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WALTHAM, Mass.- The Brandeis softball team split their doubleheader as they could not rally from an early four-run deficit against Emerson College but were able to overcome a three-run hole late in the game against Lesley University. Senior pitcher Caroline Miller (Bala Cynwyd, Pa./ Harriton) led the Judges against Emerson by recording nine strikeouts and holding the Lions in check for the most part while senior CF Lauren Porcaro (Shrewsbury, Mass./ Shrewsbury) led the offensive outburst against the Lynx with a 3-4 performance including a monster two-run homerun. Brandeis' record moved to 6-8 (3-5 UAA) on the year while Emerson improved to 11-5 and Lesley fell to 3-6.
In their first game against Emerson, the Judges quickly found themselves in a hole. Two walks and an error in the top of the first allowed the Lions to tack on three early runs. A two- run home run in the top of the second inning by sophomore 3B Bianca Buono (El Cajon, Calif./ Cathedral Catholic) gave Emerson a 5-0 advantage but Brandeis would fight back. Down 6-1 in the bottom of the fifth, rookie 1B Amanda Genovese (North Haven, Conn./ North Haven) blooped a single into left field with a runner on third base. What looked like a routine play turned into an inside the park home run as Genovese saw the ball bounce past Emerson's charging LF and over the glove of their CF as she tore around the bases to cut the Lions' lead to 6-3. The Judges would tack on one more run in the bottom of the sixth when rookie designate player Nikki Cote (Shelton, Conn./ St. Joseph's) singled home Miller but Brandeis would get no closer and fall 6-4.
In the second game of the doubleheader against Lesley, Brandeis found themselves in a see-saw battle from start to finish. The Judges got off to a quick start in the top of the first Genovese walked from her leadoff spot and two batters later, Porcaro hammered a home run well over the center field wall to give Brandeis the 2-0 lead. Still, the Lynx bounced right back to tie the game in the top of the second on back-to-back hits from rookie RF Jodee Doka (Sacramento, Calif./ Waldorf)and senior 3B Jenna Fralick (Woburn, Mass./ Woburn). Brandeis bounced back with a run in the same frame and took their biggest lead of the game in emphatic fashion. In the bottom of the third, Porcaro led off by taking the first pitch she saw and smashing it into the gap in right-center field for a double. The next batter was Miller who crushed a two-run homer to center field for the 5-2 lead as she helped her own cause. However, Lesley would not go away and responded with two runs in the fourth to cut the Brandeis lead to one and a four-run sixth featuring a three-RBI triple from junior designated player Emily Mangiaratti (Amherst, Mass./ Amherst Regional). The Judges proved to be just as resilient as the Lynx when three clutch singles by senior SS Marianne Specker (South Windsor, Conn./ Westminster), rookie 3B Anya Kamber (Sammamish, Wash./ Skyline), and Miller tied the game at 8-8 in the bottom of the sixth and eventually send the game to free baseball.
During free baseball, junior pitcher Casey Ducinski (Duxbury, Mass./ Duxbury) pitched efficiently but could not overcome the handicap of a runner on second to start the inning as the unearned run crossed the plate and Brandeis found themselves down 9-8 going into the bottom of the frame. The Judges began the inning with Genovese on second and quickly put themselves in position to tie the game when Specker singled up the middle, moving Genovese 60 feet from a tie game. Kamber followed Specker with a RBI ground out to even the score at 9-9 and move Specker over to second. Porcaro singled and moved Specker to third before senior pinch hitter Ali Theodore (Walpole, Mass./ Walpole) raced to an infield single to load the bases. Finally, back in action for just the second time in six games, sophomore designated player Melissa Nolan (Windsor, Conn./ Loomis Chaffee) worked a 3-1 count before getting plunked in the back to bring Specker home for the game-winning run.
Specker led Brandeis against Lesley with a 4-5 performance including a run and a RBI while Porcaro went 3-4 with a team-high two runs to go with two RBI. Miller helped her own cause with by going 2-4 with a run and a team-high three RBI. After pitching a complete game against Emerson, Miller pitched another six innings against Lesley before Ducinski took over for two innings of one run ball including no walks and two strikeouts to earn the win and improve to 1-2 on the year.
Brandeis continues their season at home on Wednesday March 28th with a doubleheader against Wellesley College starting at 3:00 p.m.


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Corn yield potential is an important topic for discussion, driven by the imminent need to either produce corn on acres currently allocated to other crops or increase corn yields. Bob Wisner, Iowa State University economist, stated at the 2006 ICM Conference that there are a couple of avenues to obtain enough corn for the ever-increasing demand for corn in Iowa these next four to five years:
a) Either . . . with 15 bushels per acre above the 2005 Iowa average yield (173 bu/acre), we would need 20.2 million acres of corn in Iowa (a 63% increase).
b) Or . . . with 12½ million acres of corn (like we had in 2005 and 2006), we would need to produce more than 312 bushels of corn per acre (a 187% increase from current yield trends).
In reality, a combination of both tactics is necessary, but neither is likely practical.
Is it even possible to produce 300 bushels of corn per acre?
The short answer is, "Yes!" Many growers are producing yields over 300 bu/acre every year. Some of these producers are represented in the National Corn Growers Yield Contest every year. Contest winners from across the country typically produce between 250 to 350 bushels per acre per year. In 2006, seven of the 27 national winners produced over 300 bu/acre with the highest yield of 347 bu/acre coming from Purdy, MO. National contest winners have rarely yielded more than 350 bu/acre, yet yields of 360-370 bu/acre have been documented. Yields of 300 bu/acre are possible with today's genetics, excellent management, and stress-free environments. The difficulty is in producing yields of this caliber on a large scale. Unfortunately, most producers do not have the right combination of these three factors to produce 300 bushels per acre.
Iowa's average corn yield was 166 bu/acre in 2006, which is just slightly above the 30-year trend line. Our highest average yield was 181 bu/acre in 2004. Iowa is increasing yield at approximately 2 bushels per acre per year; more than 60 years will be necessary to have a state average of 300 bu/acre.
So what is limiting yield on Iowa fields?
