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Cubs Sign Four More Free-Agents to Minor League Contracts, Invite 24 NRI
Baseball America is reporting that the Cubs have signed four more free-agents to 2017 minor league contracts.
Two of the players are former Cubs minor leaguers, and two have varying degrees of big league experience with other MLB clubs.
1. Frank Batista, RHP
2. Todd Glaesmann, OF
3. Jim Henderson, RHRP
4. Casey Kelly, RHSP
Frank Batista is a long-time Cubs minor league pitcher, signing with the Cubs as a 19-year old out of the Dominican Republic in January 2009. Now 27, the 5'10 Batista has served as a RH "swing-man" in the upper minors (AA Tennessee & AAA Iowa) since 2012 (he also spent six weeks with Toros de Tijuana in the Mexican League in 2014). He missed the 2016 season after undergoing TJS in April (he also suffered a knee injury in Spring Training), so re-signing with the Cubs will allow him to continue his rehab at the Cubs UAPC at Riverview Park in Mesa, with a possible return to either Tennessee or Iowa later in the season.
An athletic "five-tool player," Todd Glaesmann was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 3rd round of the 2009 draft out of Midway HS in Waco, TX. A star QB and WR in HS, the 6'4 225 Glaesmann gave up the opportunity to play both baseball and football at Texas A&M (Shelby Miller and Michael Wacha were in the same A&M recruiting class), instead opting to sign with Tampa Bay ($930,000 "over-slot" signing bonus). Baseball America ranked Glaesmann as the #15 prospect in the Appalachian League in 2010, and one of the Rays Top 25 prospects three times 2010-12. BA also rated Glaesmann as having the best outfield arm in the Rays system 2010-11 and the best power-hitting prospect in the Rays system and the best defensive outfielder in the Midwest League in 2012. Although he is an outstanding OF defender, it became fairly obvious pretty early on that Glaeasman was a high-K/low average "free-swinger" (hitting 260/309/435 in 705 career minor league games through 2016), showing HR power (21 HR in 2012 and 19 HR in 2015) but not much else at the plate. He was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in December 2013 as the Player to Be Named Later in a five-player deal that sent RHRP Heath Bell from Arizona to Tampa Bay, only to suddenly retire two months later (ostensibly to play college football at Baylor), before returning to baseball again in mid-2014. Now 26, Glaesmann, has bounced back & forth between AA & AAA the past four seasons, and he will likely serve as the 4th OF either at AAA Iowa or at AA Tennessee in 2017.
Jim Henderson was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 26th round of the 2003 draft out of Tennessee Weslyan College. He was selected by the Cubs in the AAA Phase of the Rule 5 Draft in December 2006, and spent the next two seasons as a reliever at AA Tennessee and AAA Iowa. He had back problems throughout his Cubs stint and was released at the end of Minor League Camp in March 2009. He then signed a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, where he spent the next six seasons, finally making his MLB debut on July 26, 2012 at the age of 29, nine years after signing his first pro contract. Henderson had some decent seasons working out of the bullpen for the Brewers 2012-14 (he racked up 28 saves and 75 K in 50 IP as the Brewers closer in 2013) and then later as a middle-reliever for the New York Mets in 2016. In between he has had several shoulder and triceps injuries that have negatively-impacted his career. Now 34 years old, Henderson reportedly has opt-out clauses in his contract (3/29 and 6/1), but if the Cubs want to get around that they could just add him to their MLB 40-man roster prior to the opt-out date(s) and option him to the minors (he has three minor league options left, and while he has enough MLB Service Time to elect free-agency if outrighted, he does not yet have the five years of MLB Service Time required to refuse an optional assignment to the minors).
The son of 2B Pat Kelly (played in MLB 1991-99, mostly with the Yankees), Casey Kelly was a Louisville Slugger 1st team All-American, Florida 6-A Player of the Year, and Florida "Mr. Baseball" in 2008 (he was a "two-way player" in HS - SS/RHP). He was also an All-Regional HS QB at Sarasota HS (signed NLI with U. of Tennessee to play football & baseball). He was selected in the 1st round (#30 overall) of the 2008 draft as a shortstop by the Boston Red Sox (back when Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer, and Jason McLeod were in beantown) -- receiving a $3M "over-slot" signing bonus -- at which point he agreed to give-up football. He was ranked the Gulf Coast League #6 prospect (as a shortstop) by Baseball America in 2008 (he played only SS in his first year in pro ball, before switching back to RHP at Instructs post-2008). Kelly was ranked as the Red Sox #6 prospect (as a RHP) by Baseball America and was rated as having the Best Curveball in the Red Sox system by Baseball America after the 2008 season. He was a Futures Game All-Star in 2009, and was ranked the #2 prospect in the South Atlantic League, the #6 Carolina League Prospect, and the Red Sox #2 prospect by BA, and was named Red Sox Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2009, and was rated as having the Best Fastball, Best Curveball, Best Change-up, and Best Control in the Boston Red Sox system by Baseball America after the 2009 season. Baseball America ranked Kelly the #10 Prospect in the Eastern League and the Arizona Fall League #8 prospect in 2010, and then he was traded to the San Diego Padres with 1B Anthony Rizzo, OF Raymond Fuentes, and IF-OF Eric Patterson for 1B Adrian Gonzalez in December 2010 (by this time, Jed Hoyer and Jason McLeod had left the Red Sox and were running the Padres). Kelly was ranked as the Padres #1 prospect by Baseball America after the 2010 season, and the #7 Texas League prospect and the Padres #3 prospect after the 2011 season. The Padres selected Kelly's contract and added him to their MLB 40-man roster in August 2012 (6.21 ERA and 1.69 WHIP in 29 IP and six GS for SD in 2012). He was ranked the Padres #1 prospect by BA after the 2012 season, before having TJS in April 2013 and missing all of the 2013 season and most of the 2014 season (he had problems with his right elbow flexor in 2014 while rehabbing from the TJS, further delaying his return to the mound). Even so, he was still ranked as the Padres #5 prospect by Baseball America after the 2013 season and the Padres #17 prospect after the 2014 season. He finally returned to full action in 2015 but struggled at AA San Antonio before a brief (and ineffective) call-up to San Diego, and then he was traded to the Atlanta Braves for C Christian Bethancourt in December 2015. Kelly spent most of the 2016 season at AAA Gwinnett, but he did make ten appearances (one GS) with the Braves (5.82 ERA & 1.71 WHIP in 21.2 IP). He was sent outright to AAA Gwinnett last November, and was declared a minor league 6YFA after the World Series. Kelly will likely serve as a SP with AAA Iowa in 2017. He has one minor league option left, so if he is added to the MLB 40-man roster at some point it would not be a problem to send him back (and forth) to Iowa as necessary.
