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Today, Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel, finds some 2013 baby name predictions embedded in this week's Nameberry 9 newsiest names.
As 2012 faded into 2013, the world welcomed many a new little life. Re-reading birth announcements, I was struck by something.
None of them received outlandish names, but every one of them seemed nicely creative.
Some are memorable and meaningful choices, while others are mainstream firsts paired with unexpected middles.
Does it speak to an age where we won't dismiss names as weird? Have we stopped worrying that our children can't be district attorneys or heart surgeons if we name them something other than Katherine or James? Are filler middles really gone for good?
It all adds up to a great year ahead for baby names – whether you're naming a child or just spending lots of time thinking about what we might name a child. And that's before we consider the latest addition to the Kardashian family …

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Will giving your daughter a masculine name — as Heidi Klum and Seal did with their newborn daughter Lou — increase her odds for career success?
It might if she goes into the legal profession, according to a new study. Women with masculine names make more money as lawyers than those with feminine names and are more likely to be appointed to judgeships, say researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Not only that, but the more masculine the name, the better. A woman named Kelly has a five percent greater chance of becoming a judge than a Sue, while Cameron's odds are tripled and a female Bruce's are quintupled.


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Charleston, W.Va., newspaper gets cash windfall in Web dealJanuary 30, 2014 11:46 PM
The Charleston Daily Mail, a 100-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning publication in the capital of the Mountain State, finally has decided to play an ace that it has been holding for a while, bringing in a large cash windfall at a time when newspapers nationwide are looking for new revenue.
The Charleston Daily Mail sold its Web address to the much larger Daily Mail of London, a similarly named newspaper that has been interested for quite a while.
"It's kind of been lore around the Charleston newsroom that the London paper has wanted this Web address since the start of the Internet," said Brad McElhinny, Charleston Daily Mail editor and publisher.
That the West Virginia newspaper even owned the domain name is credited to a forward-thinking copy editor who grabbed the dailymail.com address back in the 1990s, well before anyone realized how valuable it might be.
"But times are different for newspapers now, and a domain name and a Web presence is more valued than ever," Mr. McElhinny said.
How much was it worth? A Daily Mail spokesman did not respond to requests for comment, but the London-based Guardian newspaper -- a Daily Mail competitor -- reported the sale price was believed to be more than 1 million pounds, which is roughly $1.6 million at current exchange rates.
Norman "Trip" Shumate, president of the Charleston Daily Mail's parent company, Charleston Newspapers, confirmed the sale to Daily Mail parent company Daily Mail & General Trust. He declined to discuss the terms, but said the sale closed in November.
Mr. McElhinny said the figure was substantial enough that the Charleston publication has been able to purchase a new content management system for its website and invest in new cameras for its photographers.
"That's a significant reinvestment in the company, just like a new printing press would be," he noted.
The Daily Mail of London has been beefing up its American presence over the past few years, and opened an office in New York City in 2012. The American version of its website is mailonline.com, which redirects users to dailymail.co.uk/ushome.
And while Audit Bureau of Circulation figures show the Daily Mail's main website -- DailyMail.co.uk -- experienced a slight decline in traffic in December, that site is still by far one of the most-visited news sites worldwide, with 161.3 million unique visitors in 2013, compared to its closest competitor, the Guardian, with 85.2 million.
In November 2013, the month of the sale, the Daily Mail site had 59 million unique visitors, compared to the Charleston paper's 174,000 unique visitors for the same period, according to analytics research site comScore.
So, with such a robust online audience, why seek out a whole new .com domain name?
It's possible that a .com address is more attractive to advertisers than a co.uk site, but it's debatable whether that would be significantly more lucrative as some media reports have suggested, said Alex Davis, assistant director of engagement with Smith Brothers Agency on the North Side.
"It's more likely that it's a matter of convention, since the .com addresses are ubiquitous," Mr. Davis said. His agency typically recommends that clients buy all the possible top-level domains related to their name, and then redirect traffic from the various addresses to one main .com address.
The Charleston paper's Web address is now CharlestonDailyMail.com, making it a closer match to the paper's print name.
Mr. McElhinny said the Charleston site's Google analytics data show the top referral to its new domain is still its old address, dailymail.com.
"Even before the switch, we would see a fair amount of traffic to our site from Europe, but it was mostly visitors who would quickly bounce away from the site," indicating they were likely looking for the UK version of the Daily Mail.
