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Tickets will be available at the door. $50 w/ food or $30 without
Here are all the final details for the party:
12:00PM - 6:00PM Arrival
6:00PM - 7:30AM (on 4/7) Music
7:00PM Dinner (on 4/6)
7:30AM Breakfast (on 4/7)
8:30AM clean up
What to bring:
-flashlight or headlamp
-tent, sleeping bag, blankets, chairs, pillows, etc.
-your own alcohol or exotic mood modifiers.
-warm clothing (it WILL get chilly, possibly cold at night)
-firewood (we will have firewood there, but anymore you want to bring will most likely get used)
-water/snacks for between meals
A few things to consider:
-This is a fragile High Desert Eco-system. Please do not trample on any plants, as some of them (even small ones) can take THOUSANDS of years to grow. Our goal is to not leave any sign of our presence. Please pack out EVERYTHING you bring with you.
-music will be going throughout the night. If you plan on sleeping, make sure you have a warm sleeping bag and a tent. If you don't have one, you can sleep in your car, however you will be parked a short hike from the amphitheater.
-There will be a designated area that is the preferred place to pitch your tent, however you are free to camp most places on the property provided you respect the land and do not set up camp along trails.
-DO NOT MAKE YOUR OWN CAMPFIRE. This cannot be stressed enough. The area is very dry and prone to wild fires. We will have several Bonfires near the stage.
-bathroom situation is a porta-potty.
-Dinner is from 7:00PM and Breakfast is at 7:30AM (on the 7th) so plan your arrival/leaving accordingly. Bring extra snacks if you think you will be hungry in betwwen meal times.
-You can bring a friend even if they haven't purchased a ticket yet, but tell them to be prepared in case we have sold out of food tickets.
-Cell phone service at the amphitheater is spotty at best
-you are free to come early and stay longer if you like.
The Address is 1 Godsway Love, Yucca Valley, CA
Directions (from Los Angeles):
1. take the I-10 E (appx 100 miles)
2. Take exit 117 to merge onto CA-62 E/29 Palms Hwy/Twentynine Palms Highwaytoward 29 Palms/Yucca Valley (19.9 mi)
3. In Yucca Valley, Turn left onto Pioneertown Rd and go past Pappy & Harriet's (7.5 mi)
4. Turn right onto Pipes Canyon Rd (1.1 mi)
5. Turn left onto Gamma Gulch Rd (1.9 mi)
6. Turn left onto Godsway Love and continue until you reach The Amphitheater (appx 2 mi)
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Dag. I haven't done some nail art stuffs in forever yo. I don't know what it is but man…I have really been falling in love this nail polishes these days. It's like I can't get enough of doing my nails. For once in their wretched little lives, they are finally growing and that couldn't make me happier.
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KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Voters in the Kalamazoo School district gave overwhelming approval to a 62-million dollar bond issue for school improvement and maintenance projects. Supt. Michael Rice says it's not just an approval of money, it's a morale booster. It will mean better technology and computers in classroom, renovated schools, and a second gym at Kalamazoo Central high. Dr. Rice says it also guarantees the roof won't leak and the furnaces will come on when it gets cold. It passed ..5044 to 2219.
Routine operating millage questions were also approved in the Vicksburg and Mattawan school districts, as well as in Gobles, Three Rivers, Cassopolis and White Pigeon.
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The USA is importing approx 6 million barrels of oil per day from several Camel Riding countries who hate our guts and only tolerate us because we buy their oil and provide some protection (that is minimal now that old puss puss is President). And, the logical thing to do is stop drilling in the Gulf and deny drilling in Alaska, West and East Coast. Right? That's correct if your head is in a fog, you're a looney Democrate, you are an ideologue (unfortunately, Obama is all three). And, not only stop drilling for oil costing thousands of good paying jobs and limiting our fuel independence, but discouragement of coal, nuclear, natural gas. And, some of the tree huggers don't like wind farms either cause a wild bird now and then is deaf and or stupid and flies into one of the blades and becomes worm food....so, what is left? How about walking (haven't heard any objection to this), riding a horse (although some tree huggers say that flatulation from farm animals is hurting the ozone), or bicycling. If Obama and his p i m p s get their way, we'll all be spending a lot more time at home on TV (they want to control the programming) and on the internet (this is another area that has come under new regulation of the Feds). As long as Obama and his ilk are in power, I see a really bad future for you and yours!