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crunch 1 hour 19 min ago (view)
baseball is fun.
Jackstraw 3 hours 15 min ago (view)
Cubs were 1 for 9 with RISP.
Neither of the Cards who scored had to take the bat off of their shoulder.
With the game on the line, Joe sends up Tony Kemp.
2019 season in microcosm.
crunch 3 hours 19 min ago (view)
p.alonso (NYM) gets #50...not bad for a rookie.
also, MIL wins because of course why not.
cubs are 2 games behind in the WC standings for the 2nd slot...5 games behind STL in the central.
crunch 4 hours 53 min ago (view)
i'll be over here watching Corner Gas DVDs waiting for 2020.
Charlie 8 hours 8 min ago (view)
Welp. I guess I will continue to pay attention to the Wild Card race? Dropping the Michael Wacha game is bad.
crunch 8 hours 48 min ago (view)
Dolorous Jon Lester 9 hours 11 min ago (view)
Another game, another set of golden opportunities to add on to a lead wasted.
Eric S 9 hours 15 min ago (view)
And nine hits ... with one run to show for it
crunch 10 hours 21 min ago (view)
6 innings, 5 pitchers used...and the cubs are down by 1 to show for it.
Dolorous Jon Lester 10 hours 59 min ago (view)
I hate Tommy Edman, and those of his ilk. The pissbirds are masters of getting a few good years out of middling prospect types like him. DeJong, Jon Jay, Matt Adams, Tommy Pham, Allen Craig, Matt Carpenter... the list goes on and on.
Arizona Phil 12 hours 21 min ago (view)
Trades involving players on minor league reserve lists are prohibited beginning at 12 PM (Eastern) on the 7th day prior to the originally-scheduled conclusion of the MLB regular season through the last day of the MLB regular season (including a day in which a Game #163 and Game #164 tie-breaker game is played or a day in which a re-scheduled game is played after the originally-scheduled conclusion of the MLB regular season).
Arizona Phil 12 hours 36 min ago (view)
If he makes four more appearances prior to the conclusion of the MLB regular season, David Phelps' 2020 club option salary escalates from $3M to $5M (plus up to $3.25M in performance bonuses).
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Conversely, Padres closer Kirby Yates has allowed only two HR with a .184 OppBA and 13/100 BB/K in 59.2 IP and Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez (now on Restricted List) has allowed just five HR with a .197 OppBA and 13/90 BB/K in 60.0 IP.
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rizzo / cast / bryant / schwarb / contreras / bote (2nd) / heyward / hoe / mills
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kintzler available out of the pen again...welcome back
Charlie 17 hours 28 min ago (view)
Send back to manufacturer and ask for a replacement.


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“Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the general effects of Georgia’s tougher immigration laws have been creating a lot of confusion and fear.”
“The word-of-mouth is spreading that Georgia is an unwelcoming place, and that’s not necessarily something we want to portray our state as,” he said.
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José Gómez is seeing fewer people in his gym in Dalton, Ga. Not because folks aren’t as interested in staying healthy, he says, but because they’re interested in staying out of jail. — New immigration laws in Georgia — among the toughest in the nation — are scaring families with illegal [aliens] out of the state, he says.

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After arresting 9 wrestlers including gold medalist Sushil Kumar in the Sagar Dhankad murder case, Delhi police has arrested one more wrestler. According to a senior crime branch officer, a 22-year-old Anirudh is the tenth wrestler who was involved with Sushil Kumar and his aid in the brawl. Earlier, Sushil Kumar and his aid Ajay Sherawat were arrested on May 23 from outer Delhi’s Mundka. They both were evading from police for 19 days. Sagar Dhankad died after beaten up with hockey sticks, baseball bats, and other blunt weapons at Chhatrasal Stadium in Delhi.
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Jaipur-Equipped with a VCDs and few literatures in an old suit case he came to Jaipur in a second-class sleeper train for the cause of saving lives. He has traveled far and wide, met the old and the rich, spoke to thousands of young and the old, and probably seen a behemoth of horror when innocent animals are butchered to satisfy few minutes’ appetite. Instilling emotions and evoking compassion has become his daily work. And he is now on a visit to Tibetan Sweater sellers in Gurgaon and Jaipur, the two big cities of India, where the largest number of Tibetan sweater sellers make their living. I am talking about Rapsel Tsariwa who is fighting this noble campaign of vegetarianism with the help of few volunteers now and then and contributing whatever little things and effort he could make towards the voiceless animals. The non-profit, non-government organization is named Tibetan Volunteers for Animal (TVA) and is registered under the societies registration act 1960. All the activities and campaign of TVA is available on the organization’s official website (www.loveanimal.org). He has actually opened his office in Bangalore for few months, novice that he is; he has to switch to Mysore to make ends meet.
Last year he produced ten thousand magazines titled Semchen and more than 10000 Video CDs titled 'Love and Mercy'. He received huge support and accolades from the general public. Many a times people cried to tears watching the video which show animals being mercilessly butchered. That, he think, shows men are not born heartless but it has to be reminded sometimes, to realize the value of life and living in harmony with the nature. This time Mr Rapsel has produced another video which includes many inspiring interviews, heart touching advices from doctors and great lamas and also shows the horror and drudgery the animals go through before becoming a piece of apparel or a heap of food in our plates.
