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It's easy to find lists of the Top Ten most overdone trends, or the Top Ten list of things that are "out" – but finding positive Top Ten lists of design elements is a little harder to do, which is exactly why I decided to post my own Top Ten list of favorites. What are the things that I like to see in a room? What adds something essential to the decor that I admire? What makes a room wonderful? What are the ten things that together create a great look? First on my list, my number one item, is linen. A natural fabric, linen sets the mood for the kind of decorating that I like, casual, friendly, warm, cozy, and inviting. Linen fabrics relax a room – they say sit down, put your feet up, grab a book – and don't worry about ruining anything, you can't hurt me. A room full of silk, chenille or velvet doesn't quite say that. To me, linen's wrinkled, rumpled appearance expresses the way I want to live – casually and comfortably. When you take linen and sew it up into slipcovers (#2 on the list) you have perfection! And what better surface is there to put linen slipcovered furniture on than seagrass (#3)? These three elements - linen, slipcovers and seagrass, go hand in hand and it's impossible for me to separate them. Of course, you can always layer a dressier rug or a zebra or cowhide over seagrass to add some glam or contrast, just as you can put velvet pillows on a linen sofa to dress it up a bit. These details can make a room overly casual or casually elegant – the choice is yours. To further complete a room, I like to add curtains (#4) because generally, a room doesn't feel finished without them. There are certainly exceptions, but in most cases, curtains add an important decorative element be it softness, glamour or breeziness. Always keep in mind that decorating a room is adding layers of elements one by one. Each element brings something important to a room, and without each layer it becomes difficult to imagine the finished room. The fifth element on the Top Ten list that I think should always be in a room is a light fixture. Although my house is full of can or recessed lights – I wish I could remove them out one by one. Sixteen years ago, when we moved in here, I thought can lights were the height of chic. Today, they are basically useless. The truth is, we never turn on our overhead lights, instead the house is now lit with a combination of hanging fixtures, sconces, and lamps. These three give off a soft glow as opposed to the blaring spotlights that come from overheads. Even on dimmers, recessed lights can be so cold and unforgiving.
Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon: A chandelier reflected in a mirror doubles the light given off. The crystals look like icicles – and the pink silk showing through the prisms is just so beautiful!
Reading Rose Tarlow's book, The Private House, years ago really reinforced my dislike of recessed lighting. She never uses cans and thinks they make a ceiling look like Swiss cheese with all their holes everywhere (please don't ever invite Tarlow to my house – it looks like a mouse's banquet on my ceiling!) But, Tarlow of course is right – is she ever not? Except for the kitchen or bathroom, you really don't need overhead lighting at all. Hanging fixtures, sconces and lamps – besides adding enough light for any task, add beauty to a room. Imagine a side table next to a sofa without lamps? How bare would that seem? Or imagine a dining table with a chandelier – it would seem unbalanced. Hanging fixtures don't have to be crystal chandeliers, in fact right now I am in love with lanterns – especially those meant for the outside. Lamps fashioned from old urns or an aged balustrade add character – you don't have to have lamps made only from priceless porcelain vases. And today, there are a myriad of sconces available on the market from rustic to dressy – they fit every decor.
As for my own house, I was slow to change. I only started acquiring my hanging fixtures in the last ten years. But with each fixture I have added, the difference it has made to my house has been remarkable. Adding my last one – a lantern – to my family room made such a big impact on the room, I wonder what took me so long to change it? The trend today is definitely leaning in the fixtures direction. More and more design magazines feature rooms with hanging fixtures and the variety on the market now is wide and varied. You don't have to spend a fortune on a fixture to get a great look – Curry and Co. and Aidan Gray for instance have wonderful reproductions of the trendy Italian candlestick chandelier for a fraction that the antique stores charge. Lanterns meant for the outside have the same look as the antiques you see everywhere, but they don't have the same price tag. With high cost no longer a deterring factor, more and more people are turning to hanging fixtures. If you have been resistant to changing from recessed lighting to chandeliers – take the plunge. Pick one room and install a fixture, a few lamps, a sconce or two – and see if you don't prefer the style and atmosphere they bring as opposed to the can lights. I have all the the faith that you too will see how much lighting fixtures add to the finished look of a room.
My family room – taking down the ceiling fan and putting up the lantern changed the look of my room, I think, for the better. To me the difference is huge. It makes me wonder why I waited over 15 years to hang something here.
ENTRY HALL AND STAIRS: In entry halls, lanterns are always wonderful to use- especially like here, over a hall table where you can hang a larger lantern than one that is hung over an empty space. No is going to bump their hand on this fixture. What a gorgeous lantern! This looks like an antique or at least an reproduction of one. I love how the lantern and the door are black, as is the table and the shades – all contrasting with the bright white walls. So beautiful and inviting!!
This entry hall is stunningly beautiful – simple yet elegant. A headless sculpture on a Plexiglas stand is the eye candy at the end of the view. An antique chair grounds the vignette. But, the chandelier is the jewelry here. The French empire antique could not be more perfect – hard to imagine this entry hall with the chandelier. Design by Renea Abbott.
A series of lanterns go up a staircase – which is a wonderful way to light the way.
In the Octagon House, Tami Owen used an extra large Italian styled chandelier to light the stairwell. These chandeliers are gaining in popularity and seem to be everywhere today – Aidan Gray can't keep them in stock.
An oversized lantern is another great way to light a stairwell.
In The Holiday movie house – the hallway is lit with a series of glass bell jar lanterns. Series of light fixtures makes great statements down hallways.
LIVING ROOMS: white linen slipcovers and a big lantern says it all to me! I adore this room!!
Charles Faudree at his personal best – a room filled with French antiques mostly covered in cotton checks and stripes which help to relax the priceless furniture. An extra large Italian wooden chandelier hangs low over a huge living room/dining room. The fixture is large enough that it doesn't get lost in this sized room – proportion is always something to consider.
