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Two school-related budget overrides that together would add about $106 per year to the average tax bill are among the decisions voters will take up as they head to Brewster's annual town meeting next week.

Other items include proposals to ban the sale of "nip" bottles in town, to ban food establishments from using plastic takeout ware, to turn over control of Wing Island to the Conservation Commission, and to require the Select Board to seek town meeting approval for any significant projects related to town land.

Town meeting convenes at 6 p.m. on May 1 at the Stony Brook Elementary School, 384 Underpass Road, Brewster. Check-in begins at 5 p.m.

In all, there are 27 items in the lineup, including a $25.3 million town operating budget, a 4.2% increase.

Here are some of the highlights.

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For Stony Brook and Eddy elementary schools, voters will consider an $11.1 million operating budget, a combined increase of 5.5% driven primarily by significant increases in special education expenses.

Speaking at a forum on April 18 to review the meeting agenda items available for viewing on the town website Town Manager Peter Lombardi said the town can support a $10.76 million operating budget within the levy limit, but an operating override of $316,878 would be needed to fully fund the requested budget.

An override proposal would need approval both at town meeting and at the May 16 town election. If OK'd, it would add 6 cents per $1,000 of valuation to the tax rate, resulting in a permanent increase of about $35 to the average property tax bill, based on an average home valuation of about $636,000.

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A second override proposal would support the Nauset Regional High School budget. Without an override, the requested school assessment for Brewster is $12.7 million plus a $2.19 million debt assessment for the ongoing school renovation project, or $15.5 million with an override.

The school's overall operating budget request reflects a 7.7% increase, driven primarily by higher special education costs, and increased costs associated with school choice and charter school tuitions and transportation.

As with the local school budget, Lombardi said the town can only fund 4% of the proposed budget increase within the levy limit. A $648,000 override is needed fully to fund the requested budget. If approved, the override would add 11 cents per $1,000 to the tax rate, resulting in a permanent increase of about $71 for the average taxpayer.

Other district towns Orleans, Eastham and Wellfleet are also slated to consider overrides in support of the Nauset school budget.

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Voters will consider a number of capital and special projects. Among the highlights is a $200,000 plan for improvements at the Stony Brook Mill, paid for with free cash.

The project includes repairs to the historic retaining wall that supports the headrace pond. Also included are improvements to the fish weirs north of Stony Brook Road, ultimately to make it easier and safer for the river herring to make their way upstream during their annual spawning migration.

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Wing Island will once again take the spotlight with the Select Board looking for approval to petition the state legislature to transfer care and control of the property to the town Conservation Commission.

The request is in answer to a vote taken at a special town meeting in March to give over the land to conservation and to clarify the land's designated uses from public bathing and recreational to conservation and open space.

The town's attorney gave an opinion that, since Wing Island is protected under Article 97 of the state constitution, transferring control requires a special act of the legislature.

There are also two citizen petitions inspired by the Wing Island discussion, which stirred up controversy because of proposed boardwalk plans many feared would bring too much traffic to the barrier island and surrounding saltmarsh.

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One petition proposes a bylaw requiring town meeting approval before the town can develop, improve or alter land under the town's care, no matter what the funding source the proposal applies only to projects exceeding $100,000. Presently, the town can undertake projects without a town meeting vote as long as funds come from gifts or grants.

The other petition proposes a bylaw requiring any anonymous gifts to the town be accompanied by "full disclosureof the terms and conditions of anonymous gifts so that the voters have the benefit of complete disclosure and transparency."

Proponents note the proposal is related to the previously proposed development of a boardwalk to Wing Island, "driven by an anonymous gift to the Brewster Conservation Trust, which it in turn pledged to the Town of Brewster for the construction of a boardwalk to be named after the anonymous donor after it was built."

While the donation offer was withdrawn, the proponents argue that the matter "raised concerns about anonymous donations driving town policy and actions."

Voters will also deliberate on banning the sale of miniature single use containers for alcoholic beverages so-called "nip" bottles, which are not recyclable.

