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Apiculture has been practiced in North Africa and the Middle-East from antiquity. Several thousand years of selective breeding have left a mosaic of Apis mellifera subspecies in the Middle-East, many uniquely adapted and survived to local environmental conditions. In this study we explore the genetic diversity of A. mellifera from Syria (n = 1258), Lebanon (n = 169) and Iraq (n = 35) based on 14 short tandem repeat (STR) loci in the context of reference populations from throughout the Old World (n = 732).
Our data suggest that the Syrian honeybee Apis mellifera syriaca occurs in both Syrian and Lebanese territories, with no significant genetic variability between respective populations from Syria and Lebanon. All studied populations clustered within a new fifth independent nuclear cluster, congruent with an mtDNA Z haplotype identified in a previous study. Syrian honeybee populations are not associated with Oriental lineage O, except for sporadic introgression into some populations close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders. Southern Syrian and Lebanese populations demonstrated high levels of genetic diversity compared to the northern populations.
This study revealed the effects of foreign queen importations on Syrian bee populations, especially for the region of Tartus, where extensive introgression of A. m. anatolica and/or A. m. caucasica alleles were identified. The policy of creating genetic conservation centers for the Syrian subspecies should take into consideration the influence of the oriental lineage O from the northern Syrian border and the large population of genetically divergent indigenous honeybees located in southern Syria.
Keywords:Apis mellifera syriaca; Microsatellite; Conservation genetics; Population genetics
Morphometric approaches subdivide the honeybee Apis mellifera L. into four different evolutionary lineages: West Mediterranean (M), which includes the Western European subspecies Apis mellifera mellifera; North Mediterranean (C); African lineage (A) which groups the African honeybee subspecies; and finally the Oriental lineage (O) located geographically in the Middle East and represented mainly by Caucasian and Turkish honeybees A. m. caucasica and A. m. anatoliaca respectively [1]. Several further subspecific divisions have been recognized within the aforementioned lineages via multivariate analysis of morphometrical characters [2]. Genetic studies have largely confirmed the morphometrical classification [3-7].
The Syrian honeybee, A. m. syriaca, occurs throughout most of Syria, Lebanon and the North Jordanian territories [1] and sits within a complex patchwork of interlocking populations. Morphometrically, A. m. syriaca belongs to the African lineage A [1,2] but has been grouped incongruently to the Oriental mitochondrial lineage O [8]. However, foreign queen introductions are known to result in mitochondrial introgression among evolutionary lineages [9,10]. As such, a more recent study based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation, suggests that Syrian A. m. syriaca in fact belong to the African lineage A (mitochondrial haplotype subgroup Z), consistent with the morphometrical data [1,11]. Nonetheless A. m. syriaca from northern Syria are spatially indistinct from A. m. anatoliaca in Turkey, and a question remains concerning the level of introgression between them. Indeed, based on nuclear single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers [6], a number of Syrian honeybee samples sampled from the northern Syrian-Turkish border grouped with populations of A. m. anatoliaca and A. m. caucasica.
Ftayeh, 1994 [12] reported that Syrian honeybee populations sampled from two Syrian regions (Hassaka, Deir-Alzoor) close to Iraq retained morphometrical characteristics with closer resemblance A. m. meda (Iran) than to A. m. syriaca. The link between Iraqi, Iranian and Eastern Syrian individuals is consistent with mtDNA results reported by [11], whereby almost all samples coming from these areas grouped outside African mitochondrial lineage A.
The African mitochondrial lineage A, to which most African bees belong (as well as many A. m. syriaca), is known to be the most genetically diverse among the species [1-3,13-15]. Lineage A pervades throughout Africa. Nonetheless, some confusion exists around A. m. lamarckii, colonies from Egypt and Northern Sudan, on the southerly extent of range of A. m. syriaca. Franck, 2000 [8] classified A. m. lamarckii to a newly defined mitochondrial lineage called 'O'. Not only did such a designation create confusion with Ruttner's morphometric lineage (O), but [11] demonstrated, via the inclusion of further A. m. lamarckii and A. m. syriaca samples, that the former grouped among African populations [11,16].
Thus the Syrian honeybee population is located in a spatial contact zone between morphometrical lineages O from the north and north-east (A. m. anatoliaca and A. m. meda) and (A) (A. m. syriaca) from the south. The respective north–south gradient of the (C / O) and (A) mtDNA among honeybee populations from Syria in congruent with this pattern of diversification [11].
To develop coherent policies for the conservation of local honeybee races, it is first necessary to characterize the genetic diversity of honeybee races in their native areas. In this paper, the genetic variability of Apis mellifera syriaca from three different countries, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq is explored via a dataset of unprecedented size. We identify patterns of migration and introgression, including the effect of importation and management practices, finally showing that Syrian honeybees form a genetically distinct group that deserves immediate measures to promote its conservation.
Gene diversity
Mean expected heterozygosities per locus and over loci for all the studied populations (Table 1) are summarized in Figure 1, as well as in Additional file 1: Table S1. For Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi populations heterozygosity ranged between (0.595-0.709), (0.684-0.731) and 0.690, respectively (Additional file 1: Table S1). In comparison, expected heterozygosity for overall loci concerning the reference populations ranged from 0.425 to 0.496 for M lineage populations, from 0.478 to 0.529 for the C lineage, from 0.612 to 0.672 for O lineage and from 0.757 to 0.811 for A lineage, Figure 1.
Table 1. Shows the number of honeybee workers sampled from each Syrian, Lebanon and Iraq region, the latitude, the longitude and the altitude of each sampled region
Figure 1. Heterozygosity of overall loci of each studied populations as well as the four reference lineages M, A, C and O. Refer to Table 1 for the abbreviations.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. Genetic clustering of few Syrian, Lebanese and one Iraqi honeybee populations and five honeybee subspecies using 14 microsatellite loci. The number of cluster K was set at five populations for the Syrian and Lebanese populations. Figure S2. Output of the discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC) for the studied populations form Syria, Lebanon and Iraq along with the four populations of the reference lineages (M, A, C O). Figure S3. Pairwise multilocus unbiased estimate of Fst calculated by ARLEQUIN software in each studied and reference populations. Reference populations are representing the four evolutionary lineages M, A, C and O. Table S1. Expected heterozygosity (HE) for each locus in each studied populations as well as overall loci for each studied populations. Refer to Table 1 for the abbreviations. Table S2. Number of detected alleles for each microsatellite locus in each studied population. Mean values and Standard deviations (s.d.) are calculated for each population. Refer to Table 1 for the abbreviations.