This casual setting with its white linen slipcovered rattan sofa gets dressed up with an antique crystal chandelier.
A large black lantern hangs over a casual living room.
In an old English country house, two large lanterns hang over the living area. The painted green lantern is a true show stopper.
This lantern looks like an antique to me – or else a good reproduction.
So far this living room has made every Top Ten post: linen, slipcovers, seagrass, curtains and now chandeliers! I'm curious to see if it makes it for all ten elements! The designer chose crystal chandeliers instead of the more expected lanterns to dress up the space up a bit. In a larger room, sometimes two fixtures are better than one.
This beautiful beach house has it all: a large reproduction antique lantern, a ceiling fan, and six pairs of lamps!! I am crazy about this living room – I love the layered effect of all the accessories and furnishings – it's so casual, warm and inviting.
The famous wine barrel chandelier by Bobo's Intriguing Objects. Restoration Hardware is now carrying this fixtured. It's a hugely popular choice these days.
This large brass lantern is reflected in the mirror making it appear there are two. Another large lantern sits at the center table. For extra light, sconces were installed on the bookcases.
In the Octagon House, Tami Owen used a pair of glass and iron lanterns – available at Brown in Houston. I think these fixtures complete the room – especially since two were used. In the entry, a bell jar lantern was used.
Phoebe Howard used a black lantern in this paneled living room.
In this Swedish inspired house, two crystal chandeliers were used along with crystal sconces. In Swedish decor – crystal chandeliers are very popular.
In this eclectic living room – with no overhead lighting – an assortment of lamps and sconces do the job. I can only imagine how beautiful this room looks at night softly lit by the lamps.
In this vignette, Gerrie Bremermann uses a combination of a crystal chandelier, sconces, and lamps to light this living room. It's a safe bet to say Bremermann loathes recessed lighting just as much as Rose Tarlow does.
In this charming vignette, Lars Bolander used an amazing pair of red lanterns with a fabulous back plate. The simple red and cream ticking keeps it all relaxed.
Wisteria owners Shannon and Andrew Newsom use oversized antique lanterns to accessorize their living area. Though these are not electrified – you could have them fitted out to be – thus making them more functional. Aren't they gorgeous! What a statement they make!
In my favorite vignette of the year – the Tone on Tone owners used crystal Empire styled sconces in their living room.
In a cotton striped tented room, beautiful crystal and iron sconces wear cute red shades which help tone down their dressiness.
I love this vignette with the two sets of matching lamps. This is my kind of styling! Love love love it!
These two standing lamps light up the room – but its their custom shades that make them special. If interested, contact Watkins Culver – they currently have these shades in stock!
Charming crystal sconces are a wonderful way to light a room, with or without a hanging chandelier. Pair sconces with lamps and you should have adequate light for everything but brain surgery!
DINING ROOMS: By far, the most common place to find chandeliers is in the dining room. Here, a gorgeous gilt wood and crystal 19th century Italian chandelier hangs over a table surrounded by more contemporary chairs than one would expect, which causes the visual interest here. This chandelier is beyond beautiful. Today, my favorites are the ones that pair gilt wood and crystals, just like this one does. Kerry Joyce, designer.
Gray furniture and gray paneling is perfectly paired with a crystal and iron chandelier.
Phoebe Howard. This charming chandelier reminds me of Cinderella's pumpkin coach!
The master: John Saladino at home at Villa Dilemma. His chandelier is not electrified. Notice too the master actually has overhead spots! I'm shocked! (And just a little disappointed too, but I forgive him!) This wooden Italian chandelier is one of the prettiest ones I have ever seen – only Saladino would have it, of course!
Babs Watkins paired a steel table and French chairs with a contemporary styled flower crystal chandelier. Isn't that floral arrangement in the silver dish heavenly? No one is Houston does it better than Babs. This picture is probably from ten years ago, yet notice how current it looks with the steel windows – she was always ahead of her time!
An Italian wood chandelier – so beautiful! They always bring so such beauty to a room which accounts for their current popularity.
An iron and crystal chandelier with matching sconces. So French!
Painted chairs, natural wood table, dark hardwoods and a crystal chandelier. Who could ask for anything more?
Wisteria's Shannon and Andrew Newsom's dining room – one of my all time favorite images! I love everything about this space. But it surely wouldn't be quite as gorgeous without the lovely chandelier. Jane Moore, designer.
Although this ceiling looks like Swiss Cheese, according to Rose Tarlow, Peter Dunham used lanterns for both the hanging and wall fixtures.
A gilt wood chandelier and gilded sconces are mixed in this fancy dining room with hand painted wallpaper. The slipcovers and the odd chairs bring a bit of casual playfulness to the room.
The more than fabulous Dan Marty used a pagoda styled lantern this dining room. The yellow is striking against the red chairs.
I love this room – a study in contrasts – one black wall stands out among the white ones. The rough luxe table and chairs contrast with the very dressy empire styled antique chandelier. The one lamp is asymmetrically balanced out. I have no idea who the designer is, but he is fabulous, IMO! To read all about the Rough Luxe design movement – go here.
I know it's only half shown, but I couldn't resist showing this beautiful room with its Versailles parquet floor and enfilade of rooms. If I was designing a house today – I would love an enfilade styled houses just like this!
This newly designed chandelier with matching sconces is one of my favorites from the Decorative Center. While I usually prefer antiques, these are more than beautiful – designed by David Iatesta.
Another example of a great juxtaposition between the rustic and the refined. In this farmhouse in Fredericksburg, Texas – an antique crystal chandelier gives the kitchen sparkle against all the hard surfaces.
Pam Pierce used an oversized antique lantern in this Houston house. Lit by candlelight – it's probably not used that much as I spy a Swiss Cheese ceiling – what a shame! Notice how wonderfully perfect Pierce designed the curtains – with the arched doors – she takes them over the arch, right up the ceiling, extending the visual line thus making the ceiling appear taller.
