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Fresh Berry & Almond Tarts Recipe
We had a "Taste of Home" party with friends who love to try new recipes. These appetizers were a hit. —Sheila Wyum, Rutland, North Dakota
- 1 package (14.1 ounces) refrigerated pie pastry
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 cups fresh raspberries
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted
- Additional confectioners' sugar, optional
- 1. Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, unroll pastry sheets. Roll dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut each with a floured 3-in. cookie cutter to make eight circles or other shapes. Transfer to ungreased baking sheets; prick holes in pastries with a fork.
- 2. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- 3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and almond extract until blended. Spread over cooled pastries. Top with berries, pressing lightly to adhere. Sprinkle with almonds and, if desired, confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 16 tarts.
Nutritional Facts
1 individual tart: 195 calories, 12g fat (6g saturated fat), 20mg cholesterol, 135mg sodium, 19g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 2g fiber), 3g protein.
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SUCCESS: When you hear the name of Kane in WWE, what comes to your mind" The first thing that comes to most fans' minds are a hateful freak, a big bully, a deranged psychopath, and an evil being who lives off pain and misery. Yes, we've all heard it before for eight years. But this column I'm writing is to basically inform people who don't know that this same Kane character is really a big asset to WWE. The reason why is because he is such a good actor in his storylines and he knows how to entertain his face/heel fans.
As a face, Kane has had one of the biggest successful title reigns in WWE history. He has held the Tag Team Titles (WCW & WWE) at least 9 times with different partners like Rob Van Dam, The Hurricane, Mankind, X-Pac, and last but not least, The Undertaker. He has been a two-time Intercontinental Champion, WWE Hardcore Champion, and WWE Champion (sadly a short reign, although he was heel). As a heel, he has had memorable feuds and usually when he is a heel, he always does. Kane has had unforgettable feuds with the likes of X-Pac and Degeneration-X, Mankind, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shane McMahon, Chris Jericho, The Rock, Matt Hardy, Chris Benoit, Vader, and others I can't seem to remember. Even during the ECW and WCW vs. WWE storyline, Kane, along with his brother, The Undertaker, was one the highest prolific superstars during that time since The Brothers of Destruction was defeating every tag team that got in their way and they were unstoppable.
Now as I watch recent episodes of RAW, some fans may think that Kane may be overlooked sometimes for a good WWE Championship reign, but if you're a fan of Kane like me, just be patient and its just a matter of time before we could see a new World Heavyweight Champion or even a WWE Champion, and since he is so good in his storylines, the creativity of this character will never be wasted in the near future. Due to the creativity of the Undertaker, since Kane was after all his idea, the Undertaker probably did not realize that his creation would become similar to him as far as success is concerned. Some people may feel that Kane has been misused too much to the point where WWE should just release him, but Kane is one of those characters where we as fans don't understand the full potential of Glen Jacobs' persona and feel that Kane is just another veteran who they just decided to keep around but Glen Jacobs' is just like Mark Callaway, he works his behind off just as much as Triple H, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, The Dudleyz, etc. I've been watching him on T.V. and at live events for the eight years he been with WWE so I know a hard worker when I see one. (An interesting storyline in the future COULD be is when The Undertaker decides to retire the Undertaker character should die by Kane's hands because Undertaker has laid to rest everybody including Kane, although he thought about his own flesh & blood killing him.)
The Mask: When Kane took off his mask, which I knew he would some day, this opened the doors for what was the biggest issue in the Big Red machine's career. Ever since Kane showed up in WWE, the mask of Kane was not just for hiding his screwed up face, but it really it showed us fans that the mask was a way of holding him back from being what he really was. A man who lives off of misery and evil and suffering and sometimes I think that this level for Kane's character at times still hasn't been achieved yet even without the mask. Now the Lita/Snitsky/Kane storyline was enjoyable, but yet it showed me how Kane can lose something he loves and become so strong from it physically, but yet at the same time, mentally, he is weak. When Lita hooked up Edge with WWE showed me that. So even without the mask, Kane can still become weak and still forget that there was a certain reason why he took off the mask.... TO BE AN EVIL, STRONG MONSTER, NOT A GOOD ONE.
Now like I said before this is my first column and I hope you like reading it. I don't hate Kane, I just acknowledged some good things and flaws in his character and remember ........THE FIRE IS STILL BURNING!!!!!
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Not good enough
Feb 13, 2012
8 years ago this month, I joined Flickr, but I don't think I posted anything there until July that year. Was I, even then, hesitating and thinking, 'is this good enough'?
… somehow creating an environment where people started to believe that their photoswere not good enough for Flickr. I mean, really, how did we ever let that happen? I was speechless the first time a friend said that me and for the record: It was never part of the plan. How did we ever let people think that there is one measure of photography? How did we let people imagine that a medium which gave the world both Ansel Adams and Garry Winogrand (a photographer who died with a reported 10, 000 rolls of undeveloped film in his studio and who said that every time you take a picture you arehopefully risking failure) and everyone else in between was about any other than the joy and the discovery of the possible, foofy equipment and technique and measures of "good"-iness be damned?
Since then, the Instagram steamroller has come along and earned its success fair and square by making a thing that is genuinely fun and easy and immediate to use. There's a lot about the larger project that I find problematic but you can not fault them their ability stripping away all the cruft at the intersection of photography and our Interphones. And all it took to get a whole crowd of people who I know and were intimidated (apparently) by Flickr (of all things) genuinely interested again in the act of photography was, let's be honest here, a heavy application of 1970's vaseline-porn filtering to their pictures.
Say what you want about those goofy filters (and I am the last person to call that particular kettle black) but they have been a startlingly good device for getting people to play at taking pictures again.
— Aaron Straup Cope (via Paul)
A long time ago, I'd set out on a road that would have led me to being a much more confident photographer, but then necessity bit, along with a determination to be independent, and I sold my expensive Nikon camera bodies to help fund a change of degree course. That was the right thing for then, but it did cauterise part of me.
A little part of what's been happening to me now, over the last few months, flows from Instagram. It's got me playing and messing around, fooling with the filters, yes, but, above all, just noticing more — simultaneously loosening up and attending. And along with this goes a pleasure in the social flow — what my mother, 94, said today about Instagram when I showed it to her: 'It's so … conversational '.
