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I just saw this on Facebook put up by Ski Logik and it caught my eye. I imagine many people here know the skier:
I just saw this on Facebook put up by Ski Logik and it caught my eye. I imagine many people here know the skier:
Taken a few lessons from him. Awesome dude, great video!
Nice job Jim! Great video.
Jim is one of my heroes. He is a life life right. Very cool Jim.
Only got a couple of runs in with the guy, would love to spend a day skiing on his 6.
Great video by Two Sherpas in Utah! Was lucky enough to get a little tour with him in January with some folks starting Ski Diva Week West. He's a great ambassador for skiing and Snowbasin.
Great video. Thanks for sharing the beauty and joy.
Very cool!
Very nice!
Is that Matlin Basin?
Great video of a great guy. Had one of the best days ever at Snowbasin skiing with Jim in 2009. Doesn't seem that long ago. Keep living the dream, Jim!
Loved it. Since it's my home mountain too I thought I would point out that a number of those runs are a lot steeper than they might appear in the video.
Thanks for posting this @quant232. This is actually the first time I have seen the finished product , although I have seen some of the raw footage.
& thanks for all the nice comments everyone . Never met a Bear I didn't like!
That is not Malan's Basin, although we did hike above it to get to some of the footage in the video.
@4ster was a deserving winner of the Ski Logic skis. I enjoyed skiing with him at the 2010 gathering. Good stuff in the video. Looks like Jim got some early pre-opening turns.
I actually just bought myself another pair of the Ski Logik Ullr's Chariot Twin Tips. After trying a number of different skis this season as replacements to the originals, I found that I kept comparing them to the ones I had. For my every day needs, I couldn't find a better ski!
No early ups for us, although we did do a lot of hiking to access the goods.
No John it doesn't seem that long ago, & I remember that day well .
I spent 2 full days with my friend Chris ( twosherpas.com ) shooting video. originally my stuff was going to be part of a different project (which it still may be). I believe this video is entered in a contest for Warren Miller Entertainment (WME). At some point I think there will be voting involved, when I find out the details I will post a link & campaign for all your votes!!!
@SB77, I agree that many of those shots are steeper than they appear. I was also a little disappointed with my skiing. It was difficult to really let loose as even though the snow looks pretty good, it was mostly dust on coral reef! For the most part I had to ski defensively & a bit conservative There were a few spots where it was really nice though, & I think those are pretty obvious in the video. The entry to Mt. Ogden Chute was downright scary but once I got through the choke it was 8" or 10" of great powder. Same with Porky Cirque & Race Start Chutes.
Thanks everyone,
Disappointed in your skiing?! If I ever ski 1/4 as well as you do...but I get it. That's what makes a good instructor is one who knows there really is no thing as perfection.
I showed my husband the video and told him about the upcoming summer mountain biking adventure. His jaw dropped. LOL. As for living there and skiing up there next winter, well, we are stoked!
And of course we'll support any voting for the video. How very cool!
Yes, life is short so enjoy the HECK out of it!
This is why you will never be Josh Matta. I don't think the word modesty exists in his limited vocabulary.
Nice skiing anyway, and congrats on the feature.
Great Video, Excellent skiing..........Snow Basin is one of my favorite areas!
Nice work.......I told Josh the Chariot TT was real and look at those turns and speed on a 15M radius ski!
Ski Logik ought to buy him a pair or two. For some reason the TTs don't ski at speed like they are made with a 15M sidecut. Perhaps it is the generous camber...the ski is certainly not lacking it.
Thanks Atomicman, for what I like to do the TT is a great versatile ski. Today we were hiking to sun crusted powder & then high speed groomers the rest of the way down. The skis never missed a beat or left me wanting for more. A few weeks ago I foreran a full length Masters GS on them. They probably weren't going to win the race, but they held, did the job & were more than fun to ski on!
Camber, lack of rocker & torsional stiffness is my guess.
They don't need to buy me anything, but if they want to give me another pair I wouldn't mind .
Nice going, Jim.
Great video. Quite the advertisement for Snowbasin (I mean that in a good way) - damn that looked fun.
Jim - just curious, how many days of filming went into that?
Edit: nevermind, you said 2 days above.
Hey Jay,
Yes, I spent 2 full days with Chris on the filming & then a few minutes on the voice over. I think except for the photos, the opening time lapse, the park scenes, the super deep clip & Chris being chased by his dog all of the footage was from our 2 days. Day one was in & out light & day 2 was bluebird. We did a lot of hiking both days & were more interested in the scenic backdrops than the actual skiing. All in all it was a fun experience! Even though there was a lot of waiting around (which can be very nerve wracking when you are standing at the top of a steep chute), Chris was very efficient carrying & setting up a ton of camera equipment between shots. So much of the footage that you thought would be really good, is not & some of what was done as an afterthought ends up being usable. It gives a new respect for the guys who make the commercial ski porn & other action type documentaries.
That is music on skis, nice , very nice Jim
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My friend Chris Morgan made this video featuring yours truly & we are looking for votes! Please follow this link to the Warren Miller Entertainment (<click on this) page scroll down & vote!! At the same time please SHARE this link on your FB page so all your friends can vote & share it with their friends!! ...
There are less than 48 hours to vote, so please do it now!!! Thanks!!!!
I cast my vote and also shared.
Thanks Tom! Any way to get this featured for 36 hours? Thanks.
Thanks Stev
Now worries, I figure you will need to like the Warren Miller Entertainment page before you will be able to vote. I was having trouble linking to the page the other day, but I am pretty inept at most things internet ;).


