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SALT LAKE CITY — The approximately 30-ton concrete roof, unreinforced marble columns and the rest of the main entrance to the Governor's Mansion are finally being fixed, more than two decades after being deemed a danger in an earthquake.
"It has just been put off and off and off, and it's basically a seismic hazard. That's where all the tours and everything come through," said Ken Willimore, a consulting engineer on what's already more than a $1.1 million project.
Willimore, who also did the original seismic study on the mansion on South Temple after it was nearly destroyed in a 1993 fire, said the needed upgrades on the west portico were left out of the nearly $8 million restoration completed in 1996.
"That was put in there, but they didn't have the money. Everything is attached to a dollar. The state has to manage their money, just like everybody else," Willimore told the Deseret News. "We've been putting Band-Aids on it ever since."
Despite the safety concerns, the project took that long to rise to the top of the priority list for capital improvements.
"Government works different than civilians," Willimore said of the more than 20-year wait.
State officials struggled to explain the time it took to get the project underway. Exploratory work at the site began 4 ½ months ago, and construction is expected to be done this October.
The construction has forced summer tours of the mansion to be canceled and some meetings to be moved to other locations. Gov. Gary Herbert continues to live in the mansion during the week, according to the governor's office.
"Somewhere along the line this project fell off the radar, and it didn't come back into focus until 2010," said Marilee Richins, operations officer for the state Department of Administrative Services.
She said the portico was re-evaluated and reinspected in 2010, when a new roof was put on the carriage house on the mansion grounds. The carriage house is used by the governor's security detail.
"It was determined that it was really a concern," Richins said of the portico, but she said the state building board chose not to fund the project. Asked why, she said it's "a very political process."
After the portico was turned down for funding in 2010, it did not make the board's priority list for projects until the state Division of Construction and Facilities Management "reprioritized it as life-threatening" in 2013, Richins said.
Thanks to an internal change by the division, Richins said now "anything that is life-threatening goes to the top of the list." So far, $471,000 has been appropriated for the portico, with a request pending for another $676,000.
Division Director Josh Haines, hired by the state last year, agreed it had taken a long time to get to what he described as a structure that could "potentially put somebody's life in danger" by coming down in an earthquake.
But Haines said he couldn't explain why it wasn't done sooner.
"I don't want to say there's a fault because I don't know the rational behind it. I mean, to me, it should have been addressed," he said. "I think it may have gotten lost in the shuffle."
Haines suggested a reason might be concern over how the public would react to the cost.
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Nothing huge 8' X 12' X 30" (sump) 12"X12" margin with average depth of 24"...like my aquariums .. I only want something I have time to spend to maintain it correctly...
I dug an old stump out and instead of makeing another rock garden, i installed a water feature/pond..
I run a home made bio filter made from a planter basketr, coarse "P" stone and scotch brite pads ...pumps are are a pair of 600 GPH little giants, one feeds the water fall.. the other the spitter...the electrics are housed in the planter... the pond is in it's 10th year of exsistance...
evrything in it is a derivative of the original planting/stocking.. I try and maintain 12-14 fish... when the fish out grow the pond, I give them to my son inlaw for his HUGE pond..leaving the "seed" that has hatched the prior year....I ocasionaly "trade" fry with other pond keepers in the area so I can keep the "in breeding" to a minimum..
I live in a pine forrest and have a removable screen house i put over the pond during extreme needle sheds and during the winter...
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I dug a few more pictures from my cell phone...
Such a sweet little pond! I love it - it looks like right at home by your garden! 10 years and counting - that's amazing to me! Who lives here? You mentioned that there are 12-14 of them, but did I miss what they are?! Looks like baby goldies!? Thanks for sharing your pics!
Awww! Grandpa Louie! ^__^
Neat, just neat! I can imagine that you must be very attached to him by now!
You'll have to see if you can convince him to pose for his picture one of these days at feeding time, I'd love to see the granddaddy of them all!
It'll have to be in the spring ... the pond is "buttoned" up for the winter... all plants pruned and moved to deep water, filter moved to margin and only one pump is used as a bubbler to keep the bacteria alive during the winter while keeping a breathing hole open to allow the escape of amonia...it was 26 degrees at my house this morning... i wont see them again until April :cry:
And I KNEW that! lol. . . it's so sad to shut down for the winter, neh? Well. . . you'll just have to promise to stick around until spring heads our way again! LUCKY US!
I'll post a picture of the cover I built...
Its a screen house so sunlight and fresh air can get in but snow and leaves can not...
I'll be here in the spring ( unless I croak or something)... I've got a salt water tank to build!
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this is what it looks like a few weeks after i open it up in the spring... perrenial flowers steal the show.. at least the water fall is easy to see..
i've really enjoyed seeing your pictures,and would love to see more
after winter time. :-D
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Consumers are going to going to give feedback and lodge complaints however they see fit, and that's often via social media. In the hospitality industry, the need for monitoring and responding quickly to customer feedback is absolutely huge.