If you need inspiration and a little push to help you stop eating meat then the upcoming video is the solution. I promise you!! The video titled 'Law of Nature' will be released on the first day of the Kalachakra in Amarawati and the clippings of which are shown to the audience of Jaipur and Gurgaon, and will be premiered in Chandigarh for college students. This time he has stressed and requested the Tibetan audience of two cities and all the Tibetans all over the world to make this upcoming Kalachakra a special and auspicious by not consuming any meat. Many of the audience stunned and repented, I think, for having eaten meat all their life and decided to quit meat for the rest of their life. From the audience of Jaipur and Gurgaon 13 men has pledged to be vegetarian throughout their life and many more has promised to be more soft and loving to animals there on.
Phayul encourages readers to send reports on events in your locality. You can be a reporter and contribute to the Tibetan community


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On the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that WWE is grooming the Scottish Warrior to face The Tribal Chief down the line. He mentioned that, for this reason, WWE will protect him heavily until he gets to Reigns.
“They like him, and he’s being groomed for Roman Reigns," said Meltzer. "It’s down the line. So, the people who are groomed for Roman Reigns are going to be protected until they get to Roman Reigns."
Meltzer further gave an update on Drew McIntyre's injury status, mentioning that he's still not 100% and is working on rehab. He added that McIntyre will most likely run through Madcap Moss at the Elimination Chamber and Happy Corbin at WrestleMania 38.
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Roman Reigns is set to face Goldberg at WWE Elimination Chamber
The Tribal Chief has defeated several legends during his historic 500+ day run as the Universal Champion. This past week on Friday Night SmackDown, WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg returned and challenged him for the title. The match between the two has now been made official for WWE Elimination Chamber 2022.
Reigns also has another major opponent to worry about. 2022 Royal Rumble winner Brock Lesnar has already announced that he'll be challenging Reigns for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 38.
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Vodafone Idea has collaborated with construction giant Larsen and Toubro in starting the trials of a 5G-based smart city plan for Pune. It will be part of the 5G trials on the government-installed 5G spectrum.
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The government has agreed upon allocation of 26GHz of network and 3.5 GHz spectrum in the mmWave band for their 5G network trials and use cases. 5G has been acclaimed for its high speed and efficiency in regulating a network of surveillance and broadcasting, thus its ability to establish a well connected system in a city.
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Schools & Parks
Below are the following Houston Independent School District (HISD) schools that serve the Houston Heights:
- Crockett Elementary (Crockett attendance zone)
- Field Elementary (Field attendance zone)
- Harvard Elementary (Harvard attendance zone) – Harvard Elementary School is an IB World School for the Primary Years Programme (PYP). The school also received the National Blue Ribbon recognition in 2008.
- Helms Elementary (Helms attendance zone)
- Love Elementary (Love attendance zone)
- Sinclair Elementary (Sinclair attendane zone)
*Note: This information should be verified as school zoning can change from year to year.
Parks & Trails
Donovan Park represents the spirit of the Heights community as it was built (literally) by the
community in 1996. During a course of nine months many residents from the community came together to construct this popular playground, which is located at 7th St. and Heights Blvd. One of the playground attractions in the park, which many a child has enjoyed climbing on over the years, is the large wooden train (built by Paul Carr) that adorns the front left entrance of the park. According to the Houston Heights Association, “Donovan Park is the Cinderella story of a formerly underutilized park transformed into a unique fantasy play-space through the power of community involvement.”
Heights Hike and Bike Trail starts at Nicholson and 26th St., and heads south to 7th St., where one can head East and take the trail that leads towards downtown, connecting with either the Buffalo Bayou trail or the Lamar St. Trail, which the latter of the two will also connect to the Braeswood Bayou trail. If one travels West at 7th and Nicholson, they will connect to the White Oak Bayou trail. Additionally, on either side of Heights Blvd. there is a bike lane that goes from 4th St. to 20th St.
Paul Carr Jogging Trail is named in honor of the facilitator of the trail project. Paul Carr and his wife Mary, long-time residents of the Houston Heights, have contributed in so many ways to the community for decades. The trail is about 1.5 miles long and located on the center of Heights Boulevard esplanade. When you are jogging or running on the trail next time, don’t
forget to stop by WWII Memorial at 11th and Heights Blvd.
Marmiom Park is located at 18th St. and Heights Blvd. where the Cooley house once stood. The park was constructed by the Houston Heights Association, who manages and maintains the park today. Many wedding ceremonies and community events take place here, although a
reservation through the Houston Heights Association is required. The “Cooley Mansion” which sits at 1722 Heights Blvd. across from the Marmiom Park is a replica of the original structure and was built in 2000.
Love Park is located next to Love Elementary School at Lawrence and 12th St. It is a perfect picnic spot to gather with your friends and family on the weekends.

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Only Clouded Leopard Left in Taiwan Is Stuffed on a Museum Shelf
Scientists in Taiwan threw in the towel this week on the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura), a subspecies of big cat native to the island. For more than a decade, zoologists from Taiwan and the U.S. have been trying in vain to ...
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Kuder’s art is stylistic, full of clever layouts, and showcases some memorable character designs. His depiction of Parasite is just chilling. That Kuder dresses him in a jacket and a beanie somehow makes it worse because it humanizes him. Humanizes him not counting the fact that, you know, he has nasty purple skin and a mouth that makes the Reapers from Blade II look as kissable as a prom date.
On the narrative side of things, Kuder does a great job developing the character of Parasite -- better than a lot of other Villains Month issues that have followed the same formula. We meet Parasite and are drawn in by his characterization as that friend who mooches off of everyone and is generally a jerk. He’s not endearing or likable, but the way Kuder spins it, you can’t help but want to know more about the guy. And while Parasite’s craving for Superman is nothing new, it’s presented here in a way that makes it seem like a revelation. So not only does Kuder draw the hell out of this issue, but he makes the old seem fresh again. Well done, sir.

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Farming in the U.S. has gone through an incredible transformation in the last century, from highly diversified to highly specialized. Over that period, we’ve gone from 6.4 million farms to 2.1 million farms. Meanwhile, average farm size in the U.S. has increased from 148 acres in 1920 to 434 acres in 2012. Over the same period, Maryland went from 47,908 farms to 12,256 farms and average farm size has increased from 100 acres to 166.
