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a pilgrimage walking tour of 7 days
medieval times there have been three famous Christian pilgrimage
destinations: Jerusalem in the Holy Land, Santiago de Compostella in
Spain, and Rome. The 'Way of St. Francis'(Roman Way) is a section of a
pilgrims' route to Rome, a European cultural path which starts in Vienna
and ends in Rome, passing many places connected with the life of St.
Francis. The route, which also carries the symbol of the keys of St.
Peter, finishes in front of St. Peter's tomb in Rome. Every year many
pilgrims and trekkers from all over the world follow this path, passing
hermitages, sanctuaries, ancient forests, olive groves and valleys rich
in art and history. This walking route begins in Tuscany, at the La
Verna monastery, where St. Francis received the signs of the stigmata (wounds
of Christ). The route then crosses Umbria from north to south and
finishes in Rome, in the region of Lazio. In Umbria, the native area of
St. Francis, his presence is particularly strong and everything reminds
us of the much-loved saint. A highlight of this tour is of course the
lovely town of Assisi, where a section of the Via di Roma begins at the
St. Francis tomb in the Basilica di San Francesco, one of the most
celebrated sacred spots of Christianity. Assisi enjoys a splendid
position on a hillside at the foot of Monte Subasio, overlooking the
Valle Umbra and lying between the rivers Chiascio, Topino and Tescio. St.
Francis (1181/82 – 1226) was born in Assisi and lived here for most of
his life. It is certainly worth inserting an extra day in your itinerary
to visit this fascinating town. Leaving Assisi you will walk through the
wonderful countryside of Umbria, which St. Francis so loved, and you
will pass through medieval towns and villages such as Spello, Foligno,
Trevi, Spoleto and Arrone. You enter the region of Lazio and along the
approach Rome the landscape becomes ever flatter, but not less exciting.
On the last two days you will walk through Rome passing many monuments,
which are worth visiting, but the highlight will certainly be the
Basilica of St. Peter, the final destination of this walking tour
Daily programme
The tour includes:


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Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha's Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.

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New Cheerios Flavors: Multi Grain Peanut Butter and Dulce de Leche
Breakfastime musings about cereal.
The world of cereal is so wide and vast and imaginative that occasionally new flavors pass by unnoticed. I'm embarrassed to say that my finger isn't as firmly on the cereal world pulse as it should be. I might be the last to this Cheerios party, but nonetheless, I was excited to try two new just released flavors: Multi Grain Peanut Butter and Dulce de Leche.
Cheerios are sort of the quintessential cereal. There's a comforting, all-American quality to Cheerios that has stood the test of time. According to Wikipedia, Cheerios was introduced by General Mills in 1941, as the first oat-based, cold cereal. Since then, flavor varieties have abounded, but the original version remains a favorite.
I'm a Cheerios fan. They may have been the boring "healthy" cereal in other households but they weren't really even allowed in our kitchen. Probably because they weren't made out of pulverized fibers by a peasant woman in a burlap apron. Or maybe the box was too bright against the grays and tans of the health food brands. Or some other reason my mom came up with.
Anyway, back to our new friends, both of the same honey-brown color variety. Let's start with the good news.
Multi Grain Cheerios Peanut Butter
Why would they alter Multi Grain Cheerios and not just create a Peanut Butter Cheerios on its own? Now, in my opinion Multi Grain Cheerios is one of the tastiest, most well-rounded cereals in existence but that's just me. Perhaps the slightly sweet and glazed feature of Multigrain lent itself to peanut butter over of the coarse simplicity of regular cheerios.
The first thing that struck me was their odd shape and texture. They look a bit skinny. The holes in the center of the O's seem larger than regular Cheerios.
In keeping with original Multi Grain Cheerios, there are three distinct colors: dark-brownish, cream, and a color I can only describe as light tangerine. The O's have a light coating (as a peanut butter cereal should have). My first taste was salt. Pleasant, satisfying, peanut-buttery salt. Impressive for a cereal.
The peanut butter flavor is slight but not artificial or candy-tasting. Unfortunately, the peanut butter flavor disappears a good bit in milk, but they retain a very nice crunch. A very nice addition to the Cheerios family and peanut butter cereals community.
Dulce de Leche Cheerios
Before we go any further, I need to come clean and make a statement that may cause you to question my judgment of this cereal. I don't like Dulce de Leche. (Horrified gasps, yes, go ahead I can hear you.) Among my strange food dislikes, this one ostracizes me the most. Even worse, I studied abroad in Argentina for (the best) six months (of my life) and that still didn't make me like the stuff. I'm not much of a caramel fan to begin with, and the milky Latin version hasn't swayed me.
But I went into this cereal with an open mind. And still didn't care for it.
To begin, when you open the box you are fairly assaulted with a sickly sweet waft of cereal breath. The O's are pudgy and more aerated with a light glaze. The flavor is akin to Quaker caramel rice cakes, which makes sense. Overly sweet with a bit of off/artificial notes.
Milk helped, but not a whole lot. I passed these around SEHQ to make sure it wasn't my dislike alone of Dulce de Leche; my suspicions were confirmed. Even for those who love it, this cereal isn't cutting it.
If I'm in the mood for a Latin-dessert-inspired cereal, it's going to be Mini Cinnamon Churros. Though I do give them points for creativity, it's a "no, gracias" for me.
Let's pause for a moment to contemplate cereal varieties. I imagine that long ago, cereals were simple. Corn Flakes, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, just as candy bars used to be Reese's Cups, Kit Kats, M&Ms. These days, we find all sorts of additions: peanut butter, caramel, fruit, nuts, and chocolate, which are running wild in variations that present us with an overwhelming array of snack choices. Some are welcome additions; others gravely miss the mark.
Has anyone tried these? Looking forward to trying these? What's your favorite Cheerios variety?
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Building a simple API proxy server with PHP
This days I'm playing with Backbone and using public API as a source. The Web Browser has one horrible feature: It don't allow to fetch any external resource to our host due to the cross-origin restriction. For example if we have a server at localhost we cannot perform one AJAX request to another host different than localhost. Nowadays there is a header to allow it: Access-Control-Allow-Origin. The problem is that the remote server must set up this header. For example I was playing with github's API and github doesn't have this header. If the server is my server, is pretty straightforward to put this header but obviously I'm not the sysadmin of github, so I cannot do it. What the solution? One possible solution is, for example, create a proxy server at localhost with PHP. With PHP we can use any remote API with curl (I wrote about it here and here for example). It's not difficult, but I asked myself: Can we create a dummy proxy server with PHP to handle any request to localhost and redirects to the real server, Instead of create one proxy for each request?. Let's start. Problably there is one open source solution (tell me if you know it) but I'm on holidays and I want to code a little bit (I now, it looks insane but that's me 🙂 ).
The idea is:
... $proxy->register('github', 'https://api.github.com'); ...
And when I type:
and create a proxy to :
The request method is also important. If we create a POST request to localhost we want a POST request to github too.
This time we're not going to reinvent the wheel, so we will use symfony componets so we will use composer to start our project:
We create a conposer.json file with the dependencies:
{ "require": { "symfony/class-loader":"dev-master", "symfony/http-foundation":"dev-master" } }
php composer.phar install
And we can start coding. The script will look like this:
register('github', 'https://api.github.com'); $proxy->run(); foreach($proxy->getHeaders() as $header) { header($header); } echo $proxy->getContent();
As we can see we can register as many servers as we want. In this example we only register github. The application only has two classes:
RestProxy, who extracts the information from the request object and calls to the real server through CurlWrapper.
<?php namespace RestProxy; class RestProxy { private $request; private $curl; private $map; private $content; private $headers; public function __construct(\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request, CurlWrapper $curl) { $this->request = $request; $this->curl = $curl; } public function register($name, $url) { $this->map[$name] = $url; } public function run() { foreach ($this->map as $name => $mapUrl) { return $this->dispatch($name, $mapUrl); } } private function dispatch($name, $mapUrl) { $url = $this->request->getPathInfo(); if (strpos($url, $name) == 1) { $url = $mapUrl . str_replace("/{$name}", NULL, $url); $queryString = $this->request->getQueryString(); switch ($this->request->getMethod()) { case 'GET': $this->content = $this->curl->doGet($url, $queryString); break; case 'POST': $this->content = $this->curl->doPost($url, $queryString); break; case 'DELETE': $this->content = $this->curl->doDelete($url, $queryString); break; case 'PUT': $this->content = $this->curl->doPut($url, $queryString); break; } $this->headers = $this->curl->getHeaders(); } } public function getHeaders() { return $this->headers; } public function getContent() { return $this->content; } }
The RestProxy receive two instances in the constructor via dependency injection (CurlWrapper and Request). This architecture helps a lot in the tests, because we can mock both instances. Very helpfully when building RestProxy.
The RestProxy is registerd within packaist so we can install it using composer installer:
First install componser
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
and create a new project:
php composer.phar create-project gonzalo123/rest-proxy proxy
If we are using PHP5.4 (if not, what are you waiting for?) we can run the build-in server
cd proxy php -S localhost:8888 -t www/
Now we only need to open a web browser and type:
The library is very minimal (it's enough for my experiment) and it does't allow authorization.
Of course full code is available in github.
Posted on August 13, 2012, in php and tagged api, github, php, public api, rest. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
In my case, I have to set reverse proxies dynamically. So the approach I came so far was to make a nginx/apache conf file that only sets one proxy rule, throw it in a private s3 bucket and run a command that all instances pulls it and put it in a conf dir that loads every *-proxy.conf, for example, and reboot the server service for them all.