A few things written recently about Instagram have stuck in my mind. Dan Catt, My first Instagram Christmas, a nervous step away from Flickr:
… flow, connection, joining in of everyone's experience, a bit like a pictorial version of twitter. … Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy Flickr. It makes me think about photography, inspires possible projects to play with, upload proper photos taken with my proper camera. But when there's something happening (often involving the kids, a cat or a visual joke I know my friends will get) I find myself reaching for the iPhone and uploading to Instagram.
Dan Williams on this: 'Why I never got into flickr: it's for 'proper' photographers only and my friends weren't on there.'
Tom Insam: 'I've started to quite like the ambient pictures that it gives me' (describing Carousel, which brings Instagram to the Mac — and have you tried his Flickrgram?). He goes on:
… these models — "shoeboxing" verses Instaagram-style "lifestreaming" — are two entirely different usage models for a photo sharing site. Flickr was built for the streaming case (it's got a photostream as the main thing you see) but recently the shoeboxing is rather swamping the streaming, and the two models just can't coexist in the same contacts list - the uploads of the shoeboxers will swamp the incoming streams of people who just want to follow streamers. Instagram, on the other hand, by utterly ignoring the needs of shoeboxers, has been able to build a much better streaming experience.
It reminds me of Twitter, where the same thing has happened.
(Shoeboxing vs lifestreaming … and for Instagram users, an archive-less future? Tom Insam, again: 'Are they going to realise in a few years that they've not built up any meaningful history in this service? When they want a photo they remember taking, and can't get it, will there be pain? Or will no-one care?'.)
Anyway, I've been playing and fooling around. Whilst wondering which dedicated camera I might buy next, I've got so much pleasure from using my iPhone, learning more about what it can do well and what it can't, and why user mistakes and hardware shortcomings might nonetheless be portals to discovery and new ideas. And there are those filters. (And tilt-shift. Haven't used that much.)
Why did Instagram catch on so? Paul did a great job of snagging some pieces about this (see, eg, Nate Bolt's 'Why Instragram is so Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints') and I'm in his debt. Here's Clive Thompson (Wired, December 2011):
In old analog cameras, many such filter "effects" were a chemical byproduct of the film, so photographers became expert at understanding the unique powers of each. Fujifilm's Velvia film, with its high saturation and strong contrast, attracts photographers looking to capture the vibrancy of nature, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom notes.
But casual photographers rarely developed this type of eye, because they just wanted to point and shoot. What Instagram is doing—along with the myriad other photo apps that have recently emerged—is giving newbies a way to develop deeper visual literacy.
The quirky and the quotidian, domestic and intimate … A sense of place, of the world we're shaping and being made by … It's been great fun (each little act one small creative counter-blow to the wearisomeness of routine), and over time it's seemed like someone has been teaching me, my eye.


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September 9, 2011
Woodway Beverage Partners LLC, Houston, Texas, teamed up with world-reknowned chef Wolfgang Puck to now offer a line of single-serve, ready-to-drink, signature coffee beverages that carry the tagline: Culinary Iced Coffee. Certified organic, the drinks come in four flavors: Café au Lait, Crème Caramel, Double Blend Mocha and Vanilla Fusion.
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Michael Herck sets the quickest time during three-day GP2 test at Paul Ricard
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Michael Herck set the quickest time at Paul Ricard during the latest post-season test of the GP2 season - the final one of the year.
The DPR man set his time on the opening afternoon to ensure his place at the head of the times, with James Jakes then leading the way on the second and third days of running.
Herck led the way on the opening morning of the test on Tuesday, posting a best time of 1min 12.976secs to put him less than a tenth of a second clear of iSport's Oliver Turvey and Racing Engineering man Christian Vietoris. Herck then improved his time during the afternoon to a best of 1min 12.271secs ahead of Fabio Leimer and Sam Bird - with Herck's time then remaining unbeaten for the remainder of the week.
Jakes then moved to the head of the field for Super Nova on the second day of running as the Briton set about stamping his authority on the remainder of the test.
A quickest time of 1min 12.346secs during the morning proved to be the fastest lap of the day, with Luis Razia going quickest in the afternoon. Razia however was unable to knock Jakes off the top of the timesheets for Wednesday's running.
Day one pacesetter Herck meanwhile saw his times during the afternoon session disallowed after his car was found to be underweight. Charles Pic suffered a similar problem for Racing Engineering.
Jakes was once again quickest on the final day of running, setting a best time of 1min 12.516secs during the morning session. That saw the Super Nova man outpace F3 Euroseries title winner Jules Biachi and DAMS driver Stefano Coletti on the final morning of running this season.
The final afternoon was dominated by rookie drivers, who locked out the top seven positions on the times. Turvey was quickest for iSport ahead of Coletti and Sam Bird although none of the drivers was able to beat Jakes' quickest time of the day - or Herck's benchmark for the week.


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-- Thelma Lang, age 86, was born Oct. 16, 1912 in Glenmont, to John and Avice (Augsburger) Lang. She grew up in Holmes County, attended a country school and graduated from Nashville High School. She was a member of the Nashville United Methodist Church. She made her home in Columbus, but moved to Walnut Hills Retirement Home three years ago, where she died Wednesday evening, Oct. 13, 1999, after a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Alexander Funeral Home, Millersburg, with the Rev. Thomas Wallace officiating. Burial will be at Nashville Cemetery.
Friends may call Saturday from 6-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Family suggests that memorial contributions be made to Holmes County Hospice, 931 Wooster Road, Millersburg 44654.
Surviving are three sisters, Dorothy McMillen and Lillian Bevington, both of Millersburg and Eileen Wachtel of Big Prairie; a brother, Wendell and his wife, June Lang of Big Prairie and numerous nieces and nephews.


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It's easy to send a status update using the Facebook app on your smartphone, but with iftt, feature phones can also post updates via voice or text message.
ifttt provides a phone number when you register your mobile phone, and you can then send messages or make calls to that number to post content. In this example, using SMS message with #fb to Facebook Status, any text sent to that number that includes #fb will post to Facebook as a status update. This particular recipe leaves the hashtag off when it posts the status.
