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The Monticello Black Hole Fundraiser Tournament
The Perkerson Ice Bowl will most likely be on Feb. 9, and the Toccoa Ice Bowl on January 26, so we've decided to try a different dates--February 2 for the Doubles and February 3 for singles.
Hopefully Primo Plastic will be there (Right, Greg?). We'll open divisions according to the entries.
Cash CTP's for every hole.
Mr. Anderson and I (and a handful of selfless dudes) have been cutting trees and grass, stacking logs and piling branches so we can have a course to play on. The purpose of this tournament is to raise money for 8 more permanent baskets.
The Course is about 55 minutes SE of REDAN in a town of 2500. Parties will be at Luke's house on Friday and Saturday nights on Jackson Lake, with overnight accomodations for 10 large or 14 skinny people at Luke's and a few at Mr. Anderson's.
WHEN: Feb. 2nd
WHAT: Doubles, CTP every hole.
WHAT ELSE: PARTY FRIDAY/SAT. Night at the Lake House.
WHEN: Feb. 3rd
WHAT: Singles, CTP every hole.
WHAT ELSE: You don't have to play both to enter either.
COST? 20/person. We'd like to use 1/2 for the course.
It's a mostly woodsy course; the tournament will (most likely) have 7 in the woods, 2 partially wooded, and the rest in the open. We'll be using 6 permanent pin placements and temporaries for the rest. If you want to know more ask Grease, Wookie, Crickey, or Mr. Anderson, all of whom have played most of the holes.
We're open to suggestions, all the way down to what date to have it. Please comment, as I'd like to see how many people will consider coming that weekend (or any other, for that matter.)
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A bunion is a thickened lump at the base of the big toe. It is the result of the movement of the base of the big toe away from the smaller toes. At the same time, the top of the big toe moves toward the smaller toes. This instability creates metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint inflammation and bursitis at the base of the big toe.
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Bunions. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery Ortho Info website. Available at: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00155. Updated September 2012. Accessed February 10, 2014.
Bunion surgery. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery Ortho Info website. Available at: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00140. Updated September 2012. Accessed February 10, 2014.
Ferrari J, Higgins JP, et al. Interventions for treating hallux valgus (abductovalgus) and bunions.
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Foot care. National Institute on Aging website. Available at:
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Hallux valgus and bunion. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated January 31, 2014. Accessed February 10, 2014.
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The completely redesigned Black Diamond Spot Headlamp keeps the great outdoors visible when you're playing after hours. Whether you're trying to figure out your new tent during an after-dark pitching or getting a pre-dawn start on your mountainous adventure, 130 lumens of bright light show you the way to go. PowerTap technology gives your fingertip the power to dim the lights when you're hunting snipe or shining a spotlight on your camping partner as he tries to sneakily eat the last bar of chocolate at 3 a.m. Red LEDs provide proximity lighting and you can get to that mode without cycling through the white mode and ruining your night vision. The lock mode makes it possible to prevent burning through batteries when the headlamp is in your pack. Don't worry if your efforts to clean the dishes in the lake are a bit over-zealous: the housing resists water from splashes and sprays so you'll be able to see the path back to camp without difficulty.
- 1 TriplePower LED, 130 lumens, 75m/70 hours, strobe and dimming modes
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Plenty bright, lots of lighting options, comfortable, and appropriately priced.
Haven't put it through the ringer to comment on durability, water resistance, or actual battery life, but for the price, this headlamp is already plenty feature-rich and with enough praise to not have to think too hard.
Tyler Rudolph
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This thing is super bright. I wish I had better luck putting batteries in it the first time. Was a little bit of a pain and I didn't see any directions.
ryan 4est
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Used this on a hike that lasted longer than expected & ended up having to walk back in the dark but thanks to this headlamp I was able to get back with no troubles at all!
Justin Antinarella
Helps you see things
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
I was the first in my group to take the plunge on this lamp several years ago and I've bought 3 since as gifts. They keep getting better. I used to be a Petzl snob, but after having this lamp for several years now I'm really happy with it. Since getting this every person in my camping group has since bought one for themselves and some have also bought them for others as gifts. Very happy with it the light output and I put it to the test hiking up the Shenandoah to Gavel's spring hut at night with 12" of snow on the ground. I was the leader in the group and had great visibility. Since then it's never let me down on my travels, and they've only been improving it.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Man, where to start with the BD Spot Headlamp...
The fact we have the technology today to wear a flashlight on our heads or helmet, with weight not even being a concern, and brightness that can compete with a cars headlight... SO RAD!!