I will test for both solutions and see the benchmarks.
I came out with my own solution, any comment is welcome, you can check it here


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Home Depot, GE, Trader Joe's, Walgreen, IBM, and Time Warner are just a few of the major corporations that have announced they will stop sponsoring health insurance plans, either for current employees, retired employees, or both. Those workers who were formerly covered under these plans will have to find new coverage from the tax-subsidized ObamaCare exchanges or private exchanges.
This is certain to impact millions of American workers. Millions more will feel the pain of the ObamaCare mandates, as businesses of all sizes cut the number of full-time employees and cut the hours of part-time help to avoid the costly premiums ObamaCare will impose on all Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI) plans for businesses with 50 or more employees. Even though the Obama administration agreed to delay Obamacare's employer mandate until 2015, many companies are moving now to avoid facing punitive actions from the government later. Big companies, understandably, make the headlines when they announce plans to lay off workers or cut hours or benefits. But far more workers are likely to be affected by the small- and medium-sized companies that are being forced to make similar decisions for the same reasons.
The Orlando Sentinel, for instance, reported on October 2 that Disney World's health insurance plan for its 24,000 part-time workers will be illegal next year under the the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare. Disney is expected to drop insurance altogether for part-timers, matching moves by two other employment giants in the Orlando area, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld.
As The New American reported last week ("ObamaCare Causing Millions of Americans to Lose Their Current Health Plans"), as many as 16 million Americans who currently have purchased their own health insurance policies are likely to lose their existing health care plans due to ObamaCare mandates. Hundreds of thousands of policy holders, we noted, have already received notice from their insurers that their policies are being canceled. And, contrary to the promise of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and other champions of the ACA, replacement policies under ObamaCare are proving to be much higher in price and to include even bigger out-of-pocket deductibles.
As we have noted previously, a U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce study entitled "The Looming Premium Rate Shock," which was released in May, provides stunning information on the expected premium hikes that will be caused by implementation of the ACA. According to the committee's findings, "consumers purchasing health insurance on the individual market may face premium increases of nearly 100 percent on average, with potential highs eclipsing 400 percent." Meanwhile, "small businesses can expect average premium increases in the small group market of up to 50 percent, with potential highs over 100 percent." These are just a few of the grim realities mentioned in the report.
However, private businesses are not the only entities that will be dropping their insurance and cutting hours, in order to meet the ACA mandates. The Washington Post reported:
The Fairfax County Water Authority said that it will likely drop insurance coverage for its nearly 400 employees if taxes on generous health-care plans take effect as planned in 2018 under the federal Affordable Care Act.
The public utility, a quasi-governmental entity that provides water to 1.7 million Northern Virginians, said that the tax would eventually cost it millions of dollars a year.
"It is irrefutable that the ACA is fatally flawed," wrote Burton Jay Rubin, chairman of the Fairfax County Water Authority's government relations committee. "If it is intended to make health care coverage available to those who do not have it, it does so only by jeopardizing the coverage earned by those who have it."
Like many other executives, Rubin has concluded that it will be cheaper for the utility simply to pay the $2,000 fine it would be penalized for each employee it fails to cover, than to pay the expected $13,450 to cover each individual and $33,300 per employee family for coverage by 2018. "If we provide our workforce with no health care coverage, we merely pay the Government $2,000 for each employee," Rubin wrote.
That is the same calculation that many other employers will be forced to make.
Related articles:
ObamaCare Causing Millions of Americans to Lose Their Current Health Plans
Home Depot Dumps 20,000 Employees Onto ObamaCare Exchanges
Source: The New American


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Photo: Talk Radio News*
Now that extreme right presidential candidate Ron Paul is won the straw poll at the fascist CPAC convention, it's time for people to consider who is really is and what he really stands for. His cultish supporters have engaged in a campaign of disinformation on liberal and progressive websites for some time now. Back in 2007, I investigated Paul's actual views and agenda and reported the results. This information looks to be even more relevant now than it was then.
Ron Paul has a swarm of zealots on the Internet, spewing pro-Paul propaganda in all sorts of liberal and progressive forums. The Paul worshipers will accurately point out his opposition to the Iraq War and the Unpatriotic Act, but they conveniently omit the vast majority of Paul's views, which are hateful and wacky right-wing. The deception is starting to offend a lot of liberals, and I'm one of them. After all, if Paul could get a 75% rating in 2005 from the "Family Research Council," a Christian Right hate-group, that should give you some idea of where Paul really stands.
Here are some other ratings of interest:
* Secular Coalition for America: 20% (2004)
* Americans for the Arts Action Fund: 0% (2000, 01, 02, 03, 04)
* Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: 38% (2005)
* Human Rights Campaign: 25% (2003-04), 0% in previous years
* John Birch Society: 100% (2004-2006 in quarterly ratings, except for 88% in Spring 04)
* National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: 14% (2004), 30% (2005)
* Campaign for America's Future: 0% (2005-06, energy issues)
* Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America: F (2006)
Bigotry Against Atheists
It should be noted that each of the following three positions contradict Paul's claims that he is a libertarian and that he supports individual freedom.
Opposes Restoring the Pledge of Allegience to the Version Without "Under God"
Co-Sponsored Constitutional Amendment Pushing Coerced Prayer in the Public Schools
Voted to Allow Bigoted Alabama Judge to Post "Ten Commandments" in Courtroom
Here are a couple of examples of Ron Paul's views, aside from his opposition to ENDA.
Opposes Hate Crimes Laws
Supports "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Voted for Amendment Attempting to Block DC Government from Allowing Same-sex Partners to Adopt
Other Right-Wing Extremism,
from his congressional web site:
Opposing Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research:
Pro-Tax Cuts, Nearly All of Which Go to the Rich:
Favors Cutting Gas Taxes:
Against Corporate Accountability:
Glorifying Ronald Reagan:
Supporting Corporate Efforts to Ship US Jobs to China
Attacking Gun Control and DC Self Rule
I should also note that I just checked, and it definitely turns out that Paul has been lying when he says he's a libertarian. He is anti choice. No genuine libertarian would support government involvement in the most personal decision possible.
Ron Paul is correct about the Iraq War. His concerns for civil liberties would be more reassuring if he wasn't determined to limit civil liberties to wealthy, heterosexual, white, Christian men. Otherwise, he is a hateful rightist monster scarcely different than David Duke.
* Note on the Photo: I saw Ron Paul and his cultish followers on Wall St. last year. He looked incredibly lost, confused, and feeble. I couldn't get a clear cell phone pic of him because I kept getting blocked by Paulintologists. This picture shows him less out of it than the day I saw him on Wall St., but the photo I'm running from Talk Radio News was taken in January of 2008. He may have declined mentally since then.


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Experiment facts for kids
An experiment is a test of an idea or a method. It is often used by scientists and engineers. An experiment is used to see how well the idea matches the real world. Experiments have been used for many years to help people understand the world around them. Experiments are part of scientific method.
Experiments can tell us if a theory is false, or if something does not work. They cannot tell us if a theory is true. When Einstein said that gravity could affect light, it took a few years before astronomers could test it. General relativity predicts that the path of light is bent in a gravitational field; light passing a massive body is deflected towards that body. This effect has been confirmed by observing the light of stars or distant quasars being deflected as it passes the Sun.
Now, a hundred years or so after Einstein published his ideas, there have been many tests, all of which have been consistent with Einstein's predictions. But, one day, we might find the theory has some limits beyond which it does not work. What we test are implications of the theory, because the theory itself is too large and complicated to test all at once.
- "The universe does not tell us when we are right, only when we are wrong". – Karl Popper
Famous experiments
- Galileo Galilei did some experiments about free fall (1623)
- Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is a form of electricity (1752)
- The Michelson–Morley experiment proved a flaw in old physics, and prompted Einstein's work (1887)
- Ivan Pavlov did some experiments about the classical conditioning of dogs (1927)
- The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment proved DNA was the molecule which caused heredity (1944)
- Stanley Milgram showed that people follow orders; this became known as the Milgram experiment (1961)
Images for kids
The black box model for observation (input and output are observables). When there are a feedback with some observer's control, as illustred, the observation is also an experiment.


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[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Haverhill 7-23-1996 by Doc. 114 (Ch. 253 of the 1980 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the wetlands, related water resources and adjoining land areas in the City of Haverhill by controlling activities deemed by the Conservation Commission likely to have a significant immediate and/or adverse cumulative effect upon resource area values, including, but not limited to, the following: public or private water supply, groundwater, flood control, erosion and sedimentation control, storm damage prevention, including coastal storm flowage, water quality, water pollution control, fisheries, shellfish, wildlife habitat, rare species habitat, rare plant species, agriculture, aquaculture, sedimentation and erosion control, sensitive wetland areas, and recreation and aesthetic values, deemed important to the community (collectively, the "resource area values protected by this chapter"). This chapter and the regulations of the Conservation Commission are intended to utilize the home rule authority of this municipality to protect additional resource areas for additional values and with additional standards and procedures which are stricter and more protective than those of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and regulations thereunder, 310 CMR 10.00.
