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Many help in starting of new Hillsboro bakery
Dan Christianson and Ed Olsen arrived at 5 a.m. Friday with lawn chairs and two propane heaters. The early arrivals weren't seeking flat screens or the latest technology, however. The products in demand were pastries, at the much-anticipated Our Town Bakery opening on Main Street in Hillsboro.By: Ryan Bakken, Grand Forks Herald
HILLSBORO, N.D. — Dan Christianson and Ed Olsen arrived at 5 a.m. Friday with lawn chairs and two propane heaters — one to heat themselves and the other to heat their coffee.
It was Black Friday all over again.
The early arrivals weren't seeking flat screens or the latest technology, however. The products in demand were pastries, at the much-anticipated Our Town Bakery opening on Main Street.
The two retirees weren't alone. Sixteen people were lined up when the doors opened at 6 a.m., with a steady stream in the morning.
Sweets weren't the only attraction. The attendees also were there to see and celebrate the efforts of local residents who saved the building from becoming rubble.
"I named it 'Our Town' after all the volunteers who worked on this place and the people who saved the building," owner Amanda Johnson said.
"I've never thought of this as mine. It's ours."
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Amanda arrived in Hillsboro 15 months ago with husband Joe Johnson, who was straight out of seminary to become the pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran. A culinary school student, she learned of the availability of the Main Street building and went ahead with her dream — with the help of many local volunteers.
"We feel like there is a real need for a bakery here," she said. "People said they needed a gathering place and we hope we're a place to fill that niche."
The community's enthusiasm was obvious the last few months because "every time we turned around, people were offering their help," she said. "So we took them up on it. People just stopped and helped with whatever needed to be done to get the bakery ready."
Saved from wrecking ball
The initial help, long before the Johnsons and volunteers arrived, started six years ago. That's when a handful of locals approached Dakota Heritage Bank Branch President Don Foss seeking advice — and a loan.
They wanted to restore Union Block, the name for two adjacent buildings on Main Street that were built in 1890 and had been turned back to the county for taxes. Their motives were both historical and practical, as the Traill County Board of Commissioners had voted to demolish Union Block.
"I told them that it couldn't be done," Foss said. "I said 'You're all 65 years old — where are you going to get the energy?' But they pulled it off.
"This group brought spirit, muscle and optimism to a task many people felt was impossible."
Bruce and Marilu Person, Dallas and Mary Ann Boeddeker, Duane and Shirley Nysveen and Marlene Diehl were the mainstays in forming the nonprofit Hillsboro Community Partnership. The HCP had two major tasks.
One was fundraising. Records show that they raised $223,806.01, approximately split evenly among grants and countless fundraising events big and small, but mostly small.
The other job was doing the physical labor to stabilize the structure. Early in the work, Bruce Person went through the rotting floor on the second level. It took a year to make the building sound.
"It was important to do," Person said. "Once a downtown building in a small town is gone, the downtown keeps deteriorating."
The hope is that the bakery will attract traffic to a block that once housed The Johnson Store, a chain of department stores located in Class B towns.
A new slogan, perhaps?
Demand exceeded supply Friday at Our Town Bakery, with Amanda Johnson unable to keep up because of the curiosity and appetite of her visitors.
She hopes that the bakery, with seating for 15, will become a spot for coffee and, eventually, breakfast and lunch.
Hillsboro has embraced its position as a bedroom community for people who work in Grand Forks and Fargo with a slogan of being just "a cup of coffee away."
If Friday's interest is any indication, leaders may feel compelled to update the slogan to "a cup of coffee and a doughnut away."
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Man charged in fatal Feb. wreckCharges of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated battery and driving under the influence have been filed against a man whose vehicle crossed the center line last February southwest of Hutchinson and struck another vehicle head-on, killing a Plevna man.
The charges against 42-year-old Troy Meitler were filed Oct. 16, according to Reno County District Court records. Kansas Highway Patrol troopers arrested Meitler on Friday. He made his first appearance before Magistrate Judge Randall McEwen the same day and posted a $60,000 bond to be released from the Reno County jail. The Highway Patrol previously reported the accident occurred Feb. 10 as Meitler was traveling eastbound on U.S. 50 near Salem Road. Meitler's 2007 Ford crossed the center line and hit a 1997 Dodge driven by Brian L. Bush of Plevna, who was westbound on U.S. 50. Bush was killed in the accident, and his obituary, published Feb. 14 in The Hutchinson News, stated he died trying to save his family. His wife, 50-year-old Annette Bush, and 2-year-old grandchild were traveling with him when the accident occurred. Annette Bush was injured and airlifted to a Wichita hospital, where she was reported to be in fair condition a day after the accident. She died Feb. 16 at their Plevna home, however, "from a broken heart," according to her obituary in The Hutchinson News. The couple were not wearing seat belts, but their 2-year-old grandchild who was riding with them was in a child seat and escaped injury. Meitler, who was not wearing a seat belt, also was hospitalized at a Wichita hospital following the accident. Court records indicate he is being represented by Hutchinson attorney Greg Bell, and a status hearing in the case was scheduled for Dec. 11. blog comments powered by Disqus Inappropriate comments include those which: are libelous or defamatory are obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit; substituting characters for letters is not acceptable degrade others on basis of race, gender, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability or other classification are predatory, hateful or intended to attack, intimidate or harass writers or other commenters. contain advertising or solicitation misrepresent your identity or affiliation Also: Please don't hijack comment threads to controversial topics; keep comments relevant to the topic. Click here to read the entire policy |


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10:08am Thursday 22nd August 2013 in Lyme Regis By Lee Irving
LYME REGIS and its population of molluscs will become the focus of a new research project next month.