As a good Jewish Rabbi said regarding Obama, May God protect and Keep...Protect us and Keep him far, far away.
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So twitter was attacked this morning. It just got fixed. But it pains me to admit that it was that event that brought me here, to tumblr.
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Recent national polls found more Americans support gay marriage than ever before, but a Middle Tennessee State University poll found 62 percent of Tennesseans oppose it.
Chris Sanders, president of the Tennessee Equality Project, said even a narrow Supreme Court decision favoring same-sex marriage could have a major impact in the Volunteer State.
"In time, those precedents would be used if someone were to bring suit in Tennessee," Sanders said.
The court could determine whether married same-sex couples like Dakerri Barber-Rhone, of Nashville, would be entitled to the same federal benefits as married straight couples.
"To be able to get the same recognition as all married couples, it's a dream," Barber-Rhone said.
For now, Barber-Rhone - who was married last year in Washington - is unable to benefit from her partner's health insurance policy.
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Vivlamore reporting from practice.
After a weekend off, the Hawks were back at practice Monday and the emphasis was solely on defense.
Coach Larry Drew was not happy with the defense in Friday's 113-111 loss to the Cavaliers that snapped the team's six-game win streak. Following Monday's practice, which featured a great deal of running, the team had a film session to go over the breakdowns.
"In watching our last game, we took a step back defensively," Drew said. "We'll go watch film … because I want these guys to really see how bad we were defensively.
"From the standpoint of everything that we put in at the very beginning of training camp it just seems like we reverted back to old habits. It was just one game but I want to catch it as early as I can so they can clearly see the positioning, where we were and why we had so many defensive breakdowns our last game. The whole idea is to catch it and try to correct it as quickly as I can."
In other news:
* Rookies John Jenkins and Mike Scott will make their NBA Development League debuts tonight for the Bakersfield (Calif.) Jam. Both were sent down on Saturday with the Hawks not playing again until Wednesday.
"We had talked about it as an organization," Drew said. "I was hoping to get both Mike and John into our rotation but we have a log jam. Both guys bring an NBA skill to the table. Instead of just having the practice time and the player development time and coming to the games and working out before and then sitting on the bench the whole game, I thought it would be a good idea to get into the situation where they are playing. Both guys need that.
"We made the decision to send them down. Both guys are going to play a lot while they are down there. I spoke to the coach and he's excited about having them. I spoke to both John and Mike before they left and they are excited about the fact that they are going to get a chance to play. It's tough when you are just sitting over on the bench. I think it will be good for both of them. We'll monitor them while they are down there and keep a close eye on them."
I asked Drew if that meant the two would have an extended D-League stay.
"Don't know yet," he said. "Right now, it makes sense in our schedule. … We'll make a decision whether to bring them back for our game on Wednesday or make this a little longer."
* Kyle Korver (back spasms) did not practice Monday. He instead worked on the side with the training staff. Korver missed Friday's loss to the Cavs with the ailing back, which had been bothering him much of last week.
Drew said Korver was still day-to-day.
"I spoke to Kyle before we got started. He said it was feeling much, much better. We didn't want to chance it today. He was up moving around and actually got a little jog in. We'll keep a close eye on him."
* Finally, look for a behind-the-scenes photo-blog soon. Over the next few days, I will be taking photos of the areas of Philips Arena that fans never get to see – the locker room, players lounge, training room, etc. I hope to have it posted later this week. Stay tuned.
Also, later today I will post the feature story on Jeff Teague that will appear in the Tuesday print edition of the AJC.