Two primary factors: environment and management. We can generally rule out genetics since most producers have access to the same genetics as the contest winners do. Management factors that can be controlled include nutrients, weeds, diseases, insects, and water (through irrigation).
Indeed, many Iowa producers average 230 to 270 bu/acre by paying close attention to management. So, one might ask, what is limiting the yields for this group? We'd suggest that it is a higher degree of management and water. Part of the management decision may be simply to produce corn economically and not to go all out for contest-winning yields. So a different economic situation (where no inputs are limited) may allow some of Iowa's top producers to approach or surpass 300 bu/acre. If we use a 230-bushel average yield though, it would still require roughly 32 years for these producers to reach 300 bu/acre.
Where are yield increases coming from?
Yield increases are coming largely from improved stress tolerance. It is a combination of improved genetics and management. Some corn breeders suggest that the observed yield increases come as a result of improved genetics and management, whereas others put more weight on the improved genetics as the driving force. In either case, corn stress tolerance has increased over the past five decades, allowing us to plant more seed per acre and withstand more environmental stress. The point though, is that this effort to increase corn stress tolerance has not increased yield potential; it has only increased the plant's tolerance toward stress. Transgenic hybrids are no different; whether they are herbicide resistant or insect resistant, transgenic hybrids are only protecting yield, not increasing yield potential.
A strong point of concern among some agronomists and scientists is the fact that irrigated (stress-free) National Corn Growers Contest winners have not increased yields in the past 20 years. Similar yields have been attained by this group of growers since 1985. This suggests that contest winners have arrived at a yield ceiling. As the average corn yield increases and approaches this yield ceiling, the rate of annual gain will decrease substantially.
Aren't dramatic changes forecasted in hybrid development?
Dramatic changes must occur for the pace of yield gains to continue at their current rate, and even more change is necessary if the yield gain is to increase. Some forecast that a doubling of yield gains will occur. Therefore, instead of corn yields increasing at 2 bu/acre/year they would increase at 4 bu/acre/year. Yet the greatest increase we have ever experienced in U.S. agriculture was during the early 1980s; the 30-year trend line at that time was increasing at 2.3 bu/acre/year (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. United States corn grain yields (1900-2005). (National Agricultural Statistics Service [NASS])
If a 10-year trend line is used instead of a 30-year, the outlook is a bit more promising; for example, a 10-year trend line currently shows that U.S. corn yields are increasing at 2.7 bu/acre/year. This is assuming that weather conditions will continue to mimic those of the past 10 years though.
The promise of a "drought gene" in the future will simply be another tool to help protect yield potential, not increase it. However, the promise of a "yield gene" in the truest sense may increase actual corn yield potential. If such a gene exists and can improve yield by 25 percent (at least one company suggests this is the current expectation), it would increase Iowa county yield averages from 164 to 205 bu/acre, top producers' yields from 230 to 288 bu/acre, and yield contest winners' yields from 350 to nearly 440 bu/acre. A yield of 440 bu/acre is over the top of the current yield ceiling and approaching what some have called the theoretical yield potential for corn.
We must recognize that certain forces are at work to actually reduce the annual gain in yield. Factors that will likely reduce national and state yield trends are: yields of corn following corn are reduced 5 to 15 percent compared to corn following soybean; if Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land is converted to corn production, these are less productive; and environmental concerns.
We are not confident that average yields will reach 300 bushels per acre in the near future. Without any major paradigm shifts, these yield levels may be achieved in 3 to 6 decades. The short-term answer for supplying corn in Iowa without imports must be a combination of increased acres planted to corn and the slow but consistent increases in corn yields we have experienced over the years. Research is crucial for increasing corn yield potential.
Portions of this text, written by Roger Elmore and Lori Abendroth, originally appeared in the Integrated Crop Management extension newsletter on pages 34-35 of the IC-498(1) - February 5, 2007 issue.


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A cooperative program between the city and a utility was initiated or significantly improved, resulting in additional tree planting, planting appropriate species, improved pruning and other tree care, or utility designation as a Tree Line USA. (Please enclose documentation of significant community involvement.)
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A cooperative project between the city and businesses such as private nurseries or tree services resulting in improved planting stock, better tree care, improved landscaping methods, the recycling of wood materials, etc. was initiated or significantly improved.
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A program was initiated or significantly improved for the community to cooperatively work with another community. (For example, to share a forester, to jointly contract for tree-care, computer or other professional services, to purchase expensive equipment such as a tree spade, or to pool tree orders.)
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Seven Days in Tibet – Photos from The Roof of The World:
After spending a few weeks in Nepal, and realizing how close I was to Tibet I figured "Well I came this far… I may as well make an unscheduled trek across The Roof of The World." After 2 and a half weeks of waiting on a Chinese visa in to The Tibetan Autonomous Region, I was almost ready, but first I needed to suit up in a counterfeit North-face jacket and some warm gloves. In a back room of seemingly every trekking shop in Thamel there is a Nepalese guy sewing a ream of "North Face" patches on to outdoor apparel). It was now December, and I was heading to one of the coldest places on Earth with a bag full of board shorts and sandals, so I was hoping this "quality" gear was going to do the trick (it only had to last a week). At the border crossing in to Tibet we were thoroughly searched and reprieved of any materials mentioning The Dalai Lama.
We spent 7 days driving over Himalayan ranges and mountain passes, reaching elevations as high as 5,260m (17,257 ft.) above sea level over the Gyatso La pass. At those elevations the altitude starts affecting you in terrible ways, and I was hit pretty hard with the feeling of a chronic hangover, general malaise… and the squirts. We actually drove right past Everest base-camp, but weather didn't co-operate, and the mountain was boxed in my thick and violent cloud cover.
My guide was a local Tibetan who was surprisingly open about describing atrocities that the Chinese government had and continues to purport on the people and culture of Tibet. I thought he would have been worried about badmouthing the government, and I think he was, but he wanted to get the word out to as many foreigners as he could.
When China invaded Tibet, soldiers would force Tibetans to disavow The Dalai Lama, if they didn't their children were forced to shoot them dead. These children would later receive a bill for the wasted bullet that was used to kill their parents.
Today China continues to push into Tibet with a strict military curfew, restricted travel, and restrictions on religious practices. A high-speed train continues to flood the plateau with Chinese immigrants in an effort to indoctrinate Tibet with Chinese culture.


