brand. If you are under the potentially mistaken impression you can rebrand then be sure to know what is CORE and inviolate and what values are on the margin and so are able to be changed. If you don't know what is core vs. marginal brand values then hire someone who does.
Never 2 Things At Once
Marketing's version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is you can never really know two brand attributes because the act of observing changes the data. Marketers think we know more than one brand attribute. We think we know and control our brands. Becoming an Internet marketer is humbling. Internet marketing is about creating ripples in a pond, listening to those ripples and asking others to create more of the same. You can see it right? You see how relative and subject to the mob our marketing efforts have become.
In such a relevant and fickle world the best you can hope for is acceptance of single tiny changes on the margin. Attempting to change more than one small marginal brand attribute at a time is crazy. Morton can change the girl's hair not hair and shoes. Bake in the hair change and then go after the shoes. Brand architects who take wrecking balls to their company's history are criminal and don't understand how brands work. You can't change brands to a wrecking ball degree and still have them identifiable as a brand. Once the wrecking ball hits you've KILLED the brand and are really constructing a new one.
Visuals and Language Synced
If you change your tag you change the visual presentation of your brand. You may think NO we just changed the tag. Once a tag is associated with a brand ( a visual logo or mark) the words and image form a painting, a cohesive whole. You can't remove a piece of a painting without changing the painting. Brands are the same. You change any word associated with it and you've changed its visual presentation. Remember the Never 2 Things At Once rule. If you change your tag DO NOT touch the rest of the painting. Changing the tag is going to be disruptive and damaging enough. Give your patient time to recover before attacking the logo's color, font or other visual attributes.
No Testing For Memes
Any branding person who convenes a focus group to test brand changes is a fool. Memes are cultural ideas. You can't test cultural idea formation in a lab other than real life. Any security you perceive from testing is false. Ever heard of New Coke? New Coke was a disaster, but I bet it tested well. New Coke violated my, "only change things on the margin," rule and paid the price ( a huge PR disaster and being forced by Coke's many brand advocates to return to Coke classic). There is no panel you can create that can accurately forecast the weather of branding and meme formation so don't try. Re-branding is a jump out of the plane and hope there is a parachute leap of faith.
Expect Pain
Even following Martin's Rebranding Guidelines you should expect PAIN and frustration. Key idea is to remember YOU are not in control. When you begin to change marginal brand values do so lightly and listen for acceptance or rejection. If you attempt re-branding without a strong social presence especially Facebook you are goofystupid.
Facebook because that is where you can HEAR the mob (if you are listening carefully). Change a marginal brand value and then listen for the ripples in your pond. If your changes are built on by the mob immediately capture and claim those changes to amplify them. One way to reduce PAIN associated with rebranding is to do what the mob tells you. Want to turn up the pain? Don't do what the mob tells you (lol).
Rebranding is disruption of the first order so proceed with caution and go slow and listen after each small step. Any "brand expert" who tells you not to worry is not to be trusted as they are about to swing a wrecking ball at your building. Brands MUST molt, so you have to "rebrand" to some extent, but doing so with no sense of proportion or permission is New Coke crazy. Don't be New Coke crazy, proceed carefully and with permission or not at all.
Time to start counting Morton Salt rain drops. Be sure to follow my Conversion Conference Live Blog assuming I can wake up tomorrow.


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Wario often receives fan-mail saying things like "Thank you for being so educational!" and Wario loves that!
Wario also gets a variant of this kind of message that reads "Thank you for being so educational, not full of hate like those OTHER SJ blogs" and this bothers Wario somewhat.
Educating people takes time and effort. Sometimes it goes well and you can convince the other person to your line of reasoning. A lot of times it does not and you end up trapped in an endless debate with someone who never had a chance of changing their mind in the first place, or you encounter someone who is only interested in spewing logical fallacies and straw-manning your opinions back at you. Calling someone out on their bigotry or prejudice is always a hazardous affair, regardless of whether you are polite or angry, because the majority of people will just dig in their heels and entrench themselves further into their position to defend themselves, rather than admit there is a problem with something they said. This can be incredibly frustrating because this happens constantly.