Belgian design: painted and limed woods with crystal chandeliers. This says it all in a nutshell.
This dining room in a country house is so visually interesting. The owners paired a fancy crystal chandelier with a simple table cloth which dresses it down. Sconces provide extra lighting. But it's those lanterns, not wired, that grab all the attention – antique or copies, who cares? They are fabulous!! One comment from the peanut gallery, the mirror should have been hung vertically, the ceiling would look two feet higher!
As traditional as it gets, but the lamps on the console are a more unusual choice. Here one would expect to see a pair of sconces in a room so "decorated." I like the lamp choice and especially how the shades mimic the color of the chair leather. The sisal carpet also dresses down the room a notch and makes it look younger, not granny.
In the Provence House, Ginger Barber used a wood chandelier mixed with a wonderful rough edged table and Os de Mouton chairs. The scale of the chandelier is perfect – in fact Barber's whole design is perfect here.
One more time - the Swedish inspired dining room in Dallas, Texas! I fell in love with this room – and wondered how beautiful it must look at night with the chandelier softly lit – it's brightness controlled by dimmers. The light fixture is vital to this room's design – its sparkle plays against all the matte finishes of the woods.
Washington DC great, Darryl Carter's dining room is a study in high contrast: dark woods play against white walls and floors. The painted barn door is the focal point to be sure, but the Baroque style chandelier in black iron is very effective too. What a gorgeous room – hard to imagine how it would look with the light fixture!
In the Tile House, Maria Tracy used an Italian wood chandelier with matching sconces – their lightness and femininity is juxtaposed against the roughness of the stone and the massive wood table.
In a seemingly traditional dining room, the designer plays with the scale of the light fixture. It's sheer size becomes the focal point, even over the gorgeous hand painted silk wallpaper. The sconces too are oversized.
The wine barrel chandelier shows up in the beach house – perfectly scaled for the room's size.
BREAKFAST ROOMS AND KITCHENS: What a gorgeous breakfast nook with it's beamed ceiling, beautiful window, and antique table and chairs. Yet, even with all the impressive architecture of the space – the lantern steals the show.
LA designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard used a lantern in this breakfast home in Beverly Hills. I love the way it looks against the tall clock.
A lantern was used in this Houston breakfast room – along with a banquette. Aren't those chairs gorgeous? I love their scale. Randy Powers – one of Houston's best did this house for the owners of Visual Comfort aka Circa Lighting.
This stunning lantern is available at Brown located in Houston. Definitely the scene stealer in the Provence House's breakfast room.
The owners of Baltimore's Tone on Tone used these smashing green pendants for lighting in their kitchen. The kitchen is one place in the house where a few strategically placed recessed lights may be needed.
I love this lantern over the white marble island. Pretty kitchen, located in Austin, Texas.
John Saladino's breakfast room at Villa Dilemma – again, a crystal chandelier plays against all the rough, stone walls and the beautiful steel windows. Notice how the steel display case mimics the window – just beautiful! Seeing this house in person is on my bucket list.
From Things That Inspire HERE, this wonderfully symmetrical layout is highlighted by these pendant lights over the huge island.
This French inspired kitchen has an original French antique lantern above. Strictly for looks though, it's not electrified, although any good lighting store can turn an old lantern like this into a usable one.
Though this kitchen also has spotlights, the lantern has been electrified – I love the way this room looks!
This showhouse kitchen showed up on all the blogs this year – mostly because of the two beautiful antique street lanterns. The designer had these electrified. Aren't two even better than one?!!! Notice all the recessed lights in the beautiful beadboard ceiling. Swiss cheese is what Rose Tarlow would say and she does have it point – why ruin a it?
If two are better, how about three? The movie house in The Holiday – featured a large kitchen/living/dining area – lit up by lanterns. As with all Nancy Meyers movies, the house had a starring role. Her new movie due out this Christmas promises to star another wonderful house!
The mud room off the kitchen at Tone On Tone owner's house is lit with this black lantern. I think it makes the room – it adds just the right touch.
BEDROOMS: Bedrooms usually have ceiling fans instead of light fixtures and finding images of rooms without them was hard -but I did find a few. Here a lantern hangs over a wine tasting table, which prevents someone from bumping their head on it!
In this beautiful bedroom vignette, by Bobbi Smith, she used an assortment of lighting options beside overheads: lamps and crystal sconces.
Pam Pierce used a beautiful antique gilt wood and crystal chandelier in this beyond dreamy bedroom.
In this bedroom, a simple gilt wood chandelier was used.
In this bedroom wallpapered in a Scalamandre toile – Phillip Sides used lamps and wall sconces for lighting.
And again, another lantern over another table – I love this bedroom and the furniture arrangement. For large cavernous bedrooms, this is a great way to fill out the space – float a sofa, a table and add a chair in the empty space in front of the bed.
BATHROOMS SUITES: John Saladino in his powder room at Villa Dilemma used a wonderful lamp for lighting, instead of recessed cans.
In a bathroom/closet combination in Belgium, a large crystal chandelier turns what is usually a boring space into something spectacular. Though I do think the spots are a huge detraction!
Phoebe Howard used lantern sconces in this bathroom. They go perfectly with the paneling and iron hardware.
In this bathroom, a beautiful wooden Italian chandelier fits right in with the decor of the room. Sconces are used too.
In this master suite, the large lamps become a statement. I love to use lamps in bathrooms and kitchens both.
Greet from Belgian Pearls showed this picture from a gorgeous Tuscan hotel – what a bathroom! Besides the gorgeous silk curtains, the chandelier is the perfect finishing touch.
PORCHES: I had to add these pictures of wonderful porches with even more wonderful lighting. This pergola has two oversized lanterns hanging over the table. What atmosphere!
