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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Installing Outdoor Patio Pavers in Takoma Park and Wheaton, MD 

Installing outdoor patio pavers is a great way to enhance one’s backyard in Takoma Park and Wheaton, MD, creating a beautiful, durable space for entertaining and relaxation. Achieving a professional-looking, long-lasting patio requires careful planning and attention to detail. Whether one wants to handle the job themselves wants to hire a professional, it's essential to be aware of common mistakes to ensure the success of the project. Here’s a guide on what to watch out for when installing patio pavers in Takoma Park and Wheaton, MD:

1. Skipping Proper Site Preparation One of the most common mistakes when installing patio pavers is failing to adequately prepare the site. Proper site preparation is crucial for ensuring that the pavers are level and stable over time. The ground must be properly graded to allow for water drainage and prevent the pavers from sinking or shifting. Before laying any pavers, remove any existing grass, rocks, or debris. It is crucial to dig down to a depth of at least 4 to 6 inches to accommodate the base materials, such as gravel and sand. Ensure the ground is slightly sloped to promote water drainage, moving away from structures like your home or retaining walls. ​ 2. Neglecting Proper Base Material The base is the foundation of the patio, and its quality directly affects the durability and stability of the pavers. Many homeowners make the mistake of using poor-quality base material or not compacting it properly. A weak or uneven base will lead to pavers shifting over time, creating an unsightly and unsafe surface.

3. Improperly Installing Edge Restraints

Edge restraints are necessary to keep the pavers in place and prevent them from shifting or spreading over time. Neglecting to install edge restraints, or using the wrong type, can result in the patio losing its shape and becoming uneven. These restraints will hold the pavers in position and prevent them from moving. One needs to ensure that the edge restraints are firmly anchored into the base material to prevent them from lifting.

4. Not Accounting for Proper Drainage

Proper drainage is essential for any outdoor patio, especially in areas like Takoma Park and Wheaton, where rainfall can be frequent. Poor drainage can lead to water pooling on the surface or beneath the pavers, causing the base to erode and the pavers to sink or shift.

5. Laying Pavers Without a Clear Pattern

While the visual aspect of the patio is important, laying pavers without a clear plan or pattern can result in a disorganized and unattractive installation. Without proper alignment, pavers can look uneven or poorly placed, affecting the overall aesthetic. It is better to choose a pattern that suits the style of the patio and the surrounding landscape. Begin laying pavers at one corner or edge and work your way across, ensuring that each paver is aligned properly. Use a rubber mallet to tap them into place and ensure they are level. ​ 6. Failing to Fill the Gaps Between Pavers

The gaps between the pavers are often overlooked, but leaving them unfilled can lead to weeds growing through the cracks, shifting pavers, and water erosion. Properly filling these gaps ensures a more stable, durable, and long-lasting patio.

7. Ignoring Seasonal Timing

The timing of your patio installation in Takoma Park and Wheaton can impact the project’s success. Installing patio pavers during extreme weather conditions, such as heavy rain or freezing temperatures, can cause uneven settling or premature damage to the pavers.

The best time to install pavers during outdoor patio installation in Takoma Park and Wheaton, MD is during mild, dry weather, typically in the spring or fall. This ensures that the ground is not too wet, and temperatures are ideal for setting the pavers in place without freezing or shifting. 

8. Overlooking Maintenance Needs

Many homeowners forget to factor in maintenance when installing patio pavers. Over time, dirt, weeds, and algae can accumulate, affecting the appearance and functionality of your patio.

Regular maintenance is essential for keeping the patio looking its best.  

By taking the time to properly prepare the site, using quality materials, and address drainage concerns, homeowners can create a beautiful, durable outdoor area that will last for years. 