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The average number of alleles detected in the Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi populations ranged from 3 (A88) to 30 (A7). The highest averages of detected alleles overall loci were (12.36), (12.50) and (13.71) for populations of Rif-Dimashq, As-Suwayda and Quneitra, respectively (Additional file 1: Table S2).
Population structure
STRUCTURE software was used to define genetic structure among our studied populations. The program was run for values of K = 1-9, while the most likely number of clusters K was calculated according to [17]. The highest value of ∆K was detected when a model assuming two populations was set (Figure 2a), however a secondary peak was observed at K = 5.
Figure 2. Genetic clusters of Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi honeybee populations using Structure program. a: Identification of the number of genetic clusters in the 14 microsatellite dataset using the method of [17], K is the number of clusters. b: Genetic clustering of Syrian honeybee and other honeybee subspecies representing the four evolutionary lineages M, A, C and O, using 14 microsatellite loci and STRUCTURE program v 2.3.3. Bleu cluster is the analysed populations from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, while the other colours are clusters of honeybee subspecies from the four evolutionary lineages.
For K = 2, the first cluster includes populations from the West Mediterranean (M) and the African (A) lineages whilst the second cluster grouped all our studied populations with the populations belonging to the North Mediterranean (C) and Oriental (O) lineages. When five clusters are assumed (K = 5), referenced populations from each of the four evolutionary lineages (M, A, C and O) are grouped together and the populations from our study are then grouped in a fifth cluster. Within this fifth group, two populations (Al-Hasakah and Tartus) show clearly heterogeneity in their composition, combining individuals classified as belonging to the fifth cluster with a strong allelic introgression coming from the O lineage (Figure 2b).
In our first STRUCTURE analysis, Syrian samples were perhaps overrepresented. We undertook a second analysis to account for any bias introduced by population sample size imbalance. As such, 170 to 200 individuals were selected at random from the Syrian population and analysed alongside the reference populations. This process was repeated eight times. In each analysis, samples from the Syrian populations clustered consistently as a fifth group. Thus we can conclude that the fifth group - Apis mellifera syriaca – is not simply an artefact of increased sample size (Additional file 1: Figure S1).
Finally, DAPC, which we adopted as a secondary clustering approach, supported the delineation of nine population clusters. Interestingly, the distribution of these nine clusters in the resulting multidimensional scaling plot is consistent with the five clusters indicated via the secondary peak in ∆K for STRUCTURE, Additional file 1: Figure S2. We found no evidence of strong subdivision along the same lines as K = 2, but we did find good evidence for the presence of a distinct Apis mellifera syriaca group.
Population-level divergence
Inter-population measures of genetic distance resulted in a neighbour-joining tree with a robustly supported topology (Figure 3). A, M and C lineages are strongly supported by long internal branches and robust bootstrap values (100%). Meanwhile, populations from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq cluster as a sister group to the O lineage (54% bootstrap). Populations from Tartus (Syria) and Al-Mawsil (Iraq) are outliers with respect to populations from our study area. A principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) is presented in Figure 4a, b and c supports the outlier status of Tartus and Al-Mawsil populations, as well as, to a lesser extent Al-Hasaka and Al-Quamishi. Like the NJ tree, the PCoA analysis broadly supports a division of major lineages C + O / M + A and, in combination, the three axes separate and clearly discriminate the four major evolutionary lineages M, A, C, and O. Crucially, the PCoA supports the delineation of isolates from our study area as a separate group, albeit related to O, with which it partially overlaps.
Figure 3. A neighbour-joining tree calculated from microsatellite data of the population samples using the chord distance of [[18]].
Figure 4. Principal component analysis (PCoA) based on 14 microsatellite loci showing patterns of genetic variation in the studied populations. (a and b) discriminate the four evolutionary lineages M, A, C and O on axes 1, 2 and 3. The studied populations cluster independently with both A and O lineages (c).
Pairwise inter-population FST values consistently support strong subdivision between Syrian/Lebanese populations and reference populations (M, FST = 0.31-0.42), (C, FST = 0.21-0.29), (A, FST = 0.16-0.24). Between Syrian/ Lebanese populations and the O lineage the distinction is more subtle (O, FST = 0.07-0.22) by comparison with values within Syria and Lebanon (FST = 0.01- 0.14) (Additional file 1: Figure S3).
Microsatellites have been widely used to study the genetic variation in honeybees [19-28]. In this study we compared bees from Syria and Lebanon and Iraq with those from representative populations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. To achieve this we amplified 14 microsatellite loci from 2194 individuals in order to characterize evolutionary relationships, population structure and the genetic diversity of Syrian honeybee populations. Our data suggest that A. m. syriaca could represent a fifth major genetic lineage of honeybees.
Genetic diversity of near east populations
Well differentiated from the African and Caucasian populations, Syrian and Lebanese populations were largely cohesive, and values for inter-population FST never rose above 0.02. In terms of genetic diversity, populations were also comparable. Mean heterozygosity per locus and per population range from 0.595 in Al-Quamishli to 0.731 (Nabatiyeh) and are intermediate between those of the A lineage (0.697-0.891) and those of the O lineage (0.615-0.678). Genetic diversity within populations was marginally higher for southern populations, whether from Syria or Lebanon (Additional file 1: Table S1). Enhanced genetic diversity in the South could be related to the intensity and abundance of beekeeping activity, which is certainly higher in the south, and will in turn support a greater effective population size. Heterozygosity in these southern populations is reflected by the higher means of the detected alleles for the fourteen studied loci were (13.71), (13.21) and (11.14) for Quneitra, Daraa and Nabatiyeh populations, respectively, Additional file 1: Table S2.
Allelic introgression in Northern Syria
On the neighbour-joining tree, this Syria/Lebanon group (Z group) of populations is well separated from the C lineage with a long branch and a high bootstrap value (100%). Nevertheless, the separation of the Syrian populations from the O lineages seems to be less supported with lower bootstrap values. This difficulty of discrimination from the O lineage is probably because the studied region lies in a contact zone between the African continent and the Caucasus, whereby physical proximity drives introgression between the two lineages.
Contact zones in Apis mellifera have already been observed on the other side of the Mediterranean sea between M and A lineages for Spanish populations. Gene flow through Gibraltar has allowed allelic exchanges to take place between North African (Algeria and Morocco) and West European honeybee populations over many generations, a phenomenon previously confirmed at molecular level by a north–south gradient of M and A lineages in Spain and Morocco respectively [29].
