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2. | Hockey Bro | ||
A hockey bro is someone who lives, breathes, and eats hockey. Their life consists of checking NHL.com incessantly and watching hockey highlights. When they're not on NHL.com they are either playing EA sports NHL 11, getting belligerently drunk, smoking a massive quantity of weed, or chewing massive quantities of tobacco. A hockey bro relates closely to the lax bro and are often cordial with each other. Words often used by a hockey bro are dangle, twig, snipe, bar down, biscuit, mint ice, D1 scholly, flow. A hockey bro often wears high top sneaks with jeans or hockey sweatpants, a hockey sweatshirt of their favorite college or pro team with a flat brim hat and leather chopper gloves. I saw this group of hockey bros walking down the street, they were talking about how they were going to play NHL 11 and get drunk all night.
1. | hockey bro | ||
someone who doesn't take hockey as just a game, but also lives the lifestyle and absorbs the culture of hockey. Commonly using slang terms (twig, bucket, mits, shouldys, visy, dangles ect) dressin in wife beaters, under a t-shirt, hollister shorts, a nice pair of high top kicks, topped off with i nice flat rim cap. Hockey bros are commanly accompanied with there puck bunnies, and other hockey bros when headin out to parties. Lax bros and hockey bros are chill with one another. Although in many cases hockey bros have been known to b violent with puck bunnies, when they find a girl to there liking they'll beat the hell outta anyone who messes with him and his puck bunny. Hockey bros are some of the best, if not the best, athletes known to man kind. sidney crosby is not a hockey bro
3. | hockey bro | ||
someone who doesn't just play the game of hockey but lives the life style and embraces the culture of hockey. A hockey bro uses slang terms such as twig, bucket, mits, visy, shouldy, dangles, ect, and started playin puck at a very young age. Hockey bros are usually dress in wife beaters under a t-shirt, hollister shorts, a nice pair of high top kicks, a pair of nike mids, long straggly hair, and a flat rim cap. Hockey bros are mad chill when it comes to girls, they may sleep with pieces of white trash, but can always redeem themselves with a nice catch at a party after a game. Puck bunnies are commonly found with hockey bros at rinks and at hockey bro parties. hockey bros will eventually end up marrying there special puck bunny that will willing b in the kitchen 24/7 making him a sandwich. hockey bros usually come together for a game of hard core puck, or mayb a pick up game of road puck in a driveway. the hockey bro culture is very close wit the lax bro cultre and commonly chill wid eachother from time to time. mayb have a lax sesh or a game of puck with one another teams. overall the hockey bro life is the way to go. sidney crosby is NOT a hockey bro
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where hockey is not just a sport, it's a life style. the scum of the universe, doucebags of the planet, but the greatest athletes that have ever live. Hockey bros usually travel in a pack, very rarely you ever see them alone. they are the loudest, most obnoxious, biggest tools and possibly the hottest kids the world has ever seen. Often terms said by bros would be: snipe, sauce, and celly. friend 1: oooohhh, who are they?
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My friend Pete Blackshaw has been saying for years that "customer service is the new marketing," meaning that more and more companies are discovering that the people on the front lines of direct customer contact are having a growing potential to turn customers into brand fans or outraged detractors. Unfortunately, many big, slow, monopolistic companies refuse to see this shift. And it's time for this customer of Time Warner Cable to put up some meaningful marketing against its poor practices.
Over the weekend, my wife shared the story of her recent frustration with Time Warner Cable. On Friday, May 29, she received an email that stated the company would no longer be accepting payments from our bank's online bill payment provider. As you might be able to see in the actual email above, this change came with no explanation, no customer service contact to reply to, and only the general website URL for further information. Her reaction: WTF?
And so my lovely wife started to track down what was going on with our cable service. After more than an hour of digging through the website and the back and forth with an IM bot that spit back the same formulaic answers to her questions over and over, she discovered that Time Warner Cable was migrating customers to its own preferred bill-payment system. We had the "opportunity" to sign up for this, of course handing over more personal information and changing our entire bill-paying habits.
This is a horrible example of customer service from start to finish. First, the decision to disallow our preferred method of bill payment, which we use for every other service, is blatantly bad for its customers. Nearly every other company on the planet is embracing NEW options to allow bill payments, from PayPal to mobile phone, in order to provide better service and close the sale. Second, the fact that this significant change in habit came with no explanation and nothing more than a terse email is unfathomable. Only a company with a complete disregard for the customer would do such a thing. A simple email written by an actual human being with some explanation and remorse would have done wonders.
Of course, cable companies are not new to completely screwing over customers in very visible ways. My favorite example is Bob Garfield's "Comcast Must Die" campaign. A search of any cable company and the words "sucks" or "protest" land on thousands of horror stories from people who have been treated horribly by companies that cling to one of the last market pockets of low competitiveness.
Fortunately some alternatives are starting to break into the market and break up cable companies' hold on our lives. New competitors are entering the TV market, such as Verizon with its all-fiber FiOS system, and AT&T's U-verse system. They are bringing down rates in the market and bringing up service levels wherever they go. Meanwhile, some local governments are getting in on the act; in Wilson, N.C., residents organized to create a city-owned broadband network with lower rates and higher speeds than Time Warner. And now a growing number of households are cutting their cable cords altogether and using broadband to download video directly. More than 900,000 people now rely on Web video alone, dealing a significant revenue blow each time it happens.
My family and I are getting ready to move to a new home in a few months. The current owners have been using DirecTV. I think it's time to give Time Warner the boot and let a new company vie for my business. And while I'm not a heavy commercial watcher, this ad for DirecTV certainly attracts my attention…

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National Historic Ships UK and the Marsh Christian Trust have announced this year's Marsh Volunteer Awards, which are designed to recognise outstanding volunteers in the conservation or operation of historic vessels in the UK.