This image is so gorgeous – a party table set with a line of pink and white peonies in blue and white vases atop a blue and white striped tablecloth. The lanterns mimic the line of columns. What a porch, what a tablescape!
And last, this stone poolhouse in Houston was designed by Pam Pierce – do you understand yet how fabulous Pierce is? This pool house was put together from a building that came from France via Chateau Domingue. The lanterns are hung flanking the front opening. But notice the beautiful chandelier inside – hung expertly by Pierce so that it can be seen from the outside. The table underneath with its large bowl of hydrangeas finishes the vignette. Pierce realized that the view from the outside was just as important as the inside view. That's the mark of a great designer.
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CLEVELAND -- David Brown scored 32 points, Tucker Haymond added 21 and Western Michigan earned its first trip to the NCAA tournament in 10 years by beating Toledo 98-77 on Saturday night in the Mid-American Conference championship.
The top-seeded Broncos (23-9) won their first title since 2004, and along with it, the league's automatic spot inside the NCAA brackets.
Shayne Whittington added 20 and 13 rebounds for WMU, which had to overcome an 18-point deficit in the semifinals to sneak past Akron.
The title game was much easier for the Broncos, who pulled away in the second half, outrebounded the Rockets 46-27 and set the tournament record for points.
Julius Brown and Rian Pearson scored 22 apiece to pace Toledo (27-6). The Rockets set a school record for wins this season, but their hopes of making the NCAA field for the first time since 1980 hinged on them winning this tourney.
Brown, who made five 3-pointers, nine free throws and delivered a big bucket whenever the Broncos needed one, was the tournament's MVP.
The senior guard had plenty of help as Western Michigan shot 68 percent (19 of 28) in the second half and showcased its offensive firepower, something that any team it faces in the NCAA tournament had best be prepared to handle.
With his team comfortably ahead in the final minute, Western Michigan coach Steve Hawkins pulled out his starters, who embraced in front of the bench as the Broncos fans danced in the aisles behind them.
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IRASBURG — About 30 opponents of the proposed Kidder Hill Community Wind project in Irasburg showed up with shovels, hammers, and a backhoe Saturday morning to build a fence — two L-shaped segments flanking Kidder Hill Road where it opens onto Route 58. The project was officially dubbed the "Good Fences Project."
The fence is symbolic, said Judith Jackson of the Irasburg Ridgeline Alliance (IRA). Ms. Jackson is also a member of the newly formed town planning commission.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) innovative proteomics research and one-of-a-kind instrumentation is advancing the early detection of breast and other cancers. PNNL was recently awarded a 2-year, $1.6-million contract by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop an antibody microarray or "cancer chip" capable of simultaneously assaying up to 50 different cancer biomarkers in a single test. The new project is part of the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN), a central component of NCI's biomarker discovery effort. A biomarker is any change in a biological system that conveys information about disease state, susceptibility, or exposure.
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Do you know the difference between
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I am thinking about writing a book about knowing the difference between. Here is a sample chapter, Do you know the difference between the U.S. Post Office and the U.S. Postal Service? Too many people lack discernment and they do not know the difference between a great many things. They appear to uninformed, unaware and unconcerned.
Bubba said, it sounds like they don't give a shit.
Here are possible chapter titles for the book
The difference between...
U.S. Post Office and the U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Alabama, the state and The State of Alabama
A god and The God
The Sabbath and Sunday
Being saved and Being Lost.
About being saved or lost, here is what the bible says concerning not knowing the difference between:
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord , Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23
Do You Know The Difference?
Do you have a sense of "fairness"? Do you want to be treated equal? Do you support special treatment for others? Do you know it costs you about five times as much to mail the exact same package back to China, as the China man paid to mail it to you originally? Postal workers know this, but they don't know why. The story below explains why and illustrates just how bad our government is screwed up.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" Romans 1:22
They stole the damned Post Office!
Who is they? They are many who remain unknown, but it happened when Jimmy Carter was president and Winton Blount the Post Master General.
How did they do it? Like they do everything else, they created a separate entity with a similar sounding, but different name. Just like they did when they stole the U.S. Treasury. They took the United States Treasury and made a separate entity and called it The Secretary of the Treasury. People don't understand the difference.
They took The U.S. Post Office, that's the USPO, and made a separate entity and called it The U.S. Postal Service, that's the USPS. People don't understand the difference. [Bubba said, Oh! But the China man does! The China man uses the U.S. Post Office and you use the U. S. Postal Service. Big, Big, Difference. The China man is Non-Domestic …Just keep reading]
Cletus told Bubba: Post Office! Hell, they stole the whole, entire, damn country!
They took the Union of the states and made a separate entity and called it the United States. People don't understand the difference. Big, big difference! If you want to be like the China man, you must live outside their United States and live on the land in one of the several states, then you can use the USPO instead of the USPS. You see, the USPS is only the "operator" of the Post Office. The USPS must operate the Post Office for those outside the "United States" according to the "UPU". That is, the Universal Postal Union treaty [Berne, Switzerland] of October 9, 1874 and reaffirmed September 14, 2012 because; you see the China man also signed that same "TREATY". It is called the Universal-Postal-Union treaty because it is a treaty among a Union of countries who signed on to it. It is Universal because it applies through out all countries…Africa, Canada, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and on and on. Can you name a place you can not mail a letter to?
Amazing!….. ant it?
If you want to understand, you must KNOW you live outside the United States. You actually live on the land in one of the several states. The state, any state, is a member of the states United BUT, it is not the United States. Anyone of the states has boundaries. They each, one and all, have state lines. ANY one of the state's jurisdiction stops at its state line. The United States also has boundaries. It has "lines". The United States territory includes the ten square miles of Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and the Marshal Islands. Its jurisdiction stops at it's boundaries except…for what you don't know….