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Which was the worse decision? So, yesterday I decided to go for a ride the weather was nice and I had that spring itch. Last time I rode Harry he was Mr. Perfect. That was in november. Having spent a portion of last summer finding the right bit for him and finding that he goes well in a french link. The trouble was the french link was borrowed (lender has requested it back for their own horse) and I had heard wonderful things about bitless bridles. I put a bitless bridle on Harrys half sister she was fine. So, yesterday I put the bitless bridle on Harry. He was good on the ground, very responsive and giving to the head gear. I was riding with my mother who usually mounts up in the riding area and I mount up by the barn. A difference of a few hundred yards down a woody path. I got on Harry, my mother had continued with her horse in hand and walked out of sight before I got on. Harry tried to turn back to the barn and I correct him. He has never bucked before (in the two summers of rides) and by god he made it worth it. I ended up off balance and realized I could either drop to the ground (where there was no tractor equipment) or I could fight and stay on and possibly end off tossed into tractor equipment. I bailed. Harry ran around like a maniac between the barn and the fence. I had to corner him (a horse that meets me at the gate). As soon as I touched him it was like I flipped a switch. He went from wide eyed OH MY GOD! to "Hi, my name is Harry and we are friends". I got on, re-mounted and followed nose to tail my mother down to the riding area. He settled down a bit of head tossing but nothing more. He was turning well and backing with minimal resistance (always a work in progress). I put him out to pasture and cleaned the barn. He stood at the gate nickering at me. So, was this all the bitless bridle? Do I just go out and figure his half sister can wear the bitless bridle and buy him a french link? Or was this an adjustment period the likes of which I will never see again? How much is I haven't ridden since November? I have not fallen off in 3-4 years so I figure I was due. Is the ground getting harder or am I getting softer? |
384 Attachment(s) Well, first you have to evaluate for pain, because he sured acted like something was hurting him terribly. Beyond that, spring crazies? |
1 Attachment(s) You haven't ridden him since November then you try new tack on him the first time out. Give him a tuneup in his normal tack then try something new. Posted via Mobile Device |
Bitless bridles can really rub some horses the wrong way- Dr. Hilary Clayton did some studies on the amount of pressure they are capable of putting under the horses chin- it was a lot more than people initially thought it did, and the chin is a very sensitive part on their head. He may not have liked the extra pressure under there; I would school him in his regular set up and see how it goes. Some horses like the bitless bridle, and I've seen others flip over backwards... Each horse is an individual and what might work for your mare might not work for the other one :) |
Waresbear I had not even thought of pain. I will look into that more. I should probably check his teeth too. Dancing Arabian - your kind of forethought is clearly wise and something I lacked on that afternoon. I realized as soon as I had dusted myself off that I probably should have worked him in his "normal" set up from last fall before trying something new. tbcrazy that was sort of what I was thinking too. I had just assumed (you know what they say about THAT word) that he being so responsive in a lighter bit and his half sister being accepting of it that he would be too. I guess he is not his half sister. |
730 Attachment(s) Some equipment doesn't work for some horses. And you should always try new equipment on the ground first.. this goes for new bits too. |
Yeah we tried it on the ground he was amazing. He is usually amazing on the ground and then worried under saddle. He is also a bit more...um...lets say dramatic than his half sister. |
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FWIW, if it was a Dr Cook's bitless bridle, he might not like it ever. I tried one on my horse and had a meltdown - he did not like the head squeezing. He kept trying to release the pressure (by dropping his head), which just ended up applying more pressure (since he was pulling on the reins). I put that thing right back up on ebay! He chugs along happily in a Little S though when I ride him in a hack, and a French link snaffle when I ride him bitted. |
You had a very 'fresh' horse. He needed some kind of warm-up and did not need an equipment change on a first ride of the season. I have never found a horse that had been schooled well in the bitless bridles. I know there are some, but I have not seen them. |
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VK: Exactly. A lot of manufacturing went to China from Japan, so that hurt the economy too.
So when you ask me about what could trigger Chinese problems, well, you know, Japan is still a big trading partner for China, so Japan's decline would impact China as well, and vice versa.
TCR: We have heard a lot about Japanese demographics. That seems to be an intractable problem.
VK: Recently I heard that the Japanese were considering trying to solve their demographic problems by allowing immigration from China to Japan. I almost fell off my chair when I heard that, because there is a lot of animosity between the two countries. They love each other as much as Armenians love Turks, so it's very difficult for me to see that happening just because of the cultural issues going on.
TCR: And it seems that the tensions are actually getting much worse.
VK: Too true. But the key point is that Japan is past the point of no return. It's like the Titanic has already hit the iceberg and you know it's going to sink, you just don't know just how long it will take to go down. That's basically what is taking place in Japan.
TCR: Sticking with that metaphor, it seems like people need to begin donning life jackets and edging toward the nearest lifeboat.
So we've got some serious issues with Asia, which obviously will have some global implications. How does this tie back to the U.S.? Our take has been that – at least on a short-term basis – when things start to come unglued, it will benefit the U.S. as a purported "safe harbor," but then people will begin to realize that if two out of three of the world's biggest economies can fall, so can the U.S.
VK: In the short run, it may benefit the U.S. dollar because the value of currencies is relative, right? As my friend Barry Pasikov says – the U.S. dollar is valedictorian in summer school. So if people are afraid of Japan, afraid of China, they would be running towards the U.S. currency. By the way, the Japanese currency made a 15-year high recently suggesting what could be the trade of the decade.
I'm a value investor, so I generally don't spend much time on currencies, but I think this is a case where shorting Japanese yen makes a lot of sense.
It may work against you for a while, but in the long run, I think it could turn out to be the trade of the decade.
Again, I think the U.S. dollar might benefit in the short run, but don't overlook that China and Japan are the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt. If Japan becomes a net seller of U.S. debt and their debt starts competing with U.S. debt, then that's going to be negative for our economy because we are going to have high interest rates. If China also becomes a net seller of U.S. debt, again, it's negative for our economy.


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The machines will only be installed at select locations at three state beaches in Orange County: Crystal Cove State Park, Doheny State Beach and San Clemente State Beach. Though exact rate changes haven't been set in stone, a raise from $15 per day – the standard rate for a day pass at state beaches in Orange County – to $20 a day on summer holidays was suggested when the California Coastal Commission approved the rate hike on Friday.
"They have the flexibility to adjust those rates based on the level of use," said Sherilyn Sarb, deputy director for the Coastal Commission's San Diego and South Coast, Orange County districts.
State Parks officials have argued that holidays net the department less revenue while costing it more money to staff. The flexible fee program will for five years replace the one-size-fits-all day pass system at those beaches.
San Clemente may resist the parking rate change if former mayor and longtime City Councilman Jim Dahl has his way. Dahl said he thinks the state Parks is just grubbing for money, and the state's actions will cause beachgoers to park elsewhere to avoid higher fees.
"They already park on our streets as it is," Dahl said, adding that nonresidents aren't permitted to park on his residential street. "They get tickets every once in a while."
While granting approval for the flexible rate plan, the Coastal Commission did not insist on stipulating what, precisely, those rate changes must be.
"That's something the commission believes impacts public access, and we have jurisdiction over things that impact public access," said Sarah Christie, the legislative liaison for the coastal commission. "We don't take that to mean we are having to approve every rate change or every rate schedule that Parks comes up with. We're kind of in experimental waters here."
