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The city wants developers to keep in mind how pedestrians navigate the space around their buildings, said Kendall Wals, associate city planner.
The guidelines emphasize a “pedestrian experience” by embellishing blank walls with public art, murals, greenery or other adornments.
The guidelines also encourage historic styles to match the “existing character of Puyallup’s older building forms” through the use of flat roofs and cornices.
The new document outlines specific areas where the guidelines would apply — mostly downtown and on parts of South Hill.
The document also provides a map of buildings in the city that are on the local and state historic register for developers to reference, such as Meeker Mansion.
“It provides a boundary and a visual,” Wals said about the plan.
The updated document reorganizes projects by its design rather than type.
It also encourages the use of “high-quality materials” like glass, brick, glass, cement and stone masonry.
The guidelines encourage locating vehicle garage entries “away from the primary street and keeping it pedestrian friendly along that frontage area,” Wals said.
City Council considered a downtown development plan in December that would replace parking lots at 2nd Street Southeast with a three-level retail and office space and 114 one-bedroom units.
The public is welcome to share thoughts on the new design guidelines online at cityofpuyallup.org or at an open house from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday (April 18) at Puyallup City Hall, 333 S. Meridian.
Caryn Lerner took second-place in the Tribune’s Holiday Cookie Contest in 2000 with her cute Mexican mice cookies.
Cute counts, as these Mexican mice cookies prove. They took second place in the Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest in 2000. Their creator, Caryn Lerner, said she adapted cookies made from a Mexican wedding cake dough because her nieces and nephews wouldn't eat them. They changed their minds when the cookies reappeared in...
The recipe is excerpted from "Holiday Cookies," a collection of more than 100 recipes of winning cookies from 25 years of the Tribune's annual Holiday Cookie Contest. We are featuring a cookie per week, leading up to the Dec. 2 announcement of this year's contest winners, to mark the second printing of the book, which ...
Caryn Lerner took second-place in the Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest in 2000.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add sugar; beat until combined. Mix in flour, pecans and salt.
Shape dough into 1-inch ovals, tapering one end. Place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake, 15 minutes. Remove from oven; insert noodle at tail end and 2 almonds about 1/3 of the way from pointed end for ears. Return to oven; bake until slightly browned, about 12 minutes.
Remove from oven; immediately place two chocolate chips in front of ears for eyes. (Chocolate will melt slightly and stick to cookie.) Dust mice bodies with confectioners' sugar. Cool on wire rack.
In a report to the DFA, the Philippine embassy in Oslo said the Filipino crew members of Viking Sky helped in evacuating the passengers.
MANILA, Philippines — The 163 Filipino crew members of a cruise ship that got stranded off Norway on Saturday are safe, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced yesterday.
The embassy said there are no Filipino passengers on board the cruise liner.
At least 20 passengers were injured during the incident.
Does your office have highlighter thieves? Hands up if you’ve ever nabbed your neighbours post it notes or worse- used their precious mug, y’know the one with their initials on it. Feeling guilty yet? Well the corner frame won’t save you from mug related showdowns, but it will mean you always have a pen/post it note at...
“Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe is gearing up to play a FBI undercover agent in the upcoming crime and terrorism film “Imperium”.
Based on the real life experiences of FBI undercover agent Michael German, the movie revolves around a FBI agent who is recruited for a secret mission, reported Deadline.
Short filmmaker Daniel Ragussis, will be making his feature directorial debut with the film.
Produced by Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique, the shooting is scheduled to commence around September.
Radcliffe, 26, is currently filming the indie comedy “Swiss Army Man”. He will next be seen Fox’s “Frankenstein” with James McAvoy.
No hanky panky allowed on new Airbus?!
Singapore Airlines’s inaugural A380 flight took to the skies a couple of days ago. But despite it being equipped with private double-bed suites in the first-class cabin, officials are reported to have said that passengers better not do the bouncy-bouncy in there … oh no!
My recent interest in aviation and lack of Thought Leader contribution stems from a trip to the United Kingdom last week — I was unfortunately stuck in the rear of the plane with the rest of the plebs and the only bouncy-bouncy I got was caused by turbulence in my 2cm-wide seat.
“So they’ll sell you a double bed, and give you privacy and endless champagne — and then say you can’t do what comes naturally?” proclaimed Tony Elwood, a 76-year-old chap who booked the suite with his wife but wasn’t impressed with the airline’s prudish demeanour. “Seems a bit strange,” he commented.
“There are things that are acceptable on an aircraft and things that aren’t, and the rules for behaviour in our double beds are the same ones that apply throughout the aircraft,” stated Stephen Forshaw, a Singapore Airlines official. He warned: “If couples used our double beds to engage in inappropriate activity, we wo...