As for as the post mail is concerned, if you can understand you, just like the China man, are outside the jurisdiction of the United States. Your mail is also non-domestic unless you are in one of their ZONES. People don't understand the difference. Let me tell you, Satan rules this world and he has made it deliberately confusing. Christ said, "the world is like unto a field which a man sowed good seed and while he slept an enemy came in and sowed tares among the wheat" When plants are young it's hard to tell the difference. When you don't know, USPO –vs- USPS, it's hard to tell the difference.
When you use their Zone Improvement Plan [ZIP] code, it puts your mail under their Jurisdiction. BUT! Their own Domestic Mail Manual [DMM] section 602 1.3 says: "Unless required above, ZIP Codes may be omitted from single-piece price First-Class Mail (including Priority Mail), single-piece price USPS Retail Ground, and pieces bearing a simplified address."
So, you can be in a Federal Zone and under the Jurisdiction of Washington or not. Its your choice. You can say you are "near" ZIP such and such……..You know words have meaning and….. "near" does not mean "in"…….. Big, Big difference
President Donald Trump said he was going to drain the swamp. He does not have a complete picture, no one does. The swamp is big, it is vast, it is humongous. You can't get your mind around it. Kinda reminds me of the "tares among the wheat". It is an impossible job. Our president is doing his damnedest to keep from pulling up the wheat when he gets the tares.
Enough of this. I'm only a two finger type'er. Look at the scanned labels where I ordered from the China man. Look at the postage he paid and then look at the postage quotes the USPS wants to send the same package to where it came from. Big, Big difference. I have tried to explain it to you. If you want a copy of the Universal Postal Treaty, I got one.
The China man sent me the package using the United States Post Office. The operator of the Post Office, the USPS wants big money to mail it back to China!
It helps when you know what you are talking about. "Jurisdiction" is: ….Juris-diction.
"Juris" is law. "Diction" is speech. When you cross the Alabama state line and go into Florida, the Alabama State Trooper can not "speak the law to you". You are outside his jurisdiction.
Washington cannot, "speak the law" to the China man. The China man is outside the jurisdiction of D.C. But, sense the China man and Washington BOTH signed the UPU …. "IT" is the law unto them. In postal matters, the Universal Postal Treaty is their law. The UPU, in so far as concerning postal matters, is law for the whole damn world!


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Aguacate is one of my favorite Spanish words to pronounce, it means avocado. For Christmas, my parents gave me some fun gadgets from Cook's Warehouse (one of the best cooking stores eva!) This avocado slicer is wonderful! It slices through the buttery flesh of the fruit easily and makes perfect, even slices. Great to throw atop a salad, tacos or just sprinkle with salt and lime juice and enjoy!


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Details are coming together for the 2014 version of the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) Worldwide Helicopter Safety Symposium, scheduled to take place Feb. 27-28 after Heli-Expo 2014 in Anaheim, Calif. Robinson CEO Kurt Robinson and NTSB Member Robert Sumwalt are the keynote speakers for the event, which will center around the themes of pilot self-discipline and personal responsibility.
IHST is working with the U.S. FAA and HAI, which hosts Heli-Expo, to produce the safety symposium. Also participating in the event are AgustaWestland, AHS International, Bell, Boeing, Bristow, CHC, Eurocopter, EASA, Flight Safety Foundation, Shell Aircraft and Sikorsky.
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Summer High School Engineering Projects
The School of Science and Technology (SST) at SSU in partnership with Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) has created a summer research internship program for Sonoma County high school juniors under the mentorship of SST faculty to stimulate interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) among high school students. The most talented and interested students from Sonoma County high schools are selected competitively. In addition to $1000.00 stipend, these students are given opportunities to work on challenging projects, become familiar with excellent state-of-the art research and development facilities, university education environment and interact with the faculty as well as our students. These students then act as our ambassadors to relay the highlights of the School of Science and Technology to their classmates and friends, counselors, teachers, and principals during their senior year. (SST's High School STEM Web Page)
The Engineering Science Department has a well established tradition of actively involving students in research projects. Each summer, faculty members involve a number of High School students in research projects as part of their participation in the SHIP program. Follow the following links to learn about their projects.
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Creative Migration is having a fundraising event called Beyond Sustainability. It's taking place on 6 April, 2013 at Yeh Studio (1064 Myra Ave on the edge of Silver Lake and East Hollywood. Right behind Los Angeles's premier, leather gay bar, Eagle LA) from 6:30 - 10:30. Do not go to Yeh Studio's other location or you will be in Hawaii. Semi-formal dress code. To purchase (tax deductible) tickets, click here. To see the Facebook invite, click here.
Creative Migration is an inspiring non-profit organization that has produced documentaries that promote various art projects which relate to social activism and change and was founded by Silver Lake-based filmmaker and social activist Susannah Tantemsapya back in 2005. I wrote a bit about Tantemsapya's documentary Post New Bills: The Story of Green Patriot Posters in 2011 (read here for more).
Post New Bills (produced by Hilary White, also the Creative Director of Creative Migration) documented the Green Patriot Posters project -- an art project that employed progressive poster art to raise environmental awareness and inspire action against climate change. It was the only American film accepted into Project Green, a sustainable film-making initiative.


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Not that I expect it to be highly active, but it was easy enough to create, and it fits nicely right under Canada. I've also finally discovered it's relatively easy to implement Spanish support for the whole forum (not just this sub forum). It would basically be a link at the top to convert all the forums to Spanish. Or any other language you want. If Spanish goes well, might as well throw French on there for Quebec. Tapatalk should be the first forum priority, but it sounds like the languages could be knocked out in like 10 minutes, where Tapatalk will take a couple hours probably.
Oh, we currently only have one cache in Mexico, but that's going to change with some interesting Virtuals created. Not a crazy amount, just to get some caches listed in the Country. I've already seen the first one (not listed yet), and it's excellent.