Christie said similar requests to change parking rates will be hitting other California counties soon. Next will be Sonoma County, she said.
Higher rates are needed on holidays because while most state beach visits last only about three hours, holiday stays increase drastically to eight to 12 hours on holidays, Mathew Fuzie, deputy director of state park operations, wrote in a June 11 letter to the Coastal Commission.
Since fewer parking spots are turning over, state Parks is collecting fewer day pass fees, leading to lower revenue on some of the beaches' busiest days – days that are also the most expensive for state Parks to handle. The flexible fees are meant to compensate for that increased cost, though not all locations are suited for the new automated setup, according to Fuzie's letter.
Huntington Beach is already ahead of the curve on holiday pricing. It charges $15 a day for a day pass, with an hourly option of $1.50 per hour, and it raises the rate to $25 a day on the Fourth of July. City Hall spokeswoman Laurie Frymire doubts there will be serious public backlash to state Parks' raised rates.
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We employ threshold cointegration methodology to model the policy problem solved by the Federal Reserve System in their manipulation of the discount rate under a reserves target operating procedure utilized since October 1979. The infrequent and discrete adjustments that characterize movements in the discount rate instrument vis-a- vis the Federal Funds rate do not lend themselves to a linear cointegration framework. The inherently nonlinear relationship arising from the Fed's self-imposed constraints on discontinuously changing the discount rate is satisfactorily modelled as an instance of threshold cointegration between the discount rate and the Federal Funds rate.
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08/31/09 at 10:23 AM
Thank you to all who came out Sat. evening and fellowshipped with us at Impact Christian Ministries. We are excited about how the Lord is guiding us to serve the people of Bville/Lamar Co.
09/02/09 at 06:14 AM
Thank you for the opportunity to gather with new friends. The music was amazing and uplifting. How inspiring to get to witness those who were saved, right there in town...and to know their lives will never be the same. Blessings to all who worked so hard to make this happen.
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Kenji Kaneko has held out for over a decade now as the chief composer over at Idea Factory. And, for the second game in the Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia) series, he's not holding anything back. Just from the sheer number of layers of audio found in each track, it's clear that time and attention was put into the main tracks for this score.
I say "main tracks" because, let's face it, 13 tracks is not a complete OST. But these are the chief tunes -- the most noteworthy of the bunch, and the ones that are not at all recycled from the first game. And, honestly? I'm pretty impressed. I'm also kind of surprised that the soundtrack wasn't published on, say, Team Entertainment's record label, when games like Trinity Universe and Cross Edge did get their soundtracks published.
The disc opens with "Field of View," an in-your-face electro-rock track with lots of pitch-bending in the synth lead-guitar melody line. I like this one for its catchy beat as well; it also works the modal shifts quite well.
My favorite track on the album, however, comes in the number two spot. "The Aegean" is tranquil, yet also bright. The guitar work is great, and the melody is soothing. It reminds me of some of Yoko Kanno's tracks on the ridiculously awesome album "Uncharted Waters II: Special Edition." I never thought I'd be giving that kind of praise to Kaneko-san.
The two tracks that follow "The Aegean" pack a similar "bright yet tranquil" vibe. "Breeze Time" is very electronic, but there is a sax performing the melody; it's sort of a straight-rhythm jazz track. The same might be said of "Aqua Walking." Just the track names, referring to the sky and the sea, resonate with all sorts of good and wonderful things. But then you get that gleefully retro sound of the synths, especially the occasional square wave (hearkening back to the days of the NES), and it's just a melting pot of joy and victory.
Then there's this super-catchy dance-rock track, similar to the style of Ryo Yonemitsu and Yuzo Koshiro in the early Falcom years. It's called "Solid Park," and it's a winner. The chord progression may be traditional, but the high level of audio production and the fantastic rhythms and arpeggiations decorating the piece are what sell it.
Unfortunately, after that foursome of amazingness (tracks 2 through 5), we do hit some weaker tracks. For me, tracks 6 through 8 are skippable. The Yonemitsu/Koshiro dance-rock goodness comes back on track 9, "100S," which I believe is a shopping theme. For those of you who remember "The Syonin" from Ys -- yeah, this is basically that same sort of thing. Good stuff!
The rest of the tracks, all the way to the end, fall somewhere between the awesomeness of the front-end and the weakness of the middle.
The bonus soundtrack isn't reason enough to hunt down the full LE package of the game. That cost should really be saved for people who might enjoy the game itself. All I'm trying to say here is that, surprisingly enough, this music can easily be appreciated without having much prior experience with either Neptune title. Cheers to Kaneko for continuing to mature as a composer. I think I said that before, but I have to repeat myself, because he is only getting better with age.
