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Store Review: Marion Street Cheese Market
Some market/cafés seem to be more of one than the other – a shop with a couple of tables and a small menu, or a restaurant with a few retail selections. Both are perfectly fine, but Marion Street Cheese Market seems to have a foot planted firmly on each side. Of course, here at The Kitchn, we're most interested in what we can bring home to cook with and serve ourselves. On our recent visit, we found quite a bit.
The cheese counter at Marion Street features two large cases filled with local and imported selections, manned by friendly cheesemongers eager to offer up a taste. We appreciated the quarter-pound pricing on the descriptive cheese cards – that's the amount we usually buy and it means less on-the-spot math.
It was also nice to see a cheese like Capriole O'Banon offered by the half. This bourbon-soaked goat cheese from southern Indiana is wrapped in chestnut leaves and typically only sold as a whole package in the $13 range, which might preclude some shoppers from giving it a try.
You'll find a nice selection of cured meats and pâté at the meat counter and more packaged dairy selections in the self-serve case. A stick of organic butter from Minnesota will only set you back 2 bucks – another great individually priced item that makes it easy to try something new.
The wine display and craft beer selection are also impressive. When we visited, bombers of beer were 25 percent off, so we splurged on a bottle of Dogfish Head Fort. It's made with pureed raspberries and packs a staggering 18 percent alcohol by volume. The label is pretty sweet, too.
Other offerings include a variety of oils, vinegars and preserved items, artisan candies, and cheese-related tools and serving pieces.
The shop is easily accessible by Green Line CTA and Metra trains.
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|How to obtain copies of Colorado vital records, such as Colorado birth certificates, Colorado death records, Colorado marriage licenses & Colorado divorce decrees. See the guidelines for general information on how to order vital records. Check the related links for additional vital records and genealogical information on Colorado.
Colorado State Vital Records Office Information
Make check or money order payable to Colorado Department of Health. If you fax your order or telephone it, you must use your Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express card. There will be an additional convenience charge of $5.00 billed to your charge card for the fax or telephone service. Include an official application form for faster service.
Index to Colorado County Vital Records Offices
Follow this link to Rootsweb to determine what county a city or town is in.
Adams . Alamosa . Arapahoe . Archuleta . Baca . Bent . Boulder . Chaffee . Cheyenne . Clear Creek . Conejos . Costilla . Crowley . Custer . Delta . Denver . Dolores . Douglas . Eagle . El Paso . Elbert . Fremont . Garfield . Gilpin . Grand . Gunnison . Hinsdale . Huerfano . Jackson . Jefferson . Kiowa . Kit Carson . La Plata . Lake . Larimer . Las Animas . Lincoln . Logan . Mesa . Mineral . Moffat . Montezuma . Montrose . Morgan . Otero . Ouray . Park . Phillips . Pitkin . Prowers . Pueblo . Rio Blanco . Rio Grande . Routt . Saguache . San Juan . San Miguel . Sedgwick . Summit . Teller . Washington . Weld . Yuma .
Frequently Asked Questions about Colorado Vital Records
What Colorado vital records are kept on file?
In the state of Colorado, birth and death certificates and marriage and divorce verifications are kept on file with the Vital Records Section within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The Vital Records Section has on file birth records since 1910, death and marriage certificates from 1900 to present, and divorce records from 1851 to present. Marriages that occurred between the years of 1940 and 1974 and divorces that occurred between 1940 and 1967 are maintained at the county offices in which the events occurred and must be requested from that office.
What are heirloom certificates?
Heirloom marriage and birth certificates are available to buy as well. These certificates are commemorative and are ideal for framing to help you remember that special day.
How do I get a copy of my vital records?
Colorado vital records can be requested by mail, fax, phone, in person, or through an online service that is utilized by the Vital Records Seciton.
What information is needed for a records request?
Any person making a request for vital records must provide the following information: an application for the request, photo identification, full name of the person(s) listed on the application, and the date and place of the event. There are stipulations about who can request records, and the relationship of the requester to the individual on the certificate must be provided.
How much does it cost to obtain a copy?
Copies of Colorado vital records range from $17.00 to $17.75 for the first copy. Additional copies of the same record requested at the same time are $10.00, and heirloom birth and marriage certificates are $50.00. If the certificate is ordered by phone, fax, or online, there is an additional convenience charge.
Can I look up my certificates online?
There are limited records available for viewing online. Most online records are used by individuals conducting genealogy research as the records are not current and are historic in nature.
Why do people need vital records?
Vital records serve a wide range of purposes. Oftentimes, they are used for identification purposes in applying for passports or verifying citizenship, but they are also used for legal reasons, such as qualification for insurance benefits. They are also frequently used to show proof of age of an individual, and they are very beneficial for people doing genealogy research. Vital records contain important information about a person�s ancestors that can help fill in the blanks on a family tree by providing full names, ages, and information about important events and the dates they occurred.
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Charges followed fatal accident last December
Bond was reduced Monday for Hena D. Patel, 37, of Galva, on DUI charges filed in connection with a Nov. 26 accident in which her 7-year-old son died.
Patel was arrested Saturday on two Stark County charges of aggravated DUI, a Class 2 felony; and two misdemeanor DUI charges.
Bond was initially set at $250,000, but Circuit Judge Scott Shore Monday reduced it to $50,000 during a hearing Monday morning. Mrs. Patel posted 10 percent of the bond, and her passport, Monday afternoon.
Last Nov. 26, authorities said, Mrs. Patel was the driver of a minivan that crashed on Route 78 just south of Route 17. Her son, Shubham Patel, 7, the only passenger in the minivan, died the next day of injuries he sustained in the accident.
According to authorities the van was traveling north when it drifted off the east side of the road and into the ditch, striking a large metal culvert.
Shubham Patel was ejected from the minivan.
On the night of the crash, Mrs. Patel and her son were transported by ambulance to Kewanee Hospital and then transferred to OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
In January a Peoria County coroner's jury ruled that Shubham's death was a homicide.
At the inquest Stark County Sheriff's Deputy Eric Peed, who investigated the accident, testified that a blood test performed at the hospital revealed that Mrs. Patel had a blood alcohol content level of .226. The legal limit for driving is .08.
