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12/30/2010, Key West, FL
Left Coconut Grove Sailing Club mooring this morning with a temperature of 39 degrees!! We turned the stove on to heat up the inside of the boat a little before taking off this morning, left at around 8:45. For the first time since leaving Lake Superior I have my long johns on in addition to sweat pants and jeans. That is just the bottom half - I have 5 layers on top and 2 pairs of socks. The good news is that it is bright sunshine and the wind has died down so it should warm up a little. Next 5 days high temp should be in the 70's.
The Sailing Club we just left was very convenient to the downtown area of Coconut Grove. Can't say much for the restrooms/showers there. Yesterday we went to see True Grit, Bill was disappointed - I think the John Wayne version was more to his liking.
Plan is to anchor off Pumpkin Key tonight then head through Angelfish Creek Inlet out to the Hawk Channel tomorrow morning. There has been lots of conflicting information concerning Angelfish Creek Inlet - not only water depths but also a phantom rock that may be on the outside of the Inlet. Hopefully we will not be one of the boats that discover it. The Hawk Channel runs down the Keys between the islands and the coral reef, this will be our route down to Key West.
As usual, plans changed. We got to Angelfish Creek Inlet right at high tide. We hailed TowBoat US from the radio to get advice on us going through. He said we should be okay but to watch when exiting, to stay to the north side as there are rocks on the south side. We made it through with no problem. Lowest depths were 5.5 feet at the entrance and 6.5 feet at the exit with much higher depths in between. So, we did another all nighter. This all nighter I can gladly say was very uneventful - no strong winds, no mechanical problems, no seasickness. We did 3 hour watches, which works best for us. The cockpit enclosure helped tremendously. With keeping warm and out of the wind the challenge was to stay awake.
We arrived in Key West at around 9:00 am, tired but glad to finally be here. We are now at the Key West City Mooring Field. There are lots of empty mooring balls, most are way the heck out there. It is a very long dinghy ride to the dinghy dock. There is some chop in the mooring field so our dinghy ride was a little wet to say the least - actually very wet. Thinking we will need to wear our foul weather gear from now on each time we want to go ashore. I'm not happy at all about this mooring field but hopefully after I get a good nights sleep I will put it all into perspective and remember that it could be much worse - I could still be working in the frozen north.
I have read many negative comments about the restroom/shower facilities here - I can happily tell say that they are great now - very clean, look new and are individual private showers so no communal bathing which makes me happy.
Our plan is to stay here for a month. My daughter and son (Laura and Chris) arrive January 5th so we will go to a marina for the first and last night they are here. Slip fees at a marina are very expensive here, cheapest I can find so far is $3.00/foot per night.
The City of Key West provides a free pump out when staying at the mooring field. We are waiting now for the pump out boat to arrive. After that the plan is to dinghy to shore (wearing foul weather gear) to do some laundry and take the bikes to the dinghy dock to lock up so we don't have to transport them back and forth each time we want to use them.
Expected high temp today of 71 degrees.
12/25/2010, Dinner Key
Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas.
We stayed 2 nights anchored on Lake Worth. First time using the new Mercury outboard motor, worked great. There is a place to lock up the dinghy just between Lake Worth and Little Lake Worth and walk about a mile to a West Marine and about a block away from a Publix grocery store, both very convenient.
From there we stayed last night at anchor at Lake Sylvia, in Fort Lauderdale. We are at The Coconut Grove Sailing Club on Dinner Key, just south of Miami on Biscayne Bay, on a mooring ball. We arrived here at around 1:00 so it was a short day for us.
We have been through a lot of bridges, something like 30+ bridges in the past week. As Bill was saying - when we were working our 15 minute breaks went super fast, when waiting 15 minutes for a bridge to open it feels like forever. Some bridges open on the hour and half hour, some quarter past the hour and three quarter hour, etc., etc. So, timing is everything. Some bridge openings we missed by minutes, then having to wait close to 30 minutes for the next opening. We are very glad all the bridges are behind us now.
It looks like we will be here for a couple of days, thunderstorms expected tomorrow and some high winds for a couple of days. Next stop: Rodriguez Key.
Paul & Gaynor and Pepper
12/21/2010, Fort Pierce, FL
Our month at the Telemar Bay Marina came to an end. We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone there, Karen, Kenny, Tony have all been great. Karen in particular was extremely helpful to us and we very much appreciate it.
Bill arrived back from Minnesota on Sunday afternoon. He really enjoyed his time with his daughters, parents and brother. I don't think he will miss the Minnesota weather though. On Sunday we finish stowing everything that was used the past month, filled up the water tank and did some last minute cleaning. I rode my bike to the grocery store to pick up food for the next few days. I added a basket to my bike so with that and my backpack I can buy several days worth of supplies. We put the bikes on the bow, now we really look like official cruisers.
We have already deviated from our tentative plan. We left Telemar Bay Marina at about 7:30 and went all the way to Fort Pierce City Marina, by-passing Vero Beach. Arrived at around 4:00. We had a few cocktails at the Tiki Bar here at the marina then walked to a bar called Jo-Jo's to watch the Vikings play the Chicago Bears. Ended up playing trivia at the bar and Team Walkabout won 3rd place! We won $10 but I think Bill would rather have won 4th place - a pitcher of beer. Anyone know what a "Pile Driver" is? I had no clue, Bill guessed that one right something about wrestling and construction. Bill lost his bet with Mike of Anan Cara - twice now Vikes have lost to the Bears.
We are staying a second night since the guy from Sisco Marine didn't finish with the fuel cleaning until around noon. Nice guy, seemed to know what he was doing. Not sure this will solve our problem with dirty fuel, guess we will need to constantly be changing the fuel filters and adding the bio-stuff (don't know what it is called) to keep the fuel clean.
I talked Bill into looking for our Christmas lights so now have lights in the salon and around the cockpit. Guess that is about as much Christmas as we will have this year. Downtown Fort Pierce has a fantastic Christmas light and music show next to the marina that we walked to this evening, we can hear the music from our boat as well. I think Bill has had enough since Christmas music - he dislikes Christmas music even more than Country which is saying a lot.
Plan on leaving at around 8:00 tomorrow morning after the fuel dock opens. Not sure where we will anchor tomorrow night, several options depending on how long it takes us to get through all the bridges.
12/16/2010, Indian Harbour Beach, FL
Dan & Pam in Minnesota - this blog is for you.
