(San Jose Mercury)
Police raided a wedding between a 7-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl in Pakistan’s largest city, arresting the Muslim cleric officiating at the ceremony and the children’s parents, a senior officer said today.
Pakistan law forbids marriage below the age of 18, but some Muslim scholars say it is permissible if the bride and groom have reached puberty.
Nearly two years and $20 million after construction began, Seaside marked the end of renovations at its auto center with a grand reopening last week.
Auto center dealerships, however, don’t have a lot more to celebrate as the country struggles through one of its toughest economic slumps since the Great Depression.
But city officials and Seaside auto dealers hope the auto mall’s facelift will help bring back shoppers.
“Anytime you redecorate, clean things up, improve the appearance, the visibility — it can’t hurt,” Linder said.
Nice picture above. Now here’s the real reopening. The same old thing, tents, banners, flags and a giant blue gorilla. Yep, redecorated and cleaned up.
Not to mention most of the dealers have an identity problem, they are afraid to say “Seaside” and make shoppers think they are in Monterey.
Of special concern in the Monterey Bay area is humans and domestic animals coming in close contact with raccoons. Besides the fact that raccoons in urban or suburban areas tend to be aggressive and can attack pets and people, they are also carriers of the roundworm parasite called Baylisascaris procyonis.
Raccoons become infected with this roundworm either by ingesting infective eggs from contaminated feces of other raccoons, or by eating infected small animals (rabbits, rodents and birds). Raccoons are asymptomatic carriers, which means that the parasite typically doesn’t cause them any problems, but they shed eggs in their feces which become infective to other animals three to four weeks after they are excreted.
Cover your garbage!
Sea-Breeze Motel
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“My client would like an independent evaluator,” she said. “She sees Dr. Fithian and Dr. Finnberg fairly often, and with a split decision, I’m uncomfortable with Dr. Fithian going back again.” (When ordered by the court, the $325 to $500 experts receive for the evaluations is provided by taxpayers.)
She sees both of the these “doctors” often and they do not agree on the woman’s mental health?
Have that third doctor examine the first two doctors while we are at it. Are they fit to prescribe drugs?
Burglars broke into First Night Monterey’s Archer Park Community Center headquarters Tuesday night, robbing the small nonprofit that stages the city’s ambitious and art-heavy New Year’s Eve celebration of their Mac computer and external hard drives.
“To break in and rob us … of our artwork, desktop publishing and the two external hard drives which were the backups…it’s all gone.
Concept #1 – Thieves do not care if it’s a Mega-Corporation, a working person, or an artiste. They will steal anything they can.
Concept #2 – Don’t store you backups in the same place as the computer. In a fire, flood or yes even theft, your backups are only as safe as the computer. Keep your back ups off site.
Business owners said they are seeing a definite shift in buyer mentality.
Don Martine, owner of the Martine Inn, said reservations have been erratic and he anticipates that business will be down 5 to 7 percent from where it was last year.
Monterey Bay Aquarium officials said they aren’t sure the exact cause of the attendance drop, either the poor economy or a new California Academy of Science opening in San Francisco.
Good time to let some dieing businesses go.
F-Minus
Jerrad Cornell, 31, was stopped Sunday by a California Highway Patrol officer for talking on his cell phone while driving. A search of Cornell’s car yielded more than a pound of marijuana, police said.
Police said further investigation showed Cornell possessed another 3.1 pounds of marijuana and hashish..
Our own little slice of dirty hippy culture. Hate to say we told you so, but it’s starting to look like a meth-lab/rats nest. Time to call the landlord – Greg Beardsley.
Trash piled up.
Exposed 110 volt wires & dead landscaping. Old plants tossed on the ground is not “composting”.
Looking for a toilet tank lid? Or some old flower pots?
More refuse piled up against building. Lead acid batteries at the bottom of the pile.
Tiki Torches. With the global warmth petro-chemical fluid leaking out onto the ground.
Rusty unmarked containers.
In 2003, voters approved Measure A, a parcel tax used to assist with the funding of the programs currently in place but that is due to expire. Measure X is an extension of the existing parcel tax and will not raise property taxes. Without Measure X, many of these programs will need to be reduced or eliminated.
So there’s $6,000,000 for a new stadium
And we have $1,700,000 to replace the school district offices (which would end up being good enough for students)
Before voting to keep sending them more money, ask where they get all the millions for these things?