Except as permitted by the Conservation Commission or as provided in this chapter, no person shall commence to remove, fill, dredge, build upon, degrade, discharge into or otherwise alter the following resource areas: any freshwater or coastal wetlands; marshes; wet meadows; bogs; swamps; vernal pools; banks; seeps; springs; replication areas; reservoirs; lakes; ponds of any size; rivers; streams; creeks; wetlands not bordering a body of water; lands under water bodies; lands subject to flooding or inundated by groundwater or surface water; lands subject to tidal action, coastal storm flowage or flooding; poorly drained and very poorly drained areas; the potable drinking water and potential drinking water supply areas at Kenoza Lake, Crystal Lake, Chadwick Pond, Johnson Pond, Millvale Reservoir and Round Pond; sensitive wetland areas; rare and endangered species habitats and lands within 100 feet of any of these resource areas. Said resource areas shall be protected whether or not they border surface waters. Said resource areas will be determined by analysis.
Use of or work on any property within the City limits which is not under Conservation Commission jurisdiction through an up-to-date order of conditions which adversely affects another property's wetlands or watershed areas within the City limits shall be made to fall under the Conservation Commission's jurisdiction through the notice of intent process.
Although the Massachusetts Highway Department may be exempt from the Wetlands Protection Act, for specific bridgework identified in specific annual bond issues, the Haverhill Conservation Commission requires that a notice of intent shall be filed under the terms of this chapter. There is no fee for this filing.
The application and permit required by this chapter shall not be required for:
Maintaining, repairing or replacing, but not substantially changing or enlarging, an existing and lawfully located structure or facility used in the service of the public to provide electric, gas, water, sewer, catch basins, telephone, telegraph or other telecommunication services, provided that written notice has been given to the Commission at least five business days prior to commencement of work.
Work performed for normal maintenance or improvement of land which is lawfully in agricultural use at the time the work takes place, provided that written notice has been given to the Commission at least five business days prior to commencement of work.
Emergency projects necessary for the protection of the health and safety of the public, provided that the work is to be performed by or has been ordered to be performed by an agency of the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof; provided that advance written notice has been given to the Commission prior to commencement of work or within 24 hours after commencement; provided that the Commission or its agent certifies the work as an emergency project; provided that the work is performed only for the time and place certified by the Commission for the limited purposes necessary to abate the emergency; and provided that within 21 days of commencement of an emergency project a permit application shall be filed with the Commission for review as provided by this chapter. Upon failure to meet these and other requirements of the Commission, the Commission may, after notice and a public hearing, revoke or modify an emergency project approval and order restoration and mitigation measures.
Maintaining, repairing, replacing, but not substantially changing or enlarging an existing and lawfully located structure or landscaping layout.
Work necessary to and connected with crossing of a wetland to provide access to other land of the same owner or to a land-locked parcel.
Work or structures providing public or private access to rivers, streams, lakes and ponds and any areas established for outdoor recreational use.
Any activity, the prohibition of which would constitute a hardship or which would render the affected parcel to become of no viable economic use to its owner such that enforcement of the chapter would constitute a taking of property in violation of the Massachusetts or United States Constitutions.
Any activity which requires replication areas or detention basins, groundwater or charge areas, flood storage areas and temporarily disturbed areas to be restored to its previous state.
Nothing in the above exceptions to this chapter shall be deemed to waive, alter or adversely affect the powers and duties of the Conservation Commission as set forth in the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, which powers and duties are specifically retained. The exemptions set forth in Subsection A(1) through (8) shall only apply after application to the Conservation Commission in the form of a request for determination to establish the exemption.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a permit for work may be issued for work which is subject to a variance issued by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to issuing a permit, the Commission shall find that conditions contained in the variance or in the proposed permit will minimize any adverse affect on the interests protected by the chapter.
Other than stated in this section, the exceptions provided in the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and Regulations 310 CMR 10.00, shall not apply under this chapter.
No permit shall be required for work if a negative determination of applicability was issued under the Wetlands Protection Act three years immediately preceding the effective date of this chapter and if the activities were completed within three years after the date of the negative determination.
A written application shall be filed with the Commission to perform activities affecting resource areas protected by this chapter. The permit application shall include such information and plans which follow the Commission's submittal guidelines as contained in the Commission's procedural regulations to describe the proposed activities and their effects on the resource areas protected by this chapter. No activities shall commence without receiving and complying with a permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
In cases in which the notice of intent and plans under the Wetlands Protection Act are required to be filed, the Commission shall accept said notice of intent and plans as the permit application and plans under this chapter. In all other cases, the Commission shall accept a permit application and plans as set forth in its procedural regulations.
At the time of a permit application or request for determination or application for certificate of compliance, the applicant shall pay a filing fee specified in regulations of the Commission. The fee is in addition to that required by the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and Regulations, 310 CMR 10.00.
Any person filing a permit application or a request for determination with the Commission at the same time shall give written notice thereof, by certified mail (return receipt requested) or hand delivered, to all abutters at their mailing addresses shown on the most recent applicable tax list of the assessors, including owners of land directly opposite on any public or private street or way, and abutters to the abutters within 300 feet of the property line of the applicant, including any in another municipality or across a body of water boundary of the applicant. The notice to abutters shall have enclosed a brief project description and shall state where copies of the plans and application may be examined at no charge or obtained by abutters for a nominal fee at the expense of the abutter. An affidavit of the person providing such notice, with a copy of the notice mailed or delivered, shall be filed with the Commission. When a person requesting a determination is other than the owner, the request, the notice of the hearing and the determination itself shall be sent by the Commission to the owner as well as to the person making the request. Abutters shall be renotified if a hearing remains open for more than 90 days without a finding at the Conservation Commission's request.
The Commission shall conduct a public hearing on any permit application or request for determination. Notice of such hearing shall be given by publication at the expense of the applicant in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least five business days prior to the hearing.
The Commission shall commence the public hearing within 21 days from receipt of a completed permit application or request for determination, unless an extension is authorized in writing by the applicant.
The Commission shall issue its permit or determination in writing within 21 days of the close of the public hearing thereon unless an extension is authorized in writing by the applicant.
The Commission shall combine its hearing under this chapter with the hearing conducted under the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and Regulations, 310 CMR 10.00 in each instance where such a hearing is required. The Commission shall have authority to continue the hearing for up to 14 days to allow for full departmental review to a certain date announced at the hearing for reasons stated at the hearing, which may include receipt of additional information from the applicant or others deemed necessary by the Commission or comments and recommendations of the boards, officials and the applicant or his/her representative.
If the Commission, after a public hearing, determines that the activities which are subject to the permit application or the land and water uses which result thereof are likely to have a significant individual or cumulative effect upon the resource area values protected by this chapter, the Commission, within 21 days of the close of the hearing, shall issue or deny a permit for the activities requested. If it issues a permit, the Commission may impose conditions which the Commission deems necessary or desirable to protect those values, and all activities shall be done in accordance with those conditions.
The Commission shall take into account the cumulative adverse effects of loss, degradation, isolation and replication of protected resource areas throughout the community and the watershed resulting from past activities, permitted and exempt, and foreseeable future activities.
A permit may be denied for failure to meet the requirements of this chapter; for failure to submit necessary information and plans requested by the Commission; for failure to meet the design specifications, performance standards and other requirements in regulations of the Commission; for failure to avoid or prevent unacceptable significant or cumulative effects upon the resource area values protected by this chapter; and where no conditions are adequate to protect those values.
Land within 100 feet of specific resource areas and 200 feet from sensitive resource areas, such as: Kenoza Lake, Crystal Lake, Chadwick Pond, Johnson Pond, Round Pond and Millvale Reservoir are presumed important to the protection of these resources because activities undertaken in close proximity to wetlands and other resources have a high likelihood of adverse impact upon the wetland or other resources, either immediately, as a consequence of construction or over time, as a consequence of daily operation or existence of the activities. These adverse impacts from construction and use can include, without limitation, erosion, siltation, loss of groundwater recharge, poor water quality and loss of wildlife habitat. The Commission therefore may require that the applicant maintain a strip of continuous, undisturbed vegetative cover within the one-hundred-foot area, unless the Commission finds that the area or part of it may be disturbed without harm to the values protected by the chapter. When proposing alterations of land within 50 feet of a wetland, the applicant must overcome a strong presumption of adverse impact on the adjacent wetlands and their functions and values. The Commission is empowered to require a twenty-five-foot no-build-no-disturbance zone extending from the edge of all wetland resource areas and a fifty-foot no-build zone. No activity is allowed in the no-disturbance zone except as allowed by the Commission or this chapter. Building construction of any kind, except as allowed by the Commission or this chapter, is prohibited in the no-building zone.
Due to the highly sensitive nature of the six water bodies mentioned in this section of the chapter, the size of restricted zones in these areas may be increased to the amount needed to protect the wetlands and receiving water bodies from degradation. The exact size of those zones will be made on a case-by-case basis.
The applicant shall have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the credible evidence and, where required, by overcoming the presumptions set forth in this chapter, that the activity proposed in the notice of intent will not cause significant harm to any of the interests and values sought to be protected by this chapter. Failure to provide to the Commission adequate evidence for it to determine that the proposed activity does not cause such significant harm shall be sufficient cause for the Commission to deny permission or to grant such permission with such conditions as it deems reasonable, necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter; or to postpone or continue the hearing to another date certain to enable the applicant and others to present additional evidence, upon such terms and conditions as seems to the Commission to be just.
Due consideration shall be given to possible effects of the proposal on all interests and values to be protected under this chapter and to any demonstrated hardship on the petitioner by reason of a denial, as brought forth at the public hearing.