Martin Howse, 44, and Kathrin Guenter, 42, both from Berlin, will be arriving on August 30, to conduct scientific and artistic research into the common piddock – or pholas dactlyus – a species of the mollusc.
Mr Howse, who is originally from London, said: "We have completed the first stage of research and now we plan to get to know the mussel better in its natural habitat.
"Lyme Regis is a very beautiful location and has strong literary associations with the common piddock, with some shells found during an archaeological dig at the Holcombe site, a Roman villa by the river Lym.
"The common piddock appears to be quite common in the area, burrowing into the soft shale along the Jurassic Coast. It therefore seems a great place to start to understand this fascinating creature."
The two artists have recently finished a research project into glow in the dark mushrooms and were first attracted to the mussel because it exhibits this same rare phenomena.
One of the main results they are hoping to gain from this project is to see if the mollusc could once again be seen on our dinner plates in the future. Mr Howse added: "The idea came up during research on inter species, human-plant-animal-fungi, communication last year."
"I stumbled across an old scientific article that stressed its glow in the dark properties and the tasty qualities of the piddock.
"After some more research, I discovered there are some fascinating stories from Roman times of bath house parties where the tasty piddock was eaten, with the mouth, hands and breath of those who consumed the mollusc glowing bright blue. And that's the reason for this project – I wondered why this once popular mollusc was no longer eaten.
"We hope to farm the piddock in its natural environment, and hope to pickle, dry and otherwise preserve a few examples from Lyme Regis to take to Copenhagen in late September for tasting.
"Far from a boring mollusc, as many articles proclaim, the common piddock is a pretty interesting creature from historical, scientific and literary articles, and we are really looking forward to coming over."
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Luv Em.... He did a good job. Despite his public persona. He is an artist who expressed pure pain and angst in his music. However, he is a real guy off camera. He raised a beautiful daughter who seems to have acclimated quite well and well adjusted. Guess Em's music is just that music. He took being a dad seriously. Happy for her.


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'Slippery When Wet' starts up a series intermittent flaring cracks near the south end of north fin. It is down the slope from 'Agatha Christie' and Nancy's Thumb. Pitch 1: Climb delicate crux moves up starting cracks and through hanging blocks. From big chopper flake, continue up face just left of arete and clip one bolt. From bolt, step up around corner to the right. Traverse right on scant protection, up to reach another large ledge with two bolt belay. Pitch 2: Exit belay ledge up and right to prominent corner. Climb the obvious corner to easier finish. Top out near large pine. Bring either gear or long slings to construct a belay on top. To walk off, scramble north through brush toward Nancy's Thumb. Take care not to fall to your death on the talus to the west.
60m rope, Standard rack. Bring single and double length runners for extensions and possible tree-belay.
This is a great climb! We combined the first and second pitches (at least, as they are described above - other sources only call this a 2 pitch climb) and used a 50m rope, which worked just fine. The crux is down near the bottom of the first pitch and is an awkward chimney sort of move. This can be bypassed by walking around and up to the the left of the climb, which allows you to start at the first belay described above.
slippery when wet is a 2 PITCH CLIMBP1: climb delicate face moves up through hanging blocks ..up buttress and right to solid chain anchors.P2: climb up crack system to top to a belay from solid tree.yes you could combine the 2 pitches for sure with a 60M ( 50M seems too short) rope but the line for P1 and the line for P2 are far apart and the drag would be horrendous. plus on top of P1 you have an incredible belay ledge where you can 2nd up your follower and check out Tucson from one of the best belays on the mountain.
I'm gonna do this again.....where are you from and what are you thinkning giving this route 1 star!!?? Anyone climbing on mt. lemmon and interested in a classic climb do this...3 stars all the way...
the 5.9 rating is obviously a typo.7
I can't think of any 5.7's on Mt Lemmon that really deserve 3 stars (well maybe George's Buttress does). Slippery When Wet is one of the most overrated routes on the mountain (Black Quacker is another, probably an even more overrated 5.7). )
Some of you guys really don't have a clue...
It's got a great belay ledge, a beautiful dihedral, and if you go left instead of right when you finish the chimney at the top, the last belay is all gear with a fantastic view. This has got to be one of the best climbs I know to take someone on their first multipitch climb. What more could you want?
The direct start is pretty stiff 5.7 -- of course, it was wet when I did it. This route is definitely three stars!