For the time being, Mr. McElhinny said, a geographic redirect is in place. That means readers who are using computers in the paper's potential circulation area will be sent to its new Web address if they go to dailymail.com.
Mr. Shumate said the Charleston paper remains "very concerned" about the domain name sale, and its potential negative impact on Web traffic. "We have a detailed transition plan in place, but how do we get them to change their habits?"
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will hold the inaugural Frontiers in Development forum on the Georgetown University campus in Washington, DC June 11-13, 2012.
The three day event will convene world leaders, government officials, corporate executives and international development experts to address the important issues facing the future of foreign assistance and international development.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced it will host the inaugural Frontiers in Development forum at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. June 11-13, 2012. The three-day event will convene world leaders, government officials, corporate and nongovernmental thought leaders and international development experts to address the important issues facing the future of foreign assistance and international development.
The United States is providing an additional $6.5 million in humanitarian assistance to help those most in need in Yemen. This new assistance brings the total U.S. Government humanitarian assistance to nearly $80 million in Fiscal Year 2012. This assistance includes protection, water and sanitation, emergency food aid, basic health services, and medical and other relief supplies to help over 550,000 internally displaced persons, over 215,000 refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa, conflict victims, and other vulnerable populations.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - The Governments of the United States and Colombia today established a partnership to jointly help countries in the region. Implemented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Colombia's Agencia Presidencial de Cooperacion Internacional (Presidential Agency for International Cooperation), the trilateral memorandum of understanding formalizes a commitment to identify Latin American countries that can benefit from this unique assistance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. Rajiv Shah will deliver remarks at the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) fifth annual small business conference on Tuesday, June 5th.
The governments of the United States, India, and Ethiopia will be convening, in collaboration with UNICEF - Child Survival: Call to Action - in Washington, D.C. from June 14-15, 2012. Over the last 50 years, child mortality has been reduced by 70%. However, more than 7 million children will die this year before they reach their 5th birthday. Focused on ending preventable child death through survival of newborns, children and mothers, the two-day Call to Action will convene 700 prominent leaders from government, the private sector, and civil society to kick off a long-term, business-like effort to save children's lives.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. Maura O'Neill, Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Agency of International Development, testified today before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Development at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada on USAID's experience in working with the private sector through public-private partnerships.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - From June 1-3, volunteers will virtually collaborate with USAID staff to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that data with geographic information to help the Agency map its impact.
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced it will provide emergency relief to assist conflict-affected and food-insecure people in South Sudan. The $30 million contribution will be delivered through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The assistance is in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in South Sudan, where an estimated one million people are severely food-insecure due to a cereal deficit, high food prices and intercommunal conflict.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - In a ceremony yesterday, the U.S. government, along with partners CHF International and Project Concern International (PCI), and a representative from the Haitian government, marked the conclusion of the Katye project. The project comprehensively rehabilitated the neighborhood of Ravine Pintade in Port-au-Prince, which was heavily damaged by the January 2010 earthquake. Through an $8.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S.
Today the U.S. Agency for International Development welcomed the formal endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. The protocol was endorsed by the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome.
Today at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State, African Development Bank, Microsoft, Nokia, infoDev, DEMO, and the World Economic Forum launched a new partnership to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The Liberalizing Innovation Opportunity Nations (LIONS@FRICA) partnership will mobilize the knowledge, expertise and resources of leading public and private institutions to encourage and enhance innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa.
On May 18, 2012, President Barack Obama, with G8 and African leaders, businesses, international organizations and civil society will convene to discuss new activities to advance global agricultural development, food and nutrition security in Africa. The event, hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, will feature announcements of significant new business commitments for African agriculture and discussions on addressing hunger and poverty in the changing development landscape.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah has announced that J. Mark Brinkmoeller will serve as Director of the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives. The Center seeks to involve faith and community efforts throughout the Agency.
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the first round of developing country Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) awards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, at the Global Impact Economy Forum, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a $44.5 million Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Skoll Foundation.
U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah has announced that J. Mark Brinkmoeller will serve as Director of the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives. The Center seeks to involve faith and community efforts throughout the Agency.