To prevent wetlands loss, the Commission shall require applicants to avoid wetlands alteration wherever feasible; to minimize wetlands alteration; and, where alteration is unavoidable, shall require at least one to one mitigation, to ensure that adequate replication occurs and by posting a bond in the appropriate sum to ensure that mitigation occurs. The Commission may authorize or require bridging of wetlands and replication of wetlands as a form of mitigation, but only with adequate security, professional design and monitoring to assure success, because of the high likelihood of failure of replication. A pictorial log may be required showing the progress of the replication areas of 500 square feet or more from pre- to post-replication to include monitoring reports for two to five years or when a certificate of compliance is issued. All replication plans shall be given to the Commission before an order of conditions is issued. A permit or order of conditions shall expire three years from the date of issuance. The Commission may issue a permit expiring up to five years from the date of issuance for recurring or continuous maintenance work, provided that annual notification of the time and location of work is given to the Commission at least two weeks prior to the commencement of the work. Any permit may be renewed once for an additional one-year period, provided that a request for a renewal is received in writing by the Commission prior to the expiration date on the order. A permit may contain requirements which shall be enforceable for a stated number of years, indefinitely or until permanent protection is in place, and shall apply to all owners of the land, their successors or assigns. The Commission may require as a condition precedent to a certificate of compliance, written acknowledgment by all subsequent owners of the affected property that they have been informed of the Conservation Commission's jurisdiction over the property. Failure to file such a certificate within a reasonable time after the coverage of the property may be grounds for revocation of an issued permit or order of conditions.
For good cause the Commission may revoke or modify a permit or determination issued under this chapter after notice to the holder of the permit or determination, notice to the public, abutters and City boards, pursuant to § 253-5, and a public hearing.
The Commission, in an appropriate case, may combine the permit or determination issued under this chapter with the order of conditions or determination of applicability issued under the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and Regulations, 310 CMR 10.00.
No work allowed in any permit application shall be undertaken until the permit issued by the Commission with respect to such work has been recorded in the Essex South District Registry of Deeds or, if the land affected is registered land, in the registry section of the land court for the district wherein the land lies, and until the holder of the permit certifies in writing to the Commission that the permit has been recorded and all appeal periods have passed.
After public notice and public hearing, the Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. Failure by the Commission to promulgate such rules and regulations or a legal declaration of their invalidity by a court of law shall not act to suspend or invalidate the effect of this chapter. At a minimum, these regulations shall define key terms in this chapter not inconsistent with the chapter and procedures governing the amount and filing of fees.
Any rule or regulation which is not merely procedural shall not become effective until it has been ratified by a majority vote of all of the members of the City Council and approved by the Mayor. If the Mayor does not approve of the rule or regulations, the City Council may ratify it by a 2/3 vote of all of its members in accordance with the procedure set forth in § C-55 of the City Charter.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in regulations of the Commission, the definitions of terms in this chapter shall be set forth in the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131 § 40, and Regulations, 310 CMR 10.00.
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and implementation of this chapter.
- Owners of property immediately adjacent to or across a road or water body and in another municipality if within 300 feet of the boundary of the property where work is proposed or across a body of water.
- As defined under 310 CMR 10.04.
- Includes, without limitation, the following activities when undertaken to, upon, within or affecting resource areas protected by this chapter:
- (1) Removal, excavation or dredging of soil, sand, gravel or aggregate materials of any kind;
- (2) Changing of preexisting drainage characteristics, flushing characteristics, salinity distribution, sedimentation patterns, flow patterns or flood retention characteristics;
- (3) Drainage or other disturbance of water level or water table;
- (4) Dumping, discharging or filling with any material which may degrade water quality;
- (5) Placing of fill or removal of material, which would alter elevation;
- (6) Driving of piles, erection or repair of buildings or structures of any kind;
- (7) Placing of obstructions or objects in water, rip-rap included;
- (8) Destruction of plant life, including cutting of trees, use of road salt where prohibited, changing temperature, biochemical oxygen demand or other physical, biological or chemical characteristics of any waters;
- (9) Any activities, changes or work which may cause or tend to contribute to pollution of any body of water, groundwater, high groundwater and septic systems;
- (10) Application of pesticides or herbicides;
- (11) Incremental activities which have or may have a cumulative adverse impact on the resource areas protected by this chapter.
- Includes the land area which normally abuts and confines a water body, the lower boundary being the mean annual low flow level and the upper boundary being the first observable break in the slope or the mean annual flood level, whichever is higher.
- A measure of the amount of oxygen required by bacteria and other microorganisms to biodegrade decomposable organic matter in water used as an indicator of the amount of organic carbon present in a water.
- The areas subject to protection under the chapter.
- Area of uplands 100 feet horizontally outward from the boundary of the resource area and in the case of a slope of 2:1 or steeper the area of buffer will increase six inches for every one foot of horizontal distance. The buffer zone around the six reservoirs mentioned in § 253-2 will be 200 feet.
- Drainage holes, usually located in low areas, to collect and disseminate water into larger reservoir areas.
- Any work done within the buffer zones or a wetland area which has had a detrimental or negative effect on any conditions stated in the purpose section of this chapter. (§ 253-1).
- (1) A determination of applicability means a written finding by the Commission as to whether a site or the work proposed thereon is subject to the jurisdiction of the chapter.
- (2) A determination of significance means a written finding by the Commission, after a public hearing, that the area on which the proposed work will alter, is significant to one or more of the interests identified in the chapter.
- (3) A notification of nonsignificance means a written finding by the Commission, after a public hearing, that the area on which the proposed work will alter, is not significant to any of the interests of the chapter.
- Submittal of an application at the request of the Chairman to any or all of the following departments for comments: Health Department, Building Inspector, City Engineer, Conservation Agent and/or Agent and the Water Department.
- Land or water area that has been changed or altered from its usual state due to outside forces or due to a cumulative effect of outside forces.
- The draining of lands or a system of watercourses or drains, designed manually or naturally, for the purpose of removing excess water from an area.
- A person secured by the City or Conservation Commission to give expert testimony at a public hearing.
- The wearing away of land by rain, wind, water or ice.
- A written extension of the time within which the authorized work shall be completed.
- To deposit any material so as to raise an elevation, either temporarily or permanently.
- The prevention or reduction of flooding and flood damage. General performance standards means those requirements established by these regulations for activities in or affecting each of the areas subject to protection under the chapter.
- A condition in which the soil surface is temporarily covered with flowing water from any source, such as streams overflowing their banks, runoff from adjacent or surrounding slopes, inflow from high tides or any combination of sources.
- The number of times that flooding is likely to occur. The following classes are recognized:
- (1) None: no reasonable possibility of flooding (extraordinary chance of flooding in any year);
- (2) Rare: flooding unlikely but possible under unusual weather conditions (from near zero to five-percent chance of flooding in any year, or near zero to five times in 100 years);
- (3) Occasional: flooding is expected infrequently under unusual weather conditions (five- to fifty-percent chance of flooding in any year, or five to 50 times in 100 years);
- (4) Common: occasional and frequent classes can be grouped for certain purposes and called common flooding.
- An area defined by neighborhoods, streets, landmarks and/or water bodies within a larger area.
- An area above or below ground which allows all the impurities to be filtered from water so as to make it drinkable according to federal, state and local laws.
- The water below the earth's surface in the zone of saturation.
- The portion of the year when soil temperatures are above biologic zero (5° C. or 41° F.), as defined by Soil Taxonomy (16). The following growing season months are assumed for each of the soil temperature regimes:
- A hardship situation will exist where an applicant demonstrates denial of permission to build or issue an order of conditions would constitute a taking of property in violation of the Massachusetts and United States Constitution; provided, however, that no reasonably foreseeable danger to the public health, safety or welfare will arise from such permission. As for the City of Haverhill, hardship shall exist where there is no practical means to carry out a project in the public interest.
- The scientific study of water, especially its natural occurrence, characteristics, control and construction.
- Public or private water supply, groundwater, flood control, erosion and sedimentation control, coastal storm flowage, water quality, water pollution control, fisheries, shellfish, wildlife habitat, rare plant species, agriculture, aquaculture, sedimentation and erosion control, recreation, storm damage prevention, protection of wildlife, sensitive wetland areas and protection of aesthetics.
- A wetland area of at least 5,000 square feet which has no visible inlet or outlet.
- Any open body of fresh water with a surface area of 10 acres or more, and shall include great ponds.
- Any land area where the water table is so high that water perks through the surface as standing water and/or drains off slowly during the year.
- Areas where a vegetational community exists in standing or running water during the growing season and where a significant part of the vegetational community is composed of, but not limited to nor necessarily including all, of the following plants or groups of plants: arums (Araceae), bladder worts (Utricularia), bur reeds (Sparganiaceae), button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), cattails (Typha), duck weeds (Lemnaceae), eelgrass (Vallisneria), frog bits (Hydrocharitaceae), horsetails (Equisetaceae), hydrophilic grasses (Gramineae), leatherleaf (chamaedaphne calyculata), pickerel weeds (Pontederiaceae), pipeworts (Eriocaulon), pond weeds (Potamogeton), rushes (Juncaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), smartweeds (Polygonium), sweet gale (Myrica gale), water milfoil (Halcragaceae), water lilies (Nynphaeaceae), water stanworts (Callitrichaceae), water willow (Decodon verticillatus).