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Occupy the Democratic National Committee

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

Back in 2017, the Democratic National Committee's lawyers submitted a legal brief that didn't just say the quiet part out loud; they bellowed it: "[The DNC can] go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the [presidential] candidate that way":

https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/

The brief was submitted in the lawsuit between Bernie Sanders and the DNC. Sanders sued over the DNC changing the rules midway through 2016 process in order to sideline him and give the nomination to Hillary Clinton. The DNC's response boiled down to, "Sure, we cheated. So what? We, the committee, are ultimately answerable only to ourselves, and we can choose anyone to lead the party into any election."

The DNC is a weak institution, in other words. There's a universe in which that would be OK. After all, there's a lot of overhead that comes with making strong institutions, all those checks and balances and oversight and transparency soak up resources that you could be using to do other stuff. In an ideal world, a badly run Democratic Party would be spurred to improve after it lost elections, which would result in the defenestration of bad party bosses and the ouster of bad candidates:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/

But the US political system is not an ideal world. In the real world, it's possible for party bosses who pursue disastrous strategies that result in key electoral losses to remain in power. The Democratic Party still rakes in massive donations from people who hate Trump more than they hate the Democratic Party's incompetence. Candidates in gerrymandered safe seats can be wildly incompetent and still hold onto power for improbably long timescales, despite the manifest evidence of their total unfitness for office:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lipinski

In the absence of real consequences for corruption, incompetence and utter moral turpitude, the Democratic National Committee needs some other form of discipline to get it into fighting form. We need to occupy the DNC, strengthen its institutional safeguards, and turn it into an election-winning, fascism-fighting, extinction-rebelling, worker-defending powerhouse.

Three weeks from now, the DNC will meet in National Harbor MD to elect its new president and officers. Who gets to vote on that? The 448 members of the party's national committee. Who are they? As Micah Sifry writes for The American Prospect, it's a secret, even to the committee members:

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-10-opening-dncs-black-box/

No, really. While nominally, members can request a list of their fellow members, the DNC stalls and stonewalls and does everything it can to prevent the committee from communicating in any way they can't control. This is incredible, but it's true. Which is why Sifry has published a leaked list of all 448 members:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bQKIP3W1NWChRjSbsE0O5k5s7OdgXrJi5-CMfFECIBU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Looking at the spreadsheet of members, we get a rare glimpse inside the Democratic sausage factory. There's te 73 "at large" members who were voted on as a single block after being handpicked by outgoing president Jaime Harrison. These members are a mix of great people and terrible people, and that's by design: it meant that Sanders and Warren voters could only get their people onto the committee if they voted for some of the most disgusting corporate shills you can imagine.

The fact that the national committee's membership is secret and their communications must pass through a DNC chokepoint means that they get up to all kinds of shenanigans, like at the 2023 summer meeting where they voted themselves the power to throw out any bylaw amendments passed at a national party convention. The vote was whipped by paid DNC staff, creating an atmosphere so poisonous that Jessica Chambers (a rep from Wyoming) called the DNC "the least democratic organization that I’m involved with."

Sifry's breakdown is really useful: he identifies the minority of members who are elected by the party rank-and-file, calling them "the people most responsive to what the base of the party cares about." He also calls out the corporate shills who "buckrake as lobbists," like Donna Brazile, "a partner at “corporate reputation strategy firm.”

But even where state party organizations have elections for their committee members, some states keep the results of those elections a secret. Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have 69 members, but the identities of all but 14 of them are a secret.

This is a rotten institution, and that's by design. If you want to know why we can't have nice things – or, you know, a world that's not on fire and haunted by creeping fascism – this is why. The takeover of the DNC won't be easy, but it can't start until we know who the DNC is.

Check out my Kickstarter to pre-order copies of my next novel, Picks and Shovels!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/10/smoke-filled-room-where-it-happens/#dinosaurs

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I’m thrilled to share that I’m one of the semifinalists for the Wheaton Traffic Box Art Contest!

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Footnotes, 101-150

[101] Joost A. M. Meerloo, Mental Seduction and Menticide: The Psychology of Thought Control and Brain-Washing (London: Jonathan Cape, 1957), 163–164, 184.