Still in Telemar Bay Marina, waiting for Bill to return so we can get the heck out of here. Almost a month here and I am definitely ready to get going again. The plan is to leave bright and early Monday morning and head to either Vero Beach or Fort Pierce. I have lined up a guy in Fort Pierce to come to the boat to empty the fuel tank, clean the tank then clean the diesel and put it back in. Hopefully this will take care of the growth that is supposedly taking place in the tank. Definitely something we didn't need to worry about back on Lake Superior.
Varnish work is progressing very slowly. I haven't been able to work on it for the last several days due to the cold temps. I have been keeping busy sewing an enclosure for the cockpit. We already had a screen enclosure but I am making a plastic enclosure for rainy and chilly days. Bill went to our storage in Minnesota and mailed our Buddy Heater to me here. With the Buddy Heater in the cockpit we can keep our tootsies warm while underway. Never thought we would need to have all these cold weather protections on the boat here in Warm Sunny Florida!!
I have a very tentative itinerary for getting from here to Key West. As all Cruisers soon discover the itinerary will be changed many, many times to fit the immediate needs/wants.
So, here is the plan:
MARATHON MOORING 20 12/29 to 12/31
The main factor, other than weather, to actually being able to get to each location within a day are the bridges. There are 31 bridges between Hooker Cove and Fort Lauderdale. All bascule or lift bridges. Some are 'on demand' but most are on the hour and half hour or some variation of that. With about 10 bridges to get through each day we may end up going out to the ocean instead of the ICW, that is dependent on weather and which inlets we can get in the out of.
Expected high of 75 degrees today............it's a heat wave!!
12/06/2010, Indian Harbor Beach, FL
After 6+ years of outboard motor problems we bit the bullet and bought a new Mercury outboard at the boat show. Not as big as Bill wanted, bought a 5 hp and he wanted an 8 hp. I had 3 factors for my needs in an outboard: 1. One that I can start 2. One that is reliable and 3. Price. The 5 hp won out since: I tried starting the bigger motors and my arm strength just couldn't do it and the price. There is an $800 difference between the 5 and the 8. Now we need to get rid of our 2 old motors. Bill is putting them on Craig's List and hope they sell since we don't want to take them with us when we leave.
We toured lots of boats, both monohull, multihull and power boats. There was a catamaran that we both liked a lot but definitely not in our future, maybe if we had it to do all over again it would be a possibility. One of the power boats we looked at was $4.5 million; don't think that one is in our future either. We love Walk A-Bout but those brand new boats sure were nice.
It is really cold here with an expected low tonight of 36 degrees. I realize it is not as cold as Minnesota but still this is florida.......lots of sunshine but I want warm temperatures to go with it!!!
12/03/2010, Still in Indian Head Beach
It has now been 4 months since we moved aboard the boat and decided we needed an excuse to sleep in a real bed, so.......we decided to go to the boat show in St. Petersburg. We rented a car today and will leave in the morning. It is about a 3 hour drive from here. Two nights in a hotel and the boat show then return on Monday.
Our boat projects are progressing. Cockpit and hull are washed and partially waxed. One side of the toe rail is all stripped of the old varnish and first coat of new varnish is on with at least another 6 coats to go and the other side to still finish sanding and 6-7 coats on that side to do as well.
Waiting on a couple of packages to arrive, one is new charts and cruising guides for the Keys and the other is sunbrella fabric so I can finish making the enclosure for the cockpit.
We ordered Chinese takeout the other night, talked to the delivery guy and he wanted to know where we are headed next and I told him the Keys. He said to watch out for the mosquitoes down there as they carry something called Dengue Fever. Looks like we will need to buy lots of mosquito repellent before we head down there.
Weather has turned a little chilly - only a high of 70 degrees!! :)


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how do I get my in-laws and husband to get on board with daycare?
I only work at most about 5 hours a day...there is a day care across the street from my work, i know the care givers I used to work in the same department just with school aged kids. I feel comfortable with leaving my son there when i go back to work. Is convenient especially because I'm breastfeeding. But my husband is still not fully on board i think because my mother in law wants to watch him. but they hold him all day which is what I want. I want him to explore and be used to other kids, my husbands nephews are timid, shy, dont like being around other kids and they are home with their mom all day not exposed to anyone else i dont want that for my son. how do i make this work.
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As a preschool teacher i feel you are doing the best for your LO. Sometimes it is difficult touching a topic that involves the inlaws because you dont want to go against your husband but at the end the child is yours and everyone should respect your wishes. Day care will ease the tough time you will go through when its time for LO to begin public school. If LO gets used to being in day care it will make school a fun place to go. Can you imagine how scary it will be when its LO first day of school and you leave him there screaming because he has no idea why you are leaving him. In day care he will cry but someone will be there to calm him down because the teacher is never alone. This allows your child to get individual attention and get comfort. Hope all goes wellposted 12/03/2012 by Cuchuchu
You need to have a conversation with your husband and explain why you like the facility. Tell him point blank you dont want MIL to watch your lo. Take him to the daycare and have him look around.posted 11/19/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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The first full-scale textbook of its kind, Globalization provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies. Develops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the world Integrated use of a wide array of materials- empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, popular books, etc Makes extensive use of maps throughout to illustrate key points about globalization Includes a glossary of key terms Designed to work either on its own or as a package with an accompanying cross-referenced reader constructed around the basic concepts of globalization
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George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and his awards include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He has authored numerous books, including several student textbooks, and is editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007 and continuing online), and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (forthcoming). His books, the best-known of which is The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008), have been translated into over twenty languages.
Table of Contents
|List of Figures
|Globalization I: Liquids, Flows, and Structures
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|Globalization II: Some Basic Issues, Debates, and Controversies
|Is There Such a Thing as Globalization?
|If There Is Such a Thing as Globalization, When Did It Begin?
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|Race to the Bottom and Upgrading
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|Global Culture and Cultural Flows
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|High-Tech Global Flows and Structures: Technology, Media, and the Internet
|The Internet
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|Global Environmental Flows
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|Global Responses
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|Negative Global Flows and Processes: Dangerous Imports, Diseases, Crime, Terrorism, War
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|Borderless Diseases
|The Impact of Negative Global Flows on Individuals
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|Global Inequalities I: Patterns of Inequality
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|MajorityûMinority Relations in a Global Context
|Social Definitions
|Race and Ethnicity
|Sexual Minorities: Gays and Lesbians
|Responding to and Resisting Minority Status: The Case of Women
|Chapter Summary
|Dealing with, Resisting, and the Futures of, Globalization
|Dealing with Globalization
|Resisting Globalization
|The Futures of Globalization
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|Appendix: Disciplinary Approaches to Globalization
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The Design and Display of Simple Interactions on Mobile Devices
Published: November 21, 2011
Users visit mobile sites not only to consume content, but to get things done. Let's take air travel as an example: tasks that users often find themselves performing on an airline company's mobile site include checking flight status, checking in for a particular flight, and searching for and booking a flight. How does mobile user interface design support task completion? What are the optimal ways of communicating and displaying interactions on mobile sites? With the aim of discovering optimal ways of designing simple interactions on mobile devices, I examined the task of checking flight status. I'm hoping that my analysis sheds some light on this topic.