The Black Diamond Spot has saved my butt time and time again. When lost and looking for the decent trail or still climbing past midnight, the Spot gives me the adjustable brightness and battery life I need to get back down safely.
The light lock comes in handy when stuffing in a pack or pocket, reducing the chance of a drained battery.
The PowerTap feature is really cool and useful, allowing you to flip from your dimmed setting to max brightness to pinpoint your target, then a simple tap gets you right back to dim. Plus there is a three color battery life indicator light on the side, making a visual check easy.
TriplePower LED is great when needing max illumination (75m), finding anchors, trails,etc.
While the SinglePower LED (2 white, 2 red) is ideal for hiking or cleaning up back at camp.
Like my nut tool and Reverso, I never leave the ground without the Spot Headlamp. It's tough and handles the elements great!
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Bright...if it has battery power
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've had the 130 lumen Spot for a little over a year now.
I don't particularly abuse this headlamp, but I'll toss it in the head of my pack with my other stuff. Even in lock mode, it will unlock itself and turn on, and run the battery down. I can't comment on the real battery life because of this issue. It has a bunch of useful modes, but only one button, so you have to memorize a bunch of different tap patterns to figure out how to switch between them. The seldom-used ones still slip my mind most of the time.
Otherwise it's quite bright and sufficiently comfortable and versatile. I use it for hiking and climbing.
Bright light!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Bright light - great visibility. Love the red-light feature and the variable beam adjustment. However, I don't love the awkward battery compartment door and the fact that the light can come on easily while in a pack (although I pack a 2d light now to back it up after having it do this on an ultramarathon). Overall though it is my go to light and I would highly recommend it. I have used it extensively for alpine climbing, skimountaineering, ultrarunning, bike commuting, and camping. The red light feature is very handy for not waking your spouse or partner in the tent lying in their bag next to you in the tent...
Great headlamp
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I just brought this lamp to a hiking trip. Didn't had any issues walking in the middle of the mountain at night with this lamp. Battery life is pretty good
Cameron C
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I purchased a Spot Headlamp for myself a couple of years ago. I love it and use it all of the time. I chose this headlamp because of the features and price. I still think it's the best bang for your buck. BD updated the headlamp and somehow made it better.
I gave the new version to my brother in law for Christmas. I was impressed with the upgrades. There are a lot of features and only one button. I highly recommend reading the instruction manual for this one. The new model is easier to use than my previous model. It also is a tad brighter.
If the headlamp I have ever dies or is lost, I'll be replacing it with the upgrades Spot.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I got this headlamp at the beginning of last summer (I work for an adventure camp for summer break), I needed something I could trust to take some beatings and hard use, this was it. It was always in my pack.
I was very impressed by the brightness controls, and love the red light feature (great for night/milkyway photography). However, be advised that if you are using it for 10-15 hours a week you will probably notice the power drop by the end of the week (it eats batteries for breakfast).
If you need a headlamp, go for it. You won't regret it
Alexander Manfred
Best all-arounder out there
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I thru-hike the Appalachian Trail and worked as a Backcountry Ranger with a Spot and it survived it all. I've even thrown it into a hot tub and found it an hour later full of water, but after drying out it still worked. As far as I'm concerned the lumen output, battery life, weight and durability there is not a better headlamp on the market. "Polite red mode" is great for not disturbing people at hostels or in shelters while reading/using the bathroom at night. Modes are easy to toggle through with a little practice. Consider the storm if you need something waterproof, but this will handle a hard rain just fine.
Charlie Proctor
awesome all around headlamp
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Amazing all purpose light for trail running, hiking, biking etc. `My favorite feature is the battery indicator. While hiking the Appalachian trail, I would always replace the batteries when the indicator started reading orange which would usually be every three weeks (this was June so I wasn't using it much).
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Any AAA battery works so sure thing!
Bright but poorly made.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This is the second one o this model I've bought. They're super bright and easy to use. But unfortunately the tab that controls the angle of the light snapped on this one, just like my last one did. The model I bought in 2009 at least lasted an entire cross country bicycle trip. This one I got in 2011 broke after only a few uses. Oh wel it's nothing a lil butyl tape can't handle. Oh and the headband looses all its elasticity after a year or so.
Great light
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I replaced my Petzl Tikka 2 (50 or 60 lumens) with this one, and it's so much better. Plenty bright for trail running, hanging out around the campsite, even used it when servicing my car. I'm sold on BlackDiamond headlamps now, no more Petzl for me.
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Works great!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I primarily use this for dawn patrols in the winter. It's bright and never malfunctioned on me. Excellent purchase!
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I haven't had a chance to use if for what I intended but for spelunking under the house working on water lines it is great.