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From | Henrik Lundgren <carl.henrik.lundg...@gmail.com> |
Subject | Re: inserting document into couchdb from java |
Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:37:26 GMT |
I don't think you should have both commons-httpclient-3.1.jar and httpclient-4.0.-bet2.jar on the classpath. Since I'm not a couchdb4j user a cannot tell you which one is right, but since couchdb4j doesn't seem to be that actively developed I would guess commons-httpclient-3.1.jar is the one to have. If your problems persist I suggest that you take a look at Ektorp: http://code.google.com/p/ektorp/ It is actively developed and is distributed as a Maven bundle so you don't have to manage the dependencies yourself. Disclosure: I am the developer of Ektorp regards Henrik On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jyoti Venkatesh <email@example.com> wrote: > Have a problem with couchdb. I have installed couchdb and hv written code to insert document from java. > Following is my code: > Session dbSession = new Session("localhost", 5984); > dbSession.createDatabase("employee"); > Database db = dbSession.getDatabase("employee"); > System.out.println("Database name is --"+db.toString()); > > Document doc = new Document(); > doc.setId("1"); > doc.put("EmpNo", 1); > doc.put("Name", "Mike"); > doc.put("Group", "J2EECOE"); > doc.put("Designation", "Manager"); > doc.put("Language","Java"); > db.saveDocument(doc); > > but i am getting the following exceptions: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.httpclient.HeaderElement.parseElements(Ljava/lang/String;)[Lorg/apache/commons/httpclient/HeaderElement; > at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity.<init>(StringRequestEntity.java:101) > at com.fourspaces.couchdb.Session.post(Session.java:276) > at com.fourspaces.couchdb.Session.post(Session.java:262) > at com.fourspaces.couchdb.Database.saveDocument(Database.java:169) > at com.fourspaces.couchdb.Database.saveDocument(Database.java:194) > at testForCouchDB.CouchDBTest.main(CouchDBTest.java:28) > > I have the following jars in the classpath: > cayenne-1.2.1.jar > commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar > commons-codec-1.3.jar > commons-httpclient-3.1.jar > commons-logging-1.1.1.jar > couchdb4j-0.1.2.jar > ezmorph-1.0.6.jar > httpclient-4.0.-bet2.jar > httpcore-4.0.1.jar > httpmime-4.0.1.jar > json-lib-2.2.3-jdk15.jar > > > please let me know what is it that i am missing? from futon when i run the test suite i get errors in few... > what is the cause.. > > thanx > jyoti > > DISCLAIMER > > The content of this email and any attachments ('email') is confidential, may be privileged, subject to copyright and may be read and used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us by return email or telephone and erase all copies and do not disclose the email or any part of it to any person. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure, or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost or destroyed as a result of the transmission process. The sender, therefore, does not accept liability for any errors, omissions, viruses or delay in transmission as a result of this mail. We monitor email communications through our networks for regulatory compliance purposes and to protect our clients, employees and business. Opinions, conclusions, and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of NIIT Technologies Ltd. or its affiliate(s) shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by NIIT Technologies Ltd. or its affiliate(s). > | |
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My first spanish girlfriend
True Story, Anal, Extreme, First Time, Latina, Masturbation, Mature, Oral Sex
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Posted Fri 30th of December 2011
I taught to myself "what would they look like in a two piece bikini at the beach"
Hey guys and gals, this is my first story.........tell me what you think (part one)
Summer had just finished when I started taking afternoon classes at one of the local community colleges just out of high school, I didn't have a car so I took the bus to and from school everyday. My parents helped me get an apartment so that I wont have to commute too far to get to school. About a few months into school everything was going good, my grades were where they should be and I was understanding all my classes and the instructors only made it easier for me to get through the semester.
One afternoon I was on the bus waiting for the driver to pull off when two beautiful Hispanic girls came on the bus and sat two seats in-front of me, they both had long black hair, clear smooth skin with pink juicy lips. They were both dressed in scrub uniforms but even through the scrubs I was able to see one of them had some really big boobs and the other one an unbelievably big booty and the hips to match.
I taught to myself "what would they look like in a two piece bikini at the beach".
I've seen alot of girls in my high school some big, small and in between but none of them had an ass like that or even close. They were talking in Spanish so I couldn't understand what they were saying but just from the way they were moving there body and reacting from what the other said I bet it was pretty interesting. We got off at the same bus stop and I was even more surprised to see they were going to the same school as I did. I enjoyed watching them walk in-front of me as they walked across the parking lot and into the main entry.
About two weeks went by before one of the girls noticed me checking them out every time they got on the bus and she turned and said hi to me, it was the one with the nice big booty and pretty smile. The next day her friend didn't make it to school so it was only her and when she got on the bus she smiled when she saw me and came and sat in the seat right in front of me and we started talking.
She told me that her name was Mariebel and her friends name was Liz and the two of them were from Puerto Rico. I introduced myself as Johnny and we kept on talking till we gotto school. She admitted she noticed me from the first day but didn't say anything because she was dating her friends cousin before he went to prison. One thing led to another and we started dating and her friend started being cool with it after awhile. We were on our way home from school one day when she told me she would like for me to meet her parents and I was like sure.
Just before we got to her house she told me her parents didn't speak much English just enough to understand a few things. I told her as long as you don't go too far then it shouldn't be a problem.
I met her dad first and he was your typical dad, serious looking and a tight hand shake with little to say, luckily he was leaving for work when we got their because it would of bin pretty awkward trying to make small talk with someone that didn't. He went out the back door to his car and off to work he went, Mariebel went to peep to see if he had left yet and when he did she came up to me and we had our first kiss and she immediately put her tongue in my mouth and I put my hands around her and grabbed both ass cheeks and they were so soft I felt my member starting to move in my jeans.
She broked away and whispered in my ear "I want you so bad, Its bin too long and I am so horny right now".
Before I could even respond I heard foot steps upstairs and we both looked up.
She had a look of frustration on her face and said
"that's my mom and she coming downstairs now"
I still hadn't let go of her butt when she tried to step back and then I realized what she said and let go.
When she stepped back she looked at me smiling "you like that ass don't yah"
I smiled back and said "I never felt anything that nice and soft before"
"I want you to do more then fell it up" with a smile on her face
I was just about to asked what did she mean by that when a voice yelled out "Mariebel is that you hun?"
"Yes mom it me" she was just about to say and...
when her mom came around the corner with only a nightgown on and her birthday suit underneath, her mom was even more voluptuous then her I could see her big boobs and nipples with ease. She must have caught me checking her out when Mariebel said
"mom this is Johnny from school that I was telling you about"
I looked up just in time to see her hand coming towards me when she said "hi Johnny, I'm Monica"
I responded "nice to meet you maam"
She smiled and then she turned to Mariebel and said "hunny can you make me some coffee"
Mariebel said "sure mom"
"I'll be right back Johnny" I nodded my head ok.
Her mom walked pass me and I saw just where Mariebel got her booty from.
Monica said "Johnny please have a seat and relax" while she walked pass.
I took a seat in the dining room where we were standing. I could here them speaking Spanish in the kitchen and from what lil bit of spanish I learned in high school I was able to understand Mariebel saying no he didnt speak spanish. Mariebel's mom looked to be about 5'-2" at the most just a few inches shorted then her. She was very beautiful also and the body to match from what I could make out through the nightgown. Mariebel finished what she was doing then said something to her mom in spanish while she was leaving the kitchen, she grabbed my hand and led me to the livingroom and told me to have a seat. I sat while she turned on the tv, before she sat she took off her scub shirt and when she lifted her arms to pull it over her head I noticed she wasnt wearing a bra and I could see her dark nipples through the vest she was wearing. She sat next to me and I told her how good she looked out of uniform and she just smiled. She put her leg up on mind and layed back.
"my mom said your really cute and she's happy for me" I smiled with relief,
she then went on to say "she saw you checking her out and how much she was blushing"
I must of turned red because she started laughing pointing to my face
"your blushing too"
I figured since she was straight with me then its only fair that I be too "your mom looks really good for her age, but I was really shock to see her dressed like that"
"your lucky she didn't come down naked like she usually does" Mariebel responded with a smile
"I would of liked that" i said to myself.
