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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's men's varsity basketball team ended a six-game losing streak to start the season in impressive fashion last week, sweeping its two games at the Crisfield Holiday Tournament to break into the win column for the first time in the 2007-2008 campaign.
The Seahawks were 0-6 entering the Crisfield tourney last weekend, its closest loss coming by eleven points to Cambridge-South Dorchester back on December 13. However, Decatur rallied for two big wins to jumpstart their season last weekend in the holiday tournament.
Decatur edged Washington High, 60-59 in their first game of the Crisfield tournament last Friday. The Seahawks followed that dramatic win with a comparatively easier 57-42 win over Holly Grove on Saturday. The Seahawks hit the road tonight for a rare non-conference game against Delaware's Indian River before returning home next Tuesday for a rematch with Washington.

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The statistics showing how satisfied with the sovereign's rule the population is. There are many factors - daily or single time, which cause increase or drop of the current happiness. These effects should be considered carefully so no unexpected unpleasant results occur. The main consequence from low happiness (not recommended) is emigration, riots and rebellions. The closer to its maximum the happiness of a province/colony is, the happier the population will be and respectively - the smaller the chance for emigration and riots.
For more information about happiness click here.
Happiness balance
The overall sum of all local or global daily happiness modifiers for the current 24 hours between two migrations. The happiness balance is the statistic determining if the Happiness will be rising or dropping every minute. It is calculated over a 24 hour period, i.e. if the Happiness balance is +24/24h, 1 Happiness point will be added to the current happiness value every hour. The happiness balance is showed in green in the left wing of Happiness window.
Happy tax
A button located in the tax menu. It sets all taxes in the annexed provinces or colonies at a rate corresponding to a positive happiness balance.
Economic Building.
Type: Capital, Add-on
Prerequisites: Palace 1
Maximum Level: 16
Palace Add-on. Allows you to pay resources to level up your Generals. Each level after the first one of the Headquarters increases the received experience from training by 5%. Each 2 levels allow for the simultaneous training of an additional great person. At level 16 of the Headquarters up to 8 great persons can be trained simultaneously.
You can train your Great People through their Profile and Trainings tab in tab Warden Generals in the Palace.
Healer Scientist
One of the skills available to Generals upon leveling up. Increases the limit of Unit Recovery after battle: Level 1: +1% limit; Level 2: +2% limit; Level 3: +3% limit; Level 4: +4% limit; Level 5: +6% limit
Heavy Archer
Army Unit.
Trained in: Archery Barracks
Prerequisites: Ranged Attack 10, Centralization 6
• Type: Ranged, Infantry, Archer
• Priority Deployment: Archery Line
+ Long Range: This unit has 2 extra Attacks in Field Battle or Fortress Assault, before melee begins
+ Higher Ground: If garrisoned, this unit is boosted during Fortress Assault – Attack x 4
+ Suppressing Fire: During Fortress Assault, this unit can attack the garrisoned defenders with Attack x 0.2
+ Rain of Arrows: Attack x 3 vs. Spearmen
- Vulnerable to Swordsmen: Against this unit the Attack of all Swordsmen is increased
- Vulnerable to Cavalry: Against this unit the Attack of all Cavalry is increased
- Hand-to-Hand Disadvantage: Attack x 0.33 vs. Swordsmen
- Anti-personnel: Attack x 0.25 vs. Siege Engines
- Weak Morale: Attack x 0.33, when engaged by a Melee unit
- Quiver: 18 shots; when ammo is depleted, this unit maintains its position until engaged in melee
For detailed unit stats, click here.
Heavy Cavalry
Army Unit.
Trained in: Cavalry Barracks
Prerequisites: Melee Attack 10, War Horses 10, Armor 10, Army Drills 8, Centralization 6
• Type: Melee, Cavalry
• Priority Deployment: Flank (Frontline)
+ Charge: This unit is boosted in the first round of combat – Attack x 1.5
+ Close Combat: Attack x 4 vs. Archers
+ Equestrian Combat: Attack x 2 vs. Swordsmen
+ Maneuverable: This unit is boosted when fighting in a Flank – Attack x 1.2, Hit Points x 1.2
- Vulnerable to Spearmen: Against this unit the Attack of Pikemen and Men-at-Arms is increased
- Short Reach: Attack x 0.17 vs. Spearmen
- Rider: This unit cannot attack during Fortress Assault
- Close Quarters Disadvantage: This unit suffers penalties during Fortress Sacking – Attack x 0.5, Hit Points x 0.5
For detailed unit stats, click here.
Heavy Spearman
Army Unit.
Trained in: Infantry Barracks
Prerequisites: Melee Attack 1, Military Doctrine 2, Centralization 6, Army Drills 8
• Type: Melee, Infantry, Spearman
• Priority Deployment: Flank (Frontline)
+ Polearm: Attack x 2 vs. Cavalry
+ Spear Wall: This unit is immune to Cavalry's Charge bonus to Attack
- Vulnerable to Archers: Against this unit the Attack of all Archers is increased
- Hand-to-Hand Disadvantage: Attack x 0.5 vs. Swordsmen
- Light Troop: This unit suffers penalties when fighting in a Center – Attack x 0.9, Hit Points x 0.9
For detailed unit stats, click here.
Heavy Swordsman
Army Unit.
Trained in: Infantry Barracks
Prerequisites: Melee Attack 10, Armor 10, Centralization 6
• Type: Melee, Infantry, Swordsman
• Priority Deployment: Center (Frontline)
+ Assault Troop: This unit is prioritized in Frontline composition during Fortress Assault
+ Close Combat: Attack x 2 vs. Archers
+ Shield Wall: This unit is boosted when defending – Hit Points x 1.2
- Vulnerable to Cavalry: Against this unit all Cavalry has Attack x 2
- Heavy Troop: This unit suffers penalties when fighting in a Flank: Attack x 0.9, Hit Points x 0.9
For detailed unit stats, click here.
Heavy unit
The medium military unit class. Defends and attacks most easily heavy Fortress class levels – 4, 5, 6.
Heavy units: heavy archers, heavy spearmen, heavy swordsmen, heavy cavalry, catapults and ballistae.
High tax rate
Fifth tax level. 500 gold for 100 workers per hour. Takes 50 Happiness away per 24 hours.
Hit points
Unit's parameter, implying life, durability, resistance to enemy's attack. Hit points of a certain unit type increase with accordance to the class – light, heavy, elite, and is boosted by Armor levels and Premium. The units with the highest hit points values, regardless the class, are all siege engines.
A section of the Inventory menu, accessible through the button in the upper right-hand corner of your Main Screen. All the chests you receive throughout the game are stored within the Hoard, including chests from Diamond purchases, Barbarian Camp destruction, Lottery rewards, etc.
You can access the Hoard, and claim the contents of a chest at any given time. You can only open one chest of a given type per 12 hours.
The Hoard has no contents limit. The contents of the Hoard are impervious to enemy attacks, and cannot be lost.
Holidays protection
An option that can be activated by every player but only during holidays previously announced by Imperia Online team and for limited periods determined by Imperia Online. While activated, the account cannot be attacked neither can send attacks. Army cannot be sent to Evasion. Meanwhile, the account can be accessed, Buildings can be constructed, Technologies can be researched, army can be recruited etc. All attacks sent to the respective Empire before the activation will still be performed. Alliance battles do not fall under any rules of protection whatsoever. Attacks to independent cities for pillaging resources, attacks on barbarian camps are also not possible. Attacks on the Dark fortress, Skull of wonders, Tower of Knowledge and Stone Prison are possible. Army upkeep will not be taken although it will look as if it is taken in Statistics menu (army upkeep will be taken in case you attack the Dark fortress, the Skull of wonders, Tower of Knowledge or Stone Prisonthough).
* Both, Vacation mode and Holidays protection, can be activated solely if you currently don't have troops on a mission, except evasion and movement between holdings. Please, note that army upkeep will be taken on evasion and movement mission during a vacation mode.
Homeless Population
Homeless is the population that gathers upon having already reached the population limit allowed by the current level of Houses. Homeless population growth is twice lower. It can be recruited for army, but cannot be hired in the mines and, thus, doesn't produce resources. To make use of it, you should build enough levels of Houses.
The statistics that shows each player's military behavior - whether he/she conducts equal battles and fights in a rather civilized way. Honor is earned in battles with active players but not unless the following requirements are fulfilled: losing at least 10% of your own army's units and attacking within the allowed x2 range. All players receive +2 daily Honor points and Diplomacy Officers +1 additional Honor point every day. Honor is lost upon performing pillages, attacks out of range and recalling your army 15 minutes or more after it was sent. Positive and negative Honor influence the army morale and the happiness of your empire.
NB! Honor penalty for pillaging is taken after the battle finishes and, thus, it is shown in the battle report. Honor penalty for attacking out of range, though, is taken right after the attack has been sent, so it is never shown in the battle report and Honor is always subtracted even if the attack is recalled.
For more information about Honor click here.
This standing allows war declaration without any consequences to the Honor. Hostility is active right after its declaration.
Buildings civilian villagers live in. Their levels increase the population limit of a province.
How to play?
Imperia Online's official full manual. It contains all the detailed information, a player might need at some point, organized in modules and topics.