Last year, the town said, Beautify Brewster volunteers collected 2,767 nip bottles, in one day, along some Brewster streets.

Similar bans have been adopted in other communities, including Falmouth and Wareham, and were "found to be lawful by the Massachusetts Attorney General," according to the town.

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Another citizens' petition proposes a bylaw to ban single-use, plastic takeout containers and utensils inBrewster.

The measure developed by Cape Cod environmental advocacy groupSustainable Practices would prohibit food establishments from dispensing prepared foods to customers in disposable containers made of plastic and bar them from providing plastic utensils.

The same bylaw has been submitted to Eastham,HarwichandSandwich, and was also discussed at both Provincetown's and Falmouth's town meetings. Provincetown indefinitely postponed the proposal "in order for the petitioner to work with local businesses to see how it could be enacted," according to Provincetown Select Board member Leslie Sandberg.

Falmouth town meeting directed town administration to form a committee to give the issue further study, create a revised proposal and return for a decision in the fall.

Heather McCarron writes about climate change, environment, energy, science and the natural world. Reach her at hmccarron@capecodonline.com, or follow her on Twitter @HMcCarron_CCT.

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Coromandel MP Scott Simpson says a lack of decisive plan from Waka Kotahi to get SH25A reopened continues to frustrate and anger local residents and visitors.

Meanwhile, Waka Kotahi says they are in the process deciding between three proposed solutions as quickly as possible.

The highway is one of the main routes to the Thames-Coromandel region. It was closed in January after the formation of deep cracks and slips following ex-Cyclone Hale.

It has been three months since the Kopu-Hikuai highway closed, but we still have no idea when the road will be reopened, says Simpson.

People have been patient, but the lack of decision, let alone a start on the work to get the road re-opened is deeply concerning."

Coromandel MP Scott Simpson. File Photo.

NZTA are meant to be making an announcement about SH25A in May, but three months has been far too long to wait and is indicative of the lack of urgency to fix SH25A.

Our communities are resilient, but I have spoken to many businesses who are at their breaking point. Everyone is suffering and we desperately need to some positive action.

Any solution that does not get the Kopu-Hikuai reopened by Christmas simply is not good enough, because the prospect of a fourth devastating summer for our region is too awful to contemplate.

Waka Kotahi agrees the work to repair SH25A is a high priority.

Damage to SH25A in Coromandel. Photo: Tom Taylor/RNZ.

Following the devasting impacts of multiple storm events this year, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is focused on restoring vital access to the Coromandel as soon as possible, says a Waka Kotahi spokesperson.

Beyond the initial emergency response, our focus also includes long-term solutions so that State Highway 25 and SH25A remain resilient.

We acknowledge that Coromandel residents, businesses and visitors are very concerned about how long it will take to rebuild SH25A. While SH25A is closed, Waka Kotahi is acutely aware of the sacrifices locals, businesses and communities are having to make. The inaccessibility, extra travel time, increased travel costs, access to healthcare, impacts to freight, businesses, tourism and day-to-day life are front of mind for everyone working on this project.

We have a dedicated team of project managers and consulting engineers focused on delivering a robust solution that can be built as quickly as possible. This team is actively working through three options for a long-term solution. Each one is being investigated in parallel so we can go as quickly as possible, and readily move to the preferred options detailed design and construction. The right option can only be confirmed when the risks, costs, form and time required to build each option have been assessed.

The critical task of geotechnical investigations was completed earlier this month and we are now analysing the information to identify the optimum solution that enables the route to be open as soon as possible.

Option 1 Bypass

The geotechnical information gathered showed a northern bypass option, shifting the road well away from the slip face, would need substantial digging out and removing around 300 to 400,000m3 of soft soils off site before any work on building a road could start. There are other complexities to be factored in this option, including ecological impacts and lack of sites in the Coromandel to take the soil material.

"A bypass closer to the slip face is another option. It would bring in a few more corners into the new road alignment and involve rebuilding an embankment with a mixture of cut into the banks above and filling over the slip below with rock fill.