Using the hashtag is key because you can use the ifttt SMS service to post messages to other services and sites, depending on which hashtag you use (in this case, #fb for Facebook).
That same phone number can record voicemail messages and ifttt will then turn what you said into a Facebook status or link. Which one you choose depends on if you trust ifttt to transcribe your voice accurately. Another option is to link to an MP3 file of your actual voice message, or just do both to hedge your bets. This recipe called Voicemail to Facebook does exactly that.
Note: in our tests, the voicemail calls to ifttt are hit and missyou can get through, but the action part of the recipe sometimes never shows up.
Facebook with IMs
The only instant messaging services supported by ifttt are Google Talk and Yammer for businesses. (C'mon, AOL/AIM, get with the program!) Since sending an instant message is about as easy as it gets, it makes sense that you can Post to Facebook via Gtalk. Simply add the ifttt.com bot as one of your IM buddies. As with SMS, you can set it up to post any IM sent, or only those with a specified hashtag (such as #fb). Note ifttt advises that its IM bot may go offline periodically due to traffic volume.
This also works in reverse. Set up a Facebook triggerperhaps for when someone tags you in a photoand ifttt can send you an IM.
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If you've embraced social media but let your old blog stagnate, there's a way to bring it back to life. With ifttt, you can ensure every pithy thing you post on Facebook also gets posted to your blog. ifttt supports Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr, plus you can always send posts to an RSS feed that gets picked up by your blog of choice.
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Blair hails Muslim achievements
The achievements of the UK Muslim community have been recognised at an awards ceremony in London.
The awards were presented on Thursday evening, spanning 12 categories including engineering, science and technology, art, community relations, sport, enterprise and children's excellence.
Prime Minister Tony Blair and Tory leader William Hague both sent pre-recorded goodwill messages to the first Awards For Excellence event, organised by The Muslim News.
The Muslim News is the largest independent Muslim newspaper in Britain and it is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
Mr Blair said: "I hope very much that through awards ceremonies like this, we build a greater degree of common understanding across the faiths".
He added: "The faith of Islam is very peaceful and a very beautiful faith.
"It's great that we have the dialogue across the faiths so that all the time, we are bringing our country closer and closer together."
Mr Hague said it was a "fantastic opportunity" to pay tribute to the hard work, spirit and determination of the British Muslim community.
"I am delighted to see the range of applicants from so many different areas," he said.
Bushra Nasir, who became the first Muslim female headteacher of a state school in 1993, won the Iman Wa Amal (faith in action) Judges' Award.
She runs Plashet Comprehensive School in Newham and has helped double the percentage of pupils getting top grade GCSE passes.
The youngest prizewinner was five-year-old Maisam-Reza Khaku, of Edgware, Middlesex, who was described as an inspiration.
He was diagnosed with hereditary deafness when he was just three months old, but was sent to a mainstream school where other pupils and teachers learned British sign language to communicate with him.
And the Ummul Mu'minin Khadijah Award for excellence in enterprise went to Perween Warsi who set up S&A Foods in 1987.
She started the firm because she was fed up with the quality of Asian food in British supermarkets and it now supplies Asda and Safeway and has a turnover of nearly Ł70m
The Muslim Women's Help Line, which provides a national lifeline for women facing social and domestic problems, was given the Uthman Dan Fodio award for excellence in community development.
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Utah Valley Wins Third-Straight GWC Baseball Tournament Championship
May 26, 2012
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Utah Valley broke a 4-all tie with five runs in the top of the eighth en route to winning their third consecutive Great West Conference Baseball Tournament Championship over Houston Baptist by a score of 10-6, Saturday afternoon at Brent Brown Ballpark.
"We've done everything we can to control our destiny. 40 out of 41, that's incredible," said UVU head coach Eric Madsen. "Our guys have stayed together all year. They did an unbelievable job of never panicking and trusting each other."
Austin Heaps started UVU's eighth inning rally with a leadoff single. After Burgess' homer, Kai Hatch singled and Exon doubled to put runners on second and third. Butcher then drove home Hatch with a double to right. Rickenbach brought both Exon and Butcher home on a two-run base hit to put the Wolverines up 9-4.
Houston Baptist (28-33) managed to push home two runs in the eighth but Exon got one back in the ninth with a solo home run to left.
In the bottom of the ninth, Josh Swenson pitched around a leadoff double by retiring the next three hitters to set off a dog pile just past the pitcher's mound.
The Huskies grabbed the momentum early with a three-run second inning off UVU's starter Jeremy Gendlek. Gendlek did limit the damage, however, as the right-hander got out of a bases-loaded jam by inducing a inning-ending double play.
The Wolverines answered, however, with a two-run top of the third to get the home crowd of 1,612 people back in the game. Cole Butcher started the scoring for UVU (47-12) with an RBI single through the right side then two batters later Sean Moysh plated Willie Pratt with a sacrifice fly to left center.
Exon stayed hot at the plate for the Wolverines with an RBI single in the fourth to even the score at 3-all.
UVU grabbed its first lead of the game in the sixth on a RBI single by Pratt but the lead was short lived as HBU's Kolby Arnst collected an RBI single in the seventh.
Gendlek finished with a no-decision after scattering 10 hits, four runs allowed in 6.1 innings of work.
Swenson was the winning pitcher of record, improving to 3-0 on the year, with 2.1 innings of relief. The righthanded hurler got the Wolverines out of a jam in the seventh by forcing HBU's Samm Wiggins to pop out with the bases loaded.
HBU's Dalton Schafer (5-9) lasted seven full innings in the losing effort for the Huskies.
Four Wolverines collected two RBIs as Exon led the team with a 4-for-5 effort from the plate.
Josh Foust and All-Tournament team member Collin Hetzler each had two RBI for the Huskies.
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Paleontologist George Blasing had a two-pronged vision: Bring a mobile dinosaur exhibit to underprivileged kids who might never see a museum and to people who live in rural areas.
Sponsored by the Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce, Blasing's Dinosaur George Exhibit will stop in Killeen today and Saturday at Central Texas College's Anderson Center.