Each year, World Malaria Day is observed to call attention to the disease and to mobilize action to combat it. On this occasion, the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), releases its sixth annual report which describes the role and contributions of the U.S. Government in the effort to reduce the burden of malaria in Africa, and to monitor antimalarial drug resistance and decrease malaria transmission in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Today, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development has joined the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Partnership. The SWA Partnership brings together governments, donors, civil society organizations, and development partners to achieve sustainable sanitation and drinking water.
President Obama announced a new Innovation Fund for the Americas (IFA) to support cost-effective and innovative solutions to some of the Latin American and Caribbean region's toughest development challenges. The President made the announcement during his April 14, 2012 address at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
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Roasted Zucchini
Zucchini means summertime to me. I love when everyone is trying to come up with creative ways to use up their excess zucchini.
Since Hubby and I don't have a garden, I rely on the farmer's market for the majority of our zucchini. But I do have one coworker who has a huge garden.
He brings in various vegetables that he's trying to get rid of almost every day. I've snagged a cucumber for the watermelon cucumber salad that I made and also grabbed a nice sized zucchini (one day I grabbed a small zucchini, cleaned it, cut it, and snacked on it that afternoon!).
I thought about making something sweet with it but instead opted for a snack. I followed the method I use to roast asparagus. It is so simple and the outcome is amazing.
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Roasted Zucchini
Yield: 2
1 large or 2 medium zucchini, chopped in large pieces
1.5 tsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, sliced (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil to avoid a mess.
Place chopped zucchini on baking sheet.
Drizzle the olive oil over zucchini. Use your hand to stir it up so all the zucchini gets coated. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add garlic if using.
Roast in oven for 25 minutes, stirring once in the middle. Serve hot or at room temperature.
6 Responses to "Roasted Zucchini"
One of my favorites! You read my mind…I made a spread with my roasted zucchini yesterday.
Another thing I like to do when roasting zucchini is to slice it very thin, and then it comes out almost like a chip. I have eaten entire zucchinis on my own that way!
yum, yum, yummmm! Love roasting vegetables! If you aren't in the mood to turn on the over; use your same exact recipe and throw them on the grill… but cut them long ways at about a 1/2 inch thick! It's been my favorite way to eat them this summer! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
I wish I had more squash, I would make this tonight!! I'll do it another day, thanks!
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Just thought I'd stop back in and thank you for sharing this idea… I'd never thought of roasting my zucchini before. I made it last night for dinner using three medium zucchini and my kids ate every single bit of it. They LOVED it! So thank you for giving me a new way to get them eating fresh veggies.
Oh this was so good, and I just love the so simple factor!!! Thanks for sharing!


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"I at least thought we were going to get a couple of down votes," says Eric Rieken, one of hundreds of residents who packed a Westminster City Council meeting to protest a proposed 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter. "But they pretty much discounted everything we said."
Like many newcomers to Colorado, Rieken and his wife were drawn by the allure of openness. But in the rapidly developing northern periphery of Denver, Rieken is unsure how long that vision will last.
After Rieken, a computer programmer, landed a job at a GIS mapping software firm three years ago, he and his wife began searching for a house that was not only near open space, but close enough to Interlocken office park that the commute would be no more than 45 minutes. They settled on Broomfield. In his free time, Rieken, who has the tall, wiry frame of a long-distance runner, trains for marathons and also enjoys biking and extended day hikes -- activities that weren't as accessible in San Antonio, his former home. It was a pleasant-enough city, Rieken insists, but it didn't have the same commitment to the natural landscape that he found in the Denver area. The tenth-largest city in the nation, San Antonio has only seven cumulative miles of trails, "while the small town of Broomfield has 43 miles of trails," he says. "So you could immediately tell what people value just by something that simple."
Suburban malls
The Riekens chose a house in a new development at 136th Avenue and Zuni Street adjacent to hundreds of acres of farmland, a welcome break from the disorienting uniformity of strip malls that had been built to the south in recent years. "Neither of us are 100 percent into suburbia," Rieken says. "But if you have to have suburbia to be close to work, then having those gaps of open farmland is great."