[102] B. A. Robinson, “Promise Keepers, Pro and Con: Part 1,” Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, November 2, 2003, www.religioustolerance.org.

[103] Jena Recer, “Whose Promise Are They Keeping?” National NOW Times, August 1995, www.now.org.

[104] James Dobson, “Building Moral Character in Kids,” radio broadcast, Focus on the Family International, February 8, 2006, www.oneplace.com =2/8/2006.

[105] Tony Kushner, Angels in America (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995), 46.

[106] James Dobson, Marriage under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2004), 41.

[107] “Focus on the Family,” Citizen Magazine January 2003, quoted in Jeff Lutes, A False Focus on My Family (Lynchburg, VA: Soulforce, 2004), 8.

[108] Dobson, Marriage Under Fire, 49.

[109] James Dobson, Bringing Up Boys (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2001), 127.

[110] Robert Knight, “The Homosexual Agenda in Schools,” Family Research Council, quoted in Matthew Shepard, “Nazi Anti-Jewish Speech vs. Religious Right Anti-Gay Speech,” Hatecrime.org, www.hatecrime.org.

[111] P. Gibson, “Gay Males and Lesbian Youth Suicide,” in M. R. Feinleib, ed., Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide, Volume 3: Prevention and Interventions in Youth Suicide(Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Public Health Service; Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1989; DHHS publication ADM 89–1623), 110.

[112] Pat Robertson, quoted in Richard K. Fenn, Dreams of Glory, 8.

[113] Kavan Peterson, “Washington Gay Marriage Ruling Looms,” Stateline.org, March 7, 2006, cms.stateline.org; “Same-Sex Marriage Measures on the 2004 Ballot,” National Conference of State Legislatures, November 2004, www.ncsl.org.

[114] Mel White, Stranger at the Gate (New York: Penguin, 1995), 25.

[115] Ibid., 22–23.

[116] Ibid., 29.

[117] Ibid., 14.

[118] Ibid., 49–50.

[119] Ibid., 96.

[120] Ibid., 107.

[121] Ibid., 142.

[122] Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism(New York: Harcourt, 1979), 353.

[123] Scott LaFee, “Local Scientists, Doctors and Professors Talk About ‘Intelligent Design,’” San Diego Union Tribune, June 8, 2005, F-1.

[124] Frank Newport, “Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin’s Evolution Theory,” Gallup Poll, November 19, 2004, poll.gallup.com.

[125] Keith Graham, Biology: God’s Living Creation (Pensacola, FL: A Beka, 1986), 404.

[126] Alfred M. Rehwinkel, The Wonders of Creation (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 1974), in Graham, Biology, 133.

[127] Graham, Biology, 163.

[128] Graham, Biology, 351.

[129] Carl Wieland, “Darwin’s Bodysnatchers: New Horrors,” Creation 14:2 (March 1992), 16–18.

[130] Carl Wieland, “Apartheid and ‘The Cradle of Humankind,’” Creation 26:2 (March 2004), 10–14.

[131] “What Happened When Stalin Read Darwin?” Creation 10:4 (September 1998), 23.

[132] Jerry Bergman, “Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust,” Technical Journal 13:2, 101–111.

[133] “Evolution and the Hutu-Tutsi Slayings,” Creation 21:2 (March 1999), 47.

[134] Graham, Biology, 347.

[135] Jerry Bergman, “Was Charles Darwin Psychotic? A Study of His Mental Health,” Impact (January 2004).

[136] Raymond Hall, “Darwin’s Impact—The Bloodstained Legacy of Evolution,” Creation 27:2 (March 2005), 46–47.

[137] Graham, Biology, 347.

[138] Ibid., 349.

[139] Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, 371.

[140] “Intelligence Report,” Southern Poverty Law Center (Spring 2005), 4. www.splcenter.org.

[141] Union of Concerned Scientists, “Scientific Integrity in Policy Making: An Investigation into the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science,” March 2004, 2; 32, www.ucsusa.org.

