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- Bob Vila TV Shows >
- Manhattan Remodel and Cape Cod Affordable > Episode 8: Installing Drop Ceilings, Custom Windows, and Mechanicals
Installing a Drop Ceiling to Hide Duct Work
It's time for doors, windows, ceilings, and mechanicals in the Manhattan Brownstone. Bob joins Chris Vila, the project manager, for a look at the ceiling that had to be reopened to run refrigerant lines for the air conditioning and the plaster walls that are now wired for the plasma screen television above the hearth. In the front rooms, ductwork is in place for the heating-and-cooling system and a Chicago-bar drop ceiling is installed to hide the ductwork. Fire batts are used to prevent noise transfer through the ceilings. Pella French doors are installed on the balcony while the surrounding masonry is rebuilt with weep holes to divert water and moisture from behind the brick. Oversized Pella double-hung windows are framed out and installed to bring in light and air. The Mitsubishi City Multi HVAC system is set up to deliver customized individual-zone heat and air conditioning throughout the apartment.
- Part 1: Installing a Drop Ceiling to Hide Duct Work
- Bob walks through the Manhattan Brownstone floor-through apartment with project manager Chris Vila, looking first at the ductwork that has been run in the ceiling for the forced air heat. He then joins John McEvoy of Thorough Construction for a look at the drop ceiling installation they will be using to hide the ductwork and mechanicals in the ceiling. This Chicago bar system allows the crew to hang a perfectly level drywall ceiling instead of following the uneven pattern of the existing joists. First an anchor is screwed into the joists. A pencil rod is then fitted into the hole in the anchor and bent to hang from the joist. A lasar level marks the exact position for the kelly clips that will hold the main stays or block irons in place. The Chicago bar is then clipped to the block irons with a spaghetti clip to create a grid for the new drywall. The drywall will be screwed directly into the suspended Chicago bar. Bob looks at the sound attenuation product being used in the ceilling of the Manhattan Brownstone. Chris Vila, the project manager, explains that unlike fiberglass batts, this Roxul AFB fire batt is thicker than traditional batt and completely blocks sound transfer while preventing the spread of fire from space to space.
- Part 2: French Doors and Weep Holes on the Balcony and Installing Oversized Double-Hung Windows on a Historic Property
- Part 3: Individual Zone Heating and Cooling
This project deals with two very different notions of home. Bob begins on New York City's Upper West Side, where an 1890s Brownstone is revitalized through high-quality craftsmanship and sensitive design. New York's past meets its present, as the entire floor is recaptured and refurbished to create a spacious urban apartment on the doorstep of Central Park.
At the same time, Bob works with a Cape Cod developer to apply Massachusetts land use statute 40B to create affordable housing, and a neighborhood of homes in Mashpee, MA. These Energy Star certified homes show how quality building practices and reasonable asking prices can work together to provide livable, affordable homes and neighborhoods to those who work in our communities.
At the same time, Bob works with a Cape Cod developer to apply Massachusetts land use statute 40B to create affordable housing, and a neighborhood of homes in Mashpee, MA. These Energy Star certified homes show how quality building practices and reasonable asking prices can work together to provide livable, affordable homes and neighborhoods to those who work in our communities.
Also from Manhattan Remodel and Cape Cod Affordable
Episode 1 - A New Lift for a Manhattan BrownstoneDescription:
Bob is on Manhattan's Upper West Side to renew a 2,000-square-foot Brownstone apartment. First, he looks at what made Brownstones significant, including their details and façades.

 Inside the building, Bob shows how the space was cut up in the 1940s to make a warren of rooms. These walls and finishes will be removed as the space is gutted to prepare for new studs, walls, plumbing, and finishes.

 Pieces will be salvaged for architectural resale, including the pink sink from the bathroom and the retro cabinets in the kitchen, but everything else will go. Bob also visits Central Park, its caretakers, trees, and monuments.
Episode 2 - Demolition in the Manhattan BrownstoneDescription:
The big story is the cornice molding found in tact when the drop ceiling came down. The molding will set a tone for the main living space, where the bricks have been removed to install a flue liner and drafting fireplace. All of the 40s wall, surface, and ceiling treatments are gone, along with the lath and plaster, leaving the bare brick and exposed joists from the original construction. Remodels have cut into the joist work or damaged it, so some reworking will be necessary to build up for the floors and ceilings. The floor joists are sistered to make a level, solid footing for the Georgia-Pacific Plytanium subflooring that goes under the wood floor. Laser levels allow the carpenters to set level lines throughout the apartment horizontally for the floor and vertically for the new steel studs they are installing. Finally, a flexible flue liner is run through the wall, and up the chimney for the new fireplace.
Episode 3 - Building Affordable Homes on Cape CodDescription:
Affordable housing is the story in this project as Bob heads to Mashpee, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where a state law is helping put higher density, affordable housing in place for four families who live and work in the community. Bob meets Pat Fiero of the Housing Assistance Corporation who explains the hurdles faced by families needing to live near their workplaces in a town where the average home price is $450,000. Bob visits Mashpee Commons and looks at mixed-use development that is providing a town center, housing, commercial property, recreational space, and a new church as a start to this new town development. Bob also meets the developer, Joe Valle, who explains the challenges in developing affordable housing and how this project was made possible by invoking Massachusetts? 40B land use and development law. On site, Bob Bevilaqua moves the earth to prepare the sites, shows the tie-offs for electrical and phone lines, and explains the drainage plan.
Episode 4 - Falmouth's Model for Quality Affordable Housing
Episode 9 - Paneling the Kitchen, Installing Hot Water, and Hanging Doors
Episode 10 - Cladding, Insulating, and Zoning for an Affordable Home
Episode 13 - Installing Pre-Hung Doors, Hardwood Floors, and Gutters
Episode 14 - Affordable HVAC, Painting, Kitchen Cabinets and Counters
Episode 15 - Installing Glazed Wall Tile and a Pedestal Sink
Episode 16 - Refurbishing Wrought Iron, Custom Kitchen Cabinets, Profile Molding
Episode 17 - Kitchens, Feng Shui, and Energy Star Homes
Episode 18 - Finishing Details in the Manhattan Brownstone
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Congrats on reaching the middle of the workweek, America. Congrats to Andy Kennedy for getting a much-needed win at Ole Miss. Congrats to Missouri fans for vanquishing ex-coach Mike Anderson in loud and rowdy fashion.
And there's plenty more SEC news on the way today.
As for the thought/lyric of the day, it came to my attention when this song popped up on the MrSEC.com iPod today that we push a lot of blues around here… but not a lot of blues by women. Time to change that. So please enjoy the supercharged sound of Ms. Koko Taylor.
"…When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips revealed the tears that were on my face."
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Green Valley Library has Teen Writing Club
Jun 18, 2014
The Green Valley Library is at 2797 North Green Valley Parkway in Henderson. They have lots of programs and events for children scheduled every month.
The Teen Writing Club meets from 4 to 5 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month, in the program room. Free, but need to sign-up. Do that and find more information here.