At the time of the accident Mrs. Patel and her husband, Dave Patel, had just purchased the IGA store in Galva and were in the process of moving into a Galva home.
Mrs. Patel was arrested at the store Saturday morning by Galva Police Officer Jason Gibbs.
Patel was extradited to Stark County and was in the Stark County Jail on $250,000 bond.
Attorney Keith Luymes of Galva and the Barash and Everett law firm represented Mrs. Patel and directed her to plead not guilty.
Patel has retained Tony Vaupel of Barash and Everett to represent her in the case, but Vaupel had a previous commitment and could not attend Monday's hearing.
Judge Shore said that on Feb. 8 a grand jury handed down a bill of indictment that there was probable cause to issue an arrest warrant and set bail at $250,000.
Shore said there is a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison on the felony counts. Those charges are subject to the Truth and Sentencing Act, which requires any person convicted to serve sat least 85 percent of the sentence. A defendant on the charges can also be fined up to $25,000.
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Veteran actress Diane Ladd has put her gated compound in Ojai up for sale at $4.45 million.
The main house, built in 1986, features a wraparound porch, four bedrooms and five bathrooms and 4,314 square feet of living space. There is a separate guest house, offices, hobby room and three-car garage. The 2.38-acre site includes mature trees, stone walkways, a mediation garden, yoga pavilion, tennis court, swimming pool and a greenhouse.
Grandest pool around? Malibu has it
Ladd, 80, has scores of film and television credits. She was nominated for Oscars for her supporting roles in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Rambling Rose" (1991). For the last two years Ladd has starred in the HBO series "Enlightened."
Jonah Wilson of Hilton & Hyland and Elizabeth Puro of Teles Properties are the listing agents along with Nora Davis of Coldwell Banker's Ojai office.
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Seeing Rights and Liberties: Celebrating the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
This fall, Canada will welcome its newest national museum, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). In recognition of the CMHR, and to welcome it to the Winnipeg cultural community, the WAG has mounted Seeing Rights and Liberties: Celebrating the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Drawn from the WAG's permanent collection, this exhibition features works that speak to the theme of human rights. Compelling images—Jack Shadbolt's response to the atrocities he witnessed as a World War II war artist, Edward Burtynsky's exploration of the human toll industry takes, Käthe Kollwitz's renderings of defeated workers, and Jamasie Pitseolak's personal account of abuse suffered at school—that immediately inform the viewer of the plights humans face.
Human rights have engaged artists for centuries, whether it be the right to practice one's religion, to equality irrespective of gender or race, or to a clean environment and a safe place to live. The WAG is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting such artworks to further engage the topic of human rights within community dialogue.
The CMHR is the first national museum to be built in nearly half a century, and the first to be located outside of the National Capital Region. It has often been cited that the CMHR is a "museum of ideas," a designation with which the WAG is very familiar. Indeed, the WAG is a "museum of art," but each and every one of the 26,000 objects in its collection and the 1,000s more that it has borrowed and displayed over the years, has been informed by an idea, a concept, a message, a narrative. Art is a universal communicator, one that does not require a written or verbal language to deliver its message. Through line, colour, shape, material, movement, sound, and more, artists communicate their ideas to audiences, leaving their works open to individual interpretation and to being informed by personal experience.
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Obama's September Campaign Take: $181 Million
The Obama campaign collected $181 million in September, significantly topping its prior fundraising record for the 2012 election, as donors energized by the Democratic convention rallied to the president's cause.
The total, which includes money raised jointly with Democratic Party affiliates, far surpasses anything Mr. Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney have raised in any prior month of the 2012 election cycle.
In August, the Obama campaign took in $114 million while the Romney campaign collected $111 million. At the time, both those numbers were monthly records for the two campaigns.
The Romney campaign hasn't yet released its September fundraising total.
Mr. Obama's fundraising, coupled with a decline in the unemployment rate announced Friday, are heartening developments for supporters who were disappointed with the president's performance in his debate with Mr. Romney in Denver on Oct. 3. Mr. Obama turned in what was widely seen as a listless performance that gave new life to the Romney campaign.
In an email with the phrase "This is big, big news" in the subject line, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the money came from 1.8 million people, including 567,000 who donated for the first time. In the announcement, Mr. Messina said that 98% of contributions came from small donations of $250 or less.
"The jobs numbers and the campaign-finance numbers will take Democrats out of group therapy and keep them focused on the urgent task ahead of re-electing the president," Robert Zimmerman, a New York-based Democratic National Committee member and an Obama fundraiser, said in an interview Saturday.
Though Mr. Obama hasn't had a better fundraising month in this cycle, he took in more than $190 million in September 2008, the Obama campaign said Saturday.
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Schönhorst (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
Schönhorst (Schoenhorst; now known as Gniazdowo; coordinates: 54.19383, 18.924722 [54° 11′ 37″ N, 18° 55′ 28″ E]; population in 1905, 410; population in 2012, 262), is located approximately 4 kilometres (2 miles) south-west of Ostaszewo, 13 km (8 mi.) west of Nowy Dwór Gdański (Tiegenhof), and 27 km (17 mi.) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk (Danzig).
Schönhorst was first mentioned in historical documents in 1333 and received Chełmno rights (Kulm Law, a legal constitution for a municipal form of government) in 1349 from Heinrich Dusemer von Arfberg, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. Until 1772 Schönhorst was part of the Kingdom of Poland. The First Partition of Poland in 1772 resulted in the creation of a new province in 1773, called West Prussia, in which Schönhorst was located. Schönhorst was situated in the district (Kreis) of Marienburg until the establishment of the Free City of Danzig in 1920. The village came under the control of Nazi Germany during World War II until February 1945, when it was occupied by Soviet forces and returned to Poland. In 2012 Schönhorst (now Gniazdowo) was a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostaszewo, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship.
In 1772, farms belonged to 8 Mennonites and 4 other owners. The Prussian census of 1776 lists ten Mennonite families in Schönhorst with the following surnames: Dau, Dick, Epp, Fast, Harder, Penner, Regehr, and Wiebe. In 1820, the village had 294 residents, including 43 Mennonites. In 1885, the village had 442 residents, including 45 Mennonites.