- An area set aside from development to allow for a buffer area between wetlands and buildings, zero to 25 feet from the flagged wetlands on the site where no disturbance or building is allowed, except as stated in the exceptions sections of this chapter (§ 253-3).
- Twenty-five to 50 feet from the flagged wetlands on the site where no building is allowed.
- An order of conditions.
- The document issued by the Commission containing conditions which regulate or prohibit an activity.
- An entity which includes any individual, group of individuals, association, partnership, corporation, company business organization, trust, estate, the commonwealth or political subdivision thereof to the extent subject to City ordinances, administrative agency, public or quasi-public corporation or body, a municipality and any other legal entity, its legal representatives, agents or assigns.
- Any such data, maps, engineering drawings, calculations, specifications, schedules and other materials, if any, deemed necessary by the Commission to describe the site and/or work, to determine the applicability of the chapter or to determine the impact of the proposed work upon the interests identified in the chapter.
- Any open body of fresh water, either naturally occurring or man-made by impoundment, and which is never without standing water due to natural causes, except during periods of extended drought. For purposes of this definition, extended drought shall mean any period of four or more months during which average rainfall for each month is 50% or less of the ten-year average for that same month. Basins or lagoons which are part of wastewater treatment plants shall not be considered ponds, nor shall swimming pools or other impervious man-made retention basins.
- A condition when free water covers the soil surface as, for example, in a closed depression. The water is removed only by percolation, evaporation or transpiration.
- Water is removed from the soil so slowly that the soil remains saturated, according to the SCS method, periodically saturated during the growing season or remains wet for long periods.
- Water which fails to meet Department of Environmental Protection standards for cleanliness, either in drinkability or aesthetics.
- That land area delineated by Zone II as defined in 310 CMR 24.06 or, in such cases as when the primary recharge area has not been designated it shall, in the interim, be defined as a one-thousand-foot radius from the public drinking water supply unless otherwise determined by the Department of Environmental Protection.
- Any source or volume of surface or ground water demonstrated to be in public use or approved for water supply pursuant to MGL c. 111, § 160, by the Division of Water Supply of the Department of Environmental Protection, or demonstrated to have a potential for public use.
- A small pool of water, especially from rainwater, which drains poorly.
- Includes, without limitation, all vertebrate and invertebrate animal and plant species listed as endangered, threatened or of special concern by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, regardless of whether the site in which they occur has been previously identified by the Division as per the most recent publication.
- (1) Activities of individuals done for relaxation, carried out in resource areas of this chapter which include, but are not limited to, swimming, picnicking, walking, hunting, fishing and boating.
- (2) Those areas which provide important visual linkage for the public. These areas include, but are not limited to, expensive open space and large areas of natural features.
- (3) Views from areas used by the public whether private or publicly owned.
- To take away any type of material, thereby changing an elevation, either temporarily or permanently.
- Any work which involves more than 25% of a structure to be moved and/or new sections to be put in.
- A written request made by any person to the Commission for a determination as to whether a site or work thereon is subject to the chapter.
- The same as areas subject to protection under the purpose section of this chapter.
- A naturally flowing body of water that empties to any lake, ocean or other river and which flows throughout the year.
- Shall refer to any areas, including, but not limited to, the following, in which public health, environmental or agricultural concerns warrant special protection to further minimize the risk of unreasonable adverse effects:
- (1) Within the primary recharge area of a public drinking water supply or potential public drinking water supply.
- (2) Within 200 feet of any identified private drinking waters supply well.
- (3) Within 100 feet of any standing or flowing water.
- (4) Within 100 feet of any wetland.
- (5) Within 100 feet of any agricultural area presently in use or planned to be used within one year of spraying.
- An underground tunnel that carries the drainage and waste matter from a house or town.
- Anything which is important enough to the water quality or buffer zones stated in the purpose section of this chapter.
- Particles of minerals, soils, etc., which creep or flow into wetland areas or other areas where they are not indigenous to the area.
- Organic and inorganic compositions consisting of silicates of aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, silica, etc., derived from the original rock by weathering and producing characteristic soil types; also decomposed plants and animals as a result of microorganisms. Air, water and environmental factors also contribute to soils. Soils are used in determining wetland areas through their potential for support of wetland plant species as well as their inability to drain wetland areas freely.
- The prevention of damage caused by water from storms, including, but not limited to, erosion and sedimentation, damage caused by flooding, waterborne debris or waterborne ice.
- A body of running water, including brooks and creeks, which moves in a definite channel in the ground due to a hydraulic gradient and which flows within, into or out of an area subject to protection under the chapter. A portion of a stream may flow through a culvert or beneath a bridge. Such a body of running water which does not flow throughout the year (i.e., which is intermittent) is a stream, so long as it receives discharge from groundwater for periods of time such that it may be observed to flow during times when there is no surface water discharge occurring.
- Areas where groundwater is at or near the surface of the ground for a significant part of the growing season or where runoff water from surface drainage frequently collects above the soil surface, and where a significant part of the vegetational community is made up of, but not limited to, nor necessarily includes all of the following plants or groups of plants: alders (Alnus), ashes (Fraxinus), azaleas (Rhododendron canadense and R. Viscosum), black alder (Ilex verticillata), black spruce (Picea mariana), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), American or white elm (Ulmus americans), white Hellebore (Veratrum viride), hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), cowslip (Caltha palustris), poison sumac (Taxidocendron vemix), red maple (Acer rubrum), skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum), spice bush (Lindera benzoin), black gum tupelo (Nyssa sylvantica), sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia), white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), willow (Salicaceae).
- Any body of water which in turn flows into another body of water and so on until it terminates in a significant water body.
- Areas where the topography is low and flat and where the soils are annually saturated. The boundary of vegetated wetlands is the line within which the vegetational community is substantially characterized by species identified in the Wetlands Protection Act or this chapter, or, when vegetation appears to have been altered, within which hydric soils are present. The types of vegetated wetlands are: wet meadows, marshes, swamps and bogs. The Commission may find, based on substantial evidence in a particular case, that additional species are characteristic of wetlands.
- Plant life included on federal, state and local wetland protection acts known as "wetland species."
- Shall be the same as in the Wetlands Protection Act; however, if a vernal pool is identified and certified within 90 days of filing a notice of intent, such vernal pool shall be afforded full protection under this chapter.
- Water is removed from the surface so slowly that the free water remains on the surface during most of the growing season.
- Shall refer to any raw or finished water source that is presently used, reserved for future use or under investigation for future use by the City as a public water system as defined in 310 CMR 22.02 or used as a source of private drinking water by one or more persons. This shall include all land and waters used as or tributary to a public water system except those exempted under 310 CMR 22.20.
- The upper limit of the portion wholly saturated by water.
- MGL c. 131, § 40.
- All species of animals otherwise than domesticated of any of the several classes indigenous to the City for any period of time throughout the year.
- Land and/or water areas which support any animals in a wild (not domestic) state, including, but not limited to: birds, amphibians, four-legged animals and insects. Depending on the wildlife, the range can be a few yards to a few miles in area. Plant community composition and structure, hydrolic regime or other characteristics provide important food, shelter, migratory travel or overwintering areas for these wildlife species over an indefinite time period.
As part of a permit issued under this chapter, in addition to any security required by any other municipal or state board agency or official, the Commission may require that the performance and observance of the conditions imposed thereunder (including conditions requiring mitigation work) be secured wholly or in part by one or more of the methods described below:
By a proper bond or deposit of money or negotiable securities or other undertaking of financial responsibility sufficient, in the opinion of the Commission, to be released in whole or in part upon issuance of a certificate of compliance for work performed pursuant to the permit.
By a conservation restriction, easement or other covenant enforceable in a court of law, executed and duly recorded by the owner of record, running with the land to the benefit of this City whereby the permit conditions shall be performed and observed before any lot may be conveyed other than by mortgage deed. This method shall be used only with the consent of the applicant.
No person shall remove, fill, dredge, build upon, degrade or otherwise alter resource areas protected by this chapter, or cause, suffer or allow such activity, or leave in place unauthorized fill, or otherwise fail to restore illegally altered land to its original condition, or fail to comply with a permit or an enforcement order issued pursuant to this chapter.
The Commission, its agents, officers and employees shall have authority to enter upon privately owned land for the purpose of performing their duties under this chapter and may make or cause to be made such examinations, surveys or sampling as the Commission deems necessary, subject to the Constitutions and laws of the United States and the commonwealth.
The Commission shall have authority to enforce this chapter, its regulations and permits issued thereunder by violation notices, administrative orders and civil and criminal court actions. Any person who violates provisions of this chapter may be ordered to restore the property to its original condition and take other action deemed necessary to remedy such violations or may be fined, or both.
Municipal boards and officers, including any police officer or other officer having police powers, shall have authority to assist the Commission in enforcement.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any conditions of a permit or order issued pursuant to it shall be punished by a fine as listed herein below. Each day or portion thereof during which a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
Alteration of an area subject to protection under the chapter without having filed for and having in effect at the time of the activity a valid order of conditions regulating the activity undertaken. The penalty shall be $300.
Failure to comply with any order or orders as set forth in any order of conditions in effect to regulate the activity thereby permitted within an area subject to protection under the chapter within the time period specified within such orders. The penalty shall be $200.
Failure to comply with any one or more of the terms of any enforcement order, duly issued by the Haverhill Conservation Commission within the time limits specified in such orders. The penalty shall be $100.