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Montgomery County, Maryland
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|Montgomery County, Maryland
Downtown Rockville in 2001, the Black Rock Mill in 2006, the National Naval Medical Center in 2003, Shady Grove in 2004, and the Gaithersburg city hall in 2007.
|Motto: "Gardez Bien"
(Watch Well)
Location in the state of Maryland
Maryland's location in the U.S.
|Named for
|Richard Montgomery
|Largest community
|• Total
|507 sq mi (1,313 km2)
|• Land
|496 sq mi (1,285 km2)
|• Water
|12 sq mi (31 km2), 2.3%
|Population (Est.)
|• (2013)
|• Density
|1,959.2/sq mi (756.2/km²)
|Congressional districts
|3rd, 6th, 8th
|Time zone
|Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, situated just to the north of Washington, D.C., and southwest of the city of Baltimore. As of 2010 the population was 971,777 and the county reached an estimated population of over 1 million residents with the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau update which shows that 1,004,709 residents now live in the county.[1] The county seat and largest municipality is Rockville, although the census-designated place of Germantown is more populous.[2]
Montgomery County is a part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Most of the county's residents live in unincorporated locales, the most populous of which are Silver Spring, Germantown and Bethesda, though the incorporated cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are also large population centers.
It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States,[3] and has the highest percentage (29.2%) of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate degrees.[4] In 2011, it was ranked by Forbes as the 10th richest in the United States, with a median household income of $92,213.[5][6]
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Economy
- 3 History
- 4 Geography
- 5 Climate
- 6 Demographics
- 7 Government
- 8 Cities and towns
- 9 Transportation
- 10 Education
- 11 Culture
- 12 See also
- 13 Notes
- 14 References
- 15 External links
The Maryland state legislature named Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery; the county was created from lands that had at one point or another been part of Frederick County. On September 6, 1776, Thomas Sprigg Wootton from Rockville, Maryland, introduced legislation, while serving at the Maryland Constitutional Convention, to create lower Frederick County as Montgomery County. The name, Montgomery County, along with the founding of Washington County, Maryland, after George Washington, was the first time in American history that names identifying counties and provinces in the thirteen colonies would be relegated to British reference. The name use of Montgomery and Washington County were seen as further defiance to Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. The county's nickname of "MoCo" is derived from a portmanteau of "Montgomery" and "County".
The county's motto, adopted in 1976, is "Gardez Bien", a phrase meaning "Watch Well". The county's motto is also the motto of its namesake's family.[7][8][9]
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Montgomery County is an important business and research center. It is the epicenter for biotechnology in the Mid-Atlantic region. Montgomery County is the third largest biotechnology cluster in the U.S., holding the principal cluster and companies of large corporate size in the state. Biomedical research is carried out by institutions including Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County Campus (JHU MCC), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Federal government agencies engaged in related work include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Many large firms are based in the county, including Discovery Communications, Coventry Health Care, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Host Hotels & Resorts, Travel Channel, Ritz-Carlton, Robert Louis Johnson Companies (RLJ Companies), Choice Hotels, MedImmune, TV One, BAE Systems Inc, Hughes Network Systems and GEICO.
Other U.S. federal government agencies based in the county include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
Downtown Bethesda and Silver Spring are the largest urban business hubs in the county; combined, they rival many major city cores.
Top employers[edit]
According to the County's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[10] the top employers by number of employees in the county are:
|# of Employees
|U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
|Montgomery County Public Schools
|U.S. Department of Defense
|Montgomery County government
|U.S. Department of Commerce
|Marriott International
|Adventist HealthCare
|Lockheed Martin
|Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Before European immigration, the land now known as Montgomery County was covered in a vast swath of forest crossed by the creeks and small streams that feed the Potomac and Patuxent rivers. A few small villages of the Piscataway, members of the Algonquian people, were scattered across the southern portions of the county. North of the Great Falls of the Potomac, there were few permanent settlements, and the Piscataway shared hunting camps and foot paths with members of rival peoples like the Susquehannocks and the Senecas.
Captain John Smith of the English settlement at Jamestown was probably the first European to explore the area, during his travels along the Potomac River and throughout the Chesapeake region.[11]
These lands were claimed by Europeans for the first time when George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore was granted the charter for the colony of Maryland by Charles I of England.[12] However, it was not until 1688 that the first tract of land in what is now Montgomery County was granted by the Calvert family to an individual colonist, a wealthy and prominent early Marylander named Henry Darnall. He and other early claimants had no intention of settling their families. They were little more than speculators, securing grants from the colonial leadership and then selling their lands in pieces to settlers. Thus, it was not until approximately 1715 that the first British settlers began building farms and plantations in the area.[13]
These earliest settlers were English or Scottish immigrants from other portions of Maryland, German settlers moving down from Pennsylvania, or Quakers who came to settle on land granted to a convert named James Brooke in what is now Brookeville. Most of these early settlers were small farmers, growing a variety of subsistence crops in addition to the region's main cash crop, tobacco. They transported the tobacco they grew to market through the Potomac River port of Georgetown.[14] Sparsely settled, the area's farms and taverns were nonetheless of strategic importance as access to the interior. General Edward Braddock's army traveled through the county on the way to its disastrous defeat at Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.[15]
Like other regions of the American colonies, the region that is now Montgomery County saw protests against British taxation in the years before the American Revolution. Following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, representatives of the area helped to draft the new state constitution and began to build a Maryland free of proprietary control.[16] The new state legislature formed Montgomery County from lands that had at one point or another been part of Charles, Prince George's and Frederick Counties, naming it after General Richard Montgomery. The leaders of the new county chose as their county seat an area adjacent to Hungerford's Tavern near the center of the county, which later became Rockville.[17] The newly formed Montgomery County supplied arms, food and forage for the Continental Army during the Revolution, in addition to soldiers.[18]
In 1791, portions of Montgomery County, including Georgetown, were ceded to form the new District of Columbia, along with portions of Prince George's County, Maryland, as well as parts of Virginia that were later returned to Virginia.
In 1828, construction on the C&O Canal commenced and was completed in 1850. Throughout the 19th century, agriculture dominated the economy in Montgomery County, with slaves playing a significant role. In the 1850s, crop production shifted away from tobacco and toward corn. Montgomery County was important in the abolitionist movement, with slave Josiah Henson, who wrote about his experiences in a memoir which became the basis for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Josiah, the inspiration for the character "Uncle Tom", was a slave in the county and a slave cabin where he is believed to have spent time still stands at the end of a driveway off Old Georgetown Road.
Until 1860, only private schools existed in Montgomery County. Initially, schools for European American students were built, and in 1872 schools for African-Americans were added.
Like most of Maryland, the county's southern sympathies resulted in it being occupied by Union forces during the Civil War.[19]
In 1873, the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened, with a route between Washington, D.C., and Point of Rocks, Maryland. The railroad spurred development at Takoma Park, Kensington, Garrett Park and Chevy Chase.[citation needed]
In July 1922, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) was established.[20]
On July 1, 1997, Montgomery County annexed a portion of Prince George's County, after residents of Takoma Park, which spanned both counties, voted to be entirely within the more affluent Montgomery County.[citation needed]
In October 2002, the county was the site of several of the Beltway sniper attacks.