The Interaction: Checking Flight Status
Travelers can initiate a status check for a flight by locating the flight using its departure date, plus either the flight number or the departure and arrival city or airport for the flight. Sounds simple enough, right? Analyzing this task, here are the steps that are involved in checking flight status:
- Step 1—Decide whether to check flight status using a flight number or departure or arrival cities.
- Step 2—If using a flight number, type the flight number; if the departure city and arrival city, type the names of the departure and arrival cities or their airport codes.
- Step 3—Type a flight date.
- Step 4—Submit the form.
It's fairly easy to support this task on the Web. Simply present both options on a Web page, and users can proceed according to the information they have about the flight—whether flight number or departure and arrival cities. While it's easier to type a flight number than city names or airport codes, users tend to remember flight cities better than airport codes or flight numbers. However, there are a few interesting details that you should consider:
- Which question should you ask first: flight date or flight number or flight cities?
- Which option should you present first: flight number or flight cities?
- Should you ask for the flight date twice to ensure a complete workflow regardless of whether a user is checking the status of a flight by flight number or flight cities or airport codes?
Checking Flight Status on the Web
Different airlines have answered these questions differently. Consequently, their Web pages for checking flight status differ somewhat from one another, as Figures 1 and 2 show. However, these variations don't have that great an impact on a site's user experience. Usually, there's enough space on a page to present all of the options together, allowing users to complete the interaction without confusion.
Figure 1—Checking flight status on United.com
Figure 2—Checking flight status on Airfrance.us
Checking Flight Status on a Mobile Site
However, this easy interaction can get clumsy when using a mobile user interface. Small screen size and awkward input using a touch screen are the main factors that can affect mobile user experience. With companies' different understandings of these seemingly trivial questions, the mobile user interfaces for such an interaction can turn out very different from one another. And on mobile devices, these differences can impact how easy it is to quickly and successfully check flight status.
Air France displays the two options—by flight or by city—on the starting screen, requiring users to make a choice to proceed, as shown in Figure 3. This simplifies the user interface, but adds one extra step. Lufthansa displays both options on the starting page, allowing users to input either city name or flight number right there, as shown in Figure 4. The page attempts to provide two complete workflows, duplicating the flight date box and the control button, which increases the page length and pushes the second button below the fold.
Figure 3—Checking flight status on Air France's mobile site
Figure 4—Checking flight status on Lufthansa's mobile site
The Air France example is a stacked-in-time type of design, while the Lufthansa example uses proximity in space, which I discussed in a previous column on UXmatters, "Designing for the Mobile Web: Special Considerations," (See also Francisco Inchauste's article on UX Magazine, "The Dirtiest Word in UX: Complexity.") If users used the two options—flight departure and destination cities or flight number—equally often, Air France's stacked-in-time design would work best, resulting in a simple, clean page design. However, as I mentioned earlier, there are a lot more people who use flight departure and destination cities than flight number when checking flight status. So it almost seems unnecessary to present both options. However, these two airlines treat search by flight number as equal to search by flight cities.
American Airlines tries to blend the two methods together by using and/or between them, as shown in Figure 5. JetBlue duplicates the flight date box for both options, as shown in Figure 6. Notice that both American Airlines and JetBlue present search by city before search by flight number. Therefore, simply because of this one design decision, I think these two designs are superior to those in Figure 3 and 4. While these two airlines still treat the two options as equal, they place a little more emphasis on searching by flight cities.
Figure 5—Checking flight status on American Airline's mobile site
Figure 6—Checking flight status on JetBlue's mobile site
Southwest did several things quite differently from my previous examples, as follows:
- They not only make the option of checking flight status by cities more prominent, but also make it required. This solution still allows users to check flight status by flight number, but a user must provide the flight cities to proceed. Perhaps this was a business decision based on analytics data that indicated the percentage of users who use only flight number when checking status.
- They ask for the flight date immediately after asking for the flight cities, which intentionally pushes the flight number box to the bottom of the page and makes it easy to ignore that field. On the Southwest site, the focus is on the option of searching by flight cities.
Figure 7—Checking flight status on Southwest's mobile site
The better our understanding of users and their needs, as well as possible interaction models, the better our design solutions. A few thoughts surfaced through my analysis of these sites. I think they might be useful to the mobile design community, especially in regard to the design and display of workflows.
- Optimize for more frequent interactions.
The greater the priority we give to more frequently used options, the easier the majority of users would find a design to use. In our example, because the majority of users check flight status by city, it's best to give this option greater prominence.
- Use a short drop-down list instead of radio buttons for presenting options.
Selecting radio buttons is hard when users are operating a device with their fingers. Although both JetBlue and Southwest ask for flight date, JetBlue requires users to use radio buttons to select a specific date from three options, while Southwest uses a short drop-down list, making the interaction easier.
- Minimize text and instructions.
Users won't spend much time reading text when they're trying to get things done. Instructions might actually impede an interaction. The best approach is to make a design as easy as possible to use, so no instructions are necessary. Note the difference between the Lufthansa and Southwest designs in this regard.
- Require only minimal typing.
Instead of asking users to type city names or airport codes, allow them to select them using a drop-down list. Reducing the amount of typing users must do on a mobile device makes data entry easier and also helps to reduce user error. Note the difference between the American Airlines and Southwest designs—the latter requires less typing.
So my questions to you are: What do you think is the best design among the examples I've discussed? How do you think design solutions for simple interactions on mobile devices—such as checking flight status—could be improved?
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AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Quincy Wadley scored 28 points and Lynn Greer added 26 to lead Temple to an 84-52 win over Massachusetts Saturday.
Wadley shot 10-for-15 from the field while Greer was 8-for-15. Temple snapped a two-game losing streak and handed UMass its worst loss in the five-year coaching career of Bruiser Flint.
Wadley and Greer played the entire game for Temple, which is down to eight players after losing forward Ron Rollerson to a foot injury earlier in the week.
The Owls shot 64 percent from the field (16-for-25) in the first half to take a 47-30 lead. An 8-0 run gave Temple an early 10-5 lead, and a 9-0 run, capped by a 3-pointer from Alex Wesby (13 points), made it 21-11. The Owls were never threatened after that.
