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The Friends of the San Juans is an environmental group with a mission. Stated on their website:
The FRIENDS of the San Juan Islands
Mission: To protect the land, water, sea, and livability of the San Juan Islands through science, education, stewardship and advocacy.
A brief history
Friends of the San Juans (FRIENDS) was founded in 1979 to support San Juan County's efforts to manage growth and protect natural environments. Since then, FRIENDS' activities have expanded to include: marine research and habitat restoration; shoreline stewardship and conservation; land use and environmental compliance; and, endangered species protection.
(see the entire history at http://www.sanjuans.org/about_Friends.htm)
Here is what they should add now: And we gleefully harass our neighbors by complaining about meaningless minutia during the permitting process--and we take particular pride in harming the elderly.
What are the "Friends" doing that is turning them into the enemy of the San Juan citizenry? The are becoming the vicious permit overlords of the San Juans.
Case in point
Helen King, has operated a bed and breakfast for fourteen years on San Juan Island. She has been allowed to operate it with a Conditional Use Permit during this time. One of the conditions of the CUP was that the bed and breakfast use would expire if she sold the property--the use was only good under her ownership.
As it turns out, Helen found a buyer for her property. The buyer made the sale contingent upon continuing the use as a bed and breakfast. So, Helen went back to the County, and applied to extend the conditional use provisions to the new buyer, which isn't an unreasonable request.
Any citizen--including the "Friends" of the San Juans--can take this opportunity to express their concerns. It's an open public process. The question is: Why did the "Friends" submit comments about this particular permit request? How does this advance their mission?
I called Kyle Loring, Staff Attorney for the Friends of the San Juans to find out. He said, "I'm not confident you will accurately represent what I'll say, and the letter speaks for itself. Feel free not to call here again."
Loring remains evasive as usual. Here is a copy of the letter he says speaks for itself [link].
Loring is leveraging his legal expertise and the powerful "Friends" organization against an elderly woman with the sole purpose of blocking her permit application, which will in turn sour her pending sale. Here is the summary of his letter:
"Lastly, even if the proposal were properly considered a non-conforming use, it should be denied because it is prohibited in a rural residential neighborhood."
The letter makes it clear they are intent on spoiling Helen's permit application, and her pending sale.
One can only surmise why the "Friends" would harass a neighbor and dive to new lows. I think it may be that Helen wasn't a donor of the "Friends", and that was a question I was hoping to ask Loring.
This isn't the first time the "Friends" have harrassed their neighbors. Here are a few other examples:
Hypocrites of San Juans--do as I say, not as I do
Spies of San Juans--singing about the "Friends"
John Carlson on KOMO radio discussing spies like us story
Spies like us, or Friends of the San Juans
Friends of the San Juans offer justification for harassing local islander
San Juan County regulations "unfriendly" towards local farmer
If you are interested in keeping an eye on what is happening in San Juan County, the Trojan Heron website is a fantastic resource [www.TrojanHeron.blogspot.com].
The green mask is slowly sliding off the face of the "Friends"--their true identity is being revealed.
This and other actions of the "Friends" are generously funded by:
The Bullitt Foundation
Charlotte Martin Foundation
Horizons Foundation
Northwest Fund for the Environment
The Russell Family Foundation
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
FishAmerica Foundation
Environmental Support Center
Washington Department of Ecology
Tulalip Tribes
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Longtime University of Central Arkansas professor Dr. Jerry Manion died July 18 at age 73. He was well-known for his enthusiastic dedication to teaching and his talent for music.
Manion's son, Danny, said his father became the first chairman of the chemistry department at UCA in 1965, the same year he earned his doctorate at the University of Mississippi. He said his father taught more years than any other professor in the school's history.
"He taught at UCA for 49 years. He had an incredible effect on a lot of his students. They started a scholarship at UCA a few years ago, and one of Dad's former students said he would put up the money for the endowment if they would name it after Dad."
Manion's other son, Mike, said, "He just loved teaching. He was going through the process of retiring at UCA, and he couldn't stand it. He was loving teaching, and he told them, 'I want to be carried out of the classroom,' which is pretty much what he did. He loved his students. He loved the faculty."
At one time Manion also taught chemistry at St. Joseph School in addition to his duties at UCA, his sons said.
"St. Joseph was in need of a chemistry teacher and couldn't find one. Dad stepped in and taught chemistry at St. Joe for several years and just donated the salary back to the school," Danny Manion said.
Tom Courtway, president of UCA, said, "He was a great teacher and mentor who influenced and changed the lives of many, many students. Dr. Manion was an asset to UCA, his community and his profession, and for me personally, he always had an encouraging word and solid advice on any subject."
In addition to his love of teaching, Manion also enjoyed playing music.
Mike Manion said, "He played with a bluegrass group with several other science professors. They played bluegrass festivals, at nursing homes, at UCA. He also played with the UCA Dixieland Band."
Fletcher Smith of Conway grew to know Manion well through a mutual love of music.
"I ran into Doc Manion in the late 70s, and I heard him play with The Professors. He was so good on the banjo it intrigued me. I wanted to learn, and he said, 'Meet me at the science center.' He sat down with me and taught me a lick — eight notes. He would put me in a separate room, go to two or three other people he was teaching at the same time, and then come back. If I could play it, he would teach me another one. He got the biggest kick out of teaching somebody something. It didn't matter what it was. He spent countless hours teaching many people to play the banjo."
He added Manion was always happy, smiling and generous with his time.
"I've never seen anyone who would spend more time with their students for no monetary gain," he said. "He just loved teaching and got the biggest kick out of it when they learned it. It didn't make any difference to Doc Manion what you wanted to learn. If he knew it, he was going to teach it to you."
One of Manion's former students, Kofi Boahene, is a doctor at Johns Hopkins and a leader in the field of plastic facial reconstruction, but he almost didn't get to go to medical school. In an article in Johns Hopkins Medicine online, Boahene credits Manion with helping him get his start. A standout student throughout his school career, Boahene, a native of Ghana, almost gave up on his dream of medical school because he did not have the funds. Manion co-signed on a loan for him because he believed so strongly in Boahene's abilities. Now he repairs faces in war-torn countries and reverses cleft palates in children in poverty.
