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Peoria's history, population, vision/mission statements, sustainability efforts, redistricting, and construction projects. Info on the P83 district, schools, the Peoria Leadership Institute seminar, and diversity.
Information on the City Council including agendas , the Mayor, the Municipal Court, City Manager and ADA along with the city's various initiatives.
News from the city of Peoria, press releases from the Office of Communications, links to RSS feeds and E-News signup. View programming on Channel 11, PeoriaTV.
Information on the employment process, a listing of current open jobs, how to apply on-line and a list of all jobs and salaries at the city.
A listing of links to directories of city services, including all online e-services.
The city of Peoria Municipal Complex is home to City Hall, the Council Chambers, the Main Library, the Development and Community Services Building, the Public Safety Administration Building, and the Municipal Court.
A listing of links to maps available on the city of Peoria Website.
The City of Peoria budget is managed by the Management and Budget Division. Find copies of the latest Program Budget and the CIP here.
The City Code and Zoning Ordinace, with updates are located here. Also, find the City Charter, and legal statements related to the website, including our Privacy Notice.
City Manager's Message on Diversity and Inclusion
How to pay bills you may have with the city, including water, sewer and trash collection fees, recreation program and class fees, traffic fines and more. Setup water and sewer service.
Home and Property Resources includes information on trash pickup,water conservation, swimming pool issues and recycling, along with other relevant information for homeowners.
Neighborhood Resources includes information on dealing with graffiti removal, block parties, animal control, street repairs, odors and other neighborhood related quality of life issues.
Helpful services provided by the fire and police departments. Report criminal activity, locate crime information, register alarms, and learn about crime prevention.
Search for scheduled events and meetings in the city including documents relating to city council meetings and other meetings.
This section contains information and links to the Peoria Public Library's website, the Arts Commission, the Center for Performing Arts, and Annual Arts festivals and Celebrations.
Information on recreation programs and classes, afterschool and preschool programs, sports leagues and locations and amenities of city parks.
Information on bus routes, park and ride, dial a ride and bicycle paths. Also, road closures and lane restrictions.
Use this page to find information on the city of Peoria website of interest to builders and developers.Included are inspections, zoning and zoning ordinance, the city code, general plan, permitting, and impact fees.
How to get a business license, tax license, sales tax schedules/forms, register to use the online eTax system, pay taxes and fees. Bidding on contracts with the city and auctions, trash collection, recycling, traffic counts.
Links to the Building Development Division and the Site Development Division of the Engineering Department
Information on Building Permits. Find out about permits for signs, temporary use of property, filming, and alarms. Download forms and track applications for development, building, planning and engineering permits.
The city's main document portal for development related documents including planning and zoning, building, engineering and fire prevention.
Economic Development Services offers Business and Real Estate Development, and other assistance for businesses and developers, on the website PeoriaAZSmart.com.
The Seattle Mariners and the San Diego Padres conduct spring training at the Peoria Sports Complex each February and March. Everything you need to know is at PeoriaSpringTraining.com.
A listing of area hotels, motels and RV Parks, listed by distance from the Peoria Sports Complex.
The city of Peoria, Arizona is proud to be the "Gateway to Lake Pleasant," one of the finest water recreation areas in Arizona.
Links to Items of interest to tourists, including VisitPeoriaaz.com, our official tourism website.
The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts consists of a 280 seat main stage auditorium and an 80+ seat black box theater, designed to bring award winning community theater to downtown Peoria.
City of Peoria hiking trails information, directions and maps.
Special Events, sponsored and hosted by the city, held throughout the year at the Peoria Sports Complex, Oldtown Peoria and other areas.
The Peoria Sports Complex is home to the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners during spring training, and many other events throughout the year.
PEORIA, Ariz. (June 11, 2012) – The city of Peoria
will hold a special ground breaking ceremony for the start of construction on
Pioneer Community Park on Thursday, June 14 beginning at 9:00 a.m. The ceremony
will be held on the corner of 83rd Avenue and Butler Avenue.
The new park will be constructed on an eighty acre site located along 83rd
Avenue, south of Olive Avenue at a cost of approximately $20 million with a
completion date in the fall of 2013.
The new park will have six new lighted dual-use baseball/softball fields with
shaded spectator seating and four lighted soccer fields, all capable of
accommodating tournament play to help generate revenue needed to fund the park's
operating costs. A five acre urban fishing lake with catch and keep fishing will
be supplied by reclaimed water from the adjacent Butler Water Treatment
facility. The lake is part of the urban fishing program managed by Arizona Fish
and Game Division who will be stocking the lake. In addition, the lake will
serve as the reservoir for the park's daily landscape irrigation needs.
Other amenities include a large ramada area, dispersed small ramadas, two
children's playground areas, and a shaded splash pad. Concrete walk paths, a
multi-cell dog park, and large turf areas for informal recreation will all be
illuminated for evening use. Parking will be dispersed throughout the park for
efficient ingress, egress, and access to the park amenities. The former
Robertson residence parcel located near Olive Avenue will be the new home to a
rose garden / event space that will feature Old-Town themed vine covered trellis
structures, lighting, and a brick paved plaza.