Sure, Singapore Airlines is based in a country that still approves of a good cane-whacking for the slightest foot out of place; does this mean that maybe, just maybe, that voyagers best keep their johnsons in their pants?
Apparently the doors actually close on the suites, so how would flight attendants actually know if one was engaging in the old in/out? Planes are so noisy anyway, they wouldn’t even hear anything!
The Times Online thinks that one of the most difficult temptations to resist aboard a Singapore Airlines double-bed flight is avoiding asking one of those gorgeous flight attendants, known as “the Singapore Girls”, to join one inside the comfy suite. But then, for the R93 000 price for two tickets in one of the suites,...
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The cocaine dealers were afraid. They didn't want to trade their 2 kilograms of cocaine in the restaurant parking lot for $61,000 cash.
"They don't want to do it here. They said there could be cops around here," one of the buyers reported to two others waiting in a rented car.
So the buyers rented a hotel room. When the deal was completed an hour later, the dealers discovered just how good their intuition was: The buyers were cops.
The March 14 seizure added 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds, to the total of 19 pounds of cocaine undercover detectives with the Broward Sheriff's Office took off the streets during National Drug Week.
In the first 14 days of March, members of the narcotics unit of the Organized Crime Division seized 50 pounds of cocaine, said Irv Weinstein, supervisor of the narcotics section.
As one detective put it: "Everyone in Broward County could get high with what we've seized in March."
Detective D.R. Gavalier, a supervisor in the narcotics division, said he and others worked a little harder this past week.
"We're trying to do our part," he said.
Or as he said to the two men arrested Thursday: "This is National Drug Week, man. Where's your red ribbon?"
Children and adults throughout South Florida donned red ribbons as part of a campaign encouraging people to "Just Say 'No' to Drugs."
Cocaine, once the drug of the wealthy, has become increasingly common as the American market has been glutted with the white powder. As a result, the price has dropped from about $50,000 to $60,000 a kilogram -- 2.2 pounds -- to the current rate of $30,000 to $35,000 a kilogram, Weinstein said.
In South Florida alone, about 50,000 pounds of cocaine wereseized by federal, state and local authorities in 1985, said Paul Teresi, resident agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in Fort Lauderdale.
With the cover stories of both Newsweek and Time magazines and the Nightline and Donahue television shows all dedicated to the cocaine culture last week, South Florida once again became the focus of attention. The vast majority of cocaine enters the United States through South Florida.
"We are one of the main sources for the national drug culture right now," said Sheriff Nick Navarro. "We want to take everything away from the streets, and, at the same time, we're trying to eliminate the demand."
Everyone, from cocaine dealers to users buying $25 "rocks," which are melted down for use, is being arrested, Navarro said.
But as good as the statistics are for March, police know they are seizing only an estimated 10 percent of the drugs on the street at any given time, Teresi said.
"It's so widespread, everywhere you go you see a dope dealer," said one detective. "We're just trying to keep our heads above water."
In the past week alone, DEA agents confiscated 14 kilograms of cocaine based on one search warrant in Davie and arrested four people.
Broward sheriff's detectives said they shut down a few major cocaine rings by arrests made this past week.
On Monday, they arrested the owners of the Cobblers 3 shoe repair stores in Davie and Plantation. Detectives said the men had based their cocaine operations at the Davie store for years.
On Wednesday, they charged a man and woman with trafficking after they said they found almost a pound of cocaine hidden in a doughnut bag in a crawl space of a bedroom closet. The home was equipped with radios that were programmed to locations in Colombia, a detective said.
And on Thursday, they arrested two men who they said sent 44 pounds of cocaine to Texas every month.
Even in Cooper City, a small bedroom community where such arrests seldom occur, two people were charged with cocaine trafficking and another with possession of cocaine last week.
A massive seizure was made on Feb. 22 by U.S. Customs and the Florida Marine Patrol. In that one interdiction, 963 pounds of cocaine were seized from a fishing boat heading toward the Hillsboro Inlet.
Teresi, of the DEA, said local, state and federal authorities have been working more closely together in hopes of making more arrests.
"We're developing better intelligence, which is leading to the elimination of major organizations," he said.
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Following Whitney Houston’s tragic passing, her family members reportedly waffled on whether or not to invite the singer’s ex-husband Bobby Brown to the funeral. The former couple’s marital problems were well-documented, and many of those closest to Houston reportedly still blame him for her drug-induced fall from grac...