Mariebel went on to say "he's not my birth dad, just some guy that asked my mom to marry him so that he could get his papers and be able to live her in the US, so they've bin living together for the past 10 years ever since. He's bin in my life so long I've grown to calling him my dad"
The radio in the kitchen was turned on and I could hear her mom singing along.
"So" Mariebel said "where were we"
as she moved my hand down the inside of her leg, she lift up her butt and started to take off her pants when I stopped her and said "but your mom is right their in the kitchen"
Mariebel said "she wouldnt mind, I think she would even like to watch"
I didnt know how to respond to that comment, deep down I would like to get the two of them together right then but I still was trying to make a good impression.
"I got her a dildo for her birthday last month cause she told me they havent had sex in almost two years"
"Then why are they still together" I asked
"Because of his job and we wouldn't be able to survive without him paying the bills" Mariebel explained.
"Ok" was all I got to say before she climbed up on me and we started making out again. I went along with it even though I don't thing I had a choose. With her pants half way down her thighs I was able to grab and squeeze her ass again, it felt even better without the pants on. I started moving my fingers in under her panty and she let out a small moan sound when I did. I took one hand and lifted her panty and moved the other hand inside, I took my middle finger and started moving it down from the top of her ass crack but when I tried to go pass her butt hole she let out a moan. I stopped when she moaned and my finger slipped in her ass hole with ease, all the way up to the first knuckle. I had never done this before so I wasn't sure if I should keep going until Mariebel breaked away and whispered in my ear
"Don't stop, you found my secret spot.... I love it in my ass"
I pushed my finger in a little further with no resistance up to the second knuckle.
I taught to myself "shouldn't this be alot tighter then this"
I was finger fucking my first ass and she's loving it, so I got bold and added another finger and to my surprise she started moving her hips back to meet my fingers.
I was so turned on I was about to burst out of my pants so I let go of her panty and started un-buckling my pants to help relieve myself. I kept on finger fucking her ass then I hear those magic words.
Mariebel begged me for one more finger and I was happy to give it to her. When I was able to get the third finger in her ass Mariebel grabbed me by my neck and she started shaking and moaning wildly I knew she was about to have an orgasm so I tool my other hand and reached under her and moved her panty to the side and put two fingers into her soaking wet pussy, just then she started cumming on my fingers it was so much it was running down my wrist.
Mariebel took a few seconds to catch herself before she said "I needed that, its bin way too long"
I almost came on myself from all of the excitement.
Mariebel loosed the grip she had on my neck and said "now its your turn babe" she climbed down off of me and pulled down my pants and got down on her knees infront of me so I opened my legs and let her in. Mariebel started stroking my shaft and licking off all the pre cum from my head. I could tell this wasnt her first time giving head and she went to work. I leaned back on the sofa and put one hand on her head to move her hair out of the way so that I can enjoy the show going on infront of me. I've gotten my dick sucked before but never this good, I heard of the term deep throat but didn't understand why some of my friends would talk about how good it felt until Mariebel swallowed my whole dick all the way down to my nuts. That felt so good I leaned my head back into the sofa in enjoyment, I held her head down while I savoured the moment.
Mariebel kept going up and down on my shaft like the pro she was, my head was spinning. I turned my head to the side and saw her mom in the kitchen with her dress open down the middle and she was rubbing her pussy with one hand and the other hand squeezing her boobs. I would of sworn she was moving her tongue in a way motioning me to come, when I noticed what she was doing I immediately lost it and grabbed Mariebel's head and cum'd streams of sperm in her mouth and even heard myself moan out load. I turned and saw Mariebel licking up all my cum that squirted out on the side. I had never cum like that before it was beyond amazing. I looked back in the kitchen but her mom had already moved.
Mariebel got up and grabbed my hand and said "come on lets go upstairs, I need you to really fuck me"
I pulled up my pants and followed her as she lead me up the steps to her room. Her room was at the top of the stairs and the door was open. Mariebel closed the door after I got in and when I turned she was already getting naked.
"What's taking you so long to get them clothes off, would you like some help"
"Sure" I said while I took off my shirt and undid my sneakers.
Mariebel pulled down my pants and pushed me towards the bed and down to sit on the edge. I helped her pull my pants off then she threw them to the side.
"I see I need to help get him up again" Mariebel said as she started sucking my dick,
it didnt take long for me to get another erection at full attention. I sat on the edge of the bed enjoying the second best blowjob ever as i held her head with my hand as she was bobbing up and down.
I had to return the favor, I laid back on the bed and said "come on babe let me taste some of that spanish couchy"
Mariebel got up and climbed up on the bed and sat on my head then leaned forward and kept sucking my dick. She was so wet that every time I licked her pussy I could feel her juices running down my tongue, I spreaded her butt cheeks and started licking her ass hole and pussy at the same time. She started moaning like crazy every time I licked her ass hole. I got bold and stuck my tongue in her ass and I heard her gag when I did that. This position felt way better and made it easier for her to deep throat me. I had to stop her because if she kept going I was gonna cum in her mouth.
Mariebel got off my face which was by now wet with her cum and then she sat on my cock and let out a small moan and raised her head to the ceiling in relief, then she started ridding in a slow riddim as she got a lil faster.
When I smacked her booty she would cry out "yes babe, spank me again"
I was happy to help. Mariebel went quiet and started shaking then she slowed down and from the look on her face I could tell she was having an orgasm, but when I felt it running down the inside of my leg I knew it was more then just an orgasm.
"She's a squirter" I said to myself.
A few seconds later she started ridding again. I reached around and started fingering her butt hole again with one finger,
Mariebel stopped me and reached under her pillow and said "try this one, it works better"
she pulled out the biggest butt plug ever, the smallest end was about the size of my wrist and it only got bigger for the other three rings.
"Can you handle that" I asked
With a smirk on her face she said "I know I can"
"I've gotten to the second ring but I know I could handle more" she continued
I took the toy from her and looked at it but I was having second taught about putting that big thing in her ass but with the ease she took my fingers earlier I knew this was the reason why it was so easy.
"ok then hun" I responded
"Let me show you how it goes" Mariebel said as she took the toy from me and eased it in her ass.
The look of pleasure filled her face when she got in the first ring.
"Hold it for me babe, i want you to help me get the rest in my ass" she moaned then said " ass needs to be punished, she's bin a bad girl"
"this chick is crazy" I said to myself as I graded that big ass butt plug she had already put in her ass. When I got a hold of it, she started bucking back on me and the toy. By now she was moaning and screaming lick mad. I reached up with my other hand and felt to see what was going on, to my surprise she had already gotten the second ring in her ass and I was starting to get turned on even more. I held the end of the butt plug with both hands and pulled it to me hoping to get more into her ass like she asked.