UMass shot just 32 percent from the field (18-for-57) and committed 12 turnovers, which led to 23 points for Temple.
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Aoyama is in my Fantasy Road Race team...
..but I'm going to let him go.
I think he's a very skillful rider but doesn't seem to have that final 1% he needs to succeed in MotoGP.
Yes, I know he's a 250cc world champ but they're a different breed of bike.
Aoyama has finesse on a bike, probably the opposite of Stoner! He's not the ragged risk taker that Crutchlow, De Puniet or Barberra are. On Sunday this worked in his favour, but I think most of the time this won't be an asset for him.
I think it's fair to assume this will be Aoyama's best result of the season and he'll be back to 11th/12th by Estoril.


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Four of us (2 singles and a tandem) met in lovely Gridley CA for a very flat 90 mile ride. The four of us are in training for AIDS/LifeCycle in June and felt we wanted distance with no hills. We got it.
The first 50 miles is really pretty uneventful, almost boring, if we weren't on bikes and getting to know each other (I had never met the tandemites). When I say flat, I mean not even a freeway overpass with which to contend. Most of the rice fields were flooded and rain was forecast, so we saw farm houses with (temporary) lake fronts and great clouds. There was a breeze, which of course, was in our face. This area can get VERY windy, so we felt lucky to have something not horrendous.
The route is a tortured figure 8. As we hit the second loop, the Sutter Buttes come into view. The Buttes are the worlds smallest mountain range. Here's a shot of my buddy heading toward the mountains.
This crop duster was doing amazing acrobatics and got much closer to us than this picture shows. I was riding my bike when I snapped this.
Our route took us by the outskirts of a number of little farm towns, never close to mini-marts or anywhere to get food. Fortunately, we were prepared for that, but I never take a ride with out getting a coke somewhere. Our rest were taken anywhere we could find a wide spot, albeit we did sit on some one's lawn once. There were cats, chickens and peacocks everywhere.
After leaving the little town of Sutter (mile 60) , we encounter the only terrain on the ride. A 2% grade over "the pass", followed by a much longer, gentle downgrade. Not surprisingly, the tandem enjoyed it. Rain continued to be on our minds, but the scenery was fantastic.
This next picture is the "back side" of the Buttes. This is a popular ride in North Central California but even though it was a Saturday, we saw only a couple of other riders.
At mile 76, we got our first tailwind -- for four miles. Then again at mile 85, a 7 mile tailwind to the end of the ride. We made it to our vehicles without the rain ever hitting us, although it seemed to be all around us. The captain of the stoker insisted we got no rain because he brought all his expensive Gore rainwear.
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Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. That also goes for value. Covering the landscape along a mountain road, trees are lovely to behold and create vistas that draw visitors and their money to western North Carolina. Thinned out, they provide prime habitat for many species of wildlife and a valuable source of timber. So the U.S. Forest Service plans to begin logging 212 acres south of Blowing Rock next year, despite the ill will the plan has reaped.
More than 1,000 people commented on the Forest Services initial proposal. Watauga County, Blowing Rock and Boone opposed it an uncommon move for local governments and passed resolutions supporting a special designation to protect the scenic views that help drive the regions tourism industry. The Forest Service revised its plan and says it has bent over backward to accommodate complaints.
The harvest will be scattered throughout an 11,225-acre section of Pisgah National Forest, with no clear-cutting allowed. That will increase costs and reduce revenue for whoever wins the bid to cut the trees, says Bob Slocum, executive vice president of the North Carolina Forestry Association, which represents timber companies and related interests. That type of harvest is what the Forest Service has gone to because of environmental pressure from various groups.
The trees might be cut in stages over a decade, and those in popular scenic areas are more likely to be spared. Were leaving probably twice as many trees as we normally would, Forest Service spokesman Terry Seyden says.
That might not be enough to appease opponents. At least one, Charlottesville, Va.-based Southern Environmental Law Center, isnt ruling out a lawsuit that could delay or derail the project. It contends that the plan doesnt adequately protect views or old-growth trees. Spokeswoman Cat McCue says the group will continue talking with the Forest Service in hopes of avoiding legal action, but that dialogue has gone on for several years. We are willing to hear from the Forest Service again, but the community is very strongly behind a designated scenic area. And we support that.
Even before the influx of neohippies, mountain folk had a tradition of doing their own thing. It has long been part of the highland charm. Bumper stickers urge: Keep Asheville Weird, and visitors seem to like the vibe. Downtown Asheville on a Saturday night can feel as lively as uptown Charlotte. But it's not the only place with a freaky streak. In nearby Haywood County, a state trooper discovered a small amount of marijuana in a car driven by the county tourism director. She says it wasn't hers. Even so, this could be an opportunity to plunder Asheville's thunder with another bumper sticker: Keep Our Mountains Smoky.
MARION Superior Machine Company of South Carolina plans to add at least 25 workers this year at its factory here, which employs nearly 55. The Florence-based company may add another 25 if there are enough qualified applicants. The plant specializes in repairing rock-crushing equipment.
GRANITE FALLS Charles Snipes, 74, retired as CEO of Bank of Granite. The title went to Scott Anderson, 52, the president and chief operating officer. Snipes, who has worked at the bank 25 years, plans to quit as chairman in April. He succeeded John Forlines as CEO in 2005.
FOREST CITY Ultracoat, a subsidiary of Shelby-based Ultra Machine & Fabrication, plans to open a factory here to paint military vehicles. The $2 million plant, scheduled to begin production in May, will employ nearly 50 by the end of 2009. Ultra Machine employs about 400 in two factories in Cleveland County.
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I have yet to see any Mountain biking DVDs so I am looking for advice. What are they must have DVDs with lots of action?
I have yet to see any Mountain biking DVDs so I am looking for advice. What are they must have DVDs with lots of action?
My favorite so far is NWD 7. But that's just me.
Myidolis Says: "clickety flickety? Well i have no idea what your bikes problem is, but your description probably contains the most onomatopoeia i've seen in awhile."
Haven't seen many, but I recommend NWD5.
That's a lie.
mountain biking DVD's to me are about like watching golf on TV.. fun to do .. boring on TV
edit .. well not as boring as golf.
+1 on Roam, although it is a lot more laid back than most bike porn. Amazing DVD though.
yeah ROAM needs some punk music or something.. it's got that national geographic documentary feel to it.
yeah i have both movies by the collective, and all the NWD films, they're amazing. Earthed 3 - Europa, is also quite a good bike film. lots of racing, some djing, and a bit of trial
I'm really enjoying Earthed 4 at the moment.
