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We live in zone 7a and have two Meyer lemon trees. We transplanted them into 12" pots when we first got them. We got them last spring and they did well outside over the summer.
We've kept them in our closed-in solarium for the winter where they get a lot of sunlight. After being inside for a while, the leaves began to turn yellow and fall off.
We think maybe we are not getting the watering right.
We are planning transplant the trees into a bigger planter (from 12" to 16" planter). Here are some questions:
1. Okay to transplant while distressed like this?
Thanks for any recommendations on what to do first here. We are VERY new at citrus.
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- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 27, 13 at 13:37
|Hi spice girl and welcome...
One of the things that everyone forgets to do is take an up close picture of their mix in the pot. Can you do that?
Also, what is your mix made of? How long does it stay wet?
|Water softeners replace minerals with Sodium Chloride (table salt); it is too common that people water plants with water that has come thru the water softener... stop it; the salt will kill the tree... and other plants as well.
You likely moved your Meyer directly from outside to inside. Meyers are sensitive to significant light change and will drop leaves to replace them with new leaves better suited to the new light. In the future move the tree from full sun to partial sun; after 2 weeks move it to full shade; and after another 2 weeks to inside. Reverse the process in the Spring. I would not re-pot a stressed tree; wait until you put it out in the Spring. 2... skip the rocks. 3... perlite, never vermiculite. Your leaves have good color, so you are probably giving it what it needs in fertilizer.
|There is nothing wrong with your tree. Falling leaves from citrus is quite common at this time of year, and for the next month depending where you live. The leaves in question are just old leaves that have lived out their life span A citrus leaf has a life span of 20 - 24 months. If you look at the leaves you can even see where the tree has pulled back out most of the remaining nitrogen from the leaves so that the nitrogen can be reused before the old leaves are discarded. When an older citrus leaf can no longer accomplish it full required work task for the tree it is quickly discarded. There is no welfare program for an old leaf. Adding gravel, rocks, or other such material, does NOT help with the container's drainage. It actually hurts the drainage, because the layer of rock only raises the perched water table even higher into the container's growing area. There a all types of mediums that a container citrus will grow well in. Just be sure that it has good drainageand good aeration. The number one potting mix world wide for container trees is 5 parts conifer bark, 1 part coarse sand and 1 part peat moss. It is used by most every commercial nursery in the world. This forum has two favorite mixes that they seem to use. Personally, I have never use them, but for small trees in small containers they seem to work. Good luck to this tree. - Silica
- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 3, 13 at 12:36
|So Spicegirl...How's it going?
Is your tree doing any better than when you first asked?
Hoping so:-)
- Posted by spicegirl_0101 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 10, 13 at 17:09
|Hi Mike,
Thanks for checking in.
The trees are holding their own. We stopped using softened water, which I think was the easiest and most important step. And, we'll be more mindful when it comes to moving them from inside to out and vice versa.
Will check in as time goes on.
Thanks to you and all!
- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 10, 13 at 17:23
|I'm so glad that John brought that up. It's great to see you learn from such good people here.
|That yellowing is not normal and definitely looks like sodium toxicity to me.
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My new game I am working on is called "Rotron" and is nearing its completion. After some polishing, tweaking and balancing I hope to submit it by next weekend to the App Store for review. It is an iPhone/iPod Touch arcade game made with Cocos2D. Here is the first public screenshot:
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By now you've heard about Apple's new CarPlay platform which is gearing up for battle with Google's Open Automotive Alliance, not to mention all the other platforms making a land grab for that whitest of spaces, the car dashboard. The Apple platform - coming soon - will only be available on a few new car models and will be integrated with only the newest iPhone models and features only a few non-Apple app partners (notably excluding Pandora). But this is how change comes, one innovation, one device, one new car model at a time. Here's a video that illustrates how the platform works on a … [Read more...]
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This post was originally published by PBS's MediaShift and is reprinted here with their permission. I wrote it shortly before last week's spate of Apple announcements. The launch of Apple's iOS 7 signals more than a major upgrade to Apple's mobile operating system. Embedded in its feature set is an alternative to every music-playing radio station and every online radio service – iTunes Radio. But is iTunes Radio just another choice for music, along with Pandora, Spotify, and the rest? Or is it something much bigger, something that changes everything? I think it's the latter. First, … [Read more...]
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Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The yen fell to a three-month low versus the dollar after the Bank of Japan said it would increase the size of its asset-purchase fund, damping demand for the Asian nation's currency.
The euro dropped against its U.S. counterpart after European finance ministers shelved a meeting in Brussels tomorrow because of a lack of political assurances from Greek leaders and planned instead to hold a conference call. The Bank of Japan unexpectedly added 10 trillion yen ($128 billion) to an asset-purchase program and set a 1 percent goal for inflation to boost the economy. The dollar gained on refuge demand after U.S. retail sales climbed more slowly than forecast.
"The Bank of Japan caught the markets by surprise," said Mark McCormick, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York. "I don't think anyone was expecting them to move forward with additional purchases. Right now, you don't really want to be fighting the central bank, but it's a move you're going to want to fade."
The yen dropped 1.2 percent to 78.46 per dollar at 3:26 p.m. in New York after reaching 78.54, the weakest level since November. It lost 0.4 percent to 102.72 per euro. The shared currency dropped 0.7 percent to $1.3090 after appreciating as much as 0.2 percent.
Canada's dollar gained against most of its major counterparts, rising 1 percent to 78.33 yen, as crude oil touched a three-week high before paring gains.
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A surge in Norway's krone may prompt the central bank to talk down the currency's strength as early as this week as policy makers renew their efforts to support exports.
The krone rose 0.2 percent against the euro to 7.5260 and touched 7.5219, its highest since Sept. 9. It has gained about 2.9 percent against the common currency so far this year. Versus the dollar, the krone reached 5.7032 yesterday, its strongest since Nov. 14.
Chile's peso declined for a third day, dipping 1 percent to 484.65 per dollar, on falling copper prices and calls for the central bank to weaken the currency. The central bank probably will keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged today at 5 percent, according to the median estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The bank will announce its decision after 6 p.m. local time.
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The euro fell versus the dollar as Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the euro-region finance chiefs, said further technical work needs to be carried out by Greece and the troika of the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Finance ministers will hold a teleconference to prod Greece to do more to clinch an aid package worth 130 billion euros ($170 billion) along with about 100 billion euros of debt relief from private bondholders.
Greece's gross domestic product dropped 7 percent from a year earlier in the fourth quarter after contracting a revised 5 percent on an annual basis in the third quarter, the Hellenic Statistical Authority said in an e-mailed statement today.
Japan's currency fell against all of its most-traded counterparts after the central bank increased its asset-purchase fund to 30 trillion yen, expanding economic stimulus measures for the first time since October. The BOJ also said it will target 1 percent inflation "for the time being."