For proof, think about the last time you booked a vacation (hopefully, it wasn't as long ago). How important were the reviews in your selection process? Especially if you were booking a trip in a foreign country?
If you're anything like me, you immediately scan for the negative reviews and read them to see if you can live with whatever negative feedback a consumer left on Trip Advisor or Expedia. I figure that if I can deal with whatever got their panties in a wad, then the place will be a winner for me.
If you take a look at the infographic below, you can see that my mindset is typically male. Men apparently complain the most in their feedback and give lower scores across the board…
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sand for a substrate
Hey everyone, I would like to use a dark colored sand as a substrate for my new tank. However I have never used it before and just have some questions. Do you rinse sand? What is compaction and its problems? Can you plant in sand? The plants I was going to get are anchor plants but I would like to get a few plants to go in the substrate. Thank you!
Check out this thread. It is a recent ongoing thread that may help you.
I've had white sand in one of my tanks for about a year and a half. I used to grow plants without any problems, and dozed the tank with Seachem Flourish Excel.
The sand I bought was from the LFS and labelled as aquarium sand - compaction has never been a problem but I rake through it on a weekly basis just to be sure. Never had any trouble with plants rooting in the sand - they always grew well.
I have decided that I want to move to a more heavily planted tank with a dark coloured substrate, and instead of using black sand I'm going with Eco-Complete.
Hope that helps a little :)
Well from everything herefishy has told me, and what I have researched, I think that sand is fine as long as it is not "FINE". Beach sand consistancy is a bad thing. Anyhting that when you put it in a bucket and it feels like you have to work to get your fingers into it when wet would compact too much. If when wet, you can run your fingers through it without much effort then it should work just fine. This could still be considered sand and I have seen many product listed as "sand" that actually look like grains of rice or larger.
When I go after my sand for my other tank I will look for one thing, can I see the individual grains at arms length. If I can't then it is too small. The picture in my sand/substrate post on the right, I can see the grians when it on the ground.
If in doubt, find the absolute finest metal strainer you can find and run it though there. Anything that goes through might be too small and could compact too much.
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GUEST WRITER: Spanish school helped Rachel Cocker learn more than just the language in San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala. Things got spiritual…
Rachel Cocker is a London-based freelance journalist with wanderlust. She has just returned from a solo round-the-world trip and is planning future adventures.
By Rachel Cocker
I had a smattering of Spanish behind me and nine months more travel through Latin America ahead when I reached San Pedro la Laguna, a tiny town so laid back it was basically sliding into the waters of Lago de Atitlán – Guatemala's unbelievably beautiful answer to Lake Como, but with fewer millionaire playboys and more dormant volcanoes.
If I was ever to get off the gringo trail, I knew I needed to master much more than 'muchas gracias'. But although San Pedro is famed for its language schools, I wasn't sure I was in the mood to knuckle down to more than a week of study.
A Tourist Trap?
I wasn't even that keen on the town itself at first – it felt too touristy, a backpacker's hub of foreign pubs, Thai grub and macramé-making hippies who'd forgotten to save enough for the flight home.
Older US and European ex-pats owned most of the prime waterfront property that hadn't been claimed by the steady rise of the lake (you could kayak through what was once someone's front room) forming a gringo ghetto at the foot of the town. Meanwhile, much of the Maya population lived in labyrinthine breezeblock alleyways winding high up the hill to the market.
There was no denying the 'us and them' feel in the air. Local women washed hand-woven clothes and waist-length hair in the lake, while we watched from cafés, listening to reggae and eating falafel while surfing the high-speed Wi-Fi. At night, the mayor had started sending the local police car to strictly enforce a new 11pm curfew – so sick of bars pumping drugs and bass into the night, he'd begun to bite back.
Back to School…
With four hours of classes starting at 8am, I didn't mind the early nights. Luckily, the one-on-one tuition at Escuela Cooperativa wasn't just cheap; it took place in a lake-view garden that seemed less classroom, more sanctuary. I'd been hoping that improving my Spanish would help me move on from San Pedro – here, I felt the first inklings it might make me stay.
I was surprised by how quickly I hit it off with my teacher, Clemente, a local guy who'd moved back to his family home after a few years and too many muggings in Guatemala City. We were both pushing 30 (although he looked a lot younger) but our lives were worlds apart, and I enjoyed slipping tales of London into my homework every afternoon that made him choke or chuckle the next morning.
By return, his lessons and local insights helped me bridge the gap with the other side of San Pedro. Between conjugating my verbs I began taking more and more trips up the hill.