Along with a presentation and a variety of models of prehistoric creatures, the display will feature one of the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex skulls on earth.
"He's a disturbing creature," Blasing said. "You're talking about an animal who could bite off and swallow 500 pounds per bite. Some people stand in awe of this kid screaming and running." Because the original fossil weighs almost two tons, Blasing said he made a cast replica to use in his exhibit.
Blasing said the idea for the exhibit occurred to him 18 years ago after a speaking gig at a San Antonio school that educated low-income students. A parent of one of the children wrote him an inspiring letter stating that the exhibit might have changed a kid's life, motivating the child to pursue a career in science instead of a life on the streets.
"I decided to find a way to spend more of my time to teach kids and give more to society," Blasing said.
In the years ahead, he focused on completing his collection, and expanded his vision to include smaller communities. "We can get booked in cities all day long, but those cities have museums," he said. "It's the outlying communities I want to focus on."
The entire exhibit will fill about 5,000 square feet at Central Texas College, said Gina Pence, Heights Chamber of Commerce membership director.
Event-goers can walk through everything in about an hour. Blasing will deliver a multimedia presentation focusing on new discoveries and weird dinosaurs. "We're really going to focus on the strange and unusual," he said.
The exhibit also features fossils from prehistoric creatures who roamed the Killeen area. Killeen is a "treasure trove of fossils," Blasing said. "We focus on Texas as much as we can."


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Easy removal and separated lashesI first received a sample of the Blinc mascara in a Birchbox. I liked it enough to purchase the full size at $24 from the Birchbox website. I am skeptical of "tubing" mascaras because the ones I have used in the past haven't delivered. This one really does. Once the mascara sets on your lashes, it stays put until you wash it off. It doesn't leave black rings around your eyes either when you r...read moreemove it. Just splash your eyes with warm water and gently pull tubes off. It'll seem like you're removing false lashes. It's odd but totally painless. This mascara is great if you want a separated, natural lash look. The downside of this mascara is that is isn't buildable. If you are looking for a volumizing mascara that will give you that lush lash look, Blinc is not for you. There is no point in layering the mascara to try to get that volume because once it sets, it is SET. The only other pitfall of this mascara is the price. I was willing to pay $24 for this product because I have been so aggravated by impossible-to-remove-mascaras. If easy removal and precise, separated lashes are not critical for you, I would recommend saving your money on this one. With that said, I think Blinc has a truly unique product that is worthy of its high end price tag. — 5 years, 5 months agoHeathRene | 285 reviews
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DON'T TRY TO IMAGINE SCHOOL WHERE PAPER AND BOOKS NO longer exist (an oxymoron of sorts). Don't try to imagine hallways and classrooms where every student or teacher carries only a little cheeseboard with buttons — a device as thin as a bread slice, as wide as your two open palms, and as long as a butter knife.
Don't even try imagine that each little 23- ounce to is the rough equivalent of the Library of Congress or a great research institution or even an intercontinental transporter — or conversely, the equivalent of a teacher who patiently repeats what she said in the lecture on demand anytime, for each student.
No need to imagine it, because that world has arrived, or soon will in private and public schools across southern Florida.
Here, Florida Weekly offers a brief glimpse of how this revolution is taking shape.
Some, then many, then probably all of the region's schools will be reborn in purely electronic form by decade's end, educators predict.
"It's like the industrial revolution. It will completely change the way students look at the world," says Dwayne Altman, the IT director for Lee County Public Schools.
That's no problem for students, who already live in a different world than the one inhabited by their parents and teachers.
In many cases, they're familiar with the terrain ahead.
"We (educators) recognize, that the kids are the natives and we are the tourists — they have the knowledge," says Richard Jean, principal of Archbishop McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches near Fort Lauderdale. He and his staff pioneered a complete departure from the world of bound paper books in South Florida three years ago.
Now, no books can be seen in the halls or classrooms of that school. Acting as mentors, Archbishop McCarthy educators shared their experiences with Bishop Verot High School in Lee County and others in the region and state.
In those places, the same will be true shortly.
"We will not order a single set of textbooks for the very first time, for next year," says Dan Jackman, a Bishop Verot spokesman.
By the time freshmen arriving in August become seniors, in 2017 — and possibly before that — Bishop Verot will be bookless.
"We want education to be more than a (paper book) or a book on an iPad," explains Mr. Jackman. "We want it to be a digital learning environment where the world is endless."
A student at Archbishop McCarthy, Alessandro Vecchi, describes what that's like: "I never pick up a book. You never have to grab a book.
"And, we can look up information on top of information, book on top of book, whereas before we had to use just one textbook."
Book on top of book, the novel on top of the venerable. In the milieu of electronic education, information is updated at a moment's notice, as new discoveries and new understanding occur in the old arts and sciences. In such a revolutionary new world, textbooks are no longer static.
To understand the impact, look to the past. Imagine Detroit, 110 years ago: Just before dawn, a group of early risers make their unassuming ways (probably on foot or by horse and buggy) from their little homes into Henry Ford's factory, to build a horseless carriage.
Imagine those cars appearing on streets crowded with the clattering bustle and mess of horses and buggies, in Boston and New York and Philadelphia, in Washington and Baltimore and Atlanta, in Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers.
To imagine that, perhaps, is to comprehend the revolution happening or about to happen in every school and to every child — and therefore to American culture as a whole — right now.
The first little steps
It starts like this, with a plan in place and marching orders issued at a private school, Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers:
• "March 27: issue iPads to teachers for the first time, with pre-loaded applications. Teachers will accustom themselves during the Easter break."
• "April: Overhaul the school's wireless network with new Wi-Fi access points and increased bandwidth through fiber optic cable. Educate teachers."
• "May and June: Teachers attend workshops hosted by Apple, and by an east coast school already in the process."
• "July: student iPads arrive at Bishop Verot, where faculty will begin downloading applications for learning into each."
• "August: students arrive and receive their new iPads."
Like many things, it's not really quite that simple, of course, although that schedule comes directly from the school. But the planning behind it has been long and careful.