Brown did show up to Houston’s funeral today with his new family, but he didn’t end up staying very long. In fact, sources estimate he was only in the building for about twenty minutes before he packed up and left mid-service. According to CNN. the New Edition singer blamed his early exodus on being asked by ushers to ...
Regardless of how much damage Bobby and Whitney may have done to each other while they were together, there’s little doubt that they really did love each other in their own ways. I wish all the hard feelings could have been put aside today, but death can’t always bring everyone together.
Pop Blend’s thoughts go out to Houston’s entire family, which, yes, includes Brown.
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Role Playing and Oratory Limits at This U.N.
The mock crisis went this way: Shortly after 2 A.M. on Sunday, the Security Council's 15 members were roused from their beds here for an emergency session to review the worsening situation in Nicaragua.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had declared an emergency and canceled elections next week after several United Nations observers were killed. American forces in Panama were moving northward into Nicaragua.
But by 9 A.M. an exhausted Council had accomplished little, with the United States blocking condemnation of its action and members unable to agree on a role for the United Nations.
''Frustrating but realistic,'' said Marc S. Sabartini, a Harvard biochemistry student playing the role of Secretary General at this 36th annual Harvard National Model United Nations, the largest in the country.
For three days, about 1,800 students from more than 140 American, Canadian and Mexican universities transformed a hotel here into a mini-United Nations, organizing meetings of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the International Court of Justice, among other bodies.
Each university, fielding teams of about 18 students, pretended to be a country - the University of Western Ontario was the United States this year while Siena College in Loudonville, N. Y., played the Soviet Union - first studying its policies and interests and then promoting them in the United Nations forums.
The atmosphere was uncannily realistic, with student-delegates rushing in and out of meeting rooms.
The concluding General Assembly called for a compulsory public register of international arms sales, said assets of drug traffickers should finance the anti-drug war and asked the United Nations to also help internally displaced refugees.
Only occasionally did delegates stretch the bounds of political probability, as when Turkey (the State University of New York at New Paltz) resolved the Cyprus crisis by withdrawing its forces in a bargain with Greece (Kean College of New Jersey in Union) that allowed it to join the European Community.
''What talent for compromise, what grace they treat each other with,'' said Jonathan Moore, an American deputy representative at the real United Nations, and a guest at the meeting.
The Harvard Model United Nations is one of about 150 such meetings organized each year by high schools and universities around the world. Harvard takes credit for the idea, having organized the first Model League of Nations in the 1920's.
Teachers who brought their students to the Harvard meeting said the experience encourages debating skills besides teaching them a global approach to current problems and providing an insight into the complexity of international relations.
''It breaks down American parochialism,'' said Thomas Ilger of Pitzer College in Claremont Calif., whose students represented Britain.
But best lesson of all for the real United Nations was the speaking time allowed: a maximum of just two and half minutes per speaker.
Jacqui Smith faces an even tougher battle to keep her marginal seat in the next election after being let off with a slap on the wrist by Parliament's sleaze watchdog despite it finding she clearly broke the rules on MPs' expenses.
Labour's former Home Secretary grudgingly apologised in the Commons after John Lyon, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, delivered a scathing verdict on her £100,000-plus second-home claims.
His devastating report - and the fact that Miss Smith's own police protection officers contradicted her version of events - appeared to leave her political career in ruins.
She decided to designate a room in her sister's house in London as her main home - allowing her to claim up to £24,000 a year in taxpayers' money towards the running of her family home in Redditch.
Mr Lyon said the designation was 'contrary to the purpose as well as to the letter of the rule'.
He said Miss Smith had been in breach of the guidelines on expenses from 2004 to 2009, a period in which she claimed at least £116,000 in total.
He also revealed that for months, the Home Office and Cabinet Office held up the release of police records showing how long Miss Smith spent at each of her homes.
The report said that between June 2007 and March 2009, she was actually spending more nights at her constituency home than in London - contradicting claims she made when the complaints about her expenses were first raised.
But despite Mr Lyon's damning assessment of her arrangements, the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee failed to demand any repayment. It said there were 'significant mitigating circumstances'.
But last night it emerged that only one opposition MP was present at the meeting of the standards and privileges committee that decided Miss Smith's fate.
Former sleaze watchdog Sir Alistair Graham expressed concern that she had been let off repayments largely by Labour colleagues.
The ex-minister has vowed to fight for her Redditch seat at the next election, but is widely expected to lose after only securing a majority of 2,716 votes in 2005.
MPs appeared happy to accept her argument that she was simply badly advised by the Commons authorities on the rules.
They said it could not be established 'with any certainty' that the taxpayer lost out as a result of the arrangement.

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