Pioneer Community Park is the sixth Peoria park or trail to either begin
construction or be completed since August 2011. Palo Verde Park was completed in
August 2011. Peoria's New River Trail had an additional 3.5 miles of bike trails
added in September, 2011. Westland Park was completed in November and Osuna Park
on Old Town Peoria was dedicated in December 2011. Centennial Plaza, located on
the City Hall campus was completed for the city's recognition of the state's
Centennial festivities on February 4, 2012. Scotland Yard Park construction was
started in late 2010 and is expected to be completed this summer.
Haydon Building Corporation was awarded the contract to construct Pioneer
Community Park in 2008. EPG Environmental Planning Group will design the
extensive landscaping for the park.
City of Peoria8401 W. Monroe StreetPeoria, Arizona 85345


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Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Thank you for inviting me. Actually, the truth is that I invited myself because I care so much about these issues. And Jerry Berman and Tim Lordan of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee were gracious to allow me to speak with you.
I am here to speak about Internet freedom as a foundation for the 21st Century human rights agenda. It is a pleasure to be joined by Christine Varney, a lawyer's lawyer who is much missed inside the Obama administration. And I see here in the audience a large number of friends from Congress, from corporations and from NGOs who have all helped to map out smart and principled Internet policies for our government. They have also helped shape policies for socially responsible companies to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms online. Together, we aim to preserve the promise of the Internet as we know it, and as Gary said, in the face of growing threats to the freedom and integrity of the global network.
This past year has highlighted the promise and the peril of the Internet as a transformative tool both for human expression and for repression. So I would like to look back at the lessons learned from the digital earthquake of 2011, and offer a few thoughts on the way forward.
It was almost exactly a year ago, on January 15, that Tunisian president Zine Ben Ali boarded a plane in Tunis with his family and departed for Saudi Arabia. Twenty-seven days later, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned. Eight months later, Moammar Gaddafi was gone. A month after that, Yemen's President Saleh announced his resignation. Time Magazine named the "Protestor" as its Person of the Year in 2011.
The Arab Awakening has been like a geopolitical earthquake sending aftershocks rumbling around the world. Repressive regimes trembled at the power of people connected, and redoubled their attempts to crack down. They did it by jailing bloggers, hijacking Facebook pages, and, in the case of Iran, requiring cybercafés to install surveillance cameras. They managed to buy sophisticated technologies to sniff out digital dissidents and silence them.
Meanwhile, some governments are trying to impose national and international restrictions that would cripple the exercise of human rights online. They are using terms like, quote, "information security" and "internet management" to try to justify repression. We must protect the free flow of information and also the integrity of the network. By that I mean the interoperability of the network both in the technical sense – the ability of the cables and servers that transfer data to talk to each other – and in the sense that countries must not isolate their citizens inside national intranets. Whether you call this a "halal Internet" or a "hate-free Internet," it's a digital bubble. It's locking people inside a world of government-controlled content and cutting them off from rest of the world.
These trends are not news to most of you, or to us, either. But they are intensifying. It's been almost exactly two years since my boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave her first major speech on Internet freedom at the Newseum. She made history by declaring two things that seem glaringly obvious now: First, that the universal human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association apply online as they do offline; and second, that promoting those rights online must be a U.S. foreign policy priority. Since then she has consistently warned that protecting human rights, and intellectual property rights, and the ability of law enforcement officials to stop online crime and cyber stability and security will be challenging -- but essential.
The Arab Awakening has upped the stakes further, most of all for activists trying to change repressive regimes from within.
People are using technology as a battering ram against the walls of fear and isolation that dictatorships erect to keep their populations quiescent. In country after country where governments have controlled nearly every aspect of life, people are demanding openness and accountability, as well as jobs and opportunity, using old ways and new ways to make themselves heard. They've done it online, and by risking life and limb on the streets; they've done it in song and text message, and in videos smuggled across borders when the Internet is turned off.
It turns out that two billion networked users are nearly impossible to silence.
In my world, the world of human rights, this new capacity for instant communication and participation has created an unprecedented dynamic. Let me give you an example. Last week in Syria, Arab League Human Rights monitors complained -- unofficially -- that they were not being permitted to view protests or interview demonstrators or travel freely to observe events. Yet that same day, anyone with an Internet connection could watch horrific footage on YouTube of wounded protestors in Syria who appeared to be dying on camera.
Syria is not having a Facebook revolution or a Twitter revolt or a YouTube winter. Syria is having a mass outbreak of courage. Tens of thousands of demonstrators know they risk arrest, torture and death if they take to the streets. But they're doing it anyway. Day after day. Their courage does not emanate from any digital device. It comes from knowing that they are not alone.
So yes, the Internet is empowering. Yet we agree with Vincent Cerf, who wrote in an op-ed piece last month that Internet access is not itself a human right. Freedom of expression, assembly and association are human rights. Technology can enable those rights. Technology is not a substitute for political organizing or advocacy or persuasion. The Internet does not bring people into the street. Grievances do. The Internet did not spark the Arab Spring. Injustice did. It's worth noting that the Arab Spring did not start because of Twitter. It started because of the heartbreaking decision by one vegetable vendor, Mohammed Bouazizi, to set himself ablaze.