On the NJ tree, Al-Hasakah and Al-Quamishli populations located in north of Syria are grouped together on a branch clearly separated from the other Syrian populations with high bootstrap value (Figure 3). Such separation is also supported by the PCoA whereby these two populations seem to be intermediates between Syrian and O lineages populations. According to STRUCTURE, the assignments of individuals show clearly an admixture in these populations assigning individuals either to the O group or to the Z group. These two populations are very close and in direct contact with the Southern Turkish border, which can explain a high-level allele admixture between Syrian (Z) and Turkish (O) lineage. Moreover, the mtDNA analysis already shows that these two populations are respectively composed of 91% and 100% of C2 haplotypes, which may be linked to the O lineage [11]. Two other populations (Al-Mawsil, Tartus) seem to be differentiated from the other populations.
Population of Al-Mawsil from Iraq is supposed (according to its geographical location) to belong to A. m. meda, a subspecies from the O morphological lineage expected to spread to the North of Iraq [1,2]. This population is indeed in the range of the O lineage according to the PCoA. Nevertheless it is separated from the O lineage group on the NJ tree and clearly separated on the third axe of the PCoA indicating probably that A. m. meda can be differentiated from the other O lineages subspecies.
The situation is different for the population of Tartus, which is not geographically close to Al-Mawsil. This population is probably influenced by a gene flow coming from the O lineage through the Turkish border and via Cyprus. Anecdotal information from local beekeepers suggests that multiple colonies have recently been imported via this route. Indeed this population contained 10% of haplotypes C1 and C3 which are characteristic to central European subspecies belonging to the C lineage [11].
A fifth group of honeybee populations
The Syrian honeybee subspecies Apis mellifera syriaca is, geographically speaking, an oriental honeybee and takes, based on classical morphometry, a central position among the four other lineages in Ruttner's phenogram [2], closest to the African lineage 'A'. Ruttner's conclusion concerning A. m. syriaca was supported by [11] who grouped this subspecies alongside African individuals. In the current dataset, all clustering algorithms implemented (STRUCTURE, DAPC, a NJ dendrogram as well as the PCoA) suggest the presence of five groups among the data. For STRUCTURE at least, there is evidence for a more fundamental division between Eastern (C + O) and Afro-European populations. The subdivision between old world honeybees is well established, and has been attributed to at least two 'Out of Africa' migrations [6,7]. However, our data indicate that the four groups (M, A, C, O) defined in previous studies are likely to represent a simplification. Lebanese and Syrian populations form a fifth group, albeit with some overlap with nearby A. m. anatoliaca. The phylogeographic origin of Syrian/Lebanese A. m. syriaca is open for debate. In contrast to the nuclear data presented here in which suggest the sister group status between these bees and group O; mtDNA analyses in fact suggest a north-east African origin [11]. As such A. m. syriaca fits completely within the mtDNA haplotype Z, a new subgroup of the African evolutionary lineage A described by [11]. Whether such apparent incongruence represents mitochondrial introgression, or an independent African origin for A. m. syriaca, remains to be seen, as no North-East African nuclear data is present within the current study (samples Morocco and Algeria only were included).
In summary, our data suggest that Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi honeybee populations form a separate fifth major honeybee lineage. Affiliations between A. m. syriaca and North African honeybees could suggest an independent African origin for this group. However, A. m. syriaca also has affiliations with oriental lineage 'O' , and further samples from North Africa are required to clarify the relationship. From a conservation genetic point of view, the presence of an indigenous clade in Syria is encouraging. However, queen importations and allelic introgression imposed by modern beekeeping activities are nonetheless detectable, and our study demonstrates the value of rigorous microsatellite analysis in demarcating population boundaries. For future preservation of the genetic diversity of this locally adapted subspecies we strongly recommend the establishment of genetic conservation centers for the Syrian honeybee Apis mellifera syriaca.
Sampling and DNA extraction
Honeybee workers 'A. m. syriaca' (N: 1462) were collected in 2007 and 2008 from sixteen Syrian, four Lebanese and one Iraqi study site, sampling one worker per managed hive. Sample numbers were as follows: Syria (Damascus: 96, Rif Dimashq: 96, As-Suwayda: 96, Hama: 100, Daraa: 96, Al-Hasakah: 146, Homs: 73, Idlib: 96, Quneitra: 96, Latakia: 41, Ar-Raqqah: 96, Tartus: 40, Al-Quamishli: 50, Yabroud: 50, Alghab: 50 and South: 36), Lebanon (Bekaa: 48, Jbeil: 50, Nabatiyeh: 50 and North: 21) and Al-Mawsil: 35 from Iraq. The geographical locality of each region and the number of samples is shown in Figure 5. Each worker bee was individually preserved in absolute ethanol, and wings were removed and preserved in ethanol for further morphometrical analysis. DNA was extracted from the thorax using the Chelex method [30] and conserved at -20°C.
Figure 5. Shows the geographical locations of the sampled regions in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. They comprise 16 populations from Syria, one from Iraq and four from Lebanon. N is the number of sampled honeybees in each population.
Microsatellite analysis
DNA samples were amplified using multiplex PCR reaction with 14 microsatellite loci. Ten of these microsatellite loci were already known (A7, A28, A113, A43, A88, Ap43, Ap55, Ap81, B24 and B124) [20,23,31-33], while the four others were newly identified from the Apis genome [34] and tested for diversity against a representative panel of individuals:
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Ap36-2 5′-GCCGAAATTCAACGCTCA-3′,
Ap66: Ap66-1 5′-TTGCATTCGGTCTCCAGC-3′;
Ap66-2 5′-ACTTGCCGCGGTATCTGA-3′.
PCR amplifications were carried out in a total volume of 10 μL, containing 1 μL of Taq 5× buffer (Promega), 1.2 mM MgCl2, 25 pmoles of each primers, 1 μL bovine serum albumin (BSA), 25 nmoles of each dNTP, 0.6 unit of Promega Taq polymerase and 1.0 μL of DNA extract. Annealing temperature was set at 54°C for each plex. PCR products were visualized by capillary electrophoresis (Applied Biosystems 3130) and sized with the internal size-standard ROX from Applied Biosystems. GeneMapper v.4.0 software (Applied Biosystems) was subsequently used for allelic scoring.