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This year, as part of their Campout, Getting S'more of Jesus VBS program, our friends at Zoar UCC collected a wonderful variety of supplies and cash for DuBois Center to use throughout the year. Thanks to them, we now have piles of construction paper and ribbon for crafting, hats and ties for dressing up, beach balls and bandannas for playing, glue sticks and scissors for creating, and even a bag of food for the barn cats.
Amid the boxes and bags that were delivered, a number of backpacks and water bottles were also included. There are always summer campers, many from low-income families, who arrive without these critical items. This gift will help replenish those supplies for next summer.
Sending a shout out to the Zoar UCC VBS team – "campers," parents, teachers and helpers: THANK YOU for keeping DuBois Center in your thoughts and prayers, and for this very fun and timely gift!


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The World's Rarest Avocados
And the men and women who are trying to collect all of them—before it's too late.
Each tree that Richard Campbell walks past in the Florida orchard where he works reminds him of a person, a place, and a story. One of Campbell's favorite botanical biographies here is that of the Blas avocado, a large green-skinned fruit with flesh as runny as warm butter. He first found the tree about a decade ago in a village called San Mateo in the coastal lowlands of Costa Rica. According to local lore, the tree—a gnarly old giant with smooth skin and olive-green, half-moon leaves—had grown from an avocado pit discarded more than a century before. The tree's fruit had garnered such regional fame that some people would travel nearly 100 miles during harvest time to collect piles of it in oxcarts.
Campbell located the owner of the tree and got his permission to remove several branch tips for grafting. Today, two clones of the original grow in the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Fla., where Campbell and several other fruit collectors have established a vast collection of tropical tree fruits, including mangos, jackfruits, mamey sapotes, and durians. There are some 200 varieties of avocados alone, most of them collected by Campbell and his frequent collection partner, Noris Ledesma, between 2002 and 2008 on a series of expeditions to Central America and the Caribbean. This region, bounded by Hispaniola, Panama, and southern Mexico, is the place of wild origin of the West Indian avocado. This subspecies of Persea americana, or the common avocado, is distinguished by its fruit's smooth green skin, low oil content, sweet and juicy flesh, and large size—usually more than a pound in weight. For many people in Latin America, this fruit is a dietary staple, often used in smoothies, ice cream, avocado mousse, and even juice. (By contrast, the popular Hass avocado—a hybrid of the Mexican and Guatemalan subspecies—has thick, oily meat, well suited for guacamole.)
Florida farmers have grown West Indian avocados for years, though only a few varieties. Campbell and Ledesma believe that thousands more exist in the coastal areas south of the Bahamas. Here grow native avocado varieties that occur nowhere else in the world, making them especially valuable to geneticists seeking to preserve and study rare plants. Campbell and Ledesma's goal is to collect as many of these undiscovered avocado types as possible and preserve them in the Fairchild collection. This ambition is not merely the product of aesthetic appreciation of the fruit. In truth, thanks to development, deforestation, and climate change, avocado breeds are disappearing more quickly than Campbell and Ledesma can collect them, and many types could disappear before they are even discovered.
Fruit collectors have been embarking on exotic tree-hunting safaris for centuries. The first leg of the famously doomed 1787 voyage of Lt. William Bligh on the soon-to-be-mutinied HMS Bounty was, in fact, a mission to collect breadfruit saplings in Tahiti. Bligh's assignment was to transport the young trees from the Pacific to the Caribbean and thereby introduce a new source of food to the islands' slave camps. A century later, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent several explorers to Turkey, Greece, Italy, and North Africa in search of desirable fig varieties, with the hope (ultimately successful) of launching a profitable industry in the similar climes of California. At about the same time, David Fairchild, for whom the Fairchild Garden is named, was conducting his own exotic plant exploration for the United States government. Fairchild ultimately helped introduce pistachios, nectarines, Chinese soy beans, and mangos to Americans.
Today, scientists from many nations continue the hunt for new or exotic plants. Carrying GPS locators and traveling in jeeps, they pursue wild seedlings or unknown cultivated varieties throughout Asia, equatorial Africa, and Latin America and bring their finds back for propagation in botanical collections. The Fairchild Garden is just one facility of its sort. A vast apple collection in upstate New York, managed jointly by Cornell University and the USDA, includes some 8,000 accessions. Near Sacramento, Calif., the USDA and UC-Davis co-manage an orchard containing thousands of grape, walnut, almond, kiwi, persimmon, and fig varieties, among others. And in Corvallis, Ore., another government-university collection includes blackberries, raspberries, hazelnuts, and hops. The United States isn't the only player in this game, either: The Greek government, for example, keeps a huge assortment of olive trees near Kalamata.
These collections, and many others like them, are genetic libraries that preserve natural diversity within species and offer farmers new varieties to grow and sell. (Even home gardeners may access many of the plants grown at these facilities.) Perhaps more importantly, varietal plant collections provide genetic building blocks for the use of fruit breeders, many of whom work with the USDA to develop tastier and higher-yielding fruits. Other breeders focus on creating disease-resistant or drought-tolerant varieties, both increasingly important as climate change begins to pose new challenges for farmers.
Plant-collecting outings are usually focused on known regions of indigenous abundance. For example, a major hotspot of apple and walnut diversity lies in Asia's Caspian and Aral basins, where many thousands of wild and cultivated varieties grow. Explorers targeting grapes have traveled in the Republic of Georgia, while those seeking bananas have looked to Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Typically the most valuable material is found in wild forests and other wilderness regions, though populated areas are often the best places to look for high-quality fruits, since local people have usually already found (or bred) their region's most appealing varieties.
While jetlagged collectors can make valuable finds by driving rental cars through towns with one eye peering over fences and into backyards, an even better place to begin a fruit-hunting trip is a village's farmers market or bazaar. Here, among the many piles and crates of local fruits and vegetables, may dwell treasures—fruits harvested from backyard trees that aren't known outside the region. When hunting for new avocados, Campbell and Ledesma browse such outdoor markets in search of fruits with outstanding physical features. "We basically want trees that have unusual fruit—whether long, big, purple-skinned, without a seed, whatever," Campbell explains.
If the local market lacks interesting fruits, Campbell and Ledesma may work a trick that has many times drawn great avocados out from hiding: They drive slowly through the dirt streets of a village and, using a bullhorn, invite all the locals to bring their homegrown avocados to a weekend fruit competition, at which the best avocado will win its owner a new bicycle, previously purchased at a local shop on the expedition's expense account. A small crowd of locals, Campbell says, is almost sure to gather at the appointed place with samples of their backyard fruits.
The next step is tracing an interesting fruit back to the tree from which it was picked—an often challenging feat that may depend on the assistance of a local guide familiar with the region's geography and its farmers. Even after the collector has pinpointed the location of a tree, another hurdle may be convincing its owner to allow branches to be cut. "They're often worried that we're trying to put them out of business or that they'll lose their income if they give us any wood," Campbell says. Sometimes, befriending locals in the village bar over several rounds of beer can do the trick. And to quell any lingering suspicions, Campbell usually provides written assurances of royalties on fruit sales should the tree ever become a cultivated commercial variety.
Through their many expeditions and negotiations, Campbell and Ledesma have brought some knockout avocados back to the Fairchild Garden. There is one they found in a backyard garden in Rivas, Nicaragua called the Pura Vida. The Pura Vida bears gourd-shaped fruits averaging 18 inches in length, with some growing as long as 3 feet. Then there's the Juan Jose, an avocado Campbell and Ledesma found growing on a tree in Costa Rica and whose fruits contain no seed at all—just light, creamy flesh within a soft, green skin. Campbell and Ledesma dubbed another the "car wash avocado" after the rural outpost where they found the tree growing in Guatemala. Similarly, there are two "truck stop avocados," each collected from a roadside truckers' café in Guatemala.
Other fruit collectors have favorite stories from the hunt, too. USDA researcher John Preece tells of the seeds he culled from a grove of wild olive trees growing amid the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Butrint in Albania. He had seen the trees on a hillside from the distance, and access could only be gained by paying the admission fee to the popular tourist attraction. On the same trip, Preece followed a trail of rumors to locate a bizarre walnut with three kernels inside the shell instead of the usual two—not necessarily a walnut with commercial potential but certainly one of interest to a plant geneticist. This summer, USDA geneticist Malli Aradhya was touring Azerbaijan on the hunt for stone fruits, pomegranates, and figs—but the local government-run fig orchard was crawling with deadly gurza vipers. Four groundskeepers had already been struck that summer. Aradhya decided not to test his luck.
Deliberating whether or not to enter a snake-infested orchard to sample figs may seem crazy, but there's urgency in the work of Aradhya and other fruit collectors. In many centers of diversity, like Southeast Asia, Kazakhstan, and Central America, logging operations threaten to eliminate fruits before they've ever been discovered or tasted, let alone cataloged or named. Large-scale agriculture is a threat, too: Cotton farms in Nicaragua, pineapple fields in Costa Rica and Panama, and oil-palm plantations in Southeast Asia have replaced virgin forest and jungle, eliminating endemic treasures that will now never be known. As Campbell explains, "Big plantation agriculture is deadly to genetic resources of tree fruits."
As a result of deforestation, many of the parent trees from which Campbell and Ledesma originally acquired their accessions are now gone—mostly cut down by their owners and sold for lumber. This leaves some of the avocados growing in the Fairchild collection absolutely unique, bearing genes and fruit that now exist nowhere else. The security of the collection will improve as area farmers and gardeners adopt Fairchild's avocados into their own orchards.
Certain governments have grown uncooperative with out-of-country agricultural explorers, whether because of political strife or because they recognize the financial value of plant genetics. But plant trade continues freely over many borders, and Campbell and Ledesma recently embarked on a 10-day mango hunt in Borneo. Here, valuable genetic material embedded in the wood, leaves, and fruits of wild trees, is threatened by chainsaws advancing into the jungle. Lumber hunters also scout villages in Borneo and other areas where large backyard fruit trees are increasingly considered more valuable as wood than as producers of a household's food. For every fruit tree saved by the world's plant collectors, many others are sold by their owners to sawmills. Tree stumps in front yards, and village markets stockpiled with imported foods, tell this quiet story.
"In some of these places, it's an emergency," Ledesma says. "We have to find the surviving trees and bring them home before they disappear. The time is right now."


