text: Took the boat out last night and noticed a vibration in my cabin as I was underway. Cut the trip short due to this but by the time I got back if I was above 2000 RPM, the whole cabin was vibratiing. In addition, the vibration got substantially worse if I increased RPM.s Wheel was straight forward. Would a U-Joint cause this? I don't think there is anything in the prop or wrong with the prop. They are Volvo Penta Outdrives with 5.0 L V-8's. Only the Starboard motor is doing it.


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Red Wing's Moondance Inn at the HolidaysThursday, December 8th, 2011
If you enjoy the holidays, you will love Red Wing. There is live theater at the Historic Sheldon Theater including "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" and the "Nutcracker." December 10th, browse the artist studios at the Anderson Center for creative Christmas presents. Take in live music including Dan Mahar at Jimmy's pub, REO Speedwagon at Treasure Island, and Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys at the Sheldon.
There are many great downtown stores where you will find many wonderful and unique gifts. The Moondance Inn is running some great December specials including a discount on our gift certificates.

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I cant play any movies on my android stuff, music is no problem but movies is dead,
Before last mx player update i only got the spinning circle. Now i get "can't play this file/movie"
I get the same error on subsonic native client, and on ultrasonic.
I can start to play the movie in D-sub but only for 10 sec in hw+ if i use mv the movie funktion but the sound dies after 10 sec.
So my question is, do this problem have to do what rights apps are allowed to do in folders or is it another problem?
Do anyone know of a solution to this? Almost all my users use Android Tv to see the films so it sucks, For now i use Plex side by side to Madsonic
but since Madsonic rocks and Plex dont in terms of looks/privacy and is relay much better for sorting movies (i use my on info in film and plex dont like that) i really would like to throw plex oute and only run madsonic for all media. (one to rule them all as they say
I get this error on stuff using Android 4.2.2 and 4.4.2 and my madsonic server is 5.1 beta 2


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Posted: Tue 07 May 2013, 17:20
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Default tray icon (red X)
Subject description: How to change that?
Hi readers,
I would appreciate a "how to" link a distinct
tray icon to any pet lacking a specific icon.
I use Precise 5.5 with JWM.
My regards
PS It's not important, but it would be nice.
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Posted: Wed 08 May 2013, 10:12
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Tray apps normally have their icons somewhere in /usr/share/PROGRAMNAME
like retrovol for example :
ls /usr/local/share/retrovol/images
audio-volume-high.png audio-volume-medium.png
audio-volume-low.png audio-volume-muted.png
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Posted: Wed 08 May 2013, 13:04
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Hi Karl et al,
Karl, thank you very much for your response which I studied, but I couldn't figure how to use your "retrovol" example in another application.
So if there is a generic method to allocate a tray icon to an app which doesn't have one, might it help to look at "Simple Menu" from technosaurus (where in his opening post in the link below he specifically wrote "... for whatever reason I decided not to make a menu entry[/tray icon] for it").
Scrolling down there are posts from:
* technosaurus re smenu-0.2.pet
* LIBL and jemimah re non-English use
[which may be of general interest to some readers who might like to try Simple Menu, with or without any interest in the tray icon aspect].
My regards
With Simple Menu a tray icon seems to be superfluous, but I have other pet and sfs apps where it would be nice to be able to use a choice of tray icon in place of the default icon.
I have not asked technosaurus, partly because likely he's busy and, to me, it would seem impolite.
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Posted: Wed 08 May 2013, 15:11
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Subject description: icon - default
Hi Jasper - yes, the default red-X icon is kind of a job to get around if indeed it can be done.
Mostly jwm gets it right and uses the app-specific icon, but if it can't then it uses the 'generic' (for gtk-dialog-based mini-apps and so on).
you might be able to use jwm's group tag - see the jwm man for more info - to set a preferred icon, but then again you'd have to narrow the group (class) to a specific subgroup (name) and it could defeat your intent if you don't get everything properly done.
Dotdesktop files are the usual source for icons in the rootmenu, but sometimes the icon is different (or generic) in titlebar/tasklist for jwm.
xprop is a good tool for determining various window properties (class, name, icon and so forth). It's been awhile, but if I recall correctly xdotool can be used to manipulate those to some extent.
Funny, slacko55 has been giving me somewhat of a related issue lately - medit shows a correct red pen icon in menus but I get a printer icon in titlebar/tasklist.. minor but annoying
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Posted: Wed 08 May 2013, 17:25
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Hi `f00,
Thank you for your contribution, which I will study in detail and with interest tomorrow, though I may not try to implement your possible work arounds.
I have used xdotool before with success, but it took some three hours for me do a simple task which experts would accomplish in minutes or even seconds.
My regards to all
PS PupMenu, from radky, in Full Mode gives lots of information on apps and enables easy viewing and editing of extensive data as well as many other useful functions.
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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013, 00:24
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Hi Jasper,
When I read your first post, I thought I understood your question, but after reading your other posts I am now not so sure.
Jasper wrote:
Post subject: Default tray icon (red X)
Subject description: How to change that?
1. I first assumed that you wanted to change the default window icon so that all applications that didn't specify an icon would use the new default icon instead of the red X.
Perhaps that was a correct assumption.
2. But perhaps you just want to know how to assign an icon to an application which currently doesn't have one -- not change the default.
Jasper wrote:
. . . I have other pet and sfs apps where it would be nice to be able to use a choice of tray icon in place of the default icon.
Yes, that sounds more like #2. You don't want to actually change the default icon; you want the application to use an icon other than the default.
So I'll now assume that the latter is what you are asking. (I hope that is the case, because the answer to #2 is easier than the answer to #1, since I think the default icon is actually hard-coded inside the jwm executable and changing it would require patching the source and recompiling or doing some precision editing of the executable.)
Many applications supply a window icon and request that the window manager use it by passing the _NET_WM_ICON hint. Those that don't do that can have a window icon associated with it, for use by JWM, by placing an image file with a basename that matches the resource name for the application in one of JWM's IconPaths.
What are JWN's IconPaths? They can be found by looking in the /root/.jwmrc file. For instance, here are the IconPaths in my /root/.jwmrc file:
# grep IconPath /root/.jwmrc | grep -v '<!-'
Your results may vary, but it looks like these four paths are fairly common in recent Puppies, since I've found the same in Racy 5.2.2, Slacko 5.5-PAE, and Precise 5.5.
What is a "resource name"? It is a name passed to the window manager by the application in the WM_CLASS hint. Not all applications pass a WM_CLASS hint. For those that do, you can see the resource name of the application by using the xprop utility recommended by `f00 in his post above. Enter the following command and then click on the application's window:
xprop | grep WM_CLASS
This will spit out two names. The first is the resource name; the second is the resource class. Often the resource name will be the same as the name of the executable, but that is not always the case.
So, let's say you have an application named
. You use the above command and find out that the resource name is also
. So you create an icon file and name it
, and you place it in the /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/ directory because that was one of the IconPaths in your /root/.jwmrc file.
With any luck you can than restart JWM, then launch the application and see the new icon on its title bar and in JWM's tray.
As for the icons in the menus, they are defined differently. As `f00 mentioned above, they are defined in the .desktop files. If you want to add or modify a menu icon, find the .desktop file for the application in the /usr/share/applications/ directory, then add or modify the "Icon=" line. If you want, you can use the same icon as you used for the window icon. For instance:
Again, the icon file should live in one of the directories shown in the <IconPath> fields in your /root/.jwmrc file. If you want to use an icon file in a directory that is not in one of JWM's IconPaths, you can provide the absolute pathname of the icon file. For instance:
For more details on this stuff see
JWM Configuration: Icons
Good luck.
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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013, 06:23
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`f00 wrote:
...Funny, slacko55 has been giving me somewhat of a related issue lately - medit shows a correct red pen icon in menus but I get a printer icon in titlebar/tasklist.. minor but annoying
I first noticed similar behaviour back with Slacko-5331 (IIRC) when using
Psip Puppy Phone
if i was to IM someone, i had a strange icon on that window (but not on the two main windows). (see pics)
After a little hunting, i figured out the cause and a solution.
For your particular issue, try the following:
If you look in:
(i have 4351 items in here
you will probably find this:
is a symbolic link to
which is also a symbolic link pointing to
Simply replace the
symbolic link for an actual icon of your choice,
then update the icon cache.
gtk-update-icon-cache -f -i /usr/share/icons/hicolor
Now fire up your app and see if the right icon is displayed.