I've lead this route twice, and both times my second (two different individuals) had trouble with the traverse over to the first belay anchors. A large cam (equiv to a #3 or #4 camalot) can protect the traverse. Otherwise a scary pendulum fall is possible for a second climbing at their ability level.
This climb is a classic due to AGE and position. For a 5.6 (that's what it was rated when I first did it in 1980) it is a nice little adventure.
Squeezing The Lemmon has it right,three star's all the way!
I think the view from the end of P1 is great/picturesque, but I don't see how it's a 4 STAR CLASSIC AAAA+++!!!1!!1. P2 is really fun, but too damn short! I used a .25 cam to protect the traverse, which is on pretty easy territory if I remember correctly. If this route is PG13, then the Standard Route @ Chimney rock is, too (neither are PG13, IMO).
Braxton, you are a hard man to please. Slippery is most definitely a 3 star route for Mt. Lemmon. Is it as good as Mr. Clean on Devils Tower, or The Grand Wall in Squamish, or the Salathe on El Cap, no. But it's a 3 star route for the area.
On the first pitch, past the blocks, the line is up the arete on the far left, then a short step-across traverse and then up to the far left end of the belay ledge, then walk across belay ledge to the chains on the far right. There's a fairly large knob that would probably catch the rope and prevent a pendulum if the second fell, but it's easy ground anyway. The direct start doesn't feel like 5.7+ anymore, there's some polished rock and balancy moves down there. The bypass start from the left side comes in just above the blocky stuff and below the arete and there's a tree to set a belay.
It is a great climb and I think the first one I did out west! A great intro!
do the 2nd pitch in the dark for a unique experience. the climbing isn't hard and it's near impossible to get off route, but the blackness around you creates a sense of mystery (what are you climbing into?) while the expanse of tucson glows far below you. classic! i'd like to add to christian's comment though; there's a single move at the bottom that i believe could go as hard as 5.9 (very tenuous--my second fell here), though the rest of the climb is 5.7 at the hardest.
In my opinion, Slippery is one of the 3 (or 4) classics of it's grade on Mt Lemon. I don't know when it became a 5.7--I've always thought of it as one of the routes that defines Tucson 5.6 trad climbing. However you want to rate it, the great pro', fun moves, spectacular views, and the perfect wine and cheese belay ledge halfway up make it one of the best for new (or even old) trad climbers (IMHO.)
What a beaut!!! This line is stellar...Definitely one of the best trad routes Ive climbed on Lemmon. The second pitch is far easier than it looks but is so rad. Watch out for loose block on second pitch...Rock fall potential for those walking below.
I have visited this climb 3 times in the past 6 months. It was pretty fun and I'll probably come back again. The first time I found a blue TCU stuck on the second pitch. The second time I found the same TCU and just above it a red camalot. I'm wondering what I'll find next! I don't see gear placements on this climb as hard but that's just me. And just in case someone wants to collect this TCU, I'd just leave it. It has definitely been there a while and good luck trying to remove it.
Mr Ruland said: "i'd like to add to christian's comment though; there's a single move at the bottom that i believe could go as hard as 5.9 (very tenuous--my second fell here), though the rest of the climb is 5.7 at the hardest." exactly..I didn't tick routes back then, but due to the social pressure to agree w established grades when you're starting out on trad climbing, I probably would have said 5.8, when to me it also felt like 5.9 PS I'm talking about the direct start, not the traverse in from left that bypasses the hard section at the bottom
Just got in this route 3/3/12 for my 7th trad lead. The traverse from the bolt was a little intimidating and it took me a while to figure out the moves but once I did it went pretty easy. I couldnt find any solid gear in the section past the bolt until the very end which is maybe a 10 ft run out. Great route!
I followed the "direct start" about a year ago (then bailed due to heat and time), and found the moves to be delicate, yet doable, and the pro is all there. My partner (a solid .8 leader) got 2 solid nuts and 2 bomber cams, + a girth hitched tunnel at the top, all before reaching the "safe zone" before the bolt anchor. I havn't finished the route but if the start is the crux, the rating goes at 5.7 at best (Wheeler/Axen, 5.6, circa '71). Maybe we should all pay more attention to WHO put up the route and WHEN, rather than spending time talking about how "hard/scary" the start is. [Insert RR quote here.] There are guide books for a reason, (remember that MP, as great as it is, is a wikipedia of sorts). If you cant afford a guidebook I will gladly buy some cams off of your rack so you can! Climb safe and smart out there my friends! -Mackley ps, if youre from out of town and dont own, or purchase, a book the Steiger and Kerry books are avalible (free) at climbaz.com, and SQ1 &2 ( & most other local books) are available at the main (downtown)library in Tucson.
reviving a (very) old debate from the comments above, i think most people who are disappointed in this climb are giving it the wrong comparisons. don't compare this route to epinephrine, east buttress of el cap, or even what's my line in our friendly backyard playground of cochise stronghold. would you compare a single-pitch overhanging 5.12 sport route to those climbs? of course not. so why compare an easy 2-pitch route to epic multipitch, or anything else that isn't an easy 1-3 pitch trad rotue? as far as easy 2-pitch trad routes are concerned this one is easily 3 stars, maybe 4. i think the current consensus of 3.2 stars is pretty much dead on. so don't approach this climb thinking you're undertaking a big adventure. be reasonable and see it for what it is: an easy 2-pitch route with fun climbing and spectacular views that's damn good compared to other easy 1-3 pitch routes in the area.
