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A beautiful tree in front of our house died this year, victim of emerald ash borers.

We kept hoping the ash would make a comeback and fight off the insects, but sadly, there was no recovery. At one time the tree was tall and pretty and gave terrific shade to the front of the house. But now its bare, scary, straggly branches made the tree look like it belonged in front of the Addams family home, not ours.

We knew the tree had to come down. A lumberjack at heart, my husband has quite a bit of experience with this chore and has all the safety gear to do the job: Protective eye wear, helmet, earplugs, etc. He even has orange safety chaps, which I love to make fun of. I just cant help singing the Monty Python lumberjack song when he wears those chaps.

A retired engineer, my husband enjoyed the challenge of determining how to drop the tree so it wouldnt hit anything. Like our living room window. Apparently this calculation involves long periods of just standing and looking at the tree.

Hours even.

Finally I had to ask, Are you standing there waxing poetic about the leaves or plotting gravitys force?

(Lumberjacks get no respect.)

Trees fall where they want, he said. Im just trying to convince it to fall where I want.

As he began to trim the lower branches, an 11-year-old neighborhood boy stopped by. The boy parked his bike, took out his cellphone and began recording.

Morning there, Chris, said my husband. Are you interested in tree removal safety?

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Larry Hogan in August (left) and Larry Hogan in March (right). (Baltimore Sun photos / September 13, 2014)

11:16 a.m. EDT, September 13, 2014

The campaign trail has been kind to Larry Hogan's waistline.

The Republican nominee for governor has managed to shed at least 25 pounds this year as he has hit the pavement, knocking on doors and running yes, running down parade routes, campaign aides said.

"I'm on my feet running around," Hogan said. "You burn a lot of calories."

For evidence of the fitter and trimmer Hogan, look no further than his face, which has slimmed significantly since the 58-year-old Annapolis businessman declared his candidacy in January. On the Fourth of July alone, Hogan said, he participated in nine different parades. "I was jogging in most of them. I must have covered 20 miles."

Aides said the grueling campaign schedule helped Hogan slim down this year, but the candidate also has been making better diet choices sometimes. In August, after buying himself bag of caramel corn as he toured the Ocean City boardwalk with reporters, he munched only a few kernels before handing the stash to his wife, Yumi, for safekeeping. On Friday, though, he said he just couldn't help himself when the Maryland Municipal League served chocolate cake at its conference.

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Sections of the Goergen Athletic Center (GAC) are closed this month for renovations to the upstairs weight room. The Fitness Center Improvement Project is scheduled to take place from Sept. 8 to Sept. 22 and will involve UR Facilities workers installing a new floor in the Bloch Fitness Center.

It became necessary to repair cracks in the concrete underneath the Fitness Center in the fall of 2013. A flyer available at the GAC front desk states that the damage was caused by a combination of an 80-year-old ceiling with large aggregate in the concrete, steam from the showers, and wear and tear from usage above the locker room ceilings, i.e. people dropping weights. The mens and womens locker rooms in the GAC are located directly beneath the Fitness Center.

GAC Associate Director Kristine Shanley said that the damage had become more obvious last fall when large pieces of concrete started falling from the locker room ceiling. A light fixture previously anchored in the ceiling had also fallen down. As a result, repairs to the concrete were made this past spring. Shanley said of the repairs, [UR Facilities] tapped out all of the loose pieces, patched it, and painted it overnight so we didnt have to close the locker rooms.

This falls renovations have been in the planning stages since last November. When asked why the gym couldnt have been renovated over the summer, Shanley explained that it took a long time to plan the project, design the new layout, organize the necessary funds, and have the new composite floor sections manufactured.

A new, thicker composite floor is being installed on top of the old one. Assistant Director of Facilities Operations Barry McHugh said that this will help pad the concrete under the weight room, an important consideration in a second-story gym. McHugh stated that the new floor weighs 36,000 pounds in total, so it will have to be installed in sections, but that he hopes to be finished before the projected completion date of Sept 22.

In the meantime, the gym closure has displaced some student athletes. Sophomore softball player and GAC employee Ix Chel Mendieta de la Torre said, For practice, we cant do lift, which is a part of our schedule. Mendieta de la Torre explained that she and the other members of the softball team have had to change their workout schedule while the gym is closed, focusing on cardio and body weight exercises instead of weight lifting.

Other teams who use the weight rooms will be affected as well, even those who use the adjacent varsity weight room instead of the Fitness Center. Although no renovations are being made to the varsity weight room, it will be rendered inaccessible by the closure of the Fitness Center.

This is a disruption, no doubt about it, Shanley said, but added that she has tried to help athletes work around the gyms hiatus. One of the things I tried to do was get out and talk to students whom I know [...] get out to our coaches and [...] explain what was happening.

Mendieta de la Torre said that as a student employee of the GAC, she has encountered some negative feedback about the project from gym patrons. Most are upset that the weight room will be closed, she said, but [she thinks] theyll be happy once its renovated.

The layout of the Fitness Center was changed once before, in November 2013, to alleviate the damage caused by dropping weights. Those changes included the addition of a core and stretching area, as well as the removal of some of the dumbbells and barbell racks. When the renovations are completed later this month, those items will be returned to the weight room, in addition to some new equipment.

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