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If the city signs the agreement with the county, Casselberry would be dropped from the suit, said Montye Beamer, assistant county administrator. |
Among concerns expressed by council members is the time frame for improvements that would be made at the Red Bug Road-State Road 436 and Seminola Boulevard-Winter Park Drive intersections. |
A tie vote by council members rejected an earlier version of the interlocal agreement. |
Council member Andrea Dennison, who was absent when that vote was taken last month, said Monday she favors signing the agreement "so we can get on with this impact fee program." |
The impact fee would be levied on residential and commercial developers to be used for road improvements. County officials have said they expect to collect $90 million over the next 20 years. |
Changes in the agreement relate to plans for improving the intersection at Seminola Boulevard and Winter Park Drive and changing a date for notifying the county of pending residential or commercial developments. |
Beamer said a specific date for improvements to the intersection could not be included in a proposed temporary agreement that would expire Sept. 30. |
Council member Frank Schutte said he wasn't satisfied because the agreement was too vague. |
Council member Tom Embree, irritated by the county's lawsuit, indicated he wouldn't vote for the agreement. |
Embree said he was angry that, "The county uses the arm of the law to put the hammer on you. It would be damn hard to be cooperative when the county slaps us in the face." |
Beamer replied that the suit was no more a "slap than the moratorium is to us." |
Gary Stewart, a Tallahassee lawyer representing the county in the lawsuit, said it was the only way to get a judgment to resolve the dispute. "The court does not give advisory opinions." |
-- Agreed 3 to 2 to rezone property off Piney Ridge Drive to professional, despite the planning board's recommendation that it should be residential. Council members Andrea Dennison and Phyllis Sheppard opposed. |
The small corner lot was zoned commercial in 1969, before the city adopted a comprehensive land-use plan to guide development. |
Both commercial and professional zoning conflict with the comprehensive plan. But City Attorney Kenneth McIntosh said that, if there were a court challenge, the city would lose because the ongoing professional use set a precedent. |
Landowner Stuart Culpepper wants to build a three-story office building on the lot. |
-- Delayed deciding how to spend $27,264 in federal revenue-sharing money until a workshop at 7 p.m. Thursday. Mayor Owen Sheppard had recommended spending $18,000 to build an employees' parking lot at city hall and $7,500 for a survey of Secret Lake Park, but there was opposition among council members. |
Dennison said she would rather use the money to expand the fire station on Lake Triplet Drive. Schutte suggested there might be other projects that would take precedence. |
The money must be committed or spent by Sept. 30. |
-- Said it could not grant a waiver to allow construction of a gas station at Timberlane Trail and State Road 434 unless it amends a city code provision that prohibits two stations within 750 feet of each other. |
Gene Duffy, representing Amoco Oil Co., wanted the council to waive the 750-foot rule because the Board of Adjustments could not. But McIntosh said the code, adopted for health and safety reasons, "is not subject to waiver." A second part of the rule limiting overbuilding that would create eyesores could be changed thr... |
Midland County Clerk Ann Manary announced recently that 6,000 Midland County residents would receive a Juror Qualification Questionnaire in the mail. |
Individuals were randomly selected by computer, from an index of all Midland County residents currently holding a Michigan Driver License or a Michigan Personal Identification Card. |
Receipt of this questionnaire means the person is being considered as a potential juror for Midland County for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 and ending Sept. 30, 2013. |
Residents are required by state law to fill out the qualifying questionnaire and return it to the County Clerk’s Office no later than 10 days from the date it is received. Receipt of the questionnaire does not necessarily mean a person will be selected to serve. Out of the 6,000 questionnaires mailed out, only about ha... |
The “Midland County Jury Board” will review the questionnaires. The Jury Board consists of three individuals appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the circuit court judges. The Jury Board will remove individuals who have cause for exemption. You are exempt if: You are not a United States citizen, you do ... |
Once the Jury Board determines the eligible questionnaires, names may be selected via computer to serve on a jury panel for circuit, district or probate court. Jurors will be sent a summons from the court notifying them that they have been selected to serve for a specific month well in advance for planning personal and... |