I like NWD 7 or any NSX videos, because they are local for me.
Roam and The Collective are both must sees. less of the mindless adrenaline of other moveis and a more subtle take on mountain biking. great music, a huge variety of locations, everything from singletrack to massive drops....something for everyone. they're also the type of movie that you could show to anyone, not just someone who rides.
if you have to pick just one, go with Roam.
The Collective is the best ever and I don't care what the rest of you losers say.
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
No, I mean loozers.
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When I first began blogging, I enjoyed writing up weekend link love posts for my community. They seemed to enjoy it too and they eventually became part of other blogs' communities as a result. As my workload got busier I didn't have as much time for my weekend link love and my community let me know they were disappointed.
At Kommein I try to get my weekend sharing on as often as possible and I also try to link to other blogs in my regular, daily posts. My readers notice this and like it. In fact, at BlogWorld one attendee said she learned of a terrific blog through my weekend sharing, but asked me why I try to make such a point of it?
"Why link?" she asked? "Isn't it spamming to link outside all the time? Why can't you just share it on Twitter or something?"
Glad she asked…
Because sharing is good
There's a reason why people bring cookies into the office or cupcakes into the classroom and it's not necessarily to say "Happy Birthday." People enjoy sharing. They enjoy baking, or knitting or writing and giving their stuff away to people who they know will enjoy it. When bloggers share, it's because we know our communities will get some use or value from our links. We think you'll dig what we share.
Because it helps prove a point
It helps to back up a point when I can reference other blogs and their facts and findings as well. Linking to different bloggers helps to validate my side of the story and adds credence to an argument.
Because it can offer an opposing point of view
Just as blogs can have my back in a discussion, they can also shed light on the other end of the coin so readers can digest both sides of the story and make their own informed decisions. Sadly, too many blogs only link to the blogs that make them look good and won't share all sides, but I prefer a more well-rounded discussion. I'm guessing you do too.
Because people will learn about you
When you link to a blog, the pingbacks will appear on another blog. Now, I don't experience HUGE pingback traffic, but I do receive some clicks every time I link to someone. Plus, the bloggers who you link to may come by as a result of said pingback and perhaps even take part in the conversation or share the link with their communities. Linking to others is a terrific way to have them learn about you and what you do.
Because you may get some link backs in return
When you link to your favorite bloggers all the time, it puts you on the radar. They may even link back to you from time to time. I can't promise that will always happen, but if you have good content and good traffic, bloggers will mostly likely send you some good juju back in return.
Because you want to reference a blog post or article
Many times links have more to do with the subject matter than the blog or the blogger. Perhaps the blog revealed an important bit of news or the blogger is speaking on a controversial topic. You may feel that this post or news is important or interest to your readers. That's the beautiful thing about linking. Because other bloggers are so…interesting it means you never run out of things to blog about.
Because it's a better way to reward a favorite blogger
I prefer to link to blogs I enjoy over sharing their posts on Twitter or Facebook because it's more beneficial. Links inside of blog posts do more to raise a blogger's profile and search engine rankings than a fleeing tweet. I'm still receiving traffic from links received years ago. If you want to show a blogger you appreciate him or her, link from your blog as it's the gift that keeps giving.
Here are two blogs where the bloggers have the link love down.
Kristi Hines at Kikolani and Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media both offer weekly rundowns of what's going on in blogging and social media. Through their sharing, I've been turned on to many blogs and blog posts – and so have others.It takes a lot of time to compile these links every week and I always appreciate their sharing.
Do you link to other blogs? How do you do it and why do you do it?
You might also enjoy reading:
- Top 10 Ways to Promote Another Blogger or Post
- Links, Retweets and Shares: Which Gives More Value?
- The 10 Commandments of Blogging
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Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reached 30,000 applications.
The software giant's Marketplace of mobile apps is on fire. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has taken nearly 10 months to reach 30,000 apps since launch. Apple's iPhone App Store took just over 8 months and Google's Android store took 17 months to reach the same amount. Microsoft's developer momentum is treading well as it approaches a year of Windows Phone 7 in the market.
Marketplace trackers windowsphoneapplist.com is currently tracking 30,004 apps in the Marketplace. WP7applist is tracking 29,46 5applications worldwide and explains 4,518 of them are inactive, 51% are available for free and the average price is $1.59 per paid application. Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace is growing at an impressive rate. The Marketplace passed 15,000 apps in April just in time for its six month birthday. WP7applist says that 187 apps are updated on average each day. In the last 24 hours, 67 apps were updated and 59 were added.
Windows Phone 7 launched on October 26 with 1,000 applications available. Nearly a year on and the Marketplace is strong at 30,000 apps. Microsoft appears to be building up a good momentum amongst application developers. Microsoft recently finalized its Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update. The company is planning to unveil a number of new devices from its partners on September 1. HTC and Samsung are expected to show off their Windows Phone 7.5 offerings. Microsoft has yet to confirm when existing devices will receive the Mango update. The company will be keen to avoid similar delays with its first platform update, "NoDo".