Joey Sweeney
Spot on! . . . .
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Works great and can take a fair amount of abuse. This is a staple item in my climbing pack and I don't go on a camping trip without it. There's no reason not to have one of these in your pack, in your car, hell on your head at your desk. Simple and it works!
- look dorky; + can blind your scoffers
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Anyone who has used these handy headlamps knows how great they are: hands-free illumination that stays in place while running, cycling, climbing, or retrieving your keys that your buddy threw out into the woods for a laugh when you weren't paying attention.
Be careful where you point that thing, however: the bright LED's could cause temporary blindness in your running partner.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 21, 2004) - East Tennessee State University head women's soccer coach Heather Henson has released the Buccaneer soccer schedule for the 2004 season. The Buccaneers will host seven games in 2004, five of those being Southern Conference matches. The non-conference schedule includes a scrimmage against former SoCon foe VMI and dates against Winthrop, Tennessee Tech, UNC Asheville, Radford, and Georgia State and Jacksonville State at the Georgia State Invitational Tournament. "I feel next season's schedule will continue to challenge us as a team and a program. It will see us on the road more than half the season, which is always tough." "I believe the Southern Conference is getting tougher every year, with all of our teams making big strides. As programs are continuing to grow, every game is becoming more important." The first conference match up for the Buccaneers will be a road match against the Citadel. ETSU will look to hold the Citadel winless as the series record between the two schools currently stands at 3-0 in the Bucs favor. ETSU will open up the season officially on Aug. 29 as they host the Winthrop Eagles at the Liberty Bell Soccer Complex. Game time is set for 3:00 p.m. The complete scheduled is available on the 2004 schedule link located on the right sidebar of the women's soccer homepage.
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En español | Q. I'm a 62-year-old woman with osteoporosis (as determined by a -2.87 on my bone density scan). I've been taking Fosamax along with calcium and vitamin D supplements for the past five to six years. In that time I've had three stress fractures of my feet. I'm concerned about my osteoporosis but I'm also worried about Fosamax adding new health issues, especially with more and more evidence suggesting that it can lead to femoral fractures and even cancer. Can you give me some direction?
A. There's no question that osteoporosis — a decrease in bone density that contributes to more than 300,000 hip fractures a year — is a disease that needs to be taken seriously. But are the prescription drugs known as bisphosphonates — such as risedronate (Actonel), ibandronate (Boniva), alendronate (Fosamax) and zoledronic acid (Reclast) — the right approach to treating the disease?
Clinical trials for bisphosphonate drugs have shown that they're only marginally effective at preventing hip fractures — even in high-risk postmenopausal women. For instance, when Merck, the manufacturer of Fosamax, says that the drug can reduce such fractures by more than 50 percent, it's referring to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 that showed a small reduction in absolute risk among those taking Fosamax.
Of the thousands of women in the study group, 1.0 percent of those taking Fosamax experienced hip fractures, compared with 2.2 percent of those taking placebo (sugar pills). Because 1.0 percent is 44 percent of 2.2 percent, Merck is allowed to say that its drug reduces bone fractures by 56 percent. The same study reported that, among postmenopausal women without osteoporosis, the relative risk of hip fractures actually went up 84 percent with Fosamax treatment.
What's more, a systematic review of 33 studies of bisphosphonate drugs published last year by the highly respected Therapeutics Initiative found "no statistically significant reduction in hip or wrist fracture" in women with no previous fractures or vertebral compression — who make up the majority of women treated with bisphosphonates. In higher-risk women, the review found small reductions in absolute risk — 1 percent for hip fractures and 1.3 percent for wrist fractures, noting that even those statistics are based on "a potentially biased subset" of patients in the studies. Plus, neither the doctors who prescribe bisphosphonate drugs nor the companies that manufacturer them are able to say how long patients should be taking them. As the American College of Physicians puts it, "Evidence is insufficient to determine the appropriate duration of therapy."
Moreover, bisphonate drugs may have adverse side effects, such as:
- Musculoskeletal pain; gastrointestinal problems: ranging from heartburn, acid reflux and other relatively mild gastrointestinal events to, in rare cases, chronic inflammation and ulcerations.
- Spontaneous bone fractures; and jawbone deterioration.
I recommend you ask your doctor for a real risk workup. Such a workup — which should take into account your age, weight, previous fracture history, family history and other risk factors — is far more useful from a predictive standpoint than a bone density scan. I'd also ask your doctor to review whether there's something other than age that might be causing the bone loss. Often there is.


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Constructors' championship 2010: 2nd
It seems hard to believe, but McLaren have not won the constructors' title since 1998. Initiators of the F-duct which spread through pit lane like a rash last season, they might have been in contention right till the end if Jenson Button had managed to maintain the form that brought him two victories in the first four races.