The Flemish Mennonites of Schönhorst, who comprised the majority of Mennonites in Schönhorst in the late 18th century, were members of the Ladekopp Mennonite Church while the minority Frisian Mennonites were members of the Orlofferfelde Mennonite Church.
Stowarzyszenie Konserwatorów Zabytków. "Gniazdowo." Catalogue of Monuments of Dutch Colonization in Poland. 2005. Web. 18 October 2012. http://holland.org.pl/art.php?kat=obiekt&id=324&lang=en.
Wikipedia. "Gniazdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship." Web. 18 October 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gniazdowo,_Pomeranian_Voivodeship.
Wolf, Hans-Jürgen. "Familienforschung in Westpreußen." Web. 18 October 2012. http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis/details.php?ID=5930.
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swelling in a joint.
Corticosteroids are medicines similar to
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One way
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Corticosteroids are usually used at the lowest dose and for the shortest amount of time possible.1
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CitationsLipsky PE (2008). Rheumatoid arthritis. In AS Fauci et
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BOSTON — Bruins winger Brad Marchand took the warm-up tonight with fourth-liners Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton.
Marchand will play his first game since the end of his two-game suspension tonight against New Jersey at TD Garden.
With Marchand back on the line he spent the bulk of the season's first couple months skating on, Michael Ryder stayed with Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi. The other two lines stayed the same with David Krejci between Milan Lucic and Nathan Horton, and Chris Kelly centering Rich Peverley and Tyler Seguin. Daniel Paille, who didn't even take the warm-up, will be the healthy scratch.
The D pairs stayed the same as Saturday night: Zdeno Chara and Johnny Boychuk, Tomas Kaberle and Dennis Seidenberg, and Andrew Ference and Adam McQuaid.


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Shortly after his election as the new United States President, Ronald Reagan told reporters his administration will place less emphasis on human rights -- and more emphasis on countering the Soviet Union.
His words rebounded around the world. To the white minority rulers of the Republic of South Africa they are like music. For four years, the government here has chafed under President Jimmy Carter's criticism of racial discrimination.
Now the South African government sees in the election of Ronald Reagan a possible entree back into the Western world.
In the wake of the US election, the Johannesburg Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld -- mouthpiece of the ruling National Party -- prophesied that:
"South Africa can use the Reagan years to advantage by making our energy supply to a hungry West indispensable; we must hammer loud and long upon the strategic importance of South Africa in military terms and with regard to raw materials that are essential for military and industrial uses; we must offer our contribution as fighter of Russian expansionism; and we must encourage the new US government to chase the Cubans out of Africa. . ."
So begins a new chapter in South African -- and US -- diplomacy. South Africa will, through a variety of means try to ingratiale itself with the new administration in Washington.
The US, in turn, will be faced with a peculiar problem -- whether to draw closer to a mineral-rich, militarily powerful, vehemently anticommunist regime at the risk of bringing harsh criticism and even economic retaliation from much of the third world.
The US has always had a somewhat ambivalent relationship with South Africa. The US State Department has denounced South Africa's racial discrimination as "one of the cruelest forms of human-rights abuse in the world today." Yet the US maintains full diplomatic relations with Pretoria, and US corporate investment in the country totals more than $1.8 billion.
The Carter administration managed to deflect much of the criticism of this policy, largely due to the personal diplomacy of former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and his successor, Donald McHenry, and to the strong human-rights stance of the Presidnt himself.
It is likely that future years would have forced a major reassessment of US policy toward South Africa, however, as the demands of black Africa for firmer action against apartheid rose -- and the conflict in South Africa itself grew more polarized and violent.
Now making that reassessment falls to an incoming Reagan administration -- and it will not be an easy task.
On the one hand, there is substantial evidence that the South African government's racial policies do not have the support of the majority of the population, Pretoria's claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Institutionalized racial discrimination still permeates virtually every facet of South African life. Western notions of civil liberties and due process have been buried under so-called "security" legislation, and warrantless arrests and detentions without trial have become commonplace.
On the other hand, the white government controls what is undeniably a treasure trove of minerals -- a trove on which the US and its Western allies have become heavily reliant. Further, South Africa's position at the southern tip of Africa gives it a certain strategic importance in the subcontinent, not only in military, but also in economic and political terms. And its position between two oceans and alongside one of the world's busiest oil shipping routes also gives South Africa an inherent maritime importance.
But just how important is South Africa to the United States and the West? Moreover, what policies should the US follow to ensure continued access to South Africa's mineral wealth, its harbors, its corridors of power? What are the countervailing Soviet Designs on southern africa, and how should they influence American policy?
Any assessment of the West's strategic stake in South Africa must start with this country's mineral wealth. That wealth is so staggering that terms such as "the Persian Gulf of minerals" are hardly overblown.
Some key statistics:
* In 1979, South Africa produced more than $7 billion worth of gold. Its mines employed tens of thousands of people from seven countries, pumping millions of dollars into the economies of neighboring nations.
* South Africa accounts for one-fifth of the Western world's total uranium exports. Uranium is, of course, essential for nuclear power production.
* Some estimates say that during the 1980s, South Africa will become the world's largest exporter of coal, an increasingly important energy mineral.
All of these riches come from a country that occupies less than 0.8 percent of the earth's land area.
Impressive as these statistics are, critics point to another side of them. The US and other Western countries are no longer on the gold standard and have resisted efforts to remonetize the precious metal. Uranium demand across much of the industrialized world is falling, as nations ponder the safety of nuclear power and seek alternative energy sources. And the US has substantial reserves of coal -- by some estimates, one-third of the world total.
But South Africa has something neither the US nor its allies possess -- an abundance of so-called strategic minerals. These include:
* Chromium. A key element in stainless steel, chromium is essential for production of a wide variety of implements -- from hospital equipment to gun barrels to jet engines. There is no known substitute for chromium and little likelihood of finding one.
The US imports some 90 percent of its chromium needs, and about half of that total comes from South Africa. According to various estimates, South Africa alone has between 68 and 81 percent of world chromite ore reserves.If the higher estimate (that of the South African government) is accepted, that amounts to a 934-year supply at current production levels.