After a about a few seconds of me pulling and her pushing back the next ring popped into her ass and she moaned out........."Yeeeessss Yesss, Oh my god I got it up my ass and it feeeelssss sooooooooooo good"
"more more I want more" she kept screaming
As soon as she cried out more I cum'd in her pussy and didn't realized that I did. I was in another world or lust and desire, I still couldn't believe this was happening to me this is the kinda stuff I've seen in videos and wondered it they were real. And now its happening to me.
"are you ready for more babe" I said
"yooou you bet your ass I am" was her response after another orgasm came over her.
we both came together and didn't even know it.
I started moving the butt plug again, when she pushed I pulled. We got back into a riddim and she was loving it.
" their you go, you gonna make me cum, ooooh yes I'm cummin" Mariebel yelled out but she didn't slow down.
I felt a cold set of hands touching mines and they were helping me push, at the time I didn't realize they weren't Mariebel's hands so I just ignored it and welcomed the help. Just then Mariebel must of relaxed enough because the butt plug got through and all of the rings were up in her ass.
"Uh uuuhh" was all that came out of her mouth.
I think she passed out from all of the excitement because she fell on my chest and didnt move for a few seconds. When she came through she was panting like she just ran a marathon, the sweat was running down her face and her hair was a mess. The cold hands let go of mines and then I heard what sounded like the door closing, I looked up and Mariebel's hands were under her chest and she was shaking.
"If her hands are there, then what the heck did i feel pushing on mines?" I taught
I drew a blank then I taught "Was that her mom?, we were being pretty load so she might of heard us from downstairs and came up to see what was going"
Mariebel started moving again and then I realized I wasnt erect anymore.
"Ooooh shit, I think I cum'd in you!!!!" I yelled out
"I felt when you did and I did too with you" Mariebel responded
"I'm so sorry, I got so caught up in it I didnt realize I was cumming"
"It's ok, I'm on the pill" she assured me
I sigh of relief left my body. "you are unbelievable, you are so awesome" I raised my head and we started kissing, I put my tongue in her mouth and she did the same.
"I knew I coulda get that whole thing up my ass with a little help" she smiled and said to me
"oh shit, I forgot that was up your ass, my mind was elsewhere for a bit" i said
"what do you mean?" Mariebel asked
"I'm not sure but I would of sworn something or someone was touching and pushing on my hands just before you took the plug up your ass"
"Yeah it was my mom, she came in to help" Mariebel said
I looked up at her with a puzzle look on my face and my mouth open in shock.
"I told you she would like to watch" she said
"ok, now i know I wasnt seeing things earlier when I saw her mom in the kitchen playing with herself" I taught.
"wow, does this happen often?" I asked
"this the first time she's done it when I have company" Mariebel smiled and said
"wow" was all I could say
"now you wanna help me get this out before it gets stuck" she said pointing to her butt.
I laughed "my bad"
Mariebel climbed off of me and got on her hands and knees, I took hold of the plug and after a few pulls and twists it popped out of her with a load wet sounds like a wet towel falling on the floor. Just as I got it out Mariebel started squirting on the bed and she was moaning out load.
I "ahh'd" when I saw the size gap hole that was left by the plug and I would swear i could see all the way up her ass. I got an instant boner.
I got up on the bed and grabbed hold of her hips and slammed my stiff dick into her soaking wet pussy.
"Yessss, pound that pussy like you own it" Mariebel screamed out
"You like it when I fuck you rough"
"yes daddy pound that pussy" she said
"daddy? i wonder" I taught to myself
With that taught I spanked her ass and grabbed her hair and pulled back "you dirty slut, I can believe you would fuck you dad even though he's not your real father" I kept thinking to myself.
I actually got jealous even though I didn't know if it was true.
"give it to be daddy" was all she kept screaming out while I pulled on her hair.
I remembered her ass and what happened earlier, I took my free hand and like I've seen in videos I put my fist in her ass and she moaned even loader when I did. I pushed my fist in alil further and with the riddim of my dick I started fisting her asshole too. She started going wild, I looked up and she was grabbing the sheets off of the bed and reaching for something else to hold on to.
Just them she screamed out "johnny I'm cummmmin, ohhh shit I'm cummmin"
I couldnt hold it any more either and when I let go of her hair her head fell to the bed and had the biggest orgasm ever. i followed right behind. Mariebel was cum'n so hard she pushed back on me while I was pushing in and the tip of my cock hit something in her pussy.
Mariebel screamed out "your hitting my spot, oooh my god you almost penetrated my cervix with that big ass cock" she took a breath "I think you wanna kill me"
I was cheesing with excitement. When she finally stopped shaking i took my hand out of her ass and it was all wet and slimmy. I took the bed sheet and cleaned off my hand, I leaned back and stepped off of the bed. When i had both feet on the floor i was able to compose myself and stand up straight, I looked down and smiled. I just fucked the shit out of this chick and now she's wasted, I gonna remember this one for ever.
"Are you ok hun?" I asked
"I just need to catch my breath, if i get up it will all come out" she softly responded
"what do you mean?"
she laughed and said "All of your cum and mine"
"ohhh, well you dont have to worry about that cause theirs already a mess on the bed"
I sat back down on the edge of the bed and after a few minutes I got up to put on my boxers and pants, I was about to put on my shirt when Mariebel asked....
"can you help me to the bathroom? I cant hold it anymore and I need to pee"
I looked down and I could see some white stuff coming out of her pussy, I took the sheet and wiped it off and she jumped a bit. I finished putting on my shirt and lifted her up, "can you get the door" she reached out and opened it.
"It's the door on the right" she pointed out to me
As we walked pass the door on the left, I looked in and saw her mom laying up in bed looking at me as we went by. She smiled and winked her eye. I didnt know what to make of it, I assumed she was saying job well done but then i remembered she was in the room also and I almost dropped Mariebel good thing the wall was there to stop me. I help Mariebel on the toilet and went back to close the door as I walked out. I stood outside the bathroom door and looked back at her moms room door wondering if I should go by and say hi or something.
"Then I heard I'm done" from the other side of the door, it was Mariebel
I almost walked forward to her moms door thinking it was her that had said something. I help Mariebel up off the toilet and we walked back to her room, I told myself I wasnt gonna look in her moms room as we walked by but as we passed by her mom called out...