Our population samples were compared to fourteen additional populations representing the Ruttner's evolutionary lineages. Subspecies names used in the current study were given according to the geographical origin of the sampled population and from [1]. Reference populations are: A. m. mellifera from France (n = 50) and Belgium (n = 48), as well as A. m. iberiensis from Portugal (n = 24) for the (M) lineage; A. m. intermissa from Morocco (n = 28) and Algeria (n = 165) for the (A) lineage; A. m. carnica from Hungaria (n = 24), Slovenia (n = 91) and Croatia (n = 50) as well as A. m. cecropia from Greece (n = 49) for (C) lineage; and finally A. m. pomonella from Uzbeckistan (n = 37), Kazakhstan (n = 39), A. m. caucasica from Georgia (n = 25), Armenia (n = 17) and A. m. anatoliaca from Turkey (n = 24, n = 61) for the Oriental lineage (O).
Statistical analysis
Identification of genetically similar groups of individuals was obtained with the software STRUCTURE v2.3.3 [35]. The results were based on simulations of 10 000 burn-in steps and MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm) iterations. The true number of clusters (K) was estimated using the value for ∆K [17]. Non-parametric (free from Hardy-Weinberg constraints) population definition was achieved in parallel via K-means clustering algorithm. As described in [36]; the 'true' number of populations can be defined by reference to the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), which reaches a minimum when the best supported assignment of individuals to the appropriate number of clusters is approached. In practice, this number is selected at the 'elbow' of the BIC curve. The relationship between these clusters and the individuals within them can be evaluated via a discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC), again as in [36]. Expected heterozygosity for each locus in each population and number of alleles has been calculated using ARLEQUIN v3.11 software [37]. To evaluate the genetic relationships between populations, a neighbour-joining tree was constructed from microsatellite data using the chord distance of [18]. Bootstrap values were computed over 2000 replications [38] re-sampling individuals within population. The genetic differentiation between populations was computed using unbiased estimated of Fst values provided by GENEPOP package version 3.1 [39]. Finally, to visualize the groups in a multivariate space, NUEES software (version 0.8) was also used to perform Principal Component Analyses (PCoA) using the distance matrix between population [18] and between individuals DAS from [40].
Availability of supporting data
The data sets supporting the results of this article are available at http://www.labarchives.com/ webcite
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Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
MA carried out data collection and analysis. BB and HL carried out data analysis. SM participated in data collection. LG participated in the design of the study and coordination. SWS participated in discussion of the study. AA participated in the design of the study and sample collection. LG participated in data discussion and manuscript preparation. MA participated in the design of the study, data analysis and manuscript preparation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We gratefully thank Syrian and Lebanese beekeepers for their help in collecting samples. We are especially grateful to Dr. Muzahim Ayoub from Mosul University in Iraq for his contribution to sampling honeybees in Iraq under very difficult conditions. We would also like to thank Dr. Martin Llewellyn for revising this manuscript and providing insightful comments.
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Atlantis, Florida
|Atlantis, Florida
Location of Atlantis in Palm Beach County, Florida
|Coordinates: 26°35′36″N 80°6′16″W / 26.59333°N 80.10444°WCoordinates: 26°35′36″N 80°6′16″W / 26.59333°N 80.10444°W
|United States
|Palm Beach
|June 19, 1959[1]
|• Total
|1.4 sq mi (3.7 km2)
|• Land
|1.4 sq mi (3.5 km2)
|• Water
|0.0 sq mi (0.1 km2)
|13 ft (4 m)
|Population (2000)
|• Total
|• Density
|1,462.9/sq mi (564.8/km2)
|Time zone
|Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
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Atlantis is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,005 at the 2000 census.[dated info] According to 2005 census estimates, the city had a population of 2,142.[4]
Atlantis is located at 26°35′36″N 80°06′16″W / 26.593296°N 80.104531°W.[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2). 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (2.84%) is water. More precisely, its 834 acres (338 ha) border the Lake Worth Drainage (L-14) Canal on the north, Lantana Road to the south, Military Trail to the west, and Congress Avenue to the east.[1]
The modern history of what became known as the city of Atlantis originates in a ranch called Mulberry Farms, owned by Philip D. Lewis, a former Florida state senator.[1][6] Lewis's Mission Company raised Brahman cattle on the land. In 1958, real estate developers Nathan Hunt and Paul Kintz purchased the land, and began the construction of what became a gated golf and country club community. The residential development, combined with a small amount of adjacent land for commercial use, was incorporated on June 19, 1959.[1][6] Its first council was appointed, consisting of James Kintz as mayor, Nathan Hunt as vice mayor, and councilmen Paul Kintz, Marjorie Hunt and William Blakeslee.[1]
|This section's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. (June 2012)
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 2,005 people, 1,024 households, and 677 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,462.9 inhabitants per square mile (565.1/km²). There were 1,140 housing units at an average density of 831.8 per square mile (321.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.11% White (94.6% were Non-Hispanic,)[7] 2.00% Asian, 0.50% African American, 0.20% from other races, and 0.20% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.59% of the population.
There were 1,024 households out of which 8.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8% were married couples living together, 3.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.8% were non-families. 29.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 23.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.96 and the average family size was 2.36.
In the city the population was spread out with 8.6% under the age of 18, 2.4% from 18 to 24, 10.8% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 51.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 66 years. For every 100 females there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $71,019, and the median income for a family was $82,807. Males had a median income of $38,906 versus $47,188 for females. The per capita income for the city was $47,614, among the state's top fifty. About 4.8% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, speakers of English accounted for 97.94% of all residents, while Spanish was the mother tongue of 2.05% of the population.[8]
As of 2000, Atlantis had the 126th highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, with 1.70% of the populace.[9] It had the sixteenth highest percentage of Syrian residents in the US, at 1.20% of the city's population,[10] and the tenth highest percentage of Australian residents in the US, at 1.10% of the its population (tied with Mad River, Ohio, Lebanon, Maine and Gilmer, Illinois.)[11]
Atlantis is home to JFK Medical Center, site of the first reported case that turned out to be part of the 2001 anthrax attacks. It is adjacent to Palm Beach County Park Airport.[12]
- ^ a b c d e History of the City of Atlantis from the city's official website. Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2005-04-12.csv
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ a b The History of Atlantis, Florida Real Estate from activerain.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
- ^ "Demographics of Atlantis, FL". MuniNetGuide.com. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ "MLA Data Center Results for Atlantis, Florida". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ "Ancestry Map of Cuban Communities". Epodunk.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ "Ancestry Map of Syrian Communities". Epodunk.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ "Ancestry Map of Australian Communities". Epodunk.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ 1983 map of Atlantis from the University of South Florida. Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
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Tiger Woods joins vacationing Obama for golf round
PALM CITY, Florida – President Barack Obama played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods, the White House said.