"That's a lot of lives touched," said Danny Manion.
Smith commented, "I think everybody who came into contact with Doc Manion is a better person for that, because he was such a class act. I'll never forget him."
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About a week or so ago, I spent $0.99 at iTunes to pick up a copy of Koi Pond. With all the software that constantly moves onto and off of my iPhone, it should say something that over a week later, Koi Pond is still installed. It's a little treasure.
Koi Pond provides exactly the experience its title suggests: it puts a virtual Koi Pond onto your iPhone, allowing you to place plants and feed the fish. The fish in question swim around the screen and run away from the rippled waves you create when messing with the water. If you leave your finger still enough, eventually a koi or two will investigate and nibble on your finger before darting off on its pre-existing fishy business.
In theory, there is no point to Koi Pond. It's there to experience and enjoy. In practice, my elder children issue each other challenges: "Make the worst pond" (no fish, no plants, no sunlight, brown rocks, rotting food) or "Make the most psychotic koi" (one fish, sunlight, lots of splashing), etc.
For $0.99, it's a great deal on a little toy. Turn off autolock and cheerfully burn out your screen by sitting it on a stand on your desk. The fish will swim and burble ad infinitum. (It helps to have the iPhone docked while doing this.)
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The St. Augustine City Commission meets in its regular session on Monday, June 24, at 4 p.m., in their chambers at City Hall, 75 King St. For information, call 825-1006.
The following items are on the agenda:
Recognition of The Woman's Exchange of St. Augustine. A proclamation will be presented to the Exchange, recognizing its 70-year partnership with the city of St. Augustine for the management and preservation of the city-owned historic Pena-Peck House. A presentation to the city will follow by Exchange president Mary Daniels and immediate past president Margo C. Pope.
Presentation of the city's 2002 Citizenship Awards to St. Johns County high school students Jamie Weimer of St. Joseph Academy, Jesse Parkhurst of St. Augustine High School and Elise Kasmiry of Allen D. Nease High School.
Determination of legal sufficiency of an appeal of a Planning and Zoning Board decision on a property at 101 La Quinta Place. Owner Norbert Tusseo wants to rent an apartment at that address on a daily basis, which the zoning board would not allow.
Consideration and discussion of the Lake Maria Sanchez storm water project. The St. Johns Water River Management District has offered the city a $50,000 grant toward the cost of drainage improvements. To use the money, the city must authorize a cost-sharing agreement with the district.
Designation of a commissioner to represent St. Augustine at the Florida League of Cities conference.
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Hottest day of the year TOMORROW as sweltering July begins with 28C scorcher
BRITAIN is on course to sizzle in the hottest day of summer tomorrow before another "tropical" blast next week.
Swathes of the country could see the mercury top 82F (28C) before the end of the day with blue skies and sunshine all round.
After only a slight dip at the weekend, temperatures are set to soar again from Monday with another burst of summer joy on the way.
The Met Office said today is likely to be the hottest day of the year so far beating the 81F recorded in Fife, Scotland, last month.
Forecaster Dan Williams said: "The hottest day could be under threat on Thursday with Friday also looking warm for most.
"Although temperatures are going to dip slightly at the weekend by Monday it is warming up again, temperatures are still above-average for the time of year."
Bookmakers were last night slashing odds on Thursday being a scorcher with Ladbrokes offering 1/3 on the hottest day of the year so far.
It is also giving odds of 7/4 that summer will be the hottest ever beating 2006's 60.4F (15.78C) summer average, and 10/1 that July will exceed the current 98F (36.5C) record for a day in that month.
Spokeswoman Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: "It looks safe to say UK workers will be returning from their lunch breaks looking a little flushed after sizzling in the sunshine."
Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said tomorrow's near countrywide scorcher will trigger heavy downpours by the weekend.
He said: "Thursday could see temperatures rise to 27C but it is going to hammer it down in parts on Friday and could feel a bit fresher.
"The next week the heat looks like it is going to gradually build again with July very much on course to be a warmer than average month."
It looks safe to say UK workers will be returning from their lunch breaks looking a little flushed after sizzling in the sunshine
Leon Brown, forecaster for The Weather Channel, said next week's weather will be influenced by a "tropical development" over the north Atlantic.
He said: "This is likely to develop to the east of Florida and become a deepening depression running north-eastwards off the eastern coast of the US.
"It may ultimately enhance ridging and higher pressure over the UK with warmer temperatures after a cool spell next week.
"For this week it will become very warm over the south with the highest temperatures so far this year likely on Thursday and Friday in the southeast reaching 27C to possibly 28C [82F]."
James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said: "[Next week] is likely to bring another period of exceptionally warm and hot weather at times across many parts of the UK for several days.
"[We could] see temperatures ranging in the mid to high 20s at the very least.
"It is also a possibility that temperatures could near towards the 30C (86F) mark in places."
Although the scorching weather will be welcomed by many, very high pollen levels over the next two days spell misery for hayfever sufferers.
Met Office spokeswoman Laura Young said: "The mild winter and spring has led to very good plant growth which means pollen levels are high this summer."
Netweather forecaster Jo Farrow said: "For Thursday morning, there will be more cloud about for north Wales and northern England, maybe with some light patchy rain in the west.
"Southern Britain starts off with blue skies and sunshine once more and will heat up quickly.
"From Cardiff up to Lincolnshire, anywhere southeast of that line should see over 20C [68F] and 25C [77F] is likely for London."


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The St Augustine Duplicate Bridge club invites the community to enroll in Betty Morgan's new Beginner Bridge Class July 20.
Classes will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday and Thursday. The cost for the 10 two-hour lessons is $100 plus the cost of the book.
For information, call 501-6031.
Winners for the week of June 29 through July 5 were:
June 29 party bridge: Herb and Helen Padgett.
June 29 afternoon 99ers: First -- Peter and Sandra Klinge; second -- Alicia Brown, Dixon Thomas; third -- Dan and Ellen Pouliot.
June 30 morning NAOP qualifiers: North/south, (A) -- Nancy Mitchell. Barbara McCallon; (B, C) -- Sally Miller, Robert Sampson. East/west, (A) -- Lois and Michael Pearson, (B, C) -- Cecelia Karway, Linda Hait.