"hunny are you ok?"
"yeah mom, I'm ok"
"come lay with me for a bit" her mom responded
I was like oh shit this cant be happening to me right now. I helped her into her moms room and she sat on the edge of the bad and laid back.
"you can take a seat too Johnny" her mom said to me. I sat above Mariebel's head on the edge.
"Are you feeling ok hunny, you look a bit beat" her mom said to her
"just a bit worn out, but I'll be ok" she said
"Yeah, I heard you had a good work out as i walked by your door" her mom looked up at my smiling, by this time Mariebel was laying with her eyes closed.
"you can say that again" Mariebel said.
We were in there for a few minutes till Mariebel said she was gonna go take a nap, her mom got up when I was helping her up and as we were leaving her mom squeezed my butt and when I looked back at her she was smiling and then winked her eye again. I raised my eye blow and left with only my taughts of what she was trying to say. When we got back to the room, Mariebel got a new sheet for the bed and after we changed it we both fell asleep. When I woke I grabbed my phone to see what time it was and it was after 2:00am way to late to go home now, luckly it was a Friday. I got up to go use the bathroom and when I got out in the hallway her moms door was close and I sighed in relief, I used the bathroom and returned to bed and fell back to sleep.
I got up later that morning to the smell of pancakes and sausage, Mariebel was not laying next to be so I figured she was the one down stairs fixing breakfast. I went to the bathroom and washed my face and headed downstairs, when I got downstairs I saw a female figure standing infront of the stove with boxers and a vest on, her hair was up in one. I snuck up behind her thinking it was Mariebel and grabbed her around the waist and whispered in her ear "last night was the amazing, how about a quick one right here while you prepare breakfast" as I kissed her neck. She smelt different...
A voice said "I think I could do that" that did not sound like Mariebel.
I leaned back as she turned her face, boy was I surprised. It was not Mariebel, i just made a move on her mom and she responded. I stepped back and started apologizing but all I got was a smile.
"I've bin waiting for you to say something" she continued
"I" was all I got out..................... ( to be continued)
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In the first weeks of 1861, six Southern states began the process of establishing their own government, even as Northerners debated whether to let them leave the Union in peace or use force to stop them. On February 23, two weeks before Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States, Texas became the seventh state to leave the Union. After taking office, President Lincoln reacted cautiously to these events. He felt very strongly that the states that had seceded (left the Union) had no right to do so, and he was determined to keep the Union together. But he also did not want to upset the large number of states in the mid-South—sometimes called the border states—that had yet to decide whether to join the Confederacy.
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LOS ANGELES -- Paul Maholm has not been a very good pitcher in 2014, and, as such, terribly high expectations do not exist for his start tonight against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium.
The left-hander last started a game May 14 and gave up as many hits as he got outs. Since, he has been a barely-serviceable reliever in the Dodger bullpen, pitching mostly in out-of-hand games.
He also hasn't cracked 50 pitches in an outing since. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has said Maholm will be kept to a pitch count of around 90 pitches, but Maholm tried to dismiss that.
"I've told them no -- we'll see what they think," he said about the possibility of a pitch count. "I'm hoping to go five, if not more. I'm looking at it as I have every other start. My job is to get as many outs as I can as quick as I can."
Maholm, 32, has had two good starts this year, both in April. He allowed one run in six innings once and two runs in seven frames another time.
If he does well tonight and Josh Beckett is not ready to be activated for the next time the Dodgers need a fifth starter, July 22, it wouldn't be a surprise to see Maholm get another shot.
And, yes, that means Mattingly has set his post-break rotation. Dan Haren will start Friday against the St. Louis Cardinals, followed by Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu.
Why would Haren go before those three? Probably because that sets up the trio to face the San Francisco Giants two series later.
Mattingly said that was purely a "coincidence." But that seems unlikely.
Here are the lineups for tonight's 7:10 p.m. start:
Chris Denorfia RF
Chase Headley 3B
Carlos Quentin LF
Yasmani Grandal 1B
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Ian Kennedy P
Dee Gordon 2B
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The Spain Among Us
After half a millennium we scarcely feel the presence of Spain in what is now the United States. But it is all around us.
April 1993 | Volume 44, Issue 2
The period from Columbus's first landfall in 1492 to 1607, when the English made their settlement at Jamestown, has traditionally been a blank spot in American history books. Some texts state quite plainly that the history of the United States begins in 1607, making only the most cursory mention of the sixteenth century—the century when, in the words of the historian Bernard Bailyn, Spain created "the largest and most populous empire the western world had seen since the fall of Rome." The historian Howard Mumford Jones also compared Spain's sixteenth-century achievements to those of antiquity: "The Spaniards invented a system of colonial administration unparalleled since the days of ancient Rome; in religion they launched the most sweeping missionary movement since the Germanic tribes accepted Christianity. … As for culture, the Spaniards transplanted dynamic forms of Renaissance art, thought, and institutions to the Americas with amazing quickness." The Spanish established a college for the sons of Indian chiefs, in Mexico in 1536, a university in Santo Domingo in 1538, the University of Mexico in 1553. Spaniards set up the first printing press in the New World in 1539, and, as Jones observed, "When in 1585 a forlorn little band of Englishmen were trying to stick it out on Roanoke Island, three hundred poets were competing for a prize in Mexico City."
The earliest naturalist of the New World was probably Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, who first visited the Americas in 1514 and published a multivolume general and natural history between 1535 and 1557. Two centuries later Capt. Alejandro Malaspina led one of the most important West Coast explorations. In the early 1790s Malaspina's ships made their first landfall in Mulgrave Sound in Alaska, where Malaspina and his staff studied a glacier that was later named for the captain, traded with the Tlingits for artifacts (the Spaniards carefully noted the Tlingit names for the objects they collected), and carried out experiments with a pendulum, seeking to measure the intensity of gravity at that latitude as a way of computing the exact size of the earth. Heading south, a member of the expedition became the first botanist to discover and describe the sequoia. The paintings of birds and landscapes made on this visit are today the oldest surviving works of art made in California.