The yen reached its lowest level against the dollar since Nov. 1, when Japan was in the midst of conducting 1.02 trillion yen worth of unannounced intervention. The Finance Ministry released data last week showing Japan sold yen in the currency market during the first four days of November, after selling a record 8.07 trillion yen on Oct. 31, when the yen climbed to a post-World War II high of 75.35 against the dollar.
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Japanese lawmakers had urged extra efforts to counter deflation after the Federal Reserve adopted a 2 percent inflation target and the European Central Bank expanded its balance sheet. The Fed said at its meeting Jan. 25 that it would keep its interest rate at a record low of zero to 0.25 percent through at least 2014.
The yen reached a three-month high of 76.03 per dollar Feb. 1, within one yen of its postwar record.
The yen may weaken to 80 versus the U.S. dollar for the first time in more than six months after breaking above the pair's 200-day moving average, according to technical analysis by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The dollar rose against all of the 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg. The Dollar Index, which IntercontinentalExchange Inc. uses to track the greenback against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners, rose 0.6 percent to 79.609.
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Retail sales increased 0.4 percent, following little change in December that was initially reported as a 0.1 percent increase, Commerce Department figures showed today. Last month's advance was half the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, reflecting an unexpected drop at auto dealers.
"The retail sales data support our view that the economy is not doing as well as most think it is," said David Mann, regional head of research for the Americas at Standard Chartered Plc in New York. "There could be some elements of that creeping back in, a bit of risk-off and flight to safety."
Prices of goods imported into the U.S. rose 0.3 percent in January, led by higher costs for automobiles and petroleum, a report from Labor Department also showed today. It was the second increase in the past six months, indicating little pressure on prices from overseas.
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Delaware's Filipino-American community is following the developments in the Philippines after the typhoon that may have killed 10,000 people in the Pacific nation.
Emilio Rana, President of the Pilipino American Association of Delaware says efforts are underway to reach survivors and provide them with aid.
"The government has already distributed some goods, some supplies to that area but it's very, very slow because of the damaged communication lines, damaged roads...so the people are in dire need of food," Rana tells WDEL's Delaware Afternoon News.
Rana says many Filipino-Americans living in Delaware are unable to reach relatives.
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The Hollywood glow of actor Dennis Farina faded to the background Monday as friends and others who attended his Northwest Side wake remembered a high school classmate who was smooth with the ladies, a Chicago cop who served his city with honor and a dad with a sense of humor.
The Rev. Dan McCarthy, Farina's former Northwest Side parish priest at Our Lady of Victory, recalled with a laugh how Farina used police tactics to help win a father-son basketball game. Farina was up against his eldest son — also named Dennis — and his eighth-grade comrades. The dads were up a few points at halftime, but completely exhausted, McCarthy said.
"I look around and I count and there's only four kids out on the floor. I look around for the star of the team, who was the one that was missing, and I see that Dennis had handcuffed him to the locker-room door. So, needless to say, we went on to win, because he stayed handcuffed for the whole second half," said McCarthy, who played with the dads.
Farina, 69, who had lung cancer, died from a blood clot in his lung last week in Arizona. The wake was held at the Montclair-Lucania Funeral Home, 6901 W. Belmont Ave.
Teresa McDonough Duffy, who went to high school at St. Michael's in Old Town with Farina, said he kept her in stitches, and, consequently, in hot water with the nuns.
"I would get in trouble every day at our daily mass because he'd be across the pews . . . just trying to make me laugh, which he did, and I would get in trouble with the nuns," she said.
"And Dennis was a coffee drinker. He didn't take girls out for fries and a coke, you met him for coffee, which I thought was just ahead of his time for being 17 years old."
Farina, who served as a police officer in Chicago before his acting career took off, appeared in movies such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Get Shorty." Contrary to his law enforcement background, he often portrayed seedy characters on the screen.
Film producer Steven A. Jones said Farina honed his skills on stage in Chicago.
"Dennis was playing a bad-guy character during a play called 'Cops' at the Organic Theater, and I remember he played it so well that several cops who were in the audience felt like they could just get up and waste him right there," Jones said.
Dozens of active-duty and former police officers attended the wake.
"He was always a gentleman, a nice guy and a great cop," said retired police officer Anthony Bongiorno, 73. Other retired officers who asked not to be named said Farina was a "what-you-see is-what-you-get" kind of guy who never let his fame go to his head.
The wake was closed to the media, but open to fans like Miriam Bubniak, 54, who traveled from Itasca to pay her respects. "He was just such a cool character," Bubniak said. "I loved him as the host of 'Unsolved Mysteries.'
Actor William Petersen attended the wake. John Mahoney of "Frasier" fame also was there.
Farina's funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Assumption Catholic Church, 323 W. Illinois St.


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Self-Heal Prunella vulgaris L.
Medicinal Uses & Benefits of Self-Heal
How to Use| Side Effects | Plant & Garden|
How to Use: Self-Heal
Culpepper, explaining the name 'Self-Heal' whereby when you are hurt, you may heal yourself, as the bruised, fresh leaves and flowers may be applied directly to a fresh wound. While self-heal is not so immediately effective as comfrey, yarrow, or bugle, it is a good herb to know about because of its almost universal presence and availability. One of its popular names "Carpenters Herb", indicates that it was traditionally used for many a mashed, bruised or cut finger.
Preparation Methods & Dosage :The dried leaves of Prunella are often combined with other antibiotic herbs in making teas. Even a weak infusion of self heal has enough antibiotic and antiseptic effect to be an effective treatment for conjunctivitis and sties. Use the infusion in a sterile eyewash, or apply as a cool compress.
Self-Heal Side Effects: None noted.
Plant Description
This humble, rusty green plant, weakly lopping over the surrounding grass, so that often only its insignificant purple, clover-like flower-heads are visible, is another of those immigrants from the old countries which, having proved fittest in the fiercer struggle for existence there, has soon after its introduction here exceeded most of our more favored native flowers in numbers. Everywhere we find the heal-all, sometimes dusty and stunted by the roadside, sometimes truly beautiful in its fresh purple, violet, and white when perfectly developed under happy conditions. In England, where most flowers are deeper hued than with us, the heal-all is rich purple. What is the secret of this flower's successful march across three continents? As usual, the chief reason is to be found in the facility it offers insects to secure food; and the quantity of fertile seed it is therefore able to ripen as the result of their visits is its reward. Also, its flowering season is unusually long, and it is a tireless bloomer. It is finical in no respect; its sprawling stems root easily at the joints, and it is very hardy. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
History and Traditions & FolkloreSelf Heal is one of those very common wildflowers that found their way to North America with the settlers.