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VINTAGE ALFRED DUNHILL SMOKING PIPE TOBACCO JAR & LIDIMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE - Insurance and my shipping fee is included in my shipping price on all breakable, fragile items. I estimate high on shipping and adjust costs on the invoice after the item(s) is packaged. I charge actual shipping plus $1.00 S/H fee. I do my best to offer more than one shipping method to my buyers when I can. Requesting an invoice before making payment might save you money in shipping fees. Please feel free to ask questions. DESCRIPTION: Up for your bidding consideration is this vintage and unique tobacco jar and lid by Alfred Dunhill. This jar measures about 6 1/2" tall with lid and the jar opening measures 4" across. This jar is made of pottery with a brown glaze (the brown is a little darker in person than in my picture). This is an orginial Alfred Dunhill piece and I assume was either a give away when you bought products from the company or orginially was sold with a bag of Dunhill tobacco. On the bottom it reads "dunhill" and the inside of the lid reads "alfred dunhill, absorbal-lid" I tried to reseach this piece and came up with very little, maybe it is a rare one. I don't know the exact age of this jar. This was my grandfather's tobacco jar for years but he had stopped smoking for at least 25 years before he passed away. I would guess this jar is from 1950's, but that is just a guess. Over the years I have used this jar as a drip jar, candy jar and in my bathroom to hold extra's. This tobacco jar can be used for just about anything, display, use, add to your collection or give as a gift. A BIT OF HISTORY ABOUT ALFRED DUNHILL THE MAN AND COMPANY: Alfred Dunhill is a British based brand and company that began in 1893. Alfred was obsessed with detail, franatical about quality and craftsmanship. His talent lay in creating exquisitely designed, sleek and ingenious accessories for the perfect gentleman such as: luxury leather goods, smoking accessories, timepieces, fragrances, clothing and more. Still in business today and still producing high quality items for the contemporary man. CONDITION : Great condition. T are 2 tiny spots around the rim on the top that I first thought were chips but after closer inspection I think it might be spots w the glaze was missed. This item could use a light cleaning (which you can see in my picture below) that I will leave up to the buyer. No cracks, crazing or other damage. Please make sure to check out my other auctions for depression glass, Fenton, Fostoria, figurines, vintage collectibles, kitchenware and unique items up for bid. Thank you for looking and good luck bidding. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY-- WINNING BIDDER INFORMATION : Before making any payment, please request an invoice from me so I can provide you with the correct total balance. Winning bidders should CONTACT ME with 3 DAYS and PAYMENT should be RECEIVED within 10 DAYS unless arrangements have been made prior to auction close. Please note- all my items are sold AS IS only. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS : Please feel free to use "Ask the Seller" option if you have any questions. I will try my best to answer your questions as quickly as possible, but can not promise an answer within 12 hours before auction close. SHIPPING AND INSURANCE INFORMATION : Winning bidder pays shipping and handling costs. Most items are shipped within 1-3 days after payment is received unless stated otherwide in my ad. I ship items Monday - Friday only. I am willing to combine shipping in most cases, but please ask first. I ship USPS Priority Mail unless stated otherwise in my ad. I do charge a $1.00 S/H fee to help cover the cost of my shipping supplies. I am not looking to get rich on shipping just cover my costs. I use bubble wrap and popcorn in most cases. Insurance is REQUIRED on on BREAKABLE items and recommended on all other items as I am not responsible for lost or damaged packages. Please note I only ship to the United States...


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Groundhog Phil vs. Joe LaVorgna Prediction Success Rate
Pretty much self-explanatory. It would appear that the Pennsylvania rodent is missing out on a lot of NBC Universal-contributor cash by not having a comedy TV friendly presence. As for the accuracy win rate in the groundhog vs permabull race, there really is no contest...
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Gods must be crazy
I dont know these two but the ginea pig seems to have more of a clue
You need to get Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave in this perma-bull(shit) competition
Prechter 2009-2012: 5% Win Rate
Prechter on Gold: beyond clueless (that's a statistical number of almost zero)
Prechter on timing S&P, DOW, Nasdaq: 6% Win Rate
Prechter on knowing he's diabolical at predicting/timing markets: 2% Win Rate
Prechter would win this competition easy
It's getting better by the day!
If you're talking about the one on the left - that's a ground hog, am not sure about the one on the right - could be a guinea pig I guess.
LaVorgna looks like he was spawned from the same massive foreheaded alien that also shit Tim Geitner out it's arse!
Too bad they're not blonde, like their brother, Beavis.
IPO in the offing for the groundhog then?
silver bitchez!
citibank just gave me 10K @ 0% till november for a capped fee of $75.00
guess what i bought with it....
One of the below:
1) 1000x leveraged short gold etf?
4) a few iPads
5) Physical Bullion
6) None of the above
but it was lost in a boating accident before delivery took place
Just received one of these offers myself. What's this about?
Punxsutawney Joe is going to piss gold and silver out his pecker for 6 more weeks.
Go Phil!
I guess there's more to that pesky cutie pie's face than it seems.
Last month, it was easy to guess a strong NFP numer as Joe LaWronga's estimate was not above consensus for the first time for months. Today, his forecast of +170K is considerably above average although I think I remember that last week the number was even higher. So, I guess we are in for a print below the average estimate of 146K.
Only on ZH would you get this in depth analysis...bravo. So basically Lavorgna is guessing, must be nice to make all those FRN for 'takin a stab at it'
I don't think anybody is good at predicting the markets.
Like Tyler Golden-balls, I was expecting the great collapse years ago.
Stocks did well last year. Who would have guessed it?
At least women still have tits. Hey, it's something to believe in.
I try to look on the brightside.
The only person who gets it correct consistently is Mike Shedlock.
The guy knows his stuff.
But he still fucks up from time to time.
Joe Bologna!
Hell, he should be playing Blackjack.
Thank you for this, really, I needed to see that after weeks of market pumping on CNBC.
LaVorgna is related to megamind
Lol, fookin priceless!
The crash is coming
CNBC has no journalistic integrity left at all. Not that they are alone - "news" today is just pandering to whatever generates the most viewers or clicks. They all have some political agenda or simply pander to those that do.
CNBC is just one long money manager commercial - look at their advertisers, then look at their guests. Dare to question the BS - you won't be coming back.
"I don't think anybody is good at predicting the markets."
Predicting is difficult, especially predicting the future...
Wow, LaVorgna beat the coin toss by 1%. So that's what being a one percenter is all about.


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After winning four Olympic gold medals, sailor Ben Ainslie announces his retirement - just don't expect him to put his feet up.
12:31, UK, Tuesday 27 November 2012
Ben Ainslie, the most decorated Olympic sailor and veteran of five Olympic campaigns, has called time on his Olympic career.
Speaking on Sky News, the 35 year-old admitted his body just "couldn't take it anymore".
Ainslie just about avoided a Redgrave "shoot me if I go near a boat" moment when interviewed straight after winning (narrowly) that fourth Olympic gold medal in August.
Instead he gave himself a bit of time to consider his options.
Crucial to his decision was which classes the International Sailing Federation would include for Rio 2016.
He knew his body - particularly his back - couldn't withstand the Finn class but IF the two-handed Star dinghy was reinstated, then maybe.
That decision was made for him - and no reinstatement means no more Olympics for Ainslie.
When most people talk of retirement they think of putting their feet up. Anyone who's met the Olympian knows that will never happen.
He's now in full training for his next quest - ultimately to win the America's Cup and bring it to Britain.
So for now his retirement consists of moving to San Francisco to train with his JP Morgan BAR teammates.
The America's Cup is the only major international sporting trophy missing from Great Britain's cabinet.
GB won't win in 2013 but as ever Ainslie is playing the long tactical game - his eyes are on the one after. Talking to him you know if anyone can pull it off he can.
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DALLAS - Artist Richie Morgan added color and detail to his portrait of a rabbit, using oil pastels on canvas, at Verve Vertu Art Studio.
It was his first time working with oil stick paint, he said, but the experiment was going well.
"I never used these before. They get all over your hands, though," he said.