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Comparing Phoenix to Seattle and Austin
Chad Graham of the Arizona Republic writes an article this week that begins with this headline:
Phoenix can learn economically from robust Seattle and Austin
Already, my BS antenna are deployed. Why? I don't know anything about Mr. Graham, but nearly every 20- or 30-something journalist would like all the world to be hip and freaky and trendy and cool like Seattle or Austin (or Boulder or San Francisco). So they have a natural predisposition to writing a story and interpreting facts to say that Phoenix (or whatever uncool city they hail from) should do everything it can to emulate Seattle or Portland or whatever is the hip city of the moment.
I have lived in Phoenix and Seattle and Boulder, and have done business in Portland and Austin. And if you want to find a really great music club, Austin would be your place. And if you are a really rich guy who wants a unique lake front home and a dock for his floatplane, Seattle would be the pick. But if you were a middle class family trying to get the most home for your money, you would take Phoenix all the way. And if you wanted to start a real business that makes stuff, you would be insane to do it in any of these cities except Phoenix (and perhaps Austin). Portland and Seattle and Boulder and (more recently) Austin are what one might call rich snob - poor snob towns. They appeal to the millionaire with the fractional ownership jet and the pierced and tattooed slacker club goer. Which is fine, but does every city really need to be like them?
Unlike the Valley, some parts of the U.S. such as Seattle and Austin
have been only slightly affected by the national economic slowdown.Neither area has experienced the Valley's level of falling home prices, increased foreclosure rates nor its slowed job growth.
Those regions are places that Phoenix could learn from as it charts
a future based less on housing and growth and more on competing in the
global economy.
OK, lets start with the home thing, since the article focuses A LOT on housing. I am willing to concede that in some recent period Austin and Seattle had less of a home price drop than Phoenix. Ignoring for a moment the absurdity of extrapolating 30 year trends from 6-12 months of data, we should look structurally at these housing markets. It turns out that Seattle, for example, has MUCH higher median home prices than Phoenix, in large part due to structural regulatory factors that I would presume the author would like Phoenix to emulate.
As a result, the median home price in Seattle is about $450,000 while the median in Phoenix is closer to $275,000. In fact, the Seattle median is very close to the Phoenix 75th percentile. [note figures do not match those in article - I could not find any two median home price numbers that were the same for a market] One comment on Seattle housing was this:
The pattern is very strong: In Seattle you have affluent, largely
single people chasing a small supply of urban housing. The result is
small household size, an exodus of families to the suburbs, and very
high housing prices in the city.
Is this really what Phoenix should emulate, just because our home prices dropped more over a 6 month period?
One year ago, the Valley's job growth ranked No. 7 among
metropolitan markets with more than 1 million workers, according to the
latest Blue Chip Job Growth Update released by the W.P. Carey School of
Business at Arizona State University.It now ranks No. 20, while Seattle is No. 2.
In job markets with less than 1 million workers, Austin ranks No. 14.
So, until recently, Phoenix led both cities in job growth. In the last year, we have fallen behind. Can anyone on the planet tell me why the last year of data is more relevant than the previous five, or ten, when Phoenix dusted these markets? One year of downturn and suddenly Phoenix's economy needs to be restructured by some massive government 5-year plan?
But here is the really funny part. Let's take Seattle, the economic juggernaut with which the author is so enamored. In 1960, Seattle had a population of about 550,000 people. In 2000, Seattle had a population of about.... 550,000. In the same time period Phoenix grew from 726,000 to 3.2 million. Wow, that Seattle is a growth juggernaut. But it is hard to get apples and oranges on MSA's and such, so here is data from a single source: From 1990-2000, the Austin MSA added 400,000 people, Seattle MSA added 382,000 people and Phoenix added 1.01 million, more than the other two combined. Presumably, most of these folks found work, so where are all the jobs being added?
In Phoenix, "housing-related employment is falling fast, and the
impact on the economy is extreme since the industry comprises over 15
percent of total employment . . . compared to 10 percent nationwide,"
an April Moody's Economy.com report said.
This is hilarious. We happen to be in a housing market downturn, so Phoenix is doomed because it is overweighted towards home construction. But did anyone visit Seattle or Austin in 2001/2002 after the tech bubble crash? It was a bloodbath, far worse than what Phoenix is experiencing today. This kind of analysis is so short-sighted as to be absurd.
Maricopa County's average weekly wages increased 3.8 percent to $822
in the third quarter of 2007, according to the latest numbers available
from the U.S. Department of Labor.Weekly wages in King County, home to Seattle, rose 8 percent to
$1,129. Wages in Travis County, home to Austin, rose to $911, a 2.7
percent jump.Meanwhile, Arizona's average per person income ($33,029) grew by the
smallest percentage among states in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau
of Economic Analysis.
One word for you: immigration. Arizona has gotten hundreds of thousands of new immigrants with relatively low skills, so they come in at the bottom of the income scale and drive median wages down. Seattle and Austin immigration, to the extent they have it, are high-skilled and highly paid. Does every city have to be a high-income yuppie white-Asian enclave like Seattle? I like Arizona and its Hispanic influences, even if this immigration means the governor can't puff her chest out at the governors' conference over average wages.
The two cities have a greater percentage of employment in tech jobs,
with 9.2 percent in Austin and 8.8 in Seattle compared with 4.6 percent
in Phoenix.
Sorry, but I have never thought it a goal of government to subsidize and maximize "tech jobs." The other 95.4% of us in Phoenix without a job statistically categorized by the government as a tech job are happy not to be subsidizing the other 4.6%. This is the kind of effort that does nothing to help the average person, who will never have a tech job, but makes government officials feel really good about themselves. Another way of putting it: The author is suggesting the government single-mindedly focus on subsidizing a class of jobs that 90+% of the people in all three cities do not hold.
Postscript: For those of you who want to laugh yourself silly, you really need to read the "vision" in the sidebar of this article. It is the most incredible collection of politically correct notions without any relationship to real value creation that I have ever seen. I can't really do it justice, but here are some highlights:
The latest housing bust finally convinces the Arizona Legislature to
fund an aggressive international-economic-development program that
invests in science, engineering, technology and higher education.Incentives draw nutraceutical firms, which use food substances to make
products that provide health benefits, such as lycopene.
Green-technology firms partner with universities to launch companies
that turn a profit...2035
High-paying technology jobs are clustered in three major areas from
Prescott to Phoenix to Tucson. The economy boasts an $800 billion
nutraceutical industry and the world's largest solar facility with
10,000 acres of sun power.
I bet they include no offset in their study for lost growth due to higher taxes to fund this. And our city of 5-10 million people is going to build its economy on nutraceuticals? We're going to have a vitamin water business that, at $800 billion, is 6% the current size of the entire US economy? I sure hope some of the business school students who wrote this either wise up or go into academics, because if they try to walk in to a real corporate board room with this stuff they are going to get skewered.