I agree Jon!


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Almighty god. -- -- It was buying at the time Italy was dead and eleven months later you'll look at the picture -- from the 1944 campaign and that that he just got the get weaker and weaker currency look older and older him too he was he was on his way out and again mrs. Mean. This is. Somebody that that that the could deliver a speech that could never be delivered at the Q I mean George Bush would deliver a speech like that but I mean we do it. -- Barack Obama and what to do with Christmas tree they were putting the -- with a put on the -- -- mr. anyway I'm Leo we don't -- given that report about Wisconsin. Is warranted here that that that prayer from a Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1877469. And remember were bombing is c.'s on Air Force One going to fundraisers in California. 18774694322. Pat you're next with powered car go ahead pat. Our yet I have my heart feels like an alligator that they think they can -- black and on the outside in the black from -- the -- it is there's that out by new video was made about what the better really given them the readers will be out late so I can get up early and I -- that I learned Yahoo!. -- -- You believe nowhere -- knows right -- who -- find anything about it. So I wrote an account that like finally did search other problem though and how -- that I'd I'd -- the cabinet to de Villa. I couldn't find that thing about what an apple with the Wisconsin results on Yahoo! to accept -- what happened there. Ya know they they did this city disparate the first edition in the New York Times I guess they got it in the -- and I am sure they gonna say world -- -- -- you know the exit polls close up we didn't have the numbers. But they didn't have a word in the early editions and the Wall Street Journal which has the same deadlines I'm sure they let what it. You know -- because they they know if if the if the exit polls. Say that it's that it's a dead heat we have 40% of the vote counted him and walker has -- a twenty point lead which was the situation when the Wall Street Journal went depressed I think you have a pretty good right there up what the final results are going to be -- right yeah what are exact percentage is going to be but you know. The walker is gonna win and the New York Times didn't wanna even confront it. Article and it -- -- pretty pretty good case you know Wall Street Journal -- -- that you know if there was ever tired to those critical that -- my. But by the from the Wall Street area in the in the media it's right now I mean it's this it's right on the -- for everybody to see you got -- by. How about the excitement that they had when they when the the polls closed and Wolf Blitzer on CNN was all excited decency it's -- act and act. Than an hour later they had to announce the -- -- -- an -- like someone had just run over his poppy. You know. -- and then and then I had you know. I didn't I don't watch CNN I can't stand it but it's I was reading about this. Then they were so depressed apparently -- you know I guess -- grief counselors hadn't arrived yet to take away their altitude and there in in their shoelaces in the sharp objects so they went they went back you know what they started -- -- they started covering the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee for a while. Which it's like 5 in the morning that's -- they don't even -- -- stuff they're just they're just running tape. They cover rather than cover Wisconsin. I I actually -- out. Divert their life right -- -- -- so much in the media elected -- would elated that the radar screen -- local paper record growth in April there was not saying. Nothing that paper I couldn't believe it. Now they get you know I don't know about papers like you do but I figured that opera this satellite from the didn't see my. You know -- here now I'm sure it was thirty years ago so there is -- reason -- nothing to be in the paper and I mean that was. -- just -- that was the other way around it would events and headlights right and every paper in the country. -- know what a bad idea I mean you could see it again last night I I watch it's 631. You know we got bumped by the very exciting Red Sox pregame show. And I was watching it and that three networks. One of -- -- was something about breast cancer in the other two lead with the drone killing of the number two guy in al-Qaeda then they couldn't you -- To me I mean I didn't think there was any question that that the biggest story in the in the country yesterday was the Wisconsin recall vote. Louis. This isn't -- and it's not a local story it's a national story. And especially especially when you got the at the other boats going on into the biggest cities in the country. In California and -- you know a well known -- bat stay where the taxpayers are voted set I think was 71%. -- In San Jose to get the pensions under control and 69%. In San Diego. Certain that region the storage we come back but these these are not like close races at all I mean people have had it. Well it. We're gonna have a good time in November child. So I also can't be overconfident at all but it's it's nice to enjoy it in its place to enjoy it today you know. It's nice to see the the the liberals squirming about domestic -- by the way I it here's a thing you know warding Joseph you know on MSNBC. They he came on at I don't know what time becomes on 7 o'clock they you know when they had their first Republican. 