A few months after moving to downtown Dallas, all the artists at Verve Vertu have stocked the art studio and boutique with color, cheer and whimsical works of art.
To celebrate the move, Verve Vertu Art Studio will host a "Share Your Flair" performance and grand opening reception on Friday. The performance will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Lemmond Theater, Walsh Hall, Misericordia University, 301 Lake St., Dallas. The grand opening reception of Verve Vertu will follow from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the art studio, 24 Main St., Dallas.
For the grand opening, they've crafted a great lineup of singing, dancing, storytelling and even a ukulele orchestra, arts coordinator Gwen Harleman said. Morgan created the proud rooster that adorns the grand opening invitation.
"It should be a really fun night," she said.
The relocation provides four times the space of its previous home at Downtown Arts in Wilkes-Barre, as well as a storefront for a boutique where artists can sell their wares.
"This has afforded us a nice opportunity to be on a Main Street," Harleman said.
The bright displays in the window have already drawn several people into the studio. Artist Andrea Hamrick showed off her carefully crafted, patchwork pillow she made while Harleman described some of the items for sale at the boutique - multicolored scarves, bracelets, purses, as well as the artwork lining the walls.
"We have a lot of fiber pieces," she said. "A lot of wearable art."
Verve Vertu is the art studio of the Deutsch Institute, which develops and manages leisure and recreation activities for people with disabilities and special needs in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Verve means high energy, and Vertu means excellence in objects of art. The studio opened in 2006.
The artists choose what they'd like to create, with help and art instruction from Harleman and assistants. They recently received a donation of "beautiful" silks and tapestries to work with, and even some vintage lace.
"We're going through a period of fiber art right now," Harleman said. "What's beautiful about it is they get to work in the mediums that interest them."
On a recent afternoon, Tracy Tribendis painted a bowl of fruit, with some tips from art assistant Chelsea Fufaro to help her get the shading right. Victoria Brown worked on a batik piece, while Elizabeth Thomas crafted with yarn and Patty Spellman decorated a cross.
Patrick Cleary put the finishing touches on his American flag, crafted with shoelaces. He often uses patriotic themes in his work as a way to honor his brother, 1st Lt. Michael J. Cleary, who was killed in 2005 in an ambush while serving in Iraq.
Artist Erin Dougherty worked on a fabric project, having recently completed a watercolor Celtic cross on commission.
"We do a lot of commissions. This one was for someone in Bethlehem," Harleman said.
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The Verve Vertu artists will also be providing artwork for the North Branch Land Trust's 15th annual dinner and auction on May 14. For information on that event, visit www.nblt.org.
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Creative Director Tae Kim, a former North Face design director, is determined to get city-dwelling young people away from their computers, cell phones and 9-to-5 jobs and into the wilderness. But where does the "innovation" step in? Enter the "Sexy Hotness" sleeping bag ("the perfect sleeping bag for making love in the woods"), their Monarch Butterfly camping chair ("packs down to the size of a very large burrito"), their "In-Law Outlaw" tent (excellent for couples on cozy get-aways), or any of their totally styling backpacks and outdoorsy dog accessories.
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So the holiday season is finally upon us (though judging by retailers, it's been Christmas since the week before Halloween). To make a fairly long story short, we celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah at our house but we don't believe in Santa. Tree, stockings, presents, yes--just DD knows Mom and Dad are the givers.
Last year, when random strangers loudly got in my daughter's face and asked her (despite her obvious horror at being addressed by a stranger) about Santa, I just said "Santa doesn't visit our house" and left it at that. The issue I'm worried about this year is as she turned 3 DD got MUCH more outgoing and willing to speak in public, especially in regards to correcting people who are wrong (she's fairly obsessed with making sure passing strangers who think her baby sister is a boy are informed that GIRLS have VAG!NAS).
So how do I deal with the possibility she starts loudly denouncing the existence of Santa? I don't care about the adults but what about innocent bystander children? I don't want my 3.5 year old to ruin Christmas for any other kids. Do I just say "Santa doesn't visit our house" and hope if I say it enough times she'll just go along with it? I welcome any ideas people might have, even just recommendations of what NOT to say (what would totally give away the big red-suited myth for your kids).


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February 07, 2012 12:00 PM by Lisa Princ
Ali Fedotowsky, who starred on ABC's The Bachelorette, split up with her beau, Roberto Martinez back in November, and the star was recently spotted with a strange man. Is Ali dating again, and who was the mystery man? Read on to find out!
The Bachelorette's Ali Fedotowsky was recently spotted in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for what was supposed to be a girls' weekend, but Life & Style reports that the reality star was spotted with a hunky mystery man. According to the magazine, a pal of Ali's revealed: "His name is Charlie Ritchie, and he and Ali met while on vacation," adding: "Ali and Charlie went out on several dates. Each night Ali sported a new sundress, followed by sexy bikinis on the beach the next day. She just wanted to have fun."
Does that mean things are getting serious with Ali Fedotowsky and her new man? We can't say for sure, but it sounds like the pair will stay in touch as the friend goes on to say: "Ali clearly wants to stay in touch with this guy because they're friends on Facebook, and she even tagged him in her photos." Charlie is reportedly 33 years old, and resides in Canada. Maybe it's time for us to head over to Facebook and check him out for ourselves!
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April 17, 2012 07:19 PM by Shayla Perry
Last night's Instant Eliminations weren't the only cuts being made on The Voice this week. The remaining members of Teams Blake and Christina were back, facing elimination once again. Who was saved? Who did the coaches send home? And what the hell is Justin Bieber doing on the show?! Find out after the jump.
Tonight on NBC….
After a performance from The Wanted, backed by the remaining members of Team Blake, Team Christina joins Carson Daly on stage as he addresses the elephant in the room — Christina's decision to cut Jesse Campbell from her team.
Though the other judges (and the rest of us) didn't understand it, they all respect her for making the tough call, and Christina has no regrets.
Hopefully she'll stand by the big decision she has ahead of her tonight, having to choose between Ashley De La Rosa and Lindsey Pavao, who both received the least amount of votes this week. (Yes, Chris Mann came in with the most.)
For Blake Shelton, it's be between RaeLynn and Erin Willett, as your votes automatically send Jermaine Paul to the next phase of the competition.
After Ashley's performance of "You And I" and Lindsey's teary-eyed rendition of "Please Don't Go," the show is invaded by who else but The Biebs, Justin Bieber (insert the sound of a million shrieking prepubescent girls) who introduces a teaser of his video for "Boyfriend," and announces the official release date of his new album Believe (June 19th).
PLUS, Justin will also be hitting the stage to perform on the season finale of The Voice (add Jesse Campbell and we're in!).