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Favorite: Cornell The Big Red (10-2) can secure the league's regular-season title and the right to host the tournament with a win at Brown this week or against Princeton on April 27 in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic in East Rutherford, N.J. Led by Rob Pannell (27, 36), Cornell is No. 6 in the RPI and has one of the scariest first lines in the country. Contenders: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Penn Princeton (7-4) hurt itself with a loss last week to Dartmouth, the first time all season the Tigers were held to single digits in goals. Tom Schreiber sets the tone on offense, but the Tigers' young defense is suspect. Yale (8-3) has won five straight, and its three losses are by a combined four goals. The Bulldogs are looking to ride the wave of the school's NCAA title in men's ice hockey. Harvard (6-6) has improved dramatically since a 16-7 loss on March 26 to Albany. Penn (6-4) is capable, owning wins over Duke, Lehigh, Villanova and Princeton. The Quakers, have a strong strength of schedule and a No. 9 RPI but have lost three of their past four. One of the contenders won't make the league tournament.
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Disney Cruise Line: A Cast Member in Training Part VII
By Kim Button, ALL EARS® Guest Columnist
Feature Article
This article appeared in the March 4, 2008 Issue #441 of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753)
In my last article, I talked about the frustrations of trying to phone family members and friends while living and working as a crew member onboard the Disney Cruise Line. Though phoning home had its own trials and tribulations, receiving mail and even sending emails had their ups and downs, too.
When I was a crew member, the Internet was not available on the Disney Wonder, so times have changed, thankfully for the better. One of the only public places for crew members to check their email was at an Internet cafe somewhere on Nassau. I never did visit the cafe, because I never had time. Remember, it's really difficult for some crew members to have enough free time to do any errands off of the ship. Since we stayed late in port at Nassau, many crew members would head to the cafe at one or two in the morning.
For the international crew members, email was the cheapest and easiest way to keep in touch with their friends and family. However, all of the cruise lines that docked in port had crew members who were all competing for the computer terminals at the Internet cafe. Just because you had the time and the money for a taxi to travel there, it didn't necessarily mean you were going to be able to check your email.
If you weren't using a pay phone, cell phone or email, your communication with the rest of the outside world relied on your postal mail… if you got it. Since we were living on a ship, mail only came twice a week while we were in port. Our mail was sent to a stateside address, then delivered to the heads of each department on the ship. For instance, all of the Cruise Staff personal mail was delivered to our boss, who then had to hand it out individually.
For me, mail was mainly cards and letters from my family and boyfriend, but some crew members relied on the mail to receive credit card bills and other important financial matters. If there was a delay in the mail, it could really mean trouble, especially since the outgoing mail had to wait until you came back in port several days later and then had to pass through the chain of command once again. Mail delivery was one of the highlights of my week, since it was one of the few ways I could keep in touch with my family. If they sent pictures, I would immediately tape them to the walls of my bunk bed. I kept every single card and letter. I was ecstatic when I would get a small gift in the mail. The mail system was my lifeline to the life that I was used to back on dry land.
Luckily for me, I had friends and family in the area who wanted to drive to Port Canaveral to see me, so I was really able to stay in touch with people. But it's not like a crew member can just walk off of a ship to see someone that has popped in to say hi.
In a previous article I mentioned the crew "windows" that prevented crew members from leaving the ship in Port Canaveral whenever they chose to. That made seeing my boyfriend, who would drive an hour each weekend to the port to see me for just a few brief hours, really difficult because if I missed a crew window, I wouldn't see him again for a week. In fact, one weekend the crew "windows" were never opened and we were not allowed to leave the ship. My boyfriend was waiting on the dock to see me, and my cell phone had no reception in port. Even the onboard satellite phones that cost about $8 a minute weren't working because we were in port, so there was no way to let him know that I wasn't going to be allowed off of the ship. "Frustrating" isn't even the word to describe what it feels like when you can't see friends or family who are so close, yet so far, in the bureaucratic red tape of sailing in international waters.
Another time, my aunt and family surprised me by driving to the port to see me, not realizing the legalities that were involved with me getting off of the ship. They were in the boarding terminal and somehow got a message through to my boss on the ship that they were there. I was ecstatic, but I couldn't leave the ship. Thankfully, my boss was able to somehow pull some strings and get the appropriate paperwork together for me to simply step off of the gangway into the boarding terminal so that I could see my family. By that time, though, so much time had passed doing the paperwork that it was a very brief reunion.
To get around all of the red tape and spend some quality time with me, my boyfriend surprised me on Thanksgiving by booking a stay on the Thanksgiving sailing. The entire lobby heard me scream when I saw him walk off of the gangway into the main lobby of the ship. While I was so happy that I would be able to spend time with him, once again the intricate laws of the cruise line would limit our time.
Just to be able to have dinner in Palo's, I had to request special written permission from one of the heads of the dining department to be in the restaurant, because I was a crew member. My schedule for the sailing had already been made, so there was no way to get a few extra hours off. During my limited time off, I just really wanted to relax and enjoy a decent meal so we ordered room service from his stateroom. The room service waiter recognized me and nearly refused to serve us the food because I was a crew member, even though it was ordered by a paying DCL guest. While it was clearly obvious that I was forbidden to be in guest areas to socialize when I wasn't on the clock, it was also forbidden for any guests to enter the crew quarters, so the complexities of trying to find a time and place to visit a personal acquaintance were quite frustrating.
Though trying to stay in touch with people back in the U.S. was my biggest frustration of my DCL career, my time on the ship was one of the best experiences of my life. In my final article, I'll tell you about the unexpected joys that Disney Cruise Line guests bring to the crew members and what it's like to find yourself on dry land again.