July 1 morning newcomers: First -- Lynn Miller, Jacqueline Mawhinney; second -- Dan and Ellen Pouliot; third -- Joan Frey, Bonnie Gillespie.
July 1 afternoon 299ers: North/south, (A, B) -- Geoff and Joan Sackman; (C) -- Robert Hinton, Phyllis Greenfield. East/west, (A, B) -- Constanz and George Schatz; (C) -- Gloria Sewell, Ann Green.
July 2 afternoon open pairs: North/south, (A) -- Dorothy Johnson, Barbara McCallon; (B) -- Barbara Rothermel, Eve Newman. East/west, (A, B) -- Randall Rathjen, Linda Hait.
July 3 afternoon open pairs: North/south, (A) -- Barbara and Jim Rhoden; (B, C) -- Sally Miller, Robert Sampson. East/west -- (A, B) -- Martha Russo, Randall Rathjen; (C) -- Murray Kauffman, Florence Abarbanel.
July 5 afternoon NAOP qualifiers: North/south, (A, B) -- Barbara and Jim Rhoden. East/west, (A) -- Christie and Daniel Sellers; (B) -- J. Pujol, Janice Edwards.
To find a partner, call Mimi Kelly at 794-0441. The club's Web site is www.staugustinedbc.org.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 23 (UPI) -- The Rio+20 summit ended in Brazil Saturday with environmental and social activists saying not much concrete was accomplished.
The final declarations coming out of the big meeting on sustainable development were considered watered down and weak.
"We had the leaders of the world here, but they really did not take decisions that will take us forward," Barbara Stocking, chief executive of Oxfam GB, told the BBC.
Gro Harlem Brundtland, who the BBC said authored a major U.N. statement on sustainable growth 25 years ago, blamed corporate influence over national political leaders for the seemingly timid statements.
Proposals to end subsidies for fossil fuels and support reproductive rights for women were among the ideas that failed to make it through the conference.
The member nations of the Rio+20 summit will spend the next three years developing strategies to meet the goals that did pass muster at the conference, the BBC said.


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Jind: Two personnel of Hyderabad Police were today allegedly beaten up by a group of traders at a market in Safidon here, who mistook the cops for kidnappers, local police said.
The policemen from Hyderabad had come to a grain market in Safidon in the district, carrying a warrant issued by a Hyderabad court, against a group of persons.
A constable of Hyderabad Police, Alam Palli Alloor, and another policeman, accompanied by two persons arrived at the market in a privat car and allegedly tried to take one Jitendra from there into their car, local police said.
When Jitendra shouted, some of the traders assembled there and allegedly roughed up the policemen from Hyderabad, police said.
It was only when the Hyderabad policemen identified themselves and told the purpose of their visit that the scuffle ended.
On the basis of a complaint by the Hyderabad constable, an FIR has been lodged against five named persons and several unknown persons, local police said, adding, the traders have also lodged a complaint against two policemen from Hyderabad.


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Green Canoe
I don't often get the chance any longer
to go out alone in the green canoe
and, lying in the bottom of the boat,
just drift where the breeze takes me,
down to the other end of the lake
or into some cove without my knowing
because I can't see anything over
the gunwales but sky as I lie there,
feeling the ribs of the boat as my own,
this floating pod with a body inside it ...
also a mind, that drifts among clouds
and the sounds that carry over water—
a flutter of birdsong, a screen door
slamming shut—as well as the usual stuff
that clutters it, but slowed down, opened up,
like the fluff of milkweed tugged
from its husk and floating over the lake,
to be mistaken for mayflies at dusk
by feeding trout, or be carried away
to a place where the seeds might sprout.
Using the Old Style calendar, it was on this day in 1620 that the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World. The passengers called themselves Separatists or Saints, but today we call them Pilgrims. They had come to believe that the only way to practice their religion freely would be to separate themselves from the Church of England. They moved at first to a village near Amsterdam, where the government was more religiously tolerant, but eventually decided to travel to the New World to start a society from scratch.
They originally commissioned two boats for the journey: the Speedwell and the Mayflower. But when they set out, the Speedwell began to leak. They returned to England and tried to repair the Speedwell, but it was not fit for travel. So on this day in 1620, they set sail in the Mayflower, leaving the Speedwell behind.
Having wasted time trying to repair the Speedwell, they had to start their journey later in the summer, when the winds were less favorable. Because of strong crosscurrents, the Mayflower averaged only two miles an hour.
There are no records left as to the size and shape of the Mayflower, but historians believe it was about 90 feet long. In addition to the 102 passengers, it carried food for the journey as well as stores for the winter, livestock, and tools needed to start the new colony. The passengers of the Mayflower had to make themselves comfortable in the large open cargo area called the orlop. One nice thing about the Mayflower was that it smelled sweet, because it had previously been used to transport wine.
Some of the richer families brought partitions for their areas on the boat, but most passengers on the Mayflower had no privacy. There were no sanitary facilities, and there was little fresh water for washing. Many of the passengers became seasick. They ate cold food — cheese and fish or salted beef.
The Mayflower's destination was supposed to be near the mouth of the Hudson River, but it had sailed off course and landed near Cape Cod. The Pilgrims spent the next month searching for a place to settle. On December 21, just over three months after they left England, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, their new home.
Only half the colonists and crew survived that first winter. But today, an estimated 35 million people are direct descendants of those Mayflower Pilgrims.
It was on this day in 1522 that one of the five ships that set out with Ferdinand Magellan's expedition returned to Spain, having successfully circumnavigated the globe. Magellan himself had been dead for more than a year. He had landed on an island in the Philippines and converted the local tribe to Christianity, and he had agreed to stay and help them fight an enemy tribe on a nearby island, but he was shot by a poisoned arrow. The remaining two ships had continued on without him, but one tried to sail back across the Pacific, and never made it. The final ship, the Vittoria, sailed around Africa and made it to Spain on this day in 1522, with just 18 of the original 237 men who had set sail three years earlier.
On this day in 1847, Henry David Thoreau (books by this author) left Walden Pond and moved back to his father's house in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau had lived in the hut for two years, leading a simple life of gardening and contemplation, subsisting on a daily budget of 27-1/2 cents. When he moved back to Concord, he took with him the first draft of his book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, strung together from 10 years of journal entries.