It is interesting to note that in 1920 there were roughly the same number of farm owners 65+ in Maryland as there are farm operators now. However, there were 4,081 farm owner/operators <35 in Maryland in 1920 vs 603 farm operators <35 in 2012. This raises the question- who will replace our older farmers when they retire?
In 2008, the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) reported that 70% of U.S. farmland would change hands by 2028. Without adequate succession planning, CSREES reports that farms are more likely to go out of business, be absorbed by larger neighboring farms, or be converted for non-farm use. Studies have shown that family farms are only passed down successfully to the next generation about 30% of the time.
The next decade or so will be critical if we are to keep land in the families and/or create opportunities for others to farm. I have been in this job as Director of Maryland FarmLINK for three years. I had hoped that by pointing out the challenges for beginning farmers, and helping them to identify farms for sale or lease, we would make great progress. We have not.
If we don’t succeed it would be a huge missed opportunity. Our region is home to the wealthiest population in the country and those residents are spending roughly $26 billion on food. We have good soils, a climate suited to produce most crops and better than average rain fall.
Either our region can benefit from those food expenditures or some other region will. But this is not just an economic issue. Great local food chains, from seed to servings, give us control over the quality of our food, food security and food safety.
The main challenges for farmers are getting access to land, having the infrastructure to farm, having the right regulatory environment and getting level access to the markets. Over the next few weeks, I will discuss the challenges and the solutions.

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This months intent comes in late as I was unfortunately involved in a single motor vehicle accident which has forced me to be off on short term disability. With it comes our “given” intent by the Holy Spirit~Healing. I found the following write up at Archangel Oracle. What a beautiful message for all of us to hear.
Healing: “It is a time when the deeply buried wounds of the past are coming to the surface, ready and available to be healed.
The figure in this card is naked, vulnerable, open to the loving touch of existence. The aura around his body is full of light, and the quality of relaxation, caring and love that surrounds him is dissolving his struggle and suffering. Lotuses of light appear on his physical body, and around the subtle energy bodies healers say surround each of us. In each of these subtle layers appears a healing crystal or pattern.
When we are under the healing influence of the King Of Water we are no longer hiding from ourselves or others. In this attitude of openness and acceptance we can be healed, and help others also to be healthy and whole.
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens, because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for anything.
You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? – because there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word whole is beautiful. The word heal comes from the whole, and the word holy also comes from the whole. He is whole, healed, holy.
Be aware of your wound. Do not help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound will head; with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Just for twenty-four hours, try it – total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; do not react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.”
Sometimes we hold on to our pain, using it as a shield to protect ourselves from further pain. We think that by holding on to the experience, we will be able to avoid the same experience in the future. What we don’t realize, is that by holding on to the pain, we actually create more pain within ourselves. We hurt ourselves with the past, reliving it over and over again. Analyzing it to see where we went wrong; wondering how to prevent it; building a barricade around our hearts.
It’s time to let it all go. Heal.
We can heal when we decide to start with a clean slate and an open heart. When we release the past and embrace the present, experiencing our lives moment by moment and staying true to ourselves. This does not mean that nothing bad or uncomfortable will ever happen. It does not mean that we live in denial. It means that when we are sad, we feel it and process it and let it pass through us. When we are angry we express our feelings and move forward anyway. When we are in love we wrap our warm hearts around those closest to us and knock down the barriers. It does not mean we don’t have boundaries, as we will honour our true feelings with respect and dignity. But it does mean that we listen closely to our intuition; using it for our emotional gps through life.
Allow healing and move forward. Release the past and embrace the infinite possibility of the now.
Don’t hold back.

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The City of Rockford has cancelled its snow emergency effective at 3:00 p.m. March 6th.
The City has said that all city crews have finished plowing arterial routes and that the city's contractors have completed plowing residential routes.
The Village of Machesney Park snow emergency ended at 12:00 p.m. on March 6, 2013.
The City of Sterling has cancelled its snow emergency.
STATELINE (WIFR) -- Snow emergencies have been declared in multiple areas across the Stateline. Below is a list of all snow emergencies that have been declared in the area:
The City of Rockford has declared a citywide snow emergency starting March 5 at 10:00 a.m. The Odd/Even Parking will be in effect until the Public Works Department deems it is no longer necessary.
The Village of Cherry Valley has implemented its winter parking regulation of as of 9:00 a.m. Monday morning. The ordinance states that no vehicles are allowed to park on village streets for the duration of the winter storm warning, or until all streets have been cleared.
The Village of Machesney Park has declared a snow emergency starting at 3:00 p.m. March 4 and ending at 12:00 p.m. on March 6, 2013. All cars must be off both sides of the streets during the snow emergency. This may be extended depending on the amount of snow fall, when it ends and when plowing is completed. For the safety of employees, Machesney Park Village Hall will be closed on Tuesday March 5, 2013.
- Due to snowfall March 5, trash pick up in Machesney Park will be on Saturday 3-9-13 instead of Friday 3-8-13
The City of Freeport has declared a Snow Emergency effective at 7:00 a.m. March 5. The Winter Parking Regulations are in effect for the next 48 hours.
The City of Belvidere has declared a Snow Emergency. All vehicles are to be off the streets until further notice.
The City of Rochelle has announced that the winter storm parking snow ordinance is now in effect. The Odd/Even Parking ordinance is currently in effect for residential areas. On even dated days, parking is permitted on the even-numbered sides of the street and on odd dated days, parking is permitted on the odd-numbered sides of the street. The city also reminds residents not to plow, shovel or blow snow from your driveway into the street or onto a neighbor’s property.
The Village of Pecatonica is issuing a snow emergency effective today March 4 at 9 pm and ending Wednesday March 6 at 5 pm. The odd/even parking rules will be enforced.
The City of Sterling has declared that a Snow Emergency will be in effect March 5 at 8:00 a.m. The following restrictions are in place:
1. No parking on Snow Routes until all snow has been removed from the full width of the street.
2. No parking in the Central Business District and in city parking lots from 1:30 A.M. to 5:30 A.M.
3. Odd and even parking restrictions will be in effect on all other City Streets. On the odd days of the month, you park on the odd-numbered side of the street; and on even days of the month, you park on the even-numbered side of the street. Odd and even days will be considered as beginning between 6:00A.M. and 8:00 A.M. You will not be ticketed between 6:00A.M. and 8:00 A.M. Odd and even numbered sides of the street refer to the usual residence and building address numbers.