Read Kim's first article in the series at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue389.htm
Part II is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue393.htm
Part III is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue398.htm
Part IV is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue404.htm
Part V is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue412.htm
Part VI is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue419.htm
Kimberly Button is the author of The Disney Queue Line Survival Guidebook. For more information, to read an excerpt, and to sign up for a monthly newsletter featuring Disney-themed activities, visit www.disneysurvivalguide.com
Purchase Kim's book via: http://astore.amazon.com/debsunoffiwaltdi
Editor's Note: This story/information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all current rates, information and other details before planning your trip.


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Q. When is ground fault protection of equipment required for feeder circuits?
A. Each feeder disconnecting means rated 1,000A or more supplied by a 4-wire, 3-phase, 277/480V wye-connected system must be provided with ground-fault protection of equipment in accordance with 230.95 and 240.13 [215.10]. See the definition of "Ground-Fault Protection of Equipment"in Art.100.
Exception 2. Equipment ground-fault protection isn't required if ground-fault protection of equipment is provided on the supply side of the feeder and on the load side of the transformer supplying the feeder.
Ground-fault protection of equipment isn't permitted for fire pumps [695.6(H)], and it's not required for emergency systems [700.26] or legally required standby systems [701.17].


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Severed Heads, Torsos, and Other Mayhem
If you're at all squeamish, maybe you'd better skip this post. Then again, if you like mysteries and crime novels, you're in the right place, because I'm going to talk today about the grislier aspects of crime. We've heard in the news several weeks ago about the discovery of a severed head in L.A.'s Bronson Canyon, where, ironically, many an L.A. film crew shoots crime dramas. It's as noir as it gets, all right, since the head was found near the iconic Hollywood sign. And as if that didn't satisfy our prurient curiosity, they soon found the severed hands and feet of the same victim. And because I'm just as grisly as the rest, I kept thinking, "Where's the torso?"
On a clear day in Los Angeles, you can see the Hollywood sign from quite a long way away. It is a universal symbol of Hollywood, the studios, and all the dark deeds of a gritty Los Angeles in the thirties and forties. Minor actress Peg Entwhistle found lasting fame when she dove from the "H" in the sign, committing suicide.
L.A. is home to many a noir story and the recent murder falls right into the same category. In fact, it was the same week in 1947, that the severed body of Elizabeth Short, otherwise known as the Black Dahlia, was discovered in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, an area in the heart of Los Angeles. She was found nude, mutilated, drained of blood, with her torso nearly severed in half. The corners of her mouth were slashed giving her an eerie semblance of a rictus smile. Her murder remains in the minds of crime enthusiasts because of its grisly nature as well as the fact that it is unsolved, although many have tried to claim that they solved it.
The Cleveland Torso Murders were the act of a serial killer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, committing his crimes between 1935 and 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio, though some investigators credit 40 victims to the serial killer, with a victim as early as the 1920s and as late as 1950. The killer killed his victims by decapitation, and often mutilated the body, castrating the men, and sometimes severing the extremities. Headless torsos were found abandoned. Sometimes the heads were found, sometimes not. Again, the killer was never found.
Why are we drawn to such things? Why is it that the news will always lead with, if they could, "the nude body of a woman was found today…"? We are all prurient, always have been no matter what we claim. There but for the grace of God go we, perhaps. But it might be more. In a series of studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researchers came away with the knowledge that women are particularly drawn to crime stories, more so than men, out of their own fears of being a victim of violent crimes. Forewarned is forearmed?
We now know the identity of that most recent victim of the January murder as 66 year old Hervey Medellin, who lived in an apartment off Sunset Boulevard. (Are you feeling the noir?)
But Medellin is more than merely a plot device. Authors are careful, or at least we mostly try to be, when we lift stories "ripped from the headlines." It's better to disguise it a bit, especially if these are recent crimes and victim's families might feel the harm of it. Crimes of years and years ago, on the other hand, as in the case of Jack the Ripper, are certainly fodder for authors. Here again is a slashing, disemboweling set of serial murders. It seems the public never gets tired of new iterations of Jack the Ripper, also unsolved.
Let us hope that this most recent killer is soon found and that there are no other victims. Meanwhile, the circus continues.
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The festival, which continues today, features 34 booths and more than 40 artists from around the country, displaying a multitude of arts and crafts, ranging from paintings, pottery and hand-crafted jewelry to large wood carvings and lawn sculptures.
�(The festival) is a fundraiser to improve the local community,� said Allan Welch, the first vice president of BIC and the producer and marketing director of RiverFest. �The money raised will go back into the community for good works. It also puts Bridgton on the map gives people a chance to see some good art.�
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Lecture and Performance Series, Spring 2013
Prior to September 11, 2001, the day that resulted in the largest single-day loss of American civilian life in the history of our country was the Jonestown massacre, a tragedy that involved the deaths of nearly 1000 Americana in the obscure location of Jonestown, Guyana on November of 1978. 2013 marks the thirty-fifth year since that catastrophe.
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In the spring of 2013, the Griot Institute for Africana Studies explored the Jonestown narrative and examined the critical engagements with the fundamental questions of religion, race, nationality, power, civil rights, sexuality, poverty, aspiration, and identity it raises. We sought to understand the ways in which those complexities are related to many contemporary social and geo-political dilemmas. The deaths at Jonestown included the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, the only US Congressperson to be killed in US history while serving in the line of duty. The Peoples Temple and its leader, Jim Jones, were intimately associated with and, at least early in the history of the organization, endorsed by some of the leading social and political figures of the 1970s, including being praised and supported by Rosalyn Carter, George Moscone, Angela Davis, and Harvey Milk.