Once the sport's dominant player before his career was sidetracked by scandal, Woods joined Obama at the Floridian, a secluded and exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida's Treasure Coast where Obama is spending the long Presidents Day weekend. The two had met before, but Sunday was the first time they played together.
The White House has prohibited media coverage of Obama's weekend golf outing.
The foursome also included Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who owns the Floridian and baseball's Houston Astros, and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. Crane and Kirk also were part of Obama's foursome on Saturday, the White House said.
Obama, an avid golfer, also received some instruction Saturday and played a few holes with Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach.
Golf Digest reported that Obama spent eight hours with Harmon, during which he played 27 holes and hit balls in Harmon's studio, and then managed to coordinate Sunday's round with Woods. The report said the original plan called for Obama and Woods to play at Woods' home club — The Medalist Golf Club, a half-hour away in Hobe Sound — but they eventually opted for the Floridian.
Woods departed after the first 18 holes, but Obama stayed on to play another nine, the report said.
"Just to see the interaction between the two on the range was pretty neat," Harmon told Golf Digest. "The President said to Tiger: 'The last tournament you played was fun to watch. It's good to see you play well again.' You could tell he meant it. It just wasn't a throw it out compliment."
It seems Obama and Woods — the first black men at the top of their respective fields — have spent the past few years inching toward Sunday's meeting on the fairway.
The two met in January 2009, during Obama's inauguration in Washington. Four months later, in April, Woods visited the White House and Obama welcomed him into the Oval Office.
Woods' personal life imploded later in 2009 after revelations that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs, leading to divorce. He followed with a public apology and announced he was taking an indefinite break from golf. Shortly after Woods announced he was coming out of seclusion, Obama said in an interview with Fox News Channel that Woods will still be a "terrific" golfer despite his personal issues.
After returning to the sport, Woods went two years without winning, but his game is back on track and he currently is ranked No. 2 in the world. Woods won the last tournament he played, three weeks ago in San Diego.
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ITHACA, N.Y. With an eye toward understanding DNA replication, Cornell researchers have learned how a helicase enzyme works to actually unzip the two strands of DNA. (Nature, online Sept. 18, 2011.)
At the heart of many metabolic processes, including DNA replication, are enzymes called helicases. Acting like motors, these proteins travel along one side of double-stranded DNA, prompting the strands to "zip" apart.
What had been a mystery was the exact mechanics of this vital biological process how individual helicase subunits coordinate and physically cause the unzipping mechanism.
Cornell researchers led by Michelle Wang, professor of physics and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), have observed these processes by manipulating single DNA molecules to watch what happens when helicases encounter them, and how different nucleotides that fuel the reactions affect the process. For their experiments they used an E. coli T7 phage helicase, a type with six distinct subunits, which is a good representation of how many helicases work.
"This is a great demonstration of the power of single-molecule studies," said Wang, whose lab specializes in a technique called optical trapping. To record data from single molecules, the scientists use a focused beam of light to "trap" microspheres attached to the molecules.
Prior to this work, researchers from other labs had found that the nucleotide dTTP (deoxythymidine triphosphate) was a "preferred" fuel for the helicase, and that the helicase apparently wouldn't unzip DNA if ATP (adenosine triphosphate) was provided as fuel. Wang and her colleagues found this puzzling, because ATP is known to be the primary fuel molecule in living organisms.
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A torrential downpour inundated St John's, Newfoundland Canada with 6.8 inches of rain, the greatest single daily accumulation ever recorded in the province.
A very destructive hurricane devastated the Georgia/South Carolina coast on the 27th. A tremendous wave submerged the offshore islands near Charleston and Savannah, killing between 1,000 and 2,500 people. The storm recurved to the northeast, passing through eastern Pennsylvania, still maintaining hurricane strength. Norfolk, VA, and New York City both measured a gust to 60 mph. The storm decreased to tropical storm status in Maine.
To the west, Buffalo, NY received 4.22 inches of rain. A large number of cellars were flooded, sidewalks were raised and carried for blocks, the street cars were unable to run and in some instances the sewers were unable to carry off the water. Estimated damages were about $5,000 dollars.
In Rickmansworth England, the temperature rose within 9 hours from an overnight low of 34° to an afternoon high of 84.9°, a jump of 50.9°.
Hurricane Donna, the only storm on record to strike Florida, the Mid-Atlantic States and New England, was born in the far eastern Atlantic.
Hackberry, LA was deluged with 22 inches of rain in 24 hours, establishing a state record.
A cold outbreak in New England brought 2.5 inches of snow to the top of Mount Washington, NH. Many stations recorded the earliest freeze on record. Temperatures were in the mid to upper 20s as far south as Connecticut and the temperature on Nantucket Island dipped to 39°. Chilly weather extended from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast to the Mid-Atlantic.
Record August lows included: Necedah, WI: 28°, Fort Wayne, IN: 38°, South Bend, IN: 40°.
Other record lows included: Elkins, WV: 34°, Madison, WI: 35°, Beckley, WV: 36°, Duluth, MN: 37°, Toledo, OH: 37°, Green Bay, WI: 38°, Columbus, OH: 39°, Flint, MI: 40°, Mansfield, OH: 40°, Pittsburgh, PA: 40°, Albany, NY: 40°, Binghamton, NY: 40°, Rochester, NY: 40°, La Crosse, WI: 40°-Tied, Indianapolis, IN: 41°, Cleveland, OH: 41°, Youngstown, OH: 41°, Lexington, KY: 42°, Grand Rapids, MI: 42°, Akron, OH: 42°, Dayton, OH: 42°, Williamsport, PA: 42°, Cincinnati, OH: 43°, Huntington, WV: 43°, Syracuse, NY: 43°, Chicago, IL: 43°-Tied, Peoria, IL: 44°, Milwaukee, WI: 44°, Avoca, PA: 44°, Springfield, IL: 45°, Milton, MA: 45°-Tied, Wilmington, DE: 46°, Atlantic City, NJ: 46°, Allentown, PA: 46°, Philadelphia, PA: 46°, St. Louis, MO: 47°, Evansville, IN: 47°, Roanoke, VA: 47°, Bristol, TN: 49°, Louisville, KY: 49°, Paducah, KY: 49°, Lynchburg, VA: 49°, Raleigh-Durham, NC: 50°, Baltimore, MD: 50°, Newark, NJ: 50°, New York (Central Park), NY: 50°, New York (Kennedy Airport), NY: 51°, Bridgeport, CT: 51°, Richmond, VA: 52°, Greensboro, NC: 52°-Tied, Oak Ridge, TN: 53°, New York (LaGuardia), NY: 53°, Norfolk, VA: 54°, Cape Hatteras, NC: 62° and New Orleans, LA: 67°.