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The Crimson jumped out to an early lead but could not hold off Clarkson (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After playing its first seven games of the New Year on the road, the Harvard men's hockey team returned to Bright Hockey Center for its first home game of 2013, but a 5-1 decision went the way of Clarkson Friday night.
The Crimson jumped out to an early lead and controlled the majority of the first period, but it wasn't enough as Clarkson used a quick spurt in the second period before pulling away in the third period to win, 5-1. Harvard drops to 5-12-1 on the year and 3-10-0 in the ECAC, while the Golden Knights improve to 5-12-6 overall and 4-5-2 in conference.
Freshman Jimmy Vesey had the lone goal for the Crimson, tallying his eighth goal of the season, while Brian Hart and Colin Blackwell both had assists. Raphael Girard made 34 saves in net for Harvard.
Vesey's goal came in the opening minutes of the first period off a swift pass from Blackwell and a tip by Hart for a one-timer into the right side of the net. Despite being outshot 20-14 in the opening stanza, the Crimson appeared to be in control of the contest.
That continued into the second period as Harvard's defense clamped down for the first 18 minutes of the period, limiting Clarkson to just five shots; however, shots six and seven swung the momentum to the Golden Knights.
Andrew Himelson got Clarkson on the board in the waning moments of a power play, cleaning up a rebound in front of the net. Just nine seconds later sophomore Joe Zarbo gave Clarkson the lead on a shot fired from the top of the right faceoff circle.
Clarkson tacked on three more tallies in the third period to break the game open and lock up the win.
Zarbo added his second goal of the night less than two minutes into the frame after taking the rebound off of Girard's pads for a tip off the right post.
Adam Pawlick netted his second goal of the season at the 13:43 mark before Zarbo capped the scoring with an empty net goal with 2:17 left to play.
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Boulevard Apartments
Apartments in Auburn Hills, MI
Ken Przydzial
Phone: (248) 716-5365
Fax: (248) 377-2729
2651 Greenstone Blvd.
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Apartment Models & Pricing
Price $1049
853 Square Feet
1 Bedroom / 1 Bathroom
Price $1190
1161 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms
Price $1320
1410 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms
Price $1270
1192 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms
The Boulevard Apartments offer you spacious 1 & 2 Bedroom homes conveniently located in Auburn Hills. Near the corner of Walton Blvd. & Squirrel Road on the north side of Walton Blvd between Squirrel and Adams Roads, our community is directly across the street from Oakland University and less than 5 minutes from I-75.
While located at the heart of things, our beautifully landscaped grounds offer you a quiet haven set well back from main roads. Best-in-class amenities, service, and affordability are yours at The Boulevard, within minutes of Oakland University/William Beaumont Medical School, Daimler Chrysler HQ, Volkswagen of America, Great Lakes Crossing, the Auburn Mile, and Automation Alley.
The Boulevard also provides a personal carport with every apartment, and garages are also available. Our clubhouse offers a sparkling heated pool as well as indoor heated spa and fully equipped 24 hour fitness center. Every apartment includes both a full-sized side-by-side washer & dryer in a separate laundry room with your own hot water tank and furnace!
The Boulevard also offers beautifully upgraded apartments, some photos are now posted on this site or you can make an appointment for a tour.
Contact us today to make your next home at The Boulevard Apartments in Auburn Hills..
Apartment Models & Pricing
Price $1049
853 Square Feet
1 Bedroom
1 Bathroom
Price $1190
1161 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
Price $1320
1410 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
Price $1270
1192 Square Feet
2 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
Community Features
- Private Entrances, no common hallways
- Balcony or Patio in each home
- Washer & Dryer included
- Personal Carport for each residence, Garage available
- Fully Equipped Fitness Center
- Sparkling Pool & Indoor Heated Spa Tub
- Tennis Court
- Beautifully Furnished Clubhouse with Kitchen & Fireplace
- Lovely Brick & Cedar Exteriors
- Double walls & concrete flooring for sound deadening
- Extensive Grounds with Reflecting Pond and Professional Landscaping
Area Information
Local Information:
Community Vision
Auburn Hills has a community vision of strong business relationships, excellent neighborhoods and a vibrant downtown. We are proud to be the high technology, corporate-capital City of Oakland County. The City continually strives to provide an outstanding level of services to the residents of the community while being fiscally conservative in terms of maintaining and improving the physical assets of the community.To learn more about Auburn Hills, visit the township offices at 1827 N. Squirrel Road, Auburn Hills, Michigan. Or, visit the city's website at http://www.auburnhills.org .
Community Center
The Auburn Hills Community Center at Civic Center Park features a large multi-purpose/banquet room with kitchen facilities, gymnasium and walking track, fitness area, lounge and game room, woodshop, arts & crafts studios and meeting rooms. Residents can look forward to expanded evening and weekend hours for use and many opportunities for additional programs and events for the community.
Auburn Hills Area Parks
Auburn Hills provides quality parks and recreation opportunities at major city parks plus other locations For full information, visit http://www.auburnhills.org/departments/parksrec/default.aspx
Civic Center Park 1827 N. Squirrel Rd.
Civic Center Park offers a wealth of natural beauty and includes nature trails, a fishing pond, and open lawn areas for picnics and outings. Open year-round, the park also has a softball field, a nine hole disc golf course, tennis courts, two play structures and swings. A covered picnic shelter with a fireplace can be reserved in season. Barbecue grills, picnic tables and restrooms are available in season.
Clinton River Trail 25 Grey Rd. Municipal Lot, East-west hiking/biking trail/
The trail in Auburn Hills is 2.1 miles in length and runs east-west between Adams Rd. and Opdyke Rd. The trail is surfaced with a fine crushed stone which is suitable for biking and walking/jogging. This trail is part of a larger, 12 mile rail-trail planned to connect to the West Bloomfield trail near Sylvan Lake and to the Paint Creek Trail in Rochester.
Dennis Dearing Jr. Memorial Park 2058 Phillips Rd. Phillips at Pontiac Rd.
This neighborhood park includes a fireman's themed tot-lot for youngsters ages 2-5, swings, picnic tables, and open space areas for play.