Connective technologies are powerful tools for strengthening and amplifying the bonds between people and organizations -- for good and for ill. Last year, they enabled terrorists to recruit, and they enabled global cooperation to solve a myriad of human problems by transcending time zones, borders and even language barriers. The same connective technologies that enabled teenage bullies to orchestrate the persecution of their victims also enabled Russian activists to monitor parliamentary elections and then organize huge street demonstrations protesting the unfairness of those elections.
But let me be clear about U.S. policy: We don't promote Internet freedom or connective technologies as a means of promoting "regime change." We promote the freedoms of expression, association and assembly online and offline because these universal freedoms are the birthright of every individual. Human rights and human dignity are not bestowed upon people by groups or governments, and no government should feel empowered to deny them. It is up to every individual -- and therefore the people of every country -- to decide how to exercise them.
Let me state for the record that international law applies to online behavior. Full stop. We do not need to reinvent international human rights law, or our enduring principles, to account for the Internet. No deed is more evil -- or more noble -- when it is committed online rather than offline. You can't sell child pornography in Farragut Square or Tahrir Square, and you can't sell it on the Internet, either. You can't break into a theater and steal the movie reels and you can't steal movies online, either. You can't beat up and gag a peaceful protestor and you can't jail her for a blog post criticizing a government policy, either.
Now, I said earlier that we agree that no one has a human right to any particular technology. But at the same time, we believe that creators and purveyors of technologies have a responsibility to respect human rights through their products and their practices. Moreover, the responsibility of corporations to respect human rights extends far beyond the creators of a given technology. It is the responsibility of every company. Last year, in a landmark move, the U.N. Human Rights Council recognized this corporate responsibility by endorsing John Ruggie's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
But of course the challenge is always how to live out those principles in real time. Today, we're all living a fishbowl, 24/7 live on webcam. Any one of us may face public scrutiny for any decision we make. It's instant scrutiny. And most of us are still learning the new rules for life on webcam. That applies to politicians, and CEOs and also corporations. Companies are held to account by regulators and lawmakers, by the media and by individual consumers, who can now tarnish a global brand that took years to build with little more than a re-tweet.
Last year, we saw media coverage, and social media attention, and scrutiny from lawmakers about cases in which tech companies were alleged to have helped repressive regimes crack down on their own people: Social networking companies pressured to hand over information about political activists, cell phone signals used to locate dissidents, and especially evidence that the latest greatest surveillance technologies have been sold to Syria and Iran and Moammar Gaddafi's Libya.
The moral issues in those cases are fairly cut-and-dry. But for tech companies, figuring out how to apply their principles to a messy and fast-changing world is much more complex -- and getting even tougher.
Still, other industries have faced similar issues, and found a way forward. The smart companies have learned that the way to adapt to 24/7 scrutiny is to address the underlying issues before they find themselves in the crosshairs of controversy. Many have found it useful to collaborate with other companies – even their toughest competitors.
Companies in the extractive industries, which pull resources out of the ground in some of the most conflict-wracked places on earth, have faced up to this problem. They joined with governments and NGOs in a collaborative effort to minimize the risk of human rights abuses.
Private security contractors have faced up to the problem. More than two hundred of them have signed on to a new international code of conduct that addresses their use of force, and bans torture, sexual exploitation, human trafficking and forced labor.
Apparel companies have faced the challenge of curbing sweatshop practices in the global supply chains. A number of them have joined together with NGOs and universities to allow scrutiny of their factories by independent auditors.
So oil companies, garment makers and private security contractors are making money in hard places. Each has realized that one of the costs of doing business in those places is to assess the risks and to invest in developing principles, people and processes to address the human rights challenges they face.
Technology companies now must do the same. And since nearly every tech company depends on the Internet to operate, all have a special stake in protecting the freedom and integrity of the Net, as well as the human rights of their customers. Their young customers may turn out to be the Nelson Mandelas and the Vaclev Havels, the Bill Gates or the Steve Jobs of their generations.
Companies have a growing reputational interest in developing practical and credible ways to work together, and work with other key stakeholders, to address these challenges. That doesn't mean that governments won't consider sanctions or other means to prevent transfer of sensitive technologies to regimes that use them to violate human rights. Sanctions can be a valuable tool. The Commerce Department is investigating how technology made by a California company, called Blue Coat Systems, was diverted to Syria. The U.S. government is also committed to vigorous investigation of other allegations of dodging sanctions, whether directly or through middlemen. At the same time, we will continue, with international partners, to look at ways to make our sanctions smarter.
But sanctions are not a perfect solution. No regulatory regime can substitute for thoughtful, proactive practices by corporations that must be mindful of the ways their products are likely to be used or abused in the real world.
As Secretary Clinton said in The Hague last month, some companies come to the State Department and say, "Just tell us what to do and we'll do it." But that is not a durable solution. Companies are best positioned to ask themselves the hard questions, and their answers will evolve. They must make their own decisions about how and where to do business in parts of the world where laws are opaque, resale channels are murky and human rights are often abused. And they must realize that their decisions can affect real people in real time.
We stand ready to help. We see companies tackling these issues best when they work together, and so we salute companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft who have joined with NGOs, social investors and academic institutions to form the Global Network Initiative. Last month, a company called Websense that sells filtering software to companies joined the GNI. Websense has committed to making sure its software doesn't end up being used by governments to censor.
For our part, those of us in government continue to work to turn our commitment to Internet freedom into reality – and in 2011 the U.S. and its international partners made a great deal of progress.