Dr. Earl Parker of the University of California at Berkeley says. "The US is strategically more vulnerable to a long-term chromium embargo than to an embargo of any other natural resources, including petroleum."
* Manganese. Manganese is vital in the production of many steel alloys, and South Africa claims to have some 78 percent of the world's reserves. (US sources place the figure somewhat lower, at about 53 percent. Nevertheless, there is widespread agreement that the South African reserves are substantial.)
South Africa's manganese production, currently pegged at 55 percent of the Western world's total, provides the Us with about one-third of its imports of that metal.
As with chromium, the US is heavily dependent on imports of manganese; about 98 percent of its supply comes from other countries. And that worries some analysts, since without manganese the US steel industry -- and US weapons producers -- might face serious problems.
E.F. Andrews, vice-president of Allegheny-Ludlum Industries, says simply, "If you can't get manganese, you can't make steel."
* Platinum. Vital as a catalyst in the oil refining process, platinum is also a key element in the catalytic converters that limit emission of pollutants in exhaust gases from American cars.
The US imports about 91 percent of its platinum needs, and currently about 55 percent of US imports come from South Africa. South Africa has between 54 and 75 percent of world reserves.
South Africa also provides about three-quarters of American vanadium imports and plays a role in supplying another extremely important mineral, cobalt, to the US.
At present, the US is dependent on Zaire -- a central African country perpetually on the brink of bankdruptcy -- for over 40 percent of its cobalt. And virtually all of Zaire's cobalt exports are shipped over South African rail routes and through South African ports.
In some cases, US allies are just as dependent on South Africa for strategic minerals. West Germany, for example, gets over 50 percent of its manganese imports from South Africa. Britain is dependent on South Africa for some 75 percent of its chromium imports.
"It's very evident that we are one of the top mineral-producing countries in the world," says Dr. Dirk Neething, director of energy for the South African Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs.
Moreover, South Africa's role as a major mineral supplier is likely to grow. This country uses domestic coal for some three-quarters of its energy requirements, and thus can transport and process its raw materials at substantially lower costs than countries that depend on imported oil for such tasks.
Consequently, South Africa is placing greater stress on the further processing of raw materials and is intent on becoming a major supplier of ferromanganese and ferrochromium (minerals alloyed with iron). In addition, South Africa is quietly starting to produce cobalt as a by-product of the platinum mining process (at the behind-the-scenes urging of the US, which is worried about the precarious finances and stability of Zaire).
All of this is enough to establish a certain degree of strategic importance for South Africa. But there is another important reason: The other major holder of several strategic minerals is the Soviet Union.
For example, the Soviet Union and South Africa together account for between 82 and 94 percent of the world's manganese reserves, 93 percent of its vanadium and some 90 percent of its platinum.
There is little likelihood the two countries would form a minerals cartel. After all, South Africa is bitterly opposed to communism and fears the Soviets may work through its restive black population to overthrow the white government.
Some Western analysts share such fears. They argue that should South Africa's mineral wealth fall under Soviet control -- either directly or through the installation of a black puppet government -- the West could be held to ransom over strategic minerals.
Backers of this view cite the so-called Lagovsky theory, named after Soviet strategist A. N. Lagovsky, which holds that the West's reliance on imported minerals, notably chromium, should be exploited to undermine its warmaking capability.
There are some indications the Soviets already have dabbled in mineral price manipulation. Some analysts claim that in 1978 the Soviets began buying up cobalt on world markets. Shortly afterward, guerrillas from Angola -- a Soviet client state -- invaded Zaire's Shaba Province, the source of much of the Western world's cobalt. When production halted and the price of cobalt skyrocketed, the Soviets then reportedly sold the mineral to Western countries at premium prices.
More recently, some experts have suggested that the intervention of Libya, a Soviet ally, in the civil war in Chad may be a grab for Chad's uranium resources.
But some people argue that Soviet price manipulations may not even be the issue.
Dr. Michael Hough, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, suggests that the ultimate Soviet goal may be "strategic denial" -- the refusal to sell minerals to the West at any price.
John Barratt, director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, says, however, that the "strategic denial" theory remains "just speculation."
"I've never seen any serious indications that that's what the Soviets are trying to do," he adds.
The Soviets have been involved in some unusual activity in the minerals field in recent years, however.
Daniel I. Fine, a resources consultant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, notes that beginning 1976, the Soviet Union started major cutbacks on chromium exports. In 1977, it did the same with platinum. By the following year, its manganese exports had been cut, and Soviet satellite states began shopping on the world market.
"The implications of this development for the US and the alliance are deeply disturbing to conventional assumptions of defense and economic security," he adds.
Some observers argue that the Soviets may be stockpiling for war, while others say that their new mineral import dependency may well make the Soviets more aggressively acquisitive -- and increase the likelihood of foreign military adventurism in mineral-rich regions such as southern Africa.
But the truth may be far less dramatic, suggests Phillips Purdy, vice-president of Houston International Minerals Corporation.
"The Russians have the raw materials, but they find it more cost-effective to get them from other nations rather than getting them from their own country," he says.
"They weren't continually developing their own resources," he explains, "they were mining those resources that had already been discovered and that were handy , and suddenly they're running out of them.
"So in the meantime," he concludes, "they've had to go out on the open market and buy. It's basic shortsightedness and economics."
Efforts have been made to insulate US defense needs from minerals cutoffs and disruptions in the marketplace. Since the end of World War II, the US has systematically stockpiled some 93 strategic minerals, metals, and other materials with a 1978 value of $9.4 billion.
Some stockpile goals have yet to be met, however, and experts disagree over the amount, and kind, of materials that should make up the US stockpile.
Nevertheless, a researcher who has just completed an exhaustive study of South Africa's minerals -- Peter Vale, a lecturer in international relations at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand -- says, "The US, it seems to me, hs enough stockpiles to get by, somehow, for three to five years."
But, he adds, "Your allies have virtually none."