The county has a number of sites on the National Register of Historic Places.[21]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 507 square miles (1,313 km2), of which 496 square miles (1,285 km2) is land and 12 square miles (31 km2) is water. Montgomery County lies entirely inside the Piedmont plateau. The topography is generally rolling. Elevations range from a low of near sea level along the Potomac River to about 875 feet in the northernmost portion of the county north of Damascus. Relief between valley bottoms and hilltops is several hundred feet. The northern boundary of the county was set (from the northeast to the northwest) as westerly along the course of the Patuxent River, then from the source of this river NE to the source of the South Branch of the Patapsco River at Parr's Spring, then a long straight line roughly southwest to the junction of the Monocacy and Potomac Rivers. This forms a geographic oddity of a sliver of land at the far northern tip of the county that is several miles long and averages less than 200 yards wide. In fact, a single house on Lakeview Drive and its yard is sectioned by this sliver into 3 portions, each separately contained within Montgomery, Frederick and Howard Counties. These jurisdictions and Carroll County meet at a single point at Parr's Spring on Parr's Ridge.
Adjacent jurisdictions[edit]
- Frederick County (northwest)
- Carroll County (northeast)
- Howard County (northeast)
- Prince George's County (southeast)
- Washington, D.C. (south)
- Loudoun County, Virginia (west)
- Fairfax County, Virginia (southwest)
National protected areas[edit]
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (part)
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- George Washington Memorial Parkway (part)
Montgomery County lies within the northern portions of the humid subtropical climate. It has four distinct seasons, including hot, humid summers and chilly winters. Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, with an inter-quartile[clarification needed] range of 37–45 inches. Thunderstorms are common during the summer months, and account for the majority of the average 35 days with thunder per year. Heavy precipitation is most common in summer thunderstorms, but droughty periods are more likely during these months since summer precipitation is more variable than winter.
The mean annual temperature is 55 °F (13 °C). The average summer (June–July–August) afternoon maximum is about 85 F while the morning minimums average 66 F. In winter (December–January–February), these averages are 44 F and 28 F. Extreme heat waves can raise readings to around and slightly above 100 F, and arctic blasts can drop lows to −10 to 0 F.
The average yearly snowfall for the county ranges from 21" in the southernmost extents to 32" across the northern portions where elevations are highest (850 ft. asl) in the Damascus area. While infrequent, large snowstorms, called nor'easters (named for the track to the northeast, along the Northeast coast, and most importantly their strong winds from the northeast) can sometimes paralyze the area. The greatest seasonal snowfall total on record was 58.5" in Damascus during the 2009–2010 season.
|Historical population
|Est. 2012
2012 Estimate[23]
At the 2010 census, there were 971,777 people residing in the county. The population density was 1,762 per square mile (680 /km2). In 2000, there were 334,632 housing units at an average density of 675 per square mile (261 /km2).
The ethnic makeup of the county, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, was the following:
- 49.3% non-Hispanic White
- 16.6% Black
- 13.9% Asian
- 0.4% Native American
- 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
- 4.0% Two or more races
- 6.9% Other races
- 17.0% Hispanic or Latino (5.4% Salvadorian, 1.5% Mexican, 1.2% Peruvian, 1.1% Guatemalan), of any race
In 2000, significant national ethnic groups included people of Irish (8.5%), German (8.1%), English (6.8%) and American (5.0%) ancestry according to Census 2000. The county also has a sizable Jewish population, and is home to an increasing number of affluent Indian-Americans, Armenian-Americans and Iranian-Americans. There is also a large population of African immigrants to the United States.
There were 324,565 households of which 35% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.2% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 24.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.19.
25.4% of the population was under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.1 males.
Montgomery County has the tenth highest median household income in the United States, and the second highest in the state after Howard County as of 2011. The median household income in 2007 was $89,284 and the median family income was $106,093. Males had a median income of $66,415 versus $52,134 for females. The per capita income for the county was $43,073. About 3.3% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.[24]
Since the 1970s, the county has had in place a Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit (MPDU) zoning plan that requires developers to include affordable housing in any new residential developments that they construct in the county. The goal is to create socioeconomically mixed neighborhoods and schools so the rich and poor are not isolated in separate parts of the county. Developers who provide for more than the minimum amount of MPDUs are rewarded with permission to increase the density of their developments, which allows them to build more housing and generate more revenue. Montgomery County was one of the first counties in the U.S. to adopt such a plan, but many other areas have since followed suit.
|27.1% 123,353
|70.9% 323,400[25]
|27.1% 118,608
|71.5% 314,444
|32.8% 136,334
|65.9% 273,936
|33.5% 124,580
|62.5% 232,453
|35.2% 117,730
|59.4% 198,807
|33.0% 62,955
|55.1% 168,691
|48.1% 154,191
|51.5% 165,187
|50.1% 146,924
|49.7%' 146,036
|47.2% 125,515
|39.8%' 105,822
Montgomery County was granted a charter form of government in 1948.
The present County Executive/County Council form of government of Montgomery County dates to November 1968 when the voters changed the form of government from a County Commission/County Manager system, as provided in the original 1948 home rule Charter.
The county began with a county commissioner system that kept most of the power in Annapolis. In 1948 voters approved a "Council-Manager" form of government, making Montgomery County the first home-rule county in Maryland. The first six-member council was elected in 1949. Then in 1968, the voters approved a "County Executive-Council" form of government. That change formed an executive branch under the County Executive, and a legislative branch under a seven-member County Council. Instead of a County Manager, there was now a Chief Administrative Officer appointed by the County Executive. That went into effect in 1970, when the first seven-member County Council was elected. Originally all of the council members were elected at large (that is, by all of the voters). Five members were required to reside in their council district. In November 1986, the voters amended the Charter to increase the number of Council seats in the 1990 election from seven to nine. Now five members are elected by the voters of their council district and four are elected at-large. Each voter may vote for five council members; four at-large and one from the district in which they reside.[26]
The Montgomery County Police Department provides county-wide law enforcement services.
County executives[edit]
The office of the county executive was established in 1970. The first executive was James P. Gleason. The current executive is Isiah "Ike" Leggett, who was sworn in for his first term on December 4, 2006. He was reelected on November 2, 2010.
|James P. Gleason
|Charles W. Gilchrist
|Sidney Kramer
|Neal Potter
|Douglas M. Duncan
|Isiah "Ike" Leggett
Legislative body[edit]
The last Republican serving on the Montgomery County Council, Howard A. Denis of District 1 (Potomac/Bethesda), was defeated in 2006. The board has since been all-Democratic. The members of the County Council for the 2010–2014 term are:
|First Elected
|Craig L. Rice
|Vice President
|George L. Leventhal
|Nancy Navarro
|Wheaton/Glenmont/Aspen Hill/Ashton/Laytonsville
|Roger Berliner
|Poolesville/Potomac/Bethesda/Chevy Chase
|Phil Andrews
|Valerie Ervin
|Silver Spring/Takoma Park/Burtonsville
|Marc Elrich
|Nancy Floreen
|Hans Riemer
Bi-county agencies[edit]
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties share a bi-county planning and parks agency in the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (often referred to as Park and Planning or its initials M-NCPPC by county residents) and a public bi-county water and sewer utility in the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC).