First, last year 34 nations of the OECD adopted a Recommendation on Internet Policy Making Principles. It includes strong language for the multi-stakeholder system of Internet governance and for maintaining an open Internet. The United States supports this approach first because it's working, and second because it brings together the best of governments, the private sector and civil society to manage the network. And it keeps in place a system that has kept the Internet up and running for years, all over the world.
Second, 15 countries have now joined a group called the Coalition for Freedom Online, which was launched in The Hague last month. Secretary Clinton and I were there, and we were delighted to see the Coalition countries endorse a principled declaration and action plan. The coalition brings together governments, businesses, civil society and academics together to defend Internet freedom. The countries will share information and coordinate diplomatic efforts on a wide range of issues. They will stand up for the rights of netizens and cyber-activists. And these governments will work with tech companies on ways to promote respect for their customers' human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Going forward, we believe this coalition can advocate for a free and open platform for the next generation of users. These users will come mainly from the developing world, and they need to be part of this conversation. So we were pleased to see such a diverse group of countries step up to promote Internet freedom – from Ghana to Mongolia, Kenya to Mexico. I ask all of you to support and help grow the Coalition for Freedom Online, as we will.
Third, to put muscle behind our policy, Secretary Clinton also announced in The Hague the creation of a Digital Defenders partnership that will help cyber-activists and netizens under threat. The United States and the Netherlands have committed funds to this initiative, and we hope others will as well.
Fourth, we continue to fund a broad range of advocacy, technological responses and training programs aimed at defending human rights online. The State Department and USAID have already spent over $70 million on projects ranging from developing better circumvention technologies and "panic buttons" for mobile phones to training activists in cyber self-defense. Our slogan is "old rights, new apps." Congress has been extremely supportive and directed us to continue these programs. My team in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor will keep combing the digital landscape for opportunities to invest in people and projects that will make a difference for embattled activists working in the hard places.
So I want to thank each of you for your commitment to the vision of a world where people can enjoy more freedom, online and off. Technology and history converged in 2011 to bring momentous change. In 2012, we have the precious opportunity to harness that change to build a more open, prosperous and peaceful world.
Thank you.
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I didn't have high expectations for Casey Coleman entering Monday's game against the division leading Brewers.
But he easily pitched his best game of the year tossing 6 innings of 1 run, 2 hit baseball with a career-high 8 punchouts against a very tough Milwaukee lineup.
It must be a huge confidence booster for the 24-year-old considering he hadn't won a game with the Cubs in four months and entered Monday's contest with an unsightly 7.08 ERA.
One solid start doesn't make a season, but for Coleman, it buys him another start to prove he's of major league caliber on the mound.
The next obvious step is showing consistency to string together quality starts, which thus far, he's failed miserably to do so.
Not much of anything has gone right for the Cubs this season, and Monday night looks to be no exception.
The Brewers come to town with the major's best road record since August 5 (17-5) and are winners of three straight having swept Cincinnati over the weekend to trim its Magic No. to 4.They've also won six straight games against Chicago, badly outscoring the Cubs 23-12.
To make matter worse, Casey Coleman (2-8, 7.06 ERA) who hasn't won in five starts, toes the rubber for Chicago. And the Brewers have flat worn this guy out in 2011.
Ryan Bruan is 7-for-10 vs. Coleman, including a HR and two doubles. Corey Hart is 5-for-7 with a HR against him. Then sandwich in Prince Fielder and Cubs-killer, Casey McGehee, and it appears to be another short night for Coleman, at least on paper.
If there's a lone bright spot at all for the Cubs it's seeing if Starlin Castro can extend his consecutive games streak of reaching base safely to 32.
Woody English had two such streaks as a Cubs SS dating way back to 1929, a 34-game run, and another the following season of 32 consecutive games in 1930.
Otherwise, I'd settle for just seeing the Cubs drive in a run with runners in scoring position. How's that for finishing the season strong?
Casey Coleman wasn't even on the Cubs radar in April.
Now he's a candidate to make the 2011 starting rotation.
That's a huge improvement from his humble beginning this August,
when the Cubs summoned Coleman from Triple-A Iowa.
In his first four relief outings with Chicago he posted an 8.64 ERA.
But a transition to the rotation sparked the 23-year-old.
Coleman is (3-0) with a 2.25 ERA through his last three starts, including seven scoreless innings in Friday's 2-0 win against Houston.
He's kept the ball down, limited his pitch count, and has pitched six or more innings in his last seven starts, seemingly improving each outing.
Although Coleman is basically an unknown, his success isn't all that surprising.
Last year he earned the Cubs Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award.
This year he posted a (10-7) record at Iowa, including two complete games, and was riding a four-game win streak before his call-up.
It's time to get familiar with Casey Coleman. The kid can pitch, and there's little doubt Coleman won't be on the radar next spring.


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"I was panhandling at lunch in front of Longs on University Avenue." This was in Palo Alto in 1998. "But the money was good for only an hour or two."
A little boy walking with his mom stared at Carroll, who back then already had the same scraggly, lopsided beard covering a face beaten by the weather, arthritis, heart failure, depression and demons.
"The little boy said to me, `You don't have a house, do you?'"