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I may complain and complain about how hot it is running in Arizona but somehow the sunrise and clouds each morning completely make up for my face sweating off during each run.
I pushed snooze 8 times this morning. Not an exaggeration. I knew I had an easy run on my schedule so I didn't mind leaving a little later.
Best part of the run = talking to my mom on the phone (using these headphones) for the entire run. I mean it has been a whole 3 days since I last saw her so we had a lot to catch each other up on.
You know you are in Arizona when the gas stations offer 22 different flavors of frozen drinks.
My nephew had preschool this morning so we dropped him off and then I accompanied my SIL for something very important.
She had never been to Trader Joe's in her whole life. I walked her up and down the aisles and showed her the most important things to buy. I actually think Trader Joe's should hire me to show new people around the store and help them discover the best of the best.
Brooke is finally big enough to push around the little kid shopping carts.
Now that I don't live near TJ's it is a tradition of mine to get this chocolate milk every time I do get to go. It really is the best chocolate milk you will ever have.
Of course I would go to a different state and still eat at Cafe Rio while I am there.
Nicole (remember she was on the Vegas trip with me and I have been bffs with her since I was 16) actually lives right by my SIL.
It is all meant to be. Especially when she does things like bring us cupcakes to eat after lunch.
Does it get any cuter than boots on a baby and Brooke's leopard ballet flats?
Sweet pork salads and quesadillas for all.
I have started having a quote of the day to focus on each day to help me continue to get through this time. I wanted to share today's because bad days are just part of life and this may help a little bit….
What has been the GOOD in your Tuesday?!?


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I love good high quality Christmas Cards. Don't you? Although I usually like to get Photo Cards because they keep the family updated on Avery's growth I decided to contact The Gallery Collection because their cards are DIVINE and I knew I had to have them.
We received the Shimmering Snowflakes Season Greetings Cards and I LOVE them. They couldn't have been more perfect.
Price: at $2.25 a card these are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. I would never pay that much for a card. WOW! Even though we only need 15 cards or so, that is ridiculous! If you get 100 cards they are $1.59 a piece, which is significantly less.
For 25 cards and 25 envelopes plus shipping my total would've been just over $80!
Overall: *** the price is SO high on these. But the quality is so worth it. I think a lot of people would have sticker shock though.


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Top Tips for Cruising with Kids
Not long ago, cruising was synonymous with partying, romance, or exploring farflung destinations, often post-retirement. These days, there's a completely different way of looking at cruise ships—not just as playgrounds for overgrown children but for, well, your children. But traveling with kids is never as simple as tossing some clothes and a smartphone into a backpack, is it? Here, we share expert advice on everything from how to pack smart, keep the little ones safe, find reliable onboard child care, and which cruise lines are rolling out the red carpet for families.
If you're traveling with a baby or toddler, get used to the idea of schlepping your own formula, jars of baby food, and diapers, which are not among the myriad products a typical cruise ship can sell you. And don't squirrel away all those must-haves in your suitcase—on embarkation days you may be separated from your luggage for hours and you'll be able to keep your little one happier if you have a tote bag stocked with food, wipes, change of clothes, etc. The good news is you may be able to leave your baby's portable crib at home—ask your cruise line (early!) if you can reserve one in advance. "To lighten your packing load, consider planning a laundry day at sea," advises David Molyneaux, editor of TheTravelMavens.com. "Most family-friendly ships will have washers and driers in the cabin areas—check the line's website."
Yeah, we all had a collective gasp when a toddler fell off a cruise ship balcony over the holidays in Florida. Of course you should brief all kids, from toddlers to teens, about keeping off railings, but Molyneaux suggests, "Even if it's only for your peace of mind, avoid balconies until your kids are old enough to know better." You can book an interior room for the whole family, or give older older kids an interior room and take an exterior balcony room across the hall for yourselves. Many cruise lines will offer family cabins, which can sleep up to four, and deeply discount the cost of the kids' berths—but Molyneaux notes that sometimes booking two adjoining cabins on a lower deck instead of a suite can save you money and get you more elbow room. (Disney even throws in an extra "half bathroom," with a toilet and sink, in most cabins. The ship will also have its own rules about how and when kids are allowed to participate in organized activities. Some lines allow elementary school-age kids to sign themselves up for activities and walk the ship's corridors unsupervised—but that kind of choice is really only yours to make.
Although some lines offer so many organized activities for kids during the day that some parents actually complain that they didn't see enough of their kids on their cruise, most couples will value some alone time, especially when the sun goes down. Some cruise lines offer private in-cabin babysitting at a premium—it can run you around $20 per hour. But if your kid wrinkles his nose at the idea of being "left with a sitter," you're in luck: Many cruise lines disguise evening babysitting as "late night parties," allowing parents to drop off their kids for around $10 per hour per child. (On Disney cruises, the party goes till midnight and it's free of charge).
When it comes to going the extra mile to put smiles on your kids' faces, these cruise lines are tops:
If your kids can imagine summer camp at sea, that's Camp Carnival—complete with counselors to supervise daily activities and meals. The line divides children into three age groups from two- to 12-years old and employs counselors who have education or childcare experience; play spaces resemble nothing less than the playroom of your dreams (carnival.com).
No surprises here—Disney knows how to keep kids happy. The line is famous for its roaming characters like Mickey and Minnie, of course, but it also offers Broadway-style musicals, first-run films in 3D, and port-of-call activities tailored for kids like glass-bottom boats and up-close-and-personal dolphin encounters (disneycruise.disney.go.com).
Splash Academy sets the bar high—to entertain and educate children from six months to 12 years old (divided, of course, into age-appropriate groups, with parents required for the littlest ones). Whether your kid is into low-key arts and crafts projects or adrenaline-charged circus activities (including juggling and tumbling) taught by real circus performers, Norwegian's foray into family fun goes big (ncl.com).
Royal Caribbean
When you're reaching out to families, it helps to have some trusted names in your Rolodex, and Royal Caribbean has partnered with Crayola, Fisher Price, and DreamWorks to offer a blend of educational and entertainment options to its littlest passengers. From quiet play groups to full-on surf simulators, climbing walls, and the first carousel-at sea, there's something for every taste. Oh, and you may want to warn your little ones that they may bump into Shrek or Kung Fu Panda onboard (royalcaribbean.com).


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A Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He collected rare Baraitot among the leading scholars of Daroma in southern Judea, which he communicated to his colleagues elsewhere, even as far as the Babylonian academies. Often he reports Halakot on behalf of Joshua b. Levi (Ber. 8b; Suk. 54a; Yeb. 57a; Soṭah, 24b; Ḥul. 132b); also many Haggadot (see Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor." iii. 540-546). R. Levi, the famous haggadist of the second and third amoraic generations, received from Aḥa b. Ḥanina the reason for the collocation of the ninth and tenth benedictions in the Prayer of Benedictions, known by the name of "Shemoneh 'Esreh" (Yer. Ber. ii. 5a). He recommends visiting the sick as a means of facilitating a cure, declaring that every one who calls on a patient relieves him of one sixtieth part of his suffering (Ned. 39b).