These parking restrictions will terminate block by block after the snowfall stops and when all accumulated snow has been removed from the full width of the street or when the snow emergency is cancelled by the City.
The City of South Beloit has declared a Snow Emergency.
The City of Beloit has declared a snow emergency starting at 11:00 a.m March 5, 2013 and ending at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2013.
The Village of Clinton (WI) has declared a Snow Emergency from 1:00 p.m. March 5 until 1:00 p.m. March 6. During the SNOW EMERGENCY, no one shall cause or allow the parking or standing of any vehicle, trailer or semi trailer, except emergency vehicles, upon any village street.


2016 so, so far away. We're not even sure if human civilization as we know it will exist then, but it's never too soon to make outlandish presidential predictions. We're dreaming of a Crist vs. Clinton matchup.
At this point, I don't see a Crist 2012 run as a reality. He's unpopular amongst the base
and his political positions on major issues don't separate him enough
from Obama. If he runs for re-election as Governor, he'd be out of office by early 2015, perfect timing to kick off a 2016 campaign. Meanwhile his party will have run some conservative dream ticket like Romney/Jindal or Limbaugh/Palin in 2012 that, unless Obama screws up big time, will probably lose horribly. Prevailing logic will then be to move the party back towards the center, and Crist will be there standing in the middle of the political spectrum with open arms.
Meanwhile, The New York Times
(via New York
) reports that the Hillary Clinton die-hards who find themselves working for her Senate replacement, Kirsten Gillibrand, fully expect her to run again in 2016.
Hillary will basically be like, "Look guys, I came so close in 2008, then I sucked it up, supported the hell out of this Obama fellow, and even became his Secretary of State. C'Mon. It's my turn now. C'Mon," and the Democratic infrastructure will collectively shrug and go "Umm, OK." In any event, her approval ratings have reached an all time high, of 59%, according to New York. (We're guess that's while as an elected official. Her approval ratings reached 80% after that whole Lewinsky affair.)
Of course, hopefully she'll be able to add some State Dept. achievements like "peace in the middle east," or "bringing about a free Cuba" to the plea. Who knows, maybe something horrible will happen
to Biden and she'll sneak her way into the VP slot in the second term and become the de fact front runner.
Imagine it. Since Jame Buchanon never ran for a second term against Lincoln, it will be the first time in American history when rumors about both candidates' sexuality have been circulated.


Server farm is almost done and will start expanding immediately
Editor’s note: This story is made possible through a content-sharing agreement with The Charlotte Observer. See the original post here.
By Celeste Smith, The Charlotte Observer
FOREST CITY — Your Facebook profile photo and status updates may soon live here.
Presenting what the company describes as innovative, energy-efficient technology, officials with the social-networking behemoth on Tuesday showed off the first of what could eventually be a three-building data center in Rutherford County.
The first building, scheduled to go online in March, will be capable of serving half the 800 million users now on Facebook, company officials said. Construction begins immediately on a second building, expected to be completed by September 2013.
The data center, about 75 miles west of Charlotte, will house well beyond tens of thousands of servers, although company officials will not give a specific number. The servers will be home to much of Facebook’s daily traffic – which now comes from more than 800 million users, producing 250 million daily photo uploads, and checking out any of 900 million “objects,” such as group pages or events.
The $450 million data center will serve the Eastern U.S. and Europe; Facebook’s only other facility of this kind is in Prineville, Ore.
The rare tour of the Facebook campus, which drew Gov. Bev Perdue and other local and state officials, underscored state officials’ efforts to lure high-profile companies to North Carolina to build data centers with the help of incentives. Companies have cited the state’s low-cost electricity, ready access to water for cooling purposes and significant state building incentives in their decisions to locate here.
Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is eligible for N.C. tax breaks and can receive up to $11.4 million in incentives from Rutherford County. More than 30 of the announced 42 jobs have been filled, and the second building is expected to increase the number of permanent jobs.
Although critics have questioned whether the relatively low number of jobs at Facebook and other N.C. data centers is worth the multimillion dollar investment of state and local tax money, Perdue said the incentives are valuable.
“Any investment to bring a brand like Facebook is a justifiable investment,” Perdue said, standing in front of a mural at the data center composed of 8,300 photos of people who “like” the Rutherford County center’s Facebook page.
N.C. data hub grows
Other companies now a part of the state’s data hub include Google, which built a $600 million facility in Lenoir that will eventually employ more than 200 people. The company received $4.8 million from the state and could receive more than $100 million in total benefits.
Apple, building a $1 billion data center in Maiden in Catawba County, received $21 million in incentives from the city and county after the state legislature approved $46 million in tax breaks. That center is expected to create 50 jobs and an additional 250 positions in maintenance and security.
Time Warner Cable announced in July it is building a new data center in Charlotte, adding 225. That project is eligible for up to $2.9 million in state funds over nine years if it meets annual performance targets.
Dale Carroll, deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Commerce, said Tuesday both the Apple and Google projects are “on target” with creating promised jobs. Carroll and Perdue also talked about other jobs these data center projects create in construction and contract work.
Facebook plans to share
The Facebook campus, launched 11 months ago, is still bustling with construction; facility leaders said the campus employs about 500 construction workers a day. About 70 percent are local contractors, the company said. By December, 600 construction workers are expected daily, when work on the second building is well under way.
Outside the Rutherford County center, large concrete panels, which one official said serve as an artistic reference to bar codes, sit near the building entrance. Inside the 390,000-square-foot, two-level building, there’s modern artwork and comfortable furniture in gathering areas.
While the thousands of servers for the building’s lower level are still weeks away from being installed, center officials provided a glimpse of the technology that will be used to cool and power the computing infrastructure. Facebook designed and built all the workings of the data center – including the architecture of the facility, the power and electrical systems and the creation of the servers – as part of its “open compute project,” meaning it will share its data center technology with other businesses.