Hope this helps
The IP in my images was edited to protect the innocent
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Hi npierce,
Success. Your your instructions are a model of clarity, simplicity and excellence.
Thank you very much.
My regards to all, especially the responders
PS I'm not just pleased. I'm delighted.
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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013, 11:06
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You're very welcome.
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I do make an effort to be clear, and it is good to hear that (at least sometimes) I succeed.
It is nice to know the effort is appreciated.
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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013, 11:21
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Subject description: ..
Thank you, CatDude!
- yep, that icon dir
a bit large (one can only wonder what it would do to iconfinder's load time
if that utility were in slacko).
Indeed your solution does help
thanks again for the hunting/kb
Also props to npierce for a good rundown of _NET_WM_ICON hint - I tend to get lost in that
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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013, 21:38
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`f00 wrote:
. . I tend to get lost in that
Me too. I try to remember to bring a lot of bread crumbs with me when I venture into
Thanks for the explanation of the medit icons. It clarified something for me, and inspired me to look deeper into how GTK apps find their icons.
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T.I Hold Back To School Event! (Gives Kids Free School Supplies In Bankhead. ATL)
ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) -- Hip-hop star T.I. held a back-to-school event in Atlanta's Bankhead community where he grew up Sunday. Monday, students in the cities of Atlanta and Decatur and Cobb, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton and Gwinnett Counties will head back to the classroom. T.I. has spent of hundreds of hours doing community service and Sunday's event was one he holds every year. This year's message was a bit different, perhaps because of everything that has happened to the rapper recently and more than 1,000 kids showed up to see T.I. "Getting the kids ready to go back to school and motivating them to get their minds together," said T.I. Kids walked away with free school supplies and were able to spend some time with the hip-hop star. Despite what T.I. has been through the year after being arrested on federal charges in October, parents said they appreciated what T.I. had to say to kids. "He told him something positive to stay in school not for him but for himself," said parent Cindy Colbert. "They listen to his music, so by him speaking out to the children that helps out. He's standing behind where he went wrong at and he's spending time with them showing them right and wrong," said parent Beewanda Gates. "I can't stress enough the value of education and importance of an education," said T.I. For the next seven months, T.I. will continue to fulfilling community service before he reports to jail. "I recognize that I have put myself in a position I have to go and pay my debt to society rather than dreading that. I'm looking forward to putting this all behind me," said T.I. T.I. will report to jail in March after he completes his community service obligation. As part of his plea deal for the federal weapons charges, T.I. agreed to do 1,500 hours of community service.
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It has arrived! My very first Mandy Moore Movie Monday. If you don't know, I own a lot of Mandy Moore movies. I find her to be absolutely darling, and it's kinda refreshing not having the Candy video seared into my brain for eternity.
The movie I watched is called Because I Said So. The cast: Mandy, Diane Keaton, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Piper Perabo, Lauren Graham, and Stephen Collins. If you watch this, you should skip the first 10 minutes and get to the good stuff.
Diane Keaton plays a meddling mother who is always interfering with her daughter's life. Mandy plays this spastic girl who always falls for the wrong guy, so Crazy Mama puts a singles ad out for her daughter. Mandy's character ends up being with two guys, one of 'em is Gabriel Macht. Macht is the charm behind this thing. Dude is hot, and I love how he interacts with Mandy. Oh, did I mention they're all wedding caterers...with a specialty in cakes?
|this bad boy was thoroughly covered in goddess dressing after the photo
This is seriously one of those cheesy romantic comedies, but it's not overly trite. That's mostly due to Keaton's insane character and Gabriel
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The public is invited to a public art show with pieces from three local artists at Palmetto Bluff on April 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The artists will be on hand to answer questions and discuss their work, and visitors will be able to witness artist demonstrations throughout the day.
The show will be at the Conservancy Center, 1 Village Park Square, Bluffton.
Admission to the Conservancy is complimentary and a portion of the sales of each piece of work will be donated to support the Palmetto Bluff Arts Commission, and future programming.
Featured Artists:
Chris Groves: Horton Hayes Fine Arts, 30 State Street, Charleston
Webpage: www.cgroves.com
Jennifer Smith Rogers: Smith Killian Gallery, 9 Queens Street, Charleston.
Webpage: www.SmithKillian.com
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Dave is the Library Media Specialist (teacher librarian) at Brier Elementary School in the Edmonds School District, located just north of Seattle, Washington. This is his 20th year in education. He began teaching in 1987 at Warrenton Grade School in Warrenton, Oregon and has been at Brier since 1993. Before becoming the school librarian in 1999, he was a classroom teacher, teaching grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
He attended Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon where he received bachelor degrees in Elementary Education and Interdisciplinary Studies (Geography, Business, and Computer Science). He has an elementary teaching certificate in Oregon and Washington and a Learning Resources endorsement in Washington. He earned his Masters of Library and Information Sciences degree at the University of Washington'sInformation School in June 2006.
Dave is a member of ALA (American Library Association), WLMA (Washington Library Media Association) serving as co-chair of the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Committee and elementary chair-elect, and PSC (Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's Material) where served 5 years on the board of directors (2000-2005). During that time he served terms as Recording Secretary and Chair. He also serves on one of Group Health Cooperative's medical center councils.
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An Introduction to Code Navigation and Tagging in SlickEdit
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SlickEdit's Context Tagging is the engine behind many editor features, such as code navigation, symbol searching, and auto-completion. The first part of this video examines SlickEdit's primary code navigation features, which are:
- Go to Definition
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- Pop Bookmark
Bound to Ctrl+, to return to the previous location
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Below is a list of Breton far-right organisations and websites. These groups have well documented links to fascists and violent criminals from around Europe.
After careful consideration it has been decided to blog about them here following the logic of the wise adage forewarned is forearmed. Equally I have noted that members of these organisations, posing as simple Celtic patriots on Facebook, have been trying to make contact with Celtic and Cornish activists. One such individual is Claude Guillemain member of Jeune Bretagne an organisation that has well documented links with the far right in France, Flanders, Italy and elsewhere.
As a Cornishman who lives in Brittany, and who speaks both Breton and French, I have discovered the true nature of these groups. It is now hoped that others who follow can benefit from my insights. Paths that are not worth following are here signposted as such. These groups undermine the cause of Breton national recognition and self-determination. Their ideology belongs in a different age. Help them become history and steer well clear!
Kadarn / Adsav youth wing
Bloc Identitaire Bretagne
Breizh Atao
Breizh Identitaire Facebook
Breizh Novopress
Jeune Bretagne
L'Idee Bretonne
Ti Breizh
For confirmation of what I have claimed you can contact Mebyon Kernow's sister party the UDB. Equally you could ask the Parti Breton, Celtic League, Ofis ar Brezhoneg or any other Breton organisation.
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"All My Sons": Designing Realism
At an early production meeting for "All My Sons," Intrepid's Season Five opener, lighting designer Curtis Mueller studied a picture of the set design.
"Can we put a curtain in that window?" he asked, pointing to the second story of the onstage house façade. "It will help with the mood we're trying to create."
If you have ever wondered what it is like to be a designer on a production of an Arthur Miller play, the answer lies somewhere between realistic authenticity and sneaky, subliminal messaging.
"We're in the subconscious of the audience," says Curtis, referring to all of the production design elements that go into making a play come to life onstage. "But hopefully, they won't know it.
The audience, says Curtis, is not supposed to notice something in particular, like his lighting design. Hopefully, he says, it just blends in with all of the other elements to help tell the story.
For the last two months, while actors have been rehearsing lines and blocking, the designers have been busy creating the world the characters will inhabit for the run of the show. Costumer Kristin McReddie has been scouring vintage clothing stores, Etsy.com and costume rental shops all over town. Prop designer Bonnie Durben has been researching the look and design of 1940s household items. Curtis has been paying a lot of attention to the play of the light throughout the course of one day.
"The play is going to be a slice of life post WWII," says Kristin. "Hopefully, the audience will take away [from the show] what it looked like and felt like to be alive in that era."
Set in 1947, "All My Sons" explores the dynamic of the Keller family and their neighbors as they navigate a post-war life and all of the hope and loss entailed in that particular time period. It is one of Miller's most emotionally gripping plays.
But in order for that emotionally-charged story to unfold, it is necessary to ground the setting in a very realistic place. This means careful attention to detail on the part of the designers who are creating this onstage world.