It's the birthday of writer Alice Sebold (books by this author), born in Madison, Wisconsin (1963). She grew up near Philadelphia — and she says that she was the "weird" one in an otherwise normal, suburban, middle-class family. Her older sister was smart and talented, but Alice fell between the cracks. She was turned down by the University of Pennsylvania even though her father was a professor there.
She ended up at Syracuse, and during her first semester of college, she was attacked and raped near campus. Sebold tried to piece her life back together — she helped bring her rapist to trial and got him convicted with a maximum sentence; and she went back to college, where she was mentored by Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher in the creative writing program. But after graduation, she floated around all over the country, did too many drugs, worked a series of jobs, and made halfhearted attempts to write but never finished anything. When she was in her 30s, she got a job as the caretaker of an arts colony in California. It was there, in a cinderblock house in the woods with no electricity, that she finally started to write seriously. She applied to graduate school and wrote a memoir, Lucky (1999).
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When it's brewed it loses most of that sour cream-cheesecake aroma and the cream this time is bolstered by the warm aroma of the black tea, which makes it smell nicely rich. The aroma is actually very well balanced between bergamot, cream and black tea. The flavors are nice on this one as well: citrusy bergamot, smooth, tasty cream. The black tea base is pretty nonremarkable, and I'm wishing perhaps for a rich ceylon note to anchor the bottom, but it's also not overwhelming or bitter. Overall definitely a nice example of its kind.


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The idea of Public Key Cryptography is to send messages in such a way that only the person who receives the messages can understand them. Even if everyone knows the method of encryption nobody except the receiver has all the information needed in order to decypher the message. To solve this problem you are in the position of Bob receiving a secret number from Alice who has sent him the coded message 180. Bob is the only person in the world who knows that he has to use 59 in order to find the secret number $M$ which Alice has sent to him, and which he knows to be between 0 and 390.
Bob has to find the number equivalent to $180^{59}\pmod {391}$ so can you do this for him?
So that you can decipher the secret number using only a calculator the example given involves only small numbers like 59 and 391 whereas very big numbers are involved when the method is used in the real world. Instead of 391, the product of two very large prime numbers would be used in real world applications of this method. The reason that Bob, and nobody else, knows to use the number 59 to decode the message is that it is derived from one of the factors of 391 and in real world applications it is impossible to find the factors of the very large numbers that are used.
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Excellent and Very Detailed Graphics
Music+Sound effects
Awesome FMV Cut-Scenes
Camera can get in the way
Lip-synch can seem off sometimes
Same old control
The sequel to one of the scariest games ever made is released
and takes you back to that strange town. This time the man
visiting is James Sunderland. James is a man who has never
recovered from the death of his wife Mary. Suddenly, he gets
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special place in Silent Hill. James, looking for happiness,
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he really going to look for his wife that died three years
In Silent Hill 2 (just like in part one) everything
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backgrounds here. Everything in the game is so detailed -
from rust colored walls to filthy looking bathrooms. Every
little detail is in there. Then there is the flashlight which
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J'lem Bracing for More Haredi Riots as Mayor Vows Shabbat Opening
The Jerusalem municipality's parking lot will be open to cars this Shabbat if a nearby lot does not receive court permission to open, Mayor Nir Barkat announced yesterday. The decision is expected to lead to renewed ultra-Orthodox rioting.
The Eda Haredit, an extremist ultra-Orthodox group that led riots two weeks ago, immediately responded to Barkat's announcement by calling for a mass prayer rally on the capital's Bar-Ilan Street on Friday night. It also called for solidarity demonstrations in Haredi towns and neighborhoods outside Jerusalem.
"We'll set the entire country on fire, not just Jerusalem," said Eda Haredit spokesman Shmuel Papenheim.
Secular political parties and organizations are also planning demonstrations this Shabbat, in support of the lot's opening.
"This is a test for all those who seek coexistence in this city, for people who understand that in Jerusalem, we must live and let live," Barkat said.
The municipal lot, located in Safra Square near the Old City, was opened on Shabbat for the first time earlier this month. But the riots that ensued prompted Barkat to close it for the next two weekends while he tried to negotiate a compromise.
His first proposal was to open a nearby private lot, owned by businessman Alfred Akirov, instead of the municipal one. But Akirov backed out, apparently concerned that ultra-Orthodox rioters would damage his business.
Barkat then looked into opening another nearby lot, this one owned by the municipal corporation Karta. However, since Karta is in the process of being liquidated by a court-appointed receiver, that requires the court's permission.
The receiver, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, said he would not object to opening the lot as long as the city promises to compensate Karta if the lot is vandalized. The city asked yesterday for court approval to open the lot.
Barkat said he hoped the court would do so before this weekend, but if not, he will order the Safra lot opened.
Barkat said the Safra lot's opening would not violate religious prohibitions against Jews working or earning money on Shabbat, since it will be manned by a non-Jew and cars will not be charged for parking.
However, these provisions failed to satisfy the rioters last time, so municipal officials are bracing for more riots this Shabbat. The ultra-Orthodox charge that the lot's opening violates the religious status quo in Jerusalem.
Despite the planned Eda Haredit protest, other ultra-Orthodox groups have thus far refrained from provocative statements, saying they prefer to keep negotiating with the municipality.
Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf of the Rabbis' Committee for Shabbat, which represents the mainstream Haredi public, said his organization has not yet decided how to respond to the lot's opening. However, he said, he was upset by Barkat's decision, "which was made without dialoguing with us."
Yossi Deutsch, a city council member representing the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, which is part of Barkat's coalition, also protested the decision.
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This was my first dine-in at Williamson Bros. BBQ in Marrietta. Several times before, I had obtained take-out, and was extremely happy with both the pulled pork and Brunswick stew.
The dine-in experience started off nicely enough, as the restaurant has an authentic, "homey" Southern feel to it. The huge woodpile out front, has always been reassuring.
A friendly young gal arrived after several minutes, and took our drink order. Sweet tea for me, but dear ol' mom asked for coffee. Several more minutes passed, which I attributed to making a fresh pot. Not so, as I learned later.
