Junges Leipzig - Tapetenwerk
For English version, scroll down please. -- Das Tapetenwerk" in der Ltzner Strae 91 ist seit 2007 ein pulsierender Ort des Handwerks, der Kunst und des Designs. Zu den Mietern zhlen...
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Pacific Grove resident complains seal pup fences blocks the view
A fence was built to keep people away from tiny seal pups and their mothers on a beach in Pacific Grove.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The stretch of the Big Sioux River that flows through Sioux Falls should be safe for swimming, without fear that diving below the surface would require a visit to a hospital emergency room and a course of antibiotics.
This is called immersion recreation, and it is the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources goal for the river, based on standards established in the federal Clean Water Act.
The DENR also has set a lesser goal for Skunk Creek to become a stream suitable for fishing and limited contact, such as wading.
Skunk Creek, though, provides most of the rivers flow through the city in summer, because much of the Big Sioux upstream is directed to the flood-control diversion channel.
Sioux Falls recently completed extensive recreational and public entertainment improvements to the River Greenway through downtown, and planning has begun for the third phase of that project, Mayor Mike Huether said. It is an effort to enhance the Big Sioux as a valued amenity, and if the river ever does reach the immersion recreation standard, its value to the community will skyrocket, said Teri Schmidt, executive director of the Sioux Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau.
That would be just another plus about Sioux Falls and the river and the Falls Park area, she said. People love water, and a lot of people that travel are looking for areas with water that they can enjoy for recreational activities. One of those is being able to put your foot in it.
If it ever became the case where it was completely safe for people to swim and we started marketing that, I have a feeling there would be people excited about it.
While the citys major use of the river is for drinking water, Huether said, its recreational potential is inviting.
The goal is to make it look good, second, to be able to float on top of it in canoes and kayaks. But wouldnt it be wonderful if we could actually tube down that river and swim in that river? he asked.
But for that to happen, Skunk Creek needs to change.
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Polands last Communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski has died at the age of 90.
General Jaruzelski had been in ill health for some time and had been hospitalised in recent years with serious health problems.
Jaruzelski made his mark on history when he declared martial law in a crackdown on the trade union opposition movement known as Solidarity.
The man behind that movement was Lech Walesa, an electrician by trade.
Walesa organised illegal strikes at the Gdansk shipyard in protest at poor living standards and to defend workers rights.
Jaruzelski later took control of the army and the Polish Communist Party and was named as prime minister.
Amid severe economic hardship, he banned protests and industrial action and jailed Solidaritys leaders.
An estimated 100 people died during Polands 19 months under martial law.
The then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev began to shift towards changing the Soviet Union with his ideas of Glasnost Perestroika.
Finally it was the Soviets who imposed negotiating with Solidarity on the allied Polish military government.
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Poland's General Jaruzelski has died, aged 90
Wojciech Jaruzelski, the expressionless Polish general behind dark glasses who imposed martial law in 1981 to crush the independent trade union Solidarity and nearly eight years later participated in the negotiated revolution that led to the fall of communism in Poland, died Sunday at a military hospital in Warsaw. He was 90.
A hospital spokesman announced the death. The general had a stroke this month and had previously been treated for cancer.
Gen. Jaruzelski, the scion of landed gentry, was deported to the Soviet Union as a forced laborer in 1941 and returned to Poland later in World War II as a committed communist in the ranks of the Soviet-created Polish First Army.
Starting in the 1950s, he rose rapidly in the military and political establishments of the new Peoples Republic of Poland. After the Soviet-backed governments fall in 1989, Gen. Jaruzelskis past was at the center of post-communist debates about historical reckoning and justice.
Gen. Jaruzelski was accused of being Moscows stooge, and his political foes repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempted to have him punished for his role in the bloody suppression of protests against the system. He defended himself as a patriot who was forced into the impossible choice of smothering Solidarity himself or watching the Soviet army do it. He said he feared a Soviet invasion would result in carnage; his critics dismissed that as a convenient mirage.
I served the Poland that existed, Gen. Jaruzelski said in one of his many exculpatory assessments of his record.
Some saw something incorruptible in the ascetic and disciplined officer.
He was perhaps the only man in Poland who was a Communist because he believed in communism, journalist Tina Rosenberg wrote in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Haunted Land: Facing Europes Ghosts After Communism. Even Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, the generals onetime nemesis, thought Gen. Jaruzelski loved his country but was born in the wrong era.
A young nationalist aristocrat
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (pronounced VOI-chekh, VEE-told, yah-roo-ZEL-skee) was born July 6, 1923, and grew up on an estate in eastern Poland. Local peasants bowed to the family as they passed in their carriage on the way to Sunday Mass, he recalled.
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Former Flying Frog Demolition Begins
A long-anticipated demolition project is underway in downtown Asheville. The old Flying Frog Restaurant on Haywood Street was the first building to go. It #39;s ...
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Preparations Has Begun for the Demolition of the Old Hong Kong Restaurant in Tamuning
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Demolition set for Easton #39;s beach building
Demolition is set to begin for the Easton #39;s Beach Building that was damaged in the fire.
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