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I am grateful to Jesse Lemisch for the opportunity to clarify the point I tried to make in my letter to Prime Minister Erdogan. Let me add that I am now speaking only for myself, not for the Council or the AHA.
In December 1991, the Council approved the following statement: "The American Historical Association Council strongly deplores the publicly reported attempts to deny the fact of the Holocaust. No serious historian questions that the Holocaust took place." The second sentence is, of course, a simple statement of fact: there is agreement among all serious scholars about the basic facts of the Holocaust, even if there are debates about details and interpretations. This consensus did not happen because organizations like the AHA "deplored" the views of those who denied the Holocaust, but because free and open research produced an extraordinarily rich and convincing body of scholarship.
The AHA does not have a position on the Armenian genocide. Should it have one? I don't think so—even though I am personally convinced that what happened to the Ottoman Empire's Armenian minority in 1915 was indeed a genocide. As a scholarly organization, our efforts should not be directed at issuing proclamations about what happened in the past. Such proclamations, I suspect, rarely change anyone's mind. We should concentrate our attention on trying to end restrictions on research and discussion in the present. This was why the AHA protested the political pressures that forced the cancellation of the scholarly conference scheduled to be held in Istanbul last May.
As many readers of Perspectives are aware, that conference, on "Ottoman Armenians during the Demise of the Empire: Issues of Democracy and Scientific Responsibility," took place on September 24 and 25, 2005, at Bilgi University in Istanbul. The success of the conference was a testimony to the courage of its organizers and a victory for academic freedom and scholarly integrity. These values, on which our common labors as historians must ultimately depend, remain the best antidotes to irresponsible scholarship and repressive politics.
—James Sheehan, Stanford University, and 2005 president of the American Historical Association
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Director Giuseppe Marotta earmarked the two strikers as potential transfer targets but stressed that the club are exploring "various options" in the market
Juventus general director Giuseppe Marotta has confirmed the club's interest in luring both Gonzalo Higuain and Stevan Jovetic to Turin this summer.
Reports emanating from Italy suggests the Bianconeri will dispatch representatives to the Spanish capital on Wednesday in an attempt to thrash out a deal for Real Madrid striker Higuain after agreeing terms in principal with the Argentine earlier this month, while Fiorentina's failure to secure Champions League qualification this season has thrown Jovetic's future at the club into further doubt.
Speaking to Rai Sports, Marotta insisted the Old Lady were weighing up their options before making a move but could not disguise his affection for the duo.
"Jovetic and Higuain are both great strikers," he said. "We want to improve the playing staff available to [Antonio] Conte in the summer so we are exploring various options at the moment."
Juventus, who recorded back-to-back Serie A titles this season, have long been linked with moves for Europe's top striking talent – including the likes of Carlos Tevez and Luis Suarez – as they look to bolster their forward line ahead of the coming campaign.


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An international team of scientists including University of Florida researchers has generated the most comprehensive tree of life to date on placental mammals, which are those bearing live young, including bats, rodents, whales and humans.
Appearing February 7 in the journal Science, the study details how researchers used both genetic and physical traits to reconstruct the common ancestor of placental mammals, the creature that gave rise to many mammals alive today. The data show that contrary to a commonly held theory, the group diversified after the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The research may help scientists better understand how mammals survived past climate change and how they may be impacted by future environmental conditions.
UF researchers led the team that analyzed the anatomy of living and fossil primates, including lemurs, monkeys and humans, as well as their closest living relatives, flying lemurs and tree shrews. The multi-year collaborative project was funded by the National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life Program.
"With regards to evolution, it's critical to understand the relationships of living and fossil mammals before asking questions about 'how' and 'why,' " said co-author Jonathan Bloch, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. "This gives us a new perspective of how major change can influence the history of life, like the extinction of the dinosaurs — this was a major event in Earth's history that potentially then results in setting the framework for the entire ordinal diversification of mammals, including our own very distant ancestors."
Visual reconstruction of the placental ancestor — a small, insect-eating animal — was made possible with the help of a powerful cloud-based and publicly accessible database called MorphoBank. Unlike other reconstructions, the new study creates a clearer picture of the tree of life by combining two data types: Phenomic data includes observational traits such as anatomy and behavior, while genomic data is encoded by DNA.
"Discovering the tree of life is like piecing together a crime scene — it is a story that happened in the past that you can't repeat," said lead author Maureen O'Leary, an associate professor in the department of anatomical sciences in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. "Just like with a crime scene, the new tools of DNA add important information, but so do other physical clues like a body or, in the scientific realm, fossils and anatomy. Combining all the evidence produces the most informed reconstruction of a past event."
Researchers recorded observational traits for 86 placental mammal species, including 40 fossil species. The resulting database contains more than 12,000 images that correspond to more than 4,500 traits detailing characteristics like the presence or absence of wings, teeth and certain bones, type of hair cover and brain structures. The dataset is about 10 times larger than information used in previous studies of mammal relationships.
"It was a great way to learn anatomy, in a nutshell," said co-author Zachary Randall, a UF biology graduate student and research associate at the Florida Museum. "While coding for humans, I could clearly see which anatomical features are unique, shared or not shared with other groups of mammals. This study is a great backbone for future work."
Bloch and Randall collaborated with study co-authors Mary Silcox of the University of Toronto Scarborough and Eric Sargis of Yale University to characterize humans, plus seven other living and one fossil species from the clade Euarchonta, which includes primates, tree shrews and flying lemurs.
"I think this database is amazing because it's being presented in such a way that it will be reproducible for the future generations," Bloch said. "It illustrates exactly what we did and leaves nothing to the imagination — you can actually go to the pictures and see it."
The evolutionary history of placental mammals has been interpreted in very different ways depending on the data analyzed. One leading analysis based on genomic data alone predicted that a number of placental mammal lineages existed in the Late Cretaceous and survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
"It has been suggested that primates diverged from other mammals well before the extinction of the dinosaurs, but our work using direct evidence from the fossil record tells a different story," Bloch said.
The team reconstructed the anatomy of the placental common ancestor by mapping traits most strongly supported by the data to determine it had a two-horned uterus, a brain with a convoluted cerebral cortex, and a placenta in which maternal blood came in close contact with membranes surrounding the fetus, as in humans.
Source: University of Florida [February 07, 2013]


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To request a copy of (mt) Media Temple's W-9 form, you must be logged in to the AccountCenter as the listed Account Owner. Once logged in, please submit a support request to our Billing department including an email address to which we can send a PDF file. The following article has instructions on how to submit a support request.


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Disgraced negro Jayson Blair is in the news again. It seems that the
Reading the many news reports on Blair's new career made me remember how thoroughly he screwed up his last career. These reports also remind me how mainstream media depict Blair's blackness as central to his deceit and his shoddy work.
The predictable way in which the Blair case played out in the media gives us an opportunity to illustrate the two broad rules governing how black screw-ups are perceived (and therefore judged) in mainstream American public discourse. These rules also shape how black folks respond to black screw-ups.
A version of the first rule is stated at around the 5 minute mark of this snippet from Chris Rock's 2004 stand-up special Never Scared:
Rule 1: A black person who screws up is attacked more severely than is a white person who screws up.
In Rock's corollary, "only the white man can profit from pain." The words "wrongdoing" and "incompetence" can often replace "pain," but the point stands. Rule 1 is what responsible black parents instill in their children when they state, "you have to be x times as good as a white person in order to succeed" (whether x is 2 or 5 or 10 depends on the parent, the place, and the year).
In popular discourse, Jayson Blair has become the poster boy for plagiarism. When I see this yoke placed on the lone black writer among the dozens of contemporary mainstream writers busted for plagiarism, my antennae go up (think also of high profile black offenders becoming the poster children for corruption and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system).
The journalistic fraud of former New Republic associate editor Stephen Glass was arguably as impressive as Blair's; nevertheless, the public was more sympathetic to Glass' fictionalized (auto)biographical novel The Fabulist as well as the movie it spawned, Shattered Glass than they were to Blair's opportunistic literary cash grab, Burning Down My Master's House. Glass certainly received his fair share of loathing, but, as evidenced by the sneering undertones pervading the reports of Blair's new career, there is a little something extra in the condemnation of Blair.
Those who point out Rule 1 are often accused of "playing the race card," which is supposed to imply a refusal to hold black people personally accountable for their self-inflicted woes. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Rule 2: The misdeeds of any black screw-up are attributed not just to that lone screw-up, but to black people as a whole.
Rule 2 is significantly more pernicious than the first. One of the biggest advantages of being white is having the luxury of being treated as an individual—for people who aren't white, the sins of any become the sins of all, while the good deeds of any are exceptional and are used to denounce the masses ("you're one of the good ones;" "why can't the rest of you be like so-and-so?").
Mainstream media framing the Blair affair as a black mark against affirmative action is an example of Rule 2 in action. This framing is hardly surprising coming from conservative opponents of affirmative action, but the affirmative action meme has also featured heavily in liberals' accounts of the scandal, though sometimes merely as a foil. Such an interpretation calls into question the qualifications and character of all people of color and, most insidiously, undermines formal attempts to address systemic exclusion.
Rule 2 can also bolster the notion that the failures of a black screw-up can be attributed to some inherently flawed aspect of black culture (e.g. homophobia, misogyny, violence, anti-intellectualism).
Contrary to popular opinion, black people are the harshest critics of black screw-ups. Even though black people know the rules are unfair, the attitude seems to be that if you're too reckless or stupid to ignore the rules, you get what you deserve. It should be noted that this attitude is not borne of defeatism or internalized self-hatred, but of individual and collective self interest: black screw-ups make us all look bad.
There is often black pushback against both rules, however. Black people may relent in their criticism of a black screw-up when it appears that whites are giving the knife in the back of that black screw-up an extra twist. Since explicit, anti-black animus has been driven from public discourse, these impulses must be either coded or channeled into publicly acceptable outlets. Black people can usually sense when white folks are criticizing a black screw-up in order to vent their anger toward black people in general.
I am willing to forgive Blair's past screw-ups, and I wish him much success in his new endeavor, but since the rest of us are penalized for his missteps, he'd better not screw up again.