"This time period is right at a cusp," explains Bonnie. "There are still people that are old enough that remember the time period, so you have to be very careful about the type of props that you get – that the glass pitcher looks like the glass pitcher their mother had."
Bonnie's script is full of notes on these details, the specificity of each item that the characters handle throughout the story. For instance, when a newspaper appears, it is Bonnie's job to make sure it is exactly the right one.
"The funny papers were different then," she explains. "They were all in color and they were all brighter and boxed differently. It's the little things that, really, you don't notice, but the people in the audience are going to look at it and say, 'That's not right. That's not how I remember it.'"
The search for period-appropriate costumes is just as specific, says Kristin, who had to research, not only the look of that decade's fashion, but also how wartime permeated even the closets of these characters.
"In the 1940s, everything was tailored to be more fitted towards the body," she explains. "They had to use less fabric because all of that wool and cotton was going to the war effort. So it's going to be interesting to see how the actors are going to adapt their blocking to the costumes and the clothing."
Arthur Miller extends this specificity into the story's lighting design as well, having confined the play's action to a 24-hour time period. This means that Curtis has spent a lot of time contemplating his role as the show's timekeeper.
"The lighting design is going to drive the entire show forward because it takes place in one day," explains Curtis. "When you think about it, time doesn't stop, so it's going to be interesting to see how the pacing of the show corresponds to where we are in time."
Despite all of this intricately detailed work, at the end of the day, success for the designers means that their contribution does not stand out on its own, but rather gracefully augments the storytelling of the play.
"I think what makes a successful show in general is something that people can always relate to," says Curtis. "I think this show does a great job of doing that along with providing an emotional story. I hope the audience leaves feeling everything that we put out there for them."
–Tiffany Tang
All My Sons plays March 27-April 20 at the Clayton E. Liggett Theater on the campus of San Dieguito Academy. 800 Santa Fe Drive, Encinitas.
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THE DROP: URBAN ART INFILL is a day long festival of public interactive art, music, and fashion projects on 25th Street between 10th & 11th avenues happening tomorrow, October 3, 2009. After wandering through the exhibitions, check out the party under the High Line at 25th Street!
This event is an all–volunteer collaboration of designers, architects and curators with developers in Chelsea to open up space in the city for public interactions with artists, producers, and city-dwellers. The festival seeks also to provide space in the center of Chelsea and bring together developers, business owners, the art community and New York communities to think locally and globally.
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Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand apologized on behalf of the team to the University of Wisconsin Marching Band Monday after center Dominic Raiola was accused of verbally abusing members of the band before the Lions game with the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
According to Rob Schultz and Dan Simmons of the Wisconsin State Journal, Lewand apologized to director Mike Leckrone after the team released a statement Monday saying they were investigating the incident.
Raiola was accused by members of the band for verbal abuse after he allegedly hurled insults at the band that contained profanities and even questioned the sexuality of some members of the group. The Lions are still investigating the altercation but Lewand felt the need to reach out to the band.
"He said that he hadn't fully investigated but he knew enough that an apology was due," Leckrone said. "I thought it was a heartfelt and welcomed gesture."
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(CNN) -- The wooden sculptures lining the median of U.S. 90 are among the top tourist attractions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Marlin Miller's live oak sculpture in Biloxi's Town Green will be dedicated Saturday.
They are also a creative tribute to the live oaks that lined the scenic highway before the saltwater surge of Hurricane Katrina killed them at their very roots.
After the storm, the Mississippi Department of Transportation began bulldozing the dead trees, much to the chagrin of area residents.
Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, one of the coast's longtime civic leaders, intervened. He contracted to have some of the live oak trunks turned into sculptures. But it would have proved to be a costly venture.
Enter Marlin Miller, a wood sculptor from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who volunteered to create a few live oak sculptures for free -- in part to leave his artistic mark on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but also as a service to the community.
A tree sculpture begins with the transportation department removing all the branches, leaving just the core of the tree.
"I get an idea of what that carving is going to look like, and I go after it with a wide variety of steel chain saws." Miller said.
He works his way down to high speed grinders, sanders and chisels to add the final detail work.
"They're live oaks, so it's like carving stone. Sparks fly off my chain saw blades when I go after one of the trees," Miller said.
Some of the trees, which are as much a part of south Mississippi's heritage as the antebellum homes scattered along the coastline, are estimated to be as much as 500 or 600 years old.
Miller's sculptures along U.S. 90 range from eagles and herons to seahorses and dolphins. He said local governments have never dictated how his carvings should look.
In Pass Christian, Miller created what he believes to be the world's largest eagle wood carving, at 25 feet tall.
"That sculpture is dedicated to Col. Lawrence Roberts, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen," he said.
A recent survey of area tourist attractions by the Harrison County Tourism Commission listed the beaches as the third-most popular attraction and the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino second. Miller's tree sculptures are first.
"We've had a lot of traffic diverting off of Interstate 10, down to U.S. 90 just to see these carvings," Miller said.
On Saturday, one of Miller's sculptures will be dedicated on the Biloxi Town Green: a 24-foot-tall marlin flying into the sky, three mahi fish jumping to the left, and a sea turtle and a blue crab at the base. It is the only painted tree sculpture of all those lining U.S. 90.
Next on Marlin's to-do list: an oak tree in the center of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and one in Gulfport, Mississippi. He also plans to expand the project to downtown New Orleans and parts of North Carolina.
"Instead of just cutting these trees down," Marlin said, "we're going to put new life into them by adding a sculpture."
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This tasting is all about Christmas Drams. These can be whiskies that have the flavours of Christmas or whiskies that go well with traditional Christmas food and snacks.
The Whiskies
- Christmas Drams, heavy, sherried, fruit cake, mulled wine, gingery, spicy or anything else that reminds you of Christmas. But don't forget other whiskies that may go well with turkey, stuffing and Christmas pudding.
Date and Time
- Saturday 13th December 7:00pm GMT
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For those of you who do not know what these are about, they run for generally 12+ hours and we all sit down (at various times) to taste a range of whiskies and share our notes and comments on the forum. Have a look in the Live Tasting forum for past events.
They are a great way to meet people on the forum, chat about your experiences and learn something new about the whiskies you have, and we all end up having a good time.
Please feel free to join in and post any comments or tasting notes you have. Tasting notes can be added using the Tasting Note tab on the postings page. (Note, the Age field on the tasting must be a number such as 7,9,10,18)
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I for one am really excited about this! i really hope they ship fast!
I for one am really excited about this! i really hope they ship fast!
If i haven't given you feedback on market, PM me. I tend to forget. Please...
Looking for the following mooks:
kof 94-01, 03, XI, XIII
Awesome Sellers:
bokmeow, RingoC, Pocketgamer, RocketLawnChair, hines1515, Adam Gallant, NTSC-J, JHendrix, subcons, kitkit
Awesome Buyers:
All creature will die and all the things will be broken.
Neo Geo Dip Switch wiki page
I guess it's nice to know it is there, but it's not much of a news maker when you can't order from it unless someone knows some third party broker, friend, or associate who can in the area order for you.
Now y'all can buy that Neo Geo purse you've been wanting for years.
dude, you're awful at this, you didn't even tried.
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Assuming an international shipping option does not get added any time soon, hopefully, some of the items that prove to be popular will become available on the amazon.co.jp "NEOGEO Land" store so that international customers will have an opportunity to buy as well.
This site is pretty cool. I wish they had some cooler shirts but the posters are pretty nice. If you have a proxy buyer in Japan you can usually pick stuff like this up for only slightly inflated prices rather than dealing with flippers. Just gotta pay for shipping and buyer fees.
i would just go to some generic site like cafepress for this shit
i am sylvie i am up to no good
Poster are now out, but their quality is not as good as the originals (not a surprise).
Mildly amusing, but if they don't ship worldwide, meh. Not interesting in getting getting a jap PO Box or whatever the fuck for flip flops and posters.
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Hello !
I have purshased and received 3 posters, money bag, neo bag from snk online shop !
Its great quality ! Printed in japan ! What else !
I'am waiting for next poster
You choose 1 week or 2 month, but you can buy only with a japan buyer, not directly with snk online shop
What could possibly go wrong?
Spoiler:I get the idea that this fine fellow will take your money, buy the items. Then take them back to France to be copied and mail you out the boot.
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I need a new website. I need you to design and build a website for my small business. I want a website for my company it should be implemented on a responsive front end, so the website will adapt for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop PC access. It should be built on a Content Management System which would enable me to manage sites content and set my exchange rates also information on payment methods.