For Bishop Verot officials, a visit to Archbishop McCarthy proved helpful, in part by changing their minds about how to make the changes.
"Our principal thought he liked the notion of having students bring their own devices," recalls Mr. Jackman, a spokesman for the school. "But after we saw how effective it is to have everybody use one device (as they do at Archbishop McCarthy), we were like, 'OK, I guess we won't be doing that.'"
Public schools may struggle
For public school administrators, such problems can occur on a scale 20 to 80 times as large. Merely assessing which texts are available for downloading, since the state must approve all public school textbooks, may prove to be no easy task. Deciding whether to ask students to bring their own devises or go with a school district plan for uniform technology such as the Apple iPad involves more than merely determining what is best.
The Lee County School District, for example, has 82,000 students in 119 schools, the 40th largest district of 13,000 districts in the nation, officials say. Collier includes 44,300 students in 48 schools, and Charlotte has 16,000 students in 21 schools.
"It's one thing for a Bishop Verot or a Canterbury to (do away with books), but it's another for us," says Dr. Douglas Whittaker, superintendent of schools in Charlotte County.
In Lee County, "70 percent of our students are on free or reduced lunch plans, which means they don't have the money to go out and buy an iPad," notes Mr. Altman.
So demographics and economics have to be taken into account across broad swaths of the population, which is not the case at most private schools.
By 2015, however, state officials will require local districts to begin, stepby step and slowly, to bring in the new technology for students, he says.
How this will be paid for remains to be seen.
In Charlotte County — the first public school district in Florida to wire its schools for Wi-Fi — "there isn't the money to expand what we have right now," says Dr. Whittaker.
But Charlotte is ahead of the game anyway. A hurricane named Charley helped officials look to the future, along with an administrator named Chris Brefs, the district's instructional technology director, says the superintendent.
"Chris saw the value of being wireless a decade ago, so we have been wireless, school to school and school to district, since Hurricane Charley (in 2004)."
Ten high school and middle school classrooms are now using iPads issued to students (with restrictions on their applications and parents agreeing to be responsible) as a kind of test, along with four classrooms of fourth graders in elementary school.
"That's really going well," says Dr. Whittaker.
Just as it is in Collier County, with a private school taking the lead.
St. John Neumann Catholic High School in Naples formed a committee to compare the capabilities of Kindles, laptops, Android tablets, Nooks and iPads, the school explains in an online report.
"After careful review and a cost analysis of the devices vs. the functionality, we decided that the Apple iPad best suited our mission (to help students and teachers work together)," the report explains.
So now, as at Archbishop McCarthy, incoming freshmen received iPads, leased to them on a per-month basis.
"Every two years our school will return the existing devices to Apple in exchange for the latest generation iPad. Upon graduation, the class of 2016 will exchange their existing iPads for the latest generation iPad. Our current students will be offered a pro-rated amount for which they, too, can have a brand new iPad once they graduate."
What could be a better deal than that?
Well, free iPads.
In Collier's public schools, where officials are planning for the eventual transformation to electronic education, a high-tech medical device manufacturer, Arthrex, provided iPads to high school science classes.
After Collier Schools Superintendent Dr. Kamela Patton solicited help from the company, "Thirty new iPads were delivered to each of our high schools," says Joe Landon, the Collier schools spokesman, writing in an online newspaper report.
But whether some kids have iPads or not, in all three Southwest Florida counties, so-called Smart boards or their like have been widely in use for some time — large interactive screens in the classroom that allow teachers and students to touch them, creating images or gaining information at the speed of light, together.
The private school experience
At Bishop Verot or the Canterbury School in Lee, as at Cardinal Neumann or Seacrest Country Day or the Community School in Naples — all well-funded private schools — small size and wealth allow more readily for adaptability and change, more quickly, than in public schools.
The cost to rewire the Bishop Verot campus so that many users can have electronic access points is about $15,000. The school will spend another $85,000 or so for professional development, says Mr. Jackman — getting faculty and staff up to speed.
Parents, then, will pay for the iPads by allowing their children to lease one from the school for $25 a month, which includes all the applications and electronic books a teacher may need, in prices ranging from $1.99 for a science app, to $15 for a history or math e-textbook.
This does not mean an end to the lucrative textbook business, however (although it might result in the demise of some printing plants). Publishers no longer sell books when they become electronic, explains Mr. Jean, the Archbishop McCarthy principal. "Now, they lease those books for a year."
When one student in one class completes that year, another student entering the class will need to lease the book again. But such books could be updated at any time, and they might come with embedded videos or other tools.
The advantages of the new approach should become clear pretty quickly.
"The difference between a one-toone iPad program (one instrument for one student), is number one, it eliminates textbooks. We could easily spend $100,000 on replacing a set of textbooks — they only last about four to five years," says Mr. Jackman.
And number two, education can be tailored to each student.
These changes were pioneered by Archbishop McCarthy High School, where all students and teachers now use Apple iPads with downloaded educational applications and e-books.
If iPads were engines, the school would put restrictive governors on each. As it stands, they put filters on each device that restrict its uses. And that's not a bad thing, students agree.
"This sounds funny coming from a student, but I think it's really good they put the filters on," says Adriana Gonzalez, a student at Archbishop McCarthy. "That way we can't use them for certain things in class like (Facebook or gaming). It could be a distraction. I won't learn if I'm playing games."
If students damage or lose their devices, an insurance policy purchased by the school will replace them for $150.
So now, there are no textbooks. No paper or copiers. No notebooks. And during school hours, at least, no games.
And now, student attitudes have changed significantly, says Mr. Jean.
"You ask in a school not using this approach what the kids think of iPads and apps, and they think it's about games," he observes. "Now we're teaching them how to use this as a powerful tool."
Not a game.
"I never used to do any homework," says Alessandro Vecchi. "But when they gave me the iPad I was compelled to do the homework, because it was a lot of fun.
My view now is, it's not a gaming device. It's more of a use for work. But I built my own computer, so I'm sort of into it."
The experience of Archbishop McCarthy administrators in getting to this point is instructive.
Mr. Jean and his curriculum coordinator, Les Brown, traveled the country looking at the few schools to have taken up the new technology before deciding how to proceed.