The costs of accumulating stockpiles would, by most estimates, be substantial. One estimate is that for West Germany to amass a 97-day stockpile of chrome, the cost would be 300 million deutsche marks (approximately $156 million). The price tag for a six-month cobalt stockpile for Britain is pegged at about $:31 million ($76 million).
A recent US Library of Congress study concluded that an interruption of South African mineral supplies "would not spell disaster" for either the US or its Western allies.
But Mr. Vale points out that the varying degrees of hardship that such a cutoff would cause the Western allies do shape up as an important US foreign policy concern.
"If Reagan is serious about his promises to keep the alliance together, he is going to have to give attention to [this] fact," he observes.
Similarly, experts point out that the US must be cautious in its approach to the question. If South Africa became convinced that Western countries were building up stockpiles in preparation for economic sanctions against this country, they say, it could theoretically cut back exports and drive prices to prohibitively high levels.
That is no a move Pretoria would take lightly, since it would undercut this country's carefully sculpted image as a reliable supplier and could give greater urgency to moves to lessen Western dependence on this country. Still, exports of chrome and manganese account for less than 5 percent of South Africa's mineral export earnings.
As one high-ranking official here says, South Africa's strategic minerals "are much more important to our customers than they are to us."
Would South Africa resort to withholding if the government perceived a threat to the present political order?
South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha makes it clear such a move has not been ruled out by Pretoria's strategists.
"America, Western Europe, and Japan are highly dependent on the strategic mineral imports from South Africa," he says.
"If economic sanctions are applied against us, we shall not only fight against it, we shall take steps which will demonstrate the folly of sanctions against South Africa."
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This Logo and Mascot will be the first of many for our Flagship product "The Mattress Protector". Our plan is to have an entire line of products and each product will have its own "Mascot", So this will be the first of many projects.
Bed Bug proof is what we first want to be known. It also will be dust mite proof, waterproof, and fire retardant.
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The Logo will be used on our website, packaging and all of our marketing materials.
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Hax: Parent comes to terms with racism
While I'm away, readers give the advice.
On dating outside your race:
I never considered myself a racist and I promise you many of my friends are of just about every race and color in the world.
Then one day my daughter introduced me to her new boyfriend.
He was about as nice a guy as you would ever hope your daughter would bring home. He was African-American. It was then I found I indeed did have a problem.
I banned her from dating him. That is not a good thing to do with a 16-year-old, but I could not help it. I spent days meeting with my priest, discussing it with a counselor, then went back and swallowed hard.
I told my daughter I would no longer prohibit their dating. I explained that I would never be able to fully accept it, but I would not forbid it.
I made this young man welcome in my home, we sat and talked about many things. I promise I was able to get him to feel comfortable around us. Time passed by and they stayed together.
One day, at his house, I was talking to his single mom. I could tell she was uncomfortable with me there. Finally I asked her how she felt about his dating a white girl, and she poured out to me that my daughter was the most wonderful person in the entire world, a real treasure … "but she is not black. I am sorry, I am old-fashioned I guess, but I am not happy with my son dating a white girl."
We both laughed when I told her I felt the same.
They went off to college, drifted apart and are now both dating someone of their own race.
The problem is not with the girl, nor was it with my daughter or her boyfriend; it is with a generation of us still holding on with all we have to what we were raised to believe. I hope they can forgive us.
On an expectant mother's weight gain (not that it's even remotely your business):
I'm a midwife and it seems I spend all day talking people off ledges about their weight. We make people so self-conscious about it, having them weigh in at every prenatal visit. Volumes have been written on "appropriate weight gain in pregnancy." So much of what goes on in that nine-month period is beyond the mom-to-be's control.
Then add to that people at every turn saying things like, "You're only six months? Are you sure the doctor didn't make a mistake with your due date?" Or, "Are you still pregnant?" And my personal favorite, "Are you sure it's not twins?" It makes pregnant women dread leaving their homes.
Get a clue, people. You are not funny. Not at all, not even a little bit. If you can't say "you look great" then don't say anything at all.
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When I try to click on a news story on the front page, it tells me I am not authorized to view that page. Anyone else having that problem? This is an example of one of the many problem stories.
EDIT: This is happening in the blogs, too.
EDIT: This is happening in the blogs, too.
It happens to me as well.
I haven't had any problems with blogs, but the news stories do seem to be secured from reading.
The news story in a known issue; unfortunately the vulnerability the hacker attacked is related to the story page. We're working on a fix or workaround, but for now it's going to be unavailable.
Can you provide a link to a blog entry that's giving you problems?
Can you provide a link to a blog entry that's giving you problems?
Happens a lot to me; and it costs me some prime entertainment.
Yep.Me too.
Yeah I still see this. That's way I see the front page, then go to the news forums to see what's up.
Same issue here, can't read news directly for the front page
We know it's an issue. I've posted in here confirming it. We are working on resolving it and we appreciate your patience while we do so.
Just friendly question asking but how are those repairs with the issues coming along Black Six?
I'm really very sorry to see another stumbling block of this magnitude has thrown itself in front of the staff. You must be made of steel, B6
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... Any updates? It's been two months since this ticket opened and over a month since B6 last commented here.
Indeed... and I'm still facing this same problem :/
Edited by JohannDakitsch, Apr 14 2013 - 08:24 PM.
Calm down guys, the staff have lives too, AND they got to moderate the forums. I coded some things before and know how hard it can be solving a bug. And also the hacker attack was linked to the story page thing somehow, we don't wan't to see that happening again don't we? One day the staff will solve this, but for now we're good with the current solution.
You staff have all my respect and support, I know how hard it can be...
You staff have all my respect and support, I know how hard it can be...
I know, I'm not trying to rush things, just have an update on the situation...
When we have more information to share, we will.
It looks like the news stories have been fixed! Thank you, Black Six!
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This is not fixed.
Well, thanks for putting in the effort, I guess, since now I can access Archived News stories.
However, ever since this problem started, the news stories don't link to their own page, so I agree - there's still a problem here.
However, ever since this problem started, the news stories don't link to their own page, so I agree - there's still a problem here.