"The old slip material both new and historic layers would also have to be removed and doing this task in winter would have to be factored into the programme. The design, factors of safety of the stability of the slopes above, and safety and ecological impact of the proposed road re-alignment are currently being assessed."

Option 2 Bridge

"At this stage, the information and advice gathered so far is showing that a steel bridge (rather than a bridge with concrete beams) could be the fastest to construct.

"We are looking for time saving options such as precast deck elements and long beams that are not too heavy to reduce the number of time-consuming piles to be installed.

"The smaller the crane we need to lift the beams the better; as building a stable crane platform on weak soil, and forming an access to them, will be time consuming."

Option 3 Retaining wall

"Development of the retaining wall option to re-form the road embankment is well underway in parallel. The soils were tested on Monday 17 April 2023 to better understand the ground conditions this will be key in deciding if rebuilding embankments are viable options or not.

"All three options have varying challenges which are being weighed up, and Waka Kotahi is committed to delivering a solution as quickly as possible. Expediting delivery will be given a high weighting for the option selection. The options assessment will be completed and a preferred option confirmed in May."

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ITANAGAR, 28 Apr: For the first time in Arunachal Pradesh, a new technology is being used on the Papu-Yupia-Hoj-Potin stretch of NH 713 A and NH 13 for slope stabilisation in landslide-prone areas by strengthening the soil using ground improvement technology.

The ministry of road transport & highways (MoRTH) floated the tender for the project with the aim of bringing about a permanent solution to the slip zones in the Papu-Yupia-Hoj-Potin stretch of NH 713 A and NH 13 at km 31 (Hoj market), km 38.300 (Yabi village), km 39 (waterfall), km 39.700 (Appa Crusher) and km 40.300 (crusher point).

The work is being executed by the state PWD highway. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 63.02 crores.

All five locations where the project is being implemented are known for constant landslides and blockages during the monsoon season. New Delhi-based Spar Geo Infra Pvt Ltd, which specialises in geo-engineering projects for designing and executing critical landslide zones using slope stabilisation technology, is executing the project.

The work is underway on a war footing on the ground. The state PWD highway department is monitoring the project jointly with the MoRTH.

This technology is being used for the first time under the NH section in Arunachal. The main purpose of executing this project is to stabilise the slopes and provide a proper drainage system to protect it from landslides, and to reduce entry of water in order to control the groundwater level, informed an official of Spar Geo Infra Pvt Ltd.

He further said that techniques used for the project include implementation of pre-stressed anchors, rock bolts, soil nailing with different types of mesh, reinforced earth wall, geo-synthetic reinforcement, retaining wall, etc, as per design.

The work on the project started in November 2022. We are working in five different locations in between Hoj market and Appa Crusher. The expected time schedule for completion of the project is 24 months, and we are confident of completing it on time, the official added.

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Home remodeling costs vary depending on the scope of the project and the type of work performed. Heres a look at what you can expect to pay for your home remodel.

The average cost to remodel your whole house is between an average of $10 $60 per square foot. So on the low end, a 2,500-square-foot home costs at a minimum about $25,000 to remodel.

This includes improvements like painting, landscaping, and updating the trim and flooring. You might also replace the cabinetry, appliances and countertops. However, youll pay more for things like foundation repair, a full bathroom or kitchen remodel and HVAC and roof replacement.

A gut and remodel is a much more extensive renovation that involves updating every surface, appliance, and fixture. It often involves taking walls down to the studs, replacing windows, and replacing the plumbing and electrical. The average cost to gut the home down to its studs is between $2,500 $9,800. Then, youll need to add on the cost to remodel.

A home addition involves adding a room or structure to your home. Homeowners may do this to add more square footage to their existing home or to make better use of the space they have. For example, you could add a bedroom or sunroom onto the side of the house or an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to your garage.

The average home addition costs between $22,372 and $81,164. Youll pay the most to build a room addition since that involves making changes to the homes floor plan.