- Chris Vivlamore
December 3rd, 2012
2:01 pm
FIRST!!!! get well Kyle Korver, we'll need you wednesday
December 3rd, 2012
2:15 pm
Coach Drew please play Ivan more. He is one of the best rebounding players on the team. Practice should focus on rebounding and free throw shooting! Defense could be great but if you can't clear the defensive glass you're giving the opponent too many opportunities. That is the main reason the team lost to the Cavs.
December 3rd, 2012
2:18 pm
Chris, great idea to give fans a glimpse of "what is behind the curtain". I truly appreciate your efforts to give us more than a standard level of beat reporting. Keep it up and they will retire your number, right next to Lou Hudson.
December 3rd, 2012
2:26 pm
I'd like to see LD take the approach that the Braves often have employed… when a player says that he is ready to return from an injury, wait until the next game. If he says he's able to return for a Wednesday game (as an example), hold him out until the game AFTER Wednesday.
If Scott and/or Jenkins return in the next 7-10 days only to continue to get token minutes with the Hawks, then it would be a waste of the cross-country plane ticket. I hope they stay in the D-League until there is a need for them to play at least 10 minutes/game for the Hawks.
December 3rd, 2012
2:49 pm
The defense was awful on Friday. It is nice that Larry Drew has a couple days to address the problem before Wednesday's game. But, overall, the D has been decent this year.
I do, however, do not think the Hawks are worthy of having the #1 PER that they had going into Friday's game with Cleveland. The D has been good, but #1 PER….that's getting carried away.
The game Wednesday should be fun. Hawks/Dever = two teams that get up-and-down. Looking forward to that one.
December 3rd, 2012
2:50 pm
Chris, how can D-League games be watched on line? I'm a b-ball nerd. Actually would kind of like to watch Jenkins and Scott's D-League games.
December 3rd, 2012
2:51 pm
Astro, as a season ticket holder for all these years, I've been able to see the "behind the scenes" stuff a few times. All of it is cool. The photos Chris is planning to share will be worth the look.
December 3rd, 2012
3:33 pm
Don't need to know exactly, but how much do season tickets generally run Section 303?
December 3rd, 2012
3:45 pm
also in regards to perry jones 3:
December 3rd, 2012
4:26 pm
Great job C. Viv, as AJ stated, retire your number in front of Lou, but behind Dominique. Only question for LD is why he does not play Ivan at SF.
December 3rd, 2012
4:58 pm
LD is not looking at right places.
He can improve defensive capabilities of this team, if he gives Ivan Johnson consistent minutes. LD continues to play a three guard offense for large minutes. It is no secret that Josh and Al can't substitute for another big for 48 minutes. Josh and Al get tired.
Add to that lack of rebounding by our guards, and clearly we got a problem that only gets better but not completely solved, by giving Ivan consistent minutes.
Unless LD makes a commitment to playing Ivan this year on a consistent basis, defense doesn't get better with mere words.


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In this podcast, Bruce and Dale discuss the dissatisfaction about President Obama's competence, the oil spill, and the American stranded in Egypt.
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Bush gets higher marks in Louisiana than does Obama
I'm sure it will somehow become a matter of race, but a recent Public Policy Polling survey showed that 50% of the state voters rated President Bush's performance in 2005 after hurricane Katrina as better than the effort by President Obama today. Only 35% picked Obama's performance as the best. That's not to say the state was satisfied with either response. On the contrary, 62% said they disapproved of Obama's handling of the crisis while 58% said they disapproved of Bush's performance.
Meanwhile, another new poll finds that Obama's approval rating has hit a new low:
Rasmussen Reports released a new poll Wednesday showing Obama's approval rating hitting a new low — 42 percent. The daily tracking poll puts a 20-point spread between Obama's strong approval and disapproval, 24 and 44 percent respectively.
That last poll tracks with the poll reported previously that found a majority of Americans didn't believe Obama deserved re-election.
The continuing bad news in the polls has got to be worrying the crew in the White House. It's not at a point, given the election is still 2 years off, that anyone there has to panic, but they've got a job on their hands turning this around. The building conventional wisdom seems to be that Obama is an administrator, not a leader, and that, given his performance, is going to be a tough meme to kill. The other CW seems to be he may be in over his head. The polls reflect both of those perceptions.