Back to the business at hand….
An emotional Christina once again goes with her "gut" (and against her fellow coaches) and eliminates Ashley De La Rosa.
For Team Blake, Erin Willett takes on "Proud Mary," with RaeLynn singing "If I Die Young."
At the last second – literally, with the credits rolling and everything – Blake saves Erin Willett, sending RaeLynn home.
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A Daily Journal reporter interviewed candidates for Clark-Pleasant school board on a wide range of issues. Use these pages as a guide in your voting decision.
Name: Howard L. Young
Age: 77
Family: Wife Donna, adult daughter
Work experience: Farmer
Education: Graduated from Flat Rock High School in Shelby County
Political experience: Member of Clark-Pleasant school board for 34 years
Term: Four years
Duties: Developing policies, adopting the annual budget, determining salaries for all employees and hiring and evaluating the district's superintendent.
Area district represents: Entire Clark-Pleasant school district
Who votes: All voters in the school district
Pay: $2,000 per year
What are the three biggest issues facing your school district? How will you address them?
Clark-Pleasant is a growing district. Has had ups and downs, but enrollment is picking up and schools are getting more students. District has had to build buildings to keep up. When the students show up, schools have to educate them. Should put kids first in all decisions. Must keep tax rate as level as possible. Must be efficient. As long as the district puts kids first, things will work out.
What is the most important thing you can do as a school board member to improve student achievement?
Must hire a superintendent who runs the school well and works with the school board. The board hires the superintendent, and that person runs the school and keeps the harmony in the school. Is really important to have a superintendent that people can work with. That's the biggest job of school board, to work with the superintendent and avoid micromanaging.
Do you favor adding any academic, sports or extracurricular programs? Why or why not? What curriculum changes would you suggest?
Whenever administrators come up to the board with a proposal, the board tries to deal with that situation. The superintendent should make decisions about programs, including for sports and academics. Thinks district has a good curriculum but would consider recommendations.
If funding became so tight that programs would need to be cut, how would you decide? What would be a priority?
The superintendent and business manager are the two most important people, and they've done a really good job. Would listen and would take their recommendations.
Administrators across the county say that the number of students dropping out of schools is an issue that must be addressed. What methods would you propose to keep students in school or bring back students who have dropped out?
The alternative school takes care of a lot of that work. Would work closely with the academy and Central Nine Career Center or the vocational school. Those students have to realize they need an education. Once they do, alternative school makes sense for quite a few kids who go through there now. Students need to know when they drop out that they can come back to get the credits they need.
Do you favor selling naming rights to parts of schools, classrooms, scoreboards or buildings? What, if any, policies should be in place to accept advertising dollars? Who should be involved in approving the contracts?
Knows businesses want advertising to get their names in front of people, but it has to be a financially good situation for the school district before he would vote for it. The board has to have requirements of what will be accepted. Can't be something that would distract from education. Would listen to superintendent's recommendation. Knows that when hospital, for example, donates money, they want to have their name somewhere that people see it. Has mixed feelings. Would have to go through the board.
If area businesses are willing to give schools thousands of dollars, why is the money being spent on athletics? Why is that the top priority? Couldn't the advertisements still be displayed on a sports facility with the money going to academic or other programs?
Businesses designate where the money goes. Whatever the businesses or donors designate, the gifts are put in that category, whatever that category is.
What facility improvements, such as turf, outdoor labs, remodeling, expansions or new buildings does your school district need?
Are always little things that need to be done, but the administration is on top of it. Business manager decides if the school district has the funds and where they need to go. Not aware of any needs right now; would have look at economic feasibly of any project. Right now school buildings are in decent shape, but the schools will have to redistrict some kids from overcrowded facilities. That's not popular but is needed because of elementary crowding.
Schools want to recruit students in order to collect the most money from the state. Should schools recruit students? If so, how should this be accomplished? Should money be spent on advertisements, public relations employees or consultants or websites?
Board members have talked about recruiting students, but the board has to be careful. If the school district starts taking students, can't say schools won't take them before the 7th grade, for example. School districts can't discriminate and have to accept them all. Clark-Pleasant has overcrowding in elementary schools, so the school district must look at where to draw the line and look at the future. Doesn't think schools should spend taxpayer dollars on those expenses.
Property tax caps are making it difficult for districts to replace buses, upgrade buildings and technology, and in some cases pay down their debt. What is the biggest problem your district faces because of property tax caps, and what ideas do you have to solve them? (Clark-Pleasant, Franklin, Edinburgh)
Clark-Pleasant's biggest problem is the tax-increment financing districts, or TIF districts, of Greenwood. That's money the school district should be getting for education. Is a touchy subject, and TIF districts have the law behind them, but they keep funds that should be coming to the school district, and the schools have had to deal with the impacts. The superintendent and business manager tell the board how the school district is doing financially, and that's what the board works from. The board must know what financial limitations and expectations the schools have.
You are hiring/in charge of evaluating the district's superintendent. What qualities are you looking for in your school's leader/what does your superintendent need to show to earn a positive evaluation?
Clark-Pleasant is looking to hire a superintendent. Expects superintendent to handle many duties, such as asking Greenwood to watch how it spends TIF dollars. A superintendent has to run the schools — education and facilities. He has to be a leader first, and also a counselor. That person has to have the qualities that will improve the school system education-wise. Is a big job. A superintendent must listen to what the school board wants. If he's not listening, he's not doing his job.
School districts are spending more money and time developing online courses, and many of them mimic courses that have already been developed elsewhere. Should your school district continue to develop more online courses? Why or why not?
The school does a little bit of this now. Online courses should be considered, but they cost money and the school has to watch spending.
The number of students on free and reduced-price lunch from low-income families has been rising. What can your district do to ensure all students receive the kind of resources/help they need to be able to succeed?
Schools have to keep records. State tells the schools what they have to provide to students in certain income brackets. School board doesn't get into what those students are supposed to get but should make sure the necessary funding is in place.
Currently, the school district has an interim superintendent. The school board is in charge of hiring the superintendent. When do you want to get a new leader in place? Is it important for the school board to move quickly on this issue?
Goal is to have a new superintendent by the next school year. The school board is in no hurry about the search. The board probably won't advertise the position until the end of the year. The interim superintendent can serve until the end of summer 2013. Is important to work together. Must find someone who works well with the school board.
What qualities are most important to you in a candidate for a new superintendent?
Has to be a people person. Background and ethics means a lot. Thinks superintendent won't be named until spring 2013, but he is just one of five members. Leadership, personality, people person will narrow the search down a lot.


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