The idea is to spread the word about the energy-efficient practices used here and at its Oregon site, said Tom Furlong, global director of site operations for Facebook. Although the site will not be open for general tours, company officials plan to share the technology at coming industry events.
Furlong said one of the center’s unique features is the efficient way that outside air is drawn in, filtered and chilled to keep the servers cool. Typically, cooling units are used for this job.
Normally, companies patent and protect such technology, data center manager George Henry said.
“We invent it, develop it, manufacture it, and release it to the public to use.”


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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This November in Washington D.C., an impressive roster of leading medical experts, renowned healthcare visionaries and top hospital executives will gather at a groundbreaking new conference to address the most critical challenges facing the future of the hospital industry.
Timing couldn't be better for the Hospital of Tomorrow forum. Slated for November 4 – 6, 2013, this top-tier summit occurs not only amid the swirl of uncertainty that surrounds the Affordable Care Act, but as hospital executives contend with a myriad of pressing issues: a shifting patient population, soaring costs, increasing payer and regulatory demands, and the impact of rapidly expanding technological innovation, to cite a few. Held in the nation's capital, where policy-making and hospital management now intersect in unprecedented ways, this unique collaboration will focus on spotlighting pioneering strategies and finding optimal solutions to help hospital leaders navigate healthcare's altered landscape.
Hospital of Tomorrow is produced by U.S. News & World Report, one of the nation's most influential media organizations and a world leader in industry rankings. For 23 years, U.S. News, through rigorous, data-supported analysis, has identified and ranked the best hospitals in the country. The media giant now extends its "Best Hospitals" mission to include this new executive summit, and it will reflect the views, vision and high standards of the nation's finest medical facilities, says Brian Kelly, Editor and Chief Content Officer of U.S. News. "The 'Best Hospitals' crowd is made up of people who are on the cutting edge of medicine's trends—in technology, personnel, patient care, finance. These top professionals and other visionaries will be well represented at the summit, and we're planning to draw heavily on their expertise and leadership to ensure a premier event," says Kelly.
Given the anticipated caliber of its speakers and presenters, Hospital of Tomorrow will attract top-level healthcare executives from across all disciplines—CEOs, CIOs, CMOs and CFOs from thousands of hospitals throughout the country. Conferees will have the opportunity to participate in education sessions, workshops and round-table discussions led by the nation's most distinguished healthcare experts and innovators. Topics of critical interest include: Reinventing the Business Model; Smart ICUs; Telehealth; Value-Based Care; Connected Hospitals; Disaster Planning and Emergency Preparedness; Personalized Medicine; Chronic Care Management; Data Security and Privacy, Workforce Shifts and Shortages; and Patient Safety and Quality.
Participation will be limited to 750 C-Suite executives. Those interested in attending, presenting or becoming a sponsor may visit www.USNewsHospitalofTomorrow.com for up-to-date information.
Hospital of Tomorrow, produced by U.S. News and World Report, will bring together the country's top medical executives, experts and thought leaders, with the goal of providing next and best practices to hospitals for maintaining the highest standards of care and equip them for success during uncertain times. The inaugural annual event will be held in Washington, D.C., November 4 – 6, 2013.
U.S. News and World Report is a print and digital publisher of news and information in the areas of politics, policy, education, health care, personal finance and other topics of consumer interest. A world leader in ranking and research, it has identified the nation's top medical facilities annually for the last 23 years.
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OHIO – It’sa crawdad on their lawns, and wondering how they got there.
The reality is that these specialized lobsters live in holes and not in lakes and streams. As long as you are close to a water source with a water table underground that’s where this particular species of crayfish “crawdad” live. The Burrowing Crayfish is most often active on the surface of the ground during the spring and with this warm wet weather it’s perfect for them to get out and spawn
Burrowing crayfish in Ohio belong to one of two genera in the family Cambaridae: Cambarus and Fallicambarus
Mudbugs (another name they are called) live where they can dig down and access the water table, that’s how they survive. The digging action pushes mud to the surface and creates a mud chimney or volcano.
These land-lobsters like their aquatic cousins still need water to survive and have gills, but invertebrates simply don’t need as much oxygen as other creatures. That’s why you see crabs on land at beaches often washed up after the tide goes out, inverts can live a lot longer out of the water than fish, and that’s what gives this creature the ability to become land bound.

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In September of this year, the University of Minnesota Press sent me, at my request, a copy of a translation of the French philosopher Michel Serres’s Biogée, which the Press was distributing for a smaller publishing company, Univocal. As is my wont, I began reading the book to get an idea what it was like, whether it was indeed worth reviewing, and who among Zeteo’s ever-expanding corps of reviewers I should ask to review it. Serres is a very special writer— poetic or mythopoetic, one could say quickly—and not for everyone. He demands a degree of patience that I, for one, do not always have. But on pages 20 and 21 of the translation (by Randolph Burks) I came across the following awfully wonderful paragraph. I might equate it to a grain of radioactive material, for its concentrated power, its potential to illuminate in an energizing and frightening way.
[D]o murderous societies exist? Yes, we answer—no doubt so as not to look at ourselves—we cite the Nazis, the Stalinist party, the sicarians of Pol Pot . . . under the heading of crimes against humanity. [But] have we now thought more deeply about the crimes of the collective, whichever it may be, when it doesn’t have some bloody madman at its head? Can we find a single society that, in the course of its history, has never declared war, never had its own children killed by its neighbors while killing its neighbors’ children, never committed the crime of selling arms, persecuted some minority, hanged slaves and foreigners, stoned adulterous women, condemned innocents to death, sung of, glorified ten murderers praised in the history books and statufied on horseback in public squares? Which one, in addition, never waged war on the world by devastating rivers and seas? Murderers, all societies have lived in the state of mortal sin for millennia. Of original sin? Yes, original, since the blood of a scapegoat victim, lynched, glues the collective together, murderous so as to establish itself. How does it happen that society accuses and punishes an individual who, perchance, has killed, while no society, no individual, accuses society which, for its part, always kills? For, killer, the collective collects itself by killing.