Hurricane Carmen was born east of the Lesser Antilles.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Debra spawned a tornado in southern Memphis, TN. The twister was two miles long and 75-100 yards wide, left 26 injured and did $4.6 million damage. No thunder or lightning was observed. The tornado came within one mile of Elvis Presley's Graceland.
The strong winds of powerful Hurricane David leveled the island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles, resulting in 56 deaths and leaving 60,000 of the islands 80,000 inhabitants homeless.
Hurricane Frederic was born in the Atlantic.
2.23 inches of rain fell in less than one hour at Houston, TX causing flooding in the downtown area.
Canadian high pressure settled across the Mid-Atlantic brought record lows from the Great Lakes to the East Coast. The morning low of 39° at Pittsburgh, PA was their coldest reading ever in August. Cool air from Canada continues pouring in, Houghton Lake, MI: 29°, Ste. St. Marie, MI: 29°, Alpena, MI: 30°, Youngstown, OH: 32°, Toledo, OH: 34°, Albany, NY: 34°, Marquette, MI: 36°, Caribou, ME: 36°, Flint, MI: 37°, Erie, PA: 37°, Muskegon, MI: 38°, Detroit, MI: 38°, Cleveland, OH: 38°, Sterling (Dulles Airport), VA: 38°, Avoca, PA: 38°, Binghamton, NY: 38°, Buffalo, NY: 38°, Rochester, NY: 38°, Pittsburgh, PA: 39°, Williamsport, PA: 39°, Hartford, CT: 39°, Grand Rapids, MI: 41°, Akron, OH: 41°, Atlantic City, NJ: 41°, Milton, MA: 41°, Wilmington, DE: 43°, Allentown, PA: 43°, Chicago, IL: 43°-Tied, Milwaukee, WI: 44°, Bridgeport, CT: 44°, Newark, NJ: 45°, Harrisburg, PA: 46°, Providence, RI: 46°, Philadelphia, PA: 46°-Tied, Baltimore, MD: 49°, Richmond, VA: 50°, New York (Central Park), NY: 50°-Tied, Norfolk, VA: 51°, Wallops Island, VA: 51°, New York (LaGuardia), NY: 51° and New York (Kennedy Airport), NY: 51°-Tied.
A devastating hail storm struck portions of central South Dakota. In a small portion of Faulk county hail pounded the area for two straight hours. At times, the hail was the size of baseballs. Of course, this amazing hail storm devastated crops in the area and took out windows in area buildings. In one home, the windows were shattered, the curtains shredded, and much of the upper floor was ruined by glass shards and water. On some houses paint was literally peeled off by the continual pounding of the hail.
Spencer in Clay County of northwest Iowa was the target of a severe thunderstorm. Winds of 70 mph whipped through town downing trees, power lines and breaking windows. One tree smashed a camping trailer when it fell due to strong winds.
The high temperature in Topeka, KS reached 110° for only the second time since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930's.
The highest temperature on record at Columbia, MO for the month of August: 110° was recorded.
Canadian high pressure across the Ohio Valley brought record chill from the Ohio Valley to the East Coast and Southeast.
Record lows included: Concord, NH: 32°, Caribou, ME: 35°, Beckley, WV: 36°-Tied, Goshen, IN: 37°, Dayton, OH: 41°, Atlantic City, NJ: 41°-Tied, Burlington, VT: 41°-Tied, Asheville, NC: 42°, Roanoke, VA: 42°, Syracuse, NY: 42°, Columbia, MO: 43°, Bristol, TN: 43°, Peoria, IL: 43°, Springfield, IL: 43°, Evansville, IN: 43°, Dubuque, IA: 43°-Tied, Cincinnati, OH: 43°-Tied, Huntington, WV: 43°-Tied, Paducah, KY: 44°, Philadelphia, PA: 44°, Providence, RI: 44°, Jackson, KY: 45°, Lexington, KY: 45°, Louisville, KY: 46°, Islip, NY: 46°, Springfield, MO: 47°, Greensboro, NC: 47°, Lynchburg, VA: 47°, Richmond, VA: 47°, Baltimore, MD: 47°, St. Louis, MO: 47°-Tied, Boston, MA: 47°-Tied, Wallops Island, VA: 48°, Nashville, TN: 49°, Washington, D.C.: 49°, Raleigh-Durham, NC: 49°, New York (Central Park), NY: 50°-Tied, Fort Smith, AR: 51°, Tupelo, MS: 52°, Little Rock, AR: 52°-Tied, Knoxville, TN: 53°, Memphis, TN: 53°, Charlotte, NC: 54°, Meridian, MS: 55°, Shreveport, LA: 56°, Savannah, GA: 57°, Charleston, SC: 57°, Lake Charles, LA: 61°, Tallahassee, FL: 61°-Tied and Mobile, AL: 64°.
Some of the most powerful thunderstorms in several years developed over the piedmont of North Carolina, and marched across central sections of the state during the late afternoon and evening hours. Baseball size hail was reported around Albemarle, while thunderstorm winds downed giant trees around High Falls.
Cool air invaded the north central U.S. Several cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Bismarck ND with a reading of 33°. Deerfield, a small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, reported a low of 23°.
Tropical storm Chris moved into South Carolina then recurved through southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a depression. The remnants of Tropical Storm Chris drenched eastern Pennsylvania with up to 5.5 inches of rain, and produced high winds gusting to 90 mph, severely damaging 100 boats in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Evening thunderstorms produced destructive lightning in West Virginia. The lightning caused widespread damage, particularly in Doddridge County. Numerous trees were downed closing many roads. Fire companies had a difficult time tending to the many homes and trailers on fire.
Anchorage, AK reported a record 9.60 inches of rain for the month of August. The average annual precipitation for Anchorage is just slightly more than 15 inches.
Maryville, MO reported 8.20 inches of rain during a 3-day rain event.
Williamsport, PA established their record for most 90 degree plus days in one year as the event occurred for the 38th time.
Severe thunderstorms struck parts of southwest and central Oklahoma late in the evening. Most of the damage was from winds. Rush Springs experienced winds stronger than 80 mph, and a bus barn and several mobile homes were destroyed in the area. Just south of nearby Cement, the wind blew over an oil drilling rig. The storms also produced golf ball sized hail northeast of Durham.