An alternative to sitting there and typing out a well-thought out reply is getting mad. You might say getting mad is useless or only makes things worse, but the reality is that anger can be deeply cathartic and necessary in maintaining your mental health in the face of ignorance and prejudice.
Then there are people who react to this by saying "well why don't you educate me?" which is super disingenuous. People who say this almost never actually want to listen if you do try to educate them. Nobody is under any obligation to educate you, nor are they obliged to coddle your prejudice and be super nice to you if you say something messed up. If you are really genuinely interested in being educated on a topic, there are tons and tons of resources. Generally googleing your question can lead to some answers or resources talking about whatever you want to know. Every possible social justice topic you can possibly think of has been written about up and down a million times already, it's up to you to find it. If you legitimately cannot find information on a topic you want to know more about, then it may be appropriate to ask someone politely if they would be interested in offering up their insight. If they say no, that's fine, respect that.
Wario aims to do both of these on Wario's blog. Sometimes Wario wants to be educational when Wario thinks someone is genuinely willing to learn. Sometimes Wario just wants to make fun of people for their ignorance when Wario does not think that person will listen, or even because Wario simply doesn't feel like writing a long speech at the moment. Wario chooses when and if Wario feels like being friendly and educational, and Wario farts at anyone who thinks Wario is obligated to educate anyone. WAHAHAHA! Wario is the winner!


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Openings of films are like appetizers at a slowly set out, tasty, plenty of offerings available, lengthy, cluttered with many dishes, dinners. Papering with posters of looking pretty and suave actors and actresses attract slow to come-in-the-doors movie goers going for nicely-buttered popcorn mixed only in loud crackling machines.
Perhaps you are wondering whom I am writing this very promising, potentially going nowhere blog entry for. Well, malpracticed grammar is my forte and I am opening looking within yourselves as readers expecting People magazine-style writing to enter the world of eccentric language use. Tomorrow after you read this blog you will realize why you have to see Wretches & Jabberers. Tracy and I will take you out of your peacefully ignorance-of-perspectives outside the norm and put you in the shoes of people who act eccentrically and do good business for lots of fast food restaurants but who, more like most Americans, want to walk on red carpets and be seen with people like Oprah Winfrey and Larry King.
Meet me after the show and I will trade you an autograph for some of your popcorn.
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The after effect of war, how the young man felt after he blown up a young man, out on the trail. In the nights the solder can see himself in the fog, out on trial the young man coming down the trail in the fog. The penalty of war is after the war is over you have to deal with your memories and that's the hardest part of war. The reality is that people do die in war. In the story Kiowa troy telling him that young man would of die anyway.
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Running a 205 tire instead of 215. Good or bad idea?
Hey I ordered a set of speedy lite 5 wheels 17x7 with 45 offset. My question is I am going to put some summer tires, havent chose which yet, and I would like some help on selecting a size.
I had 17x7 42 offset wheel, and it rubs when I have a full load in the back and hit a bump. It didnt rub really when I first got them, but I'm thinking the shocks maybe bend a bit more than before so I get more rubbing these days. I'm hoping the 45 offset wheel do not rub but I thought If I put a 205/50 17 tire on instead it wouldn't rub for sure. Are there disadvantages to 205 tire, or the difference minuscule? I've heard running slightly more narrow tire could make cornering better because sidewall would be more stiff and trade off a little of comfort. Thanks for your input |
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Without knowing what tire you want to run, the thinner tire will have less contract area, so you will lose handling. Better snow performance though ;-)
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Check to see if it even has the same load rating. Going to a larger tire rarely has any negative side effects but undersizing tires can be bloody dangerous in many cases.
I would stick with the 215/50.
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I'm running 225/45/17 on my rims. I'm also at 17x7 but my offset is 50. No rubbing so far. I would go at least 215 and you can always do a fender roll, but I'm almost sure you won't need a fender roll unless you're lowering your car. By the way 215/50/17 are stock on the 6 with 17" rims.