It helped them become admirers of Apple, to start with, because the company can adjust and update better than any other, he believes.
"People laughed at iPhones — they said, 'What kind of phone is that? I'll never leave my Blackberry.' And now Apple's a $500 stock and Blackberry's a $15 stock."
But parents and students, both, were skeptical. Mr. Jean, a former college basketball player, reduced the amount of money the school spent on the winning football program, for example, and aimed it the new technologies for students.
Right off the bat, enrollment dropped 20 percent, to about 1,200 students.
Everything was new; not only him, but his thinking, which frightened off some people, he admits.
Now, his approval rating is high.
The school is back up to an enrollment of 1,500, he says, and many parents and students are eager to join the Archbishop McCarthy community.
"We had to upgrade the whole infrastructure of this school," he recalls. "We have many employees, and suddenly you add 1,500 kids onto the system, and now at any point we have 1,800 on the Wi-Fi system."
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Celebrate New Year's Eve with almost 400 festive guests at Weber's Inn. Their New Year's Eve party has sold out 29 consecutive years because we host the best party that couples return to year after year. Purchase your New Year's Eve package by November 30, 2011 and stay the night before or the night after New Year's Eve for FREE!*
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In April of 2008, , A salesperson named Larry Williams said he would sell or rent my Wyndham points for $1400 up front, and I paid it! I feel dumb. I called him many times, and renewed with the company a month (October) before the 6 months was up on the contract.
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I paid Realty Trade, inc. $1200 October 17, 2009 to sell my Royal Elite timeshare. They sent me paperwork that listed a different timeshare than mine. I asked for corrected paperwork and they resent the same misinformation. I have not heard from them and still don't have the correct paperwork. I called today to get a refund and they absolutely refused. It is their company policy "no refunds".
They use the excuse that they are paying the cost to advertise and they will sell it eventually. From some of these other comments regarding World Vantage it sounds like this could go on for years and I'm not getting my $1200 back. I've called American Express and they cannot guarantee that they can get me my money back. However they will try. Do not do business with this company. Definitely a scam!!
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Two firefighters were injured Sunday night at a blaze on Hilltop Circle in Mays Landing.
Cologne Fire Chief Shawn Vallauri said everyone in the two-story home escaped safely, but one firefighter from the Cologne department and one from the Mays Landing department suffered leg injuries dealing with icy conditions.
One firefighter was treated on scene, while the other was taken to Shore Medical Center.
"The water is almost instantly freezing," said Vallauri, describing how the firefighters were injured as they fell on ice.
The fire was called in shortly after 7 p.m. and was fully involved when fire departments arrived. It wasn't immediately clear how the fire began, Vallauri said.
By 7:45 p.m., more than a dozen emergency vehicles had arrived. Smoke could be seen coming from the top of the house in the back the cul de sac off Victoria Drive. A significant portion of the second story of the home was burned along with a garage.
Fire hoses lined the streets and many neighbors stood outside of their homes watching the fire that they said spread quickly.
The fire damaged two neighboring homes, Vallauri said.
Police said later that the home suffered heavy damage but the fire was under control within 30 minutes.
The Red Cross said that a family of 12, 8 adults and 4 children including one infant, were displaced and were provided with emergency assistance for food, clothing, seasonal clothing and lodging.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. –Nick Brothers was crowned the champion of the Florida Amateur Public Links Championship on Sunday afternoon from Lake Jovita when he prevailed in a sudden death playoff. Brothers finished the 54-hole tournament with scores of 65-73-70—208.
Brothers sunk a three-foot birdie putt on the 18th to finish his round with a score of 70 to force a sudden death playoff with Edward Figueroa.
The playoff started on the No. 18 where both Brothers and Figueroa made par. As the pair proceeded to hole No. 17, Brothers edged out the junior from Florida Gulf Coast by dropping in a four-foot birdie putt to win the tournament.
"I just kept telling myself to stay patient and keep doing what I've been doing," Brothers said after the round.
Brothers made a bogey on No. 4 to go one-over, but recovered wonderfully with birdies on No. 8, No. 9, and No. 11 to get back in contention.
"I figured I was out of it, but I got that three-foot birdie on 18 and ended up getting in the playoff."
Brothers got out to a fantastic start, carding a round of 65 in the opening round. Rounds of 73 and 70 allowed the recent Saint Leo graduate to remain in contention and eventually outlast the 80+ participants in the tournament.
For information on the Saint Leo men's golf team, be sure to follow us on Twitter at @SaintLeoLions.
Below is a look at the leaderboard of the championship
|Nick Brothers
|Edward Figueroa
|Michael Visacki
|Jon Veneziano
|T J Shuart
|Jeffrey Meltzer
|Thomas Stewart
|Harrison Winger
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The actress is being treated at an undisclosed psychological treatment facility in Arizona for what is claimed as "anxiety and depression."
Heather Locklear is being treated for psychological issues, her publicist has confirmed. The actress, well known for her starring role as Amanda Woodward in TV series "Melrose Place", is treated at an undisclosed psychological treatment facility in Arizona for what is claimed as "anxiety and depression."
"She requested an in-depth evaluation of her medication and entered into a medical facility for proper diagnosis and treatment," Locklear's representative Cece Yorke said in a statement Tuesday, June 24. "This is a confidential medical matter and no further statement will be released."
Way back in March, a psychiatrist for the star phoned 911, telling authorities he was concerned that his patient might attempt to overdose on prescription medication and thus asked that paramedics were called to the actress' Thousand Oaks, Calif., home.
"I have a patient and I have a feeling she's suicidal," the psychiatrist said. "I would want someone to go [check on her]."
The paramedics left the home soon after determining that everything was all right. Locklear's representative disputed any notion that the star was in a distressed state of mind at that time, claiming she never requested medical assistance and that she was "fine."
She has since, according to reports, switched doctors.


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Shirtless Chris Hemsworth: All the Reason You Need to See 'Thor' (PHOTOS)
Chris Hemsworth is showing off at least two reasons to hit the theater — his mighty pecs!In new stills from Thor,
While the actor has been keeping a low profile in his personal life, he's been all over the map and in front of every camera promoting his superhero adventure; from New York to Los Angeles and even Munich, Germany.