In Kansas, thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph, combined with golf ball-size hail, blew out the windows of a few houses 3 miles west of Dodge City. The large hail also killed a bunch of sparrows nesting in surrounding trees. At Garden City, lightning struck service transformers, electric lines, and buildings causing power outages and several structural fires. Lightning also caused one house fire that resulted in $20,000 damage. Flooding occurred along Highway 281 near the Kansas/Oklahoma border due to heavy rainfall. Water was up to the tail lights of some cars and the highway patrol had to stop traffic.
The 1995 North Atlantic Hurricane Season was one of the busiest on record. The National Hurricane Center had their hands full on this date, as they tracked dissipating Tropical Storm Jerry, a strong tropical wave and four named storms: Hurricane Humberto, Hurricane Iris, Tropical Storm Karen and Tropical Storm Luis.
A severe thunderstorm produced 1.75 inch diameter hail and very heavy rain over parts of Cheyenne on this day in 1996, flooding some basements on the north side of town and causing about 2.4 million in damage. Further east, Sidney, NE was flooded with up to 5 inches of rain.
Strong thunderstorms developed each day starting on this day and ending on 8/31 in parts of southern California. 1.5 inches of rain fell at Apple Valley, 0.77 inched fell in only 45 minutes at Wrightwood, and 0.68 inches fell in only 30 minutes at Forest Falls. Homes and roads were flooded with four to six feet of water in Hesperia and Apple Valley. Rock slides occurred in Mill Creek. Roads were flooded in Sugarloaf and Forest Falls. Flash flooding was also recorded in Hemet. Severe thunderstorm wind gusts of 86 mph hit Sage, south of Hemet. Gusts of 50 mph were recorded at Rialto and gusts of
45 mph hit San Marcos. Trees and power lines were downed.
Record heat occurred near the coast as well on these same days. Temperatures hit 114° at Dulzura, 112° at Yorba Linda and the Wild Animal Park, 110° at El Cajon, Hemet and Riverside, 108° at Ramona, 106° at Vista and Escondido, and over 100° in most of Orange County.
Parts of the Outer Banks of North Carolina were being evacuated as large Category 2 Hurricane Dennis continued to move towards the coast with top winds of 105 mph. The National Hurricane Center cautiously waited for the hurricane to make a much-anticipated turn to the east that would carry it out to sea and away from land.
The mercury reached 105° at Mobile, AL, setting an all-time record high. The record high also established a new mark for most 100 degree days in a summer with 8.
Heavy rainfall totaling nearly 2.00 inches of rain soaked the northwest part of Las Vegas, NV. Several swift water rescues were preformed after people ignored warning signs. No injuries were reported, but at least 40 motorists became stranded.
Strong thunderstorms dropped 4.7 inches of rain on Kerkyra, Corfu Greece in six hours, nearly seven times the average August rainfall.
Hurricane Katrina, one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years, blasted coastal Louisiana with winds gusting over 100 mph. The hurricane caused major levee breaks that flood 80% of New Orleans up to 20 feet deep.
Coastal Mississippi bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina's force. Powerful winds and a devastating storm surge of 20-30+ feet raked the coastline, spreading floodwaters several miles inland. Along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines, thousands of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed and more than 2.3 million people lost power. The accepted death toll has reached more than 1,300 based on bodies found, but the real death toll is clearly higher.
Hurricane Katrina's minimum central pressure was observed at 902 millibars or 26.64 inHg, by reconnaissance aircraft, the 5th lowest pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. Katrina is also the third most-intense landfalling hurricane in U.S. history based on a minimum landfall pressure of 920 millibars or 27.17 inHg.
With its high temperature pegged at 113° Phoenix, AZ sets a new record of 29 days with 110°+ temperatures.
On this date through the 30th, a freakish late-winter heat wave developed over Argentina. Buenos Aires recorded highs of 93.2° and 92.3°, respectively; normal would be around 60°. Cordoba had a high of 99.1° the next day. Santa Fe reached 101.5° two days later. These would be hot days in midsummer, let alone late August which is late winter.
Parts of central Japan receive torrential rain that causes flooding and landslides that force nearly half a million people to evacuate. The city of Okazaki measured 5.7 inches of rain.
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Onward into summer.
Onward into summer.
So mature looking! Have a great summer, Scalzis all. And Athena, rejoice in the knowledge that Oregon kids have another month of school to endure!
Wow1 She looks more like her mother every time you post one of these portrait shots. (Nice picture, by the way). Tenth grade next year, eh? Now the dad stress really begins. My daughter is 30 years old and I still get stress attacks. They probably never go away, so, welcome to the club and happy summer to Athena.
Nice photo. I can't help it, but I have the Who song running through my head right now.
gosh she's growing up fast and quite beautifully.
I am thinking Alice Cooper: School's Out for Summer.
Shortly after High School was over I was at home alone. I opened my windows and played School's Out full blast on my stereo. Now, this was before the days of miniature IPOD speakers. My speakers were home made, and they were humongous!
Anyway, song ended, and I split to my friends house.
A minute or two after I left my dad arrived at the house.
Shortly after that the police showed up on a noise complaint.
Ahhh good times.
I hope Athena has a wonderful summer!
She looks like she recovered quite well from the Great Pluto Fiasco of Crappiness. Enjoy your summer, Scalzis!
Congratulations one and all. Now, after Summer Vacation, she starts high school, again one of the young ones, working her way up to the glory and power of Senior-dom, then back to to frosh, at a college or university, and up the ramp again… Maybe someday teach at Robert Anson Heinlein University, Luna City… Right?
Congratulations, and have lots of fun!
Great picture of a beautiful young woman!
Happy summer, Athena (and parents.) :)
Nice picture! For the benefit of us ignorant non-Americans, who only have a wiki of American school systems to go by – does this mean that she'll be going to Senior High, as on this chart?
Also – freely giving you a chance to reverse the usual roles, by gloating at us ignorant Europeans. Gloat ahead!
When I started Elementary School, it ran from grades 1-6. Middle School was 7 and 8, and then High School was 9-12′ or Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years respectively. By the time I got to 5th grade, however, Middle School included 6th Grade, and High School remained unchanged.
So if the Scalzi clan was in my hometown in California, or my adopted town in Oregon, she would have finished her Freshman year of High School. Since they are in Ohio, though, she could very well have just finished Junior High (as opposed to Middle School).
So, long story short, even us Americans can't even answer the question with certainty!