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The 1929 mansion with original hardwood flooring and authentic light fixtures, presumably financed by Al Capone, was put on the National Register of Historic Places in December of 1997. The three-story compound once had escape hatches on the roof and underground tunnels in the basement used by Capone for the transferring of liquor in the twenties and early thirties. Local legend reveals tales of Capone and John Dillinger lounging outside on the mountain stone patio having drinks and playing numerous hands of cards.
This place is as overwhelming a restaurant as Al Capone was to the mob, but it's the atmosphere, the delectable creations of the talented chef's, charismatic and courteous service, that create an incredible "getaway" on the mountain.
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The initial court date and time that you must appear is written on the bottom of your citation. Please note, for parking citations the initial court date and time that you must appear is written on the top right hand side of the citation. If you are unsure, you may call the Wickenburg Municipal Court at (928) 684-5451 x1533 or x1515.
If you have been cited for a criminal violation, you may file for an extension and you must state good cause. Court date extensions must be requested in writing at least 7 days prior to your court date. Extensions are not automatically granted. If good cause cannot be shown, the extension will not be granted and you will have to appear on your original court date.
Yes. If you have any pending cases with the Municipal Court, it is your responsibility to keep your address current as well as your phone number. If you fail to provide the Court with the appropriate contact information, you may not receive proper notification regarding your case in the future. This could result in a warrant being issued for your arrest or a default judgment entered against you.
All fines/penalties are due on the date they are imposed. If you are unable to pay in full, you may apply for a payment contract.
Yes, you can obtain a marriage license Tuesday through Thursday at the Wickenburg Town Court. The Town Magistrate can officiate weddings on Mondays.


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FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Delphi Automotive says a plant in Flint with about 327 employees that makes instrument systems for General Motors Co. trucks and vans will close. The United Auto Workers union says production is moving to Mexico.
Delphi Vice President Lindsey Williams tells Mlive.com (https://bit.ly/YBLWL5 ) that the plant formerly known as the Delphi Flint East will cease operations in November.
Williams says the plant remained open under a 2007 agreement among GM, its former parts-making subsidiary Delphi and the UAW. Williams says the deal originally expired in September 2011 but was extended.
The plant makes instrument clusters used in GM vehicles such as pickup trucks, SUVs and large vans.
The announcement comes shortly after UAW Local 651 members authorized a strike as part of negotiations with GM.


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James Irvine has developed tables to match the barstool S 123. They are formally reserved, robust and easy to care for - and therefore perfectly suitable for the contract segment. With their different heights, tabletop shapes and surface versions, they fit into any environment.
Tables in standard hight of 75 cm, one or two-column. Round tabletops available in four sizes, square tabletops available in three sizes. Two-column base with rectangular or oval tabletops available in three sizes. Surfaces in beech, ash, oak and walnut or with laminate. Columns chrome-plated, black or white, base plates stainless steel, bottom of base plate covered with felt.
Born in London, James Irvine graduated in 1984 from the Royal College of Art, London. In the same year he moved to Milan. From 1984 to 1992, he was a design consultant for Olivetti design studio Milan, under the direction of Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass. In 1987 he worked for one year at the Toshiba Design Centre in Tokyo. He returned to Milan in 1988 and opened his private design studio. His first clientes were Cappellini and SCP. From 1993 to 1997, in parallel to his private studio, he was a partner of Sottsass Associati, responsable for the studio's industrial design group. In 2004 he was the guest of honour at the fair Interieur in Kortrijk and was also elected Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in London. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Kingston University. His design studio in Milan has worked and works with various internationally renowned companies including Arper, Artemide, B&B Italia, MDF Italia, Mercedes Benz, Muji, Olivari, Offecct, Phaidon, Gebrüder T 1819, WMF and Zumtobel. James Irvine designed numerous products for Gebrüder T 1819 (A 660, A 1660, S 5000, S 123, S 1123) and advised the company from 2007-2011 in the position of art director. Today, Studio Irvine is run by his partner Marialaura Rossiello Irvine.
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City History
Early Beginnings
The old-timers remember the way it used to be: dirt roads, no electricity, a small and short-lived city created by the construction of a dam. Now they see a thriving city in an urban setting with an excellent quality of life.
Coon Rapids traces its founding as a separate government entity back to July 30, 1857 when Anoka Township was organized. The city retains these same boundaries with the exclusion of the City of Anoka which was incorporated as a separate city.
Red River Ox Cart Trail
When the federal government surveyed the area in 1847, it found a well-traveled road running through Anoka County. The road was laid out in 1835 for military use and may be the oldest road in this part of the country. In 1843, trade was established from St. Paul to Pembina in the Red River Valley by Norman W. Kittson and the road then became part of the famous Red River Ox Cart Trail. The trail closely followed the present East River Road / Coon Rapids Boulevard alignment.
Agricultural Roots
Agriculture was the 1st industry in the Coon Creek area, with farms ranging in size from 90 to 600 acres. In 1881, Dr. D.C. Dunham organized the 1st brick yard which was located near the old City Hall site and was known as the Anoka Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Company. It represented the 1st non-agricultural industry in Coon Rapids. A legacy left by that brick industry is still visible today and is known as the "Clay Hole".
Coon Rapids Dam
In the summer of 1898, the Great Northern Development Company proposed to build a dam below the Coon Creek Rapids with a power generating plant on the east side of the river. The actual construction did not start until 1912. Within 1 year, a small city had sprung up on the shores of the Mississippi River. Streets were laid out and roughly graded. The city's population grew to over 1,000 with laborers and engineers working on the dam. The dam was built by the Mississippi Power Company and was operating by 1914. Northern States Power Company ran the dam until 1969. It was acquired by the Hennepin County Park Board and serves as Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park today.
With the coming of the dam, Anoka Township took on a new name: Coon Creek Rapids. Over the years, Coon Creek Rapids was shortened to Coon Rapids. In July 1948, an election was held in an attempt to incorporate the Township of Anoka as the village of Coon Rapids. The idea was initially defeated but eventually passed successfully in October 1952. In keeping with the progressive nature of the community, the voters went to the polls in November of 1957 and change the form of village government to the Council / Manager plan. In June 1959, the Village of Coon Rapids became the City of Coon Rapids.