The second year of these annual awards sees the introduction of the Young Volunteer of the Year award, with a £500 prize, to acknowledge the role of young people in historic vessel conservation.
With a prize value of £1,000, the National Volunteer Award is open to any individual or small group of people who are over the age of 25 and have demonstrated outstanding dedication to a historic vessel project over a period of years.
Martyn Heighton, Director of National Historic Ships UK, said: "These awards will allow us to recognise and thank outstanding volunteers from our sector, without whom many of our most significant vessels would no longer survive for members of the public to enjoy."
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A sustainable home must make use of local (indigenous) materials, those occurring 'naturally' in the local area.
House as Assemblage of by-products: For thousands and thousands of years, housing was built from found materials such as rock, earth, reeds and logs. Today, there are mountains of by-products of our civilization that are already made and delivered to all areas. These are the natural resources of the modern humanity. |
An Earthship must make use of these materials via techniques available to the common person. These materials and the techniques for using them must be accessible to the common person in terms of price and skill required to use them. The less energy required to turn a found object into a usable building material the better. This concept is also called embodied-energy. |
The Primary Building Block:
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Aluminum Cans and Glass/Plastic Bottles:These 'little bricks' are a great, simple way to build interior, non-structural walls. Aluminum can walls actually make very strong walls. The 'little bricks' create a cement-matrix that is very strong and very easy to build. Bottle can create beautiful colored walls that light shines through. |
The Nature of the Materials
In keeping with the design and performance requirements of a Earthship Biotecture, the nature of the building matierials for an Earthship must have certain characteristics established. These characteristics must align with, rather than deteriorate, the environment of the planet.
The requirements and characteristics below describe the nature of the ideal 'building block' for constructing the ideal building for residential and commercial applications. Many conventional materials satisfy one or two of these characteristics but no conventional materials satisfies all of them. Therefore, we must 'invent' or 'create' a new material or building block for the primary structure of the Earthship.
Materials are found all over the planet. Shipping materials for long distances is not sustainable and uses excessive amounts of energy. In order for the Earthship to be easily accessible to the common person and to maintain a low impact on the planetary energy situation, a "building block" found all over the globe would be required.
Able to be fashioned with little or no energy: If a building material was found that was indigenous to many parts of the planet but it required massive amounts of energy to fashion into a usable form, then it would not be sustainable and not considered. The major building materials for an earthships must require little or no manufactured energy to fashion into use. This keeps them easily available to common people and at the same time would allow the large scale production of Earthships to maintain a relatively low impact on the planet.
Since there are so many of us, if we are to survive without literally consuming the planet, everything we use must be chosen with consideration to the impact of large scale application. We must explore building materials and methods that are not dependent on manufactured energy and that have the potential to contribute to the general well-being of the planet rather than exploit it.
Thermal Mass:
The materials that surround the spaces of an Earthship must be dense and massive in order to store the temperatures required to provide a habitable environment for humans and plants. The Earthship itself must be a 'battery' for storing temperature. Making buildings out of heavy dense mass is as important as making airplanes light. Obviously a heavy airplane takes more fuel to fly. Obviously a light house takes more fuel to heat and cool.
We have built out of wood for centuries. Wood is organic and biodegradable. It goes away. So we have developed various poisonous chemical products to paint on it and make it last. This, plus the fact that wood is light and porous, makes it a very unsatisfactory building material. This is not to mention the fact that trees are our source of oxygen. For building housing that will last without chemicals, we should look around for materials that have durability as an inherent quality rather than trying to paint on durability. Wood is definitely a good material for cabinet doors and ceilings where mass is not a factor and where it protected so it will not rot, but the basic massive structure of buildings should be a natural resource that is inherently massive and durable by its own nature.
Earthquakes are an issue in many parts of the world. Any method of building must relate to this potential threat. Since earthquakes involve a horizontal movement or shaking of the structure, this suggests a material with resilience or capacity to move with this shaking. Brittle materials like concrete, break, crack and fracture. The ideal structural material for dealing with this kind of situation would have a 'rubbery' or resilient quality to it. This kind of material would allow movement without failure.
Low specific skill requirements:
If the materials for easily obtainable housing are to be truly accessibly to the common person they must, by their very nature, be easy to learn how to assemble. The nature of the materials for building an earthship must allow for assembling skills to be learned and mastered in a matter of hours, not year. These skills must be basic enough that specific talent is not required to learn them.
Low tech use/application: some systems of building today are simple if one has the appropriate high-tech expensive energy dependeant device or equipment. This, of course, limits the application of these methods to the professionals who have invested in the technology to enable them to use such methods. Becuase of the expense and energy required to get set up for these systems the common person is left totally dependent on those professionals for accessibility to these particular housing systems. Therefore the common person must go through the medium of money (bank loans, interest approvals, etc.) to gain access to a housing system that usually dictates performance and appearance.
If high-tech systems and skills are between the common person and their ability to obtain a home, we are setting ourselves up to place the very nature of our housing in the hans of economics rather than in the hands of the people. This situation has resulted in in human, energy-hog housing blocks and developments that make investors some quick money and leave the planet and the people with something that requires constant input of money and energy to operate.
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Tanner Conroyd of St. Charles Area Found Safe in Chicago
The woman was located in a Chicago-area hospital, where officials said media attention alerted them to call authorities.
Tanner Conroyd, the St. Charles-area woman whose disappearance on Sunday after an argument with family members sparked a search from Chicago to Normal, was located safe in a Chicago hospital, the Kane County Sheriff's Office reported Thursday shortly before 12:30 p.m.