Finally, I'm not sure where in Europe you reside but I had a long discussion with an Englishman once about their education system. I didn't really think about it again until I read Harry Potter.
Yeah insight!
All the best,
I've been hanging around here long enough, and have appropriately dilated memories of my own childhood enough, that the older she gets, the older I feel.
…All the world's a stage, I guess. May Athena's next act bring the house down.
Minor nit: "in" or "of" Ninth Grade, but "on"? I don't think so.
Like other posters, I wish our school district finished this quickly, given the snow days we had to make up.
*sigh* My last day of school isn't until June 27th. Stupid Canadian school system….
I recently read "Waiting for Athena", so it's a bit of a shock to see her looking so close to grown-up. And echoing others: schools out already? Lucky kid.
Thanks, D. Paul. I'm from Denmark, where we have one kind of school from 1st to 10th grade, where the 10th is optional. High school is after that and two or three years, depending on which kind you want and some other schools also start after 10th grade, like if you want to work with your hands, and then there's college ….
Chapeau Athena.
Happy Summer, Athena!
Xopher, I guess in Southern California school shouldn't start until November, then. Sigh. Actually, that does explain some things about CA education…
I sometimes think we would benefit from a similar system near. I've met a lot of folks who are looking to have a career and decent paying job but don't want to go to college. Trade schools would be an admirable solution to that I'd think.
And, as long as I'm flirting with off topic, Denmark is on the list of countries I'd like to visit someday :-)
All the best,
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Roadrunners zip past Islanders in blowout
CORPUS CHRISTI - CORPUS CHRISTI — The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders found themselves on the wrong end of an offensive showcase Saturday, dropping the series finale to the UT-San Antonio Roadrunners 15-10.
"They outplayed us, it's as simple as that," A&M-Corpus Christi coach Scott Malone said. "They pitched it better and they hit it better, which is the most disappointing thing. I'm disappointed in our hitters because we only scored in three innings."
The Islanders got all 10 of their runs between the fourth and sixth innings.
"We pride ourselves on being one of the best offensive teams in the league and we weren't that today," Malone said. "We should have had more runs. We shouldn't have been outhit 19-12."
A&M-Corpus Christi fell to 12-16 on the year and 4-8 in the Southland Conference.
"We're at the midpoint of the season and we still have a lot of work to get as consistent as we need to be," Malone said. "I don't think our offensive approach was as consistent as it needed to be."
UTSA improved to 12-14 overall and 3-9 in conference games.
Ian Campbell took the loss for the Islanders and fell to 3-4. He was unable to get out of the first inning, getting only two outs and giving up four runs on three hits.
Taylor Walton went to 3-1 for the Roadrunners with four innings of relief work. He allowed four runs on five hits while walking a batter.
The Islanders were down 7-0 in the bottom of the fourth inning before Bobby Buckner hit a grand slam beyond the right field fence to make it 7-4.
However, UTSA put up three runs each in the next two innings and went back up again by seven, 13-6, going into the bottom of the sixth.
A&M-Corpus Christi then batted around in the inning, scoring four runs to cut the deficit back to three at 13-10.
Two of the four Islander runs in the inning were unearned due to three consecutive Roadrunner errors.
A&M-Corpus Christi even had the go-ahead run at the plate but left the bases loaded.
That was as close as the Islanders would get as they were kept off the board in the final third of the game.
"In the last three innings, they flipped a switch, really started playing defense and flashing some leather," Malone said. "They started making some plays and took some hits away from us."
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WP Taylor Walton (3-1); LP Ian Campbell (3-4); 2B UTSA, Ryan Hutson, Ryan Rummel, Jeff Taliaferro; A&M-CC, Cory Ege; 3B UTSA, Lance Brown, Casey Selsor; HR A&M-CC, Bobby Buckner
Highlights UTSA, Brown 3-4, 3B, BB, 2 RBI, 3 R; Tyler Carpenter 3-5, SB, RBI, 2 R; Ryan Dalton 1-4, 2 BB, 2 RBI; Hutson 2-5, 2B, BB, 2 RBI, 3 R; Daniel Rockett 2-5, 3 R; Rummel 3-6, 2B, 3 RBI, R; Selsor 3-4, 3B, 2 BB, SB, 2 RBI, 2 R; Taliaferro 2-5, 2B, SB, 2 RBI, R; A&M-CC, Buckner 1-5, HR, 4 RBI, R; Omar Garcia 2-5, RBI, R; Trey Hernandez 2-5, 2 R; Caleb Marx 2-5, SB
Records UTSA, Overall 12-14, Southland 3-9; A&M-CC, Overall 12-16, Southland 4-8
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Yard signs are dotting the landscape and many people are receiving calls and mailings from the candidates for Common Pleas Court Judge. But the number of signs and other publicity only give you a small picture of who a candidate really is.
I am a local attorney with 30 years experience and I have known Stacy Wall since she became law director for the city of Piqua in 2007. Stacy Wall is running for the office of Common Pleas Court Judge and she is a good Republican. However, that is not her only qualification. In fact, Stacy Wall has a broad range of experience and leadership, which uniquely qualifies her for the position of judge. In her position as law director, she advises the city of Piqua Civil Service Commission, of which I am the present chairman.
Stacy has been instrumental in prosecuting nuisance cases on behalf of the city. She advises the city commission at all of its meetings and she provides legal advice to city departments on matters of collective bargaining, employment issues and interpretation of city and state codes.
In addition, she is responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor cases and felonies through the preliminary hearing stage. I also know of Stacy Wall's leadership. I serve with her on the executive board of the Piqua Rotary Club as she presently serves as president-elect of the 75-member organization. Her experience and legal qualifications have been recognized by fellow members of the Miami County Bar Association of attorneys. They voted her "well qualified" and the "preferred" candidate in the race for Common Pleas Court Judge in a recent poll of a majority of its members.
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ZipcarRead MoreReserve an SUV with a ski-rack for a winter outing, a truck for heavy hauling, a hybrid for whale saving, or a coupe for couping; there are tons of models you can choose to drive. View vehicle availability online, and then reserve the car; Zipcars live in dozens of locations all over the city. The reservation includes driver's insurance and a gas card to fill up the tank. Reservations are billable by the hour or by the day, starting at $7 per hour and $69 per day, and reservations include 180 miles per day. This Groupon covers the $25 membership sign-up fee in addition to your year?s membership (a $60 value) and a $30 driving credit. Click here to see complete rate info.160 N Wabash AveChicago, IL US