Somewhat secondarily, this passage—which soon I was quoting to so many different people in so many different contexts—has made me wish that I already had in hand a reviewer for Biogée, and for two other books that arrived in September and seemed to deserve serious consideration and readers. This feeling led in turn to the following column, let’s call it, whose overarching purpose is to call attention to recently published books that, to my mind, may have some greatness in them. As I have not fully read the books, I cannot say that these are great books, but I certainly recommend them.
As a small boy, living in Saratoga, California, with my mother, stepfather, and younger sister, I spent as much time outdoors as possible and even now, more than four decades later, my memories of the landscape are vivid, in contrast to what little I recall of my home’s interior. The layout of the house’s rooms, its furniture and ambiance, mostly remain a mystery. I must have shut most of these memories away, for that house is where I was first molested by my stepfather—
While not thoroughly reading, I did skip ahead to see where one might arrive after such a beginning. I found that it was to a place less surprising than touching. On an intellectual level I was reminded of a lesson learned long ago reading Nabokov—that the struggle to find abstract structures to contain our losses and disappointments, our longings and elation—and be the resulting structure, for example, a legal process or a scholarly paper, a classification system or a map . . . The resulting structure may contain, and it may convey to those who have learned how to listen in a particular way, more of our emotions and of the struggle of life than do creations that superficially seem to be more emotional. (E.g., supposing I said, or wrote as a short poem, “I still am angry and will never stop being angry.” Or—there is in fact a whole essay to be written about all this—I am recalling a moment in a docudrama when the dramatized father of John Lennon, the late Beatle, asks his now famous son to forgive him for his rather dismal failure to do much of any fathering, and the Lennon character so rightly answers that there are some things that cannot be forgiven.)
In any case, Norment, for his part, and in concluding his penultimate chapter, writes:
Around 1:30 in the morning we pull off the interstate and find a place beside the Stillwater River [in South Dakota] to throw our sleeping bags. Martin [Norment’s son] is asleep almost immediately, and for awhile I listen to the quiet rhythm of his breathing, the tumble of the river across a field of boulders. The sweet riparian smell rises into the night; above us are cottonwoods and an ocean of western stars. I muse about where we have been, and the maps of my longing: to love this land, and my people.
There is, finally, no need to be lonely.
The third and final book for this October is Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello (Columbia University Press, 2012). This is a textbook, perhaps the first textbook, for an apparently growing field: human-animal studies (HAS), “sometimes known as anthrozoology or animal studies . . . an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds and the interactions humans have with them.” It is written and designed in a quite basic manner, as if for people who were themselves rather basic and needed to be taken through the subject at a measured pace. But somehow that is part of the book’s charm. Writers on animal rights can get quite impassioned or, if they are philosophers, they have a tendency to disappear into what, to me, is the darkness of applied ethics. But DeMello, by contrast, mainly gives information, lots of information—on everything from domestication; zoos, racing and fighting; “the making and consumption of meat”; pets; animals and science; animals in human thought, religion, folklore, film. (I am just scratching the surface here.) One quotation from this cornucopia:
Researchers believe that years of domestication have led to dogs losing the problem-solving skills they once had in the wild. In behavioral studies, pet dogs fail basic intelligence tests that wolves and wild dogs pass with ease. The findings [DeMello cites an article on dingoes by Bradley Philip Smith and Carla Anita Litchfield] suggest dogs are now so dependent on people that they are “stupid” versions of their forefathers. Another way to look at this is to say that as dogs became dependent on people, they got better at communicating with humans and using us as tools. Rather than opening doors themselves, domesticated dogs just wait until we open them for them!
Will it one day be said of we homo sapiens that years of something—of consumer capitalism? of electronic devices? of living in megacities?—contributed to our losing some of the intelligence we once had? And may libraries continue to preserve books—“real books,” with a smell and a feel and a weight, and that facilitate jumping around and stumbling on thought-, feeling- or imagination-provoking passages, such as those quoted above.
— Wm. Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser
For others of William’s reviews for Zeteo, see:
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Adorno Was Right? Consumer culture is “a medium of undreamed of psychological control”? A review by William Eaton of Daniel Horowitz’s Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Sutra as Power Play, a review of The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript translated by Philip B. Yampolsky and Readings of the Platform Sutra, edited by Morten Schlutter and Stephen F. Teiser (both from Columbia University Press, 2012).

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Difference Between Hybrid Car and Normal Car
The force of traction in a hybrid and a normal car is provided by a power train. Main difference between two (hybrid car and normal car) is the number of trains of available potency to answer the force of traction. Conventional car occupies the single group power train in general with an internal combustion (IC) of the motor. Car crosses constituted have two trains of potency especially with a motor with combustion and a motor of electrical traction fed by a battery of accumulators. Hybrid car can be introduced to a man as middle way between the conventional car and an electrical car, having optimized advantages of two in practice to accomplish advantages to dream about an electrical saloon car about ideal.
The group power train of a normal car is made up of a thermal motor, clutch or the torque converter, transmission, final transmission and differentiated to feed the tree of training, and driving wheels. Power should also be provided for the auxiliary systems, as the power steering, etc control of climate, in the train potency. Definitely, there is a system of recovery of energy inserted to recover the warmth of the motor for the heating of waste around cold climate; there is no sophisticated system of management of energy generated in a normal car.
The conceptual shape of a hybrid vehicle is composed of subsystems such as propulsion with thermal motor, electrical propulsion, energy of the system of supply of pence, which is made up of a source of energy, the unit of management of energy, unit of energy of provision, then an auxiliary system under, which uses the power of control of climate, power steering etc The various modalities of these subsystems is to classify the hybrid cars in some main types introducing different advantages.
The use of different combinations of two propulsions is also used to categorize hybrid types, and options which are used to provide a potency of traction in the hybrid cars. Driving motor alone, at the same time and the propulsion at the same time is not easy. The motor of feeding of the load acquires (stopping), the engine of the motor and the load at the same time. The power generated in the hybrid car is transferred from engine to the load, motor to the load and vice versa.
The main categories of hybrid based cars on hybrid options on above propulsion are (Honda Insight), light parallel hybrids (Honda Civic), hybrids classify and series – parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius).