"At approximately 11:15 a.m. today, the Kane County Sheriff's Office was contacted by a Chicago area hospital who confirmed that Tanner is at their facility and being treated," Sheriff's Lt. Pat Gengler wrote in a release. "The Sheriff's Office is not releasing the name of the facility or going into details of her condition. Based on the information that we have she was not the victim of foul play."
According to Gengler, detectives were told by hospital staff that it was the media that led them to realizing who she was and led them to call the sheriff's office with the information.
The search for the 20-year-old involved authorities from at least five jurisdictions from Chicago to Normal. The family initiated the search Sunday night after Conroyd failed to show up at Illinois State University, where her father believed she was headed after she left their home along Route 31 in rural St. Charles about noon Sunday. She left the home after an argument with family members, authorities said. She was planning to attend ISU this fall but had not yet enrolled.
Her family reported her missing to the Normal Police Department on Sunday evening when they contacted her friends at ISU and learned none of them had seen her arrive at the school.
That marked the beginning of a search that was joined by the Kane County Sheriff's Office, and police departments in St. Charles, Sugar Grove, Normal and Chicago.
Initial findings by authorities were not encouraging. They traced Conroyd to Sugar Grove, where she had filled her gas tank about 1 p.m., and then she was seen about 1:30 p.m. at the Brown Pub in Hinckley, where she stayed for about three hours after her car apparently broke down. Initial reports had her accepting a ride with an older man, but later, the sheriff's office said Conroyd had solicited the help of an area resident who gave her a ride to the Aurora Transportation Center, where authorities believe she took a train to Chicago's Union Station.
Late Sunday, she spoke to a security guard at Millennium Park in Chicago when the park was closing. She gave the guard her cellphone number so he could call her to make sure she got home OK. Her family had her phone and talked to the security guard when he called.
On Monday, Aug. 20, she was seen again at Millennium Park, which was the last confirmed sighting of her.
"This type of activity is out of the ordinary for Tanner and her family is concerned that she may be suffering from some sort of psychological issue," a release on Wednesday stated. It also announced that the family has set up a Facebook page: Find Tanner Conroyd.
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1:46 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
The family has yet to confirm that this girl is Tanner and has asked that no one post or tweet this information until they can actually see this girl and confirm that it is indeed Tanner. Please respect the family's wishes and WAIT for OFFICIAL family confirmation. Go to Find Tanner Conroyd on Facebook for posts directly from the family.
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Family CONFIRMED - Tanner has been found and is safe!
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"915 Broadway has all the ingredients of an exceptional investment," said Richard Hadar. "Below market price, best office market in the country, one of the top retail corridors in the city, and lots of upside growth."
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Chuckanut Ridge: Due diligence or negligence?
Permalink +Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 8:29 am // Larry Horowitz
How likely are you to buy real estate in today's market based on an 18-month old appraisal prepared by the seller? Well, if you pay taxes in Bellingham, your mayor and City Council are about to do just that. And, in a BIG way.
In eight days, the city plans to close on an $8 million purchase using funds voluntarily contributed by taxpayers to acquire park land and facilities. The purchase price of $8.23 million is based solely on an outdated appraisal prepared in early 2010 for the seller, Washington Federal.
- The city has not prepared its own current appraisal.
- The city has not involved its own real estate experts.
- The city has not hired a professional appraiser to review the outdated appraisal prepared for WA Fed.
In short, the city has failed to perform due diligence. Is it possible the city is about to significantly overpay for this property?
Let's consider the facts:
1) The property in question, Chuckanut Ridge (aka Fairhaven Highlands,) is currently zoned high density, multi-family for 739 units. It is common knowledge, which has been confirmed by several key city officials, that the current zoning is inappropriate and violates a number of goals and policies of the city's comp plan. Once the city takes possession, the property will be downzoned and the value reduced accordingly.
2) According to the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS,) which is in disastrous shape and will require a massive undertaking and more than $100,000 to complete:
"Environmentally critical areas cover almost the entire site. The flattest areas on the site are either wetlands or would need to be set aside as wetland buffers. Most of the remainder of the site contains erosion-prone soils that have slopes of 15 percent slope or more, steep enough to heighten concerns about erosion potential, and some limited areas are considered landslide-prone."
A real developer's dream!
3) The city has $5 million available and plans to borrow $3.3 million to complete the acquisition. The city's default (and most likely) plan to repay the loan is to sell a portion of the property. Based on the purchase price of $8.23 million, the city would need to sell 40% to repay the loan. If the property is actually worth $6 million, the city will need to sell 55%. At a valuation of $5 million, 65% will need to be sold. Considering the extent of wetlands and steep slopes, it's very possible the city will need to sell every square inch of developable land to raise $3.3 million. The end result: The city will have spent $5 million for undevelopable wetlands, wetland buffers, and steep slopes. Quite the deal!
4) Development of this property must first satisfy the transportation prerequisite: either construct a connector road or widen the bridge to Fairhaven. Construction of the connector road would violate laws that regulate wetlands and steep slopes. Widening of the bridge has been determined to be cost-prohibitive by the previous owner. As it stands now, satisfying the prerequisite is either illegal or does not pencil out. Is the property even developable?
5) Opposition to any development on this property is strong, well-organized, well-financed, and long-lived. The opposition is not going away, regardless of who owns the property. Any developer who doesn't already know this has been living under a rock.