Anyway, tea arrives and so does the coffee. Complete with a nice lipstick smudge!The waitress was off and running, before we could bring it to her attention. We put a napkin to work, and didn't even mention it, when our waitress returned for our order---several more minutes later.
Mom had a pulled pork sandwich with potato salad, and I tried the pork plate with cole slaw and Brunswick stew.
Shortly, mom had her potato salad in front of her, and I had my cole slaw. The sandwich, pork plate, and Brunswick stew were M.I.A.
After several more minutes had passed, and the hot items were nowhere to be found, I decided to try my cole slaw, which of course was getting warmer by the minute. Looking for the pepper, I found a huge container, with an opening a small rock could pass through. How one is suppose to apply said pepper, is somewhat baffling. I had to wipe off my tea spoon, and carefully sprinkle as best I could.
Finally, the sandwich and the pork plate arrived. My pork was swimming in a house sauce, that I did not request to be applied. There was a house hot sauce sitting on the table, that I had planned to use. If the menu advised that the plates came in this fashion, I could have ordered it dry. The plate was definately heavier on sauce than meat, too.
Going from bad to worse, was the "stew." Make that soup! A thin, watery, thimble-sized portion that was nothing like the smokey goodness, I was taken home several times past.
I literally ate two bites of pork, and asked for the check. Mom was ready to go, as well. The waitress cleared the table of basically untouched food, but didn't inquire if there was a problem.
After paying, I was just going to leave, but literally ran into the manager on the way out the door. I asked for nothing but an explanation on several things.
First, I was told the lipstick smudge happens from time to time, as it is maybe the hardest substance to purge during cleaning. The magnum-sized pepper container, sans a shaker-top, was something the owners had decided on. Same with bringing cold sides out first, and all hot items out later. This why there was such a lag in receiving drinks, placing an order, and receiving the food. The wait staff have to multi-task, including rounding up the cold sides, while the kitchen prepares the hot items.
I'm still shaking my head over that one...
I personally care for my meal to be served as one course, thank you very much.
She also could not explain, why they offer several sauces, but the plates arrive with the basic variety, and in an amount that seems excessive to me. As for the stew being thin and tasteless, she suggested that maybe the cook, had watered the mix down too much, on this batch.
She was cordial. She was concerned. She insisted on giving me a gift certificate to cover the full expense.
I will give Williamson Bros. another dine-in chance. However, after this fiasco, Harold's (reviewed on this site) is firmly in first-place, when it comes to Atlanta dine-in Q.
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While serving on the Board of Directors of Na Kama Kai for the last 3 years I have received tremendous satisfaction in knowing that we are having a positive influence on the lives of youth in the state of Hawaii. Na Kama Kai's mission is to empower youth by creating, conducting and supporting ocean-based programs, specifically targeting ocean safety and conservation awareness in order to increase the capacity of youth in the community through Hawaiian values, culture and environmental education.
Na Kama Kai guides youth to become safe, responsible participants in recreational ocean activities and helps them fully appreciate and understand the importance of the ocean as part of our natural world. In essence they become "ocean intelligent". Such learning occurs through guidance and experience in a nurturing environment where keiki (youth) learn how to be safe in the marine environment, grow physically and emotionally through interaction with the ocean, develop an overall respect for nature using the ocean as a connecting force to all living things, and learn that it is their responsibility to provide the stewardship needed to conserve our ocean recourses for future generations. To date, close to 4,000 keiki have participated in our free clinics. Our success is based entirely on the dedication and commitment of volunteers. These talented volunteers experience tremendous fulfillment as they empower the keiki to practice ocean safety and conservation. Such awareness saves lives and leads to stronger stewardship of our fragile island environment.
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Two shows this weekend at Opera House
Chris Smither
Blues guitarist Chris Smither will perform at the Mauch Chunk Opera House on Friday night.
On Saturday, The Youngers and Free Range Folk will be on the Opera House stage.
Both concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.
Both are productions of Jtams Productions.
Smither is highly regarded among his peers for his blues and Americana music.
What is immediately recognizable to anyone who has encountered Smither on record or in live performance during the course of the last four decades are his been-there, done-that voice and the crystalline, wordlessly eloquent sounds of his fingerpicked acoustic guitar.
Smither is truly an American original.
Having released 12 albums since the early 1970s, he is a profound songwriter, a blistering guitarist and, as he puts it, a 'one-man band to the bone.' He melds the styles of his two major influences, Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt, into his own signature guitar sound.
His music continues to draw deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and humanist philosophers.
He may be best known for writing "Love You Like A Man" which Bonnie Raitt who deeply admires his playing, dubbing him "her Eric Clapton."
His music has also been covered by numerous other artists and featured in various soundtrack albums, independent film, television and commercials.
Pa. based roots-rock band "The Youngers" boldly staked their claim as one of the most promising and vital bands in America with a stunning new album "Heritage" released in 2008.
Lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Todd Bartolo funnels the vibrant energy of a hard-charging, up-and-coming four piece rock band through the sieve of his disparate influences.
At times country, at times rock, the music is always spot on and informed by some of the great storytellers of American songwriting tradition including Springsteen, Neil Young and Gram Parsons.
Special musical guests Ruch, Finsel and McCarty known as "Free Range Folk" will open for "The Youngers".
Tickets can be purchased on-line at: mauchchunkoperahouse.com. Parking is recommended downtown at the Carbon County Municipal Lot.


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Glock: McLaren wind tunnel work a boost
2 January 2013 – Timo Glock says the aerodynamic work that has been carried out by his Marussia team at McLaren's wind tunnel 'looks very positive' for future seasons, with the German driver hopeful of moving up the Formula 1 grid in 2013.
The Banbury-based outfit first entered the sport as Virgin Racing back in 2010, competing with a solely CFD-designed car. Since then, it has substantially widened its research methods, something which fills Glock with optimism.
"I didn't think that we'd close the gap as we were 1.5 seconds off Caterham, then we closed it very quickly over the second half of the season, which is great."
Glock's new team-mate, Max Chilton, is also optimistic about Marussia's chances in 2013. The Briton, who is preparing for his Formula 1 debut, says the performance projections made by Technical Consultant Pat Symonds are extremely encouraging.