The rumour from testing is that MP4-26 is not the weapon its drivers might like it to be, but we'll believe that when we see it – and with Messrs Button and Hamilton 1-2 in Friday's second practice, there doesn't seem to be too much wrong.
3 Lewis Hamilton (age 26, British, 71 Grand Prix starts)
Always glorious to watch, the 2008 World Champion was in the hunt for a second crown right up until the final race of 2010 but eventually finished out of the top three for the second year running. He won three times but successive no-scores in Italy and Singapore proved costly in the title run-in.
2010 season: 240 points, 4th – best result 1st Turkey, Canada, Belgium.
4 Jenson Button (age 31, British, 189 Grand Prix starts)
The 2009 World Champion comes to Melbourne looking for his third straight victory here – and with his reputation for tyre management, borne out so brilliantly in last year's race, he may just have the initial edge as the grid switches to Pirelli rubber. He was one of the 'Big Five' bidding for the title last season until finishing out of the points in Korea, which effectively ended his hopes.
2010 season: 214 points, 5th – best result 1st in Australia and China
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Top State Department Lawyer Blogs About Guantanamo
Brian Tamanaha
The Legal Advisor to the State Department, John Bellinger, is guest blogging this week at Opinio Juris (the premier international law blog). Bellinger is articulating detailed legal justifications for the Bush Administration's policies in connection with Guantanamo, torture, and related issues. To see some of the real world consequences of these policies, read this Washinton Post article about the many people still languishing in limbo at Guantanamo five years on.
Professor Tamanaha: "Legally required" is an extremely high standard...
My question, Professor, is how best to proceed after having thusly scuttled a premise which is so central to someone's argument. To say this standard is "extremely high" is extremely gracious. I would tend to say such a standard is suitable for Fow News consumers but is simply laughable in a legitimate legal venue. Nonetheless, the question remains, how best to engage known cheats of this nature? For I realize we ignore them at our peril.
From the WaPo article Prof. Tamahara linked to:
In the administration's effort to obtain raw intelligence, officials said, it was easier to ship hundreds of men with unclear allegiances to a naval base in Cuba in early 2002 and ask the hard questions later. But with a government focused on interrogations, a bureaucracy lacking tolerance for risk and a detention policy under legal attack, the United States has found it difficult to free many of the detainees, regardless of the information it has on the threat they pose.
In part, the maladministration is hampered in "doing the right thing" because they are so unwilling to admit mistakes; to admit that they may, in certain cases, have done the wrong thing. The maladministration is remarkably thin-skinned and sesitive to substantive criticism. Acknowledgeing mistakes detracts from the public image of them and their competency and goodness, at a time when they know they're on perilous grounds, both morally and most important politically (their response to el Masri and Arar is just emblematic of that). The latter has driven maladministration policy from the start; they care about appearance, and they'll use any trick in the book to gussy things up on that count, including unabashed propaganda programs.
The question is whether there will come a "breaking point", a point at which the population undergoes a phase change and sees them as the connivers and hacks they are, and acts en masse to throw them out. Will they see the danger (to them) in time, and start a more conciliatory and apologetic course? Perhaps (and there are those in the Republican party that fear this and are pressing hard to avoid such a political disaster). But the signs are not good; from the recent disavowal of the Baker-Hamilton ISG report, to the firing of the nay-sayers, to the "all in" approach they've charted.
OK, someone enlighten a layperson here to a fine legal distinction I do not really follow. To me "a difference course is legally required" would mean the current course is legally prohibited, ie, illegal. I thought that was exactly what the Administration's opponents have been arguing (including here on this blog) from the very start.
Also, can someone refer me to a good source on military or international law in such cases?
OK, someone enlighten a layperson here to a fine legal distinction I do not really follow. To me "a difference course is legally required" would mean the current course is legally prohibited, ie, illegal. I thought that was exactly what the Administration's opponents have been arguing (including here on this blog) from the very start.
I think it depends on the specific issue. For example, torture is a case where the alternative is "legally required". FISA warrants also. In contrast, the exact type of hearing for detainees is more in the category of "legally consistent".
Mark Field:
To make sure I understand you, are you saying an alternative is "legally required" in the case of torture of warrantless surveillance means that these practices are illegal? And, alternately, in the case of the type of hearings for detainees, a variety of types are allowed. What the Administration is offering may, indeed, be legal, but other types of hearings may be more commonly used, or better supported by law and precedent.
Am I understanding right?
Powerful stuff...