6) For a measly $1,000, the city can hire - even at this late date - a professional appraiser to perform a desk review of the obsolete WA Fed appraisal. I spoke with an appraiser who does this work almost exclusively for banks. He was "very surprised" the city has neither prepared its own appraisal nor professionally evaluated the bank's appraisal. In his experience, properties he appraised one year ago are now being re-appraised at half the value it was just twelve months ago.
I know if I were mayor or a member of Council, I would surely spend $1,000 now to potentially save millions on this acquisition.
Does failing to do so honor the city's fiduciary responsibility when spending funds voluntarily contributed by taxpayers?
Does failing to do so amount to negligence on the part of elected officials?
What would you do?
John Watts // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 1:40 pm
I seems you & I do agree on something.
Imagine that.
Clayton Petree // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 4:44 pm
Well said Larry. If/when the city has to sell off a portion, I don't think it will be as simple as "hey, let's sell off this small chunk for the balance". IF they are going to do this, the city needs to know what portion, how it could or couldn't be developed, and they need to know if that portion is valuable enough to actually pay for it before they make the purchase.
Larry Horowitz // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 5:33 pm
It's likely I haven't been very clear as to where I'm headed with this. I suspect once I have, I may lose your support as well as the support of John Watts.
I have been actively involved in fighting the disastrous Fairhaven Highlands project and preserving the ecologically sensitive Chuckanut Ridge for more than six years. I am confident that the property is not highly sought after by developers and is not extremely valuable from a development perspective.
I believe an accurate appraisal that reflects the 'facts' on the ground will determine the market value for the property is much lower than the $8.23 million contract price. In fact, I believe the value will be low enough for the entire property to be acquired - permanently - with either a very small loan or no loan at all. If the price is more than the $5 million available from Greenways and park impact fees, I believe the differential will be small enough for the local community to raise the funds to retire the debt within six years.
The current 'deal', which requires a loan of $3.3 million, should be re-negotiated based on a revised appraisal. Once re-negotiated, I believe the need for selling a portion of devalued land will disappear entirely.
It's true that the $3.3 million loan is a significant problem. However, that problem is caused by overpaying for the land. Solve the overpayment problem, and the loan problem goes away.
That's where I'm headed. Do I still have your support?
Clayton Petree // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 6:06 pm
I know exactly where you are going with this. There are 7 council votes to purchase the property. Given the support for the purchase, they really need to do things right.
Larry Horowitz // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 9:07 pm
Is it simply wishful thinking to believe the mayor and Council might revisit a decision when the evidence clearly suggests the decision should be re-visited?
It has been my experience that the city abhors going back once the train has left the station, even if the train is going in the wrong direction. It takes great courage to do so, but I have been told many times that it's just not going to happen. It's too easy to marginalize critics like you, John and me. It'll be the city attorney's word against ours, and we all know how that's going to work out. I don't see Gene or Barry or Michael or Seth or Terry or Jack or Stan having the stomach to deal with this mess. The best approach is the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand approach. I'm pretty sure that's what we can expect.
Tip Johnson // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:12 pm
Ostrich in the sand? Bird in the hand? Two in the bush? When should one push?
Larry Horowitz // Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:39 pm
Good questions; but a better one might be:
When making an $8 million land purchase (the single largest land acquisition in the city's history), would best management practices require the city to obtain its own current appraisal and/or hire a professional appraiser to critically review an outdated and potentially obsolete 18-month old appraisal prepared by the seller?
It's not a matter of having a bird in the hand or pushing at the wrong time. It's a matter of due diligence vs. negligence. It's a matter of fiduciary responsibility.
Why should - or would - the city pay millions more than any other potential buyer?
Tip Johnson // Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 8:05 am
I have no objection to a current appraisal based on fact and agree it would behoove the City to have one. The last appraisal the City had done came in just over $3mm. Nothing on the site has changed since then, except for the DEIS having more or less proved the property is undevelopable. The 739 units administratively negotiated through a Memorandum of Agreement was just as improper and arbitrary as the original zoning at twice that density. All suppositions about development have been completely abstract, as they remain for the Council's recent decision to use this property as collateral for the bridge loan.
Bottom line? There is nothing there to sell that can approach the target value. That supports your premise that the price is too high, but undermines your theory that a greater percentage must be sold as the market value declines. Nothing to sell is nothing to sell, regardless of the value.
If the City wants to shift current Greenways policy toward enterprise to leverage acquisitions or improvements, it is foolhardy to pin their hopes on the one property with the least potential. It would be smarter to evaluate Greenways citywide and see which might be surplussed without impinging on park functionality, with low environmental impact, using existing infrastructure, at the least cost and most gain to the fund. That is extremely unlikely at Fairhaven Highlands/Chuckanut Ridge. Ask Horizon Bank!
Larry Horowitz // Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 9:22 am
I'd have a hard time supporting the sale of ANY Greenways properties, including Chuckanut Ridge. Fortunately, a revised appraisal and better negotiating tactics could alleviate the need to do so. Unfortunately, I don't see the mayor or Council having the courage to right this wrong.
John Watts // Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 12:12 pm
So, Larry,
Since agreement seems widespread that the City has committed too much toward this purchase, how do you propose to remedy the situation?
Sell a part? Raise money independently? Sue? [whom, and for what intent] Tar & Feather those responsible? Kick those ostrich butts? What?
Even if the City scrambled to get an after-the-fact appraisal, what good would that do?
Do you really expect the Mayor OR Council to backtrack on what they have already agreed to do? Seems that train has already left the station and is headed one-way into perpetual infamy.
Or, are you just exercising your right to blow off steam, pat yourself on the back for being so astute, and castigate others who lacked the conviction to demand due diligence?
Hey, weren't you the guy who claimed that 'rich people always win'?