A historic home is any structure thats at least 50 years old and meets one of the following criteria:

Its challenging to take a historic home and update it to todays safety and environmental standards. You may have to repair structural elements of the home and youll need to hire licensed contractors who have experience updating historical homes. You may also have to pay for higher insurance costs.

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All over Portland, since the population boom in the early 1900s, large old houses have been divided to create apartments. Heres a twist: A Victorian-era dwelling that had been converted into a fourplex has been restored, from the basement to the suite in the former attic, to connect all 4,223 square feet of living space.

The 1883 Italianate-style house at 2805 S.E. 28th Ave. in the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood was listed for sale on April 13 at $1,350,000. Six days later, an offer was accepted.

Multiple bonus rooms and flex spaces ... porches and nooks to explore throughout the house, says listing agent Gregory Sobotka of Think Real Estate.

Portland design-build firm Arciform renovated the house in phases while preserving its original architecture and timeless craftsmanship. Most notable: A window created by Povey Brothers Art Glass Works, Oregons first decorative window company, known as the Tiffany of the Northwest.

All the existing windows were repaired, re-glazed and received new ropes and pulleys, and storm windows were installed, says Sobotka.

Among the preserved intricate woodworking is a staircase built with contouring banisters from the main level to second-floor landing.

The house with 12-foot-high ceilings has a new kitchen, butlers pantry, seating areas fronting bay windows plus five bedrooms and three bathrooms.

The elevated, 7,405-square-foot, landscaped and fenced lot has views of Portlands skyline.

Before Portland created a uniformed street name and address system in the 1930s, the house for sale was at 545 E. 28th Street.

The original owner, Menzo J. Morse, was born in 1847 in New York and served as a teenager in the 64th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the Civil War.

He and his wife, Amelia E. Hunter, and their daughter, Eva, moved to Portland in 1880, where Morse owned the Oregon Picture Frame manufacturing company and was a circuit court bailiff, according to his obituary.

Morse was a member of Portlands Grand Army of the Republic Post 1 fraternal organization and was one of 14 founders of the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Southwest Portland. He died at age 74 and was buried at the cemetery.

Historians say Salmon Brown, son of abolitionist leader John Brown, and Hartwell B. Compson, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War and was Brigadier General of the Oregon National Guard, were also buried at the historic cemetery.

Janet Eastman | 503-294-4072

jeastman@oregonian.com | @janeteastman

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Installed Building Products, In which can be found using ticker (IBP) now have 9 confirmed analysts covering the stock with the consensus suggesting a rating of Hold. The target price High/Low ranges between 151 and 85 and has a mean target at $113.67. Given that the stocks previous close was at $119.67 this indicates there is a potential downside of -5.0%. The 50 day MA is $111.36 and the 200 day MA is $95.84. The market capitalization for the company is $3,509m. Find out more information at: https://www.installedbuildingproducts.com

The potential market cap would be $3,333m based on the market consensus.

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Installed Building Products, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the installation of insulation, waterproofing, fire-stopping, fireproofing, garage doors, rain gutters, window blinds, shower doors, closet shelving and mirrors, and other products in the continental United States. The company offers a range of insulation materials, such as fiberglass and cellulose, and spray foam insulation materials. It is also involved in the installation of insulation and sealant materials in various areas of a structure, which includes basement and crawl space, building envelope, attic, and acoustical applications. In addition, the company installs a range of caulk and sealant products that control air infiltration in residential and commercial buildings; and waterproofing options, including sheet and hot applied waterproofing membranes, as well as deck coating, bentonite, and air and vapor systems. It serves homebuilders, multi-family and commercial construction firms, individual homeowners, and repair and remodeling contractors. The company was formerly known as CCIB Holdco, Inc. Installed Building Products, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

The company has a dividend yield of 1.17% with the ex dividend date set at 14-3-2023 (DMY).

Other points of data to note are a P/E ratio of 15.85, revenue per share of 93 and a 12.13% return on assets.