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Shaban needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 153 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
We are a small startup and we create game and applications for iPhone. We like the creative and artistic part of an application or a game. We try to make simple and efficient interfaces for our products. We want the use of the application itself being a pleasure for the user. It's a little bit like Apple philosophy. Our untold slogan can be "Innovation through quality, creativity and design".
Our main project now is http://www.moonga.com
we are also working on comics for mobile device.
we also released yet http://www.eyeradars.com
Our target audience mainly iPhone users (widely computer users). Many of our apps are games but we can also do some "non entertainment" applications but always with a little "dream" "creativity" touch. The users will see the logo when the application prompt it will record them all the feelings of using our branded apps, the dream the creativity and the pleasure of using the application.
We need,
A logo
- The logo is composed of two part : the company name EverdreamSoft with a not to complex typography. And a vectorial image you are free with the vectorial image. We want something simple we think of some abstract shape that can recall the dream or something vanishing. But it's important not to be a stock image logo.
- We want it to be simple. Our idea is an image with some rounded shape and the company name EverdreamSoft below. But you can propose something other if you feel it better.
About the colours can you please present the logo on a white background and on a dark one. And the logo with colour and in black and white. We wanted something between blue and purple (again something that recalls the colour of dream) but if you creativity makes you choose something else you are free.
It has to be integrable into our website template that is
(the template may change in the future)
It will be great plus if you present the integrated logo within a business card design template or some paper work that we can reuse.
For example we like
Have fun !
We are excited to see what great designers can do.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Outside Sales Representative at Sentext Solutions
Pittsburgh, PA
About the Job
Merchants absolutely love this product!
Build an unlimited Lifetime Vested Residual income and become part of one of the fastest growing industries in the United States –Text Message Marketing.
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Earning potential of $50,000 - $125,000 – Take a look how!
- Earn $200 to $500+ in commissions on every sale. DEPOSITED DIRECTLY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IN JUST 2 BUSINESS DAYS!
- PLUS– LIFETIME VESTED RESIDUAL INCOME. GET PAID FOR THE LIFE OF THE MERCHANT. Average monthly residual per merchant is $50.00 - $75.00!
- Agents can realistically sell 2 to 5 merchants per week!
- We provide all the training, sales tools and sales support to be very successful.
- Start selling immediately.
- Management opportunities available.
Lifetime Vested Residual Income Potential
- By the 12th month make $6,000 to $10,000 per month in residuals and more!
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Since 2011, SenText Solutions has been providing a SMS / Text Message Marketing service to tens of thousands of merchants nation-wide.
As an independent sales contractor with SenText Solutions, you'll introduce and sell our text message marketing services to merchants. There is no territory. You'll review with each merchant how our services will enable them to instantly send a single text message to all their existing customers and within a moment's notice every customer knows about the merchant's promotions, announcements, sales, events, special hours, contests, etc.
This opportunity being presented is not an offer of employment but is an independent contractor position that is commission and residual only.
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I got to ride these trails for the first time recently, though they've been open for a few years now, I think. I grew up just a couple miles from here and wish these trails were open when I started to mtb. Alas, they were closed to bikes long before I started riding. Yay for them being open now. The Hoosier Mountain Bike Association has done a great job with these trails.
I recorded my ride with my Oregon for posting on Strava.


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Chrissy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 82 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Synova Associates LLC
Synova Associates (combination of Synergy and Innovation) is a Leadership Consulting and Conference Company created to serve the educational and leadership needs of one segment of the nursing community (those associated with babies), although that focus could expand over time. Conceived by four women partners – two nursing professionals and two business experts - the business will focus on three areas of market need:
· A yearly leadership conference for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [NICU] nursing Managers and Directors and their leadership teams
· Individual Manager/Leader Mentoring and Coaching
· Down the road – other consulting in the hospital around leadership teams or specific issues/topics
The tag line for the company is Innovative Solutions for Nursing Leadership.
The target audience primarily is Neonatal Nurse Managers and Directors (95% women but there are a few men). This demographic is primarily female between the ages of 40-55 years. Since the market is decidedly small, the partners have professional relationships with between 10-15% of NICU hospital leaders.
The partners do not have a preconceived notion for what it should look like – but fluid, circular shapes do appeal to the group. The logo will be used extensively on print materials, on the website, on clothing (embroidered) and in other marketing collateral.
Likes: Simple design, unique, clean. We like strong energetic colors without it being overly feminine (ie perhaps fuschia pink coupled with gender balancing colors). Professional fonts. Do not have to have the tag line as part of the logo.
Dislikes: Cartoons, clip art, pastels, 'over'/busy design, too feminine, no whimsical theme. No babies. Not preppy. Not ethnic.
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Last year, the Easter Bunny dropped 7,000 candy-filled eggs from a helicopter to eager children and parents in Ber Juan Park.
This year, nearly 30,000 eggs will be dropped.
"We had a way bigger turnout than we expected. We hope we have just as many this year," said Gina Schafer, personal assistant to the Reverend Eddie Jones, pastor of Christian Life Center, the organization sponsoring the second annual Helicopter Egg Drop.
Morning worship at the CLC will be canceled this Sunday. Instead, the center will have a party at the park, starting at 9:30 a.m.
"We'll have free food, inflatables and live music," Schafer said. "And the Easter Bunny will be there."
Along with the food, music by the church's house band and lots of fun, registration will also start at 9:30.
Registration will get participants into the drawing for the door prizes, including four season passes to Six Flags, remote controlled helicopters and Easter baskets filled with goodies.
"Last year we thought we might have 300 kids," Schafer said. " But we had 4,000 registered, 1,900 kids."
The organizers are planning — and hoping — for more.
"We have triple the number of volunteers and more security," she said. The volunteers will be in orange shirts, available to anyone in need of assistance.
At 11 a.m., the pastor will have a few remarks and the drawing for the prizes will be held followed by the drop from the helicopters.
"Thirty thousand plastic eggs have been filled with candy," Schafer said. Most of them will be dropped to children in six age groups in three different egg-hunting areas.
Last year, there were some tears because some children didn't get eggs, while adults walked away with their hands full.
Schafer said organizers don't want any disappointed children this year, so they will hold back some eggs from the drop to give to children who aren't able to get to the dropped eggs quickly.
Last year, the Easter Bunny dropped the eggs from the helicopter. This year, the company that provides the helicopter has a smaller craft, so there may not be room from the Bunny to ride.
"The Easter Bunny will be on the ground with the children," Schafer said. Parents are encouraged to bring cameras to take pictures of children and the Bunny.
Schafer said the egg drop is one of the center's community outreach programs.
"We try to do a lot of community outreach," she said. "That's one of our core values."
She said people who shy away from church attendance will attend a community outreach event.
"We want to give them something they'll enjoy," she said.


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The following Mets have filed for free agency as of today:
Today (Nov. 1):
-RHP Orlando Hernandez: Nice knowing you.
Friday (Oct. 31):
-RHP Pedro Martinez: Would want him back as a fifth starter.
-Moises Alou: Say good-bye, but you know Omar.
-RHP Tony Armas: No interest.
-RHP Luis Ayala: Would re-sign for bullpen depth, but if it doesn't work out no real loss.
-INF Ramon Martinez: Would be interested for bench depth, but no worries if it didn't happen.
-LHP Ricardo Rincon: Being lefty helps him.
Thursday (Oct. 30):
-LHP Oliver Perez: You know what he is. Will be pricey.
-INF Damion Easley: I've always liked him, but don't see him returning.
-RHP Matt Wise: Good-bye.


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Filming is today (or tomorrow, if you're reading this the moment I'm posting it) and I hope to see some of you there!
Location: 711 W Boylston St, Worcester, MA 01606
Time: 12-6pm, Saturday, November 9th
Contact Number: 401-481-1750
You don't have to be there the whole time, use that number to get a hold of me to figure out where we are filming if you arrive late. Bring props if you have them!


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Group to propose finance package beyond impact fees
The City of Lincoln has been studying the issue of infrastructure financing for several years. Impact fees have been proposed as a partial solution, but a financing gap remains. That gap will be addressed by a new Infrastructure Finance Committee named today by Mayor Don Wesely. The 14 community leaders on the committee will work toward a consensus on a realistic package for financing water, sewers, parks and streets in existing and new areas of Lincoln.