But what incoming residents often perceive to be a solid reminder of Colorado's rural roots, developers and property owners may regard as underutilized ground cover. Unless the land has been designated as "open space" (which, by definition, is land removed from the market and therefore closed to new growth) by some official entity, that piece of earth is just one annexation or zoning change away from being developed -- and all the plants, creatures and unobstructed views on top of it from disappearing. And in the northern metro area, one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, empty real estate is rapidly filling up. The Colorado Department of Local Affairs estimates that growth in the three-county -- Broomfield, Adams and Weld -- area will increase by 58 percent by 2020, for an additional 100,000 people. So even as Rieken complains about new developments, he's painfully aware of his own complicity in destroying the very thing that inspired him to move here.
"I'm the first one to admit that I'm part of the problem," he says. "I came from another area, and my wife and I plopped down here in suburbia in a new development. So I can't complain when other people are making the same kinds of decisions. I understand growth. I just think that city planners should plan. There's a big disconnect."
That disconnect has been very evident over the past year, as anti-Wal-Mart citizen groups protested before city councils across the northern suburbs. When Rieken spoke in opposition to a proposed Wal-Mart at 136th Avenue and I-25, he presented a stack of petitions with 2,836 signatures that he and other volunteers had collected at a nearby Safeway. While people had varying reasons for opposing the project, Rieken smartly centered his argument on issues that he knew the Westminster council could actually take into consideration, land-use questions like noise, traffic and the project's appropriateness for the site. This new store would abut a gravel trail system that the city maintains along Big Dry Creek, where Rieken jogs. Why would the city want to ruin one of its prize attributes, he asked, when it's made such a commitment to open space in the past?
Despite Rieken's best efforts, the Wal-Mart project -- which had moved to Westminster after Thornton blocked a proposed store across the highway -- was approved unanimously by the council. Wal-Mart already has five stores in the northern Denver region, and now approved plans for two more -- which would give the north metro area a Wal-Mart roughly every five square miles. But two anti-Wal-Mart measures are going to the voters November 1, and rumors about two more possible Wal-Marts have people on edge.
If residents of the northern suburbs are truly concerned about growth in the region, however, they need to look beyond big, bad Wal-Mart. Because those stores are just a drop in the development bucket.
At the intersection of I-25 and Colorado 7, where Broomfield and Thornton meet, two huge regional retail projects are in the works. On the Thornton side is Larkridge, slated to open October 20 and set to become the largest retail development in Colorado. Billing itself as a "regional power center," Larkridge boasts a commercial area that, when finally built out, will be 240 acres, the equivalent of 180 football fields, with two million square feet of shopping space (400,000 more square feet than at Park Meadows, the state's largest indoor mall). Already open are Sears Grand, Circuit City, Home Depot, PetsMart, Office Max, Dick's Sporting Goods, Pier 1 Imports and dozens of other chain stores and restaurants.
Right across I-25 in Broomfield, three major projects are planned, says planning director Terrance Ware: the 120-acre Northlands, with 1.1 million square feet of retail space; the 2,700-acre Anthem, with a mix of 11,000 housing units, retail and an office park; and the 75-acre Palisade Park development, which will include yet more retail. Five miles south on I-25, at 144th Avenue, Forest City has broken ground on a mixed-use "shopping village" in Westminster that will put 500 residential units on a pad with 900,000 square feet of shopping, including a Foley's, a JC Penney, a twelve-screen AMC megaplex and a Super Target. Certain characteristics make the northern Denver area appealing to developers, Ware says, including cheap land, flat topography and, most important, secure water rights.
The exploding development has Rieken worried. "It's going to have a huge impact on us," he says. "My ability to hop on a bike and escape to the north is going bye-bye. And that makes me feel a lot more claustrophobic." But all those trails and the open space that Rieken loves so much -- that convince him and other potential homebuyers to settle somewhere -- cost money to purchase and preserve. In order to keep their budgets healthy, municipalities need a wide sales-tax base. The town that has the next big regional mall project on its side of the fence reaps the revenue, while the town across the highway has to find another way to pay for all the increased infrastructure associated with new growth.
With another new mall, perhaps.
As retail projects continue gobbling prairie to the north, they leave behind aging malls that were once considered economic boons, and now become economic bombs.
"Anyone call my phone?" a hulking guy in his mid-twenties asks into the tiny cell phone pressed into his ear. He's wearing an oversized basketball jersey, and his hair is pulled into cornrows. "Just check my fucking phone, a'ight?"
He hangs up; he's in a bad mood. But as he and his crew of bad boys with eyebrow piercings, neck tattoos and rat tails saunter past the Disney Store and the Orange Julius stand, he brightens up when one suggests hitting up Foot Locker. "I want to check out some new kicks," he mutters.