The president and his staff have got to find a way to cast Obama as a decisive and competent leader. That's a real problem right now, although unfortunately, given the simmering international situation, they may get more opportunities than they ever sought to make the attempt.
Of course many of the upcoming international opportunities, we'll learn, will come about precisely because Obama isn't a strong and decisive leader.
Irony, it seems, has a warped sense of humor and always seems to throw more opportunities at those that want them least.
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Frank Rich v. Peggy Noonan – compare and contrast "competent"
Frank Rich has never seen an act by President Obama of which he didn't approve or, if approval wasn't really credibly possible, anything for which he couldn't find an excuse. The oil spill is no exception:
Whatever Obama's failings, he is infinitely more competent at coping with catastrophe than his predecessor. President Bush's top disaster managers — the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, as well as the notorious "Brownie" — professed ignorance of New Orleans's humanitarian crisis a full day after the nation had started watching it live in real time on television. When Bush finally appeared, he shunned the city entirely and instead made a jocular show of vowing to rebuild the coastal home of his party's former Senate leader, Trent Lott. He never did take charge.
The Obama administration has been engaged with the oil spill from the start — however haltingly and inarticulately at times. It was way too trusting of BP but was never AWOL. For all the second-guessing, it's still not clear what else the president might have done to make a definitive, as opposed to cosmetic, difference in plugging the hole: yell louder at BP, send in troops and tankers, or, as James Carville would have it, assume the role of Big Daddy? The spill is not a Tennessee Williams play, its setting notwithstanding, and it's hard to see what more drama would add, particularly since No Drama Obama's considerable talents do not include credible play-acting.
It's not clear what Bush could have done (or would have had to have done) had there been a competent mayor of New Orleans or governor of LA in office. Neither did their job. So the blame fell on Bush.
Obama faces a crisis in federal waters – not state. Those are waters that are his administration's responsibility. Blame Bush won't work. And neither will attempts to duck the Katrina comparisons.
Rich speaks of "airbrushing" of the facts surrounding Katrina. I must have missed that. But that is precisely what has already begun in the defense of Obama with this claim that he and his administration were "engaged" from "day one". Reactions to oil spills which are standard operating procedure regardless of who is in office are not "engagement". In fact, most wouldn't consider them to have become really engaged in the spill for a week or two and then, it appeared to be minimally and reluctantly. In fact, it appeared to be a distraction, an annoyance of which the administration would prefer to be relieved.
If there is any "airbrushing" going on, the left has definitely been engaged in that since "day one".
Rich claims that it was Bush who made the masses doubt the competence of government (with his Katrina performance). He says:
Long before Obama took office, the public was plenty skeptical that government could do anything right. Eight years of epic Bush ineptitude and waste only added to Washington's odor. Now Obama is stuck between a rock and a Tea Party. His credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf. And this in an election year when the very idea of a viable federal government is under angrier assault than at any time since the Gingrich revolution and militia mobilization of 1994-5 and arguably since the birth of the modern conservative movement in the 1960s.
But why is the "idea of a viable federal government" under assault?
As usual, Rich wants' to blame it on Bush. It is a tried and true blame shifting device that progressives have been deploying for the 18 months Obama's been in office. They don't seem to realize, however, that it lost its cache after about 6 months. This is Obama's show now, and as Peggy Noonan points out, the problem is competence:
This is what happened with Katrina, and Katrina did at least two big things politically. The first was draw together everything people didn't like about the Bush administration, everything it didn't like about two wars and high spending and illegal immigration, and brought those strands into a heavy knot that just sat there, soggily, and came to symbolize Bushism. The second was illustrate that even though the federal government in our time has continually taken on new missions and responsibilities, the more it took on, the less it seemed capable of performing even its most essential jobs. Conservatives got this point—they know it without being told—but liberals and progressives did not. They thought Katrina was the result only of George W. Bush's incompetence and conservatives' failure to "believe in government." But Mr. Obama was supposed to be competent.