Unauthorized removal or destruction of vegetation and/or property on conservation lands and unauthorized disturbance of wildlife by actions other than the normal and lawful use and enjoyment of such property or lands. The penalty shall be $100.
Failure to maintain in proper working order or condition appropriate to their intended function structures, improvements or facilities which were required or permitted as part of activities regulated under an order of conditions issued to protect an area subject to regulation under the chapter and significant to the interests to be protected under this chapter. The penalty shall be $100.
As an alternative to criminal prosecution in a specific case, the Commission may issue citations under the noncriminal disposition procedure set forth in MGL c. 40, § 21D.
A decision of the Commission shall be reviewable in the Superior Court in accordance with MGL c. 249, § 4. If the subject matter of the appeal is also within the jurisdiction provided by MGL c. 131A, § 40, and/or 310 CMR 10.00, then the decision shall first be appealed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with such jurisdiction and within the time allowed by law for such an appeal. Any decision of the Department of Environmental Protection which alters, amends or reverses a decision of the Conservation Commission shall be reviewed by the Commission to ascertain whether or not the interests and values to be protected by the terms of this chapter have been taken into consideration and adequately addressed by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. If the Commission finds that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has so acted, then the Commission shall adopt the decision of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. If the Commission finds that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has not so acted, then it shall declare that the decision of the Commission shall stand independent of any decision of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. A civil action in the nature of certiorari to correct errors in proceedings which are not according to the course of the common law, which proceedings are not otherwise reviewable by motion or by appeal, may be brought in the supreme judicial or superior court. Such action shall be commenced within 60 days next after the proceeding complained of this time shall be stayed during the pendency of any appeal to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and subsequent review of a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection decision by the Conservation Commission. Where such action is brought against a body or officer exercising judicial or quasijudicial functions to prevent the body or officer from proceeding in favor of another party, or is brought with relation to proceedings already taken, such other party may be joined as a party defendant by the plaintiff or on motion of the defendant body or officer or by application to intervene. Such other party may file a separate answer or adopt the pleadings of the body or officer. The court may, at any time after the commencement of the action, issue an injunction and order the record of the proceedings complained of brought before it. The court may enter judgment as justice may require.
This chapter is adopted under the Home Rule Amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution and the Home Rule statutes, independent of the Wetlands Protection Act, MGL c. 131, § 40, and Regulations 310 CMR 10.00, thereunder.


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U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday, saying he stuck "a finger in the eye of the United States" by allowing NSA leaker Edward Snowden to land in Moscow.
"What's infuriating here is Prime Minister Putin of Russia aiding and abetting Snowden's escape. The bottom line is very simple," Schumer said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"Allies are supposed to treat each other in decent ways, and Putin always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the United States, whether it is Syria, Iran, and now, of course, with Snowden. That's not how allies should treat one another, and I think it will have serious consequences for the United States-Russia relationship."
Schumer's comments came after reports that Snowden — who has claimed responsibility for leaking a trove of details about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs — left Hong Kong and flew to Russia.
Schumer said that because of Russia's "state-controlled" nature, he believed it "likely" that Putin knew about Snowden's plans and personally approved the flight.
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[MEGAFRAME] 2010: MEGAFRAME was successfully completed (see also MEGAFRAME Final Report , MEGAFRAME D6.4 Laboratory fluorescence microscopy demonstrator ), but work using the MEGAFRAME32 (32x32) and MEGAFRAME128 (128x160) devices has continued, as you can also see from the Publications section.
MEGAFRAME32 is being distributed by Photon Force Ltd (contact:
In parallel, the follow-up FP7 ICT SPADnet project (www.spadnet.eu ) has been launched, dedicated to the use of SPAD arrays in medical imaging, most notably Positron Emission Tomography (PET), building on the MEGAFRAME scientific and technological achievements.
[MEGAFRAME] April 2010: MEGAFRAME was selected as one of "12 outstanding Commission-funded FET projects" showcased at the European Parliament in Strasbourg within the Science beyond Fiction exhibition, 20-21 April 2010, organised to introduce Members of the European Parliament to Future and Emerging Technologies (FET). E. Charbon [and J. Arlt] attended and presented a 3 part poster (poster 1 - poster 2 - poster 3).
[MEGAFRAME] Oct. 2009: MEGAFRAME reports on the performance of an array of 32x32 plano-convex 50μm pitch microlenses (see LEOS 2009), fabricated by co-polymer casting in a photoresist replica mold, which have been characterized by a specially developed Optical Test Bench. The measured detection sensitivity increase reaches up to a factor of 35. This concentration factor is, to the best of our knowledge, presently the highest reported to date for any array of SPADs.
[MEGAFRAME] Sept. 2009: S. Donati, UNIPV, has been invited to present a talk at the 17th International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT09), 26 Sept - 1 Oct 2009, Antalya, Turkey, and selected the MEGAFRAME project as a topic.
[MEGAFRAME] June-Sept. 2009: MEGAFRAME reports on the design and characterisation of 32x32 TDC/TAC plus single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel arrays implemented in a 130nm imaging process, to create a single chip TCSPC sensor (see the IISW, CICC and ESSDERC Publications). To the best of our knowledge, this work constitutes the largest single-chip array of fully integrated TDCs/TACs so far reported. Each TDC/TAC-SPAD ensemble measures only 50x50μm2. It is thus one of the smallest ever demonstrated with deep sub-nanosecond time resolution.
[European R&D] July 2009: The European Commission has explicitly included single-photon and smart pixel based time-correlated imaging R&D into the ICT Call 5 Photonics 2009 topics (see EC Photonics unit website). This is fully in line with MEGAFRAME's pioneering results, which proved that single photon arrays can indeed be implemented in deep sub-micron CMOS for time-correlated as well as intensity applications.
[MEGAFRAME] July 2009: MEGAFRAME reports on the a new low noise single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) fabricated in a 130 nm CMOS imaging process (SSE 2009). To the best of our knowledge, the DCR (Dark Count Rate) per unit area achieved in these devices is the lowest ever reported in deep sub-micron CMOS SPADs.
[MEGAFRAME] May 2009: MEGAFRAME reports on the real-time hardware (FPGA) implementation of a new integration based FLIM lifetime calculation algorithm, called IEM, suitable for SPAD arrays (see ISCAS 2009). This approach enables direct lifetime calculation in parallel for every pixel. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first system that can generate real-time video-rate fluorescence lifetime images.
[MEGAFRAME] April 2009: MEGAFRAME was selected as one of the exhibits of the FET09 Science beyond Fiction conference, 21-23 April 2009, Prague. E. Charbon and R. Henderson attended and presented a 3 part poster (poster 1 - poster 2 - poster 3).
[MEGAFRAME] Jan. 2009: Dr. Robert Henderson, UNIED, has been invited to present a talk at the Rank Prize mini-symposium on Single-Photon Detectors, 12-15 Jan 2009, Grasmere, Lake District, UK.
[MEGAFRAME] May 2008: MEGAFRAME reports on the direct integration for lifetime extraction method (IEM), a new, simple, and hardware-only fluorescence-lifetime-imaging microscopy (FLIM) proposed to implement on-chip lifetime extractions (JOSA A 2008).
July/Aug. 2007: MEGAFRAME reports on the first implementation of a Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) in 130 nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology - see also the JSTQE paper in the "Publications" section.
FBK/ITC press release, Oct. 2006 (original Italian version, English version).
MEGAFRAME was conceived in the summer of 2004 to respond to the growing interest of the scientific and engineering community in low-cost techniques for single photon counting. The project's technology was developed on the heels of the 2003 demonstration of the first monolithic single photon counter implemented in a low-cost CMOS process. This breakthrough convinced us that much more advanced imagers based on integrated single photon counting arrays could be possible.
MEGAFRAME's long-term goal is to bring single photon imaging technology to an advanced low-cost deep-submicron CMOS platform, so that massive arrays of single photon detectors can coexist with and interface to large networks of parallel digital processing units on the same chip. The target fields are biology, physics, and medical imaging. However, any disciplines requiring time-resolved ultra-fast optical sensors are prime candidates.
In MEGAFRAME we push the limits of many technologies necessary for the success of the project. The multidisciplinary effort will yield new and highly miniaturized detectors, ultra-fast integrated electronics, high-precision quantitative bioimaging systems, miniaturized optical components, and new signal processing solutions. The consortium we assembled represents Europe's leading Institutions in these fields and decades of experience in industrial and research sensor design and optics.
MEGAFRAME successfully completed - SPADnet follow-on project launched
In parallel, the follow-up FP7 ICT SPADnet project (www.spadnet.eu ) has been launched, dedicated to the use of SPAD arrays in medical imaging, most notably Positron Emission Tomography (PET), building on the MEGAFRAME scientific and technological achievements.


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In 2012 beamline 1-BM was reconfigured to serve two missions: to provide a dedicated optics and detector testing (~75%) beamline, and Energy Dispersive Diffraction (EDD) (~25%) capabilities for the study of engineering materials (MPE Group). The optics and detector testing capabilities support the missions of the Optics (OPT) and Detectors (DET) groups to develop new technologies as well as characterize/calibrate optics and detectors produced at other labs and by industry. Frequent access to a repeatable testing setup is difficult to accommodate on beamlines set up to serve specific user communities. The reconfigured beamline retains the original double crystal monochromator (6 -28 keV) mechanics but was retrofitted with flat crystals. Upstream masks were modified and large aperture slits were installed to provide a wide horizontal beam for monochromatic- and white-beam topography of samples up to 100 mm in width. A novel msec-response white-beam shutter was also added to allow controlled exposures (as short as 50 msec) for topography, a capability that will serve a substantial soon-to-be-displaced NSLS user community while also serving needs of industry, as well as internal R&D (e.g. diamond crystals, and polarization-selecting crystal analyzers for inelastic x-ray scattering research).