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Since it is one of the largest and heaviest of our shorebirds,
the oystercatcher is unmistakable. It is striking in appearance:
dark-brown, black, and white, with a bright red bill. When in
flight, a diagonal white stripe in each wing forms a V-pattern.
recent survey by the FWC estimates the number of American
Oystercatchers in Florida during the breeding season to be around
1000 individuals. Little is known about movement patterns,
migration, and the population of Oystercatchers wintering in
Florida. A 1999 Christmas Bird Count estimate placed that number
around 1250 birds.
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How crunching the numbers reveals some startling differences in the risk of road accidents between richer and poorer countries.
Karl Benz would likely be shocked at the continued popularity of his invention. Our appetite for cars has grown to a point where there is now around one car for every 11 people in the world. Reasonably, you may think that more cars means more road accidents. But, as ever, numbers tell a more complex truth.
Take the UK as an example. In 1950, a few years before I was born, there were 4.4 million vehicles registered in Britain, one for every 11 people. In 2010, there were 34 million vehicles, eight times as many, and more than one for every two people. There were 5,012 deaths on UK roads in 1950, but by 2010 the number of deaths had dropped by 63% to 1,850. When I remember how as a child I enjoyed riding in the front seat of our old van, which had no regular safety inspection or seat belts, and how people used to drive to the pub, drink all evening, and then meander home, I am not really surprised by these extraordinary changes.
If we translate these figures into the chance in a million of dying, or micromorts, there was an average of 102 micromorts per person per year in 1950, dropping to just 31 micromorts per year in 2010. Or to put it another way, each 100,000 vehicles in 1950 were responsible for 114 deaths, but by 2010 they were responsible for only five deaths.
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Almost all of the richer nations have followed this pattern, despite traffic increasing. In the 30 years between 1980 and 2009, road fatalities fell by 55% in Australia, 69% in France, 63% in Britain, 54% in Italy and 58% in Spain. The reduction in the US was only 34%, while deaths slightly rose in Greece. For countries that collect the relevant data, we can get the average number of micromorts per 1,000 kilometres a vehicle travels: four in the UK, seven in the USA, 10 in Belgium, 20 in Korea, 40 in Romania and 56 in Brazil.
Counting accidents and injuries is more tricky – what exactly counts as an injury? But taking the UK as an example, its figures for being injured have hardly changed: in 1950 there were 167,000 accidents with 196,000 injuries; in 2010 there were 154,000 accidents with 207,000 injuries. People still crash into each other about 400 times a day, but the proportion of these accidents that are fatal has dropped staggeringly – thanks to speed limits, safety features, and improved and quicker medical care.
Sadly these trends are not observed the world over. While the average risk for an individual from dying on the roads in high-income countries is 103 micromorts per year, it is 205 in low- and middle-income countries. Of the estimated 3,500 people killed a day worldwide, 3,000 are in the developing world, in spite of those countries containing less than half of all cars on the road. Notable in the per-capita list is South Africa, which sees 15,000 road deaths each year, a statistic that was brought into sharp relief when Nelson Mandela's great grand-daughter Zenani was killed.
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Who bears this risk again exposes a divide between richer and poorer nations. In richer countries, the majority of road fatalities are the occupants of cars. In poorer countries it is what are known as "vulnerable road users": pedestrians, cyclists and whole families squeezed onto a single small motorbike. For instance, 70% of all road deaths in Thailand are riders of two-wheeled vehicles.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) points out that only 47% of countries have laws about safety features such as speeding, drinking, seatbelts, helmets and child restraints. And these are often not enforced. Not that this shows any sign of improving. The WHO also predicts that road traffic injuries will rise from its current ninth position in the cause-of-death league table to fifth place by 2030 – causing 2.4 million deaths, as well as between 20 and 50 million injuries, largely of young people, and at enormous cost to the economies.
It might seem odd that countries with fewer cars are riskier places for road travel, but "Smeed's law" of traffic says that deaths per vehicle decline strongly as roads get busier – it is empty roads that are so lethal. This is reflected in some extraordinary statistics about Ethiopia: the WHO report states its 244,000 registered vehicles in 2007 managed to kill 2,517 people, the majority of which were pedestrians. That is one death per year for every 100 vehicles. If the US had the same rate with its 250 million vehicles, this would mean 2.5 million deaths on the roads each year – 75 times the current amount of around 32,000 deaths.
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Modeling Project Releng/Component Creation
< Modeling Project Releng
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This is a process workflow for creating a new EMFT component.
In this example, the new EMFT component is EMF JCR Management, or org.eclipse.emf.jcrm. See also bugs 182379 and 182380.
Names in square brackets are assignees. If more than one assignee is listed, the first listed is the principal w/ other(s) as backup.
- WM = Webmaster(s)
- PMC = Project Management Chair
- REL = Release Engineer
- COMP = Component Owner
- (The proposal submission process is subject to change. If you see anything glaringly wrong here, please correct it.)
- [COMP] contact PMC via or mailing list to pitch component idea. Should have a first draft of the proposal doc (.doc, .ppt, .pdf, or ideally, in wiki format) and maybe some sample code at this point
- [COMP] with PMC approval, post announcement to relevant newsgroup(s) to gather community/peer feedback.
- Wait two weeks
- [COMP] post announcement to project's developer mailing list to gather approval votes from existing project committers.
- Wait one week
- [COMP] post announcement to PMC mailing list after successful conclusion of committer vote.
- [COMP] formalize proposal document in wiki; link from Proposed Components page.
- Examples: EMF4Net Proposal, Mint, Temporality
- [COMP] send note to EMO for planetwide announcement, including short paragraph describing component and link to proposal doc in wiki.