. It is under the dominion of Mars, hot, biting, and choleric; and remedies what evils Mars afflicts the body of man with, by sympathy, as viper's flesh attracts poison, and the loadstone iron. It kills the worms, helps the gout, cramp, and convulsions, provokes urine, and helps all joint-aches.
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Now that Wachovia Corp. is apparently done flirting with Morgan Stanley & Co., what's next for the Charlotte banking giant?
Chief executive Bob Steel could return to his original plan of cleaning up the bank's mortgage portfolio, cutting costs and selling off non-core assets, analysts said. But speculation is likely to continue over whether he plans to do a deal. In particular, the Morgan Stanley overture raises questions about his plans for the investment banking business.
And the big X-factor is ongoing negotiations in Congress to craft a bailout plan that could help banks shed some of their most troubled assets. Wachovia's biggest problem is its $122billion Pick-A-Payment loan portfolio, a source of huge loan losses.
Word surfaced of talks with Morgan Stanley last week, but the discussions appear to have ended this week. Steel, a former U.S. Treasury official and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive, reportedly made the first overture to Morgan Stanley, but Wachovia has repeatedly declined to comment on the existence of talks.
"We are focused on managing our company and serving our customers," Wachovia spokeswoman Christy Phillips-Brown said, emphasizing the bank remains financially strong.
Amid turbulent times in the financial industry, Wachovia's future is critical for Charlotte, where it employs about 20,000 and is a major civic player. The bank appeared headed to a merger with Morgan Stanley last week, but instead the New York investment bank converted Sunday into a bank holding company and on Monday announced a capital infusion from a Japanese bank. With the talks apparently ended, here's a look at the two major paths Wachovia CEO Bob Steel can take:
Go it alone
When Steel came onboard in July to replace the ousted Ken Thompson, he stressed the bank had a strong outlook as a standalone company, supported by solid core businesses, despite its mortgage woes. In a CNBC interview last week, he reiterated the same point, but also noted Wachovia has a duty to its investors, who have seen their shares fall more than 63 percent this year.
"We have a great future as an independent company, but we're a public company, so we're going to do what's right for shareholders," he told "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer.
The main task is to return the company to profitability – it lost $9.8 billion in the first half of the year – and make sure it has enough capital on hand to cover losses. In July, Steel outlined a plan to preserve $5 billion in capital by the end of 2009 by taking four major steps:
eliminating about 7,000 jobs, or 6 percent of the workforce.
cutting the quarterly dividend to 5 cents per share.
decreasing the size of the bank's Pick-A-Pay loan portfolio.
reducing total assets, which could include the sale of "noncore" businesses.
Since then, Steel has provided more details on his plan, including efforts to treat the Pick-A-Pay portfolio as a "distressed asset" separate from the rest of the bank. The bank is contacting borrowers about refinancing their loans into traditional mortgages that could be sold off to investors. The Pick-A-Pay loans are problematic because they are concentrated in troubled California and Florida housing markets and because they have a minimum payment option that allows the loan balance to grow instead of shrink.
The latest twist is the deepening of the credit crisis. The federal government is now weighing a bailout plan that could allow it to buy up to $700 billion in troubled assets from banks. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are pushing for a quick passage of legislation, but lawmakers have criticized the cost and skimpy details on how the program would work.
The big question is how much the government would pay for these troubled assets, said Morningstar analyst Jaime Peters. If the government buys these loans at the current value on the banks' books, then they can offload bad assets without taking losses and without having to raise capital to cover writedowns. If the government buys the loans at a discounted price, then the banks would take a loss and might have to raise more capital. The latter scenario might discourage banks from participating, she said.
"Wachovia at this point is in the same waiting game as everyone else," Peters said.
Phillips-Brown, the Wachovia spokeswoman, said the bank applauds "these constructive steps toward restoring confidence and stability in our financial system" and is closely monitoring the situation.
Do a deal
Industry shifts that used to take years to develop have been happening at lightning speed in recent weeks. The failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co.'s rushed sale to Bank of America Corp. and investor Warren Buffett's $5 billion infusion into Goldman Sachs all came in a little more than a week.
In this kind of environment, "it made sense for every company to talk to each other," said Sandler O'Neill analyst Kevin Fitzsimmons. But the possibility of a Wachovia-Morgan Stanley tie-up left many investors wondering whether a deal made sense and questioning which company needed the other most, he said.
After converting to a bank holding company and getting the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group investment, Morgan Stanley appears ready to go it alone. Linking with a commercial bank offered a perception of stability, but investment banks have noted that they can't use deposits to fund many of their riskier capital markets trading activities anyway.
Goldman Sachs, the other remaining standalone Wall Street firm, has said it can stay independent, but it also has signaled plans to expand its commercial banking business after converting to a bank holding company like Morgan Stanley. It's getting a cash infusion from Buffett, but that doesn't mean it necessarily wants to go out and make a big purchase, Fitzsimmons said.
Steel's ties to Goldman have stirred speculation of a possible pairing since he took the job, but he has said he wasn't brought on to do a deal with his former employer. The Mitsubishi investment in Morgan also has raised the specter of foreign banks taking more stakes in struggling U.S. institutions. Speculation about the Wachovia-Morgan deal included talk of a cash infusion by a Chinese investment fund into the combined company.
Wachovia's talks with Morgan also focused attention on Steel's plans for investment banking. A merger with Morgan likely would have resulted in heavy cuts in Wachovia's unit, which is based in Charlotte, said investment bankers familiar with the operations. Morale in the unit is poor and many bankers get the impression that Steel isn't enamored of the unit's current makeup, which is much smaller than what he was used to at Goldman, these bankers said. Wachovia's corporate and investment bank has grown over the years, but one of its main profit centers, the creation of complex debt products, has dried up in the credit crunch.
Since taking over, Steel has called corporate and investment banking a core business and has cited ongoing efforts to focus on serving the needs of corporate clients, instead of producing exotic investment products. "We actually have the prospect of quite a constructive strategy that I would describe as much more client-centric, as opposed to a singular ambition," he said at an investor conference earlier this month.
Fitzsimmons said he suspects that Steel is focused on his plan to get the company on solid footing on its own, but he expects speculation will continue about Wachovia's deal-making possibilities. "I wouldn't rule anything out," he said, "but at this point there's no reason to think it has to happen."
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Each new medical device invigorates public
debate on ethical issues. What are the costs
and who is likely to benefit? On whom or
what should it be tested? How are patients
and their families informed about the experimental
procedure and its consequences? Who sets
guidelines at the cutting edge of medicine?
And—ultimately—what makes or
keeps us human?
Changing Technology
For most of human history, medical devices
have been limited to splints and braces
worn on the surface of the body. Orthotics
(devices which support or correct the function
of a limb or the torso) are still in use
today. But things have become more complicated
recently with the possibility of electrical
and computerized mechanisms and synthetic
materials. Do implantable devices have a
greater potential for altering the nature
of human beings?