[142] This lecture was taped and transcribed by Timothy Nunan of Princeton University.

[143] Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), 1:96.

[144] Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers,” The Nation, May 9, 2005 (Web edition only), www.thenation.com.

[145] Ibid.

[146] Ibid.

[147] David Kirkpatrick, “Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy,” The New York Times, August 28, 2004.

[148] Ibid.

[149] Max Blumenthal, “Who Are Justice Sunday’s Ministers of Ministry?” Talk To Action, January 6, 2006, www.talk2action.org.

[150] Quoted in Daniel Lev, The Terrorist Next Door (New York: Thomas Dumae/St. Martin, 2002), 27.

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Bevo Francis Award Watch List - 50 Players

2025 Bevo Francis Top 50 Watch List Announced

Kansas City, MO – The National Awards Committee and Small College Basketball are excited to unveil the Bevo Francis Top 50 Watch List for the 2024-25 season. Following the announcement of the Top 100 Watch List on January 15th, 2025, the committee faced the tough challenge of narrowing the field to the Top 50. This year’s list showcases some of the top talent from NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, USCAA, and NCCAA. John McCarthy shared his thoughts on the impressive group of players making the cut this year:

“Congratulations to the 50 players on this prestigious Bevo Francis Award Watch List,” stated McCarthy. “This is an elite list of players that are in the midst of fantastic seasons, on teams that are having great success. Our committee has provided tremendous insight, and I am so grateful to them. It's such an incredibly challenging process to select 50 players from roughly 16,000-18,000 players that compete at the various small college levels, yet this is what makes this such an elite group of players. Again, congratulations to each and every player on this list. It was earned.”

The Clarence “Bevo” Francis Award is presented annually to the player who has had the finest overall season within Small College Basketball. Considerations will be season statistics and individual achievements, awards, personal character and team achievements. This is an incredibly prestigious award, as this award will only be given to one player within Small College Basketball per season.

2025 marks the eighth year of the Bevo Francis Award. Past winners include Dominez Burnett of Davenport University in 2016, Justin Pitts of Northwest Missouri State University in 2017, Emanuel Terry of Lincoln Memorial University in 2018, Aston Francis of Wheaton College in 2019, Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyan University in 2020 and Trevor Hudgins of Northwest Missouri State University in 2022. In 2023, RJ Sunahara of Nova Southeastern was named the winner, while in 2024 Elijah Malone of Grace College received the honor. The award was not presented during the 2021 season.

On March 15 th , the list will be reduced to the Top 25 players. Then on April 5 th , the finalists of this year’s award will be announced, followed by the Bevo Francis Award winner being crowned on April 7 th .

The Bevo Francis Awards Committee consists of the following coaches: Gary Stewart - Stevenson (Md.), Chris Briggs - Georgetown (Ky.), Bill Dreikosen - Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Mark Berokoff – Oklahoma City, Mike Donnelly – Florida Southern, Sam Hargraves – Olivet (Mich.), Richard Westerlund – Great Lakes Christian, Chase Tiechmann – Florida College, Mark Vanderslice – USC – Aiken, Matt O’Brien – Southwestern (KS), Chris Wright – Langston (OK), Ben Thompson – Emory & Henry, Justin Leslie – Midwestern State, Raul Placeres – Maryville College (TN), Chris Martin – Loras (IA), John Lamanna – Whitman (WA), Brian Miller – MSOE, Justin Downer – Point Loma Nazarene.

To stay up to date on all things Small College Basketball or to learn more about the Bevo Francis Award, please head to smallcollegebasketball.com.