But, as Noonan points out, over these 18 months, more and more Americans have come to the conclusion he's not. Those are pretty ugly thoughts when it comes to this president to some I suppose, but in fact, he's demonstrated nothing to persuade most people otherwise.
And it is the image of the deep water oil well gushing oil into the Gulf that Noonan turns into metaphor of the Obama presidency and why his competence is questioned. Think taxpayer and the borrowed money his administration has been responsible for spending, think the proposed trillion dollar budgets as far as the eye can see, think his disconnection with the priorities of the people for favored agenda items.
While this disaster might rightfully shine a light on BP and the oil industry's lack of planning for such a problem, it also erodes the ability of politicians to sell government as the most competent answer to our problems. Government has a specific role for which it is most suited. Defense, legal and judicial systems, stable currency, and minimal legislation to enable and oversee those systems.
Beyond that, it becomes intrusive, cumbersome, highly bureaucratic, unresponsive and expensive. The oil spill simply points this out fairly graphically. Health care reform, as it comes into play over the years, will reinforce that point even further.
Noonan, who I believe supported the Obama candidacy, is bothered by the effect the spill and Obama's disconnectedness and inept governing to this point will have on his presidency. It is I think her way of saying, in a nuanced way, that she regrets her choice:
The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy. It's not good to have a president in this position—weakened, polarizing and lacking broad public support—less than halfway through his term. That it is his fault is no comfort. It is not good for the stability of the world, or its safety, that the leader of "the indispensable nation" be so weakened. I never until the past 10 years understood the almost moral imperative that an American president maintain a high standing in the eyes of his countrymen.
For the most part, I agree with her point that we and the world are best served by a President who is held in high esteem by his or her citizenry. But that's something that is earned, not just given. This man sought the presidency after slamming the competence of his predecessor on every occasion possible. And when confronted by a disaster of his own, we get this:
Mr. Obama himself, when running for president, made much of Bush administration distraction and detachment during Katrina. Now the Republican Party will, understandably, go to town on Mr. Obama's having gone before this week only once to the gulf, and the fund-raiser in San Francisco that seemed to take precedence, and the EPA chief who decided to cancel a New York fund-raiser only after the press reported that she planned to attend.
You reap what you sow. When you slam the opposition and their leader as incompetent (I recall that word used often by sitting Democratic leadership) you imply that if you're elected, you won't be incompetent. It's his standard and right now he's hoist on his own petard.
Most impartial observers haven't seen much competence displayed in the past 18 months. Not only has the administration seemingly not been up to the job, they've attempted to continue the blame-shifting that worked for the first 6 months of their existence, apparently still not realizing who is now President of the United States.
This is all yours, Mr. Obama.
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Sketch Block, a live sketch-variety show which takes place every second Wednesday at the Theater Under St. Marks in the Lower East Side and is one of the longest running sketch shows in the city, has recently expanded its reach to the world of podcasting. With the Sketch Block Podcast, producer and host KL Thomas and compatriots Adam Lash and Nisse Greenberg are carrying on the Sketch Block live show's goal "to give sketch comedy an opportunity to be seen" by interviewing and showcasing sketch troupes, writers, teachers, etc.
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Wrestling Team can be found impersonating some of your favorite American presidents on this week's episode of the Mustache Rangers Podcast! The Mustache Rangers are an improv team from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They produce a weekly improvised podcast built around 60-second audio sketches recorded for the show by their special guests. For their 4th of July episode, they invited Wrestling Team to join the fun.
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Wrestling Team's ancestral home, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is on the verge of a record seventh Super Bowl victory. What better time to sing the praises of The Steel City in verse?