Carroll sticks the butt into a full ashtray and "That little boy didn't think of me as someone to step over, ignore or push out of town," he says. "To him I was just somebody without a house. That's when I realized I was unhoused, not homeless."
The distinction between being homeless and "unhoused" may sound meaningless to you and me, but Carroll has been pressing his viewpoint tirelessly in Palo Alto ever since and getting results.
He delivered a speech he wrote, "Please, Don't Call Me Homeless," to the town's Human Relations Commission four years ago.
"Palo Alto is most definitely my home," the panhandler said to a gathering stunned by his speaking ability.
And now, local housing and social service providers are listening to the logic of this bent but unbroken man.
"Yeah, I know Norman," said Barry Del Buono, president of EHC Lifebuilders and a big shot in the homeless shelter business in Santa Clara County. "Norman can be a real pain, but he's making us all rethink the nature of home and the practice of sending people to shelters."
Kathy Espinoza-Howard, Palo Alto's director of Child and Family Services, also remembers a particularly painful Norman Carroll moment.
He appeared before town officials during a cold snap in 1998, asking them to allow street people to sleep in the heated parking garage directly below City Hall.
"You can lose your dignity and integrity on the streets or in emergency shelters really fast," Espinoza-Howard said. "He'd rather sleep on a cement floor in a garage and keep his self-respect."
The answer from City Hall, of course, was a difficult no.
Litany of challenges
At 52, Carroll looks as thin as his cigarettes. He suffers from severe depression.
"Ankylosing spondylitis," he says, carefully spelling the word for a nasty form of rheumatoid arthritis that inflames the joints between the spine and pelvis.
The disease afflicted him in the Navy, where he served five years in the late 1970s as an electronic warfare technician monitoring the Soviets in the Mediterranean.
His parents divorced when he was five, his brother became schizophrenic and his beloved grandmother died. He became the head of the household at 16.
He ultimately earned a degree in broadcast communications in 1988 from San Francisco State. Carroll worked for a time but depression and physical problems gradually wore him down. By 1997 he found himself homeless, unemployed and in counseling at the Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park.
"Bad luck and poor decisions," are how he describes his downward spiral. "I did things without realizing what the results might be."
He became frustrated with psychoanalysis and wanted help finding a home and a job. He left and landed next door on Palo Alto's University Avenue, Silicon Valley's signature street.
Housing First strategy
That's where Faith Bell, of Bell's Bookstore, first saw him. She said his intelligence and articulate conversations separated him from the crowd of street people. But she was also frustrated by his refusal to accept shelter care.
"I've never slept in a shelter," he still says proudly. He got deeper under the skin of some townsfolk by running for city council, finishing 10th out of 11 candidates.
Along the way, however, he joined task forces trying to solve homelessness.
"He's a real reality check," Espinoza-Howard said. "Here we were, a bunch of officials in our long, boring meetings and ideas that haven't been tested. And there's Norman at the same table, letting us know what works on the streets and what doesn't."
What Carroll wants to see, he says, is more of the "Housing First" strategy. Pioneered by the Pathways project in New York City, the model moves chronically homeless people directly into their own apartments or houses, usually in familiar surroundings, and off the merry-go-round of temporary shelter and treatment centers. They typically pay only one-third of their incomes for rent. Social workers visit regularly.
Carroll's committee work helped Palo Alto secure funding and permits for its new "Opportunity Center," a place where street people can apply for every social service available to them.
"It's not perfect," he said, "but it tries to follow the Housing First model."
Last year, Carroll finally caught a lucky break when his number came up in a lottery for housing vouchers.
It helped him get a $1,000-a-month studio apartment in a well-kept, middle-class neighborhood. He now lives a somewhat normal life, paying $46 toward the rent, surviving on $225 in veterans disability benefits and $130 in food stamps. This in a town where bungalows sell for $1 million.
"I'm sure some people will see me as this cranky bastard who won't go away," Carroll says. "I don't resent that. There are some people who appreciate my efforts and believe that I deserve the privilege. Personally, I was overwhelmed. I didn't believe I could get this lucky."
And neither did Palo Alto, a town lucky to have him.
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Okay so I know everyone is different. But what was your very first symptom when you were pregnant? It could help us who have not yet been pregnant and what to look for too. Also how soon did you feel this symptom?
What a great feed ~ Here's to a Happy & Healthy Pregnancy to you all!
Bay&Button~ I literally LOL when I read that.. I have been having hot flashes like nobodies business, and even described them like that. I have long hair and about half way through drying it ~ I'm done lol I'm sitting here sweatin like my mom & Aunt and they're in their 60's lol... Funny!
Crossing Fingers ~ I've had signs, but then again I'm prob SS at this point. This will be #1 I'm 35 and have never been pregnant or on any type of BC ~ PCOS diagnosed this year.. Just finished 1st round of clomid, waiting on my p4 levels today..
Take it EZ ladies! xo
Me (34) DH (28) 1 Fur baby ~ Shih-tzu
Singin Don't Worry - About a thing....
Stephanie[29] single mama to Kaiden[02.28.06]+Bella[09.14.07]+Rainbow Baby♡Lilah♡ [02.11.15] GOLD Boobies ( o )( o ) and going strong!
Stephanie[29] single mama to Kaiden[02.28.06]+Bella[09.14.07]+Rainbow Baby♡Lilah♡ [02.11.15] GOLD Boobies ( o )( o ) and going strong!