Chairs of the committee are Brad Korell, a Board Member and Past President of the Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Lincoln Association and President of Wells Fargo Bank in Lincoln; Jan Gauger, former Lancaster County Commissioner and President of One More Time Consignment Sales; and Russ Bayer, past chair of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission and CFO and co-owner of Data Support Systems.
Other committee members are Carol Brown, Jon Carlson, Linda Crump, Bob Hampton, Dan Marvin, Richard Meginnis, Jerry Schleich, the Rev. Dr. Otis Young and Larry Zink (brief biographies are attached). The Lincoln City Council will also name a City Council member to the committee. Allan Abbott, Director of the City Public Works and Utilities Department, will serve as an ex-officio member.
"Our investment in infrastructure is one of the most important issues we face as we look toward the future growth of our community," said Mayor Wesely. "This committee is charged with finding a comprehensive solution to the funding gap that remains after the adoption of impact fees. The City is very fortunate to have these outstanding community leaders give us their time and expertise to guide us through the challenging process of finding a broad-based, balanced approach to financing our City's infrastructure."
In Lincoln, the growth costs traditionally have been negotiated on a case-by-case basis between the City and the developer. The system has drawn complaints from developers that it is inconsistent and concerns from those in established areas that the City pays too much of the cost for growth, thus reducing the money available to maintain aging infrastructure.
The committee will have three Work Groups, each headed by a committee chair. Korell will head the Financial Work Group, Gauger will head the Legislative Work Group, and Bayer will head the Efficiency/Cost Savings Work Group. The Work Groups will include committee members and community members selected by the committee with the Mayor's review and approval.
"I see this as one of the most important issues facing our community in determining our growth path for the future," said Korell. "I think we've got a great committee to guide this process forward and develop solutions that can be implemented. I look forward to getting started."
"The decisions made by our City at this time will have a major impact on the quality of life in our community far into the future," said Gauger. "My committee will examine the current State laws to see if changes are needed to allow Lincoln to pursue a more pro-active approach in financing our infrastructure."
"It is an honor to be asked to serve on this committee," Bayer said. "I look forward to working with the other members in putting together the business plan to help address not only the infrastructure gap which exists today, but also to insure infrastructure costs associated with future growth and development are funded appropriately."
The committee is scheduled to complete its work by June 2003, however several interim reports are due by mid-December 2002: a list of potential changes in State laws; initial findings on the efficient delivery of infrastructure; and future funding needs.
"Committee members will consider the impact their recommendations will have on businesses, neighborhoods, economic development efforts and residents at all economic levels," said Wesely. "Their priorities are financing existing infrastructure, major projects such as the Beltways and Antelope Valley, and infrastructure in growth areas."
A proposal to establish impact fees as part of an infrastructure finance plan had a public hearing before the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission September 18, and the Commission is scheduled to vote on the issue October 16. The issue of impact fees will not be revisited by the new committee. If adopted by the City Council, impact fees and additional infrastructure finance measures are proposed to take effect next summer.
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yaps im back in hkosea(IGN:RainyG)
met Tidesong:D and she invited me to Starrfire7 guild.
hahahas i sure missed the US FB!! hope everyone is doing well!
Hmm think im going to start on a quest guild soon.. of course there are plenty out there it's just to kill time (if u know what i mean) hahhas
My char is now level 11.. and wow im suprised by the difficulty of the quests. they require lots of running around and gathering and stuff hahas that's what makes a game fun i guess
im back to the game! will update soon.


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Marsha L. Morrow
Marsha L. Morrow, 59, of Little Rock, passed away Friday, April 20. She was born December 31, 1952 in Little Rock.
Mrs. Morrow was preceded in death by two sons, Thomas Michael Morrow and David McKinnley Morrow.
She is survived by her husband, Tom Morrow of Little Rock; son, Mark Edward Morrow of Benton; parents, George and Glenna Johnson; two precious sisters, Brenda Clay of Scotland and Darlene Lackey of North Little Rock and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 at Ashby Funeral Home with burial at Pine Crest Memorial Park.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today, April 23 at Ashby Funeral Home.
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In other news, I've been working on a simple ripple scarf...the yarn is yummy. I picked this up in the mountains of North Carolina when I was there for a family reunion this summer. I think it was at a yarn store in a town called Blowing Rock.
Be healthy and safe........Click on here if you want to go the link for the original lambie pie.


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We know that there really is no off-season for the players and staffs of Major League Soccer teams, and for Real Salt Lake it is no different, as players continue to recover from the long season, work out to stay in shape, and prepare mentally and physically for the long upcoming season. The staff continues their work, from scouting to contracts to planning and scheduling. We know that there will be a USMNT camp in January and this year it will have added importance as World Cup Qualifying and the Gold Cup will both be taking place in 2013, so a number of RSL players will likely be involved with their various national teams. Here is the official RSL intro to their pre-season schedule:
Claret-and-Cobalt to Train in Arizona and California, Participate in FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup
SANDY, Utah (Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012) – Real Salt Lake has finalized plans for the club's 2013 preseason schedule, which will include a pair of training camps in Arizona and one in California across six weeks in January and February, prior to the kickoff of the 2013 Major League Soccer campaign in early March.
The Claret-and-Cobalt will officially kick off its ninth season on Friday, Jan. 18, when players will report to Salt Lake City for entrance physicals. The team will stay in Salt Lake until Jan. 21, when the entire group will head to the home of the Real Salt Lake-Arizona Academy at Grande Sports World just outside of Casa Grande, Ariz. RSL will train at Grande Sports World from Jan. 21-28.
After a short spell back in Utah, Real Salt Lake will head to the Los Angeles area for its second leg of spring training on Jan. 31. The team will train at the University of California-Irvine in Irvine, Calif. from Feb. 1-8.
The team will then head back to Utah again before returning Arizona on Feb. 11, this time for a two-week stint in Tucson for the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup preseason tournament. It will be RSL's second-consecutive year in the round-robin competition, which will also feature MLS sides Seattle Sounders FC, New York Red Bulls and New England Revolution.
The FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup will kick off on Wednesday, Feb. 13 and will conclude with the Championship and 3rd Place matches on Saturday, Feb. 23. Fans interested in attending the premier MLS preseason tournament of 2013 can visit www.FCTucson.ticketsocket.com to secure their seats at the Kino Sports Complex and www.FCTucson.com/team/book-your-room-today/ to book discounted lodging in Tucson.
RSL will likely be without several players during various periods of the 2013 preseason due to national team duty. FW Alvaro Saborio (Costa Rica), MF Kyle Beckerman (U.S.) and GK Nick Rimando could miss time in January and February due to CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying, while MF Luis Gil will almost certainly miss nearly the entirety of RSL's preseason training while participating as a key figure in the United States' U-20 National Team CONCACAF qualifying tournament for next Summer's FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Following the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup, RSL will return to Utah to begin preparations for its MLS season opener, expected the weekend of March 2. MLS will release each team's home-opening dates next week, with the full league schedule expected in early January.
Currently, the only way for fans to guarantee their seats at Rio Tinto Stadium for any of RSL's 17 MLS home games is to "Join the Pride" by becoming an RSL Season Ticket Holder. Fans can purchase Season Tickets by visiting the www.RealSaltLake.com or by calling 801-727-2700.
Real Salt Lake 2013 Preseason Key Dates / Schedule (subject to change)
2013 MLS SuperDraft – Thursday, Jan. 17 – NSCAA Convention, Indianapolis, IN
Spring Training Opens – Salt Lake City
Friday, Jan.18 -Entrance physicals in Salt Lake City
Jan. 19-20 – Physical testing/training sessions in Salt Lake City area (times/locations/media access TBA)
Spring Training Trip #1 – Casa Grande, Ariz.
Monday, Jan. 21 – Travel to Casa Grande, Ariz.
Jan. 22-28 – Training at Grande Sports World in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Tuesday, Jan. 28 – Return to Utah
Spring Training Trip #2 – Irvine, Calif.
Thursday, Jan. 31 – Travel to Irvine, Calif.
Feb. 1-8 – Training at the University of California-Irvine in Irvine, Calif.
Friday, Feb. 8 – Return to Utah
Spring Training Trip #3 – FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup at Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Ariz.
Monday, Feb. 11 – Travel to Tucson, Ariz.