I think the "legally required" as used by an administration that consistently legally mischaracterizes and obscures as "secret" behaviour that is - over and over - found to be different than what it was characterized - is basically an advanced search version of, "Have you been legally required to stop beating your wife yet"
In any event, when an agressor nation invading another country brings in people who were living in that country and took up arms against the agressor, I think it IS a requirement of the laws of war that they be treated as legal combatants and pows unless and until there is competent evidence to the contrary. Similarly, when a nation engages in the purchase of other individuals, not taken on the field of battle, or otherwise on the detention of persons who were rounded up in occupied territory but not taken on the battlefield, then there is a requirement for an actual Geneva compliant "real" status hearing.
It is very easy to understand why there is a strong negative reaction to these fairly self evident matters - matters which do not require anything in the manner of "giving terrorists more rights."
If anyone bought or taken was not actually an illegal combatant, it was unquestionable illegal and a war crime to ship them off to GITMO and to do any of the many things that have been catalogued.
So the first admission that even one person was sent to GITMO incorrectly is a prima facie war crime. That's why there is so much, and such disingenous, argument about the "power" and legal authority to handle "al-Qaeda" in this manner.
The bright shiney arugment to distract from the realities of legal authority to treat innocent civilians in this manner.
Has anyone, anywhere in DOJ, JAG or at State, formulated their legal argument for buying a non-combatant and shipping them, shackled like a slave, to GITMO for years of abuse?
Over and over there are admissions - varying only in number - that we bought and shipped people who were not terrorists, not Taliban and not even the broader "jihadist" unspecified category.
Where is the legal justification for that?
To make sure I understand you, are you saying an alternative is "legally required" in the case of torture of warrantless surveillance means that these practices are illegal?
And, alternately, in the case of the type of hearings for detainees, a variety of types are allowed.
What the Administration is offering may, indeed, be legal, but other types of hearings may be more commonly used, or better supported by law and precedent.
Well, the Administration's idea of a hearing is, IMO, not adequate to meet the minimum, legally required, standard. The exact extent of the "extra" required for a minimally acceptable hearing could be the subject of reasonable debate.
Am I understanding right?
Basically, yes. The lawyers here and on other blogs tend to get caught up in a subject which they are familiar with and they don't make the distinctions all that clear to non-lawyer readers. We should do a better job of making it clear that legal arguments are rarely clear cut.
Nevertheless, most such arguments take place within a range of generally accepted possibilities. What's unusual about this Administration is its willingness to make arguments far outside that range. They are, IMO, as far outside the norm as, say, the communists were in the other direction.
To Mark Field:
Thanks. I will say, FWIW, that I have found most of the discussions here to be free of legalese and understandable. (That is why I have dared to post here).
I will say, FWIW, that I have found most of the discussions here to be free of legalese and understandable. (That is why I have dared to post here).
QFE. (Same here.)
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Orlando Science Center and partners have been recognized in the team creation and development of Corrosion: The Silent Menace.
The National Training and Simulation Association presented a team award for training to the Department of Defense Corrosion Policy and Oversight Office, the University of Akron, Bruno White Entertainment and Orlando Science Center during the 2013 NTSA Modeling and Simulation Awards ceremony held on Dec. 4 at the Interactive/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando.
Reinforcing science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM) skills at the middle and high school level using 3-D mapping technology, Corrosion: The Silent Menace spotlights the natural phenomena that lead to corrosion and material degradation. Visitors can choose from a menu of virtual experiences that graphically depict the science of corrosion, while also performing interactive experiments that show how engineers preserve drinking waterways, bridge and highway systems, and vital forms of public and private transportation.
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Charles County staff did not recommend to the county commissioners at their Tuesday meeting any significant changes to a draft ordinance establishing a state-mandated watershed restoration program and associated local stormwater fee.
Local environmentalists proposed a number of modifications to the program at a public hearing last week, including calculating each property's fee on a case-by-case basis and credits for homeowners who already have installed stormwater mitigation systems on their property, like rain barrels, rain gardens, green roofs and pervious surfaces.
Charles Rice, the county's environmental program manager, presented alternate methods for calculating the fee for each property, but recommended that the commissioners keep the formula as proposed.
Last year, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation requiring the state's 10 largest jurisdictions — which include Charles County — to implement the fee by July 1 to fund projects that reduce stormwater runoff.
The bill came on the heels of a 2010 order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requiring states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to abide by a "pollution diet" aimed at reducing the amount of pollutants they contribute to the estuary.
Much of the pollution in the bay is attributable to rainwater washing nutrients into the estuary. Properties with the most "impervious surface" generally produce the most runoff.