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In March 2020, the Lyon County Historical Society received a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant, also known as a Legacy Grant for $9,500 for CollectiveAccess Data Conversion. The project, which consisted of data conversion from the former system Past Perfect to CollectiveAccess, setup on the public site, training, and data cleanup, was completed in the summer of 2020.

CollectiveAccess is an online, open source-based collections management software system available through the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums (MALHM). Organizations using the CollectiveAccess system have the opportunity to share as much or as little of their collection online as they wish. The benefit of sharing the collection online is that it becomes more accessible to researchers and the public. Currently, there are 45 organizations from across the state using CollectiveAccess for their collections management.

LCHS currently has over 22,000 items from the museum collection cataloged on the system. As of now, we have shared over 6,800 objects on the public website. To view our shared collection online, visit http://www.mncollections.org and click on the Lyon County Historical Society. You can search the collection by typing in keywords such as a business name, town in Lyon County, school, person, sport, etc.

If you are searching for something that does not show up, feel free to reach out to us via email or phone. We have many items in our collection that are not yet accessible online or cataloged, but we can check to see if we have it in our collection. If you have objects, photographs, documents, etc. pertaining to Lyon County history that you would like to donate to LCHS, please feel free to reach out to us to see if we can accept it for the collection.

The photograph featured this week shows an item from our collection. The object id number is 2021.74.11. This system of numbers is applied to items donated to LCHS. For this object id number, the 2021 is the year the item was donated, the 74 is the assigned number to the donor, and the 11 refers to this being the 11th item in this collection donated. This two-piece ensemble was worn by Audrey (Aamodt) Hostetler in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was donated along with other articles of clothing by Audreys daughter in October 2021.

The Lyon County Historical Society (LCHS) is a non-profit, member-supported organization. LCHS operates the Lyon County Museum at 301 W Lyon St in Marshall. The Lyon County Museum is open year-round to visitors. To contact us, visit our website: http://www.lyoncomuseum.org, call: 507-537-6580, email: director@lyoncomuseum.org, or on our Facebook page.

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AURORA, Ohio (WJW) Caught in the act! Portage County residents were surprised to find their Amazon package missing, but it was even more shocking to find out the culprit.

The incident happened Tuesday night on East Pioneer Trail in Aurora.

In video captured on security camera, a sneaky racoon is seen dragging the package off the porch and across the yard.

We had a thief steal our Amazon package off our front porch last night on East Pioneer Trail, Sally Baird said in a Facebook post Wednesay. Trying to decide whether or not to press charges!

It turns out the package was full of food for the ducklings hatching in their incubator.

The little rascal toted it off and ate every bite, Baird told FOX 8. The entertainment provided by our masked bandit was worth every penny it cost to replace.

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New Hampshire resident, Bonnie McKenzie, was startled awake on Sunday morning to find an enormous black bear on her front porch.

"We were sleeping, and at about 2:30 in the morning, I heard our blink camera system going crazy," McKenzie told Newsweek. "As I was getting up to see what was going on I heard a large crash.

"When I got up and went to look on the porch I observed a huge bear approximately 300 to 400 pounds had broken through our enclosed porch door. He then left the same way he came in."

The next evening, at about 8:30 p.m, the bear paid McKenzie a second visit. "This time [he] broke through the glass and entered the porch again. The only thing we could figure out that he wanted is we have a metal locked container that my hubby keeps bird seed in. He made no attempt to try to get into that."

McKenzie's husband shouted at the bear through the sliding door, which seemed to do the trick. "He took off rather quickly," McKenzie said. "Needless to say we have been uneasy that he may return again. We have also gotten rid of all bird seed."

Black bears are the only bear species found in New Hampshire. According to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, there are between 4,800 and 5,000 bears across the state, with an average of one bear for every 2 square miles.

McKenzie lives in Laconia, in Belknap County, and is no stranger to these apex predators. "We have lived in this co-op community for 23 years and have had bears in our area often roaming around the neighborhood, but never breaking in anyone's residence," McKenzie said.