While this superhot (see what we did there?) Aussie actor already has a few projects lined up (he will appear in the Red Dawn remake, then reprise his role as the God of Thunder in The Avengers movie, out 2012) there are rumors he may join Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron on the big screen in Snow White. Numerous reports name Chris as the front runner to star in the film, although there's no official confirmation just yet.
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THE MUSIC OF MICHAEL JACKSON Plays at OKC Civic Center Music Hall Tonight
THE MUSIC OF Michael Jackson, will be presented by The Oklahoma City Philharmonic, tonight, January 25 and tomorrow night, January 26, at the OKC Civic Center Music Hall, ThElma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre.
From his early years with the Jackson Five to his mega-hit album "Thriller" and beyond, Michael Jackson delighted fans with hit after hit. Starring the electrifying talent of James Delisco, the show features "Rock With You," "ABC," "Beat It," and more!
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I spent my Labor Day Weekend sailing Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound on a gorgeous 38-foot sailboat with teak decks and billowing sails. Each day began and ended in a different spot from watching the sunrise on Cuttyhunk in the Elizabeth Islands to admiring a starry night at Lake Tashmoo on Martha's Vineyard.
Sounds perfect, doesn't it? Well, it was except that nearly 24 hours later, the earth is still moving under my feet. I was dreadfully sea sick the whole weekend.
Motion sickness occurs when the body, the inner ear, and the eyes send conflicting signals to the brain. Individuals who experience motion sickness on a regular basis need to learn to control-and eventually prevent-these symptoms. Motion sickness is common with about one-third of the world's population experiencing symptoms during routine travel.
I have learned how to deal with, and somewhat control, my lifelong issue with motion sickness by car, train and plane. But boats are the wild card. Experts recommend that you stay on the deck and look at the horizon when sailing. You also can take prescription and nonprescription medicine before travel to prevent or reduce symptoms of nausea and vomiting.
The problem is that I packed in such a hurry that I forgot my medication and my PSI bands. Psi bands are acupressure wrist bands for the relief of nausea due to pregnancy, motion sickness/ travel, chemotherapy, and anesthesia. Although approved by the FDA, there is little scientific evidence that the bracelets work but they may have a placebo effect. Either way, I wish I had had my bracelets and my meds.
People often try alternative methods of preventing motion sickness such as taking ginger or wearing acupressure bands. A physical therapy clinic with a specialty in vestibular therapy may help individuals who have significant problems with motion sickness. Vestibular therapy consists of exercises involving head and body movements which are designed to decrease dizziness, increase balance function and increase general activity levels.
Because I am still dizzy and nauseous and have a headache, I'm in the process of getting a referral from my physician for physical therapy so that I may undergo a vestibular evaluation to determine the appropriate course of treatment. I want to be better prepared before my next journey and I hope PT is the answer. Do you have experience in vestibular therapy for motion sickness? What can I expect?
Thanks for the feedback, Dean. Believe me, I'd love to travel to England for my therapy! I will be doing a follow-up post once I've gone to rehab. Here's hoping for some relief on my next outing.
Rebecca, the reason "old salts" tell people to get up on deck and look at the horizon is to reconcile the conflicting messages being sent from the eyes (nothing is moving in the cabin so your eyes don't perceive movement) and your inner ear (which is telling you that the whole world is moving). This conflict creates that lovely sensation of mal-de-mer.
The vestibular occular reflex (VOR) is how the eyes and inner ear are tied together. In motion sickness, the inner ear is telling the eyes to refocus but the eyes say "we're already in focus, thank you very much". A vestibular therapist will most likely prescribe exercises of adaptation which may initially actually bring on your symptoms. With practice, your vestibular system will make long term changes in the neuronal response to head movement. Eventually your eyes and inner ear will get into sync if you are diligent with the exercises. In th end, no more symptoms.
Of course, this is based upon your short history. Your therapist will take a complete history, give a thorough examination, and prescribe accordingly. I'd invite you to our vestibular clinic, but traveling to the UK is probably more than your plan will pay for.
PS. that used to be one of my favourite areas to sail before moving to the UK. I'm glad you had good weather and neither Irene nor Katia ruined your plans. Good luck with your rehab and let us all know how it turns out!


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Mennonite Girls Can Cook is a blog about recipes, hospitality, relationships, encouragement and helping the hungry—and now it's a book, too! Like the blog, Mennonite Girls Can Cook—the book—is more than just recipes. It is about hospitality, versus entertaining; about blessing, versus impressing. It is about taking God's bounty, and co-creating the goodness from God's creation into something that can bless family and friends, and help sustain health and energy.
Life is a gift from God, so why not celebrate? The bestselling authors of Mennonite Girls Can Cook return with a second course in their new Celebrations cookbook. From mouthwatering mini-muffins and succulent soufflé to campers' stew and lattice-topped grilled apples, the Mennonite Girls share recipes to honor all of life. Filled from cover to cover with devotional reflections, personal stories, and beautiful photos, this book contains much more than recipes—it will soon become your kitchen companion for life's celebrations.


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2013 World Juniors: USA's Housley Right Man for the Job
Three games into the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship, you wondered if Team USA would miss qualifying for the medal round for the second consecutive year. With the seventh-place finish of 2012 still reeking after back-to-back 2-1 losses to their two biggest rivals, the Americans were in playoff mode one game early.
Questions swirled. Is Phil Housley really the right guy for this job? Is he relying too much on his offensive defensemen? Is he pushing the right buttons?
Turns out those questions were a bit premature. The Americans steamrolled Slovakia to get into the medal round, then didn't let up a bit against the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals. A combined 16-3 score in two games? Well that certainly wasn't the offensively-starved US team we saw through three games.
Housley shuffled his lines, moving a player without a current line, Jim Vesey, to the first unit. The move was drastic, but had wide-ranging effects up and down the lineup. Perhaps the biggest impact was felt on John Gaudreau, who ignited alongside Vesey.
The kid they call "Johnny Hockey" exploded for five goals and an assist in those two games. Vesey had three assists. Good thing Housley chose not to cut him, like it was rumored in pre-tournament play.