The normal length of a jury trial in Midland County is several days to a week. Jurors are paid $12.50 for the first day and $20 per day for all subsequent days. Mileage is paid at a rate of 30 cents per mile for one roundtrip from a person’s home to the courthouse per day. |
The Property: The view from the rooftop deck of this house takes in much of what makes Bucktown so great: a mix of vintage and contemporary homes, landmark buildings, church spires, and a blanket of trees. What’s more, the vista includes the lakefront and downtown skylines—and there’s also another interesting perspecti... |
Karen Ranquist, the agent representing the house for the sellers, Chris and Laura Shapland, notes that, while this house and its neighbor touch one another and have light wells in the same location, “it’s laid out so that you’re not looking at each other.” Hallways and well-placed angles preserve privacy. |
Past the light well is the large combined kitchen and dining room, both outfitted sleekly, with espresso-colored cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, and a generally sedate atmosphere punctuated by two orange light fixtures that provide what Ranquist calls a “pop of color.” At the rear of this level is a family room ... |
One flight up is the family bedroom floor, where each of three bedrooms has a wall of windows (one room looks into the light court) and wood floors. Above that is the master bedroom floor, with a large bedroom whose eastern view stretches to the Hancock Center, a bath with a big soaking tub splashed with light from the... |
Topping things off is the rooftop deck with that panoramic view. It’s a great feature, but its openness is complemented by the family-room deck two levels down, where walls surround the space and provide a more relaxed and contained mood. |
Price Points: The Shaplands are relocating out of state, Ranquist says, and listed the house in February. In 2008, they bought the house newly built from Jodi Development for $2.3 million. Ranquist says that her client’s additional investments in the property included a whole-house sound system, an electronic system th... |
This lot is just waiting for you to build your new custom home in One of Myrtle Beach's Best Kept Secrets... Cypress River Plantation. This is an Upscale Gated Community that is Located along the beautiful Waccamaw River and is Placed in the Award-Winning St. James School District. This Exclusive Community has a lot to... |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One of the big races that has garnered plenty of attention is the run for U.S. Senate in Tennessee. Some say the race between Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen is one of the closest in a while. |
Blackburn serves as the U.S. Representative for the state's seventh congressional district, and Bredesen is a two-term former Tennessee governor. |
Blackburn was back in Memphis on election day. She greeted supporters and customers at Gibson's Donuts on Mt. Moriah. It's the final hours of her U.S. Senate race and she says she's confident. |
"This is going to be a great day. We are so excited. People are voting. And tonight, I am going to be your next U.S. Senator." |
Blackburn continues to push the difference between herself and candidate Phil Bredesen as the race comes to a close. |
"People want to make sure we keep the Trump tax cuts. We know Phil Bredesen called them a crime and said he would have voted against them. So we feel really good about where we are," she said. |
Blackburn says she'll be stumping for votes until 7 p.m. Tuesday night. Then she'll head back to watch the results come in. |
Bredesen is doing the same with roughly two hours to go before the polls close. |
Democratic volunteers are knocking on doors, trying to get the last minute voters to the polls and sell them on Bredesen. The former governor served from 2003 to 2011. |
He highlights the fact the he balanced straight budgets, opposed a state income tax and reformed Tennessee's Medicaid Expansion Program. |
He also raised teacher pay, brought new business to the state and helped preserve thousands of acres of land. Many of his accomplishments were made possible by his willingness to work with Republicans. |
Shelby County Democrats say that makes him the right choice to represent Tennesse in the Senate. |
"He has run statewide before. He has governed statewide before, and I think he's got a lot of positive perception on the Republican side of the aisle. There's a lot of people on the right who said, 'Hey, we remember your time as governor fondly. And we'd like those times to come back," Shelby County Democratic Party Ch... |
In the quest for youth—or at least a more youthful appearance—women and men are seeking treatments to minimize laugh lines, crow’s feet, and frown lines, as well as to plump up lips and cheeks. A popular treatment involves injecting dermal fillers into the face. In studies of FDA-approved dermal fillers, people general... |