809. They had nothing they had Democrats talking about nothing but a democratic camp. Except for Joseph -- it -- Talk about right now he's a he's -- these basically Democrat now they hit me governor McDonnell of of Virginia was the first Republican to to appear on the show what they don't mind. Just because these are at rock. He brought he brought the Howard Dean a couple of coffee. -- -- -- -- -- more jacked up in now thanks for the call pat. 18774694322. Bill your next with how we cargo had -- I am analogous. I am party or -- -- that prayer Roosevelt but what are some. And in article let me get something out you know tumbled in a black and -- one of Wisconsin and we have to keep morning. Pick out of that democracy is debt is it as it I'll walk. What do they -- at three birdies in the sat there -- need to get. It was the longest he's ready. You know actual criminal court treaty and the small arms treaty Dick -- played at all force -- a lot of I've called the -- opposite it circulated a letter. You'll has twice that name's Norma what does it stop these things would get through it's not going to be voted on so after the election -- -- got to go. Phone models now everyone on the I called my own line of rhetoric also called that was that. What they have unlimited number of them rifles. As. We gotta tell it people not -- -- out of holes will sort of an arbitrary. If they if we if we. A result we are our coordination. I know I know. I don't think even a Democrat if the if the Democrats make a -- bad beating him November they won't even though they won't even try to -- those things I really don't like well I mean you know Barack Obama will be tried to one stop stop the bush tax cuts from being extended but I you know what you know what if if this. If it shapes up as as bad as it might it might might end up. He had the the the Democrats will join the Republicans an overriding the vetoes thanks for the call bill 18774694322. The the text line is brought do you buy whole why mortgage send us a text for the -- like mortgage text line at 68680. 617 H the only thing that would improve if the art speech would be a couple of -- bar barracks. And and imploring. -- -- -- All missed -- -- back. No Joseph this morning only Mika okay -- wasn't around to go there wasn't even a token. Semi Republican around it was all Democrats for the first now. How we I don't I don't usually watch CNN either but I did last night just through CC now let's hear. Susan in this here. I don't usually watch CNN either but I did last night just to see their reaction. While they lost and I'm a professional mass firefighter paying 10% to a failing and pensions system. 1877. I to a seven I -- walker one when The Today Show -- was in its. That is that's that that's all you need to know right -- and you'd be all you need to know was last night he was probably gonna win when they lead when they all live with something else and then. They and then in the morning when he definitely one -- lead with something else. 1877469432. To remember when George Bush was president the you know using drones do to kill people blow up. Kill terrorists al-Qaeda terrorist was. Was genocide and and what did Bill -- say it was cowardice. To kill people you know by remote control from. Some bunker in Kansas. But that now now Barack Obama is doing it and it's just it's the best it's that it's just it's the best thing since sliced bread you know it's he -- a courageous wartime presidents we. 18774694322. -- 1877469432218774694322. In BC. Today show -- with a Miley Cyrus engagement. I mean how bad is they these people are gonna they're going down that hopes. I don't care if you're if you're in the showbiz news I mean this this is a story it was a lot more important than than my least irises engagement I'm sorry. 18774694322. Let's see 207 it's part of being a damn you win and you're saving people from themselves. You lose and democracy didn't work and died dims get used to being losers. 1877. Force I'm still watching MSNBC and was wondering if you could tell me -- scouts. The old cares about Scott Walker didn't -- hear a bit Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney and the exit polling by nine points. You know the same exit polling that had that had that Scott Walker and and a Tom Barrett the Democrat running neck and neck. In the last. The last point. 1877469432277. For globe and herald online -- -- Wisconsin first thing this morning. I know what you know the the globe and herald where were more local papers you know -- in the 'cause of the Internet we don't neither paper covers it national lose the way they used to. But you know that the people would have to be cover in the covered the national media they're the ones I mean this this is that we had little local we have a good local -- -- about the -- India of -- the magazine and it's it's it's it's interesting stuff and we have the story about the that texting. The texting kid in the debates the senate debates. And you know we -- -- again you'd -- most people are gonna go to the globe for The Herald -- for the error for their national news about the about the Wisconsin race. 18774694322. Now I'm still waiting for CNN to -- Ohio for bush that's for Paul which it was. Government that was in 2004. -- he's got a in the kept that the Republicans kept saying well you know as only three votes that left the command and bush got a 40000 vote lead. And that have some damage some moon -- Democrats like 3 in the morning while. You know is that we've got some more results coming in from my -- -- county years and somewhere you know. 18774694322. Don't forget trump trumped up with the -- pageant another of the big fix more distractions. I don't know that was it. But digit the I don't know if you've seen this but you know the the the moon bats. They really are nuts I mean we're not forgive forget that the anchors and MSNBC. Did you see the picture of Tom Barrett. Being slapped in the face we didn't put on the website because there's nothing to what is now than -- -- on our website we got it okay you -- -- cardiac. Yeah let's this is from Jim Garrity and national review I wonder how democratic officeholders in their professional class spiel about having your grass roots based that is at least in some. Parts psychotic enough to resort to physical violence. Upon their own candidates for technology reality. At that time he was slapped by this crazy woman Barrett trailed by ten percentage points or 200000 votes. She's them. I've never I never heard of a candidate being slapped by one of his own supporters have you don't. And then. You you've got -- lucked out there it's all over the Internet but the they've got the -- that they about cult like Michelle Malkin has gone on which she in here there is someone from London press but promised vomit. They they went to all the left wing web sites in the just got all these death threats. Against. Scott Walker I mean just just. Obscenities. And end and I am just wondering if you know there's going to be any investigation by the by by the state police Serbia Secret Service or anybody. This is -- This is from Milwaukee they