I feel like I'm repping my hometown of Pittsburgh to anyone who will listen, and the idea of doing a Pittsburgh-themed rap has been rolling around in my head for years. Andy suggested, with the Super Bowl approaching, that the time was right to drop one. I reached out to my dear friend Matt Stidle (credited here as Ken Thrice) for a verse, and I got none other than Ted Gilliland (aka Big Ted) to rap on the hook while he was visiting from Carnegie. Matt and I rapped together for years as OSE, so it is particularly exciting to be on a track with him again. The song samples The Pittsburgh Polka, The Mr. Rogers theme song and WTAE's "Hello Pittsburgh" promo from 1981. The hook comes from a song recorded in 1985 when Pittsburgh, in the wake of the Pittsburgh Renaissance, was voted the no. 1 city in the world by an unidentified authority. Enjoy, and Go Steelers!
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Like me, Cory seems to harbor an unironic appreciation for top 40 radio, so my original plan was to make a bonafide club banger in his honor. When asked what subject he would like me to explore in the song, Cory offered that he had been feeling very forgetful lately, so a club banger about forgetfulness would fit the bill.
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I had braces as a kid to fix my buck teeth, one of my teeth grew out of my gum. My lips stretched to conform to my teeth, but now my teeth are straight but my lips look awful! The top lip is asymmetrical (lopsided) and its big. My bottom lip is huge and it droops. Ive always wanted to fix this, improve my self esteem, and Im tired of the ridicule and horse mouth jokes. What can I do???
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A new type of armor made by Alcoa has been approved for use by the US Army. And it'll be produced at the Quad Cities plant in Riverdale.
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Schnatters Support 'City of Parks' with $2 Million
Wednesday September 14, 2005
Private fund-raising for massive parks expansion surpasses $15 million mark
John and Annette Schnatter brought Louisville's ambitious City of Parks initiative a step closer to reality today by presenting a $2 million check to Mayor Jerry Abramson and Humana co-founder David A. Jones.
Jones, who is leading the fund-raising effort, announced that the Schnatters' gift has put the campaign - which began in February - into the home stretch.
"Through this gift, John and Annette Schnatter have really stepped forward as community leaders to champion a project that will benefit Louisvillians for generations to come," said Jones. "With their support, I'm pleased to say that our $20 million campaign has surpassed the $15 million mark."
John Schnatter, founder and chairman of the board of Louisville-based Papa John's Pizza, praised the City of Parks effort. "Annette and I see this as a long-term investment in our community's future," he said. "We owe it to our kids and grandkids to do for the 21st century what our city's fathers did for the last century when they hired the Olmsted firm to design Louisville's original parks."
Schnatter is an avid cyclist who frequently uses Louisville's parks. Abramson and Jones announced the City of Parks initiative in February. Through a significant public-private partnership, several organizations - including Louisville Metro Government, 21st Century Parks, Future Fund, Olmsted Parks Conservancy, and Trust for Public Land - are working together to create a new, interconnected system of parks building upon the groundwork laid by Frederick Law Olmsted over a century ago. The City of Parks initiative calls for acquiring new park land along the Floyds Fork corridor and across the community, creating a 100-mile metro loop trail around Louisville's perimeter, and re-investing in existing parks with more than 100 improvement projects.
"We've reached an important milestone toward realizing our vision for a City of Parks," said Abramson. "We're over three-fourths of the way to our goal, thanks to several community-minded donors like John and Annette Schnatter, and the outstanding leadership of David Jones. Their support of City of Parks will help ensure the long-term quality of life in our hometown."
City of Parks funding announced to date includes:
· $38 million in federal dollars, announced by U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell in July.
· $15 million of the $20 million that Jones has pledged to raise from private sources through his 21st Century Parks campaign announced in February.
· $1 million from Louisville Metro Government, which Abramson included in the city's 2005-06 capital budget.
Additionally, the effort to complete Louisville's transformation into a City of Parks is bolstered by more than $21 million in capital improvements either completed or underway since merger took place in January 2003.
The fund-raising effort is still underway, and Abramson has said he will recommend that Louisville Metro continue to allocate funds in coming fiscal years to complete the acquisition and development of new park land.
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The eventual use of the acquired parcels will be determined during a design phase, which will begin once most of the land has been secured. Some property will become park land, some will be maintained as passive open space, and some will be used for development of the 100-mile metro loop trail.