E. Dale Fisk Hawk Woods Nature Center 3799 Bald Mountain Rd.
Hawk Woods offers endless opportunities for outdoor recreational activities. This unique facility offers groomed nature trails, a marsh boardwalk, a heated restroom/shower facility open year-round, a covered picnic shelter that can be reserved in season, a two-story Log Cabin Lodge with six overnight camping cabins, all complimented by 80 acres of beautiful woods, meadows and marsh. The Lodge can be rented for meetings and/or activities on an hourly basis in season.
Manitoba Park 4220 Manitoba Road. West of Baldwin Road.
This two acre park includes a play-structure, sand volleyball court, benches, paved play area and open space.
Riverside Park 3311 Squirrel Ct. Auburn & Squirrel.
Riverside Park rests on the banks of the Clinton River in the Village Center area of Auburn Hills and offers a river path, play structure with swings, a canoe launch and a covered picnic shelter than can be reserved in season.
River Woods Park 300 River Woods Dr.
River Woods Park is located along the Clinton River and features a covered picnic shelter that can be reserved in season, heated restrooms open year-round, a paved pathway system with a bridge over the Clinton River, a play structure with swings and climbers, basketball courts, open spaces and picnic areas with barbecue grills.
Auburn Hills Skate Park 202 N. Squirrel Rd. - Just south of River Woods Park on Squirrel Rd.
The skate park is for skateboards, in-line skates, and BMX bikes, is open 8AM to dusk (in season April to November, closed during winter) and is FREE. The public is welcome. The park is available to both beginner and advanced riders, so please skate safely.
Municipal Golf Course
Fieldstone Golf Club of Auburn Hills has received rave reviews from all areas of the golfing community for presenting a truly great golf experience. Golf Digest ranked Fieldstone with four stars out of a possible five in their "Places to Play System." The Oakland Press placed Fieldstone in the top three in Oakland County and the Detroit News named Fieldstone as one of the best six in the southeast Michigan out of over 200 contenders, who were rated for playability, condition, scenery, service and other important amenities: clubhouse, practice facility and dining. Designed by Arthur Hills, one of the industry's most celebrated golf course architects, Fieldstone Golf Club of Auburn Hills presents an exceptional variety of hole designs that mesh beautifully with rich diverse landscape, gently rolling fairways, windswept meadows, beautiful wetlands and corridors of mature hardwoods. Fieldstone Golf Club offers a forty-station country club quality bend grass practice range with multiple target greens, huge practice bunker and a large daily-manicured putting green. In addition to large and small bags of balls, an annual no-limit practice membership is available at a very attractive cost. See more at: www.fieldstonegolfclub.com
Raven's Club Public Course
There are numerous public golf courses in our area, and Raven's Club is one of the finest. It's a challenging course that offers trained professionals who provide weekly golf clinics.
Youth & Adult Programs
Auburn Hills offers a huge array of programs for youth, adults and seniors. Far too many to list here. Sports, arts, theater, gardening, learning, there's no shortage of things to do in Auburn Hills. For the current, and every growing, list, visit the Department of Parks and Recreation web site at http://www.auburnhills.org/departments/parksrec/default.aspx
Ball Fields
The local county park is located just minutes away and has over twelve soccer fields and four baseball diamonds. It includes a jogging trail, and is fun for the entire family.
Shopping & Dining:
Auburn Hills IS shopping! From their convenient loctions, our apartment communities are only 10 minutes drive from the world famous Great Lakes Crossing Outlet Center and the Auburn Mile, more than 2 million square feet of retail and entertainment venues!
Blending the hottest concepts in theme entertainment and dining with an unparalleled offering of exciting, value-oriented and unique stores, Great Lakes Crossing is Michigan's #1 shopping destination. It boasts six-themed and architecturally distinctive areas in a 1.4 million square foot structure. Great Lakes Crossing Outlet Center brings numerous "firsts" to Michigan, including Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World (five football fields worth of outdoor gear and shopping fun), GameWorks (hi-tech indoor playland developed by Steven Spielberg's guidance), Rainforest Cafe, and Neiman Marcus Last Call Clearance Center. http://www.shopgreatlakescrossing.com/
The Auburn Mile is a 650,000 square foot shopping center that includes Meijer
Target and JoAnn etc craft superstore, Best Buy, Costco and Ethan Allen as well as other retailers and restaurants.
Drive 15 minutes south and find an entirely different shopping experience, The Somerset Collection! With more than 180 stores - from Gucci to Gap, Cartier to Crate & Barrel, and four prominent department stores - Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Marshall Field's - Somerset Collection is a shopping destination unlike any other. In addition to world-class shopping, visitors also enjoy Somerset's elegant character with its marble flooring, birds eye maple columns, soaring atriums and end-to-end skylights. Museum quality artwork is featured throughout the center, some of which is interactive for children and adults alike. With a host of conveniences such as valet parking, casual and upscale restaurants, and an impressive, 700 foot-long moving skywalk connecting Somerset North to Somerset South, Somerset Collection is the destination for power walkers, people watchers and power shoppers. http://www.thesomersetcollection.com/
The Boulevard Apartments are located within the Pontiac School District, which includes fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools, two high schools, two special education program centers, one alternative/continuing education center, two Montessori programs, and seven preschool programs. Of a total staff of over 1300, 70 percent of the professional staff has Master's degrees and over 85 percent have ten or more years of experience. For full information on the district, visit their website: http://www.pontiac.k12.mi.us/
In addition, our communities are near to several private educational facilities. Oakland Christian School, for example, is a K-12 non-sectarian Christian school, is located immediately west of Auburn Grove. Oakland Christian School describes its mission as challenging and motivating each student to pursue excellence spiritually, academically, socially and physically. http://www.oaklandchristian.com
For more listings of private education opportunities, visit: Auburn Hills Private Schools at http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&lr=&q=private+school&near=Auburn+Hills,+MI&sa=X&oi=localr
The Auburn Hills Public Library
The Auburn Hills Public Library offers both the latest in library technology, a huge selection of materials, a wide variety of programs for adults and youth and a wonderful and comfortable place to be and to read. The Library is located at 3400 E. Seymour Drive, near to the township office facilities http://auburn-hills.lib.mi.us/
Site Plan
Directions & Map
From I-75, exit University Drive East. Turn North (Left) on Squirrel Road to Walton Boulevard. Turn East (Right) on Walton, continue approximately 1/4 mile. We are located on Greenstone Blvd., on the north side of Walton.