"The car sounds very, very good," Chilton told GPUpdate.net. "With the addition of KERS as well, that's just free time. There's no loss of time by installing it. KERS in itself would put us further up the grid and if we're having the car they say we will then it's going to be a very promising year. Pat seems to think we've found a lot."
Marussia and Caterham, the two surviving teams from the three which joined Formula 1 ahead of the 2010 campaign, are yet to record a points-scoring result.


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Genre: Game Show
Premise: Host Colin Mochrie's comedic timing and the unaffectedness of the resident fifth-graders -- not a junior prima donna in the bunch -- are staples of this Canadian version of the U.S. game show. Of course, as ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' reminded us, it's also great fun to watch grown-ups blow the answers to easy questions. Some, though, aren't so easy for folks 10, 20 or more years removed from elementary school.


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The type of security implemented is WPA2-Enterprise. This is used on the bsusecure and eduroam SSIDs.
You will be required to configure your laptop for WPA2-Enterprise and type in your Ball State University email address and password. This process helps ensure that only authorized users are accessing the Ball State University network.
The 'guest' SSID is not intended to provide secure wireless access for students. This network is available for limited use by non-student guests of the University.
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Fathers who still spank their adult sons regardless of age (FATHERS ONLY!)
Any male ca. 16 and up who receives corporal punishment needs something that stings with truly serious pain if such punishment is going to remain effective for him. Years ago I determined that what had been good for me as a boy might remain good for me as a man and got myself a punishment strap made of black neoprene rubber about 3 1/2" wide, about 1/8" thick and about 15" long and with a wooden handle to help the person administering the punishment to control the strap.
I had a friend who, like me, as using corporal punishment with his youngsters and who agreed with me that perhaps this experience could be helpful for us AND that if we had done something we thought called for it, we should be "man" enough to ask each other for as much of the strap as it would take to help make us VERY SORRY for what we'd done.
After the strap arrived, we got together one day at the other guys house when his wife was not there and "practiced" with two layers of bubble-wrap tied securely around our behinds. You could feel some pressure when it licked you, but there was no pain. We decided to cut the strap down to 12", at which point we felt we'd be able to control it enough and to make it really "work."
The word was, too, that the rubber would sting even worse if you rubbed a light coat of baby oil or vasoline around your behind. I must assume that this advice was correct; at least, it certainly did not make that strap ineffective!!
The day came when I very unlovingly sassed off my wife and felt I needed to ask my friend for a good dose of the strap. I did apologize to her, and loving wife that she is, she forgave me. I did not tell her, however, how I was also going to "pay my price" for what I did, but that following week-end, when she and my kids were away for the day, I asked my friend to stop by the house and give me what I deserved for mouthing off to my wife like I'd done.
We'd agreed that we would bend over the back of a chair, like we both had to do when we were teen-agers. He had begun to punish his teen-age boy in the same position, so he was "experienced" in licking it on in that position. (My youngsters were not yet that old.) So when he got to the house, we went in our bed-room, I stripped down to an athletic supporter, which is how I always got it from my dad, rubbed my behind with vasoline, and told him to give it to me until he was convinced I'd had enough and not to stop until such point.
It was incredibly horrible!!!! At least as bad as anything I ever got from my dad!!! It only took about a half dozen licks until I could not keep quiet, and after a while I was yelling and finally crying like a teen-ager. He told me some days later that he gave me 25 licks with that strap, and believe me, it was as horrible as anything I can remember ever getting from my dad.
It did the job! I've never felt the need to ask for it again, though I am firmly convinced that its existence in my house is helpful. I did lick my friend on two occasions, and in both cases, he also ended up crying like a teen-age boy.
I doubt that a paddle, even a lexan paddle, would hurt that bad, partly because it does not curl around your behind like this rubber strap does. By the time it's over, your entire behind is red and hurts like you can't believe from one side to the other and from "top to bottom." The total square inches of fiery pain you get far exceeds what a paddle would ever do to you. And just as bad: you get 3 1/2" x ca. 8 or 9", thus ca. 27 or 30 square inches of incredibly hideous sting each time the strap licks you!!!
My friend was so "taken" by the experience that he got a thick rubber paddle from the Hanson firm to start using on his teen-age boy, there again able to spread the licks around and thus to cover the entire behind with pain so fiery and to effect the kind of anguish that so bad that there is no doubt that the punishment has taken effect. He does NOT use a rubber strap on his boy, but the rubber paddle he uses has a blade of about 3" x 6" or about 18 square inches of sting as of each lick, and he told me that when he tried it on himself before starting to use it with his boy, he could not go beyond about 7 or 8 licks because the pain had become so fiery that he could no longer stand it. He said that the boy's age plus one is more than enough licks to make his son also very sorry for what he did that deserved such punishment.
So my own experience, receiving the strap one time and delivering it to my friend two times, makes clear that it "gets to you" in adult years in the same way it needs to "get to" a boy, if corporal punishment is going to "work" for him.
It may not be for everyone, but for my friend and me, it's been incredibly effective and useful. I think we are both better husbands and fathers and citizens because we are ready to "support" each other even this way if it seems called for.
I have a friend at work who got is boy a rubber paddle like the one described when the boy turned 13. He says it makes him start crying almost right away and that in not time at all he's crying very hard. My friend also tried it on himself and apparently with the same fiery results in the message above. He uses the same system: one lick for each year of the boy's age "plus one to grow." One would wonder if there is anything better to use than one of those rubber paddles, given how it is safer than a hard paddle, small to control, but apparently with VERY ugly, fiery sting that makes it very effective.
I used a paddle made of 1/4" lexan and equipped with 13 holes to make the sting even more fiery. It gave my boys exactly what they needed when corporal punishment was called for.
However, I was always concerned about injury, esp. broken bones. So if were starting out all over again, I would probably use one of the new-style thick rubber paddles described here (above). It helps to make it hurt bad enough to make the boy cry pretty bad by the time he has half of the licks you're going to give him, and I take it that a rubber paddle can hurt at least that bad and maybe worse. It may be that a thick rubber paddle is the best thing you can use AND that it can hurt enough to give a teen-ager what he needs, which means you can keep using the same thing from little on up until he no longer needs that kind of punishment.