"Impervious surface" is defined in the state bill as "a surface that does not allow stormwater to infiltrate into the ground" and includes buildings, parking lots, driveways, patios, sidewalks and outdoor athletic courts.
The amount of impervious surface in each jurisdiction has been calculated from a 2011 aerial survey of the state. A county consultant prepared an impervious surface map between July and January.
The impervious surface of each parcel was calculated using the digital map and broken into five classifications — urban single-family homes, townhouses, condominiums, rural residential and agricultural.
The average impervious surface for urban homes was calculated at 3,255 square feet, which was set as the base unit — called an Equivalent Residential Unit — used to calculate the fee for the remaining classifications. For each ERU a property has, $32 will be assessed to its tax bill.
The average impervious surface for townhomes and condos came out to 1,654 and 1,070 square feet, respectively, so in the draft ordinance, each townhome counts as half an ERU and condos are assessed as one-third of an ERU.
Rural homes averaged 7,237 square feet of impervious surface and are each assessed two ERUs. Farm properties also count as two ERUs, despite averaging 10,003 square feet of impervious surface.
Nonresidential properties, such as commercial, industrial, mixed-use or faith-based institutions, and apartment buildings, are allotted ERUs on a case-by-case basis. On average, the county's commercial properties would be assessed 13 ERUs under the ordinance, while industrial properties would average 18 ERUs, apartment buildings would average 40 and faith-based institutions would average 14.
In addition to Charles, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Prince George's and Montgomery counties and Baltimore must establish stormwater management programs.
Rice noted that at the public hearing, "there was some confusion" about why rural homes and farmland received more ERUs than urban homes, even though they tend to have more pervious surface area that soaks up runoff, such as fields and forestland.
"When you look at the actual impervious surface, rooftops for example, on those properties, because a farm potentially has many barns, sheds, silos, other infrastructure other than just a single-family dwelling, the impervious surface footage really adds up," Rice said.
Rather than a reduction in the stormwater fee, Rice said that the county is instead offering rebates on "stormwater best management practices" in order to encourage property owners to install them on their own.
The administrative cost in calculating a reduced fee for individual homeowners would "far exceed" the savings, Rice said. However, nonresidential properties will be eligible for a credit because their fee already will be calculated on a case-by-case basis.
"I have a problem with one size fitting all, and I also think that the rebates are great, but I think properties that are already employing best practices or choose to employ best practices to reduce their runoff deserve a reduction in the fee," Commissioner Ken Robinson (D) said.
Commissioners' Vice President Reuben B. Collins II (D) agreed, stating he would like to see the county's policy "give some type of credit for best practices," while adding that some jurisdictions have offered waivers to farmers.
Commissioners' President Candice Quinn Kelly (D) also backed the idea of a credit for those who have spent money to mitigate stormwater runoff on their property.
Rice said the positives to structuring the fee like Howard County, which will charge $15 for every 500 square feet of impervious surface a property has, is that it is more equitable and specific to individual properties.
But he noted that such a program requires continuous revision, as each property's amount of impervious surface can change with the addition of a driveway, shed, patio or pool. As a result, the amount of appeals filed would increase and the expenses would pile up, Rice said.
"The practice of averaging it out helps reduce the burden overall," he added.
Rice also touched on the "somewhat interesting" approach to the fee in Frederick County, which is charging 1 cent per property in order to abide by the statute, with plans to fund the program by some other method.
Rice reviewed comments received following the public hearing — many of them from people who testified at the forum — before offering staff's recommendations, which amounted to short clarifications rather than wholesale changes.
Commissioner Debra M. Davis (D) expressed concern that the commissioners might be running close to the time that they need to pass legislation in order to have the fee implemented by the deadline, but said that a recent conversation with Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton (D-Charles) left her feeling confident that the county could get an extension if it needed one.
"I can't even tell you right now that I understand it or have enough grasp of it to even make a logical decision," she said.
County Attorney Barbara Holtz said she believed the state could make "reasonable accommodations" for counties that show they are well on their way to implementing the fee, but stressed that, under the state law, the county could be fined between $1,000 and $20,000 for each day past July 1 that it doesn't have the program in place.
Rice said that even if the fee isn't settled by July 1, the county still could fund the program by increasing its existing environmental service fee.
"I don't agree with [the fee]," Commissioner Bobby Rucci (D) said.


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Rachel Joyce's novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is about a man who very suddenly, with no warning or planning, sets off on a pilgrimage from the very southernmost part of England to the very northernmost part. It's a old-fashioned pilgrimage: He walks all the way, talking to the people he meets, on his way to the bedside of his old friend Queenie, who is dying.