take away SSI I'll personally -- walker myself. My dad has mental problems can't work depends on -- almost like stop. Will be election was about taken away SSI for one thing. Scott here's one from Josh James. Scott Walker must die. Jordan -- as I don't want to live in the state with few people anymore died in a fire Scott Walker. Bleep I'm based I might just have to kill Scott Walker and take that charge. Nice people nice nice people you know basically what they celebrate diversity. Stephanie your next with how we cargo -- Stephanie. One -- When everybody. We're talking about you know democracy ended that day I Alec rejuvenated itself. Exactly. And I. Stayed up to watch it on paper. Intense you know at the port and there. State even big whig politician Bill Clinton on down everyone I'm caught crossing on the rockets and then I would definitely like David and. Yeah you know I think that -- and 34 million verses four million I don't believe that form. Clothing -- -- we can't back this isn't the Arab nation not just that that they can't and they can't afford it. Not -- escaped it. I know that this was this was about collective bargaining this was about this from about eve of the public sector unions I mean it's. It's the same thing that's that's one Greeks now. -- Do you know we were thinking I can. I know I know in this day you know what's amazing the people in California you know the governments you know you think of these laid back moon bats especially the ones in -- And this in the same things -- say in the same things people of Wisconsin are saying well -- Getting a little east and long. And back -- cloning and. Right -- does this say I can't. I don't get it there was one guy Abdullah you know -- mostly government gets it you know hours -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt that I. But you know he's he was voting in San -- and he said he said. Nobody gives me a pension why why why did I had someone who's not gonna get a pension have to pay for their pension. And he's right. I think that it went -- -- -- he started corner and it was pretty much Awami -- you know PP. Trained to kill. I know it you know the thing was that I kept waiting for you know -- When I was watching his speech kept say they can myself if if I were in this if we're in this position and I've been put through this this L floor for a year and a half. And have all these death threats and you know have people praise saying these terrible things about me you know love child going to be and I did at -- I would come out and I would just really slowing of the unions and say -- rotten things about some. But he just like turn the other cheek you know I mean it was isn't -- thing. They want. You know probably secured -- now we need to secure it. Thanks for the call every 18774694322. -- wanted to get me some more the stuff from twitching just more so more than death threats just there. Michelle Malkin is is is the master of getting getting via threatening. The she's gotten so many personal ones herself rush your next with Howard cargo that -- They have always when you mentioned billion about a place Islamic went scenic -- -- -- -- And I was gonna pull out -- is not so -- content this time to open up how we tackle rehabilitation from school it's. Is it could establish a 101 how customer service works from the private sector out. And I now I know it's just you know. If -- just what you don't take your coffee break if there -- people waiting -- -- it but if you but at the at a -- in the public sector you do take your copy break of people waiting in line not ought not every place but. Most well many many many places it was a great night wasn't -- And have to convince them that they won't be getting these I hack holidays. Yeah Jesus all that would be. Don't know they fight for those things Russian we've got -- technically got away with a -- in not Massachusetts but. Now they've become floating holiday is a Bunker Hill day and and it -- -- today so. They they live -- they live on any that they need to have a stake driven through their hearts. Like those vampire graves at discovery in Bulgaria one great story that once they found over a hundred vampire rates skeletons with with -- Metal. Metal. Stakes driven through their hearts of others possibly wouldn't. These are these were medal I don't think -- -- lasted that long if there were wooden stakes in treatment that they were out there they're find them they found if found to let just last week in the found over a hundred now altogether and Bulgaria. -- -- --


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"If somebody needs to be blamed for this, and I'm a cult leader, I'm willing to take the blame for everybody," Sam Mullet said today in court, as he awaited a sentencing for him and 15 of his co-defendants. The judge had found them all guilty of conspiring and performing a federal hate crime for cutting the beards and hair of their fellow Amish. Mullet, a separatist bishop, and the others faced life sentences and a prosecutorial recommendation of, at minimum, over 17 years. But despite Mullet's plea, the judge still gave Mullet and the others 15 years in prison.
This is a story that is just waiting for David Chase to come along and make this his next Sopranos. Mullet, a tall 67-year-old, formed his own Amish sect on an 800-acre farm near Bergholz, Ohio, as a reproach to the secularization and modernization of the groups traditionalist beliefs: the boom-boxes in horse-and-buggies, and the dates with sex. At the time of his arrest, about 120 others lived on the farm, too. Mullet held strict rules. His defectors and detractors called the community an authoritarian "cult" a word, prior to Mullets use of it today, that the defendants requested be banned from the trial, along with splinter and rogue.
The label is, not in small part, because of allegations that while punishing immoral men by forcing them to live in chicken coops and reflect, Mullet would allegedly sleep with their wives (a charge that he denies). In a sentencing memorandum, two U.S. assistant attorneys wrote that his control over the Bergholz community was and is absolute. The perpetrators and Mullet himself all claim that while Mullet knew of the attacks, he had no input in their planning and did not cut a single strand of hair.