Committer Legal Setup
- [PMC] submit New Project Provisioning Request (NPPR) for new component and COMP, per http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_provisioning_request.php
- [PMC] submit New Committer Request Form (NCRF) for COMP, per http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/new-committer.php
- [COMP] fax committer agreement to the EMO
- [COMP] fax company agreement to the EMO
- [COMP] submit Committer Questionnaire
Commiter Account Setup
- [WM] create dev.eclipse.org userid for COMP; user requires a full shell, not a restricted one
- [WM] add COMP to groups emf-jcrm, emf-jcrm-releng
- [WM] add COMP to groups emftadmin (download.eclipse) & modeling-home (www.eclipse)
- [WM] add REL to group emf-jcrm-releng
Component Setup
- [COMP] provide component description text to PMC & REL for website intro/detail & Bugzilla component description
- [COMP] provide introductory wiki page, linked from EMFT page
Bugzilla Setup
- [COMP] register with Bugzilla to create an account
- [REL] add new component, with COMP as default assignee
CVS Setup
- [WM] change group id on /cvsroot/modeling/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.jcrm/ to emf-jcrm
- [WM] change group id on /cvsroot/modeling/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.jcrm.releng/ to emf-jcrm-releng
Code Contribution
- [COMP] commit code into /cvsroot/modeling/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.jcrm/ (details here). Recommend setting plugins to version 0.7.0 if based on EMF 2.2 or 0.8.0 if based on EMF 2.3; or, if code is really new, could start with 0.5.0.
- [COMP] Third party code must be submitted to IPzilla for legal clearance before being committed to CVS. Note also that many 3rd party libraries are available via the Orbit project, and so can be added to the project at build time (rather than needing to be duplicated in CVS).
Release Engineering
- [COMP] add new component to the EMFT website; identify as having no downloads yet
- [COMP] contact REL via IM (eg., User:nickb) to begin releng coordination
- [COMP] provide component compilation requirements to REL: upstream dependencies (eg., EMF, UML2, OCL...), 3rd party libraries (from Orbit or other), JDK version (1.4 or 5.0), plugin version (eg., usually 0.7.0 to start). See also Build UI.
- [COMP] create releng module. See also Modeling Project Releng to more tips and advice.
- [REL] set up build server (emft.eclipse.org or build.eclipse.org)
- [COMP] set up SSH keys for connecting passwordlessly from emft.eclipse.org to download1.eclipse.org and dev.eclipse.org
- [COMP] publish first JCRM build to download1.eclipse.org
- [COMP] update website to reflect project has first successful build. See Site Navigation.
- [REL] update Search CVS (incl. relupdate.php) to ensure component is being logged (release notes, build news)


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BOSTON Liberal groups have launched twin online petitions aimed at pressuring Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to temporarily name former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank to Sen. John Kerry's seat if Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which helped raise money for Democrat Elizabeth Warren during her successful Senate campaign, has launched a new website and online petition.
The petition points to potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and says "we can't afford to have our other senator be lukewarm, undecided, or uncertain."
"We need someone who we are 100 percent confident will fight right alongside [Warren]," the petition adds.
The website SignOn.org, affiliated with the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, has posted a similar petition saying "we can't think of anyone who would do a better job over the next few months than Barney Frank."
Frank, who opted not to run for re-election after a 32-year career in the U.S. House, has publicly lobbied for the interim post.
"I'm very well suited to do it," Frank said last week. "You're not going to have a long period to get acquainted with things."
Patrick confirmed that he was considering Frank and believed he would make a "great interim senator," but added that he has talked to other people about the position as well.
Patrick must appoint someone to fill Kerry's seat until a special election is held if Kerry's nomination is confirmed. That special election would be scheduled for about five months after the Massachusetts Democrat's resignation.


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PHILADELPHIA -- In a two-year study involving five Philadelphia elementary schools that replaced sodas with fruit juice and reduced the amount of snacks and candy available in vending machines and the cafeteria, the number of students who gained weight in those schools was half the number of students who gained weight in schools that made no changes in their vending machines and cafeterias.
The study also showed that more than 7 percent of the kids in the five schools became overweight compared to the 15 percent in the schools that did not make any dietary changes.
"That signals to me that we have lots more work to do," says Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. Foster also is the lead author of the study, which is published in the April issue of Pediatrics.
The Philadelphia study put to the test a program developed by the Food Trust, a nonprofit organization that works to improve access to affordable, healthy food. Ten schools enrolled in the government-funded study in 2002, and half made the changes.
The study consisted of 1,349 students in grades four through six. About 40 percent of the students were overweight or obese at the beginning of the study. Several of them received free or subsidized meals.
In addition to the changes in schools' vending machines, students who ate healthy snacks got raffle tickets to win prizes such as bikes and jump ropes.
After two years, the number of overweight students at the five schools dropped 10 to 15 percent, while the number of overweight students at the no-change schools rose a quarter to 20 percent. There was no difference between school groups in new obese students (6 percent) or the overall number of obese students (25 percent).


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Less than a week ago, a photograph showing the internal sales database for Carphone Warehouse in the UK appeared online featuring a screen protector for the Samsung Nexus 2, and a Nexus 7 variant with 32GB of storage. The Samsung Nexus 2 is still just as much of a mystery as when the photograph first leaked, but the 32GB Nexus 7 has been all but confirmed by making an appearance in the wild.
Japanese Twitter user oppese has taken to the social network to share a picture of a Nexus 7 with 32GB of storage he received by mistake. Apparently, when ordering a Japanese version of the Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage, a 32GB variant was sent instead. On oppese's Twitter account, pictures of both the 16GB box and the storage screen in the settings menu showing a remaining 27.58GB of storage have been posted.
It is possible that oppese faked the storage information screen, but given the previous Carphone Warehouse leak and just how much sense it makes for Google to carry a Nexus 7 with 32GB of storage, we're inclined to believe this is real. If that is the case, we expect it to be announced sometime before the end of the month. It would make a great addition to the announcement of the next Nexus device that should be just a couple weeks away now.


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trying this out, will let you know how it goes but so far seems ok.
Anyone out there used it at all?
Yep. Used it, abused it. Played many a trick on the unsuspecting end (l)user. What do you want to know?
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Is it worth the bother to roll out or is there a better app? Also any irritations you had would be a help.
From what I remember: It's a good solid product. Remote control features sometimes hang laptops.
Overall it did what i asked it to do.
btw - I stand (sit) corrected. On of the suns has a 21" monitor, but then, it is running sol2.6 anyway so not susceptible to the problem. Guess what, sun called me about it today since I notified them. Now that is prompt service.