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THE FRIDAY THE 13TH FLASHLIGHT TOUR... is for you. They only come up every Friday the 13th -- hence the name -- and they do indeed involve flashlights, meaning you'll want to show at 525 S. Winchester Boulevard after dark, not before. Oh, but you shouldn't just show up, we should say. This thing always, always, and we mean always sells out ahead of time, which is why we make an early mention. September 13 is the next Friday the 13th, and we think it is a perfectly chilling time to book a tour. After all, doesn't all of the creepy Halloween stuff and masks and candy corns start to fill the grocery store aisles around that very week? What better way to jump-start your autumn than by lowlight, at night, in one hugely famous haunted house? Get your tickets pronto, ghost seeker.


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National airport traveler found with loaded gun
A Virginia man was stopped at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers found a loaded gun in his passenger carry-on bag, authorities said. Donald Gramling, 50, of Stafford, was cited Monday with carrying a weapon on airport property after TSA found a .40-caliber handgun loaded with five rounds and one bullet chambered inside his carry-on luggage. Gramling had a Virginia concealed weapons permit and said he forgot the firearm was inside the bag. The gun and ammunition were confiscated, and Gramling was allowed to catch his flight to Montreal.
Police: Man, 62, clubs roommate to death
A 62-year-old Capitol Heights man has been accused of beating his roommate to death with a club. Luke Osei-Kwame, of the 1100 block of Adeline Way, was charged with first-degree murder and related charges in the death of 59-year-old Anthony Taylor. According to Prince George's County police, about 8 p.m. on March 18, Taylor and Osei-Kwame got into an argument that escalated into a physical confrontation. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Prince George's County Police Department's Homicide Unit at 301-772-4925.
No charges against deputies in death of Md. man
A Frederick County grand jury declined to indict three sheriff's deputies who attempted to remove a man with Down syndrome from a movie theater, leading to his asphyxiation death. The three deputies, working as mall security officers, restrained and handcuffed Robert Ethan Saylor, 20, in a Frederick movie theater on Jan. 12. An autopsy showed that Saylor died of asphyxia but suffered from other conditions including obesity and heart disease, according to State's Attorney J. Charles Smith. The autopsy also said Saylor had "anger issues." Smith also said the jury made its decision after hearing from 17 eyewitnesses and the three deputies.
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St. Vincent Family Centers
St. Vincent Family Centers, in Columbus, Ohio, provides comprehensive services addressing the behavioral health needs of children in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio. The services include residential / respite, school age and preschool partial hospitalization, community support, wraparound services and outpatient family services. In addition, specialized programming is provided for Hispanic / Latino children and families; Deaf children and their families throughout the state of Ohio; and, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation and treatment.
The organization began using The Incredible Years program in 2006. The program grew from thirteen Parent, Classroom and Small Groups in Fiscal Year 2007 to twenty-three Parent, Classroom and Small Groups in Fiscal Year 2008. In 2007, St. Vincent Family Centers expanded implementation of Incredible Years Classroom Group curriculum into the Preschool Partial Hospitalization Program; a year-round, classroom based program which addresses the behavioral and emotional needs of children 3 – 6 years of age. Since January 2007, parents of preschool students have had the opportunity to participate in Incredible Years Parent Groups. In 2007, the Deaf Services Program began implementing Small Group and Classroom Group components. Group facilitators use specially modified puppets which were outfitted with fingers which could be manipulated, allowing the puppets to communicate with the children using American Sign Language. According to The Incredible Years national office, this is the first time puppets have been used with this population. In 2008, the program was further expanded to provide an Incredible Years Parent Group for Hispanic / Latino parents. Throughout these efforts, fidelity to the program is maintained through various means, including staff trainings.
In 2007, 68% of children assessed increased in one or more protective factors; there was an overall 36% decrease in behavioral concerns; and, among children with "concerns" in the behavioral area, 57% decreased their behavioral concerns. Further, of the 46 children reported to be at risk of removal from their child care setting, 41 were maintained in their child care.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration • 1 Choke Cherry Road • Rockville, MD 20857
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