Westminster Mall has seen dramatic changes in recent years -- the most conspicuous its changing clientele. There are many more minority shoppers than you would have found here a decade ago, reflecting the demographic shift in the surrounding neighborhoods. Not everyone is decked out in thuggery, though, and there's a fairly even mix of teenagers, seniors and young families.
Westminster Mall opened in 1977 at Sheridan Boulevard and the Boulder Turnpike, at what was then the city's edge. It started with a Joslin's and thirty smaller stores; after a major expansion in 1986, it grew to include four more anchors: Foley's, Broadway Southwest, Mervyn's and JC Penney. Like many suburban communities, Westminster lacked a downtown or any other pedestrian-friendly gathering place, so the mall quickly assumed this role by default, if not by design. Its layout was similar to other enclosed malls of the era, with smaller businesses lining the long arteries that ran between the big department stores. Residents would stroll its long hallways on weekends, while teens lingered in the arcade and hung out in the food court. The mall's trademark hot-air balloons rose and fell in the central court area above a fountain series of wide stairsteps that generations of sugar-fueled kids darted across.
From the moment it opened, Westminster Mall began drawing customers away from Northglenn Mall, six miles to the east. Northglenn had gotten its start in the early '60s as a development of 3,000 single-family homes near the intersection of 104th Avenue and I-25, the first large-scale project by Jordon Perlmutter, then operating as Perl-Mack Co. In 1962, Life magazine proclaimed it "the most perfectly planned community in America"; one of its main features was the regional shopping complex planned at the center. The area incorporated as a city in 1969, and the recently opened "North Glenn Mall" provided as much as 45 percent of the city's sales-tax revenue, but that dropped after the Westminster Mall opened and shoppers headed off to greener pastures. In 1997, with only 20 percent of its space leased, the mall's sales-tax contribution to the city fell to a meager 7 percent.
Other early metro-area malls suffered the same fate. But dead malls don't disappear; they linger on as monumental eyesores that blight neighborhoods. At one point, Englewood's 65-acre Cinderella City was the biggest mall west of the Mississippi; it was finally demolished in 2000 after a decade of pitiful deterioration, and the area has since been turned into a mixed-use mini-downtown. Lakewood's Villa Italia Mall fell to the wrecking ball in 2002.
Dolores Hayden, a professor of architecture at Yale University, has written numerous books examining the often-ignored history of America's suburbs. This omission is strange, she points out, since "most Americans live in suburbs these days, not in inner cities or rural areas." In Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth 1820-2000, she outlines the evolution of single-family housing from the street-car suburbs of the late 1800s to the mass-produced, post-war "sitcom suburbs." One of the critical developments in the creation of modern-day suburbs and, in particular, modern-day malls was the gradual change in tax codes between 1954 and 1986 to include accelerated depreciation for commercial properties, she says. Basically, this accounting trick meant that instead of assuming a property built on a previously undeveloped site had a life of thirty or forty years, you could assume it only had a life of seven years. "It meant that you could have losses -- tax losses, paper losses -- you could set against your profits, and therefore the whole thing was going to be less profitable; you could pay less taxes," she explains.
Essentially, the government had found a way to subsidize new real-estate development in locations far from the core city. "But what did happen as a result was that developers started to build faster and more cheaply since they knew they'd be turning these things over," Hayden goes on. "What was implied [in the tax code] was that there would be dead malls and dead main streets and declining places every time the new one opened up. And what's happening [in Denver] is simply the same process fifty years down the line. I think you see some areas where the older suburbs are in terrible shape, and other places where they are experiencing a revival, especially if they have some type of public transportation and a good location."
At the former home of Villa Italia, for example, Lakewood and developer Continuum Partners rehabbed the hundred-acre pad into Belmar, one of the nation's first attempts at creating a true urban downtown district on the site of an old shopping mall. The raves that Belmar has drawn stand in stark contrast to what's happened in Northglenn. Under pressure from a city council desperate for a boost in revenue, Northglenn Mall was finally demolished in 1998 by Jordan Perlmutter & Co.; the site has since been reconstructed as the Marketplace at Northglenn, an outdoor power center with a Lowe's, a Borders, an Old Navy and several other big-box mega-marts that stare at each other over an amplitude of parking and some obligatory landscaping.