Liquor control[edit]
Montgomery County maintains a monopoly on the sale of "hard liquor" alcoholic beverages, while beer and wine may be sold at independently owned stores and at a single location within the county for a store chain. This is similar to several U.S. states. The county is thus referred to as an alcoholic beverage control county.
Cities and towns[edit]
This county contains the following incorporated municipalities:
- 3 Cities:
- Gaithersburg (incorporated 1878)
- Rockville (incorporated 1860)
- Takoma Park (incorporated 1890)
- 12 Towns:
- Barnesville (incorporated 1888)
- Brookeville (incorporated 1808)
- Chevy Chase (Town of) (incorporated 1918)
- Chevy Chase View (incorporated 1993)
- Chevy Chase Village (incorporated 1910; note that, despite its name, it is a town and not a village.)
- Garrett Park (incorporated 1898)
- Glen Echo (incorporated 1904)
- Kensington (incorporated 1894)
- Laytonsville (incorporated 1892)
- Poolesville (incorporated 1867)
- Somerset (incorporated 1906)
- Washington Grove (incorporated 1937)
- 4 Villages:
- Chevy Chase, Village of, Section 3 (incorporated 1982)
- Chevy Chase, Village of, Section 5 (incorporated 1982)
- Martin's Additions (incorporated 1985)
- North Chevy Chase (incorporated 1996)
Though the three incorporated cities of Gaithersburg, Rockville and Takoma Park lie within its boundaries, the most urbanized areas in the county include such unincorporated areas as Bethesda and Silver Spring.
Occupying a middle ground between incorporated and unincorporated areas are Special Tax Districts, quasi-municipal unincorporated areas created by legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly.[27] They lack home rule authority and must petition the General Assembly for changes affecting the authority of the district. The four incorporated villages of Montgomery County and the town of Chevy Chase View were originally established as Special Tax Districts. Four Special Tax Districts remain in the county:
- Drummond, Village of (1916)
- Friendship Heights and "The Hills" (1914)
- Oakmont (1918)
- Battery Park (1923)
Unincorporated areas are also considered as towns by many people and listed in many collections of towns, but they lack local government. Various organizations, such as the United States Census Bureau, the United States Postal Service, and local chambers of commerce, define the communities they wish to recognize differently, and since they are not incorporated, their boundaries have no official status outside the organizations in question. The Census Bureau recognizes the following census-designated places in the county:
- Ashton-Sandy Spring (a combination of the communities of Ashton and Sandy Spring recognized as a unit by the Census Bureau)
- Aspen Hill
- Bethesda
- Brookmont
- Burtonsville
- Cabin John
- Calverton (This CDP is shared between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.)
- Chevy Chase (Note that this is also the name of an incorporated town)
- Clarksburg
- Cloverly
- Colesville
- Damascus
- Darnestown
- Fairland
- Forest Glen
- Friendship Village (This CDP includes the Village of Friendship Heights.)
- Germantown
- Glenmont
- Hillandale (This CDP is shared between Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.)
- Kemp Mill
- Montgomery Village
- North Bethesda
- North Kensington
- North Potomac
- Olney
- Potomac
- Redland
- Rossmoor
- Silver Spring
- South Kensington
- Travilah
- Wheaton-Glenmont (a combination of the communities of Wheaton and Glenmont recognized as a unit by the Census Bureau)
- White Oak
Other unincorporated places:
Montgomery County is approximately bisected northwest-southeast by Interstate 270, a connector linking Interstate 70 with Washington. I-270 divides in North Bethesda with its primary roadway connecting to the eastbound Capital Beltway (Interstate 495), and a spur connecting to southbound I-495 as it approaches Northern Virginia. Another spur highway, Interstate 370, connects Interstate 270 with the Shady Grove Metro station.
A fiercely and long-contested east-west toll freeway, the Intercounty Connector (Maryland Route 200), also known as the ICC, links Interstate 370 and I-270 with U.S. 29; and Interstate 95 and eventually U.S. 1 in Laurel, Prince George's County. The first portion of the freeway, from I-370 to Georgia Avenue, opened in February 2011, and is now open to I-95.
Roughly paralleling 270 is Maryland Route 355, a surface street known for much of its length as Rockville Pike or simply "The Pike". In its southern reaches it is known as Wisconsin Avenue, while in the north it is known as Frederick Road, or Frederick Ave in Gaithersburg; in the northern half of Rockville (from Town Center north), it is named Hungerford Drive.
Other major routes include Maryland Route 190 (River Road); Maryland Route 97 (Georgia Avenue); Maryland Route 650 (New Hampshire Avenue), Maryland Route 185 (Connecticut Avenue), Randolph Road/Montrose Road, Maryland Route 28 (Darnestown Road, Montgomery Avenue and Norbeck Road), and Maryland Route 27 (Father Hurley Blvd., Ridge Road). U.S. Route 29 parallels the eastern border of the county; first as Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, then Colesville Road, and thence as Columbia Pike through Burtonsville and into Howard County.
The Montgomery County government has strongly supported the use of automated traffic enforcement on county roads. In 2007 this county became the first jurisdiction in Maryland to introduce automated speed cameras on roads with speed limits up to 35 mph, issuing fines of $40 by mail. Red light cameras with fines of $75 are also in use.[28]
A computer system coordinates the setting of 750 traffic lights. In 2009, the computer system failed for a brief period, causing considerable problems.[29]
Montgomery County operates its own bus public transit system, known as Ride On. Major routes are also covered by WMATA's Metrobus service.
Montgomery County is served by three passenger rail systems.
Amtrak, the U.S. national passenger rail system, operates its Capitol Limited to Rockville, between Washington Union Station and Chicago Union Station.
The Brunswick line of the MARC commuter rail system makes stops at Silver Spring, Kensington, Garrett Park, Rockville, Washington Grove, Gaithersburg, Metropolitan Grove, Germantown, Boyds, Barnesville, and Dickerson, where the line splits into its Frederick and Martinsburg branches.
Both suburban arms of the Red Line of the Washington Metro serve Montgomery County. It follows the CSX right of way to the west, roughly paralleling Route 355 from Friendship Heights to Shady Grove. The eastern side runs between the two tracks of the CSX right of way from Washington Union Station to Silver Spring, and roughly parallels Georgia Avenue, from Silver Spring to Glenmont.
There has been much debate on the construction of two new transitways, both of which are still in the early stages of design. The Purple Line would run "cross-town" connecting nodes in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties near the Beltway; and the Corridor Cities Transitway would provide an extension of the Red Line corridor from Gaithersburg to Germantown and beyond.
The Montgomery County Airpark (FAA GAI, ICAO KGAI), a general aviation facility in Gaithersburg, is the major airport in the county. Davis Airport (FAA Identifier W50), a privately owned airstrip, is located in Laytonsville on Hawkins Creamery Road.[30] Commercial air service is provided at the nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National, Washington Dulles International, and BWI Airports.