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Today the Church celebrates the Birth of Jesus Christ, the first day in the octave of Christmas. Throughout Advent the Church longed ardently for the coming of our Savior. Today she celebrates His birth with unrestrained joy. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Son of God became man to give us a share in that divine life which is eternally His in the Blessed Trinity. Christmas time begins on December 24 with the first Vespers of the feast and ends on the feast of the Baptism of Christ. White vestments reappear in our churches as a sign of joy.Click here for commentary on the readings in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
The Christmas feast is a festival full of joy. The Eternal Word has become Man and dwells among us. The longings of the patriarchs and prophets are fulfilled. With the shepherds we hurry to the manger and adore the Incarnate Son of God, who for us and for our salvation descended upon earth. The purpose of the Christmas feast is beautifully expressed in the Preface of the Nativity: "For by the mystery of the Word made flesh the light of Thy glory hath shone anew upon the eyes of our mind; so that while we acknowledge Him a God seen by men, we may be drawn by Him to the love of things unseen."During the Christmas season there is an extensive exchange of greetings and good wishes among friends. These greetings are a reminder of those "good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people, for this day is born to you a Savior Who is Christ the Lord" (Lk. 2:11). They are a reminder, too, that all blessings and graces come to us from Christ: "Hath He not also with Him given us all things?" (Rom. 8:32). During the Christmas season there is also an exchange of gifts. This custom should recall to us that on this day God Himself gave to us the greatest of all gifts, His beloved Son: "God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son" (John 3: 16).The Christmas tree, of which the first-known mention was made in 1605 at Strasbourg, was introduced into France and England in 1840. It symbolizes the great family tree of Christ which through David and Jesse has its roots in Abraham, the father of the chosen race. It is often laden with gifts to remind us that Christmas brought us the priceless gifts of grace and of eternal life. It is frequently adorned with lights that recall to us that Christ is the Light of the world enlightening those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Though not entirely unknown before, the custom of the Christmas Crib was adopted by St. Francis of Assisi at Greccio, Italy, on Christmas 1225. It is a concrete and vivid way of representing to ourselves the Incarnation and birth of Christ. It depicts in a striking manner the virtues of the newborn Savior, especially His humility, poverty, and charity.The First Day of Christmas
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Today is the great solemnity that shows the world that the Word incarnate, the Savior of mankind, is finally born. God becoming truly man is an enormous event [….]. Something truly happens that goes beyond any evolutionary process: the fusion of man and God, the creature and the Creator. It is not the progression of another step in the evolutionary process, but the eruption of a personal action, founded on love, that from this point forward reveals to men new space and possibilities. (Joseph Ratzinger in God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald, 2001, p. 197).
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The Southern Magnolia grows in Acidic, Clay, Drought Tolerant, Loamy, Moist, Sandy, Well Drained, Wide Range soils.
The Southern Magnolia has a(n) Oval shape.
The Southern Magnolia is a bottomland tree in its natural habitat throughout the coastal plains of the deep south. Its green leaves brighten the landscape throughout the year and its large white flowers are striking, not only for their beauty but for their rich fragrance. It is the state tree of Mississippi.
The Southern Magnolia fruits are eaten by squirrels, rabbits, & birds, including wild turkey.
Magnolias are entwined with the history of the south. Perhaps the one reaching back the farthest into time is a Southern Magnolia that still grows in what today is Washington State Park in Washington, Arkansas. According to "Famous and Historic Trees," by Charles E. Randall and Henry Clepper, this tree was planted near an important road junction in 1839 by Gen. Grandison D. Royston. It was near a blacksmith shop where Jim Bowie fashioned his famous knife. Some call it the Jones Magnolia because two unrelated boys were born to Jones families the same year the tree was planted. Both became Colonels in the Confederate army and one, Daniel W. Jones, eventually became Governor of Arkansas. The other, James K. Jones, became a U.S. senator. Both laid claim to being the namesake of the tree and James finally resolved the good-natured debate by purchasing the land the tree stood on and making his home there for over 30 years. Another historic specimen grows on the White House grounds. It was transplanted by President Andrew Jackson from his home in Nashville, Tennessee in memory of his beloved wife, Rachel.
Can withstand some flooding and has moderate drought tolerance.
The leaves are evergreen, 5 to 10 inches long and leathery. They are a lustrous dark green on top with a soft, rusty underside.
Creamy white flowers, solitary and extremely large, sometimes up to 12 inches in diameter.
May through June, with some blossoms throughout the summer months.
The fruit is elongated, 3 to 8 inches long. Attracts birds and has some litter effect.
Southern magnolia is a magnificent tree with a name that is somewhat misleading. Although it is most prevalent in the South—and the state tree of Mississippi—its zone 6 planting range means it can grow in many northern areas, even as far north as parts of Maine, Michigan and Washington.
As an ornamental, it is beloved for its year-round foliage and delightful, large, late-spring flowers.
Southern magnolia is a magnificent tree with a name that is somewhat misleading. Although it is most prevalent in the South—and the state tree of Mississippi—its zone 6 planting range means it can grow in many northern areas, even as far north as parts of Maine, Michigan and Washington.
As an ornamental, it is beloved for its year-round foliage and delightful, large, late-spring flowers.
Each tree and plant is guaranteed to grow, or we'll replace it within one year of shipment.
Our trees are delivered with natural bare roots which have been dipped in hydrating gel prior to shipment to keep the roots moist and healthy. As their abundant, fibrous roots aren't confined by a container, bare-root trees get off to a more vigorous start compared to containerized roots which typically need more time to adjust to transplanting. Bare-root trees typically surpass the size of larger containerized trees in only a few years.
Potted (also called containerized) trees are shipped in 4" containers. Because the roots are packed in soil, the trees don't
need to be dormant for shipping. Benefits to potted trees include:
Natural root (also called bare root) trees are shipped without soil around their roots. They are shipped when dormant in the spring and fall seasons. We dip the roots in a hydrating gel to keep them moist during shipping. Some advantages of natural root trees:
The Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University has an interesting article about the benefits of planting natural root trees. Look for the PDF entitled Creating the Urban Forest: The Bare Root Method
Plugged trees are grown in a soil plug. While not shipped in a pot, these trees do have soil around the roots. Benefits of this type of tree include:
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