The beard cutting began as a reaction in 2010, after a pair of shunned defectors sought and won custody of their grandchildren, who were also Mullet's grandchildren. But the members of Bergholz did not start by shearing the beards of the defectors. Instead, at that point, Mullet's community commenced the cutting of their own chin hair as an attempt to atone, in the eyes of God, they said, for their immoral wrongdoings.
The Amish believe that after marriage women must grow their hair and men must grow their beards, in accordance with Biblical law. The members at Bergholz interpreted cutting their own facial hair as a kind of rebirth. But it was an uncommon understanding of the act. As a professor said to The Daily, in a December story about the case based off an exclusive, rare interview with Mullet himself, "To have one's beard cut is to have one's manhood taken... It's a symbolic castration."
The shearing of people outside of Bergholz began later, in 2011, after a trimmed member of the community was accosted by his father, a defector, for his hairlessness. "If God was with you, your beard would not have been cut," The Daily reports the father saying. "If God is with me, my beard will not be cut." The son and others retaliated the rebuke. They returned to the fathers home, cropping his beard and the mother's hair. From then on, members used forced cutting four other times as retribution, sometimes using shears designed for cutting horses manes.
Mullet argued that the cuttings were a difference of opinion in faith. "It's all religion," he told a local TV station two Octobers ago. "That's why we can't figure out why the sherriff has his nose in it." His lawyers called the hate crime law unconstitutional. And more bluntly, his nephew said to the AP today, about the victims, They got their beard back again, so whats the big deal? But others say that if Mullet became free again, they would not be able to sleep out of fear.
Over the time Mullet has already spent imprisoned, as The Daily writes, Mullet has already "stood up to a posse of tough guys in the cafeteria, befriended a feared murderer, protected a gay inmate and charmed the thugs and gang members in his cellblock by singing traditional Amish hymns after lights-out." His fellow inmates have taken to calling him "O.G." He told The Daily, smiling, I dont know what it means, but I guess it means something good." Right or wrong, he'll have the name a good while longer.
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Many Christians are apt to be just a little bit churlish when it comes to Christmas. I sometimes get a sense that Christians are resentful that "our" festival has been stolen, taken over by revellers who are happy to sing carols and watch a school nativity play but will give little or no thought to the gospel for the rest of the year. Jesus is for life, not just for Christmas.
We have a particular problem with Father Christmas (or Santa Claus, if you must). Never a year goes by without some stoy in the news of a conflict between the church and one of her most widely celebrated saints. This year was no exception. I have spoken to many Christians over the years who have tied themselves up in knots over whether to allow their children to enjoy this particular bit of fairytale. Some are vociferously anti-Santa
However, we believe it is wrong for Christians to tell children what they know is a lie that Santa Claus exists, let alone continue the deception by implying that Christmas is in any way about Santa Claus instead of about Christ. We don't call it Santamas, but Christmas. Do you want your children to believe that the fat cartoon figure pictured above is real, when the truth about Jesus Christ is so much more exciting, wonderful, and true? …
Just as the myth of evolution replaces the truth of biblical creation, so the mythical Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, replaces the Son of God, Jesus Christ, at Christmas time. This replaces the true meaning of Christmas with nonsense. Strangely, some Christians talk to their children more about Santa (an anagram of Satan, interestingly) than about the reason Christianity exists: Jesus Christ.
The danger in encouraging children to believe that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are real is that you are building their trust in something they will find out is a lie. If you tell them a lie about this, you may wonder why they start doubting God too, and don't want to go to church. The child thinks, "They told me two big lies; maybe what they told me about God is a lie too.â€
We should stick to what Christmas is all about. Like Dickens' Gradgrind, we should confine ourselves to the facts. "Bah, humbug!" (to change my Dickensian reference) to the rest.
Attitudes like this are a terrible shame, or so they seem to me. Children are creatures of wonder and imagination, both qualities which can nurture faith in the Living God. They thrive on storytelling and their world is naturally full of what we adults, poverty-stricken by reason, regard as naive personifications. Only this morning on our walk up to school, my 6 year old daughter asked me: "Daddy, why does Jack Frost come?" Should I scotch this bit of her mythology fearing for the development of her scientific mind? After all, she has already decided she wants to be a doctor. Perhaps I should have explained that frost is spicules of ice which form on solid surfaces when they are chilled below the deposition point. It is never too early to start thinking about physics! But I confess, I simply said that Jack Frost comes when it is cold. That seemed to do.
Likewise with Father Christmas. He has a place in our family storytelling, part of the mythology we share. To suggest that this amounts to lying to our children is as ludicrous as the notion that the 'facts' of the Nativity can be easily and plainly stated.
I was reminded recently that 'gospel' was, in Old English, 'godspel' and, though I am sure that this is etymologically unsound, I am taken with the idea that the incarnation of Jesus is "God's spell" — a moment so wondrous that it takes imagination, not reason, to apprehend it.