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Kepler's 1st Law: Orbits are Elliptical
With Tycho Brahe's observations in hand, Kepler set out to determine if the paths of the planets against the background stars could be described with a curve. By trial and error, he discovered that an ellipse with the Sun at one focus could accurately describe the orbit of a planet about the Sun.Ellipses are described mainly by the length of their two axes. The longest one is called the major axis, and the short one is the minor axis. The ratio of these two lengths determines the eccentricity (e) of the ellipse; it's a measure of how elliptical it is. Circles have e=0, and very stretched-out ellipses have an eccentricity nearly equal to 1.
It's important to note that planets, while they do move on ellipses, have nearly circular orbits. Comets are a good example of objects in our solar system that may have very elliptical orbits. Compare the eccentricities of the objects in the diagram.
Once Kepler figured out that planets move around the Sun on
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Arthroscopy is a common surgical procedure in which a joint (arthro-) is viewed (-scopy) using a small camera. Arthroscopy gives doctors a clear view of the inside of the knee. This helps them diagnose and treat knee problems.
Technical advances have led to high definition monitors and high resolution cameras. These and other improvements have made arthroscopy a very effective tool for treating knee problems. According to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, more than 4 million knee arthroscopies are performed worldwide each year.
Arthroscopy is done through small incisions. During the procedure, your orthopaedic surgeon inserts the arthroscope (a small camera instrument about the size of a pencil) into your knee joint. The arthroscope sends the image to a television monitor. On the monitor, your surgeon can see the structures of the knee in great detail.
Your surgeon can use arthroscopy to feel, repair or remove damaged tissue. To do this, small surgical instruments are inserted through other incisions around your knee.
Preparing for Surgery
Arthroscopic picture of torn anterior cruciate ligament. If you decide to have knee arthroscopy, you may need a complete physical examination with your family physician before surgery. He or she will assess your health and identify any problems that could interfere with your surgery.
Before surgery, tell your orthopaedic surgeon about any medications or supplements that you take. He or she will tell you which medicines you must stop taking before surgery.
To help plan your procedure, your orthopaedic surgeon may order pre-operative tests. These may include blood counts or an EKG (electrocardiogram).
Almost all arthroscopic knee surgery is done on an outpatient basis.
Your hospital or surgery center will contact you with specific details about your appointment. You will likely be asked to arrive at the hospital an hour or two before your surgery. Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery.
When you first arrive for surgery, a member of the anesthesia team will talk with you. Arthroscopy can be performed under local, regional, or general anesthesia.
- Local anesthesia numbs just your knee
- Regional anesthesia numbs you below your waist
- General anesthesia puts you to sleep
The anesthesiologist will help you decide which method would be best for you.
If you have local or regional anesthesia, you may be able to watch the procedure on a television monitor.
The orthopaedic surgeon will make a few small incisions in your knee. A sterile solution will be used to fill the knee joint and rinse away any cloudy fluid. This helps your orthopaedic surgeon see your knee clearly and in great detail.
Your surgeon's first task is to properly diagnose your problem. He or she will insert the arthroscope and use the image projected on the screen to guide it. If surgical treatment is needed, your surgeon will insert tiny instruments through another small incision. These instruments might be scissors, motorized shavers, or lasers.
This part of the procedure usually lasts 30 minutes to over an hour. How long it takes depends upon the findings and the treatment necessary.
Arthroscopy for the knee is most commonly used for:
- Removal or repair of torn meniscal cartilage
- Reconstruction of a torn anterior cruciate ligament
- Trimming of torn pieces of articular cartilage
- Removal of loose fragments of bone or cartilage
- Removal of inflamed synovial tissue
Your surgeon may close your incisions with a stitch or steri-strips (small bandaids) and cover them with a soft bandage.
You will be moved to the recovery room and should be able to go home within 1 or 2 hours. Be sure to have someone with you to drive you home.
Recovery from knee arthroscopy is much faster than recovery from traditional open knee surgery. Still, it is important to follow your orthopaedic surgeon's instructions carefully after you return home. You should ask someone to check on you the first evening you are home.
Keep your leg elevated as much as possible for the first few days after surgery. Apply ice as recommended by your doctor to relieve swelling and pain.
Dressing Care
You will leave the hospital with a dressing covering your knee. Keep your incisions clean and dry. Your surgeon will tell you when you can shower or bathe, and when you should change the dressing.
Your surgeon will see you in the office a few days after surgery to check your progress, review the surgical findings, and begin your postoperative treatment program.
Bearing Weight
Most patients need crutches or other assistance after arthroscopic surgery. Your surgeon will tell you when it is safe to put weight on your foot and leg. If you have any questions about bearing weight, call your surgeon.
Your doctor will discuss with you when you may drive. This decision is based on a number of factors, including:
- The knee involved
- Whether you drive an automatic or stick shift
- The nature of the procedure
- Your level of pain
- Whether you are using narcotic pain medications
- How well you can control your knee.
Typically, patients are able to drive from 1 to 3 weeks after the procedure.
Your doctor will prescribe pain medication to help relieve discomfort following your surgery. He or she may also recommend medication such as aspirin to lessen the risk of blood clots.
Exercises to Strengthen Your Knee
You should exercise your knee regularly for several weeks after surgery. This will restore motion and strengthen the muscles of your leg and knee.
Therapeutic exercise will play an important role in how well you recover. A formal physical therapy program may improve your final result.
Complications and Warning Signs
As with any surgery, there are risks associated with knee arthroscopy. These occur infrequently and are minor and treatable.
Potential postoperative problems with knee arthroscopy include:
- Infection
- Blood clots
- Accumulation of blood in the knee
Warning Signs
Call your orthopaedic surgeon immediately if you experience any of the following:
- Fever
- Chills
- Persistent warmth or redness around the knee
- Persistent or increased pain
- Significant swelling in your knee
- Increasing pain in your calf muscle
Unless you have had a ligament reconstruction, you should be able to return to most physical activities after 6 to 8 weeks, or sometimes much sooner. Higher impact activities may need to be avoided for a longer time. You will need to talk with your doctor before returning to intense physical activities.
If your job involves heavy work, it may be longer before you can return to your job. Discuss when you can safely return to work with your doctor.
The final outcome of your surgery will likely be determined by the degree of damage to your knee. For example, if the articular cartilage in your knee has worn away completely, then full recovery may not be possible.You may need to change your lifestyle. This might mean limiting your activities and finding low-impact exercise alternative.
Last reviewed: March 2010
Co-developed by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
AAOS does not endorse any treatments, procedures, products, or physicians referenced herein. This information is provided as an educational service and is not intended to serve as medical advice. Anyone seeking specific orthopaedic advice or assistance should consult his or her orthopaedic surgeon.


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amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Published Thursday, January 24, 2013
Update January 24, 2013
In July 2012 amfAR calculated the potential impact of budget sequestration on US Government funded global health programing. That document is available here
This paper updates these estimates based on changes to sequestration made by Congress in January 2013. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has estimated that if it is imposed in March 2013, sequestration will lead to a 5.1% across-the-board funding cut to most non-defense discretionary programs.1 As we found in our earlier calculations, applying sequestration cuts to US government global health programming would have minimal impact on deficit reduction, but would be devastating to the lives of many thousands of people globally.
As a result of sequestration of US Government bilateral support:
As a result of sequestration of contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria:
1Kogan, R. (January 22, 2013). Here's how the March 1 sequester would work. Off the Charts (Blog). Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Available online at http://www.offthechartsblog.org/heres-how-the-march-1-sequester-would-work/ (date last accessed: January 23, 2013)