They are highly satisfied with the ability of these medical devices to improve the appearance of wrinkles or facial features (e.g., lips or cheeks) and restore a youthful appearance. |
But Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical officer Janette Alexander, M.D., advises that it’s important to know the risks before having the treatment. |
What are Dermal Fillers, and How Are They Used? |
Injectable dermal fillers are soft tissue and wrinkle fillers approved by FDA as medical devices. Generally, these products are injected into the skin to help fill in facial wrinkles, restoring a smoother appearance. In addition, fat taken from other body areas is often used with the same goals. Alexander says that mos... |
FDA has approved only one permanent wrinkle filler, which contains the polymethylmethacrylate beads. These are tiny round, smooth, biocompatible plastic particles that are not absorbed by the body. The filler is FDA-approved only for correcting facial tissue around the mouth. |
In addition, FDA has approved a number of injectable dermal fillers that are temporary because the body eventually absorbs them. These products are used for correcting soft tissue defects in the face, such as moderate to severe facial wrinkles and skin folds, lip and cheek augmentation, and to restore or correct the si... |
FDA has not approved dermal fillers for increasing breast or buttock size or for injections anywhere else than the face. |
• scarring, blurred vision, partial vision loss, and blindness if the dermal filler is inadvertently injected into a blood vessel. It is recommended that health care providers take care to avoid injection into blood vessels (especially around the forehead, nose and eye area) for these reasons. |
• allergic reaction that may lead to a severe reaction (anaphylactic shock) that requires emergency medical help. |
• active inflammatory condition (cysts, pimples, rashes or hives) or infection; you should postpone treatment until the condition is controlled. |
• The safety of these products is unknown for use in pregnant or breastfeeding women or in patients under 18 years of age. |
• The safety is unknown if used with Botox or other wrinkle therapies. |
• You should be able to get patient labeling information on FDA approved injectable wrinkle fillers from your health care professional. |
• Know the type of product to be injected and all of its possible side effects. Know where each product used is to be injected. |
• Do not buy dermal fillers on the Internet. They may be fraudulent, tainted, and/or harmful. |
Botox Cosmetic and other botulinum toxin type A products such as Dysport and Xeomin are indicated for treatment of wrinkles. They are injectable drugs, but not dermal fillers. They work by keeping muscles from tightening so the wrinkles don’t show as much. FDA has approved these products only for the temporary improvem... |
With all the discussion over the need for healthcare in the U.S., one question is never asked: is a person’s health insurable? |
The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises helped clarify what types of events are open to insurance when he defined two types of probability. Case probabilities are those events for which we know some of the factors that will determine an outcome, but for which there are other factors we know absolutely nothing about. Fo... |
Death is an event that falls into this latter category of class probabilities. Death is, paradoxically perhaps, the most and least certain of all events that will happen in your life. Everyone knows that they will die, but no one knows exactly when, of what, where, or why. Yet because everyone dies, we can all be place... |
Life insurance works because insurance companies can play the averages. Some people who own a life insurance policy will die before the insurance company earns enough money on the premiums to pay the death benefit. In this case the company loses money. It offsets these losses with the gains it makes on those who die lo... |
Discrimination in the life insurance market is not only a fact of life; it is fair. Every policy holder pays according to his odds of death. People are free to undertake risky activities, but they must pay the price. People who choose to live less risky lives — that is to say, avoiding those activities that increase on... |
Health insurance could possibly exist in this way. There are class probabilities for certain diseases, both communicable and not. There are also known risk factors for diseases and ailments. Smokers are more likely to get lung cancer; bull riders are more at risk of suffering broken bones; economics professors might su... |
Some types of medical impairments, however, are not open to being insured. They do not belong to any definable class which lends itself to coverage. The causes of Parkinson’s disease, for example, are still hotly debated and there is no clear explanation as to what causes it; it is just the luck of the draw. Some types... |