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The world is changing. Now wait a minute. Take it easy. I didn't say the sky is falling, I said the world is changing. And that, by the way, is nothing new.
It is however changing at a lightning fast-pace. It's the digital revolution brothers and sisters. Social media, technology, media, and communication are different today than they were yesterday. Just imagine what tomorrow will bring. I read something the other day that said, "Anything that can go digital ultimately will." Wow. Probably right. If you don't quite buy into all of it, this video might nudge your brain in that direction a little bit.
In the world of traditional media that I spend my days in (radio, TV, newspaper), we are trying to change with the game. Some are doing it better than others. Those who are not thinking about it are already obsolete, although they probably don't know it yet. There's a lot of talk about staying relevant. The question is a good one to ask regardless of the business that you're in. And a good one to ask all the time. There are meetings, seminars, conferences, books; all about how to "stay relevant." We could all meeting ourselves right into the ground (all the time becoming less relevant because were spending too much time meeting, and not enough time doing.)
Regardless of where you work, what industry you're in, what level you are at; there is a whole heap of truth in a post that I came across on Twitter yesterday. And it said…
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Dance Review: 'The Sarasota Ballet presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company'
Date: October 31, 2012
by: Anna Dearing | Contributing writer
The Sarasota Ballet kicked off its 22nd season with an exciting performance by one of the most notable contemporary dance companies in America — Paul Taylor Dance Company. Formed by the legendary choreographer, himself, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is based in New York City but spends its seasons touring the United States performing some of Taylor's 137 innovative and humorous dances.
Making this performance of the Paul Taylor Dance Company even more significant is that Sarasota was the only Florida stop in its 2012-2013 touring season. Before the curtain, Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb professed his enthusiasm and excitement about hosting the company, and that energy carried on throughout the entire performance.
The company opened with Taylor's "Gossamer Gallants," which is a comedic piece inspired by the mating rituals of the insect world. Set to music by Bedrich Smetana: dances from "The Bartered Bride," the piece opens up with a group of male flies buzzing about the stage with their hands and arms quickly rubbing together simulating the movements of the actual insects as if they were in a swarm. Suddenly the male pack falls victim to the charms of female fireflies that quickly take charge of the swarm with their sensual movements and finally dominate the flies in the finale. It's a rarity in dance to see the females winning out, and it was ultimately amusing to watch.
The program took a more metaphorical turn with Taylor's newest piece, "The Uncommitted," which is set to the beautiful music of Arvo Pärt: "Fratres," "Mozart-Adagio," "Ricercar" and "Summa." Using the emotionally charged music, Taylor illuminates the human struggle of forming relationships through multiple solos. The dancers would come together on stage and repeatedly leave one person behind who would struggle with his or her loneliness and demonstrate that feeling with different dance moves representing despair, anger, loss and more.
The final piece of the program was "Cascade" that, unfortunately, was an anticlimactic end to the show. It's a beautiful piece with pretty costumes by Santo Loquasto and classic music by Johann Sebastian Bach, but it seemed like a better opening piece rather than closing.
All together, the entire evening was a fabulous performance by the strong and technically great Paul Taylor dancers, which is a great teaser to the Sarasota Ballet's November show when it will dance Paul Taylor's "Company B.".
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I am leaving a partnership, and trying to determine my share so I can sign off.
The partnership was 80%/20%, with the 20% going to me. I am the programmer, he is the idea owner.
My partner calculated the net worth of the company as Assets - Liabilities.
Assets: computer and kiosk hardware of lets say $2000
Liabilities: Hosting/Domain fees + $4000 for programming in the form of 'capital infusion (loan)' = $4200
The net worth, as calculated by him, comes out to a negative number. This doesn't make sense to me. He seems to be calculating this as if I was an outsider giving him a loan in the form of programming. In which case I would owe him 20% of the net worth...
It seems to me my time should be calculated as an asset and not a liability. Is this the correct way of doing things?
The product is unfinished and he decided to replace me as the programmer, so I am leaving the partnership. Do my $4000 worth of $20/hr programming amount to 0 in the net worth since the program is unfinished?
Any advice appreciated