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33 CFR § 326.3 - Unauthorized activities.
(a) Surveillance. To detect unauthorized activities requiring permits, district engineers should make the best use of all available resources. Corps employees; members of the public; and representatives of state, local, and other Federal agencies should be encouraged to report suspected violations. Additionally, district engineers should consider developing joint surveillance procedures with Federal, state, or local agencies having similar regulatory responsibilities, special expertise, or interest.
(b) Initial investigation. District engineers should take steps to investigate suspected violations in a timely manner. The scheduling of investigations will reflect the nature and location of the suspected violations, the anticipated impacts, and the most effective use of inspection resources available to the district engineer. These investigations should confirm whether a violation exists, and if so, will identify the extent of the violation and the parties responsible.
(c) Formal notifications to parties responsible for violations. Once the district engineer has determined that a violation exists, he should take appropriate steps to notify the responsible parties.
(1) If the violation involves a project that is not complete, the district engineer's notification should be in the form of a cease and desist order prohibiting any further work pending resolution of the violation in accordance with the procedures contained in this part. See paragraph (c)(4) of this section for exception to this procedure.
(2) If the violation involves a completed project, a cease and desist order should not be necessary. However, the district engineer should still notify the responsible parties of the violation.
(3) All notifications, pursuant to paragraphs (c) (1) and (2) of this section, should identify the relevant statutory authorities, indicate potential enforcement consequences, and direct the responsible parties to submit any additional information that the district engineer may need at that time to determine what course of action he should pursue in resolving the violation; further information may be requested, as needed, in the future.
(4) In situations which would, if a violation were not involved, qualify for emergency procedures pursuant to 33 CFR part 325.2(e)(4), the district engineer may decide it would not be appropriate to direct that the unauthorized work be stopped. Therefore, in such situations, the district engineer may, at his discretion, allow the work to continue, subject to appropriate limitations and conditions as he may prescribe, while the violation is being resolved in accordance with the procedures contained in this part.
(5) When an unauthorized activity requiring a permit has been undertaken by American Indians (including Alaskan natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts, but not including Native Hawaiians) on reservation lands or in pursuit of specific treaty rights, the district engineer should use appropriate means to coordinate proposed directives and orders with the Assistant Chief Counsel for Indian Affairs (DAEN-CCI).
(6) When an unauthorized activity requiring a permit has been undertaken by an official acting on behalf of a foreign government, the district engineer should use appropriate means to coordinate proposed directives and orders with the Office, Chief of Engineers, ATTN: DAEN-CCK.
(d) Initial corrective measures.
(1) The district engineer should, in appropriate cases, depending upon the nature of the impacts associated with the unauthorized, completed work, solicit the views of the Environmental Protection Agency; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service, and other Federal, state, and local agencies to facilitate his decision on what initial corrective measures are required. If the district engineer determines as a result of his investigation, coordination, and preliminary evaluation that initial corrective measures are required, he should issue an appropriate order to the parties responsible for the violation. In determining what initial corrective measures are required, the district engineer should consider whether serious jeopardy to life, property, or important public resources (see 33 CFR 320.4) may be reasonably anticipated to occur during the period required for the ultimate resolution of the violation. In his order, the district engineer will specify the initial corrective measures required and the time limits for completing this work. In unusual cases where initial corrective measures substantially eliminate all current and future detrimental impacts resulting from the unauthorized work, further enforcement actions should normally be unnecessary. For all other cases, the district engineer's order should normally specify that compliance with the order will not foreclose the Government's options to initiate appropriate legal action or to later require the submission of a permit application.
(2) An order requiring initial corrective measures that resolve the violation may also be issued by the district engineer in situations where the acceptance or processing of an after-the-fact permit application is prohibited or considered not appropriate pursuant to § 326.3(e)(1) (iii) through (iv) below. However, such orders will be issued only when the district engineer has reached an independent determination that such measures are necessary and appropriate.
(3) It will not be necessary to issue a Corps permit in connection with initial corrective measures undertaken at the direction of the district engineer.
(e) After-the-fact permit applications.
(1) Following the completion of any required initial corrective measures, the district engineer will accept an after-the-fact permit application unless he determines that one of the exceptions listed in subparagraphs i-iv below is applicable. Applications for after-the-fact permits will be processed in accordance with the applicable procedures in 33 CFR parts 320 through 325. Situations where no permit application will be processed or where the acceptance of a permit application must be deferred are as follows:
(i) No permit application will be processed when restoration of the waters of the United States has been completed that eliminates current and future detrimental impacts to the satisfaction of the district engineer.
(ii) No permit application will be accepted in connection with a violation where the district engineer determines that legal action is appropriate (§ 326.5(a)) until such legal action has been completed.
(iii) No permit application will be accepted where a Federal, state, or local authorization or certification, required by Federal law, has already been denied.
(iv) No permit application will be accepted nor will the processing of an application be continued when the district engineer is aware of enforcement litigation that has been initiated by other Federal, state, or local regulatory agencies, unless he determines that concurrent processing of an after-the-fact permit application is clearly appropriate.
(v) No appeal of an approved jurisdictional determination (JD) associated with an unauthorized activity or after-the-fact permit application will be accepted unless and until the applicant has furnished a signed statute of limitations tolling agreement to the district engineer. A separate statute of limitations tolling agreement will be prepared for each unauthorized activity. Any person who appeals an approved JD associated with an unauthorized activity or applies for an after-the-fact permit, where the application is accepted and evaluated by the Corps, thereby agrees that the statute of limitations regarding any violation associated with that application is suspended until one year after the final Corps decision, as defined at 33 CFR 331.10. Moreover, the recipient of an approved JD associated with an unauthorized activity or an application for an after-the-fact permit must also memorialize that agreement to toll the statute of limitations, by signing an agreement to that effect, in exchange for the Corps acceptance of the after-the-fact permit application, and/or any administrative appeal. Such agreement will state that, in exchange for the Corps acceptance of any after-the-fact permit application and/or any administrative appeal associated with the unauthorized activity, the responsible party agrees that the statute of limitations will be suspended (i.e., tolled) until one year after the final Corps decision on the after-the-fact permit application or, if there is an administrative appeal, one year after the final Corps decision as defined at 33 CFR 331.10, whichever date is later.
(2) Upon completion of his review in accordance with 33 CFR parts 320 through 325, the district engineer will determine if a permit should be issued, with special conditions if appropriate, or denied. In reaching a decision to issue, he must determine that the work involved is not contrary to the public interest, and if section 404 is applicable, that the work also complies with the Environmental Protection Agency's section 404(b)(1) guidelines. If he determines that a denial is warranted, his notification of denial should prescribe any final corrective actions required. His notification should also establish a reasonable period of time for the applicant to complete such actions unless he determines that further information is required before the corrective measures can be specified. If further information is required, the final corrective measures may be specified at a later date. If an applicant refuses to undertake prescribed corrective actions ordered subsequent to permit denial or refuses to accept a conditioned permit, the district engineer may initiate legal action in accordance with § 326.5.
(f) Combining steps. The procedural steps in this section are in the normal sequence. However, these regulations do not prohibit the streamlining of the enforcement process through the combining of steps.
(g) Coordination with EPA. In all cases where the district engineer is aware that EPA is considering enforcement action, he should coordinate with EPA to attempt to avoid conflict or duplication. Such coordination applies to interim protective measures and after-the-fact permitting, as well as to appropriate legal enforcement actions.


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Four cute 15cm (6in) knitted dolls with their skipping ropes. Maggie, Mary, Milly and May are made from the same basic pattern but their pretty clothes and hair styles give them a very different appearance.
The easy to follow knitting and sewing patterns will utilise lots of odds and ends of yarn and fabric.
Milly can be made with a sweet blue cardigan
Or you might want her to look more like Milly Molly Mandy in the famous story books. You will find instructions for both options in the pattern.
The traditional Milly Molly Mandy wears a pink and white striped dress with short sleeves.
You'll need pink and white striped cotton. The stripes should be approximately 3mm wide.
Imagine living in Milly Molly Mandy's little white cottage with a thatched roof. There are roses round the door and hollyhocks peeping in through the windows. . . . perfect.
You'll find the 'Little Skipping Friends' pattern in my three shops -


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Privacy Policy
Castlegate Books Privacy Notice
Our contact details
Name: Castlegate Books
Address: Unit 3, 13 Market Place,
North Yorkshire HG5 8AL
Phone Number: +44 (0)1423 862222
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
For queries on gdpr / data protection / privacy matters contact Gary Cooper using the contact details above.
What type of information we have
The personal information that we collect and hold depends on how you use our website or whether you visit us in store, as follows:
place an order in store: name and contact phone no / email
browse our website: ip address
signup to our newsletter: name, email
place an order on our website: name, address, email, phone no, ip address, referring website, payment method (not card details). Your card details are securely stored and held by Barclaycard.
While you are browsing our website we use cookies to enable you to add and store items in your shopping basket.
Our affiliates system uses a cookie. It keeps track of the origin of a website visit and applies the appropriate commission in case of a sale, to the affiliate. It is not required to use the site.
How we get the information and why we have it
All of the personal information that we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
Contacting you about the arrival of an order in store
Sending out our newsletter to you
Processing an order on our website
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting. See contact details above.
What we do with the information we have
We do not share this information with anyone else unless required to do so by law.
How we store your information
Your information is securely stored on UK cloud servers and at our Knaresborough store, address above. We keep personal information as detailed above for six months.We will then dispose of your information by deleting all relevant data.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access- You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification- You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure- You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing- You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing- You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability- You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at the above address if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO's address:
Information Commissioner's Office
Water Lane
Wycliffe House
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113


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Mathews Honda of Paris makes it easy to apply for lease deals and low down payments on new Honda models. If you are looking for an affordable auto loan, start the process of being pre-approved for credit. Complete the form below and submit your credit application to our helpful finance associates.
If you are trying to decide if it's better to lease or buy, our finance team is here to answer your questions and listen to your concerns. If you are still considering your options, our credit application carries no obligation. It merely serves to let you know your borrowing ability.
We want all drivers near Dallas and Bonham to receive the financing rate they deserve. If your credit is currently less-than-perfect, don't let that stop you from applying for a used car loan. We are proud to offer alternative credit options.
When you arrive at Mathews Honda of Paris, our sales associates will ask about your vehicle desires and budget. We will then highlight several exciting models that meet your criteria. Visit Mathews Honda of Paris for your next new car lease deal.


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form in an ordinary Lisp source file. This form must be evaluated in the Lisp image in order to use the system.
Once defined, operations can be carried out on the system by invoking Lisp functions.
CL-USER 5 > (compile-system 'debug-app :force t)
would compile every file in a system called
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Home Page | Village Hall | Local Links | Photo Tour | Coming Events | Local Businesses | Playgroup |
Blunham Past & Present |
Blunham Cricket: Old photographs |
Bill Exley's Coins & Pubs |
Blunham Good Neighbour Scheme |
Steve Harris's Blunham website |
Miscellaneous pages & links |
(Established October 1995).
Welcome to our village and our web-site. I hope you find something of interest to you on this site whether you live in Blunham, or have an interest in the village from afar.
Blunham is a small village in Bedfordshire and is where my family and I live. It is about 45 miles north of the centre of London and about 2 miles north of the town of Sandy (of RSPB fame). Blunham has about 400 houses of all sorts, some of which date from the 17th century. Below are links to a series of photographs of Blunham, starting at the two hump back bridges on Tempsford road leading from the Great North Road or A1 (the London-Edinburgh road), and then re-starting at the northern end (Grange Road), then working down the High Street, up The Hill to the southern end of the village on Barford Road. Unless otherwise stated, the photographs were taken by me or my family and you are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial use. If you are thinking of using them for any other purpose, please see the conditions of use page.
My main interest on the World Wide Web is genealogy, and in particular the Genealogical Service for the United Kingdom and Ireland (Genuki), and I maintain and develop the Yorkshire pages for that service.
My wife Pauline and my two daughters Stella and Anne have assisted with some of the transcriptions. Pauline maintains the "Yorkshire recipes" pages, and the pages for the Blunham Teddybears Mothers and Toddlers Playgroup and also the page for the Village Hall.
Colin Hinson
Page last updated on 1st December 2014 by Pauline Hinson