Tuesday, Feb. 12 – Training session at Kino Sports Complex
Wednesday, Feb. 13 – Match #1 vs. New York Red Bulls – 7:00 p.m. MT
Feb. 14-15 – Training sessions at Kino Sports Complex
Saturday, Feb. 16 – Match #2 vs. Seattle Sounders FC – 4:00 p.m. MT
Feb. 17-19 – Training sessions at Kino Sports Complex
Wednesday, Feb. 20 – Match #3 vs. New England Revolution – 5:00 p.m. MT
Feb. 21-22 – Training sessions at Kino Sports Complex
Saturday, Feb. 23 – Championship/3rd Place Match vs. TBD – 6:00 p.m./4:00 p.m. MT
Sunday, Feb. 24 – Return to Utah
CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers
Wednesday, Feb. 6 – U.S. at Honduras
Wednesday, Feb. 6 – Costa Rica v. Panama
CONCACAF U-20 World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Monday, Feb. 18 – U.S. v. Haiti
Friday, Feb. 22 – U.S. v. Costa Rica
Feb. 26-March 3 – Tournament Knockout Stage
2013 MLS "First Kick" Season Opener
Saturday, March 2 – opponent / site / TV TBD
So there you go the whole of the RSL pre-season are you counting down the days?
That's How I See It.


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Astro Emporia is a simple turn based strategy where your objective is to make as much money in a limited amount of turns. The game is designed to play a game in a few minutes which at the end you will get a high score. While the amount you buy and sell for and the resource availability is randomised each time you visit a planet, there are tactics that enable you to increase your chances at getting a profit. The initial release will let you compete against your own high scores. New modes and online scores are planned for future releases. Also available on Google Play Store.
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Jeff Burdick and his next-door neighbors have nearly identical two-story rowhouses, on the same block of East Clement Street with the same public schools and the same city trash pickup. But one striking difference is the $5,300 he pays in yearly property taxes — more than both his neighbors combined.
The reason behind Burdick's disproportionate tax bill is Maryland's Homestead Property Tax Credit, which caps his neighbors' taxes but not his, because he moved to Riverside many years after they did.
"I don't think it's fair," said Burdick, 37, who works in accounting. "Regardless of whether someone's been there 30 years or two years, I'm paying for the same services they are — but I'm basically paying more."
The huge tax disparity is not just a result of how the homestead credit works, however. It's also an example of how it doesn't work. One of the houses next to Burdick's is getting a two-thirds discount, even though it doesn't qualify for the program because the owners are renting it to someone else.
The situation on Clement Street is playing out on block after block across Baltimore, an investigation by The Baltimore Sun has found. Since the late 1970s, when it was devised as a low-cost way to keep a lid on tax increases, the homestead credit has morphed into a massive subsidy fueling widespread inequality — a problem made worse by errors in billing and inadequate oversight.
Today the program lops off at least 50 percent of the annual tax bills for more than 13,000 city homes. Some of those large breaks are a consequence of the wild real estate market of recent years, which let homeowners lock-in low tax levels even as the value of their homes soared. Many are still paying well below full freight several years after the housing boom turned to bust.
But the city's property tax rolls also contain discounts so high that statisticians call them obvious mistakes. Thirty homes even have had their taxes reduced to nothing — mathematically impossible for a program designed only to limit increases.
The Sun's investigation found that hundreds of outsized tax breaks were caused by typographical errors, unnoticed property improvements and people receiving credits they aren't eligible for under the tax law. In many cases, state or city officials could have uncovered the errors simply by looking at their own records. In other cases they uncovered problems but didn't correct them until The Sun inquired.
The homestead credit's cost has ballooned to a degree never imagined by the state lawmakers who passed it in 1977, as a two-year measure to insulate homeowners from spiking home values. It was projected to cost less than $7 million statewide for both years combined, which comes to about $25 million in today's dollars. Now it's keeping $120 million out of the budget-strapped city's coffers just this year alone, according to The Sun's analysis and budget documents.
Although these problems don't end at Baltimore's borders, the investigation focused on the city because its tax rate is far and away the highest in Maryland. That gap is frequently cited as a significant drag on the city's efforts to lure businesses and stem population loss. Mayoral challengers campaigned this year on promises to cut the rate by as much as half.
And the credit is one reason Baltimore's tax rate remains stubbornly high — at least double that of any other jurisdiction in Maryland. Without the cap, or with a higher one, the city could take in millions of additional tax dollars each year, giving it the fiscal means to reduce the rate citywide.
How substantial is the credit's cost? If it vanished overnight, the city could slash its tax rate 13 percent and pull in the same amount of money this year.
The Sun's findings reinforce the argument made repeatedly by Maryland attorneys general since the law passed 34 years ago that the homestead credit is likely at odds with the state constitution, which guarantees "uniform" taxation of property.
The owners of 98,000 homes in Baltimore receive at least some benefit from the homestead credit this year. The remaining 25,000 get nothing, either because their home values have plummeted or, like Burdick, they bought within the past few years and have had no increases to cap. Renters are also on the losing end of the homestead equation — landlords aren't eligible for the break and pass the cost of their higher tax bills on to their tenants.
U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin said The Sun's analysis shows that the tax cap has warped the property-tax system to an extent he didn't envision when he helped design the limit as a high-ranking state delegate in 1977.
"It does distort the fairness of the tax code when you have two people living side by side with the exact same homes, one paying higher property tax than the other," he said.
The program's supporters, including Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, say it serves as an important incentive for city residents to stay in their homes rather than sell because of rising tax bills. Critics say the credit discourages newcomers from moving to Baltimore, where they must pay the full cost of the highest property tax rate in Maryland.
"The whole system is broken," said former city councilman Joseph T. "Jody" Landers III, who ran for mayor this year and considers the tax rate one of the biggest challenges facing the city. Of the homestead credit, he said: "It's very inequitable."
The consequences are evident on Clement Street, where one of Burdick's next-door neighbors pays only half his gross property tax bill thanks to the credit. Now in his 70s, the man has lived in the house for half a century, and retired after 43 years at the nearby Domino Sugar plant, visible from his front steps.
Without his nearly $2,500 credit this year, he says he couldn't afford to keep his home: "If they ever got rid of it, everybody would be gone," said the man, who insisted that he not be quoted by name discussing his finances. He acknowledged it's not fair for Burdick to pay so much more, but then added, "He should've moved here 50 years ago."
Burdick says he never seriously considered purchasing outside Baltimore, because he and his wife like city living. But the high tax rate did force him to buy a less expensive house than he otherwise would have picked. He paid $255,000 for the home in 2008. It's now valued at $222,000.
He's sympathetic to his retired neighbor, but says the problem with the city's property tax system is the high rate itself. If the goal is to help homeowners avoid being swamped by taxes, he said, "lower tax rates in general would do the same thing."
A concentration of benefits
Here's a simplified example of how the city's 4 percent homestead cap works: Say you buy a home worth $100,000. At the city's current tax rate of $2.268 per $100 of value, you pay $2,268 in annual property taxes. Next year the house is reassessed at $120,000, but instead of paying 20 percent more your tax bill rises only 4 percent.
If you had owed taxes on the full $120,000, you'd be paying an extra $363. That untaxed amount is the homestead credit, money forgone by the city.
And if the home's value keeps rising more than 4 percent a year, the size of the credit keeps growing too. During the middle of the last decade, annual property values rose at a double-digit pace. As a result, many owners saw the size of their credit snowball.
But the homestead credit disappears after a home is sold. The new buyer pays the full bill and only begins accruing his or her own credit after the first year — assuming values rise fast enough.
To understand the effects of the homestead break, The Sun requested information from the city showing the net tax bill and any tax credits for every property in the city. Baltimore's Finance Department said it couldn't provide that level of detail because the information was essentially trapped inside an aging mainframe computer.
Using an automated process called "data scraping," The Sun instead created its own database of all 237,000 city property tax records by copying the information, one record at a time, from the individual tax records publicly available on the city's website.
In addition to revealing errors and widespread disparities, the analysis found that wealthy homeowners reap large benefits from the credit.
Nobody in the city has a larger homestead credit, in dollar terms, than John and Angelina Guerriero, who own an urban palazzo in Little Italy.
Their property tax bill this year would have been $61,700 if they had to pay on their home's entire assessed value of $2.6 million. Thanks to the cumulative power of the 4 percent tax cap over two decades, they owed $12,900 instead.
Their $48,800 tax break works out to a 79 percent discount.
State assessors say the Guerrieros' credit was computed correctly, based on a starting assessment of $240,000 two decades ago, when the couple turned a South Exeter Street commercial garage into a residence the size of five ordinary rowhouses.