“Ought presupposes can” and before answering whether people “ought” to have health insurance we must answer whether they “can” have it. |
For some types of ailments health insurance is a viable option. For others, the possibility of coverage just doesn’t exist. One of the cornerstones of Obamacare is that “you cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.” Not only does this compromise the usefulness of insurance by muddying the definition of a ... |
The recognition that some health risks can be insured must come with a warning: just because health insurance can exist on a limited range of ailments does not answer the question of why it should be mandated. After all, our daily food and water requirements are at least as much a matter of life and death as our daily ... |
Likewise, just because healthcare is expensive is not a necessary or sufficient condition for mandating coverage. There are all sorts of goods and services that are pricey and which insurance coverage to purchase is not mandated. A better question to ask is “why is healthcare so expensive.” Many people have answered th... |
Answering the question of “why” health insurance is needed is fundamentally distinct from the question of “can” we provide health insurance and if so, what ailments are coverable. To the extent that only some diseases and ailments are insurable, health insurance is, at least for now, a somewhat limited undertaking. Oba... |
Offering insurance without reference to the specific insurable class, or by purposefully grouping uninsurable risks with an insurable class, removes any economic rationale in determining the appropriate insurance coverage and rates. If you think healthcare pricing seems nonsensical now, just wait until you see what hap... |
*About the author: Dr. David Howden is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and Chair of the Department of Business and Economics, and professor of economics, at Saint Louis University at its Madrid campus. He is also Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, and the founding editor of the Journal... |
Sasha Bezmel will face more tough times on Home and Away. |
Home and Away's Sasha Bezmel will face more tough times in the coming weeks as she experiences cruel bullying. |
Sasha, played by Demi Harman, is victimised by show newcomer Christie in the aftermath of Stu Henderson's mysterious death. |
Christie was close to Stu (Brenton Thwaites) before his passing and takes her grief out on Sasha as she is suspicious of her. |
Isabelle Cornish, who appears as Christie for a guest stint, told TV Week: "Christie was great friends with Stu and had a crush on him, so she's really upset when she finds out he died. She's on a mission to find out who's responsible. |
"Christie doesn't like Sasha. Her aim is to destroy her. She tries to get rid of her friends, bully her and make her uncomfortable." |
Revealing what it was like to film the scenes, she continued: "I had to make myself believe Sasha was a really bad person and that I wanted her to feel unhappy. It was pretty crazy playing Christie - I had to chill out afterwards!" |
Stu was involved in a domestic violence storyline with Sasha before his death. |
During the Easter season our liturgy and prayers have noticeable differences, such as extra Alleluias during Mass, the saying of the Regina Coeli instead of the Angelus. This author suggests reviving the old English custom of standing during prayers during the Easter season. |
From Easter Sunday until Whitsun (Pentecost) one could follow the old custom of not kneeling to pray. Thus, grace before meals, night and morning prayers, could all be said standing, as a reminder of two things — first that Christ rose from the dead and that no power of man was able to keep him prostrate in his tomb; s... |
One might also, instead of grace before meals, sing a simple alleluia. |
The match was goalless during the first period, but sprung to life during the second at the Crystal Ice Arena in Krasnoyarsk. |
Maksim Dzhioshvili scored first for Russia in the 35th minute, before Slovakia equalised two minutes later through Sebastian Smida. |
The second period ended at 1-1, but the score did not stay that way for long. |
One minute into the third period, Dmitry Kolgotin put Russia ahead. |
A nervy 20 minutes awaited Russia, but they managed to maintain their lead to receive the last gold medal of the Universiade as the buzzer blew. |
This was the third consecutive time that Russia have won the men's ice hockey at the Winter Universiade. |
"We must pay tribute to the Slovaks, who spent the entire tournament at an excellent level and displayed their strength," said Russian player Dmitrii Kolgotin. |
"In the second period, they played very well, but as they say, the strongest are the luckiest. |
"It is the first time I have been called to play for the national team and my first time at the Universiade. |
"And how great it is that we managed to win." |
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