The Real San Pedro
Every week, I accompanied the teachers who took basic food parcels to struggling families as part of the school's social aid project. As my Spanish improved, I ventured further, finding an ancient seamstress with a hand-crank sewing machine to mend clothes that had lost their fight with the laundry, getting the lowdown on the local elections from the old men who sat for hours, surveying street corners, and sneaking my way into the back of evangelical church services that sounded more like soft rock concerts from down the road.
My lessons with Clemente began covering more and more Maya history (no, the end of the world is not nigh) becoming as much a cultural as a language exchange. Every Friday I signed up for 'just one more week' until suddenly four had passed and I was still in San Pedro, still at school and feeling less like an outsider, more at home.
When we reached the subjunctive, the tense that deals with dreams and doubts, I confessed I still had no idea what to do next – after school or after this trip, full-stop. So Clemente hailed a tuk-tuk and took me to San Juan, the next town along the lake, to meet the shaman who'd helped guide him into teaching when his dad had decided he was lacking direction.
Move Any Mountain?
He was the world's most unlikely-looking holy man: dressed in a vest and sat in his backyard, surrounded by turkeys. Inside his dark, dirt-floored house he calculated the date of my conception (awkward), then consulted a well-thumbed book that established my 'nahuals', the spirits said to govern other significant dates in your life.
Some of mine, it seemed, were inauspicious, but he promised a cleansing ceremony would reverse both my bad luck and lingering coccyx pain, the result of an ill-advised leap into a rock pool six weeks earlier.
Changing into a traditional hand-embroidered two-piece, he began chanting in Tz'utujil – the local Mayan language of guttural sounds and glottal stops – over a blaze of incense, pausing only to swat me round the head with a swatch of pine needles soaked in sacred water, which he then threw in the fire.
What my future holds…
Translated into Spanish by Clemente, his pronouncements sounded somewhat less prophetic: 'Good things will be waiting for you at home,' and 'When you're sad, spend time with trees…' It was only afterwards that I realised I hadn't been mentally translating them from Spanish to English, but soaking them up, understood. And my pain in the arse was gone.
Later, I'd meet other travellers who sniffed they hadn't thought much of San Pedro, and I could see where they were coming from. But then I'm not sure any of us had seen the half of it.
http://www.cooperativeschoolsanpedro.edu.gt/ is a community-minded cooperative of local teachers offering one-on-one Spanish classes and homestays in San Pedro la Laguna. A 20-hour week of tuition costs around £60, or £100 including homestay and three meals a day. A percentage of students' fees go directly to the school's outreach programme, providing food, housing and education for impoverished local families.
I really like the sound of this school. It is nice to see that some of your money is going back to the local community. May I ask if you knew any Spanish before? How confident were you after four weeks of classes? I am thinking of taking some Spanish classes in Guatemala myself.


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This was halftime inside the leading locker room.
The Chargers had scored a touchdown in the final minute. Their margin now was 14-0. The offensive and defensive starters, collectively, ended the night on a high note and stood around their lockers, rehashing choice moments.
And then there was running back Ryan Mathews.
"The look on Ryan's face was of disgust," quarterback Philip Rivers said. "It was as if it was a terrible first half, which is good because it meant that much to him."
The Chargers scored a touchdown Saturday with seconds left in the second quarter, but it followed a Mathews fumble near the goal line. He attempted to scale the line of scrimmage — as he successfully did on a first-quarter plunge — but an opposing helmet jarred the ball loose and sent it flying across the field. The Cardinals recovered and ultimately fumbled it back on the same play in a lateral-gone-wrong, resulting in a Chargers touchdown during a 24-7 exhibition victory.
To Mathews, all is not well that ends well.
"I didn't want to end on that," said Mathews, who had 14 carries for 57 yards. "It just eats me up; it really does. ... I can't do that, plain and simple. Everyone says, 'Oh well, it's preseason. It doesn't count.'
"But to me, it counts. I can't let my team down like that because when we get down there and they're calling my number, they've got to be able to rely on me."
The Chargers' faith in Mathews appears unshaken.
Aside from the fumble, for which Mathews and coach Mike McCoy agreed Cardinals defensive end Calais Campbell deserves some credit, the 25-year-old has shown good vision behind a more physical offensive line. He has 26 carries for 121 yards and a touchdown in three games.
The exhibition game fumble was his first. Mathews has lost seven of 12 career fumbles on 675 regular-season touches.
McCoy said Sunday "we were going to give it to him again the next play" should the Chargers have had another opportunity on the goal line.
"He's been getting after it," fullback Le'Ron McClain said.
"Like I told him, he's like a different back this year. The way he put in his work this offseason, how he's performed in practice, it's easy for him out here on the field to be doing his thing. I know the fumble was big for him, but we were telling him in halftime, that's the joy of this game. You've got to move on to the next play."