John Guerriero, who grew wealthy by building Continental Foods into a $100 million family empire, makes no apologies for the discount. "Everybody looks at things differently," he said. "I feel like I'm entitled to the credit. I put a lot of money into the house, into the area."
Without the cap to keep a lid on taxes, Guerriero said, "I'd have to find a way to get out of it or sell the house, if it's possible." Noting that a new owner would be required to pay the full tab, he added, "I don't think anybody else would want to assume that kind of tax bill."
Harold F. Graul Jr. and his wife Mary have a 61 percent homestead discount on their 4,000-square-foot condo at the Towers at Harbor Court near downtown. This year they owed around $12,000 of the $31,000 property tax bill for the home, which the state says is worth $1.3 million.
Harold Graul, whose family operates the Graul's supermarket chain, thinks he pays a fair share considering the limited city services he uses. He pointed out that Harbor Court owners pay for private trash hauling and very few have children in public schools.
"I've never asked the city for anything from my taxes," he said, "other than I drive on the streets in my car."
One of the largest credits goes to Constellation Energy Chief Executive Mayo A. Shattuck III and his wife Molly, whose home in the Blythewood neighborhood is valued at $2.3 million. This year they're receiving a homestead break of more than $22,000, lowering their bill by two-fifths. Shattuck, who was paid $15.7 million last year, said through a spokesman he had no comment on the credit.
While there's no doubt many retirees on fixed incomes also benefit, assessment caps are generally a "regressive" form of taxation that tend to shift more of the burden onto owners of less valuable homes, according to Jane Malme, a fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Massachusetts.
This year in Baltimore, one-quarter of the homeowners who benefit from the credit account for nearly half the credit's total value, the Sun's analysis found. Those are the owners with properties worth $175,000 or more, a group that accounts for nearly half the city's total assessed value as well.
"The problem with an assessment-increase limit," Malme said, "is it's the very properties that are increasing in value — and maybe therefore have the wealthiest people living in them — that … get the cut. It has to be paid for by somebody else. That's paid for by people with lesser increases, that either don't qualify or their properties are losing value."
Errors fuel some credits
In addition to documenting large property-tax discounts that were calculated correctly, The Sun's analysis uncovered huge breaks that were apparent errors.
First, some context: The average price of a home in Baltimore doubled from 1990 to 2010, largely because of rapid increases during the housing bubble of the last decade that weren't fully erased by the bust that has followed.
With that average increase, and accounting for how the state's three-year assessment cycle can cause some values to lag the market, a typical homestead credit for a long-time homeowner in the city would reduce the property tax bill by about one-third.
Yet the owners of nearly 1,000 city homes are receiving a homestead credit covering at least 80 percent of their taxes for the fiscal year that began July 1. To amass such a big credit, a homeowner who moved in two decades ago would've needed to see that home's value soar at least sevenfold.
About 220 of those homes are getting a tax break of 90 percent or more — requiring a jump in value of at least fifteenfold over the same period. That's the equivalent of a home appreciating from $30,000 to $450,000 in 20 years.
Ting Zhang, a statistician at the University of Baltimore's Jacob France Institute, said the odd one or two homes getting a credit that massive might be believable, especially if the assessed value was very low to start. But 1,000 city properties getting 80 percent tax credits strikes her as mathematically implausible.
"I definitely don't think that's possible," she said.
In most of the cases investigated by The Sun, it wasn't.
The Sun forwarded a sample of 20 homes with large homestead breaks to the state Department of Assessments and Taxation, which oversees the homestead program, and asked whether they were correct.
Assessors said 15 of the 20 were not. Several problems inflated the credits, including:
Miscalculation. Some of the homes had a tax credit that was larger than the total amount of tax they owed, which is impossible under the rules of the program. In each case the error occurred because the credit was misapplied in connection with a separate tax break for blind homeowners, which knocks $15,000 off a home's assessed value.
Ineligibility. One credit, covering 87 percent of the taxes on a property on Howard Street in Remington, violated the homestead rules because the home is owned by a company — and has been for more than four years. It shouldn't have any credit, let alone one so big. Corporations aren't eligible for the homestead tax break, except when farmers opt to put their home and land into a limited liability company.
Data-entry error. Typos created two massive credits. In one case, a property's entire tax bill was wiped out because someone incorrectly keyed in the amount of assessed value covered by the credit. For another home, on East Montgomery Street in Federal Hill, a state worker left off a single digit when updating its value, causing the bill to plummet from $4,121 last year to $474 this year.
Missed renovations. Five properties had homestead credits inflated after they were purchased by real estate investors during the housing bubble, rehabbed and then resold for significantly more money. The tax cap isn't supposed to shield owners from paying tax on substantial improvements — those worth more than $50,000 during the period in question. But sometimes assessors don't realize the renovations happened.
Beyond such errors, there has been a long-standing problem of people receiving the tax break on houses they don't occupy — including owners who don't understand the rules or had no idea they were getting a credit.
In August The Sun reported that 465 houses were receiving homestead breaks even though they had been identified by the city as vacant and unlivable or unsafe. Credits to those owners this tax year totaled $325,000.
And the homestead program has for years been plagued by owners — including some politicians — "double-dipping" by improperly collecting credits on more than one home. A Sun analysis found more than 450 property owners receiving credits on two, three or four homes.
Both the city and state say they have done computerized searches to zero in on double-dipping this year, but neither took action until The Sun inquired.
Some property owners are collecting only one credit but still aren't eligible for it. That's the case on Clement Street — Burdick's other next-door neighbor is a tenant. Property owner Christina Roby confirmed by phone that she and her husband moved out around 2008, after more than 25 years, and are renting out the house.
She said she didn't realize they were no longer entitled to the credit, which this year knocks $4,170 off their original $6,400 bill. And she emphasized that she and her husband don't collect any credit on their true residence, in the city's Ten Hills neighborhood.
"We don't understand," she said. "We do not know all the detailed regulations."
Actions and inactions
State and city officials say they are working to fix problems with the homestead credit, including those identified by The Sun.
The city's Finance Department began auditing tax credits over the summer to search for recipients getting undeserved breaks, particularly landlords. While the state determines property values and applies credits, the city collects the tax dollars.
The state assessments agency, meanwhile, has been processing tens of thousands of applications for the homestead credit over the past few years, cross-checking addresses on tax returns and drivers' licenses to cut down on people collecting the credit on homes they don't live in. Owners will automatically lose the break if they don't submit their Social Security numbers to the state agency by the end of 2012 to make that check possible.
Both efforts are aimed at weeding out people who shouldn't be getting the homestead credit at all, not finding those whose break is larger than they deserve.
"It's always been a question of available staff and resources," said Robert E. Young, director of the state Department of Assessments and Taxation, who noted that the average assessor today has nearly three times as many properties to reassess as in 1977. "What you often have to do in government is pick which audits or which checks will be the most productive."
So far the state's review has stripped thousands of unwarranted credits statewide, said Young.
"We have a great deal of confidence because of the way the system is designed, the checks we've instituted, [that] the homestead credits we've granted are properly being received," Young said.
Still, The Sun's investigation found red flags contained in the government's own files that have long gone unaddressed, costing the city money year after year.
Unassessed renovations are an example. The five renovated homes The Sun submitted to state officials — homes with taxes incorrectly pegged to their pre-rehab values — all had construction permits on file with the city describing substantial improvements the owners planned to make. Yet the city and state never connected the dots.
A house on Wyeth Street in Pigtown, for instance, sold for just over $10,000 five years ago and changed hands the very next spring for $293,000. In between, a rehabber got permits from the city to give the house an overhaul, from the drywall to the bathrooms and kitchen.
But the state didn't take that change into account, so 92 percent of the owners' bill this year — all but about $500 of the nearly $6,300 tab — was forgiven by the homestead credit.
Permits are supposed to trigger a review by the state. Owen C. Charles, deputy director of the assessments agency, said he couldn't tell whether the city had given his staff permit information on the five homes, but he says the local government's system for forwarding permits is usually reliable.
The city, for its part, could sort through its permit files to see if properties overhauled in recent years are getting unusually large credits. But finance officials argue that only the state has the records to show whether those credits are right or wrong.
"We have to try and figure out how we slice and dice the data to get the biggest bang for the buck — what we should go after first," said William Voorhees, director of revenue and tax analysis for Baltimore's Finance Department. "And that's not an easy thing."