I have never used the over-the-knee position, but a rubber paddle would be perfect for a boy in that position, and even a high school boy could be required to go across your knee for a good dose of a rubber paddle that would give him what he needs.
I'm glad my days of administering corporal punishment are over!
25 or 30 good, hard licks with a short, thick rubber paddle, spread all around the behind, would make any adult son very sorry for his misdeed. The rubber paddle would be a lot easier to use and to control, compared with a rubber strap, though if you did it right, the strap could be made to curl the whole way around the behind, making each lick worse than any given lick with the rubber paddle.
I find a rubber strap to be most useful when punishing my son. It's flexibility is a bonus when a quick "smack" to his bare legs is required (shorts are worn at home!) also, for more serious attention, I find the strap does certainly curl around the behind to give a fuller coverage. To acheive a good blow one needs to be standing to the bending young man's side but not too close, rather in line with his upper torso than right over his bottom. Soon this 20 year old is as tearful as a baby and attitude adjustment is well and truly acheived.


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Whatever you do, don't make a song that Zac Brown doesn't like because he won't sugarcoat how he really feels. The singer recently blasted Luke Bryan's new song "That's My Kind of Night" calling it "the worst song I've ever heard".
In an interview with Vancouver's 93.7 JRfm, Brown went on to say "If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, daisy duke song, I wanna throw up. There's songs out there on the radio right now that make me ashamed to be even in the same format as some other artist."
Country Weekly reports that when asked about Bryan's new song, Brown said, "I see it being giant commercially, successful within what is called country music these days, but I also feel like that the people deserve something better than that." Not many people appreciated Brown's harsh criticism, so the singer clarified his opinion on Twitter.
Zac: "My opinion is not about Luke as an artist, it's about that song. He didn't write it. I'm a fan of Luke, but definitely not that song."
— Zac Brown Band (@zacbrownband) September 14, 2013
Luke Bryan definitely has nothing to be upset about, even with Zac Brown's comments. According to Billboard, Luke Bryan leads Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Top Country Albums charts for a fourth straight week. Plus, he just released the new music video for 'That's My Kinda of Night'.
If you're Zac Brown, you might not want to watch the video below.


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"Embrace the Darkness 3" comes a year after the series' first sequel (appropriately titled "Embrace the Darkness 2", natch), and features an all-new cast, writer, but the same director. Seeing as how I cared very little for the direction and overall feel of the first sequel, I have small hope for Part 3 with director Robert Kubilos remaining at the helm. Wishing not to relive the horror that was the previous sequel, I will write this review as if that film never existed. And so…
Brooke Larele steps into the role of our leading lady, playing Jennifer, a freshly turned lass who can't seem to control her hunger for blood. After dispatching her nagging vampire boyfriend in a most unromantic way, Jennifer runs into Victor (Ty Winston), a debonair vampire turned mysterious millionaire with a penchant for speaking like an old English Professor but with bad enunciation. Victor has plans for Jennifer and believes she may be a new breed of super vampire that can withstand sunlight, etc. Along the way, everyone strips off their clothes and engages in simulated sex.
"Embrace 3" lacks any credible acting by all involved, which should be no surprise to anyone. The screenplay by Remington Underwood (Do you think he's using a fake name by any chance?) would be considered "so bad it's good" if it just wasn't so God awful bad. In all fairness to Underwood, his already bad screenplay is probably made even more atrocious by thespians whose combined talent equals that of Mariah Carey and Madonna, sans singing careers.
With all of the above unpleasantries out of the way, does "Embrace 3" make up for the waste of celluloid that was "Embrace 2?" Yes and no. Without the restraints of an R-rating to hold him back, this time director Kubilos is allowed to go full tilt with the sex, resulting in sex scenes that are more explicit but, like "Embrace 2", still lacking where it matters most — passion. This, of course, is all in comparison to the original "Embrace the Darkness"; the comparison may be unfair, but there you have it.
Perhaps in an attempt to overcome his unskilled directing, Kubilos does manage to satisfy the series' core audience with quantity. Where the film lacks in quality sexual trysts, it makes up in bulk. Everyone, it seems, has sex with each other at one point or another. In fact the film doesn't go more than 5 minutes without someone stripping down to nothing. Apparently bookstores are fair game too, as a couple strips down to do the vertical mambo on a bookstore's sofa at one point.
The obvious draw of movies in this subgenre aside (re: skin and more skin), I was not completely bored with the rest of the film. For a low budget production the movie does have some nifty special effects, mostly when vampires are killed. Toward the end, there's even a hand-to-hand rumble between Jennifer and a group of Victor's thugs inside a loft that, even if it doesn't completely wow, at least left me with a stupid grin on my face.
As with "Embrace 2", "Embrace 3" does continue one rather annoying trend: its actors are not exactly the most attractive people out there. While I concede that it is difficult to hire talented actors for a softcore "erotic thriller," I can't accept that it's hard to find beautiful actors for said genre. Many erotic thrillers have come before "Embrace 2" and "3" that showcased actors who were able to shed the "starving artist" label because of their looks, so I don't understand this series' gradual downgrade in aesthetics.
Robert Kubilos (director) / Remington Underwood (screenplay)
CAST: Brooke Larel, Ty Winston, Vanessa Lynch, Glen Meadows


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Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
I was foresaken by rock and roll in the early 1970s. Gene Vincent, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones had died. The Beatles disintegrated. The Byrds broke-up and then reunited to record their worst album. The Stones released their last great one. The Who were making tedious, bombastic operas choked with bad symbolism and simple minded metaphors. Pink Floyd took the brown acid and became boring. The Dave Clark Five became Dave Clark and Friends. Phil Spector went into seclusion. Elvis went to the White House to shake Nixon's hand. Bob Dylan went Nashville. Brian Wilson went mad and Arthur Lee wasn't too far behind.
Top 40 radio was in dire need of a Rotor-Rooter. The pipelines were full of excremental sludge consisting of some of the worst songs to be sprung from the a-hole of rock n' roll.