Dana & Jason June 22, 2007
Ectopic Pregnancy August 3 2007 (twins)
Trinity August 5 2008
I love this thread (I think that's what it's called), even though I have trouble with some of the abbreviations, I think I am getting there!
Anywho, I have been over analyzing myself the last day or two and am thinking I'm either preparing myself for a huge disappointment, or I really may be pregnant. The ladies talking about the real odd taste in their mouth is what is sealing my positive hopes and prayers here. I have not been able to brush my teeth well enough for the past couple of days and always seem to have this sick taste.
I have been super hungry too. It's weird, I always eat the same things and am a little hungry, but this is different, and uncontrollable really. Super weird.
My boobs have been feeling a litle weird, and I think I have been having a little bit of cramping.
Also, the lady that mentioned the acne from the hairline, I seriously have been using my 12 year old son's face cream as I have about a million little bumps, not quite zits right under my bangs and sort of from right below my ear to half way down my neck. I thought maybe it was a rash or something, but now I'm beginning to wonder.
My feet and back are super sore too. I think that's what happened in my last pregnancy too, I couldn't wear heels right away, even before I knew, I'm not sure why, but it happened.
Another thing, I usually take 2 allergy pills per day, and, like in my last pregnancy, all of a sudden I didn't seem to be having as bad of allergy symptoms and can function without the pills.
lol, one more thing (God, I sure hope these aren't all imaginary symptoms or I'm checking myself into a hospital, lol), we have 2 staffordshire bull terriers. Both are very sucky to me, but one is incredibly so. The really sucky one wouldn't even sit by me last night, and the other one, laid on me with it's nose right under my chin last night while i was watching tv. it was weird. They both usually lay on my lap, but this was weird. i was all feeling rejected by my sucky baby khloe!! lol
I suppose all these things could be a coincidence, but I just don't know. They seem to be consistent with all the early signs - so I sure hope so!! If so - I'll be pregnant before my due date was supposed to be!! That's all I really want right now :(
I always have spotting around 5-7dpo (even when I was on the pill?) and the month I got my BFP I had no spotting. I usually get cramps the day of AF but never before, that month I started having cramps a few days before (around 10dpo). I also got extremely thirsty... Like I could not physically drink enough water. TMI, but I also noticed that DTD with my DH felt different, like everything was swollen inside.Oh, and also lots of CM which I normally do not have during LP.
Good luck to you all!
^Anne^ 9/12/12
Praying for a healthy RAINBOW!
lightheadednes at about 12 dpo
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As far as I am concerned the key issue is to enjoy flying the kite. You may not have perfect control, just now, but given time, (it must not be a chore), everything will be easier.
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Kinda figured those two things were not big factor. I'm gonna just keep at it. I better put my 3 wraps back in to stiffen up my sail.
What about B-series over 1.5 full vent for learning? The slower vent seems more forgiving.
Edited by Watty, 20 December 2009 - 09:53 PM.
Posted 22 December 2009 - 04:51 PM
In general, the vents do smooth out the gusts, which in turn could make the kite less twitchy, giving the kite a smoother feel, which, I think, could help.However the control difference between a full sail and a full vent rev is very dependent on wind conditions, so don't be taking your full-vent out in 3mph wind hoping to achieve a perfect inverted hover.
With this said, as the wind gets higher, a full vent is not invulnerable to the twitchy-ness.
Posted 05 March 2010 - 03:48 PM
Being in North Dallas I sure miss being back in San Diego and the "clean" wind oportunities near the ocean and bays.
Will make do with these "choppy" conditions that seem to be the norm here.
Thanks for all the input.
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14mph+ winds with gusts .... full vent B .... 4 wrap frame ..... Steven thinks to himself that if I can do down 45 degree hovers it's about time to hit the inverted.
5 minutes later I'm holding it in a small enough area for more than 30 seconds to count as a hover ..... YAY ME !!!!
It was squirly as hell to begin with and I kept spinning out, but every repitition I was holding it longer and longer. My shoulders are still up with tension, but my hands are low and I'm holding it together. I can also reverse it up and fly it down to control height ..... next stop (after some practice) inverted slides.
Awesome end to the weekend - cracking the inverted hover
Good on ya. I found that moving backwards helps. Also got a tip to put a wrap or two in the lines to make things a bit less sensitive.
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Congrats Adam! This month marks the second anniversary of when I first had a real inverted hover!
I still have issues with clockwork though. My suggestion, and what I am trying to do myself, is get there by working on basic up/down/left/right hovers and making the transition from one to the other smoothly and not needing the whole sky to do it. By doing this you are programming your muscles to recognize four points of the clock. After that start adding more points at 45 degree increments until those get programmed.
At least, this is my theory on cracking this one!
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I had gusty winds 12 to 26 yesterday. My kite of choice was a mid vent with a three wrap frame on 120 foot lines.
Flying was good, and I was able to hold an iverted hover for over 60 seconds, however it was rocky. I'm thinking the answer is more practice, and a nice clean wind.
Posted 30 October 2010 - 08:27 AM
I also have found that if the wobble starts it is best to resist the temptation to start making a lot of adjustments, but to exhale, relax my arms and hands and let the kite settle. It sounds wonky, but really it works.