While its longtime rival bit the dust, Westminster Mall celebrated its twentieth birthday as the northern area's supreme shopping destination, with 1.5 million square feet and 170 stores. By now, Joslins had become Dillard's, Broadway Southwest was Sears, and Montgomery Ward had jumped on as a sixth anchor. Sales totaled $289 million in 1998, the second-highest in Colorado per square foot.
Kenton Anderson, Westminster's general manager since 1985, credits the mall's lasting popularity to its tenant mix, which straddles the line between practical-minded purchases and high-end appeal. "We've always been the type of place where middle America shops," he says. But Anderson acknowledges that the lack of competition in the area has contributed to the mall's success, too.
The neighboring cities of Broomfield and Arvada had long watched with irritation as their citizens, guided by the magnetic pull of the Westminster Mall, drove into the heavily retailed town of Westminster to spend their dollars at both the mall and the 4.4 million square feet of surrounding retail space. So in the early '90s, both Broomfield and Arvada began rezoning huge swaths of land at their western boundaries to allow development of commercial and office space, in hopes of landing a large retail project that could compete with Westminster Mall.
Arvada's ambitions for the intersection of highways 72 and 93 were largely blocked by the parcel's proximity to the contaminated Rocky Flats site and Boulder's successful purchase of 1,100 acres for open space at the entrance to Coal Creek Canyon. But Broomfield's efforts were much more successful. The growth of the Interlocken office park along the U.S. 36 corridor added several hundred thousand square feet in office space to the area and, in the late '90s, spurred developers to choose the western tip of the city for a new super-regional mall.
Westminster didn't take the threat of the upscale FlatIron Crossing lightly. In 1999, city manager Bill Christopher proclaimed that Westminster was committed to maintaining its foothold in the northwest retail market. "In order to do this," he said, "aggressive reinvestment in a large economic engine like the Westminster Mall is warranted."
In partnership with the Westminster Mall Company, which owns and manages the center, the city covered $7.5 million of the $10 million facelift that gave the mall a more contemporary look, with new facades, skylights and seating areas. "Westminster Mall will continue to be a major player in the north area's marketplace," Christopher predicted at the ribbon-cutting in 2000, pointing out that the mall was tied with the then brand-new FlatIron as the second-biggest shopping center in Colorado, behind Park Meadows' 1.6 million square feet.
Despite the city's investment, recent years have not been kind to Westminster Mall. The remodel of the food court promised in 2001 has yet to be done, and most of the eateries have closed, save for an Italian and a Mexican joint. While some stores seem to be prospering -- cell-phone outlets and sports-jersey shops are uncommonly abundant -- the classic hot-air balloons are deflated and the fountain is empty.
From its peak in 1999, sales-tax collection at the Westminster Mall has decreased by 35 percent. Meanwhile, the vacancy rate has risen by 15 percent, and today only 80 percent of the leaseable space is filled. BC Surf and Sport moved from the mall's almost-empty north wing to a spot near the interior earlier this year. "We were so dead up there it was crazy," says assistant manager Zach Romero. Business has since picked up, but the shop isn't doing anywhere near the numbers it was when the mall was hopping.
While Anderson admits that FlatIron has affected the mall's sales, he points to other factors, too. The economic downturn in 2001 had an impact on all metro-area malls. And the big-box discounters and power-center-type developments that transformed the retail landscape in the '90s have hurt his traditional anchors. "You don't have department stores anymore with the strength in the changing retail environment," he says. "Sears is combining with Kmart, Foley's is merging with Macy's, and Target is spinning off Mervyn's. That's quite a change in a short period of time."
In 2001, when Montgomery Ward closed all six of its Colorado stores, he began to see the mall lose strength, Anderson says. But with five remaining anchors, he's confident the mall "has stayed viable and will continue to stay viable."
Brent McFall, Westminster's city manager, doesn't express the same confidence. "Retail is a fickle business, and the tastes of the customers and what they're looking for, the atmosphere, has to be constantly reinvented," he says. "In the case of the Westminster Mall, the ownership has not significantly reinvested in the mall property itself." He would like to see a complete overhaul that would "reposition" the mall to appeal to consumers whose shopping habits have changed; this might entail tearing down certain sections of the structure.