Nuts 'n' Bolts
Several Chargers players said Saturday that their special teams rebound — a Kwame Geathers field-goal block, a Darrell Stuckey punt block and a 44-yard Keenan Allen punt return — against the Cardinals came after being challenged by McCoy and the coaching staff earlier in the week. The unit had struggled in the first two games. Its turnaround coincided with special teams coach Kevin Spencer's return to Arizona, where he coached from 2007 to 2012.
• Rookie offensive lineman D.J. Fluker had a physical couple seconds Saturday during a Cardinals interception return, flattening the defender who lateraled the ball and then tackling the player who caught the pitch. "I was humming," Fluker said. "The last thing he said to me was, 'I didn't know a lineman could move that fast.' "


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What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column, sure. But at its core, it is a hunter. A hunter of the most interesting film-related tidbits of the day. Can you feel the heat?
It's not enough for director Alex Proyas will make Paradise Lost, the story of the break between Heaven and Hell. But he's also bringing Djimon Hounsou as the Angel of Death. If there is one actor that I look at on a consistent basis and think, "that man would bring death to me," it's Hounsou. It sure beats Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, so we'll see how it shakes out.
Did you see Terrence Malick's Tree of Life and leave confused as to why Sean Penn was in that movie? If you did, don't worry so much, because Sean Penn doesn't seem to know either. As he explains, his storyline should have been more defined — that's where all the emotion was in the script.
According to people who sit in lawn chairs outside film sets, Michael Shannon has been spotted in a motion-capture suit on the set of Man of Steel. This means that Warner Bros., the studio that gave Green Lantern a full CGI wardrobe, could be doing the same for General Zod. Okay, I'm interested in seeing how that comes out.
Speaking of film sets and things I don't understand — apparently this is news. The Dark Knight Rises is done shooting in Pittsburgh. The only people who are sad about this are the guys who run a Suburu WRX fan blog who were getting mad traffic by posting videos they took on set. Beyond that, does anyone really care? Must this news appear on every film site? I won't stand for it! … next time.
In the following featurette, Hugh Jackman shows you why robot boxing will be awesome in Real Steel:
Now that he's about wrapped on The Avengers — my, that went fast — Robert Downey Jr. is ready for Iron Man 3 and a tour of duty with director Shane Black. Based on Black's involvement, this is easily the most interesting post-Avengers project from Marvel, as it may represent a bit of a tonal shift. Hopefully toward darkness.
On that same track, Disney held its D23 expo this past weekend, with previews from the likes of The Muppets, The Avengers and Pixar's upcoming slate. The most interesting — at least to me — is Pixar's Brave, the lady-led hero flick. Over at /Film, Germain Lussier counts 11 things we've learned about Pixar's Brave, about 9 of which have me very excited.
At Movies.com, Peter Hall writes exceptionally about why Fright Night is a refreshing vampire movie worth your time. It seems later in the game now that Fright Night has already stumbled on opening weekend, but he makes a strong argument. This sentiment seems to echo that of Rob Hunter, who reviewed the film for us last week.
Bill Cody at Rope of Silicon makes an interesting case of his list of 10 lessons Hollywood can learn from this summer's movies. Chief among them is the fact that Comic-Con is a giant waste of marketing money. This point is proven more emphatic by the success — at least in the press — of Disney's D23 expo. They didn't need no stinkin' Comic-Con, after all.
With its win at this weekend's Hugo Awards at the 69th World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, NV., Doctor Who has now eclipsed Star Trek as the winningest TV show of all-time. That, as you can imagine, is no small accomplishment.
And finally, this video — a supercut called 'Movie Line Rhymes' by Jordan Laws — made me giggle. Yes, I still giggle. I live a joyous life. It should do the same for you:


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Alpha Sigma Alpha
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Alpha Sigma Alpha is a women's organization that exists to promote high ideals and standards for its members throughout their lives by emphasizing balance among the four aims of intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development. We strive to develop women of poise and purpose and assist our members in fostering lifetime friendships.
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Impressive showing for 'A Starry Night'
'A Starry Night' lured an impressive crowd out on Friday night for its fifth staging. The biennial soirée which is put on by the Lay Persons Initiative of the United Church in Jamaica and Cayman Islands, treated patrons to an out of this world experience while raising funds for the Mount Olivet Boys Home and the Pringle Home.
Rumble on Jamrock delivers solid rounds of entertainment
The J. Wray & Nephew 'Rumble on Jamrock', hosted at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Saturday night was an action-packed, star studded event which lacked nothing. The food-and-drink inclusive event not only showcased some entertaining boxing matches, but there was live entertainment thrown into the mix.
UTech hosts stellar gala event to honour Jamaica's music industry
According to Piero Scaruffi in his book, A History of Popular Music, the first Jamaican recording studio opened in 1951 and recorded mento music, a fusion of European and African folk dance music.