In the 1960s and 1970s, when researchers began to understand the human bodys response to foreign materials, the number and variety of implantable devices exploded. As science and engineering advanced, government agencies and the public, especially religious groups, scrambled to comprehend this new and unfamiliar landscape of medical technology.
Meet Yorick
This plastic skeleton, resplendent with
artificial devices, is a snapshot in three
dimensions of late-20th-century medicine.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) engineers
who began to assemble the figure in the
1970s nicknamed it Yorick (after the jester's
skull encountered by Shakespeare's
Hamlet). The figure contains working hardware
sent to the FDA for safety testing over
the last three decades.
In a Heartbeat
AbioCor Total Artificial Heart is the first
electro-hydraulic artificial heart implanted
in a human. Approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration for clinical trials,
the AbioCor was implanted in Robert Tools
on July 2, 2001, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville,
Kentucky. The historic operation marked
the first time an artificial heart had been
used as a permanent replacement for a human
heart since the air-powered Jarvik-7 artificial
heart was implanted almost two decades earlier.
Immune Response and Tissue Rejection
The human body, made of living tissue,
responds to changes in its environment,
whether external or internal. An artificial
limb pressing against the skin's surface,
an artificial eye sutured into an empty
socket, or the shaft of a metal hip cemented
to the top of the femur—all cause
the body to react. Full-scale rejection
of materials can cause death. Rejection
was the main hurdle to development of successful
implantable devices.
One solution to the problem of rejection
was to give the patient drugs to dampen
the immune system, but this caused other
serious problems. In the 1960s and 1970s,
researchers focused their efforts on finding
inert (or biocompatible) materials for the
devices that went into the body. Their goal
was to thwart rejection by matching the
body's own tissue as closely as possible.
In the 1980s, researchers changed strategies
and worked on bioactive materials that would
create a reaction but in a positive direction.
For example, bioactive materials encouraged
bonding with bone or were absorbed once
an incision mended.
In the 1990s, success with bioactive ceramics,
biodegradable sutures, and other materials
generated interest in restorative healing
and tissue engineering. In tissue engineering,
the replacement material is tissue grown
outside the body and implanted, or tissue
within the body that is jump-started with
growth factors or other gene-activating
materials. Physicians use biomaterials to
stimulate cells to proliferate and differentiate
into the kind of tissue needed (such as
skin, cartilage, bone). Artificial skin
is an example of bioengineered tissue.
1976 Medical Devices Act
In the late 1960s, on the heels of the
blossoming medical-device industry and highly
publicized court cases that exposed problems
with pacemakers, the U.S. Congress began
hearings on how to ensure the safety of
new kinds of medical devices. At the time,
the only regulated medical devices were
those classified as drugs. The 1970 Cooper
Report, requested by the secretary of the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
summarized the issues involved and laid
out a legislative plan for establishing
standards and procedures for review.
The 1976 Medical Device Amendments to
the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
(of 1938) brought instruments, machines,
and implants under the oversight of the
Food and Drug Administration. Everything
from contact lenses and Band-Aids to artificial
hearts and lasers for surgery would now
have to be proven safe and effective before
being released to consumers.
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One of the things J- did this weekend was visit a Filipino family (A-'s). J said she had four bowls of "si.. sini…"
"Sinigang!" I said. Ah, sinigang. How could I not remember all the
good times I shared with my barkada over a pot of sinigang,
whether it had meat or just vegetables? (Heh.)
And to think that J loves sinigang too.
Moments like these make me wish I could poke all the people who feel
insecure about our culture… =)
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J was reading a book on smoking because she had vowed never to smoke
and she wanted to learn more about it. The big words tired her,
though, so she put the book aside. It seemed like a good time to bring
out the books I bought last week, just in case she'd find one of them
entertaining. Mr. Popper's Penguins drew a smile, Lemony Snicket was a
clear no-go (she didn't like the books), and Shel Silverstein…
Well, I was *planning* to show her the book, but as is usually the
case with Shel Silverstein and similar poets, I got sucked into it
myself. I flipped open to a random page and started reading a poem out
loud. And naturally I *had* to read the next one, and the next one,
and then I looked up and J was peering over my shoulder, and then she
was saying the words along with me, and then I had to sit half off my
chair in order to let her sit with me and read, and then she insisted
on reading all the short poems, and then W got into the act as well,
and then J's foot fell asleep and she hopped to the couch in the
living room, and then we all curled up on the couch and read these
hilariously silly poems (polar bear in the Frigidaire!) until W
declared that it was time for J to go to bed. J nodded, but kept
silently reading the book (which by now had ended up on her lap). I
couldn't help but grin.
I love it when enthusiasm is infectious.
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My life is giving me bits and pieces of something that's worth
thinking about.
Piece: Introducing J earlier to the joys of Shel Silverstein was a
wonderful demonstration of the infectious power of enthusiasm and the
value of right timing.
Piece: The book I'm reading about internal marketing (Light Their
Fire) talks about how enthusiasm – passion – is part of building the
best internal brands. The book I read before that (Better Than
Perfect) was about how certain people can excel and lift up everyone
around them.
Piece: To help me understand myself and plan my own career, Stephen
Perelgut asked me earlier what I would do if I didn't have to think
about money.
Stephen said that I'd make a good developer. That would be
straightforward. But there's this side of me that refuses to be


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These Club Nintendo Animal Crossing posters are 'dawwsome
I know people that are still playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Heck, I know people that are still playing old Animal Crossing games. Such is the staying power of this Nintendo franchise, and now, you can celebrate it -- in poster form!
These posters are pretty big (22" x 28"), and one of them shows off every villager in the game. 500 Coins is quite a hefty price for sure, but I don't think anyone can deny the appeal of these posters for fans.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2-poster set [Club Nintendo]
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The Red Balloon
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i remember watching it in school. it is such a lovely little film.ReplyDelete
you've made it official--we must watch this film! I didn't realize it was family friendly.ReplyDelete
this is my favorite film of all times! i taught it in elementary school and college humanities. everyone fell in love with it. my favorite scene has to be the end. although my kids love when the balloon tries to stay away from the school master.ReplyDelete
Oddly, my experience with The Red Balloon was an ancient picture book of my grandmothers about Big Black dog, and Mother white dog taking wee dog on a picnic. So I am always confused when this other story is the one everyone talks about. I think it has no dogs in it at all, which is a sad missing of an opportunity. I mean, don't you think?ReplyDelete
I have never hear of The Red Balloon but have a balloon loving little lady myself. Every time she see's one she taps her chest as says "Ma" which is the start of her name. In her world all the balloons are hers. I'll have to look for this movie. I have been AWOL but it's lovely to come back and back read. Hope you're all well.ReplyDelete
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U.S. Route 61
|Route information
|1,406.86 mi[1] (2,264.12 km)
|1926[1] – present
|Major junctions
|South end:
|US 90 in New Orleans, Louisiana
|North end:
|I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota
|Highway system
U.S. Route 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that runs 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River, and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route. As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus in Wyoming, Minnesota is at an intersection with Interstate 35. Prior to 1991, the highway extended north on what is now MN 61 through Duluth to the United States–Canada border near Grand Portage. Its southern terminus in New Orleans is at an intersection with Tulane Avenue at South Broad Street. The highway is often called "The Blues Highway", because of the course it takes from St. Paul to St. Louis, through Memphis, into the Mississippi Delta, and eventually ending in New Orleans.