Then came the mighty Canadians. In a rematch of one of those 2-1 losses, the Americans started like they were fired out of a cannon. Two goals by captain Jake McCabe had the US out to a 2-0 lead before Team Canada could blink. Both goals that were a direct result of a hard forecheck, a staple of many successful American teams in recent history, and something Housley stressed incessantly.
Then, Gaudreau continued his resurgence with another pair of goals. Before long, thanks in large part to John Gibson's stellar performance, the rout was on.
Housley had left his mark on this team already, heading into the gold medal game against Sweden. This team, who had yet to accomplish their goal of proving Seth Jones right as the tournament's best team, stared in the face of a opposing force that was supposed to knock them off. But the Americans didn't just beat the Canadians. They trounced them. The learning had been underway for months under Housley's leadership, we just didn't know it yet.
On the grandest stage of all, in the gold medal game, Housley's impact was felt again. Rocco Grimaldi, all 5'6" of him, entered this tournament as one of the premiere American forwards expected to produce. After a going scoreless through three games, Housley sent a message to Grimaldi and his team by stapling him to the end of the bench.
Grimaldi mostly watched as the Americans surged to the final, seeing limited time against Canada as the 13th forward. The snakebitten forward was hungry again.
Housley let him loose against Sweden, and was rewarded in kind. The ever-persistent Grimaldi wasn't discouraged when he blistered a snapshot past Niklas Lundstrom that hit both (!) posts but somehow stayed out of the net in the first period, a shot that nearly gave the Americans the lead. But as EJ Hradek persisted, the hockey gods can be as kind as they are cruel.
Grimaldi's sharp-angle shot tied the game at one, but he was far from done. Less than three minutes later, a shot by Jacob Trouba bounced off Grimaldi in front and past Lundstrom and all of a sudden, the Americans were in front. Thanks to a stellar post-to-post save on a wraparound attempt by Gibson, who turned in effort after effort that would make Jim Craig blush, the US stayed in front.
With under a minute to play and Sweden's last-ditch attack intensifying, Housley leaned on his checking unit of Cole Bardreau, Ryan Hartman and Vince Trocheck who had served him well the entire tournament. After Hartman and Tyler Biggs neutralized a Swedish power play early in the period, Hartman managed to get the puck out of the zone, springing Trocheck on a breakaway. With no goalie to stop him, the celebration was on for the Americans with just 16 seconds to play.
Housley, of course, has plenty of experience with USA Hockey himself. He was a member of the US World Championship team six times and won gold at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, arguably his career's crowning achievement. He knew better than most what it would take to overtake a more talented Canadian roster. And he executed his plan to perfection.
Nobody will remember that this team lost two games that pushed them to the brink of elimination. What will be celebrated instead is how their head coach managed to right the ship and find his Midas touch as his team rolled to their third gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championships.


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Oct 4, 2011
Mini Black and White Cookies
Well it's October already and all the apples and pumpkins are out! I've been working on a post about a delicious peanut butter apple crisp in light of the new fall season- but I got a little distracted when I came across this recipe.
I've been eating black and white cookies ever since I was little. When my grandpa would come to visit he always brought a black and white cookie for me and my brother (the big ones, not the mini ones). They were from a wonderful Italian bakery in Denville, NJ. I'd always eat the chocolate side and leave the vanilla side behind for my parents (I was really picky when I was younger).
But when I saw the recipe for these cookies I couldn't help but think of my grandpa and the visits he always made to our house. My great-grandparents came to the U.S. from Italy in the early 1900s and my grandpa grew up in Brooklyn, NY. My mom showed me all of these old photographs from the 40s of him and my grandma and some papers that he had written on too.
Now, everytime I eat one of these b&w cookies I think of my grandpa, except now I eat the vanilla side too! And when they're mini, they make the perfect little snack.
So here is the recipe for the cookies:
And once you make the cookies, let them cool and work on the icings:
This recipe makes about 5 dozen cookies. Once you ice them and they dry you can keep them layered between wax or parchment paper so they dont stick to each other.
Eat them with milk and it's a perfect combo!
And as promised, the peanut butter apple crisp recipe is coming soon. But I hope you try out this recipe and let me know what you think!


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By Peter Bodley – ABC Newspapers
Anoka County is working with other agencies on a financial assistance package to try and entice a manufacturing company to locate in the county.
The Anoka County Board Jan. 22, on the recommendation of its Intergovernmental and Community Relations Committee, approved a county business subsidy for the project.
According to Karen Skepper, county director of community and government relations, the subsidy may be a combination of a low interest loan and/or grant with the final amount to be determined by the total number of jobs created.
The county is working with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Greater MSP and the city in which the company is considering locating to pull together the financial assistance package, Skepper said.
"The company currently has a presence in Anoka County," she said.
But it has other locations in multiple states, Skepper said.
The company's expansion plan, for which it is interested in locating in Anoka County, is proposed in two phases, according to Skepper.
The first phase would be to bring in an existing product production line, while the second phase would create a new product production line, Skepper said.
Under its proposal, if it decides on Anoka County for the plant, the company would bring 55 new jobs to the county with salaries in the $60,000 a year range, she said.
"The company has identified a location in Anoka County as well as one or two other sites in other states," Skepper said.
"We are expecting to hear any day now whether it will locate in Anoka County."
The county's share of the assistance package will come from its economic development revolving loan program, according to Skepper.
This is only the second time that the county has approved a business subsidy, Skepper said.
The other occasion was 11 years ago when it worked with the state's Minnesota Investment Fund to come up with a financial package that kept a Coon Rapids business in the county that was threatening to move, she said.
Through that process, the county was able to keep $100,000 of the loan payments and with interest over the years, the revolving loan fund account now totals about $150,000, Skepper said.
"Our business subsidy program has tough standards to meet," she said.
The county is a member of Greater MSP and Anoka County Board Chairperson Rhonda Sivarajah serves on its board of directors.
Greater MSP is a private-public partnership committed to stimulating economic growth and prosperity in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, according to its website.
Editor's note: Peter Bodley is managing editor of ABC Newspapers. Peter Bodley is at [email protected]