But Anderson believes the $7.5 million the city invested in the mall's facelift has already paid off. Westminster could have done nothing, as Boulder did with the forty-year-old Crossroads Mall, which fell into near abandonment after the opening of FlatIron and was demolished last year. "Nothing was done, and now it's extinct," Anderson says. "It's gone. It has disappeared, and Westminster is still here." The 65-acre Crossroads site is being rebuilt as an open-air, "main-street-style" retail development dubbed "29th Street" by a subsidiary of Macerich Co., the Santa Monica-based real-estate firm that also owns FlatIron.
Zach Romero remembers the slow, painful demise of Crossroads very well. He worked at the BC Surf and Sport outlet there, and recalls dreary times in 2001 and 2002 when only ten customers a day might wander into the store. He's afraid the same fate could befall Westminster Mall, especially after the three new retail developments appear along northern I-25. "Yeah, as soon as those new malls open up, that's going to kill us," he says.
One of those developments, the one-million-square foot Orchard Town Center, is located on the northeast boundary of Westminster. Scheduled to open between fall 2006 and spring 2007, Orchard will feature many of the same anchors now found at Westminster. But McFall says he isn't worried that the new mall might cannibalize its existing mall. "For us, it is really a distinctively different market than the Westminster Mall," he explains. "It doesn't mean there won't be some cannibalization, but we think by and large it will not have a significant impact on the Westminster Mall."
None of the new developments are malls in the traditional sense, because all are variations on the open-air, main-street theme. "But it's going to have an effect on all the malls," Anderson predicts, and that includes Westminster Mall. "The retail pie keeps getting cut up into smaller and smaller pieces, and that effect is just more dilution of the retail market as a whole."
Byron Koste, director of the University of Colorado Real Estate Center, says malls have to distinguish themselves in order to attract a customer base that is increasingly particular and diverse. "In the good old days, all malls were the same," he points out. "Southwest mall was the same as the Northwest mall, same as the Westminster Mall, same as the Crossroads Mall. They had the same tenants, same configuration, and if you were blindfolded, you would have no clue where in the world you were. What is happening is that malls are having to attract customers. How do you do that? You differentiate."
Developers are now trying to understand the specific market they're serving, and designing the atmosphere and tenant mix around that. "Because a good mall for the southeast would be different than a good mall for the southwest," Koste says. "Now, one could say that FlatIron and Park Meadows are similar, but I guarantee that what happens out on I-25 and Colorado 7 is going to be different, because they're serving a different clientele."
And when FlatIron opened ten miles northeast of Westminster Mall, what clientele was it catering to? "Yuppies," Koste says. "I mean, it's yuppie heaven. Look at the restaurants; look at the stores. They have a Bed, Bath & Beyond, a Restoration Hardware. They have three or four that have virtually the same type of product, and they're all doing well because the young, wealthy folks buy that stuff like popcorn."
When FlatIron Crossing held its grand-opening celebration in August 2000, approximately 100,000 people drove to Broomfield to check out the new mall located off the Boulder Turnpike. Following the pattern of the successful Park Meadows to the south, Phoenix-based Westcor Partners had developed the mall as a "retail resort" with a strong emphasis on high-end shopping and superior architectural design. It took more than two years and $220 million to complete the 170-acre site, which contains enough square yards of asphalt to pave 97 football fields and enough square feet of interior glass to create 4,400 car windshields, and involved moving enough dirt to fill 87 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Anchored by a Foley's, a Nordstrom, a Gaylan's sporting goods store (now Dick's), a Dillard's and a since-defunct Lord & Taylor, the core section of the mall featured 160 stores and restaurants, and the half-mile-long outdoor area had room for another forty stores. Shoppers marveled at the elegant yet earthy space, from the vaulted ceiling with exposed oak beams to the overstuffed leather couches and flagstone flooring. Promotional materials said that FlatIron's designers had been inspired by the beauty of the "mountain canyons, high country trails, and prairies not too far away" and wanted to express "the setting and sensibilities of the landscape where it takes root."
But the same bucolic landscape that marketing rhapsody celebrated was already endangered. Roll Development's FlatIron Marketplace opened just east of the mall in early 2001; the 432,000-square-foot "lifestyle center" featured some thirty chain stores and restaurants and was anchored by Best Buy, Nordstrom Rack and the Great Indoors. And soon more dirt will be moved for Coalton Acres' massive, 165-acre Main Street at FlatIron, with 657,000 square feet of stores, restaurants and office space, including a 200-room Marriott, a DSW Shoe Warehouse and a 206,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter.