In hybrids series, the motor turns a generator which provides feeding to recharge the battery and power to run the vehicle. Parallel hybrid allows the vehicle to run by the motor with combustion or an electrical motor individually or together. In electrical behavior, clutch between the motor and transmission is opened while you drive with motor IC, the functioning of the motor and the motor of synchronization.
Although there is almost nothing to put in an obvious place as disadvantages, except the high cost of manufacture and the loss of power during double conversion, there are numerous advantages of the hybrid cars than the normal cars.


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There are many home remedies for kidney infection cure without antibiotic. Mainly these remedies are preventive in nature so they can cure mild kidney infection and help with the severe infection. Mainly these remedies are preventive in nature so they can cure mild kidney infection and help with the severe infection.
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Overview. Kidney helps to throw out all the toxin and extra water of blood. Organs are a portion of the urinary estate that forms urine or pee and.
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What is diabetic kidney disease? Diabetic kidney disease is a type of kidney disease caused by diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease. About 1 out of 4 adults with diabetes has kidney disease. 1 The main job of the kidneys is to filter wastes and extra water out of your blood to.
Kidneys get rid of the toxins and waste present in the blood and keep it clean. For this reason, you should take a kidney infection very seriously. Many circumstances put you at risk of developing a kidney infection. There are a few home remedies for kidney infections you can try while following your doctor’s advice.
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Kidney infection can be any infection including bladder infection, urine infection and any other kind of infection in the urinary tract. The best possible home treatment for kidney infection is cranberry juice.
Kidney infection is medically termed pyelonephritis. It is a type of urinary tract infection that is triggered by bacteria that goes from the urinary tract, bladder, urethra to the kidney.
Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) Treatment.To treat CKD from the root, western therapy and Chinese therapy should be combined to both alleviate symptoms and repair kidney damages and improve kidney function.
We hope that you have gone through all of our 44 home remedies for kidney infection that you can easily use at home to help yourselves not to suffer from the symptoms of kidney infection any more. If you have any contributing ideas about our article of “44 home remedies for kidney infection” introduced in Home Remedies Category , feel free to leave your words below this post.
Kidney stones will usually require more serious treatment, but a kidney infection can be treated more easily through natural remedies. And, these natural remedies can help reduce the pain that you experience in your kidneys. 1. Drink more water. This is obviously the most natural remedy, but it’s also one of the most effective.
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o Just what is Kamagra?
* Kamagra can be a medication prescribed for the impotence problems of males. It’s a type of generic Viagra or Sildenafil Citrate utilized to treat sexual disorder that face men. It really is produced by Ajanta Pharma Ltd.
o What is Erectile Dysfunction?
* Impotence problems will be the wherewithal to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for a mutually satisfying intercourse.
o Could it be a prescription drug?
* Kamagra is often a medication that is available at authorized chemists.
o So how exactly does it work?
* It operates by increasing the circulation of blood of your penis. The drug contains substances much like that relating to Pfizer’s Viagra.
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* It really is as effectual because the original Viagra
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ByJamie Ertle|August 27, 2020 at 10:52 PM EDT - Updated August 27 at 10:52 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A World War Two veteran walking across the country for the second time is calling it quits.
A World War Two veteran walking across the country for the second time - is calling it quits. (Source: WTOC)
We caught up with Ernie Andruslast summerwhen he began his second Coast 2 Coast run. He started in St. Simons, and by this week, the 97-year-old had made it to Texas, north of Houston.
Hurricane Laura paused his run, but ultimately a foot infection has put a potential stop to his historic trip.
Ernie is going home to California to seek treatment. We’ll let you know the latest on his progress.
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Office of Mayor Gavin Buckley
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Mitchelle Stephenson, 410-972-7724 or firstname.lastname@example.org
Housing Authority and City of Annapolis
Kick Off Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Officials Conducted ‘Virtual’ Site to Eastport Terrace and Harbour House
Annapolis, MD (March 10, 2022) – On Wednesday, March 10, officials from the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis (HACA), the City of Annapolis, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) met for a virtual site visit to kick off a two-year planning process for the potential future redevelopment of Eastport Terrace and Harbour House. The meeting was an introduction of the HUD team to: HACA, City officials and department heads, community stakeholders, and the properties that are subject to a HUD Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) grant.
Choice Neighborhoods is a HUD grant program that leverages public and private dollars to support struggling neighborhoods with distressed public housing. HACA and the City of Annapolis applied for Eastport Terrace and Harbour House to be included in the 2021 grant cycle. In November, the grantees were awarded a $450,000 Planning Grant to begin the process of developing a comprehensive plan to revitalize the two neighborhoods.
The Wednesday meeting began with introductions from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley and HACA Executive Director Melissa Maddox-Evans. During the four-hour meeting, HUD officials heard from City officials, community stakeholders and residents of Eastport Terrace and Harbour House on a variety of topics, including public safety, economic development opportunities, demographic assessments, and education and schools. The kickoff event ended with a discussion of the planning process.
“The conditions of the property and deferred maintenance issues long predate both myself and Melissa,” Mayor Buckley said. “We can’t make up for those lost opportunities and those challenges, but we can acknowledge them and begin to move forward.”
According to the HUD award letter, Planning Grants “enable communities to create a rigorously-developed plan and build support necessary for neighborhood transformation to be successful.”
Throughout the two-year planning process that the Planning Grant covers, HACA and the City will work with community partners and neighborhood stakeholders to create a Transformation Plan for Eastport Terrace-Harbour House. At the end of the planning process, if the component pieces are all in place, including plans for Housing, Neighborhood, People, and Financing, HACA and the City may be eligible to draw down on the funding necessary to implement the redevelopment. The funding allocations are to be determined but could be tens of millions of dollars in federal investments.
ABOUT EASTPORT TERRACE-HARBOUR HOUSE: The Harbour House/Eastport Terrace target neighborhood is a 29-acre parcel in Eastport that includes Eastport Terrace, 84 public housing apartments built in 1953, and Harbour House, 274 public housing apartments built in 1964.
ABOUT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE: For more than two decades, CNI grants have helped transform some of the most distressed public housing in the nation, in cities including Perkins Somerset Oldtown in Baltimore (slated for completion in 2024) as well as Seattle, Cincinnati, San Antonio, Tampa and Baltimore.
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