In California Malaspina received valuable assistance from Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, the founder of nine missions, who provided native guides to take the scientists into the field. The first European settlement in California had been established in 1769 at San Diego by Caspar de Portolá, who blazed El Camino Real, today's Highway 101; discovered the La Brea tar pits (the Indians had long used their pitch to caulk their boats); and experienced an earthquake that knocked his men from their feet. With Portolâ came Father Junípero Serra, who founded nine missions. Fathers Serra, Lasuén, and their successors established a total of twenty-one missions and baptized about 88,000 Indians in the course of nearly seven decades of evangelical work. The two great mission founders are buried at the jewel of the California missions, San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo, in Carmel. The high architectural aspirations of the Franciscans there were carried out by Indian workers inexperienced at making such things as a Moorish dome. The result, with its irregular walls and heartfelt but misshapen dome, is a handmade frontier masterpiece of poignant beauty. When it was crumbling in the 187Os, Robert Louis Stevenson helped raise funds for a restoration with an angry article, saying, "The United States Mint can coin many millions more dollar pieces, but … when the Carmel church is in the dust, not all the wealth of the states and territories can replace what has been lost."
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A public service announcement for characters on the New York stage: Do not let the actor Elias Koteas into your house. Yes, you may find yourself improbably rapt by his lush mustache, muscular build, balding pate, and mumbled come-ons, but the assignation will not end well. Playing a variation on the unstable ex-husband in last year's Hot 'n' Throbbing or the devious brother in 2000's True West, Koteas once again insinuates himself into a household and wreaks all manner of havoc in Julia Jordan's cornfield noir Dark Yellow. The play opens genially enough as a bartendress (Tina Benko) and the man she's brought home (Koteas) exchange bits of trivia. Urging each other to "tell me something I don't know," they offer facts about transmission fluid and the most popular names for baby boys. But the conversation soon turns to more sinister subjects, and Koteas lets his creepiness unfurl.
Jordan's crafted a sturdy thriller and, with the help of director Nick Sandow, ornamented it with genuine scares and surprises. But it can't quite overcome the fundamental unlikelihood that a woman, no matter how emotionally needy or sexually deprived, would continue to entertain Koteas's character once he begins acting unhinged. We know that Jen has problematic taste in menher ex-husband beat her and she prizes memories of her uncle John, "a bigamist, a robber, a possible back-room abortionist, and a bookie"but how many red flags can she ignore? Benko's lovely to look at and plays Jen with a sweet Midwestern drawl and lackadaisical sexiness. She hoards her own pathologies for the play's end. Koteas, however, with his bullying presence and shambling line delivery, doesn't make a secret of his menace, leaving perilously little space for progress or revelation. As the pair attempt their awkward courtship, Jen suggests, "Things'd happen faster if you laughed." Indeed, if Koteas layered his performance with more ease and good humor, the evening might unfold not only faster but also more plausibly.
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WOODLAND PARK - To save the Stanley M. Levine Reservoir in Paterson, the Passaic Valley Water Commission is looking at an alternative site for the massive water tanks to be built in place of the water body, but it's "unlikely" the same plan will work to save Woodland Park's Great Notch and New Street Reservoirs, the commission's executive director said.
Joseph Bella, executive director of the PVWC, said that this is the second site that they've looked at as an alternative to placing the tanks in the middle of a drained Levine Reservoir, but it remains to be seen if the plan to save the Paterson reservoir will work out.
"Hydraulically it's somewhat compatible," Bella said. "We don't know if the site is buildable so we were going to have our consultants look at it in more detail and see what the costs involved are."
They are considering the new reservoir site, primarily at the encouragement of the of New Jersey Community Development Corporation, he said.
The proposed site is in Paterson, close to its border with Woodland Park. "It's on New Street just above Grand Street on the south side of Route 80. It's the old quarry there," he said.
However, asked if the plan will work for the reservoirs in Woodland Park, Bella said, "Unlikely. It's hydraulically incompatible."
Still, there may be some hope for the Great Notch and New Street Reservoirs, which Bella said, they plan to replace with four tanks - two 20 million gallon tanks for Great Notch and two 15 million tanks for New Street.
"Great Notch, it is way too premature to really say what's going to happen with that," he said. "The New Street Reservoir, that's five years away and believe me, there will be a lot of thought given to the aesthetics of that."
Plans for the Levine Reservoir, however, are due July 1, Bella said.
Woodland Park Mayor Keith Kazmark, who has been a prime opponent of the reservoir draining projects, getting 25 surrounding towns to pass resolutions opposing the plan, was optimistic about the latest development regarding the Levine Reservoir.
"What I'm encouraged about is that Passaic Valley (Water Commission) is considering alternatives to the plan that they have proposed all along, and I think that's a significant step," Kazmark said. "But I'd be interested to hear how that's going to affect the two reservoirs in Woodland Park."
He cites community support in his opposition to the tank project. "What I'm happy to see is that there has been a groundswell of support from advocacy groups and regular citizens against this project."
The Passaic County Board of Realtors is one such group. It has created a Facebook page - "Save the Garret Mountain Reservoirs, Stop the Concrete Tanks" - and established a petition on Change .org, which as of press time, had garnered 710 online signatures in opposition to the reservoir draining plan.
William Linteris, president of the Passaic County Board of Realtors, spoke of the benefits of the commission's feasibility study for another site for tanks, in order to save the Levine Reservoir, but noted that the commission will still be millions to complete the project.
"That would reduce the recreational and environmental impacts around that area and the potential impact on the Great Falls historic site (in Paterson), but it will not eliminate the increased water bills in the future," he said. "When you're spending $135 million, you're increasing the expenditures in the future and you're passing on the expenses."
He said that his group confronted the commission at its last meeting with questions submitted in writing and have been promised answers to all 13 of the them. They also presented the commission with a petition that had "well over 600" signatures in opposition to the reservoir draining plan, Linteris said.
Many of those questions, he said, had to do with government transparency surrounding the projects and included a demand for public hearings on the reservoir plan.
"We look forward to seeing public involvement through public informational meetings at a reasonable time when people can attend," he said.
Bella once again last Thursday defended his agency's plan to replace the scenic reservoirs with concrete tanks saying that it's not just the Environmental Protection Agency's Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule or the resulting Administrative Consent Order from the state Department of Environmental Protection Agency, but that it is common industry practice not to use open air finished reservoirs for drinking water, and most were taken out of service long before the rule was made.
He said there are only five such reservoirs left in New Jersey, including the three owned by his commission, and that the City of Trenton is already spending significantly to prepare its reservoir to be covered. It's a public health issue, Bella said.
"In the morning when you make your coffee you go to your faucet to get water, you wouldn't go to the fish tank," he said, later adding: "It's clear that this is an industry standard. You don't have finished drinking water out in open ponds. Its 19th century technology up in the 21st century."


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