From Rochester, take Walton Blvd. West toward I-75 past Adams Road. Our street, Greenstone Blvd., is located on the North (Right) side of Walton before Squirrel Rd.


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The world is home to marvelous Christmas trees on public display. With all their unique holiday ornaments, these trees set the ideal atmosphere for a festive celebration. Here is our selection of the most magnificent Christmas trees from different places in the world, giving light and inspiration to all in this beautiful season of giving.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York
Every year, New York is made brighter by a large elegant tree. The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is often a 69-foot to 100-foot Norway Spruce, and is lit in front of a live audience through the Christmas in Rockefeller Center show. This lighting tradition officially began when the 30 Rockefeller Plaza was inaugurated in 1933. However, the tradition started unofficially during the Depression, when the construction workers of the building decorated a 20-foot Balsam Fir on the Christmas Eve of 1931.
The Swarovski Christmas Tree in Zürich, Switzerland
The breathtaking Swarovski Christmas Tree at the Hauptbahnhof train station is a source of wonder and sparkle in Zürich's covered Christmas market. Embellished with more than 5,000 Swarovski crystals in pink, blue, silver, and white draping each branch, the tree is made more brilliant with a spotlight cast on it from above.
The Floating Christmas Tree in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
The Floating Christmas Tree in Rio De Janeiro is an awe-inspiring vision. Focusing on the four seasons, the 28-story tree is decorated with snowflakes, flowers, gold ribbons, and autumn leaves, representing winter, spring, summer, and fall. Aside from incorporating these elements, the 542-ton tree also showcases a light display that tells the story of the changing seasons. Known as the world's tallest floating Christmas tree, it ushers in the holiday season in this vibrant Brazilian city.
The Murano Glass Christmas Tree in Venice, Italy
Venice is famous for glassmaking, a trade which originated in the Venetian island of Murano in the 8th century. The Murano glassmakers, who are well known for their craftsmanship, created the unique Murano glass, which inspired this landmark Christmas tree. Built with glass tubes in a variety of colors, the tree looks stunning especially when lit at night. An exciting spectacle during the holidays, the lovely Murano Glass Tree is a symbol of Venetian artistry.
The Christmas Tree in Moscow's Red Square
Following the Julian Calendar, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christ's birthday on January 7. Although this date is 13 days after the worldwide celebration of Christmas, Russians also honor it with bright lights and Christmas trees. The Christmas tree in Moscow's Red Square looks even more stunning with Saint Basil's Cathedral in the background.
The Christmas Tree in Paris, France
Staying true to its title as The City of Light, Paris features this gorgeous Christmas tree made of balls of pink and white holiday lights. Situated at the Forum des Halles shopping centre, this tree exudes elegance with its fine construction, while adding a lovely glow to the romantic European city. The various sizes of the illuminated spheres bring a modern twist to the traditional Christmas tree.
The Giant Teddy Bear in Hong Kong
To attract and entertain customers, shopping malls in Hong Kong put up larger-than-life decorations, such as the giant Garfield display, Ferrero Rocher Christmas Tree, and Tiffany Christmas Tree. In 2012, a shopping complex called the 1881 Heritage put up an adorable giant teddy bear, which was placed beside an arch and a giant Christmas tree. These huge displays worked together to create an inviting atmosphere for families. The teddy bear became a destination in its own right, serving as a magnificent backdrop for tourists' photographs.
The Window Displays in the Cartier Building in London, England
A classy take on outdoor decorating, the entire display in the Cartier building features a Christmas tree in each window. A huge ribbon is tied around the building to make it look like a giant Christmas present. The spectacle is a picture perfect way to brighten London's historic Bond street. Each window display brings a lovely heartwarming glow in this season of gift giving.
May these breathtaking trees from around the world inspire you to make the most of your holiday decorating and help you recreate these landmark decorations right in your home.
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When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." John 6:12 (NIV)
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On this recording made in 1960 during his tenure with Lou Donaldson, pianist Horace Parlan is situated nicely alongside bassist George Tucker and drummer Al Harewood. The trio had its own gig on Sundays at Minton's in Harlem, and had established a repertoire and reputation for being able to lay down both hard bop and soul-jazz stylings with equal verve. (And yeah, that jazz/hip-hop group from the 1990s was named after this disc.) The proceedings here are straight-ahead with some cool soul-jazz touches. Parlan's "Wadin'" moves the off-minor key of "Wade in the Water" and funkifies the rhythm, paraphrasing and improvising as the rhythm section struts it out. On the title track, there is a gorgeous lilt in his playing that corresponds to a behind-the-beat walk by Tucker that makes Harewood slip and shimmy constantly on the cymbals with his brushes. There and on "I Want to Be Loved" as well as "Return Engagement" (another Parlan original), something else starts to creep into his playing: the spacy, spare feel of Ahmad Jamal, who Parlan cited as a contemporary influence. The economy of touch, which stands in stark contrast to the hard bop he played with Donaldson and the energetic music he played with Mingus, is in some ways more complex harmonically, and more emotionally satisfying. This is a fine effort from an underappreciated trio.
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Baghdad's Surprising Support for a Former Enemy
The Arab League's mission in Syria came under fire from all sides before it even began. Many voices are clamouring for it to be terminated and the observers withdrawn. They have failed to achieve their objective and have instead become stooges of the Damascus regime, cry the Syrian opposition.
The government of Bashar al-Assad, for its part, regards the Arab observers, who are travelling about all over the country and often go right into the middle of the protesting crowds, with suspicion. Assad too would be quite happy for these 'troublemakers' to be withdrawn. Yet the majority of foreign ministers of the organisation, which consists of 22 countries, recently voted to extend the mission until February 22.
In this the Arab League General Secretary Nabil al-Arabi got his way. The Egyptian official did admit that mistakes had been made, but he called for understanding, pointing out that it was the first time in the history of the League that it had ever despatched observers.