In New Hampshire, bears typically come out of hibernation in late March to early April. This male bear was likely looking for food, which is why he may have been drawn to McKenzie's crate of bird seed.

Bears are clever animals, so to avoid attracting them to your yard, it is best to put away bird feeders from April to December, and take them out again once the bears have gone back to their dens to hibernate.

McKenzie shared photos and footage of the bear to her local community Facebook group in a post that has received hundreds of likes and comments.

Users were quick to point out a small bear statue in McKenzie's garden with the word "welcome" painted across it.

"I'll have to remove my little bear welcome sign," McKenzie said. "I don't want it to bring its buddies here!"

If you see a bear, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department advises you to keep your distance. You should never run or turn your back to a black bear and, if you are attacked by a black bear, you should fight back rather than "play dead."

Correction 04/20/2023, 10:00 a.m. ET: This article was updated to correct the location of the incident to New Hampshire.

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Lilys front porch test, which she submitted Teds girlfriends to in How I Met Your Mother, always highlighted moral quandaries, but the reason behind it also hid a very sweet reasoning. Only appearing in How I Met Your Mother season 4, episode 17, The Front Porch, Lilys meddling in multiple relationships of Teds proved amusing because it prompted Ted and Karen to break up, a welcome development for the group considering their distaste of Karen. However, given how extensively involved Lily was revealed to be in Teds relationships, her front porch test always seemed too manipulative to be only considered a laughing-off expedient.

Teds high school girlfriend Karen made multiple appearances in How I Met Your Mother, often in Ted, Marshall, and Lilys university stories, but How I Met Your Mother season 4 officially introduced her in the shows main timeline. Even if she hadnt failed Lilys porch test, Karen was hated by all of Teds friends, and Lilys impulse to break them up only reflected the whole groups attitude towards Karen. Still, despite Karens behavior somewhat explaining Lilys inexcusable behavior, her meddling also hid a secret sweet meaning, making the porch test also a sweet example of Lily, Ted, and Marshalls beautiful friendship through the years.

While undoubtedly meddlesome, Lilys porch test reasons always had Teds best interests at heart, and an idea that Lily and Marshalls future would be shared with Ted and whoever his future wife would have been as its basis in How I Met Your Mother season 4. After all, Lily betting Karens worst impulses would have kicked in after she found Robins earrings interfered with Teds relationship, but she also displayed a keen knowledge of both Ted and Karen, as she knew Ted couldnt have stayed with someone like Karen without being hurt. Lilys How I Met Your Mother season 4, episode 17 meddling only protected Ted in the end.

How I Met Your Mother spent its nine seasons establishing how fundamental Lily, Marshall, and Ted were for each other, showing time and time again how they were there for one another and had been so since their university years. No matter how morally complicated, Lily was motivated to meddle with Teds love life due to a certainty that her and Marshalls old age would have been spent with Ted just as much as their adulthood was. Given that Lily and Marshall were the people who knew Ted better, Lily could likely see what an infatuated Ted couldnt, and while the execution was poor, Lilys heart was always in the right place in HIMYM.

Despite her best intentions, Lilys front porch test was still highly problematic in How I Met Your Mother season 4, episode 17. Indeed, not only did the test emphasize how Lily put herself in a position of moral superiority, given that she acted that way because she was sure that she knew better than Ted, but she also used subterfuge to get what she wanted instead of confronting Ted about it. How I Met Your Mother highlighted Teds proven record of not listening to reason if in love, but that wasnt reason enough for Lily to trick him into getting him to end relationships.

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Even if Lilys love for Ted and the certainty that she, Marshall, and Ted would have spent their lives together motivated How I Met Your Mothers front porch test and the subsequent manipulation, good intentions didnt cancel out her appalling actions and lies to Ted. However, unearthing Lilys porch test eventually led to a valuable development because the jig was up, making Ted realize that Karen having a terrible opinion of his lifelong friends mattered. In the end, no matter how problematic, Lilys How I Met Your Mother front porch test had a positive effect on Teds life by making it clear to him what was truly important.

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