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CARROLL:Actually, unless the Commission has any questions to ask, I’m ready to summarize our case. WATANABE:Okay. Maybe you can summarize and then we’ll follow through with questions or, yeah, why don’t we do that. CARROLL:All right. Well, very simply, the technology is such that they basically evaporate these bodies and then crush the bones. There’s nothing coming out of there at all. And I think anybody knows my background, the last thing I would ever be involved with is something that’s going to pollute our atmosphere. When I saw this poop sheet that Mr. Nakakura sent out, I frankly was a little bit inflamed; and I don’t usually don’t get like this. But the facts simply do not square off with what he’s saying. Now, we all respect entrepreneurs, we respect people who compete, we respect people who do things on a fair basis. But this thing here went really beyond reason in my book; and I think it has inflamed a lot of people. I noticed that the only person here to testify contrary to our position is Mr. Nakakura, or I believe he’s here to do that. So I would say if you will consider the facts, consider the evidence, consider that what you have heard is the truth, then I think that you will grant us this variance. And, of course, we are more than happy to answer any questions that we have. And these ladies, by the way, are Connie Brumbaugh, Penny Brumbaugh and Susan Gillispie, and they are the three people who run this. And given the amount of fraud and crime that we’ve had involved with the funeral business, it’s so refreshing to have people that, if you read the testimony of the people who came in last time, it’s just overwhelming; and I think everyone in this room right here is ready to testify about what a tremendously good job they’re doing. This crematorium is going to allow them to give really funerals that people can actually afford and not take in thousands of dollars away from them over a period of years hoping that they’re going to still have something left when they finally die. So I am very proud to be able to represent them; and I really would ask that you just do clearly look at the facts and not the idea of a Gestapo operation where they’re burning bodies and smoke coming out of the chimney down there. So -. WATANABE:Okay, thank you. So, why don’t I open up to questions of the Applicant from the Commissioners. RHO:I have a question. I assume that you folks have access to this County of Hawai`i Planning Department Recommendations? CARROLL:We do. RHO:You do. And as I read it, I would say that two of the four or five pages deal with parking, deal with parking. CARROLL:Correct. EXHIBIT D 11