2024-25 Bevo Francis Award Watch List - 50 Players

Tray Alexander 5’10” Sr. Pace Jack Bachelor 6’2” So. Washburn Braxton Benham 6’1” Sr. Berry Benjamin Bill 6’10” So. Daemen Jadin Booth 6’2” Sr. Florida Southern Adam Brazil 5’10” Sr. Hampden-Sydney Octavio Brito 6’4” Sr. Keene State Ryker Cisarik 6’9” Sr. Nova Southeastern Tae Dozier 6’5” Jr. Georgetown Wes Enis 6’2” So. Lincoln Memorial Elyjah Freeman 6’8” Fr. Lincoln Memorial Demitri Gardner 6’4” Jr. Augusta Hobert Grayson 6’6” Jr. Ouachita Baptist Dallas Graziani 5’8” Jr. Nova Southeastern Jacob Hanna 6’3” Sr. Washburn Chaze Harris 6’6” Jr. Life Justin Hemphill 6’6” Sr. Daemen Jahn Hines 6’4” Sr. Christopher Newport Tristan How 6’7” Sr. New York University MJ Iraldi 6’6” Sr. Nova Southeastern Cameron Kahn 6’6” Sr. Dallas Baptist Reed Kemp 6’0” Sr. Maryville (TN) Antwan Kimmons 6’0” Sr. Concordia-St. Paul Jair Knight 6’2” Jr. Emory Peyton Law 6’7” Jr. Freed-Hardeman Jaden Lietzke 6’7” Sr. Oklahoma Wesleyan Lucas Lorenzen 6’4” Jr. Dordt Kaleb Lowery 6’8” Sr. The Masters E.J. Matthews-Spratley 6’2” Jr. Stockton Jalen McCoy 6’5” Sr. USC-Aiken Erza McKenna 6’9” Sr. Mobile Latavious Mitchell 6’8” Sr. Florida Memorial Samaje Morgan 5’9” Jr. College of Idaho Tommy Murr 6’1” Sr. Alabama-Huntsville Kashie Natt 6’3” Sr. LSU Alexandria Collin Parker 6’8” Sr. Columbia (MO) Ben Pearce 6’1” Jr. Emory Logan Pearson 6’4” Sr. Wisconsin-Platteville Shane Regan 6’4” Sr. Wesleyan Nick Reid 6’7” Sr. Upper Iowa Ian Scott 6’7” Sr. Grace Brayden Shorter 6’5” So. Washburn Joey Skoff 6’3” Sr. Morningside Aamari Smith 6’3” Sr. Whittier Tristan Smith 6’5” Sr. Concordia (NE)

Alex Steen 6’8” Jr. Florida Southern Marcus Tomashek 6’6” Jr. Michigan Tech Caleb Van De Griend 6’8” Jr. Minot State Joshua Van Gorp 6’10” Sr. Central (IA) Alex Van Kalsbeek 6’6” Jr. Northwestern (IA)

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This day in history

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

#20yrsago Sheet-music for Super Mario https://web.archive.org/web/20050112012306/https://gprime.net/images/mariopiano/

#20yrsago Jailed for a Song: Human-readable copyfight explanation https://web.archive.org/web/20050121142031/http://www.jailedforasong.com/

#20yrsago Free beer that’s free as in speech https://web.archive.org/web/20050121093653/http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70

#20yrsago IBM turning 500 patents over for free implementation https://web.archive.org/web/20100505080603/http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050110235654673

#20yrsago Fundie denounces sf for atheism, nudism https://web.archive.org/web/20100111034704/https://www.wayoflife.org/files/2fd19aa02a25c87c4946a653a20f1344-486.html

#15yrsago Bruce Schneier’s TSA logo redesign contest https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/tsa_logo_contes.html

#15yrsago Secret London: guide to the weird and wonderful secrets of London-town https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/11/secret-london-guide-to-the-weird-and-wonderful-secrets-of-london-town/

#5yrsago William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was

#5yrsago Departing Kotaku writers post a farewell message to their private equity asshole boss: “Sup dude. Suck it.” https://kotaku.com/goodbye-from-josh-and-gita-1840936478

#5yrsago America’s most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] https://newrepublic.com/article/156183/popular-crook-america

#1yrago The real AI automation threat to workers https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

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