The six nations from the Gulf Cooperation Council, however, withdrew their observers because of continuing bloodshed in Syria and the government's "lack of commitment" to adhere fully to the plan it agreed to with the Arab League.
The observers are supposed to establish a peace plan, according to which the government in Damascus should withdraw its military from the streets and violence against civilians should cease. At present, however, the opposite appears to be the case. Whenever the Arab observers turn up in their yellow waistcoats the protests seem to escalate. More and more people are taking to the streets to vent their anger and tell the observers what has happened to them.
Firing into the crowd
The military is still intervening. One of the League's observers told the Arab television channel Al Jazeera of snipers who had been firing indiscriminately into the crowd. The observer was cautioned and told not to make comments.
The observer mission's findings will only be made public, and result in any further measures, when it has compiled its final report. However, the Syrian regime claims to have found out that the observers testify to the existence of armed groups.
In addition, a report in the newspaper Al Watan claims the mission attests that Syria has in part fulfilled the obligations placed upon it in the action plan drawn up by the League. Meanwhile, a further terrorist attack has taken place since the mission began, leaving almost 30 people dead. This the government in Damascus has blamed on "Islamist terrorists". The opposition accuses Syrian security forces of staging the attack themselves in order to prop up their theory of foreign intervention and a burgeoning civil war. The situation is becoming increasingly confused.
Polarizing effect on the region
And in the midst of all the confusion there is also Iraq. Anxiety about their neighbour's future is currently a major concern for all the ethnic and religious groups there. Iraq itself has reason to worry that it could become a pawn in the ongoing rivalry among the regional powers Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The crisis in Syria is polarizing the region, and there is reason to fear that the bloodbath there will have serious implications for the neighbouring states. On one side are Sunni-dominated countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia; on the other, Shiite Iran, together with the main governing power in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
And in the midst of this tension among the rival powers, Baghdad has performed a drastic about-face that many find quite astonishing. For years the Iraqi government never seemed to tire of pointing the finger at Syria and accusing it of being one of the forces behind the terror attacks in Iraq. Yet the Iraqis were the only ones, apart from Lebanon, to abstain when the Arab League was deciding whether to impose economic sanctions on Syria and suspend its membership.
On top of this, one of the Syrian government's finance inspectors, Mahmud Suleiman Hadj Hamad, who has defected to the opposition, claims that Baghdad has transferred two billion pounds (almost 28 million euros) to Damascus. This, he says, is being used by Assad to pay militias who, together with the Syrian army, are deploying violence against demonstrators.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari justified this by arguing that the fall of Assad would have negative consequences for his country, and there would be a risk that extremists would gain the upper hand in Damascus. This is the same line of argument as that employed by Assad.
The Arab League was outraged. Iraq's decision came at a time when the American troops were packing their bags and preparing to withdraw. Diplomats in the League saw the move as a concession by Iraq to Tehran, one of Syria's closest allies, as well as a reorientation of Baghdad's foreign policy. In the corridors of the League's Cairo headquarters people were commenting on the fact that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki persecutes former Baath Party members in his own country while supporting Assad's Baath Party in Syria. The inconsistency could hardly be more blatant.
Deals with the Assad regime
And indeed Iraqi media subsequently reported that Assad had passed to al-Maliki a list of Iraqi Baath Party members who had allegedly planned to carry out a putsch against the Prime Minister after the American withdrawal. An unprecedented wave of arrests began. 600 mostly Sunni former members of the Iraqi Baath Party ended up in jail.
Assad promised that he would shortly hand over more high-ranking Baathists currently living in Syria to Iraq. This secured him al-Maliki's support. The Iraqi Prime Minister's security adviser Faleh al-Fayad travelled to Damascus and prevailed upon Assad to agree to the Arab League's mission. Prior to this Assad had refused to co-operate with the organisation in any way.
This is a dangerous balancing act for the Iraqis, because all of its domestic ethnic groups have different interests in the neighbouring state. A look at the ethnic and religious spectrum makes this clear. The pro-Iranian Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, a vital coalition partner for al-Maliki, has made no secret of his support for Assad. He has attacked the Arab League, calling it a "subversive consortium" that serves the interests of the United States and Israel.
Fear of Sunni domination
Syrian opposition groups accuse al-Sadr of sending thousands of his Mahdi militiamen to Syria to help government troops fight the rebels – an accusation he vehemently denies. Other Shiite parties, on the other hand, are refusing to provide Damascus with any support whatsoever, and accuse Assad of backing the wave of Sunni terrorism that followed the invasion by US troops in 2003.
The Iraqi Kurds are also divided on the issue. On the one hand they yearn for an end to the oppression of their Syrian 'brothers'. On the other they are afraid that life would be even worse for Syrian Kurds under Sunni rule than it is under the Shiite Alawi Assad.
Only Iraq's Sunni Arabs regard the fall of Assad as an opportunity to extend their power in the region. At the same time, however, they too are aware of the risks involved, and that Iraq could face great difficulties as a result. More than a million Iraqi refugees, generously taken in by Syria at the height of the terror, would come flooding back to their homeland. And not only this: a great many Syrians would also come to Iraq in search of refuge.
Birgit Svensson
© Qantara.de 2012
Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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Video surveillance from the late Tuesday afternoon robbery appears to show the suspect with his hand on the neck of the clerk from the Smart Shop in North Main Street, who later told investigators she was forced into the bathroom while the suspect stole cash.
The suspect is described as a male between 5-feet-5 and 5-feet-9 inches tall. He was last seen wearing all black, including a hooded sweat-shirt, pants, face mask and gloves.