The route was an important north–south connection in the days before the interstate highway system. Many southerners traveled north along Highway 61 while going to St. Louis, Missouri and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The highway was also used in the title of Minnesota native Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited, and in the song of the same name, which imagines all sorts of fantastical events (including World War III) occurring alongside Highway 61, and before that a blues song recorded in 1957 by Sunnyland Slim, and in 1962 by Johnny Young.
- 1 Route description
- 2 History
- 3 Future
- 4 Major intersections
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Route description[edit]
U.S. 61 in Louisiana is four-laned from its southern terminus in New Orleans to the Mississippi state line, where the highway continues to Natchez as a four-lane highway.
The section of U.S. 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge is known as the Airline Highway. Although the road fronts the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and passes near Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, the name originally referred to the highway's straight route which contrasted to that of the winding Jefferson Highway, which often paralleled the Mississippi River. Legend has it former Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long advocated the building of the "airline" highway to provide a quick means from the capitol building in Baton Rouge to the bars and establishments in New Orleans so he could quickly travel between the two. On Airline Highway in Jefferson Parish in 1987, Baton Rouge televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was confronted by rival preacher Marvin Gorman as Swaggart exited the Texas Motel with a prostitute. This incident increased the area's reputation as a locale of "seedy motels". Partly because of that reputation, the section in Jefferson Parish was later renamed Airline Drive.
U.S. 61 is divided from the Tennessee state line to U.S. Route 82 in Leland. The highway south of Vicksburg to Natchez is mostly divided and four-lane; only short sections through Port Gibson need to be upgraded. From Natchez to the Louisiana state line, Highway 61 is now divided and four lanes. The Mississippi Department of Transportation is now upgrading the highway between Vicksburg and Leland to four lanes, beginning with replacement of the Yazoo River bridge at Redwood in Warren County.
The road is also known as the Blues Highway because it runs through the Mississippi Delta country, which was an important source of blues music. U.S. 61 has been referenced in music by various artists with roots in the region.
The junction of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale is designated as the famous crossroads where, according to legend, Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues. It was on this stretch of highway that blues singer Bessie Smith died as a result of a car accident on September 26, 1937.
Like Route 66 in the Western U.S., the iconic Highway 61 sign is so strongly identified with the Clarksdale area that it is used to market different products and services. U.S. 61 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.
Highway 61 enters Memphis from Walls, Mississippi as South 3rd St in the southern Memphis area, and then joins I-55 as they cross the Mississippi River to West Memphis, Arkansas, a distance of about 15 miles (24 km).
Highway 61 runs through the state for 76 miles (122 km) from West Memphis to just north of Blytheville, near the Missouri border.
The route enters Arkansas in a concurrency with Interstate 55 and US Routes 64, 70, and 79 near West Memphis. The route skirts the northwest edge of the city, briefly meeting Interstate 40 before continuing north with I-55, US 63, and US 64. US 61 concurs with I-55 until an area near Turrell, when US 61 branches east but still parallels I-55. The route runs through many small towns in Mississippi County, and becomes a city street in Osceola. Continuing north, the route crosses over I-55 south of Blytheville. In the city, US 61 becomes South Division St. until crossing Main Street (AR 18). The route runs north through the rest of Blytheville and beyond until a junction with AR 150 near Yarbro. After this junction, the route continues due north to Missouri.
U.S. Route 61 enters Missouri south of Steele, passing under a concrete arch that was constructed by the Mississippi County, Arkansas highway department in 1924. The alignment of the highway is closely followed by Interstate 55 between there and the St. Louis area, with portions of the two highways overlapping. Between Howardville and Sikeston, U.S. 61 overlaps with U.S. Route 62. At Sikeston, U.S. 61 also meets U.S. Route 60. Crossing MO Route 32 at the "one of the oldest French Colonial settlements west of the Mississippi River (1735)", Ste. Genevieve, the road continues through Ste. Genevieve County. The highway then turns northwest and meets U.S. Route 67. The two highways overlap until separating in the St. Louis area at Ladue, where U.S. 61 meets Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 40, just north of the junction of Highway 61 and Old Route 66 (now Route 100), located in Kirkwood, which is referred to locally as "the rock 'n roll crossroads of America". While in the St. Louis area, U.S. 61 is on Lindbergh Boulevard.
After meeting I-64 and U.S. 40, U.S. 61 turns west with them and its overlap with the Avenue of the Saints begins. At Wentzville, the overlap with I-64 and U.S. 40 ends when it meets Interstate 70, with the former ending at I-70. It continues in a general northwesterly route, meeting U.S. Route 54 at Bowling Green and U.S. Route 36 and Interstate 72 at Hannibal, an intersection which is I-72's western terminus. Northwest of Hannibal, US 61 meets U.S. Route 24 and the two overlap until they separate at Taylor. U.S. 61 continues north until near Wayland, where the highway turns east at Route 27 and the overlap with the Avenue of the Saints ends. Shortly before leaving Missouri, U.S. 61 meets U.S. Route 136 and the two overlap until entering Iowa.
Route 61 runs along the western side of the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee and Dubuque, Iowa, and therefore never enters the State of Illinois.
U.S. Route 61 enters Iowa overlapped with U.S. Route 136 near Keokuk. They separate in Keokuk and U.S. 61 turns north there and meets U.S. Route 218 in northwestern Keokuk. They overlap for 6 miles (9.7 km), then U.S. 218 turns northwest. U.S. 61 goes north until crossing Iowa Highway 2 and becomes a four-lane freeway bypass around Fort Madison. U.S. 61 then turns northeast and meets U.S. Route 34 in Burlington. The highway goes north and overlaps Iowa Highway 92 from Grandview to Muscatine. At Muscatine, the highway turns east to go towards the Quad Cities. At Davenport, U.S. 61 follows I-280 and I-80 around Davenport and meets up with Business 61.
After I-80, the highway turns back north as a freeway until De Witt, which is where it meets U.S. Route 30. It continues north from there to Dubuque as an expressway except for a freeway section in the Maquoketa area. The highway joins with U.S. Highway 151 about six miles (10 km) south of Dubuque. U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 are joined in Dubuque by U.S. Route 52, which separates in downtown Dubuque. Also in Dubuque, a short connecting highway links U.S. 61, U.S. 151, and U.S. 52 with U.S. Route 20. Together, U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 continue through Dubuque, where they cross the Mississippi River and enter Wisconsin via the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge.