Just take your tinsel trophy and wear it with discomfort!
And, make sure you flaunt it so everyone will notice.
Larry Horowitz // Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 12:41 pm
Wow, so much venom. Why are you directing your anger toward me?
Before getting involved with the Chuckanut Ridge issue in 2005, my primary experience had been working with business owners and business managers. Not one of them would move forward with a transaction of this magnitude if they found out they were overpaying by a substantial amount.
I have learned the hard way that government doesn't function like business. Perhaps because business owners and managers are directly impacted by the mistakes they make, they are more flexible and less stubborn when it comes to bringing a wayward train back to the station.
But I have not lost hope. Yes, I really hope Council will hire a professional appraiser to critically review the outdated 18-month old WA Fed appraisal. And, yes, I really hope that if they learn the property is not worth $8.23 million, they will re-negotiate a better deal. If WA Fed is not willing, perhaps the city can obtain a right-of-first-refusal for the $200,000 earnest money they have on deposit and use that earnest money toward a subsequent purchase at a lower price. I believe it's unlikely WA Fed will receive offers for anywhere near $8 mil.
Of course, what I believe CR is worth is simply my opinion. I am not a real estate expert; but neither is the mayor or Council. That's why you hire professionals when the stakes are so high. And that is what I have recommended.
Unlike you, I don't waste my time to simply blow off steam, pat myself on the back for being astute, castigate others, or flaunt a tinsel trophy while wearing it with discomfort. My time is spent hoping to change the outcome for the better.
BTW, have you not read your crap of a blog lately. I heard Google called and plans to change the name from "HamsterTalk" to "HamsterWhine". Got cheese?
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By Guest Writer Nicole Brown. This is a call to action for county citizens as the county tries to ram through the slaughterhouse rezones.1 comments; last on May 22, 2013
Skip the Fireworks - Send Money to Support Our Troops
Mon, May 20, 2013, 11:48 am // Dick Conoboy
You can give your money, normally dished out to fireworks manufacturers and distributors, to organizations that help our disabled veterans. Change the way we celebrate Independence Day.0 comments
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Fri, May 17, 2013, 4:44 pm // John Servais
Tuesday morning and nothing in today's Bellingham Herald. Nor online. We provide the basics to fill in this latest omission by our "daily" newspaper.7 comments; last on May 22, 2013
The Myth of Waterfront Public Process
Thu, May 16, 2013, 11:55 am // Wendy Harris
The public process on the revised waterfront plans is an empty charade1 comments; last on May 17, 2013
Watch What You Say, Bellingham
Wed, May 15, 2013, 10:23 pm // Wendy Harris
The political censor police are listening to you5 comments; last on May 16, 2013
University Ridge Dormitory, The Infill Tool Kit and Our Neighborhoods
Mon, May 13, 2013, 2:50 am // Dick Conoboy
Some very important issues with respect to the University Ridge private dormitory project in the Puget Neighborhood will not be considered in the approval process.6 comments; last on May 17, 2013
Notes From The City Planning Commission Meeting
Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:22 am // Wendy Harris
The City Planning Commission Advocates "Free Market Capitalism" Approach to Waterfront Planning.1 comments; last on May 12, 2013
Silver Lake Geese Remain At Risk
Thu, May 09, 2013, 11:07 pm // Wendy Harris
A recent letter by the Parks Department fails to contain reassurance that the geese will be safe from extermination this year.0 comments
Update on University Ridge Student Dormitory Development
Wed, May 08, 2013, 8:53 am // Dick Conoboy
Ambling University Development has proposed building private, off-campus dormitory buildings in the Puget Neighborhood. Their revised proposal was submitted on 29 April.0 comments
In Memory of Paul deArmond
Mon, May 06, 2013, 1:40 am // Guest writer
Paul deArmond is remembered by his sister Claire. He was a Republican-at-Large.2 comments; last on May 08, 2013
Coal Trains and Unhealthy Air - Any Connection?
Sun, May 05, 2013, 2:45 pm // John Servais
Help fund a scientific study looking for links between diesel locomotives, coal trains and unhealthy air.0 comments
Help Save Larrabee Elementary School
Sat, May 04, 2013, 12:09 pm // Guest writer
Wendy Scherrer reminds all who support modest sized grade schools to try and attend the meeting Wed, May 8, in the evening.3 comments; last on May 10, 2013
Herding Dogs May Be Too Late To Save Silver Lake Geese
Fri, May 03, 2013, 10:16 pm // Wendy Harris
The Humane Society is bringing herding dogs to control Silver Lake geese, but it is not an optimal situation for success.0 comments
Questioning County Park Funding Priorities
Wed, May 01, 2013, 10:31 pm // Wendy Harris
The County Parks Department has allocated funding for playground equipment, but has not allocated funding for wildlife management planning.1 comments; last on May 03, 2013
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Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 9:30 pm // John Servais
New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has a masterful short article that explains why austerity is not working.2 comments; last on May 02, 2013
County Parks Department Releases "National Enquirer" Style Memo On Geese
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 6:05 pm // Wendy Harris
The only urgency underscored by the Silver Lake geese is the urgency of enacting a comprehensive wildlife strategy.4 comments; last on Apr 29, 2013
Cascadia Weekly Tribute to Paul de Armond
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 10:58 am // John Servais
The Gristle in today's Cascadia Weekly is devoted to a tribute to Paul de Armond. Tim Johnson gets it right.0 comments
Freedom Academy Comes to Whatcom County
Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 5:52 am // Riley Sweeney
Riley attends Tea Party training and runs afoul of Rep. Overstreet1 comments; last on Apr 22, 2013
Paul de Armond has passed away
Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 12:59 pm // John Servais
Well known political writer has died.5 comments; last on Apr 23, 2013
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Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 10:52 am // Wendy Harris
There will be no due process for the Canada geese, or the public, before the County Parks Department lethally removes the geese from Silver Lake4 comments; last on Apr 24, 2013
Who's Selling Who Down What River
Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 8:19 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein we see how the Ds do the work the Rs can't get away with7 comments; last on Apr 17, 2013
The Waterfront Will Be Safe. Trust Me!
Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 2:47 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein the people who call capping a clean-up say toxics safe enough for day care.1 comments; last on Apr 25, 2013
Waterfront Plans Fail to Protect Historic Buildings
Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 10:24 pm // Wendy Harris
The Waterfront District Sub-Area Plan needs policies that favor adaptive reuse and preservation of historic waterfront structures0 comments
Notice of Defect
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Status of the Move to Ban Fireworks in Bellingham
Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 2:59 pm // Dick Conoboy
Dangerous fireworks likely to continue being sold in Bellingham for this 4th of July1 comments; last on Apr 06, 2013
City Proposes New Economic Development Policy
Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 1:06 pm // Wendy Harris
The city's proposed new Economic Development Chapter is based on an outdated economic theory1 comments; last on Apr 06, 2013
County Slaughterhouse Rezone: Dumb and Dumber
Fri, Apr 05, 2013, 3:59 pm // Wendy Harris
New slaughterhouse proposal "wishes away" current agricultural zoning restrictions.10 comments; last on Apr 21, 2013
Is That Apple Hard Drive Really Yours?
Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 11:48 am // Dick Conoboy
It seems that for Apple products, you do not really own that hard drive... as a journalist recently discovered.2 comments; last on Apr 13, 2013
The GPT Scoping Summary Report Released
Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 3:00 pm // Wendy Harris
Government agencies responsible for the GPT project have completed review of the scoping comments.0 comments
Coming Soon to the Waterfront: More Dioxin and Toxic Waste
Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 9:36 pm // Wendy Harris
A beneficial reuse provision in the Waterfront District Sub-Area Plan would allow construction materials that are contaminated with bioaccumulative toxins.0 comments
Waterfront "Planned Action Ordinance" Limits Restoration and Public Input
Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 8:59 pm // Wendy Harris
The City Planning Department has included a technical document in the waterfront proposal without disclosing important impacts.1 comments; last on Mar 30, 2013
Read All About It! Cattlemen want slaughter.
Sun, Mar 24, 2013, 3:01 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein the Cattlemen define 'small scale' as an unlimited number of facilities of up to 50 million live pounds per year.3 comments; last on Mar 26, 2013
Living Wage and Working Waterfront 101
Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:53 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein the rate base gets a soaking while officials keep big-bubble toking7 comments; last on Apr 08, 2013
No City Housing Hearing on March 20
Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:05 am // John Servais
The Bellingham Herald article today is wrong. There is no hearing tomorrow, March 200 comments
Valuable Article in the Whatcom Watch
Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 8:42 pm // John Servais
Wendy Harris writes about the proposed $8 million concrete bridge along the Bellingham waterfront - using Greenways funds to build.3 comments; last on Mar 20, 2013
University Ridge Height Variance Hearing Postponed
Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 10:50 am // Dick Conoboy
Several complaints to the city seem to have occasioned a postponement of a height variance hearing until a complete development proposal is submitted.1 comments; last on Mar 12, 2013
Closing Arguments in Defense of the Reconveyance
Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 6:37 am // Guest writer
Guest writer Shane Roth writes in favor of the reconveyance of Lake Whatcom land back to the county.1 comments; last on Mar 11, 2013
Again, we must "vote for the forest".........or should we?
Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 12:54 am // Guest writer
Delaine Clizbe guest writes. Whatcom County has 7,100 acres of park land, with 1,900 acres actually developed. Yet we keep adding land, and not developing our parks.16 comments; last on Mar 12, 2013
Obamacare and the Coming (Not Again?) Wealth Transfer
Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 10:05 am // Dick Conoboy
You are not likely to escape the coming transfer of $billions from your pocket to the health insurance industry. You will get little, if anything, in return.4 comments; last on Apr 05, 2013
Legislation and Sausage
Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 3:20 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein it's even worse when the legislation is about sausage0 comments
Support our Troops - Ban Fireworks
Sun, Mar 03, 2013, 4:17 pm // Dick Conoboy
Do we need to recreate the sounds and sights of the battlefield when doing so brings pain and suffering to our combat veterans?0 comments
Marine Sanctuary Standards
Sat, Mar 02, 2013, 8:03 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein the ironies of life are explored and the necessities of life are contemplated2 comments; last on Mar 12, 2013
Troubling Implications of Variance Request
Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 4:19 pm // Wendy Harris
A variance request pending before the City could create a loophole for developers seeking to avoid compliance with development standards.5 comments; last on Mar 07, 2013
PeaceHealth Merger Threatens Women's Health in Whatcom County
Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 6:39 am // Riley Sweeney
Riley details upcoming merger between PeaceHealth and a much more conservative entity1 comments; last on Feb 26, 2013
University Ridge Student Housing - What is it?
Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 6:54 pm // Dick Conoboy
There is a private sector development proposal to house approximately 600 students in the Puget Neighborhood on 11 acres to the east of Nevada St.5 comments; last on Feb 27, 2013
Petition to Establish a Bellingham Art Market
Mon, Feb 25, 2013, 5:51 pm // Tip Johnson
Wherein artists have to eat, too!0 comments
Senator Ericksen Displays His Colors
Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:01 pm // John Servais
Riley Sweeney has posted a great video clip of Sen. Doug Ericksen flouting rules and legal procedures at a Senate hearing in Olympia.0 comments
City Controls Chuckanut Park - Not New Park District
Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 2:47 pm // John Servais
The election created a new park district with taxing power - but with NO control over Chuckanut Ridge - the 100 acre woods.1 comments; last on Feb 23, 2013
Waterfront EIS Revised Without Public Process
Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 9:40 pm // Wendy Harris
An "Updated Preferred Alternative" reduces the number of waterfront jobs and expands the boundary of the waterfront district.0 comments
Slaughtering the County Tax Base
Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 12:20 am // Tip Johnson
Wherein the Slaughterhouse Ken and Barbie show present Slaughterville, their new vision for Whatcom County9 comments; last on Feb 19, 2013
Thoughts on the Park District Vote
Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 3:42 pm // John Servais
The Park District vote is close and we will not know final results until late ballots are counted.6 comments; last on Feb 19, 2013
Public Hearing on New Bellingham Economic Development Policy
Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 2:59 pm // Wendy Harris
Participate in the public process by commenting on the new Economic Development chapter to the city comprehensive plan1 comments; last on Feb 15, 2013
Time to Vote on Park District
Sat, Feb 09, 2013, 12:14 am // John Servais
The proponents have avoided the issues on the Park District as the close of voting nears this weekend.2 comments; last on Feb 12, 2013
Check the Protect Bellingham Parks Website
Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 10:42 pm // John Servais
When is a vote No the most positive and common sense action? Check the park district opponents website to learn why.15 comments; last on Feb 10, 2013
Ironies With the Park District
Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 12:59 pm // John Servais
This Park District proposal has several ironic twists and facets - some involving the advocates.10 comments; last on Feb 07, 2013
The Big Picture on Chuckanut Ridge
Sun, Feb 03, 2013, 3:05 pm // Guest writer
Nicholas Zaferatos explains why he is concerned about the park district and looks at the long and short term views if the issue.11 comments; last on Feb 06, 2013
A note from the publisher
Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 11:18 am // John Servais
The Chuckanut Park District ballot issue has another 10 days to run. A few notes about NWCitizen and this issue.11 comments; last on Feb 05, 2013
Chuckanut Mountains and the Park District
Fri, Feb 01, 2013, 3:16 pm // Guest writer
Dr. Gibb explains some history to the issue in a brief article.8 comments; last on Feb 03, 2013
Former Park Directors Against Park District Proposal
Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 12:36 pm // Guest writer
Paul Leuthold and Byron Elmendorf explain why to vote NO on the Chuckanut Park District ballot measure.19 comments; last on Feb 12, 2013
It Is Not a Vote to Save The Forest
Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 12:26 am // Guest writer
Guest post by long time south side resident Marci (Hanson) Haskell on why to vote no on the Park District5 comments; last on Feb 01, 2013
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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 695 the transport St. Louis, it arrived off Ponce on the night of July 31st. August 3d it effected a landing at Arroya, and the colors of the Third Illinois were raised above the custom house. Guayama was captured August 9th. On August 13th, while in line of battle on the main road leading to Cayey, before extended in-trenchments of the enemy mounting twelve or more pieces of heavy ordnance, and momentarily expecting a severe engagement, General Brooke commanding the column, received dispatches from General Miles announcing the termination of the war. Our boys occupied various positions upon the island until November 2d, when they finally broke camp and marched aboard the transport Roumariia, and the next morning sailed for the United States. They reached New York on November 9th, and arrived at home about the 12th. Each member at his home, they were held on waiting orders for sixty days, and then mustered out of the United States service. Major George D. Sherman, of the gallant old Thirty-sixth, was commissioned Major and served as Paymaster in the Spanish-American War. It is said that Kane County furnished more men for this war, in proportion to her population, than any other county in the Union; and computation will show that, if each county of this State had furnished an equal number, Illinois alone would have marshalled over 30,-000 men-nearly one-fourth the entire call. So, in every military emergency the people of Kane County have nobly demonstrated their patriotic devotion; and in manly strength and vigor, mental attainment and high moral character, the volunteers who have gone forth from her homes have been surpassed by none. For brave, resourceful, soldierly qualities, others, doubtless, were their equals, but none were their superior. In peace and in war, her people have ever heeded the cry of distress and hastened generous assistance. In time of sore need, Ireland stretched over the sea her famished hand, and one little city of the county instantly contributed over eighty pounds sterling to purchase food for the hungry. Fire swept the fair city of the lakes from existence in one vast holocaust of flame, and at. once her hospitable doors opened wide with generous welcome to hundreds of homeless refugees, and from every avenue of ample supply, poured bounteous streams of benefaction to meet the requirements of every human need. Anticipating any uttered request, before the flames had swept their awful course, the people of Kane County were gathering supplies for the distressed, and car-loads by the score were hurried to the stricken city. When the shuddering earthquake wrought devastation and ruin in the historic city of the Palmetto State, within forty-eight hours the people of one small municipality telegraphed over five hundred dollars of collected relief. And again, when the devastating flood engulfed the city of Johnstown, measures of relief were instantly taken throughout the county. Upon all questions affecting the public weal, such has ever been the characteristic attitude of the people of this county, settled so recently by brave, intelligent pioneers cherishing high ideals of Christian loyalty