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text: Caboobaroo 162 Report post Posted January 9, 2006 Taken from a post long ago made by SubaruTex, I decided to add it into the USRM for easier access for people interested in doing the swap. First, I will start of with the original post from Tex which includes a parts list for what is needed from donor cars and what cars to get them from. Here's the original post... For the front of the car, you will need to change: Struts, lower control arms, spindles, brakes (calipers, rotors), hubs, and tie rod ends. For the rear, you will need: Backing plates, hubs, and rotors. Now I will break down which donor cars you can get the parts from. Front stuff: Lower control arms - XT6 2wd/4wd (the ball joint that fits in the right spindle is too big to fit in the stock arm) If using 2wd XT6 arms, please be advised there *may* be an issue mounting it to the crossmember. Hondasucks encountered trouble, I however did not. Spindle - XT6 2wd/4wd and GC8 Impreza Struts - XT6 2wd and GC8 Impreza (note that if putting imprezza struts onto the XT6 spindle, it is advised to grind the spindle down slightly for ease of fitment) Tie Rod ends - XT6 2wd/4wd Rotors - XT6 2wd/4wd and GC8 Impreza (please match rotors to which spindle you use) Calipers - XT6 2wd/4wd (even if you use the GC8 rotors, the calipers are identical, aside from the XT6's still have the ebrake in the front) Hub - XT6 and GC8 Impreza (please match hub to which spindle you use) Rear stuff: Hub - XT6 4wd Backing plate - XT6 2wd or 4wd (2wd requires modification) Rotor - XT6 4wd Calipers - XT6 or EA82 (they are identical, you can reuse your old ones if you have rear discs) So now for some tips on the conversion. 1. Where it says on the front control arms and how Hondasucks had problems with a different size bolt, I had the same issue and since I was the one who modified the crossmember for Hondasucks's '87 GL turbowagon, I did the same thing for my '89 RX. I drilled a larger hole where the bolt goes through the crossmember and through the control arm to 1/2". Then, I welded washers with the original bolt from the original control arms (regular EA82) onto the crossmember at the bottom of the hole I drilled (put bolt through the washers and through the crossmember with the washers on the outside of the crossmember). Made it work pretty easy and the control arm doesn't rub on the crossmember. He's been running like this for a couple years now with no problems and that includes a couple rallycrosses. 2. Next, if you plan on using Impreza struts in the front, you either have to A) modify the strut tower on the vehicle to match it (ream out a couple holes for the studs on the tophat) or change out the Impreza tophats for the EA82 tophats. I did B on my RX and I had no issues running the EA82 tophats on the Impreza struts. ***NOTE*** If you plan on modifying your strut towers for the Impreza tophats, you then have a wide access to upgrading to camber plates made for '93-'01 Imprezas or Legacys. 3. If you plan on running an Impreza coilover setup, it'll bolt into the front with the strut tower mod listed in #2 but the rear is totally different EA82 vs. Impreza. The rear will fit nonetheless BUT you HAVE to use the original EA82 tophats in the rear. I have yet to do this portion of the conversion and I have only read that it would work so I have not yet found out myself if it does or not. If you have ANY questions, PLEASE feel free to PM anyone on the board that has done the 5-lug conversion and they'll either be able to help you or send you in a direction of another board member to help. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The employment interview is one of the most widely used methods of assessing job applicants. Due to its popularity, a great deal of research on improving the reliability and validity of the interview has been conducted. This body of research has demonstrated that structured interviews, which employ rules for eliciting, observing, and evaluating responses, increase interviewers' agreement on their overall evaluations by limiting the amount of discretion an interviewer is allowed.
The level of structure in an interview can vary according to the constraints placed on the questions asked and evaluation criteria. Interviews with a low degree of structure place no constraints on the questions asked and allow for global evaluation of applicant responses. Interviews with a very high level of structure involve asking all applicants the same exact set of pre-defined lead and probe (i.e., follow-up questions) and are scored according to benchmarks of proficiency. Interviews with higher degrees of structure show higher levels of validity, rater reliability, rater agreement, and less adverse impact.
Interviews also vary according to the specific competencies being measured. Employment interviews can focus on past, present, or future behavior, beliefs, opinions, or attitudes of the applicant. Information may also include behavior observed during the interview itself (e.g., oral communication), work experience, training, education, and career aspirations. Research shows interview questions based on specific job competencies identified through job analysis as being critical to job success demonstrate high levels of validity, rater reliability, and rater agreement.
The most common methods for developing specific, job-related questions are based on either the situational or behavioral description format. Situational interview questions ask applicants to describe what they would do or how they would behave in a situation similar to those encountered on the job. An example of a situational question is, "You have been assigned to work on a project with some of your coworkers. While on the job, you notice several of them goofing off. You know you are falling behind schedule to complete the work by the deadline. What would you do?" This format relies on applicants' ability to project what they might do in a future situation. Behavioral description interview questions ask applicants to describe a past behavior demonstrated in a situation relevant to the competency of interest. An example of this type is, "Describe a situation where you analyzed and interpreted information." This type of interview is based on the behavioral consistency principle that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.
Both methods rely on the development of job-related critical incidents (e.g., examples of notably good or notably bad job performance). Both types of interview formats have proven to be effective. Behavioral description interviews have shown higher levels of validity where the nature of the work is highly complex (e.g., professional and managerial level jobs). Structured interviews are usually scored by a panel in which each member rates applicant responses individually and then participates in a group discussion to resolve significant scoring discrepancies. Faking occurs less frequently during structured interviews than paper-and-pencil inventories measuring the same competencies.
(See Section VI for a summary of each article)
Campion, M. A., Palmer, D. K., & Campion, J. E. (1997). A review of structure in the selection interview. Personnel Psychology, 50(3), 655-702.
Conway, J. M., Jako, R. A., & Goodman, D. F. (1995). A meta-analysis of interrater and internal consistency reliability of selection interviews. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80(5), 565-579.
Huffcutt, A I., & Arthur, W. (1994). Hunter and Hunter (1984) revisited: Interview validity for entry-level jobs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 79(2), 184-190.
Huffcutt, A. I., & Roth, P. L. (1998). Racial group differences in employment interview evaluations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(2), 179-189.
Huffcutt, A. I., Weekley, J. A., Wiesner, W. H., DeGroot, T. G., & Jones, C. (2001). Comparison of situational and behavior description interview questions for higher-level positions. Personnel Psychology, 54(3), 619-644.
McFarland, L. A., Ryan, A. M., Sacco, J. M., Kriska, S. D. (2004). Examination of structured interview ratings across time: The effects of applicant race, rater race, and panel composition. Journal of Management, 30(4), 435-452.