The 61 Drive In, one of the few drive-in theaters left in the nation, is located along Highway 61. The theater is located about five miles (8 km) south of Maquoketa, near exit 153 (the Delmar/Lost Nation exit). Another drive-in theater is located outside of Grandview and can be seen from Highway 61 just north of Grandview.
A four-lane freeway bypass of Fort Madison was completed and opened to traffic in November 2011. There are plans to upgrade a 5 mile segment between the Louisa–Muscatine County Line near Letts and the South Junction of Iowa Highway 92 near Grandview to a four-lane expressway by 2016. The remaining segments between Hwy 92 and Burlington, and between the north end of the Keokuk Bypass and the Missouri State Line have not been programmed yet by the Iowa D.O.T.
On the opposite bank of the Mississippi, U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 enter Grant County, Wisconsin, with U.S. 61 going north through Wisconsin about 120 miles (190 km) to La Crosse. U.S. 151 separates from U.S. 61 at Dickeyville, with U.S. 61 proceeding through Lancaster, Fennimore, and Boscobel. At Readstown U.S. 61 and U.S. 14 join and proceed together to La Crosse.
In 2004, a new two-lane Mississippi River Bridge opened in La Crosse, creating a four-lane highway from downtown La Crosse to the Minnesota state line. The new bridge brings traffic into La Crosse, and is located just south of the old Cass Street Bridge which continues to be used by traffic heading towards Minnesota.
The four-lane highway continues north to La Crescent. U.S. 61 follows the Mississippi River through Southeast Minnesota through the cities of Winona, Lake City, and Red Wing. It crosses the river at Hastings using the Hastings High Bridge and joins U.S. Route 10 before entering St. Paul. Within the city, the route follows I-94 for a short distance, and then follows Mounds Boulevard, East 7th Street, and Arcade Street through the East Side of St. Paul.
The 120 miles (190 km) section of U.S. 61 from La Crescent to Cottage Grove is officially designated the Disabled American Veterans Highway.
The portion of Highway 61 north of Duluth is now part of the Minnesota State Highway system, bearing the designation Minnesota State Highway 61 since 1991. Between Wyoming and Duluth, the highway has been turned back to local jurisdiction or supplanted by Interstate 35.
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U.S. 61 once ran 1,714 miles (2,758 km) from New Orleans through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to the Canadian border. The road has been shortened to 1,400 miles (2,300 km) ending now in the city of Wyoming, Minnesota at an intersection with I-35.
The northern section of U.S. 61 in Minnesota was separated when I-35 was constructed, and decommissioned in 1991.
The section of U.S. 61 in northwestern Mississippi, between the state line and Clarksdale, has received considerable upgrades since 1990, when casinos were legalized by the state. The resulting boom in casino development in Tunica County, coupled with dramatic population and development growth in DeSoto County, has led to relocating most of the highway and expanding to a divided four-lane highway.
The present-day course of U.S. Route 61 south of St. Louis largely follows the original course of the Spanish colonial road El Camino Real. In 1776, when the Spanish lieutenant governor recognized that the two principle communities of St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve needed an overland connection, he wrote his superior requesting permission. Construction then began, with parts of the Spanish road following old Indian trails. The road had been reportedly constructed by 1779, and then extended further south to the provincial posts at Cape Girardeau and New Madrid, and extended northwest to the post of St. Charles.[2] The sole rationale for the Camino Real was a military road to connect the several district posts for defense and administrative purposes. Much of the road was a simple trace for horses and foot travelers, and by 1796 transport large enough to require the use of wagons was largely being moved up the Mississippi River.[3]
The original Spanish name el camino real was conferred by Colonel George Morgan in honor of Charles IV of Spain, the reigning King of Spain (1788-1808). The government road was known as le Chemin du Roi or Rue Royale by the local French-speaking population and known as King's Highway or the old King's Trace by early American settlers. Because the road led to the French colonial "Illinois Country", which also included parts of present-day Missouri, early American settlers sometimes referred to it as the Illinois Road.[4] It is also known as the Royal Road of the King's Domain in St.Charles county, Missouri.[5] 'King's Highway or Kingshighway continues as street names in present-day St.Charles, St.Louis, Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and New Madrid.[6] [7]
When it was designated in 1926, U.S. 61 replaced most of Route 9, which had been established in 1922 between Arkansas and Iowa. The only part that did not become part of U.S. 61 was north of Wayland, where U.S. 61 turned east on Route 4, and Route 9 became Route 4B (now Route 81) to the state line. Since then, U.S. 61 has been moved to a shorter route between Jackson and Festus, replacing much of Route 25; the old alignment is now Route 72 and U.S. 67.
Prior to 1958, Highway 61 followed the route now known as Iowa Highway 22 between Davenport and Muscatine. U.S. 61 was then rerouted onto the old Iowa 22 which passed through Blue Grass.
Starting in the early 1980s, U.S. Route 61 between Davenport and Dubuque was rebuilt as a four-lane highway. The first link, a 19-mile (31 km) stretch between Davenport and De Witt, was finished in 1982; a bypass around De Witt, which overlapped U.S. 30, was in use starting in November 1975. Subsequent links were completed to Maquoketa (in 1996) and finally to Dubuque in 1999. When the final link was completed, Dubuque finally had a direct four-lane connection to Interstate 80.
In 1983, two multi-lane one-way routes were designated through Davenport starting at the northern city limits. Southbound traffic used the newly constructed Welcome Way until it merges with Harrison Street just north of 35th Street; northbound traffic use Brady Street (which had been a two-way, four-lane street). Other two-way stretches of the highway through Davenport have four (or more) lanes. In 2010, in large part due to a railroad bridge with a low clearance in downtown Davenport, U.S. 61 through Davenport was moved to Interstates 80 and 280, with signing taking place in the fall of 2011; the highway through Davenport was redesignated as "Business 61."
A 7.5-mile (12.1 km) bypass around Muscatine was opened in 1984, but other upgrades on the stretch south of Davenport would not happen for another decade. The changes came as follows:
- 1996 – The completion of a 4-mile (6.4 km), four-lane stretch between Blue Grass and Interstate 280 in Davenport.
- November 2000 — A 14-mile (23 km) stretch between Blue Grass and the Muscatine bypass was opened.
- May 2001 — A 3-mile (4.8 km) bypass around Blue Grass.
- July 2002 — A 7 1⁄2-mile (12.1 km) stretch, from the Muscatine bypass to the southern tip of Muscatine County, just north of Letts.
The final stretch completed a continuous multi-laned link between Dickeyville, Wisconsin south to Letts.