Harold's pilgrimage is unlikely "in that this is a man who's only ever walked to the car," Joyce tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. "He decides that in order to try and keep a friend alive, which is of course a very unlikely thing for her to do, he too must do something unlikely and extraordinary."
The unlikely pilgrimage is also utterly spontaneous. Harold originally intends only to mail a letter to his friend, but he walks past the mailbox ... and just keeps walking, north to Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish border.
"And without his mobile phone, and wearing completely inappropriate shoes, and just with a light waterproof jacket," Joyce says. "He sets off with no props. ... I was quite interested in what happens when you don't have the stuff."
Harold's wife, Maureen, is left behind, mystified at first by her husband's quest. Joyce says she was fascinated by the idea that someone could make a great emotional journey, just by staying at home.
"Part of the story just came from watching the way my mother had responded after my father's death and being very moved by people alone," she says, "sort of wanting through story to put things back together again."
Running through the book are allusions to that other famous English story of pilgrimage, The Canterbury Tales. "[Chaucer's tales] were in my mind and I do love The Canterbury Tales," Joyce says. "But I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it."
Harold's descriptions of his life are funny, but with overtones of sadness; he refers to being "on the sidelines" of his life, not really able to connect with anyone.
"Partly because of his own upbringing, he's not really equipped to get in there and sort things out," Joyce says. "He is on the sidelines of his life, and what I find moving about him is that he moves into the middle."
Joyce says Harold — recently retired and stuck at home — is ready to make that change. "It's very important for me that Harold and Maureen are ... 65, they're retired, they're at the point in life where some people might think, that's it, really. You're not going to change anything else. You're not going to change a marriage, you're not going to change a life, you're not really going to make new friends, you know, you've made your path," she says. "And Harold throws all that up in the air ... and it surprises him as much as it surprises us."
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer. "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" is a novel by Rachel Joyce. It's about a man who very suddenly with no warning or planning, sets off on a pilgrimage from the very southernmost part of England to the very northernmost part, the border with Scotland. It's a very old-fashioned pilgrimage. He walks all the way, talks to people he meets. He's heading for an old friend who's dying. Rachel Joyce is a radio lady. She writes radio plays, adapts books for the radio, and in fact, this book began life as a radio play. She joins us from the BBC studios in Gloucester, England. Welcome to the program.
RACHEL JOYCE: Thank you very much.
WERTHEIMER: Now, maybe you could begin by helping us to understand your title and why it is unlikely that this man, Harold Fry, should decide to walk the length of England.
JOYCE: I really wanted to write a story about a man who is very ordinary, who chooses to do something extraordinary, 'cause those are really the stories that interest me. So, it's unlikely - and this a man who's actually only ever walked to the car, as his wife points out. So, he decides that in order to try and keep a friend alive, which is, of course, a very unlikely thing for her to do, he too must do something unlikely and extraordinary. And walking the length of England sort of drops at his feet, I suppose, as a very spontaneous idea.
WERTHEIMER: Now, he makes this decision on the way to the post office. He's going to mail a letter and he walks past the post box, thinking he'll mail it at the post office. And then he walks past the post office thinking he'll go on to a farther post office. And pretty soon he's on his way to Berwick-on-Tweed.
JOYCE: He is. And without his mobile phone and wearing completely inappropriate shoes and just with a light, waterproof jacket. And so he sets off without no props basically. That's the other thing that interested me really was writing a story about a man who's sort of stripped of all this stuff that we tend to carry around with us. And I was just quite interested in what happens when you don't have the stuff.
WERTHEIMER: Well, now, the story really has two parts. There's Harold and all his adventures, and then there's wife who is left behind, is utterly mystified by his journey. There is her story as well.
JOYCE: Yes. I was in the end very interested both in the idea of the man who walks and makes a journey and the idea that you might make a very big emotional journey as well by staying at home. And, you know, part of the story just came from watching the way my mother had responded after my father's death and being very moved by people alone and, you know, sort of wanting through story to put things back together again. I think that, you know, there's a large element for me when I'm writing of just creating my own version of the world.
WERTHEIMER: There are some "Canterbury Tales" elements here. I notice that the pilgrimage started in April and Harold gets rained on quite a bit.
JOYCE: He does. He does. I think those things were in my mind, and very much so. And I do love the "Canterbury Tales." It's one of those things that, you know, we all have to study.
WERTHEIMER: If we are all English.
JOYCE: Over here we all have to study is what I mean. But I think lots of ideas, sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
WERTHEIMER: I wonder if you could read to us from page 99. This is one of the occasions where Harold undertakes to explain what he's doing. And this is to a social worker that he's met along the way. I wonder if you could read that paragraph that begins: Harold thought of the people.