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Fielding "Mac" McGehee
Faculty lunch conversation: "Archiving History: Documenting Jonestown"
Fielding M. McGehee III is the chief historical researcher for the web's most scholarly and diverse resource on Peoples Temple, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. He edits the site's annual journal, the jonestown report, which follows ongoing scholarly research and artistic interpretations of Peoples Temple; offers a forum for Jonestown survivors, relatives and Temple apostates; and publishes original articles by students and writers. He is the primary transcriber and contextual analyst in an ongoing project to put 750 audiotapes from Jonestown on the public record. He has also participated in many book-length projects on Jonestown and Peoples Temple, including the upcoming Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski.
Together with his wife Rebecca Moore, Fielding became involved with Peoples Temple on November 19, 1978, the day after Rebecca's two sisters and their nephew died along with 915 others in Guyana. In the intervening years, Fielding had joined with other survivors and relatives in an effort to humanize the people of Jonestown, to document the history of the movement and the government's response to it, and to articulate the lessons that the tragedy can teach the U.S. In 2011, he joined with two Jonestown survivors to create, underwrite, and dedicate a permanent memorial to the 918 people who died that day; the memorial is located at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, Cemetery. || Watch the recording
Dr. Rebecca Moore
Lecture: "A Dream Deferred: The Promise and Pathos of Peoples Temple"
Rebecca Moore is distinguished professor of religious studies at San Diego State University. She has a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University (1996), where her specialty was Jewish and Christian dialogue. She has written and published on medieval Christian theologians and their debt to Jewish biblical commentary. She is author of Voices of Christianity: A Global Introduction (2005), and co-author of A Portable God: The Origin of Judaism and Christianity, with Risa Levitt Kohn (2007).
Dr. Moore also specializes in American religions, focusing on new religious movements. Her most recent book is Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple (2009). She co-manages the website Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. She is director of San Diego State University's Metropolitan Area Pluralism Study (MAPS) which locates, charts and digitally publishes a visual and descriptive guide to the religious diversity that exists in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. || Watch the recording
Documentary: "Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple"
Screening and discussion
Produced for the PBS series American Experience, Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples' Temple, written by his frequent collaborator Marcia Smith, examines the infamous religious cult formed by Jim Jones and the events that led to the group's horrifying mass suicide in 1978. The film traces Jones' history from his unhappy childhood in rural Indiana. Witnesses describe a strange, charismatic young man who nursed a seemingly sincere desire for social justice, but also reputedly murdered small animals as a child.
Stanley Nelson
Lecture/discussion: "Documenting Jonestown"
Stanley Nelson, a 2002 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, is executive producer of Firelight Films. His recent film, Freedom Riders, is the winner of three Primetime Emmy Awards. Over the last ten years, Nelson has garnered multiple industry awards for his films: Jesse Owens, Freedom Riders, Wounded Knee, A Place of Our Own, Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, and The Murder of Emmett Till. During this period, he also produced and directed Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice and Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Several of his films have shown at the Sundance Film Festival. He is currently in production on two films on key movements during the civil rights era - the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign and the Black Panther Party. || Watch the recording
Leigh Fondakowski
Lecture/discussion: "Narrating Jonestown: Transforming History into Art"
Leigh Fondakowski was the Head Writer of The Laramie Project and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, and a co-writer of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Her play, The People's Temple, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, I Think I Like Girls, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a 2009 Macdowell Colony Fellow, and a 2010 Imagine Fund fellow and guest lecturer at the University of Minnesota.
She has two current projects: SPILL, a play and art installation (co-created with Reeva Wortel) about the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil disaster, and Casa Cushman, a new play about the 19th-century American actress Charlotte Cushman. Her first work of creative non-fiction, Stories from Jonestown, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in early 2013. || Watch the recording
Jordan Vilchez
Lecture/discussion: "Women's Lives in the People's Temple"
Jordan became a member of the Peoples Temple at age 12 when she moved to Redwood Valley with her older sister Diane. During her time in the temple she became a part of the inner workings of the organization and was sent to Guyana when she was 20.
She fortuitously missed being among those who died by leaving Jonestown the day before to attend to duties in the capitol. She has contributed her writing to yearly editions of the Jonestown report. Today, Jordan lives in Calfornia and has an integrative mentoring practice, Cosmology of You™, in Berkeley. || Watch the recording
Tim Carter
Lecture/discussion: "Remembering The People of the Peoples Temple"
Tim Carter was a resident of Jonestown but managed to vacate with his brother and close friend on that final day in 1978. He is one of four eye witnesses to the tragedy that happened that day. He lost his wife and 15 month old son in Jonestown, along with his sister, niece, nephew, brother -in-law, and sister-in-law. He spends his time reflecting on the events of Jonestown and is the author of several articles on the topic, including "Murder or Suicide: What I Saw."
Carter has also contributed to many film documentaries about Jonestown such as "Jonestown: The Life and Death Of Peoples Temple," the PBS "American Experience" special which was a top five finalist for an Academy Award. He has also appeared in over a dozen TV documentaries on Jonestown including a documentary appearing on the History Channel in March 2013. Carter is a Vietnam Vet and resides in the Pacific Northwest. He was a speaker at the National Forensic Psychiatric convention in 2007 and has been a guest speaker at several universities and high schools. || Watch the recording
Julia Scheeres
Lecture/discussion: "Narrating Jonestown and The Peoples Temple"
A journalist by trade. Scheeres has written for Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Guardian, and many other publications. Her first book, Jesus Land - a memoir about growing up in a strict Christian environment with an adopted black brother — was a New York Times and London Times bestseller. Scheeres is the author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of the People's Temple. || Watch the recording
Stephan Jones
Lecture: "Jonestown: Yesterday and Today"
The only biological child of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones. Stephan Jones escaped the Jonestown events along with members of a People's Temple basketball team, who were in Georgetown on that day. Jones lost most of his family and community that day. He was 18 at the time. || Watch the recording


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An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the full City Council had approved the bill. The panel that approved the measure was the council's Land Use and Transportation Committee. The full council has yet to vote on the bill.


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