"A Horse With No Name" - America
"The Candy Man" - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night
"One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree" -Tony Orlando & Dawn
" Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
"The Way We Were" - Barbra Streisand
"Seasons In The Sun" - Terry Jacks
"The Streak" - Ray Stevens
"One Hell Of A Woman" - Mac Davis
All of the above were best-selling singles from 1971-74, all of them appearing in the Top Ten.
And when it came to rock criticism, Robert Christgau's insulting and utterly clueless one-line review of Tim Buckley's masterful 1970 release Starsailor is one of the most odious things that sandal-wearing beatnik ever wrote:
A man who was renowned for his Odetta impressions on Jac Holzman's folkie label switches to Frank Zappa's art-rock label, presumably so he can do Nico impressions.
Yes kids, it was a wasteland. If it was some fresh badass rock and roll you were looking for, you had to look hard. If you were lucky, you found Iggy… and eventually you'd come upon a few other shards of light within the shitstorm: Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior and Roxy Music's debut album, with Lou Reed's Transformer and Ziggy not far behind. The guys with the make-up, glitter and hairspray brought something essential back to rock and roll: big hooks, guitars, a little danger and sex.
I took a pass on Bowie. Reed, as a Velvet, was already a hero. Roxy music knocked me out, but it was Marc Bolan that blew me way. Everything about T. Rex worked for me : the chugging guitar riffs, undeniable hooks, propulsive tribal rhythms, sassy vocals, surreal alliterative lyrics and Marc's pimped out fashion sense. It all came together with a certain inspired savoir faire. Bolan, like Hendrix, Chuck Berry and Elvis, exploded fully formed out of the rock and roll godhead. He was one for the ages. His influence reached far and deep, inspiring and setting the stage for The Ramones, The Runaways, Blondie, The Clash and The Sex Pistols.
Marc Bolan:The Final Word is a BBC documentary that provides a fairly detailed overview of Bolan's life. It's narrated by Suzi Quatro and features contributions from his companion Gloria Jones, brother Harry Feld, producer Tony Visconti, Queen's Roger Taylor, Steve Harley, Zandra Rhodes and more.


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Ottertail Creamery unveiled Aug. 8
After decades of gradual deterioration, the historic Ottertail Creamery building is now a thriving Main Street staple once again.
When Firestarters Ministries first purchased the building a few years ago, it was in a state of disrepair, with paint peeling from every surface and thousands of old tires packed into the crumbling brick building.
Now, less than a year into the renovation process, the public is invited to an official open house for the restored creamery building. On Saturday, August 8, after the 11 a.m. Otter Fest parade, the Firestarters group is offering tours of the creamery from 12 - 5 p.m.
Refreshments, including lemonade and cookies, will be served at the open house. People will also have an opportunity to sign up for door prizes.
A new tour group will start out every five minutes, with the creamery tour covering the entire building. Tour guides will share some of the historical background of the building, which was built in 1921.
Visitors will be shown around the first and second floors of the building. The second floor of the building is the current meeting spot for the Firestarters church--with services held Sunday nights at 6 p.m. Live music is planned during the Saturday tours.
After touring the second level of the creamery, visitors will have the opportunity to climb up a spiral staircase into the building's "observation tower." The tower has two levels in it, with the top part of the octagonal structure surrounded with windows on every side. From the top of the tower seven lakes are visible.
On the main floor of the building, the tour will pass through one room that hasn't been restored yet. This provides an interesting reference point to see how far the renovation process has come.
Also on the first floor are two retail shops and a ministry-based coffee shop with an espresso bar and drip coffee. Brand new Ottertail Creamery t-shirts, mugs, and postcards will be sold. A special "Ottertail Creamery" coffee blend will also be available for purchase by the bag.
"We want people to come in and enjoy it," Pete Thiel, Firestarters Ministries, says of the creamery.
Thiel, along with help from several guys with the Firestarters group, first started demolition on the creamery building in September of 2008. "All of the young adults in our ministry love the building. We started dreaming about what it could become," he explains.
"We never dreamed that we'd be where we are in 10 months," Thiel says. "We thought we were staring a couple of years of work in the face. Now, we're already in the building."
As for the reason behind the restoration of the landmark creamery building, Thiel explains, "We felt like it was our responsibility to do it. It's not just about restoring the brick and the plaster; it's about restoring the building back to the city of Ottertail."


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Route DescriptionFrom the trailhead at 6,880', start climbing northwest up Forest Trail 74. This is also known as the Johnnie Canyon Trail. The trail is initially a primitive road. As the trail climbs up Johnnie Canyon through the trees, there are virtually no views. After 3.5 miles, you will meet the Carrizo Peak Trail 72 at a signed trail junction. The elevation here is about 8,900'. Turn left, and climb southeast up Forest Trail 72 about 1.5 miles to the grassy summit. A sign and a rock cairn mark the summit. Trail 72 is faint in places because of low usage, but you shouldn't have too much trouble following it. Once at the summit, the views finally open up.
Hiking Distance: 10 miles round trip.
Elevation Gain: 2,800'.


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Whitney Houston was in the public eye for so long, it is difficult to remember her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is only eighteen years old. While any time is a tough time to lose a parent, being in the throes of teendom, when a person's brain is pruning and he or she is just trying to figure things out, must be more difficult than most of us can imagine. Which is why it is really no surprise that upon hearing the news, Bobbi Kristina had a breakdown and had to be taken to the hospital.
On Sunday, Bobbi Kristina was checked into the Cedars Sinai Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital located in Los Angeles, California. After spending a little time in the facility, she was released. Today, her father Bobby Brown assured People Bobbi Kristina is doing much better, now.
"Obviously the death of her mother is affecting her. We will get through this tragedy as a family."
Brown also spoke out about his daughter's healing process and asked that the family's privacy be respected.
"We continue to provide love and support to Bobbi Kristina. She is dealing with the tragedy of her mother's death and would prefer to do it outside of the public eye. I ask again that our privacy be respected."
It is good that Houston's daughter is doing better and will be able to spend a few days with the friends and family she loves and is close to before her mom's funeral on Saturday. It would have been really difficult to jump straight from a hospital bed in Los Angeles to a funeral ceremony in Newark, New Jersey. Pop Blend has Houston's family in our hearts as they deal with the difficulties of the upcoming days.
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