Elementary and secondary public schools are operated by the Montgomery County Public Schools. The county is also served by Montgomery College, a public, open access community college. The county has no public university of its own, but the state university system does operate a facility called Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville that provides access to baccalaureate and Master's level programs from several of the state's public universities.
MCPS operates under the jurisdiction of an elected Board of Education. Its current members are:
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Based on the city-data statistics for Silver Spring, Wheaton-Glenmont, Germantown, Bethesda and Gaithersburg, 52.6% of their population is affiliated by a religious congregation. 40% are reported Catholic, 18% are Jewish, 7% are United Methodist, 6% are Southern Baptist, and 28% consider themselves other[31]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church maintains its General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring Maryland. .
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Bethesda's Congressional Country Club is regarded as one of the best clubs and golf courses in the world. Congressional has hosted four Major Championships, including three playings of the U.S. Open, most recently in 2011 which was won by Rory McIlroy. The Club also hosts the AT&T National, an annual event on the PGA Tour which benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. Previously, neighboring TPC at Avenel hosted the Booz Allen Classic.
The Bethesda Big Train, Rockville Express, and Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts all play college level wooden bat baseball in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League.
Montgomery County is home of the Montgomery County Swim League, a youth (ages 4–18) competitive swimming league composed of ninety teams based at community pools throughout the county.
There are future possibilities of a minor league baseball team forming to play for the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball to represent Montgomery County.
Montgomery County State Agricultural Fair[edit]
Since 1949 the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, the largest in the state, showcases farm life in the county. The week long event offers family events, carnival rides, live animals, entertainment and food. Visitors can also purchase canned and baked goods, clothing, quilts and produce from local county farmers.[32]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Montgomery County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". United States Census Bureau. 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2011. "Population, 2013 estimate […] 1,016,677"
- ^ American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau. "Maryland by Place – GCT-PH1-R. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density (geographies ranked by total population): 2000". Factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
- ^ Morello, Carol; Mellnick, Ted (September 19, 2012). "Seven of nation's 10 most affluent counties are in Washington region". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
- ^ US Census Bureau: R1403. Percent of People 25 Years and Over Who Have Completed an Advanced Degree: 2004[dead link]
- ^ "Complete List: America's Richest Counties", Forbes.com, February 2, 2008
- ^ "Montgomery County QuickFacts", September 9, 2009
- ^ Clan Montgomery Society (June 14, 2008). "Montgomery Motto". Clan Montgomery Symbols. Clan Montgomery Society. Retrieved September 5, 2008. ""Garde" (pronounced gard-uh) or "Gardez" (pronounced garday) means "watch", in the sense of "look out" or "on guard". "Bien" (pronounced bee-ann) means "good" to give the overall meaning of "Watch Well"."
- ^ Montgomery Planning (January 26, 2012). "Places From the Past". Montgomery County Historic Sites. 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910: Montgomery County Planning Department. Retrieved April 30, 2012. "Gardez Bien, adopted in 1976 as the county motto, means to guard well or take good care"
- ^ House of Names (2014). "Montgomery Family Crest and Name History". House of Names. Swyrich Corporation. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ^ Montgomery County, Maryland Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for the Year ended June 30, 2011
- ^ Offutt, pages 11–13
- ^ Offutt, page 9
- ^ Offutt, pages 18–19
- ^ Offutt, pages 19–21
- ^ Offutt, page 23
- ^ Offutt, page 28
- ^ Offutt, pages 29–30
- ^ Offutt, page 32
- ^ Mary Kay Harper (November 16, 2009). "Must have title". Civil War studies.org. The Smithsonian Associates.
- ^ "County police department celebrates 75th anniversary". The Gazette. 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20877: Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. July 2, 1997. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
- ^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012". Census.gov. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
- ^ "Montgomery County, MD Fact Sheet". Census Bureau. 2005–2007.
- ^ Maryland State Board of Elections. Elections.state.md.us (November 28, 2012). Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
- ^ "Montgomery County, Maryland: Our History and Government" (PDF). Retrieved July 12, 2009.
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- ^ Spivack, Miranda S. (March 13, 2007). "Cameras Deployed To Slow Speeders - washingtonpost.com". washingtonpost.com<!. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
- ^ Ashley Halsey III (November 5, 2009). "Humming along with technology, until it's not". Washington Post (Washington Post). pp. A1.
- ^ "Davis Airport". Airnav.com. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
- ^ http://www.city-data.com/county/religion/Montgomery-County-MD.html
- ^ http://www.mcagfair.com/about-us/
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Lesson 1: The Berkshire Hathaway line is higher than the two others for most of the past five years.
That means Berkshire, the Omaha investment company headed by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, has had a higher stock price most of that time, relative to the two most common stock market indicators, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index.
Lesson 2: Toward the right-hand side of the chart, Berkshire's line dips down toward the two others. That means its advantage over the overall stock market has almost completely disappeared. If we made the same comparison for just the past year, you'd see Berkshire's line running significantly below the two others. That's called underperforming.
Lesson 3: All three lines tend to follow parallel tracks, in general. All three dip in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers, the big financial company, filed for bankruptcy. They slide downward to March 2009 as the seriousness of the credit crisis created a near-panic among investors. All three head back up in 2010, only to turn back in 2011.
All three end the five-year period close to where they started.
Lesson 3 has caught the attention of financial academic types, including George Morgan, who followed Berkshire for years as a stockbroker and now teaches at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
As Berkshire grows bigger, Morgan said, it has more of a tendency to follow the overall direction of the stock market. That's partly because it's part of the S&P index and mutual funds based on that index buy or sell all those stocks, Berkshire included, as their investors demand by either putting money into the funds or taking it out.
During the market crash in 2008-09, investors pulled money out of mutual funds, which sold stocks generally without discriminating between "good" or "bad" companies. Investors wanted their money, and the money managers had to sell stocks to give it to them, pushing prices down for nearly all companies.
Morgan said studies indicate that about 85 percent of the price movements in stocks result from the overall direction of the stock market, with 15 percent caused by factors affecting only individual companies.
Contributing to that situation are mutual funds based on stock indexes, which hold $3 trillion of the $15 trillion in the market. The funds buy or sell shares of all the stocks they own, causing the same upward or downward pressure on them as a group and affecting the overall direction of the market.
He likens it to a house: With the windows open, the temperature inside is the same as outside. With the windows closed and the air conditioner or furnace on, the house can cool or heat itself separately from the outside weather.
You could see a measure of security in all this, if you hope to ride the general wave of American business profits as a whole in the long run. But it also could mean that it's more difficult to get ahead by choosing investments with high returns.
Buffett regularly recommends investments in index mutual funds for people who are not willing or able to study investments and make more informed choices.
Last week's decision by Berkshire Hathaway to repurchase its own shares, if they are within a certain price range, is an indication that Buffett believes the company's stock price should not have mirrored the general market in recent months. The announcement bumped up Berkshire's price on Monday, but then it moved parallel to the Dow and S&P averages the rest of the week.