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Paul 'Semtex' Daley has signed for Bellator FC and will debut at Bellator 72 on July 20.
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Short-billed pipit (Anthus furcatus)
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Classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1).
Easily confused with several other South American pipits, the short-billed pipit is streaked and mottled blackish and buffy-brown above, and mostly white below. The breast and flanks are strongly tinged ochraceous, and there is a distinctive area of bold, black streaking across the breast. A black stripe is normally prominent below the eye, and, as its name suggests, this species has a relatively short bill (2) (3). The sexes are alike in appearance but the two subspecies differ slightly, with Anthus furcatus brevirostris being generally buffier, and less greyish, than A. f. furcatus (2).
The subspecies A. f. brevirostris occurs in central Peru, western Bolivia and north-western Argentina, while A. f. furcatus occurs in the lowlands of Argentina, east to extreme southeast Brazil and Uruguay (2).
Found in pastures, fields with short grass, and puna grasslands up to 4,300 metres above sea level (2) (3). This species generally occupies more arid habitat compared with other Andean pipits (2).
Like other pipits, the short-billed pipit forages by walking along the ground, picking food from the surface (2) (3). Small insects and other invertebrates are thought to form the bulk of its diet, but it probably also takes seeds. During the breeding season it occurs singly or in pairs, but at other times gathers together in flocks (2). Little is documented about the breeding behaviour of this species, but displaying males are known to hover as high as 60 to 80 metres in the air, for 10 to 30 minutes at a time, all the while giving a fine, musical song (2) (3). The grass nest is positioned in a depression in the ground, and the clutch size is up to four eggs. The seasonal movements of the short-billed pipit are poorly known, but it is thought to possibly undertake altitudinal movements in the Andes, while the occurence of individuals in Paraguay during the non-breeding season is evidence of some long-distance migratory behaviour (2).
Although the short-billed pipit is variously described as common and uncommon in different parts of its range, no major threats have been identified (2) (4).
There are no known conservation measures in place for the short-billed pipit.
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- Puna: A high-elevation grassland found throughout the Andes mountains, in South America.
- Subspecies: a population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.
IUCN Red List (June, 2009)
- del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (2004) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
- Ridgely, R.S. and Tudor, G. (1989) The Birds of South America, Volume I: The Oscine Passerines: Jays, Swallows, Wrens, Thrushes and Allies, Vireos, Wood-warblers, Tanagers, Icterids and Finches. The University of Texas Press, Austin.
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Storm-petrels (Hydrobatidae)
White-bellied Storm-petrel (Fregetta grallaria) - HBW 1, p. 268
French: Océanite à ventre blanc
German: Weißbauch Sturmschwalbe
Spanish: Paíño Ventriblanco
Other common names: Vieillot's Storm-petrel
Taxonomy: Procellaria grallaria Vieillot, 1817, Australia.
Often treated together with sibling F. tropica, and classification of species and subspecies in genus Fregetta is tentative. Race leucogaster sometimes ascribed to F. tropica, may be invalid; race titan may be full species. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- grallaria (Vieillot, 1817) - Lord Howe and Kermadec Is.
- leucogaster (Gould, 1844) - Tristan da Cunha, (?) Gough I, St Paul and (?) Amsterdam Is.
- segethi (Philippi & Landbeck, 1860) - Juan Fernández Is.
- titan Murphy, 1928 - Rapa I in Austral Is (SC Pacific).
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Locality Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia (ssp grallaria)
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After update to 1.3 I get blank homepage and error:
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Admin was still working. Then I uploaded 1.29 trough my FTP, and both homepage and admin went blank, error message said:
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I deleted maintenancemode.php and all is good now at my end. But definitely something is wrong with version 1.30.
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Recently we introduced you to a 100% natural skin care system we are testing called Système 41. We've been using it for 2 weeks now and we wanted to weigh in:
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Hi. I'm Mark Reichwein and I live in Aichi prefecture in Japan. I made what I like to call the Solar Griddle. I was inspired by Mike Pool's Solar Fryer. I really wanted to make something that could be used for something like a BBQ, but I was on a budgit. So I searched for all the cheapest materials. Below is a list of all the materials I used and their prices (changed to dollars using the exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar and rounding up).
- Cardboard (free)
- Thirty 10.5 x 15cm mirrors ($30)
- Clothes hanging stand ($14)
- Outdoor camp griddle ($14)
- Black paint ($4)


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|Hancock Bank names Shane Loper as Chief Information Officer
|December 1
|Hancock Bank Expands Saturday Hours
|November 17
|Hancock Bank Christmas Club payments light up post-hurricane holidays
|November 9
|Hancock Bank joins SBA effort to reduce business loan red tape
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|October 12
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|August 30
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|August 26
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|June 22
|Hancock Bank to celebrate Cedar Lake financial center grand opening
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|May 19
|Hancock Holding Company announces quarterly dividend
|May 18
|Baton Rouge businessman Pace elected Hancock Bank of Louisiana chairman;Pace, Bankston, Descant join Hancock Holding Company board
|April 26
|Hancock Bank lauds area teachers with Leo W. Seal awards
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Chicago Protesters Get Time Slots
By DON TERRY
Published: August 3, 1996
CHICAGO, Aug. 2— Any group that wants to stage a protest or a prayer anywhere near the 1996 Democratic National Convention will first have to take its chances in the city's newest lottery.