JOYCE: (Reading) Harold thought of the people he had already met and passed. Their stories had moved and surprised him and none had left him untouched. Already, the world had more people in it for whom he cared. I'm an ordinary chap passing by. I'm not the sort who stands out in a crowd and I don't trouble anyone. When I tell people what I'm doing, they seem to understand. They look at their own lives and they want me to get there. They want Queenie to live as much as I do. The social worker was listening to so carefully Harold felt a little hot. He reached for his tie and straightened it.
WERTHEIMER: Harold's own descriptions of his life are funny but also very sad. He notes at one point that he seems to be assessing things and he feels that he's been a reasonable success in that he married, he had a child, he supported his family adequately. And then he adds: If from the sidelines, as if he's been an audience for his life...
JOYCE: Yes.
WERTHEIMER: ...rather than a participant.
JOYCE: I think that's true. And I find that very moving. You know, the idea that sometimes we are on the outsides of our lives and that Harold hasn't, partly because of his own upbringing, is not really equipped to get in there and sort things out. So, that he is on the sidelines of his life. And what I find moving about him is that he, you know, he moves into the middle.
WERTHEIMER: Of the road, so to speak.
JOYCE: Of the road. Well, at least the pavement, yes.
WERTHEIMER: Now, your title is very odd and funny as well - "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry." But, you know, you could also have called it something like Harold Fry Changes his Life by Taking a Very Long Walk.
JOYCE: Well, yes. And in fact, the French translation of the book has just come in and I think that is almost exactly how the French translation of the title is going to work. So there.
WERTHEIMER: And I made that up. But is that the message, that he should change his life or that he can change his life and he just somehow is impaled upon this long walk, and that does it?
JOYCE: There is a part of Harold having recently retired and sat around ever since that is ready to make a journey of a kind. It's very important for me that Harold and Maureen are not in their 50s. They're not even in their, you know, they just turned 60. They're 65, they're retired. They're at the point in life where some people think that's it really. You're not going to change anything else. You're not going to change a marriage. You're not going to change a life. You're not really going to make new friends. You know, you've made your path. And Harold throws all that up in the air. And he's the most unlikely person to throw all that up in the air. And, you know, it surprises him as much as it surprises us.
WERTHEIMER: Rachel Joyce joined us from the BBC studios in Gloucester in England. Her book is called "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry." Rachel Joyce, thank you.
JOYCE: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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We just discovered this forum, so we thought we'd post our new animation here. The first short in this series premiered at the LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival in April and we've only just finished this, plus a new web comic. It can all be found at http://www.thisabortedearth.com.
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This kicks ass. Love the style and the artistic vision. Thanks for posting the video. Great work.
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New York City therapist Bob Bergeron seemed to have everything to live for: a thriving private practice counseling gay men; famously good looks; his own apartment in the high-priced Chelsea neighborhood; and regular trips to Europe.
According to friends, acquaintances and clients, he was always very upbeat. At 49, he may not have been the head-turner he was in his 20s, but he was still undeniably handsome. His daily visits to the gym were proof that he had been able to maintain a toned physique.
To his friends, family, colleagues and his publisher, he appeared excited about the forthcoming publication of his first book, a self-help guide on a subject he knew well. The title, "The Right Side of 40: The Complete Guide to Happiness for Gay Men at Midlife and Beyond" describes the fruits of several years of Bergeron's own practice -- not to mention his own real-life experience.
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The book was apparently meant as a counter to all the negative feedback gay men get that they don't age gracefully, that they become invisible once they lose their looks and youth, that they'll grow lonely in old age, and that the best years of their lives are behind them.
So an April 1 cover story in the New York Times' Style section caused a huge amount of comment and consternation, not only there but throughout the United States. Bergeron, the article noted, had committed suicide around New Year's Eve. He was found days later in his condo with his head in a plastic bag.
The suicide note he left was written on the proposed cover of the book and included the line "It's a lie based on bad information" with an arrow pointing to the title. Its publisher has since cancelled the book's publication.
Actually, Jacob Bernstein, the Times reporter who wrote the story, wasn't the first to report the therapist's death. Local gay newspaper Gay City News did a shorter piece in mid-January authored by an acquaintance.
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The set for Hobbiton was constructed in 1998 after director Peter Jackson found the Alexander Family farm in an aerial search of the North Island of New Zealand looking for the ideal charming little village. The rolling countryside and the vegetation closely resembled that of J.R.R Tolkein's description of Middle Earth and so the site was adapted to become Hobbiton, including the creation of 37 little hobbit houses tucked into the hillside.
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