Morgan said there's no doubt that the bigger Berkshire gets, the more it acts like the overall market. So the question is, where will Berkshire's price go from here?
Oops — there's the bell. Class dismissed.
Long belief in buybacks
Berkshire's plan to repurchase its shares, if the price is right, falls in line with comments Buffett has been making for more than 25 years.
The key, he has said in past letters to shareholders, is that repurchases should benefit those who hold onto their shares, and shareholders should be well-informed so they can buy shares if they want.
From his 1984 letter:
"When companies with outstanding businesses and comfortable financial positions find their shares selling far below intrinsic value in the marketplace, no alternative action can benefit shareholders as surely as repurchases."
From his 1999 letter:
"Now, repurchases are all the rage, but are all too often made for an unstated and, in our view, ignoble reason: to pump or support the stock price. The shareholder who chooses to sell today, of course, is benefited by any buyer, whatever his origin or motives. But the continuing shareholder is penalized by repurchases above intrinsic value. Buying dollar bills for $1.10 is not good business for those who stick around. ...
"You should be aware that, at certain times in the past, I have erred in not making repurchases. My appraisal of Berkshire's value was then too conservative or I was too enthused about some alternative use of funds. We have therefore missed some opportunities."
Brandon's comeback?
Joseph Brandon, former head of Berkshire's General Reinsurance division, may be a potential buyer of Transatlantic, the Wall Street Journal reported, which would be a comeback after his 2005 resignation in the face of an investigation into General Re's dealings with American International Group.
Brandon was investigated but never charged, but Buffett was pressured into replacing him by the regulators looking into illegal transactions between the two companies, the Journal said.
Citing unnamed people familiar with the Transatlantic deal, the Journal said Brandon has yet to put together a group to join him in a takeover offer. Berkshire also has made an offer to buy Transatlantic, although it has not been accepted and, the Journal said, it appears Berkshire is out of the running.
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Buffett is one of the speakers at Fortune magazine's "most powerful women" summit Tuesday and Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Others include actress Glenn Close, media executive Arianna Huffington, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, author and comedian Chelsea Handler and activist Gloria Steinem.
Buffett also spoke at the past two annual Fortune summits.
Buffett likes Tesco
The topic is quiet here, but in Britain the financial press is hot on the story of Berkshire continuing to buy shares in Tesco, the English company that is the second-most-profitable retailer in the world behind Walmart.
Berkshire recently bought $180 million worth of Tesco stock, raising its stake from 3.21 percent to 3.64 percent of the total. The investment was viewed as a vote of confidence in Phil Clarke, who became CEO in March and is making changes.
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If you only have one day scheduled for shopping in Jo'burg and you value variety and quality over price, then drop by Sandton City. It's not as exclusive as before, but it does house most of the amenities and more. You may need to be safety-conscious, though—don't walk around with armloads of Armani and Prada bags; rather, dump them in the boot (trunk) as they accumulate. And accumulate they will. Don't feel obliged to pay the guy who 'helps' you park—technically you'd be paying twice as much for parking in a secure area.
Sandton City has the standard high-priced brands names we 'all' recognize, from stand-alone Diesel, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton shops to national favourites. Even with a good exchange rate, don't be expecting eye-poppingly low prices—LV is expensive wherever you go on this planet. However, I can recommend a few local designers and stores that would give brand names a run for their money. Looking for a ball gown, going to a formal wedding, or need something uptight and formal? Try Nicci, Hilton Weiner Classics (my fave), Jo Borkett, Queen's Park, Donna Claire (for the larger ladies). Matching shoes can be found at Spitz and Preview Shoes (most people wait until these stores have sales). There are department stores like Stuttafords that carry a range of brands (Oaktree being a dependable one). The great thing about malls is the variety, from price to quality, so don't be shy—browse!
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Grabbing a bite is no problemo—there's a food court! Old favourites include a chickpea falafel at Anat Falafel and Schwarma or a Burger King-style burger at Steers. There's a lot to choose from, so it's a good idea to have something in mind before spending a half-hour frowning at the oh-so-many options.
The mall can also act as a great… 'babysitter', if you may; there's a cinema, open food court, and enough teen fashion stores to keep your kids preoccupied for a few hours. And if hubby comes along, he can also get lost in the gadget and clothing stores for a while. Not quite up for clothing shopping yourself? Well, there's a myriad of furniture/home improvement stores and a whole ground level dedicated to it!
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Be very, very careful in the parking lots, although there is security and they are heavily patrolled by armed men; rapes and murders do happen.
We bought safari clothing, underwear, books, recorded music, food and other items. The best buys for us were high quality leather bags.
Prices are so good when you consider the bargain air fares that you can get to take you to South Africa, you might well be able to combine a vacation with a major purchase such as a diamond ring and come out even. Gold jewelry is sold mainly by weight with less consideration given to artistry and workmanship. Designer clothing is sold at very good prices. The VAT (value added tax) you pay is refundable when you leave the country if you follow all the rules and keep all your paperwork in order.
The numerous restaurants and food outlets include a great variety of quality places such as real bakeries that most US shopping centers don't have. I purchased enough cookies and biscuits that we didn't have to take the time to go to the hotel restaurants for breakfast (although they were excellent, we preferred the extra sleep.)
Prices were excellent for us. All credit cards other than Discover accepted. Numerous banks with ATM machines--each with an armed guard on duty. Even a hardware store for the things you might have forgotten. A plunger? A roll of duct tape?
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Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories; Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005); The Torturer's Wife (Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist and Lambda Literary Award finalist, 2008); and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (2013). He is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award, 2008). His most recent work has appeared in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and in the 2012 anthologies Kingston Noir and Love, Christopher Street, among others. Glave has been the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
David Hernandez was the recipient of a 2011 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. His recent collection, Hoodwinked, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and is now available from Sarabande Books. His other collections include Always Danger (SIU Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in FIELD, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and Poetry Daily. He is also the author of two young adults novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and at California State University, Long Beach. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at California State University, Fullerton.
It hung from the eaves like a dome-light
until I knocked it down with a branch
the wind snapped from a sycamore three stories high.
The branch fell, then the nest, then the ants
bustled in and out of the frail structure:
crepe paper walls, pale gray, more air
than anything else. One westward breeze
would've sent it to my neighbor's driveway
where an ambulance rolled up a week ago. Rolled out.
Into the nest the ants came and went, demolishing
the larvae snug inside their hexagonal cells.
Imagine all the mandibles. The ceaseless scissoring.
So too the departed are taken apart and ferried elsewhere.
I washed my hands, poured a bowl of flakes, forgot
until the following day I followed the ants
spooling past the trashcans, underneath the gate,
and there below the window, in the blue
shade of the house where the nest had fallen
upside down on a patch of moss, I saw a skull
crowning through the green world.
— "Hornet's Nest," from Hoodwinked © 2011, from Sarabande Books. Used with permission of author.