Prior to the construction of the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge, Highway 61 passed through a short distance through Jo Daviess County, Illinois between Dubuque and Wisconsin concurrent with US Route 151. Now both highways cross the Mississippi on the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge, which directly connects Wisconsin and Iowa, with neither US 61 nor US 151 passing through Illinois.
Highway 61 follows the west bank of the Mississippi River from the Wisconsin border through St. Paul. North from the city of Wyoming, Old Highway 61 continues as "Forest Boulevard" in Chisago County, and then either as "County 61" or as Highway 361 through Pine and Carlton counties before ending at Highway 210. The original U.S. 61 had continued east along Highway 210 to Carlton and north on present-day Highway 45 to Scanlon before turning northeast on what is now "County 61 / Old Highway 61" through Esko.
I-35 has replaced the original U.S. 61 descending Thompson Hill into West Duluth, from which most of the city of Duluth can be seen entering town, including the Aerial Lift Bridge and the waterfront. The original U.S. 61 in the city of Duluth had previously followed Cody Street, Grand Avenue, Superior Street, Second Street, Third Street, and London Road.
The original U.S. 61 between Duluth and the Canadian border was designated as Minnesota State Highway 61 in 1991. Minnesota 61, part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour route, follows the North Shore of Lake Superior, where it becomes Ontario Highway 61 upon entering Canada. Highway 61 continues to the city of Thunder Bay, where it ends at an intersection with the Trans-Canada Highway.
Starting in 2012 Chisago and Pine Counties began placing "OLD US 61" markers along the former routing of US 61 through their respective counties.
There is ongoing construction to upgrade U.S. 61 (where it overlaps U.S. 40) to a controlled-access freeway.[8] The current freeway ends at Route K just west of Weldon Spring, Missouri and the construction will upgrade U.S. 61 to a freeway to Interstate 70 at Wentzville. When construction is finished, this freeway also will be signed as Interstate 64.[9] It is unclear whether the entire length will ever be upgraded to freeway status. As of 2006, the route is expected only to be a freeway as bypasses around towns.[10]
Major intersections[edit]
- U.S. Route 90 in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Interstate 10 in New Orleans
- Interstate 310 near St. Rose, Louisiana
- Interstate 10 near Gonzales, Louisiana
- Interstate 12 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge
- Interstate 20 concurrency at Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Interstate 55 concurrency between Memphis, Tennessee, and Turrell, Arkansas
- Interstate 40 concurrency at West Memphis, Arkansas
- Interstate 55 south of Blytheville, Arkansas
- Interstate 55 concurrency between Steele and Portageville, Missouri
- Interstate 155 and U.S. Route 412 at Hayti, Missouri
- Interstate 55 concurrency between Scott City and Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- Interstate 255 in Mehlville, Missouri
- Interstate 44 in Kirkwood, Missouri
- Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 40 concurrency between Frontenac and Wentzville, Missouri
- Interstate 270 in Westwood, Missouri
- Interstate 70 in Wentzville
- Interstate 72 in Hannibal, Missouri
- US 34 in Burlington, Iowa
- Interstate 280 concurrency at Davenport, Iowa
- Interstate 80 concurrency at Davenport
- U.S. Route 14 concurrency between Readstown, Wisconsin, and Winona, Minnesota
- Interstate 90 concurrency from north of La Crescent to Dakota, Minnesota
- Interstate 494 in Newport, Minnesota
- Interstate 94 concurrency in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Interstate 694 in Maplewood, Minnesota
- Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minnesota
See also[edit]
- Avenue of the Saints
- Highway 61 Revisited, a 1965 album by Bob Dylan
- Highway 61, a 1991 film by Bruce McDonald
Bannered routes[edit]
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Keokuk, Iowa
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Muscatine, Iowa
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Davenport, Iowa
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Saint Francisville, Louisiana
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Vicksburg, Mississippi
- U.S. Route 61 Business—Natchez, Mississippi Decommissioned
Related routes[edit]
- Notes
- ^ a b Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 02:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC).
- ^ Robert Sidney Douglass (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, Volume 1".
- ^ A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until the Admission of the... http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorymissour02houcgoog/ahistorymissour02houcgoog_djvu.txt
- ^ The State Historical Society of Missouri, New Madrid County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_new_madrid.html
- ^ St. Charles County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_saint_charles.html
- ^ Walter A. Schroeder (2002). "Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830". ISBN 9780826263063.
- ^ Robert L. Ramsay (1952). "Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names". ISBN 9780826205865.
- ^ "MoDOT 2006 St. Louis Metro Area Construction Projects" (pdf). Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ Route 40/61 Project
- ^ Route 61/27 Avenue of the Saints
- Sources
- Endpoints of US highways
- Adam Froehlig (December 20, 2002). Minnesota Highway 61. <http://www.ajfroggie.com/roadpics/mn-ends/mn061.htm> MN Highway Endings. Accessed August 27, 2004.
- Steve Riner (December 27, 2003). Details of Routes 51-75. <http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r51-75.htm> Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Accessed August 27, 2004.
- The Iowa Highways Page
- MEMPHIS TO NEW ORLEANS: More than just Graceland by Scott Stanton
External links[edit]
- The Blues Highway Association, at The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University
- Felix Vallé State Historic Site Missouri Department of Natural Resources
- Ste. Genevieve Tourism
- Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve, Inc. La Maison de Guibourd Historical House
|Browse numbered routes
|← Hwy. 60
|← Iowa 60
|Iowa 62 →
- U.S. Route 61
- Great River Road
- Interstate 10
- Interstate 55
- Roads in Greater St. Louis
- Roads in Jefferson County, Missouri
- U.S. Highway System
- U.S. Highways in Arkansas
- U.S. Highways in Iowa
- U.S. Highways in Louisiana
- U.S. Highways in Minnesota
- U.S. Highways in Mississippi
- U.S. Highways in Missouri
- U.S. Highways in Tennessee
- U.S. Highways in Wisconsin


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It's Week 5 of the MeMeTales Readathon. This week's theme is A Green Earth. It is so important care about our planet. It is our job as parents to teach our children exactly what that means. My number one suggestion for encouraging an appreciation of the Earth is to get outside and explore it. Children that spend time outside are far more likely to care about the future of that space than those that don't. Why not try a nature scavenger hunt the next time you go outside?
The books available to check out this week at MeMeTales are What Does It Mean to Be Green? and Let's Go Chipper!.
What Does It Me…
What Does It Mean to Be Green? lists simple things that everyone can do to be green. Making small changes here and there will make a big impact on our world. I think this book is as much for adults as it is for kids, so be sure to read it with them!
Into The Great …
In Let's Go Chipper! Into the Great Outdoors, you'll meet Chipper, a friendly squirrel excited about sharing the outdoors with you. Aiden enjoyed meeting all of the animals and learning about them with Chipper.