Of course I'm not here arguing for abandoning the achievements of the Enlightenment, for discarding reason entirely in favour of mythology and superstition. But perhaps Christians before all others should recognize that stories, imagination and wonder are a vital part of our lives. Let's not deprive our children of them too readily.


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Airport Security
There's not much that's private anymore when you fly.
Between the new full body scanners that show your junk to anyone with a high school diploma and the luck to land a federal job, to the new pat-down procedures (with emphasis on, again, the junk, because apparently that's where terrorists like to hide printer cartridges) given by said security agents, there's the possibility for much comedy.
Take for example, one of my more recent flights. As you know, porn is big business. As any big business, this one is national and international so travel is a required part of the job. I am well acquainted with airport security, from quart-sized ziplock bags to the fact that nail clippers are now considered deadly weapons.
All of which is supposed to protect us from terrorists who seem to get their ideas from Wile E. Coyote's ACME catalog. I mean seriously — shoe bombs? Underwear bombs? If it wasn't for the fact that their schemes worked in the past, their ideas would be funnier than anything Chuck Jones could have thought up.
However, I was pulled aside once for an inspection of my carry-on. I had no idea what might have tripped off their X-ray machine or bomb-residue swipe of my bag. It's hard to keep track of what can and can't go on flights anymore. I'm expecting the government to not allow people on planes anymore to further minimize any chance of another terrorist attack. I'm only half-joking about this.
As the security agent went through my bag and as I came to terms with having to fold everything again, his dull and bored body language was replaced by someone who'd just stumbled onto something, with his eyes now wide.
I started panicking — Was I always in possession of my bag at all times? Could some evil-doer have slipped something in my bag?
He cleared his throat and picked up a butt plug I forgot I packed. It could have been worse. It could have been a bottle of water.
"Oh yeah that," I said nonchalantly. "It's a butt plug. I've been looking for that one."
The security agent, still flustered, couldn't get rid of the butt plug fast enough. It was like the butt plug was made out of plutonium, but I was pretty sure plutonium was on the no-fly list.
"Oh, um, well, I'll put it back under this sweater…"
I was having fun with this one: "So butt plugs are fine?"
"Um, yes, those sorts of… items are still allowed."
So there you go. Non-nuclear butt plugs are fine, at least until the terrorists order that from the Acme catalog.
But if you don't see them as often in videos, you will have known the terrorists have won.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior approved a crucial part in the development of a wind farm on Steens Mountain in Harney County. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar gave a green light to the North Steens Transmission Line Project, a 44-mile power line to carry power from a proposed wind power project on the north side of Steens Mountain to the electrical transmission grid. The Echanis Wind Energy Project, proposed by Vancouver, Wash.-based Columbia Energy Partners on private land near Diamond, would generate enough power for about 30,000 homes. The project is also expected to create 219 construction jobs, 16 permanent jobs and $4.5 million in property tax revenue. Read more at Sustainable Business Oregon. Read more about the wind energy development from Oregon Business. {biztweet}steens wind{/biztweet} |
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Package about how Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked on the USS Mesa Verda (LPD 19) and Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Marines from Naval Station Rota participate in a simulation of a Non-Combative Evacuation Operation. The purpose of this type of operation is to secure and evacuate American citizens from US embassies that may be in danger. Soundbites include Capt. Scott Helminski - Site Commander 22nd Battalion Landing Team and 1st Lt. Dom Pellegrini - Security Force Commander 22nd Battalion Landing Team. Produced by Seaman Ryan Seelbach.
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Fisker Automotive, the vehicle manufacturer which took the clean transportation world by storm in 2009 when it announced the debut of itsKarma model plug in hybrid vehicle, has announced its intention torenegotiate the terms of its $528.7 million conditional loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE.
The loan was contingent on Fisker meeting certain production and sales milestones, which it has apparently failed to do since May of last year, in spite of delivery of 225 Karmas to showroom floors and another 1,200 languishing on the production line.
Fisker's failure to comply led the DOE to block access to further funding, triggering a layoff of 26 workers in Fisker's Wilmington, Delaware manufacturing location and about 45 engineers in its Anaheim, California headquarters. The DOE has not said which milestones were missed.
So far, according to a report from the company, it has received $193 million of the total loan package from the DOE, much of which went to develop and commercialize the Karma, which began appearing late in 2011.
The Karma, able to run 100 miles on a single gallon of gasoline, could conceivably use only a single tank of fuel per year if driven less than 50 miles per day and plugged in overnight, according to company spokespersons. The Karma costs $87,900 before tax credits.
When Fisker moved into its Wilmington, Delaware factory -- a former General Motors facility rescued from Brownfield anonymity by an $11.7 million financial settlement with GM and retooling of the assembly floor – company officials said the company would eventually be producing 75,000 to 100,000 Nina-model vehicles by 2014, from a production staff of 2,000 and a vendor and supplier staff of 3,000.
The Nina is another hybrid electric motor with lithium-ion battery backup. When depleted, the car runs on a generator driven by a gasoline engine. The Nina's sticker price is reported as roughly $47,000.
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