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Garam Masala
We caught an episode of Sunny Anderson's Cooking for Real and the Baked Chicken Drummies looked fantastic. I love Indian food but am too intimidated to make it, but this looked like a simple enough recipe for me to try. I made my grocery list on Saturday and searched two grocery stores for Garam Masala, the key ingredient to this dish, to no avail. I became transfixed on making this dish Saturday night so I looked up how to make my own Garam Masala and found a quick and easy recipe here.
Lo and behold, I just happened to have all ingredients ON HAND in my pantry to make my own mix! I jumped up and down and immediately tweeted "I have arrived! I am officially a foodie!" Never mind that no one was here to crown me with an official Foodie title, I went ahead and took the honors upon myself.
I have made my own concoction of spices a couple of times before, including Jerk Chicken rub. Our local grocery store Sprouts has a wonderful little bulk spice section where you can get small amounts of random, yet common fresh spices. It ends up being much cheaper to make your own mixture, or even to just get small amounts of spices that you don't commonly use so that it doesn't go bad, rather than buying even a small jar of a spice. I calculated that this little bit of Garam Masala cost just under a buck, where you'd normally pay at least $5 for a jar.
Heather's Life Made Lovely Monday.
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I used to eat loads of Indian food back home but still on the hunt for my favorite place to eat around here. The problem I have making it us that I'm the only hot head, the rest of the family not so much.ReplyDelete
That looks so yummy!! I'll have to try that recipe the next time my dad visits. He loves Indian food.ReplyDelete
I love indian food! Nice job on your Garam Masala. I'm gonna bookmark the recipe & do it myself, too. Thanks!ReplyDelete
(Visiting from Lovely link up!)
I haven't made anything recently (thank goodness for frozen leftovers!), but I DID just find an excellent looking recipe for shakshuka (one of my favorite things I ate on my trip to Israel). Yum!ReplyDelete
Someone emailed and asked if the chicken dish was too spicy for kids. Not at all! My kids loved it and asked for seconds. The flavor is definitely more smokey than spicy.ReplyDelete
delicious! i think i just might try to make my own as well!ReplyDelete
Are you even kidding me...Indian food and Chai are some of my all time faves! Hubs and I went to India a few years ago and he spent a day learning how to make Puri and watching the chef & his curry magic, then we *ahem* smuggled legit spices home to recreate the YUMMIEST Chai evah. Totally would have ya'll over for dinner but... ya know the whole Cali vs TX then, ugh! XOReplyDelete
Looks great, cute blog!ReplyDelete
Oh, I made some coconut & orange chicken tenders, and while the hubs couldn't understand why anyone would mess with perfection, they were D-E-licious!! And I'm completely jealous of your bulk foods spice thing.ReplyDelete
I love blogger foodie type of posts....lol..and Im hooked on Food Network too....I mean form morning til night!!! hahahaReplyDelete
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Understanding Microgrids
With the increased focus on renewable energy, efficiency and the need to make the business case for the smart grid, a growing number of stakeholders are focusing on smart microgrids as a viable approach to grid modernization at the local level. Developed for a community, office park, university, military base or other entity, smart microgrids incorporate local distributed energy supplies that meet the exact needs of the constituents being served while networking with the larger grid. They feature the range of smart technology in a single location, which maximizes service quality, savings and entrepreneurial job creation potential and thus helps produce a viable business case. Through smart microgrids, the economic benefits to consumers of the smart grid transformation are maximized and are a significant multiple of the cost. They also provide local choice regarding the electricity generation source and supply, such as locally distributed renewable energy sources. More commonplace in Europe and Japan, smart microgrids face some policy and regulatory barriers here that are being challenged as the reliability, quality and environmental benefits they offer become clearer.


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Forests and poverty: the latest thinking
Gill Shepherd, IUCN Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy Thematic Adviser on Poverty and Landscapes, speaks on the latest thinking on forests and poverty, drawing from lessons that have come out of IUCN's innovative 'Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy' (LLS).
The LLS initiative represents a new way of thinking - from seeing nature as needing to be protected from threats, to promoting negotiated plans and actions for productive landscapes.
To achieve this, the development and application of LLSs by our initiative goes beyond forest management and includes positive links with other sectors such as agriculture, water, energy, health and the private sector.
The application of livelihood and landscape strategies should provide for immediate needs as well as supporting long term change to improve human wellbeing and livelihood resilience.


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Using an ipad to study constellations
Jennifer Belcher
For use with Middle and High School students in Astronomy. An activity plan that can be used for the entire school year where students can study constellations, stars, planets, zodiac, and galaxy locations. Light ...
Terrestrials or Aliens from Space: Comparing Igneous Rocks and Meteorites
Joanne Zema
Meteorites and igneous rocks compared Origins of the earth ???
VISCOSITY and FALL SPEED
Mary Clark
This set of short lessons is intended to use viscosity as a concept to set up understanding of the convective motion of various fluids. The lessons will more broadly deal with important science inquiry skills such as forming and revising meaningful ideas, making inferences, gathering data, and sharing information with others. Key words: viscosity middle school convection inquiry experiment hypothesis data conclusion variables distance speed time
Reaching for a Star... (and finding its diameter!)
Jan Davagian
The use of metric units and measuring skills are reviewed. Extreme distances are measured using a pinhole camera to set up ratios of similar triangles.
Using Density to Predict Planetary Differentiation
Ashley Lagas
This is an inquiry based lesson designed for middle school students. This lesson serves as an informal assessment of students' understanding of density and also serves as an introduction to Planetary formation and Planetary differentiation.
Investigating Meteorites: Bridging Earth Science to Space Science
Katye Couch
This activity is designed to have students apply previous knowledge about Earth Science to investigate iron-nickel meteorites. Students should have previous knowledge of crystal size/cooling rate correlation in Earth rocks and previous knowledge of Earth's composition. Students will investigate meteorites (real or photographed with scale) using a series of guided questions. They will practice using observation and inference skills as well as data collection skills. Key words- activity, measurement, guided inquiry, astronomy, meteorites, hands-on, investigative, lab, crystal size, cooling rate, differentiation, planetary composition, planetary formation, observation, inference, correlation, space, geology, earth science, solar system, solar system formation
Spacecraft Design for Interplanetary Travel
John Walsh
Students will design and build a reusable spacecraft for interplanetary travel.
How to Get From Here to There
Nancy Wile
Students develop a theory of plate tectonics looking at how different density liquids have different convection patterns. Students will record observations in their journal.
Using an i-pad to study constellations
Jennifer Belcher
For use with Middle and High School students in Astronomy. An activity plan that can be used for the entire school year where students can study constellations, stars, planets, zodiac, and galaxy locations. Light ...
On A Collision Course: The Moon
Madelyn Wenham
Impact craters are found on nearly all solid surface planets and satellites. Although this exercise simulates the impact process, it must be noted that the physical variables do not scale in a simple way to ...
Modeling the Earth-Moon Orbital System
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Through constructing a physical model, students will come to understand that bodies in orbit and the objects they orbit actually both revolve around their common center of mass (barycenter).
Fractals: Measuring a Coastline
Andy Katz
In 1967, Benoit Mandelbrot developed his concept of fractals by observing the jagged coastline of Great Britain and asking: "How do we measure such a thing?" In this lesson students will explore fractals ...
The Solar Fountain of Youth
Lana Davis
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The Moon on the Map
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Where there is no suspension point available to suspend building services, we offer the Gripple Catenary system - in use on a range of projects across the globe - which creates new, secure overhead spans by running wire between two fixing points. Available in 'light duty' D3 and 'heavy duty' D6 options, the wire is anchored at both ends of the span, offering multiple suspension points across the full length of the wire, using the innovative, twist-on C-Clip.
The catenary system offers you a substantially quicker installation when compared to the traditional channel and bracket solution, while also being considerably lighter, reducing the loads imposed on a building structure.
Delivered in ready-to-use kits, the system is easier to store on site and delivers health and safety benefits on your install by vastly reducing time spent working at height.


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The question was asked on Twisted Nether Blogcast the other day
Where are the Resto Shaman Blogs?
Ok, that wasn't the question, but for once I was "there" so I am just quoting based on my short term memory.
My immediate response was to reel of a series of blogs that deal to some extent or another with Resto Shaman.
You can find them on my ReadByGnome page as well as listed out below, but still it raised an interesting thought.
- Priest blogs… Dime a dozen
- Tree Blogs… Just waiting for the forest fire to thin them out…
- Pally Blogs… Boring… Well how much can you write about one, maybe two healing spells.
- Resto Shamanism seems to be one of those areas that suffer as much burnout as altaholics grinding Argent Crusade rep.
I Know Nuffink!
I can't say that I have gotten to the point where I feel knowledgeable enough to write guides on gear, specs etc.
I have contemplated writing some stiff on healing various instances, after all I am in the thick of it right now and knowing when to drop the cleansing totem or tremor totem is as, if not more, important than whether to cast healing wave, lease healing wave or chain heal.
I haven't done so yet though, in fact I realize now I haven't even read any on the topic. I know Jagerbombz wrote some back in the early days of Wrath, but I haven't yet read then in the dying days.