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Progress Report: Humidor Ratings
Cigar Aficionado Rates Humidors with Staying Power
Stacey C. Rivera
From the Print Edition:
Vince McMahon, Nov/Dec 99
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No, this is not a joke. We received a piece of Tupperware, packaged as a humidor, including cigars and utensils as a gift, and although it is not sold on the market, we thought it would be good to see what results we would get from storing our smokes in Tupperware. We had fantastic results. Our cigars were begging to be smoked and the aroma from the box was irresistible. The piece we tested is marketed as the Divided Freezer Mates container in the Asian market and comes with a sponge encased in a small Tupperware container and a tray system that was originally designed to separate meats. To get similar results you can use any piece of Tupperware and keep a sponge inside. There is a danger of overhumidifying cigars in Tupperware since the container is airtight, but if you open the container periodically, it should be fine. And of course, there is the aesthetic factor. It's not pretty.
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Finally, plastic bags that can keep cigars for extended periods. The Humidi-Pak, a $6.99 clear, thick bag powered by a humidification pouch, kept five cigars fresh for a month and a half. The bag never quite reached 70 percent humidity, but you would never know it by trying the cigars, which were silky and supple by the end of the test. The Humi-Pouch, a $3.95 green bag made by Altura Co., also kept our cigars fresh and ready to smoke for the duration of our test.
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Devon Buy — Petaling Jaya, ---, Malaysia, — February 19, 2013 11:05pm ET
I have posted an article on constructing your own humidor DIY-style at http://www.devonbuy.com/making-your-own-humidor/ and have found it to be quite usable, maintaining quite good humidity levels at 70% plus minus. I currently use it to store my Romeo y Julietas and Monte Cristos.
I'm sure there is still room for improvement. Would appreciate any comment with suggestions. Thank you.
Ted Nitka — June 22, 2013 5:11pm ET
My company, Cheaphumidors.com (www.cheaphumidors.com) submitted a humidor in the original 1997 review. We received one of the highest marks for our Treasure Dome model.
Ted Nitka — June 22, 2013 5:11pm ET
David Savona — June 24, 2013 9:38am ET
To clarify the comment from Ted Nikta regarding Cheap Humidors, they were rated by us in the 2003 review on humidors. The humidors did well, however I would correct the comment. Rather than "one of the highest marks" the humidor did fairly well. There were 9 humidors that scored better than the one we reviewed made by Cheap Humidors and several that tied with it. That said, there were several humidors in the review that scored much, much worse. Overall we gave the Cheap Humidors product a score of B-, which we stated was better than anticipated given the name.
For the full review, click here: http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Battle-of-the-Boxes_8377/p/5
Aaron Hois — February 22, 2014 11:53pm ET
I recently came across a web page called Lance Allen humidors I went ahead and purchased one of the humidors and was really impressed with the craftsmanship and its ability to retain humidity. Th what I can tell he specializes in makes custom orders though but I think its worth checking out just passing it along
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If there is a National Football Conference team I can usually root for, it's the Giants. I like frowny-face Eli Manning. I think coach Tom Caughlin is one of the best. This was my general point of view until last weekend when Caughlin's Giants struggled to win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
My perception has completely changed after that game and now I think Caughlin is the leader of a bunch of crying babies. Or maybe it's just the red-faced Caughlin who is the crying baby. I'm not sure.
Anyway, on Sunday the reigning Super Bowl champions had their hands full with Tampa Bay. In fact, Tampa Bay controlled most of the game until Manning decided to actually play quarterback in the fourth quarter and score enough points to take the lead.
With the score at 41-34 and a win under their belts, the Giants went into victory formation for the last play of the game. All seemed like a normal last play of the game until the Buccaneers defense blasted across the line of scrimmage in a last-ditch effort to try and get the ball from Manning.
While the defensive linemen were able to get some penetration, causing Manning to fall on his back, the unexpected blast didn't work. Manning, who was about to kneel, held onto the ball and the Giants scraped by in a game the Buccaneers shouldn't have lost.
At their meeting midfield following the game, Caughlin gave the Buc's rookie head coach Greg Schiano a piece of his mind for telling his players to try for the ball even though the Giants were in the so-called victory formation. Caughlin called it a "cheap shot."
The play has since opened up a debate as to whether it was a cheap shot or not. Some, like Caughlin, believe it was as cheap as it gets. Others think, well, it's the NFL; these guys should play until the clock reads 0:00.
A full day after sparking the debate, coach Schiano remained unapologetic, according to The New York Times.
"I don't have any remorse or regret," Schiano told The Times. It's clean, hard football."
As it turns out, Schiano has supported that type of play ever since he began his football coaching career. Schiano said he's always tried to instill a never-say-die attitude. He did so during his 11 years of coaching at Rutgers, where crashing a victory formation like Tampa did on Sunday produced four fumbles in his last five years at Rutgers.
But apparently there is this belief in the NFL that once a victory formation is on the field, the game is over, and Schiano broke this unwritten rule.
"You don't do that in this league. You don't just – you jeopardize the offensive line, you jeopardize the quarterback," Caughlin told The Times. "Thank goodness we didn't get anyone hurt."
Even former coach and current ESPN analyst Herman Edwards, who knows the importance of playing until the clock reads zero, agrees with Caughlin. Edwards played hard to the very end in 1978 when he was able to grab a loose ball that was the result of a bad handoff to a running back after snapping the ball in victory formation. Edwards grabbed the ball and ran for a touchdown and won the game 19-17. But Edwards said that play was different and he's siding with Caughlin on this one.
"Greg [Schiano] is trying to bring toughness to his football team; I get all of that," Edwards said. "He got caught up in the moment and probably didn't think about the repercussions of it."
Has the Commissioner Roger Goodell fined Schiano for breaking this unwritten rule? What are the repercussions? Tom Caughlin will no longer shake his hand after a game? I am lost here. What are the repercussions?
I'd say if there is a lesson to be learned here it is that anyone and everyone who will play the Buccaneers under Schiano's leadership should be read to play until the very end and that there is no such thing as standing around when the victory formation is on the field.
Edwards said it was kind of a cheap shot because most offensive linemen stand around as if the game was over when the victory formation is on the field. These linemen are paid millions of dollars to play football so why can't they be ready to take a hit and actually block on the last play of the game if the defense is coming?
I like Schiano's style here. Could a player get hurt? Yes. Should they be ready to take on some contact? Yes. You never know when a snap is going to be botched, and to go hard into a victory formation may just cause that mishandled snap.
I wonder what we would be talking about right now if the defensive push on the last play of the game worked and Eli did fumble the ball causing a turnover. Would coaches still say Schiano broke this unwritten rule? Or would the sporting world be calling Schiano a genius for not quitting and playing to the end. He'd be a genius if it worked.
What are kids taught throughout childhood and adolescence? Never give up. Coaches, teachers, parents constantly hammer this phrase into kids' ears all the time. So what happens when a coach, an NFL coach, takes that phrase to heart? He's ridiculed for it.
Frankly, I thought Caughlin was a tougher guy than he seems now. I would have thought Caughlin could understand why the Bucs' defense drilled the line on that last play. They were playing tough to the end. Nothing wrong with that in my book.