'Temporary' fix
The homestead program wasn't pitched as a permanent tax break. It was supposed to be temporary — and much less generous.
As home prices soared and anti-tax sentiment rose nationwide in the 1970s, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law to put a ceiling on taxable assessment increases for two years. As long as counties didn't increase their rates, that would cap the rise in homeowners' tax bills at 15 percent for each year.
Lawmakers said they were in crisis mode, looking for an emergency fix. A 1977 Sun story quoted then-Sen. Jerome F. Connell of Anne Arundel County saying, "We're really at the point with assessments that we're literally putting people out of their homes."
Francis B. Burch, Maryland's attorney general at the time, said a short-lived cap would probably avoid running afoul of the state constitution's requirement to tax homeowners uniformly, but "any statutory scheme to place a percentage limitation on assessment increases over a long duration would become unconstitutional," he warned in an opinion.
But legislators kept passing extensions to the credit, and the attorney general kept cautioning the General Assembly. When the program crossed the 11-year mark, the attorney general's office flatly concluded that it violated the state's constitution.
In 1990, facing an election and homeowners agitated after another run-up in home prices, state legislators made the program more generous, dropping the cap from 15 percent to 10 percent. They allowed local governments to set ceilings even lower, and Baltimore's has been 4 percent ever since.
University of Maryland law professor William Reynolds said he is "amazed" no one has challenged the homestead credit in court, if only for ideological reasons. He said the state constitution's requirement for uniform tax rates "seems to provide a strong case for new home buyers," because they see no immediate benefit from the credit.
But Reynolds declined to speculate on whether a legal challenge would succeed. "The question," he said, "is whether the Court of Appeals will upset a third-of-a-century tax break, which will severely inconvenience many people, in order to satisfy the apparent plain language of the law."
Eighteen other states and the District of Columbia have assessment caps, though their approaches vary, according to the Lincoln Institute. Oregon, for instance, has a 3 percent statewide cap that applies to both commercial and residential property, and it remains in place when a parcel is sold.
In Maryland, some legislators warned years ago that the homestead credit would create unintended consequences.
When the City Council lowered Baltimore's cap to 4 percent, then-Councilman Anthony J. Ambridge was the lone council member to vote against the reduction. At the time he argued that 4 percent was too low, a view he still holds two decades later.
Keeping such a tight lid on taxes for longtime homeowners has deprived the city of revenue it would need to finance a meaningful cut in the citywide property tax rate, he says. And that high overall rate, he argues, has hurt many local businesses, which don't qualify for property tax breaks unless they can afford to expand or make new investments.
"Long-term it's had an adverse effect for the city as a whole," Ambridge said of the 4 percent cap.
'I'm just stuck'
The credit also creates dilemmas for some of its beneficiaries.
Baltimore homeowner Tracy Gosson has a homestead credit that covers nearly $3,600 of the taxes on her home in Butchers Hill, almost two-thirds of the total. She'd like to sell and buy another city home, but she'd lose the break she spent 16 years accumulating. She paid $40,000; now it's assessed at $235,000.
"I'm just stuck in a place where I don't want to sell my house," said Gosson, who heads a consulting company and formerly ran Live Baltimore, a nonprofit organization that encourages city living.
But she likes the homestead program. Her solution is to expand it rather than scrap it — allow residents to take their credits with them if they buy a more expensive home in Baltimore.
The city has to do something, she said, because the high tax rate is a tremendous problem. But Gosson said it has proved politically easier to do little or nothing.
"It's such a monster of an issue that nobody really attacks it in earnest," she said.
City leaders couldn't eliminate the homestead credit themselves — even if they wanted to — because the program is state law. The city could push the cap to 10 percent, a move recommended by a property-tax commission in 2007 as part of a strategy for lowering the city's tax rate, but a spokesman for Baltimore's mayor says such a change would not by itself allow for a significant rate drop, and might push current homeowners out of the city.
None of the counties in the Baltimore region have caps above 5 percent. Anne Arundel — the only county in the state that forgoes more taxes than Baltimore as a result of the homestead — has a 2 percent cap.
"Every day, people are making decisions about whether or not they're going to stay or leave the city," said Ryan O'Doherty, Rawlings-Blake's spokesman. "I don't think that increasing property taxes on people who have lived here for a long time is going to help us grow."
The mayor recently announced a goal of attracting 10,000 new families to Baltimore over the next decade, though she has offered no details. She has also proposed a relatively modest plan to cut the tax rate on owner-occupied homes by 9 percent over eight years, to $2.068 per $100 of assessed value.
Elected leaders and political candidates in the city often talk of lowering the rate, but little has been done on that front. It was cut just six cents for every $100 in assessed value over the last 10 years, starting under then-Mayor Martin O'Malley and ending during Sheila Dixon's administration.
Over that same period, the homestead break has kept roughly $700 million out of city coffers. Early in the last decade, its value to homeowners — and thus, its cost to the city — amounted to less than $8 million a year. Once the real estate market took off, it rocketed to a peak of nearly $150 million two years ago.
Falling values mean less money shielded from taxation by homestead breaks. But the state estimates the credit will still shave $100 million off city tax bills next year.
Even so, the credit has a certain appeal to city budget officials. It has kept revenue out of the coffers, but it has also cushioned the blow of the housing bust. That's because many homeowners are still catching up to their full assessments, paying 4 percent more each year than the year before. So the city's property-tax revenues haven't yet dropped despite several years of falling home values, O'Doherty said. He anticipates next tax year will be the first since the downturn to register a decline in that revenue source.
The mayor supports the homestead program, O'Doherty said. "Should this credit exist? Absolutely."
Brett Theodos, a housing and development specialist at the Urban Institute, says he understands why owners would want to know their property taxes won't rise much for the indefinite future. But awarding tax breaks based on the homeowner's income makes more sense to him. Maryland does that as well, offering a "homeowners' credit" to households with $60,000 or less a year.
Under the current system of homestead credits, it could take years for many homeowners to pay full freight. Decades, in some cases. And that's assuming home values never rise again.
"Seems like a long time to get back to normal," Theodos said.
Tribune Interactive programmer Kit Mobley contributed to this article.
About this series
Today The Baltimore Sun begins a series of occasional articles on property taxes in Baltimore, whose highest-in-Maryland rate is seen by many as a major drag on the city. Future articles will explore who pays what and tax breaks available to owners. Today's article shows how the homestead credit has ballooned into a huge subsidy, fueling broad disparities in how the city's tax burden is shared.
To report the series, The Sun asked the city for the net tax bill and any credits for each of the city's 236,000 properties. After officials said they lacked the technical means to produce that level of detail, The Sun built its own database, using an automated process called "data scraping." Information was copied, one record at a time, from individual tax records publicly available on the city's website.
Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the housing market and runs the Real Estate Wonk blog. Her coverage has won national awards, including a "Best in Business" recognition this year from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Reporter Scott Calvert joined The Sun in 2000. He was the newspaper's Africa correspondent from 2005 to late 2007, and last year his investigation of a Baltimore mental health clinic prompted state health officials to develop new oversight measures.


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Photo: Parked under an obscure stairwell next to the building my new associate orientation is in.
I'm on lunch at the Central Library downtown. I found out that I get my bus pass today! The company subsidizes all but $15 of monthly bus fare, encouraging associates to take public transportation if possible. This should cut down the amount of money I'm spending on the bus by a good $50 a month or more.
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3 comments:
- Fritz said...
My employer participates in VTA's EcoPass program -- I have a little sticker on my work badge that is a free ride pass for all local VTA buses and light rail trains.
Unfortunately, I don't ride VTA -- I ride Caltrain and the Santa Cruz Metro Highway 17 Express. For that, my employer participates in the Commuter Check program and subsidizes a portion of my passes for those other transit providers. But only a portion -- I still shell out nearly $200/month for my monthly passes.
- January 08, 2007 4:38 PM
- Noah said...
That's insane. My bus fare, although only 60 miles RT, is $3.50 daily. Times twenty-one work days per month (give or take) that rounds out to $75 per month without any discount. :(
Of course, doing what I'm doing now, I could probably be pulling a six figure income in the bay area. Of course, I would be struggling to pay rent on a 600ft^2 apartment on that income. :(
Guess I'm glad that the interview with Google didn't pan out.
- January 08, 2007 7:24 PM
- Eric said...
Those JO busses are more expensive because they get less government funding. Joco doesn't have a transit tax like KCMO :(
- January 09, 2007 8:48 AM
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