A Nature Scavenger Hunt
One of my son's favorite activities is a scavenger hunt. He just loves them {and so do I}. The Nature Conservancy has put together a great Nature Treasure Hunt that you can download, too. There are two lists – one for ages 4-7 and one for ages 8-10. Aiden is two and a half, and we easily had fun with the first list. We successfully attempted some of the things on the second list as well.
These lists are just a jumping off point. What else would your children like to add? Have them create their own lists.
Here's a sample of what we found on our scavenger hunt.
Make A Map
Making a map for your scavenger hunt will add to the fun and helps develop map reading skills. Mark on the map where your children can find the things on the scavenger hunt list. Or you and the kids can make the map while you are on the scavenger hunt. Give your map to someone else to follow, or try to use your map to find the things again on a different day.
More Ideas for a Green Earth
Read my suggestions for Teaching Children about Earth Day. This post is a link party with lots of Earth Day Celebration ideas.
Check out my For the Earth board on Pinterest and MeMeTale's Earth Based Books, Activities, Crafts, and Learning Curriculum Pinterest board.
Be sure to check out all of the Green Earth activities linking up this week at MeMeTales.
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The hunt looks like a lot of fun! What a great way to head out and explore.
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This looks like SO much fun! Such a great idea and fun way to explore, learn about and appreciate the Earth!
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Fantastic! Thank you for sharing the scavenger hunt with us!
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Great idea- Our scavenger hunts are open-ended We start our hike and say- "So, what's new that we haven't ever seen before?" So, the item we're looking for is something we don't even know we're looking for, but when we find it, we know.
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I love these ideas! The map is a great addition, too! Pinning this to try with my little guy.
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Credit Agricole said it does not see value in the rupee below 70 to a dollar unless foreign capital returns and that it would not recommend buying the currency for fundamental reasons below 75 to the dollar. �Long-term solution � deep economic, political and social reforms � is unlikely ahead of the election and possibly for years to come,� Credit Agricole said in a note dated August 21, adding to the chorus of bearish bets on the rupee. India is due to hold national elections by May.
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The world's longest insect has been revealed by the Natural History Museum. Measuring more than half a metre, the length of this stick-insect is almost as long as your arm.
The thin-bodied creature, which goes on display in the Museum Creepy Crawlies gallery, has just been named Phobaeticus chani (Chan's megastick) and is an incredible 56.6 centimetres with its legs fully stretched. This is more than one centimetre longer than the former record holder for overall length, a stick-insect called Phobaeticus serratipes found in Malaysia and Indonesia. Without including its legs, the new species measures 35.7 centimetres, winning the insect world record for the longest body and beating the previous title-holder, Phobaeticus kirbyi from Borneo, by 2.9 centimetres.
'We've known about both the previous record holders for over 100 years, so it's extraordinary an even bigger species has only just been discovered,' said Dr George Beccaloni, curator of stick-insects and their relatives at the Natural History Museum. 'It is a sad thought that many other spectacular insect species are disappearing as their habitats are destroyed, before we have had the chance to find and name them.'
Although virtually nothing is known about the biology and ecology of this super-sized insect, it is thought it probably lives in the canopy of the rainforest, making it especially hard to find.
In addition to its size, its eggs may also be unique in the insect world. Each egg capsule has wing-like extensions on either side like a miniature golden snitch (the flying sports ball in the Harry Potter books), allowing them to drift in the wind when the female drops them, therefore helping the species spread.
There are around 3,000 known species of stick-insect, mainly living in the tropics and subtropics. Although they do not occur naturally in Britain, three species from New Zealand have become established in the southwest of England and the Isles of Scilly.
Only three specimens of the new insect have so far been found, all from the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. The insect's namesake, Datuk Chan Chew Lun from Sabah, obtained the first and largest known specimen from a local collector and has donated it to the Natural History Museum. The other two specimens are in collections in Sabah. British scientist Dr Philip Bragg described and named this stick-insect for the first time this week in the journal Zootaxa.
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When I was a kid, there was a strip in the comics section about a wise possum named Pogo. His most famous statement was "We have seen the enemy and he is us." I see some of the current political movements the same way: We seem to be shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to things like health care. It reminds me of those old Westerns, where a bad guy in a black hat would fire a gun at the ground, making some hapless cowboy "dance," but in this case, we're doing it to OURSELVES.
Whitley and I are writing a book together about my hospital experiences 5 years ago, when an aneurysm burst inside by head and I was whisked away to an emergency room by ambulance. I was lucky: We had good insurance at the time, but the nurse at the admissions desk didn't recognize it and demanded that he present credit cards with $5,000 worth of credit on them before I was admitted. This went on while I was lying on a gurney having seizures and lapsing into a coma.
My son Andrew hurried home and gathered up all the credit cards he and his wife had in their wallets. By the time he returned, ready to present them, Whitley had managed to talk to another administrator, who recognized that our insurance was good and admitted me.
Believe me, when I hear people rail against things like "socialism" when it comes to health care, at a time when most people don't have any health insurance AT ALL, I get a mental image of them dancing to those bullets. The question is: Who's firing them? The private health care industry and the politicians in the pay of their lobbyists?
I saw the start of the financial fiasco that has almost destroyed our economy in the Reagan years, when his economists advocated the "trickle down" theory, which Bush also embraced. What this basically means is that you cut taxes for the richest people so that they will spend money and it will end up in the pocket of some working stiff. This is also an excuse for bankers and brokers to pay themselves huge bonuses. While this may work on a small scale, as when a local rich man hires local construction workers, electricians and plumbers to build himself a big new house, it is basically a myth. Wealthy people tend to already have everything they need, so they shelter any extra money they have in investments and banks, often located in tax-free havens.
Offering people sub-prime mortgages that they couldn't afford had them dancing for awhile, but the music caught up with them and they fell down, exhausted, like contestants in a 1920s dance marathon.
The "tea party" movement seems to be the latest incarnation of this: It's made up of lower-middle-class white folks who have proclaimed themselves to be sick of government intervention in their lives. This baffles me: Since the backs of most labor unions have been broken (the same unions that used to offer these people a comfortable salary), I would think they would be interested in a little MORE government intervention. Are these people "moles, like the spies in a John Le Carre novel who have infiltrated a democratic government but are really working for the Soviets (or in this case, big business interests)?
I think one of the appeals of the tea party movement is unacknowledged racism. A group of people who haven't achieved as much as they wanted to in their own lives (no college degree, etc.) but who are used to feeling superior anyway, simply because they are WHITE, are now feeling beleaguered instead. I'm afraid it's time to get over it, folks: Even South Africans managed to accept living in a multi-racial society, and you can too. "Gone With the Wind" is, as the title says, gone with the wind, and you're dancing to your own tune now. Maybe it's time to change the music.
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