If you ask me, Caughlin got his whitey-tighties in a bunch at the end of that game because he knew how close his team was to going 0-2 on the season. Caughlin knows his team may not be the Super Bowl champions they were last year and he's embarrassed. So instead, he directed his anger and frustration at a rookie coach playing to the end.
I like Schiano's style and I hope he doesn't change a thing. This is football, isn't it?
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The Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection
From 1890 to 1913, Dean Conant Worcester took thousands of photographs of people and places throughout the Philippines. The majority was taken while Worcester served as the controversial Secretary of Interior in the US colonial government from 1901-1913, responsible for economic development and "non-Christian tribes and people". Simultaneously disturbing and beautiful, these photographs portray the perspectives and emphases of a leading proponent of the colonial mission. This exhibition features a subset of the nearly 5000 glass negatives and lantern slides in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology's Worcester Collection.
Koelz Collection of Himalayan Art
On November 2, 1932, zoologist and adventurer Walter Norman Koelz left Ann Arbor for a two-year collecting mission in northern India. Koelz had been appointed by the University of Michigan to collect biological specimens for the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and material culture for the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. From 1932 to 1934 he traveled throughout the Indian Himalayas, collecting birds and other fauna, botanical specimens, and a rare and important assemblage of Western Himalayan art. This exhibition features a portion of the objects that Koelz collected, including religious tangka paintings from Buddhist monasteries ("Tara," UMMAA 17458, above), bronze and silver amulet boxes, elaborate shawls, and wooden seals and printing blocks.
Batak Manuscripts
In 1918 and 1927, University of Michigan Professor Harley Harris Bartlett (1886–1960) traveled to Sumatra, Indonesia, to conduct botanical research and collect specimens for the University of Michigan Herbarium and Smithsonian Institution. Some of his travel took him to the upland mountains of northern Sumatra and into contact with the Batak people. While visiting Batak villages, he collected various anthropological materials in addition to botanical materials and gave the Museum of Anthropology 155 written Batak texts and other materials for its collections. An inscribed Batak text (UMMAA 48396) is illustrated here.
Sago Spathe Painting Exhibit
The Museum has a collection of over 100 Sago Spathe paintings from New Guinea. Most of the paintings come from a ritual house built in the early 1980s. The initiation cycle was not completed due to dissension among the senior men who were responsible for keeping the initiation going. The paintings were recovered from the ruins of the structure in 1987 by Phillip Guddemi, a graduate student in cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan. Some paintings that would normally be present were not found. Examples of these were commissioned from local artists.


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Just when it seemed Chris Bosh was finally coming out of his January funk, he got sick at the beginning of February.
Heat forward Shane Battier started in place of Bosh on Wednesday against the Rockets after Bosh came down with flu-like symptoms before the game, according to the Heat. Bosh did not attend shootaround on Wednesday morning and, after not improving during the day, was told to stay home for the game.
"Two years ago that was our worst nightmare," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of missing Bosh. "And while we obviously want him back as our most important player in this mix, we'll be able to work around it."
Bosh's illness gave Battier a start against his old team. He has started 16 games this season. Spoelstra said he never considered starting Chris Andersen, who Spoelstra prefers in the second rotation. Also, Andersen has only started 10 games in his career.
Bosh has missed only two games this season. Most recently, he averaged over 25 points in the Heat's back-to-back against the Raptors and Bobcats. He had 13 points in the fourth quarter against Toronto and 10 points in the final period against Charlotte.
Spoelstra said that "it helps" the team when Bosh is more aggressive offensively.
"We've got to work together to do it," Spoelstra said. "He's got to have an aggressive mindset to look for opportunities. Not only to attack, but to find open gaps in the paint to catch, especially on his rolls to the rim."
Bird is the word
Spoelstra tries to remain formal with his players. That rule has been really hard with Andersen.
When Spoelstra first met Andersen, he asked the Heat's coach to call him "Bird."
Spoelstra declined at first.
"I told him when I first met with him I said, 'I'm going to have a hard time calling you that,'" Spoelstra said.
But it didn't take Spoelstra long to embrace the name. In a strange way, it just feels weird calling "Birdman" something normal like, you know, his given name.
"For some reason, he's different," Spoelstra said. "I would never call anyone by their nickname, and I certainly wouldn't accept anybody calling themselves in the third person, but he is different."
Anderson often refers to himself in the third person as "the Birdman" or "a birdman."
Respect the game
While Spoelstra didn't exactly admonish the Rockets for pouring it on the Warriors on Tuesday night, he also didn't condone Houston's apparent attempt to tie the NBA's three-point record.
The Rockets defeated the Warriors 140-109 in Houston before flying to Miami for their home-away back-to-back. The Rockets made 23 three-pointers, or one shy of breaking the NBA record. To prevent the Rockets from getting the record, Warriors coach Mark Jackson instructed his players to foul at the end of the game. The Rockets crowd was chanting "one more three" in the final minutes.
"It keeps it compelling when the game wasn't close," Spoelstra said of the Rockets' pursuit of the record. "You can look at it that way. I don't think that anyone would have paid attention to last two minutes of that game. Every situation is different. There is an integrity to the game."


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WASHINGTON, DC Today, the House of Representatives Committee on Small Business held a hearing on the disturbing trend of pharmacists who refuse to fill valid prescriptions for contraception. The hearing highlighted the "Emergency Rule" issued by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, which requires pharmacies to fill all valid and legal prescriptions without delay.
"Women should never be denied basic health care services by pharmacists who decide to impose their own personal beliefs on others," said Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Interim President Karen Pearl. "Pharmacists are supposed to facilitate patient care, not act as obstacles to it. It is the patient's medical needs that must come first."
On February 23, 2005, a pharmacist at a Chicago Osco store refused to fill prescriptions for contraception for two women who are patients of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area (PP/CA). PP/CA registered a complaint with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. To educate women about the dangerous trend of pharmacist refusals to fill prescriptions and to urge them to take action, PP/CA also organized a protest of nearly a hundred advocates in front of the pharmacy. The rally drew attention to the issue of pharmacist refusals and sparked a public debate about the rights of women to receive basic health care in Illinois and around the country.
A representative from Gov. Blagojevich's office testified at the hearing today, along with representatives from the American Pharmacists Association and one of the Illinois women who was refused her medication. Pharmacist refusals are not limited to Illinois or any particular location. Planned Parenthood has received reports from across the nation of pharmacists refusing to fill women's prescriptions for both regular birth control and emergency contraception.
"This is not an isolated problem, and I hope the committee learns that in today's testimony," stated Pearl. "Pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions in New Hampshire, Texas, Wisconsin, and many other states. If a woman and her doctor have already discussed the need for contraception, she should be able to walk into any pharmacy in America and expect to have her prescription filled without unnecessary delays or discrimination. Women should never be denied basic health care services by pharmacists who want to impose their morality on others."
For more information on pharmacist refusals, including a state-by-state guide to major pharmacy chains and their policies, please visit www.fillmypillsnow.org and www.plannedparenthood.org.