Taylor, P., & Small, B. (2002). Asking applicants what they would do versus what they did do: A meta-analytic comparison of situational and past behavior employment interview questions. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 75(3), 277-294.
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) website contains information on interviews.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More cases of food-borne illness are likely in a U.S. salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds of people in three states and prompted a nationwide recall of suspect eggs, a federal official said on Thursday.
State officials in California, Colorado and Minnesota have linked more than 270 illnesses to eggs from Wright County Egg in northern Iowa. The company voluntarily recalled 380 million eggs that were distributed throughout the country.
"I would anticipate we will be seeing more illnesses reported and likely as a result of this outbreak," Christopher Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said during a telephone news conference. It often takes two or three weeks for an illness to be reported to CDC.
During the teleconference, Food and Drug Administration officials said the recall was among the largest egg recalls in recent years. Fifteen investigators were working on a probe that includes tests of laying hens at the Galt, Iowa, farm for salmonella infection. No results were available yet.
Nearly 2,000 cases of salmonella were reported from May to July, Braden said, a period during which 700 cases would be usual. Many were a common subtype of the bacteria.
"We can't say all 2,000 are related to this outbreak," he said.
CDC said later it was using advanced molecular tests to help identify cases from the outbreak. It said a traceback by state and federal officials found eggs from Wright County Egg factored in five cases in California, Colorado and Minnesota.
Salmonella can cause fever, diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain and sometimes more serious illness or death.
Some 266 cases of salmonella in California have been linked to the eggs, according to Los Angeles County officials. Seven cases in Minnesota are linked to the Iowa eggs, say state health officials. The Colorado Department of Public Health says some of 28 salmonella cases during June and July "likely" are linked to eggs from Wright County Egg.
Salmonella investigations are underway in 13 states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
The 380 million eggs in the recall are equal to nearly all the eggs consumed by Americans in two days, according to Agriculture Department figures. It says Americans will consume 247 eggs apiece this year.
Wright County Egg announced the voluntary nationwide recall of eggs produced since May 19 on Friday and expanded it on Wednesday to include eggs from two other sites. Wright County Egg is part of DeCoster Farms, a family-run agribusiness.
The eggs were sold under the brand names Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma's, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms, Kemps, James Farms, Glenview and Pacific Coast. Their cartons are stamped on the end with P-1720, P-1942 P-1026, P-1413 or P-1946 and followed by a number from 136 to 229.
An FDA egg-safety rule took effect on July 9 that requires large-scale producers to take steps such as refrigerating eggs, safeguarding feed and water supplies from contamination and testing in the poultry house for salmonella bacteria.
If the bacterium is found, producers must test eggs for it and if the eggs are contaminated, they must be treated to destroy the bacteria or divert them to non-food use.
Associate FDA Commissioner Jeff Farrar said if the rule had taken effect earlier, "the risk of illness would have been reduced." Farrar demurred at suggestions the outbreak could have been prevented if the rule was implemented earlier and at a question of whether the rule fell short in this case.


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The Greater Baltimore Committee's idea for an expansion of the downtown convention center coupled with a new, attached arena and expanded Sheraton hotel tower is generating understandable excitement among the group's leaders. It would solve a number of downtown Baltimore's issues at once, come with a major commitment of private financing, and boost the city's lucrative tourism industry. GBC President Donald C. Fry said this week that he expects the feasibility study being conducted by the Maryland Stadium Authority will support the project and that his group will ask the General Assembly to approve $2 million to $3 million in planning money next year. He may well be right, but we need first to make sure that the feasibility study and our elected officials are asking the right questions about this project.
The idea of a major convention center, arena and hotel all under the same roof is unique among American cities, and that could make it a particularly powerful combination for Baltimore in the hunt for convention business. It also makes it hard to judge its value. Boosters of the plan say that having an 18,000-seat arena attached to the convention center would enable Baltimore to compete for much bigger meetings than it gets now. Gatherings that include a marquee speaker or a large plenary session might be attracted by the presence of an arena that can be entered directly from the convention floor. Those who book meetings might also be lured by the possibility that a concert or sporting event could be going on at the same time as a convention, a perk that could improve attendance. That's the theory, and it sounds good. But we need some objective way to check whether it's valid.
The proposal's backers point out that Baltimore's convention center is rapidly slipping in the rankings of such facilities as other cities expand their own convention centers. Without an expansion and renovation, they say, the city will lose out on more business. Already, according to Visit Baltimore President Tom Noonan, Baltimore missed out on 112,000 room nights in fiscal 2011 alone because its convention facility was too small.
Tourism is a $4.4 billion annual industry in Baltimore, so the idea that we would be surpassed by other cities is one to be taken seriously. But we also need to consider whether continued expansion of the convention center is a game of diminishing returns. Are cities just creating more and more space to chase the same convention dollars? We need to know whether this proposal would give Baltimore a lasting advantage or if we would quickly find ourselves surpassed again by some other city. If the convention business is turning into a perpetual arms race, we need to consider whether it remains a good investment or whether there are other opportunities for economic development that make more sense.
Baltimore has a unique issue to consider in that the city has financed the construction of another convention center hotel, the Hilton, which cost more than $300 million to build. So far, it has been reasonably successful — crucially, it has been able to service the debt on the bonds that paid for its construction without having to ask the city for help. But the proposal to expand the Sheraton needs to take into account how much impact, good or bad, the project would have on the Hilton's ability to pay its bills.
One of the most attractive aspects of the GBC's plan is the commitment by developer Willard Hackerman to assemble private financing for the arena and hotel expansion, expected to cost $500 million, if the city and/or state funds the $400 million for the convention center expansion. Mr. Hackerman certainly has the stature, experience and wherewithal to make that happen. But we need to know the details. Will he and his partners seek incentives or tax breaks from the city as part of the deal? How will that impact the overall financial viability of the project?
No question, the GBC's idea is attractive. It is bold, yet it fits within the existing framework of downtown. But it is still a major commitment, and we need assurance that the Stadium Authority's study of the proposal, which is being conducted by a Florida consultant, is thorough and skeptical, and that our elected officials will ask tough questions about it. This may turn out to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Baltimore, but we have to be careful not to let excitement get in the way of careful judgment.


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