So I guess I have a couple of questions.
Where are the Resto Shaman Bloggers and the resources they can offer?
Why do they appear and disappear quicker than a flame totem?
- I don't know that it's too easy.
- Maybe it's too hard.
Not so much to play, but rather to teach.
Born to Kill
I think one of the things I like about the Resto Shaman is it really seems suited to PvP.
Not that it's OP, but rather that it requires the same flexibility in thinking. You may enter an encounter with one set of totems, using one style of healing, but come out the other side with completely different skills in use.
Can you teach that?
Can you write a guide on how to NOT have a strategy, rather to get into the flow, anticipate and act?
Needless to say, I don't have any answers, but I'm not hanging up the blogging boots any time soon and if I find some time I will try to write something that vaguely resembles a shaman guide or two… Right after I write a Mage guide or two… kk
The game isn't just for the Old Skool, there are plenty of folks (like me) that have just discovered their new passion.
After all, those that know how to play their Mages and Shaman only read this blog to laugh at the stupidity I spout, there is a whole group of suckers waiting to be misled by this Gnome and his Chain Heal throwing mate.
So if you do write (or have the desire to write) a Resto Shaman blog, remember that we aren't all skipping Ulduar because it's beneath us. Many of us are still trying to work out which way up the totems go (and the packaging gives no indication!).
So don't be shy about writing the basics… that's one of the ways that blogs shine. We keep out info up to date and are a great resource for those just turning to the class for the 1st time.
Try these, you just might like them
Try out some of these blogs. Poke them and prod them if they don't have the info you need us Shaman are used to sticks, so put them to good use.
Apologies ion advance for those I miss.. I'm tired right now… if you don't write one please throw the details in the comments!
- Addicted to Heals
- Altadin
- Blueberry Totem
- Green Bar Spec
- LFM: Need Healer Plz: A WoW Blog
- Shamantics
- Shields Up!
- Too Many Annas
- Totem Healz
- The Global Corporation of Matticus (look for Lodur's stuff)
- Ensidia
- PlusHeal forums of course
- and my bad PvP oriented Resto Shaman stuff
edit: Check out Drug's post:
Mastering Shaman Healing
Thanks for the heads up Cass, just shows you how far behind in my feedreading I am…
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Stillwater Trail ( Carroll )
New Hampshire : Flag of State
Stillwater Trail is a place of kind Trail belonging to the County of ( Carroll ).
The closest populated place is that of Panno Place that is5.17 miles far from Stillwater Trail.
Stillwater Trail is also 15.92 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Forbes Heliport .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Jackson , that is 9.52 miles far from Stillwater Trail .
The Zip Code of Stillwater Trail is 03846.
Besides Stillwater Trail in the County of ( Carroll ) there are the following places of kind Trail . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
Algonquin Trail - Attitash Trail - Bald Land Trail - Baldface Trail - Bear Brook Trail - Bear Mountain Ski Trail - Bear Mountain Trail - Bee Line Trail - Bennet ST Trail - Bickford Trail - Big Rock Cave Trail - Bilknell Ridge Trail - Black Mountain Pond Trail - Bog Brook Trail - Boles Trail - Bradley Brook Trail - Bruce Path - Brunel Trail - Butterworth Trail - Cabin Trail - Camp Trail - Carter Ledge Trail - Carter Notch Trail - Champney Falls Trail - Chocorua Brook Trail - Church Pond Loop Trail - Col Trail - Cow Brook Trail - Deer Brook Trail - Doublehead Ski Trail - Doublehead Trail - East Branch Trail - East Pasture Trail - Falls Trail - Flat Mountain Pond Trail - Gemini Trail - Gleason Trail - Gordon Path - Guinea Pond Trail - Hammond Trail - Humphreys Ledge Trail - Kearsarge Trail - Kelley Trail - Langlaup Trail - Lawrence Trail - Liberty Trail - Lucy Brook Trail - Mead Trail - Mexico Ridge Trail - Middle Sister Trail - Miles Brook Trail - Moat Mountain Trail - Mount Katherine Trail - Mount Parker Trail - Mount Paugus Trail - Mount Pequawket Trail - Mount Stanton Trail - Mount Tremont Trail - Mountain Eastman Trail - Mountain Pond Trail - Mountain Shaw Trail - Nancy Brook Trail - New Path Trail - Number Five Ski Trail - Old Locke Road Path - Old Mast Road - Old Path Trail - Oliverian Brook Trail - Passaconaway Cutoff Trail - Passaconaway Trail - Piper Trail - Province Brook Trail - Rattlesnake Trail - Red Path - Red Ridge Trail - Reservoir Trail - Ridge Trail - Rob Brook Trail - Rocky Branch Trail - Sable Mountain Trail - Sandwich Mountain Trail - Sawyer Pond Trail - Shingle Pond Trail - Slippery Brook Trail - Square Ledge Trail - Stairs Col Trail - U.N.H. Trail - Webster Cliff Trail - Webster Trail - Weeks Brook Trail - Weetamoo Trail - Wentworth Trail - White Horse Trail - White Ledge Trail - Whitin Brook Trail - Wildcat Cutoff .
Where to stay: Hotels and other Accommodation Stillwater Trail
Please find in what follows the full listing of the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation available in Stillwater Trail.
A lot of pictures and fully detailed descriptions are available for the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation, along with the ratings assigned by the guest of the same Hotels. The ratings are divided by age, sex and much more.
New Hampshire : Emblem of State
- Capital : Concord
- Inhabitants : New Hampshirite (Granite Stater, Hamster)
- State's Motto : Live Free or Die
- English translation : Live Free or Die
Map and road map of Stillwater Trail
View the interactive maps of Stillwater Trail and get road maps, satellite maps and much more. The maps cover a wide area centered on Stillwater Trail .
On each map are available: a selector scale, on the bottom right of the map,a menu for choosing different views of the same map, placed in the upper left corner of the map, a free text search field for locating any business activity within the map itself, placed at the top center of the map.
The videos about Stillwater Trail
It is proposed a first video: clicking on the PLAY button the video will start. Inside the video window there are several commands and a Playlist button. Press the Playlist button to access the complete listing of available videos, along with their titles. It will be sufficient to scroll through the list using the cursor to select any of the videos. You can use the << and >> keys to scroll through the videos. Each video can be displayed in full screen.


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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations both had competitive online multi-player modes. Leaping into costume and stabbing other players (in the back) is nothing new for the series.
But working with your fellow Assassins, instead of against them? That's going to be brand new to Assassin's Creed III.
At Comic-Con this week, Ubisoft announced the Wolfpack co-op mode for Assassin's Creed III. In Wolfpack, two to four players join together to perform a sequence of assassinations. (Stealthily closing in on their targets together like, well, a pack of wolves.) As in the series' previous competitive modes, players receive a picture of their target, and then have to correctly track him or her down in a crowded environment full of other NPCs who look and are dressed like the target, with only a handful of small differences setting them apart.
According to IGN, Wolfpack mode offers a sequence of 25 assassination waves, with each harder to complete than the one before it. Teams also gain significant bonus points for working together and syncing their (correct) kills. And time is of the essence: there's a clock running for how long a group has to find and eliminate their next target, and incorrect kills cost time.
IGN also has a video of the Wolfpack mode in action. It looks familiar to anyone who's seen the competitive online modes from previous games in the series, but the idea of working together is a welcome change of pace for some of us who don't always like stabbing our friends.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft is also promising tweaks and enhancements to competitive multiplayer modes as well. There's a Domination mode, in which teams of players compete against each other to attack, capture, and defend map zones. The teams will be flexible, with players able to join groups of their friends before and during a game in progress. They've also done some streamlining on actual game mechanics, merging the kill and stun actions onto a single button and letting players have a third active ability slot for ranged abilities only as well as adding a vault move, in order to let players navigate through the world with more precision.


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Live in a Brownstone in Brooklyn how can a charge
Live in a Brownstone in Brooklyn how can a charge
Get the city to run a metered cable underground along the route?
This is a common problem for urbanites. Some other folks on this forum have made arrangements with their buildings though. Perhaps your landlord can assist you?
Buried cable to the property edge, then a post plug-in?
"i am the landlord LOL"
Shoot, sorry. I should be more careful reading the OP's info.
Hope you get your charging station sorted.
I think you are stuck if you park on the street. Perhaps there is a garage in the area that you could be make an arrangement with...public or private.
As a former New Yorker I understand your problem... People think I am weird when I tell them how much I love having a private driveway...
Here is an idea... Sell your brownstone and move to Florida... With the proceeds of the sale can buy you three houses with driveways here in South Florida, you will never need to shovel snow or pay state income tax again! What a deal...


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Right on time to break up the monotony of his trailer-park life, a super-human slut from another planet crash-landed outside Johnny's place. Without saying a word, Bonnie's going to show him the kinda out-sized pleasure she can give with her hands, mouth, pussy, and and an asshole that's out of this world. Gripping his shaft with two hands, Bonnie gagged on his prick and jerked Johnny with the wettest, messiest blowjob Johnny's ever had, until he finally bust a fat nut in her mouth. Back inside his place, Bonnie wet Johnny's dick again, deepthroating the whole shaft, then letting him pound her pussy raw. Then Johnny pounded Bonnie's tight asshole, hammering her asshole until the hard anal fuck made her squirt cum like a fountain again and again. Collapse
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