It is a protest lottery, part of the city's effort to keep tight control of demonstrations at the convention here later this month, and thus to exorcise the demons of 1968, the last time the Democrats met here, when the Chicago police and anti-war demonstrators clashed for four bloody days and nights.
Winners of the lottery will get one-hour slots to demonstrate at two sites approved by the city: a fenced-in parking lot at the United Center where the convention will be held, and an area at the corner of South Michigan Avenue and East Balbo Drive.
The city is installing a public address system for protesters at each site, and additional sound equipment will not be allowed.
But not all the potential protesters are willing to go along with the city's plans.
On Thursday night, the city conducted the first drawing and awarded time slots to nearly three dozen groups, including a group of police officers, the Cuban-American Chamber of Commerce and Yippies draped in American flags and carrying boom boxes, as well as various housing, anti-poverty and peace groups.
Another drawing is scheduled in two weeks if a flurry of lawsuits does not stop the process.
Officially, the city cites security concerns for the lottery and the restrictions on demonstrators. But history is also an important reason.
Mayor Richard M. Daley is determined not to suffer the same embarrassments as his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley, did when tear gas and rage shrouded the city and stained Chicago and the reputation of its Police Department.
This year, a group of Chicago police officers, upset about the city's promotions policies, has also applied for the protest lottery.
''We don't have a lot of time to demonstrate,'' Officer Mary Ann Green said on Thursday night. ''Because of the convention, the city has canceled our days off.''
Several lawsuits have been filed in Federal court challenging the city's plans as an abridgment of free speech.
The suits have been consolidated and today, Judge James B. Moran said he would hear the case on Aug. 13, less than two weeks before the start of the convention.
Lawyers from the city and the various groups, including a group of doctors who want to hold a 24-hour vigil to protest the lack of a national health care plan, are trying to negotiate a settlement.
''Mayor Daley is very sensitive to the First Amendment,'' Gail Niemann, a city lawyer said after today's court session, adding that a balance between free speech and security had to be struck.
At the lottery drawing on Thursday night, the stage in the auditorium of the Harold Washington Library was bathed in bright lights and 28-year-old memories. The names of the groups were written on off-white envelopes and placed in a big red drum under the watchful eye of accountants, and then were spun around in a whirling dance of chance. Two accountants in dark suits and serious expressions waited for the city official's signal to begin pulling names from the drum.
After a spin or two, an envelope was extracted and the winner's name was announced and projected onto a movie screen.
''Lotto,'' Leo Pocius, an early winner, shouted, breaking into a million-dollar grin. But in the hall a few minutes later, Mr. Pocius, who represents the Chicago Property Owners Coalition, said: ''The whole thing feels weird.
''I don't think this is what our forefathers had in mind when they were talking about democracy. This lottery is being run like City Hall. It's drowning in bureaucracy.''
Other groups who entered the lottery and received time slots on Thursday night included the National Alliance Against Racism, White America Unite and the Not On the Guest List Coalition.
One group that refuses to participate is the Campaign to Cash the Check, a coalition of groups concerned with issues that include poverty, welfare and police brutality.
''This lottery is a joke,'' said Bob Brown, who observed the lottery for the coalition. ''The Daley administration has a history of lotteries.
''It's called elections, where people, even dead people, vote early and often.''
Mr. Brown said his coalition would march anyway.
''This is a protest,'' he said, shaking his head.
Even people participating in the drawing said they were unhappy about it and saw the process as an infringement of their rights. They complained that the city was strictly dictating how long they can protest, where and when.
''No one wants to see another '68,'' said Officer Green. ''But I still feel our rights are being taken away.''
The Rev. Ron Schupp and Bill Steyert, a Vietnam veteran decked out in a shirt with an America flag pattern and several buttons screaming Yippie, said they were satisfied with the time period allotted to their group, the Chicago People's Coalition. They will be chanting and speaking from 12:30 to 1:30 P.M. on Monday, Aug. 26, the first day of the convention.
''That's a good time of the day,'' Mr. Steyert. ''It's not too hot yet.''
''But Democracy shouldn't be the 'Wheel of Fortune,' '' Mr. Schupp added. ''This is almost like gambling. People should have the right to protest.''
Valerie Adams and Jody Schmeck, members of the Illinois Nurses Association, which will join its national group to demonstrate for laws that protect hospital whistle blowers, said they did not mind the lottery system because of the threat of terrorism.
''Anyway, we got our first choice, so it's all right with me,'' Ms. Adams said.
''It's like a circus,'' Ms. Schmeck said. ''You do your thing for an hour and then someone pulls you off with a hook.''
''I'd rather be safe,'' Ms. Adams said. ''These days you don't know what's going to happen.''
Standing nearby, with a pocket full of business cards, was Charles Paidock, program coordinator for the College of Complexes, a free speech forum.
''We're not protesting anything,'' he said. ''We're going to have an open mike and divvy up our hour in five minute pieces. Anyone who wants to gets to say whatever they want. I'm here looking for new groups to invite.''
Photo: Spots for protesters at the Democratic convention in Chicago were being determined yesterday by a lottery. Robert Der, left, of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, watched as slots were drawn from a barrel. (Associated Press)


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