and duty. Their descendants and successors have continued steadfastly along the same lines of thought and action, and by the practice of industry, virtue, wisdom and loyalty, have kept the city, township and county of their happy homes fully abreast of all the progressive movements of our proud State and Nation. SOLDIERS' MONUMENTS. The statutes of Illinois confer upon Boards of Supervisors of the various counties authority to appropriate public money for the erection of appropriate monuments at the respective county-seats in honor of the volunteer soldiers of such counties; and this has been admirably done in many counties of our patriotic State, but not in Kane. The careful observer, however, will note that these monuments have usually been erected where the county-seat was the most populous and influential city of the county. Such is not the condition in Kane County, and the greatly preponderating influence of the river cities and villages near the opposite boundaries of the county, renders such action in the near future quite improbable. But not in one generation is such heroism and sacrifice as that displayed by the men and women of 1861-65 forgotten; and the day may not be distant when the descendants of those men and women will, in some proper manner, testify by a county memorial their deep appreciation of the deathless loyalty which saved the Nation from dismemberment. An imposing monumental shaft, rising from the high land once occupied by the historic Kane County Agricultural Society, overlooking Geneva and vis-
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Undergraduate Director, Associate Professor, The Gerontology Institute E-mail: email@example.com Ph.D., McMaster University Bio: Dr. Kemp is a sociologist who first joined the Gerontology Institute in 2005 as a visiting professor after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Western Ontario . Currently, she holds a joint appointment in the Gerontology Institute and the Department of Sociology . Dr. Kemp is the Gerontology Institute's Undergraduate Director and she supervises the Internship program. She received her Ph.D. from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Interests: Much of Dr. Kemp's research focuses on topics related to family and the life course. Her work examines, for example: intergenerational relationships; inheritance; later life couples; work-life balance; formal and informal care; ethnicity and aging; and gender, sexuality and aging. Most of her ongoing research is set in assisted living communities. Dr. Kemp is a co-investigator on two recently concluded studies funded by the National Institute on Aging, "Negotiating Resident Relationships in Assisted Living: The Experience of Residents" (P.I. Mary M. Ball) and "Negotiating Sex and Intimacy in Assisted Living" (P.I. Elisabeth Burgess). Dr. Kemp's most recent publications appear in The Journals of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Journal of Family Issues, and the Journal of Aging Studies. Along with Malcolm P. Cutchin and Victor W. Marshall, Dr. Kemp is co-editor of the 4-volume set, "Researching Social Gerontology" , published by Sage, UK in 2013. With GSU colleagues Mary M. Ball, Molly M. Perkins and Carol Hollingsworth, she also is editor of "Frontline Workers in Assisted Living" published in 2010 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Courses: Diversity and Aging, Family, Intimacy, and Aging, Qualitative Gerontology, Aging and Society, Families and Society, and Aging in a Global Context. Select Recent Journal Publications: de Witt, L.A.,
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things to them:" Communication and family inheritance. European Journal of Aging. doi:
10.1007/s10433-013-0262-z Kemp, C.
L., Ball, M. M., & Perkins, M. M. (2013). Convoys of care: Theorizing intersections of formal
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Studies, 27: 15-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging2012.10.002NIHMS:415156NIHMS:415156 Perkins,
M. M., Ball, M. M., Kemp, C. L.,
& Hollingsworth, C. (in press). Social relations and residents' health in
assisted living: An application of the Convoy Model. The Gerontologist. doi:
10.1093/geront/gns124 Kemp, C.
L., Ball, M. M., Hollingsworth, C., & Perkins, M. M. (2012). Strangers and
friends: Residents' social careers in assisted living. The Journals of
Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67(4): 491-502.
doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbs043 Sharma, K.
& Kemp, C. L. (2012). "One should follow the wind":
Individualized filial piety and support exchanges in Indian immigrant families
in the United States. Journal of Aging
Studies, 26 (2): 129-139. doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2011.10.003 Kemp, C. L.
(2012). Married couples
in assisted living: Adult children's experiences providing support. Journal
of Family Issues, 33(5):
639-661. doi 10.1177/0192513X11416447 Kemp, C.
L., Luo, S., & Ball, M. M. (2012). "Meds are a real tricky area": Examining
medication management and regulation in assisted living. Journal of Applied Gerontology 31:
126-149. doi:10.1177/0733464810381986 Kemp, C.
L., Ball, M. M., Perkins, M. M., Hollingsworth, C. & Lepore, M. J. (2009). "I get
along with most of them": Direct care workers' relationships with residents'
families in assisted living. The
Gerontologist, 49 (2): 224-235. doi:10.1093/geront/gnp025 Kemp, C. L. (2008). Negotiating
transitions in later life: Married couples in assisted living. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 27 (3):
231-251. doi:10.1177/0733464807311656 Connidis, I. A., & Kemp, C. L. (2008). Negotiating actual
and anticipated parental support: Multiple sibling voices in three-generation
families. Journal of Aging Studies,
22: 229-238. doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2007.06.002 Kemp, C. L. (2007).
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Comment Number: | 517683-00023 |
Received: | 08/18/2005 05:11:04 PM |
Organization: | RKG1866, LLC |
Commenter: | Richard Krementz III |
State: | NJ |
Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
Rule: | Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter Industries |
Docket ID: | To Be Added |
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Platinum means pure to consumers. Adulterating the metal will only lead to deceptive practices to the consumer. There are many white metals available to the jewelry consumer today at many price points, starting with sterling silver, 10 karat white gold, and palladium. Any of these metals may be rhodium plated for a very white finish. I fear that those interested in selling adulterated platinum are just trying to confuse and deceive the consumer. We are a US manufacturer of fine jewelry in platinum and 18 karat gold, in business since 1866. My customers would not accept an inferior product such as adulterated platinum, even if it is legal. We sell white gold to customers who want a more affordable white option. Thank you, Richard Krementz III, CG, FGA, CPIM President RKG1866, LLL Richard Krementz Gemstones...since 1866