The sheer size of the mega-mall and these two neighboring companions makes FlatIron a city unto itself -- an arcadia of shopping where nobody lives, but where everybody goes to get their clothing, food and entertainment. Unlike shopping districts that are designed to serve a specific area, FlatIron leasing agents boast that the mall is strategically located to attract shoppers from as far away as Laramie and Cheyenne, not to mention Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Longmont and the north Denver suburbs. And especially Boulder.
Having long used a city sales tax to purchase open space around city edges, the Boulder City Council faced its own shopping-center dilemma in the late '70s. "The issue wasn't shopping center or no shopping center," says former Boulder County commissioner Paul Danish, who'd authored the city's original growth-management plan as a member of Boulder City Council in 1976. "The issue there was, where does the shopping center go?" Crossroads Mall had stood at two main thoroughfares, Arapahoe Avenue and 28th Street, a half mile from the downtown core, since 1963. But now developers were eyeing Foothills Parkway at the far edge of the city for a new collection of department stores.
"We had done comprehensive planning that showed a compact city, and we wanted it centrally located," Danish says. Developers threatened to take their project to nearby Louisville unless Boulder capitulated, and finally both parties reached an agreement that the city would institute an urban-renewal authority and set up tax-increment financing to pay for the expansion of Crossroads. Completed in 1983, the new, two-story section included several department stores and a Foley's, which was the only large retailer still in operation when the mall finally bottomed out in the late '90s.
While Crossroads died, FlatIron Crossing was born. The area was ripe for a regional mall. "They understood that they had the emerging Superior," says CU's Byron Koste. "The area supplied expensive housing that grew up overnight. All of a sudden, there were a couple of thousand new homes, all $400,000 to $600,000; the people who lived there were often dual-income with a disposable income to die for; and [developers] gave them a mall right down the street where they could spend it."
FlatIron was not only an aesthetic offense to Boulder's environmentally focused policy, but an economic barb as well. In 2001 and 2002, Boulder felt a sudden bloodletting of sales-tax revenue -- what city economic strategists refer to as "leakage" or "retail outflow" -- that has only recently slowed. Other cities felt the pinch, too. "The economics of it for the city is clear," Koste notes. "You don't want your residents running across a jurisdictional boundary and spending their money in somebody else's limits and that city gets the sales-tax bump. So they're vitally important for the community."
For Broomfield, FlatIron was a bonanza. The sales-tax collections have helped the city pay for more open space, new city buildings, state-of-the-art recreation centers and a strong police and fire force. While nearby cities had to tighten their belts in the early 2000s, Broomfield was relatively awash in revenue. Since it opened, the entire FlatIron District has generated $79.7 million in sales tax -- but not all of that has ended up in city coffers.
To score the three large projects, Broomfield granted the developers a big-money incentive in the form of a $135 million abatement on future sales-tax revenue earned by the district, according to Greg Demko, finance director for the City and County of Broomfield. Since the district was four miles away from the city's core, it required a huge amount of new public infrastructure: roads, streetlights, sidewalks, sewer and gas lines and highway interchange upgrades. The developers subsidized the city while it created that infrastructure; so far, Broomfield has rebated $37.5 million back to the developers. But Demko is quick to point out that this wasn't a flat-out subsidy to line the developers' pockets. "They are paying all of their property taxes," he notes. "It's not urban renewal; this is a development agreement with share-back revenue they produce."
And even with the rebate, the $42 million retained by the city over the period accounts for 52 percent of Broomfield's sales-tax collections, doubling the cash in city coffers. If the mall's sales tax continues at current rates, Demko projects, Broomfield's debt will be paid off by 2022 at a total cost of $282 million.
According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, a non-profit trade group for retail developments, FlatIron took in $12 million in 2004, about $398 per square foot. The national average for enclosed malls was $366 per square foot. FlatIron has a 98 percent leased rate, says mall spokeswoman Heather Dray, "which is higher than the national average." But that percentage doesn't include anchors or the now-vacant Lord & Taylor. It also doesn't seem to reflect the mall's outdoor section, The Village at FlatIron Crossing, which has been struggling to attract and retain tenants since the mall opened.
One weekend afternoon, a young woman and her mother strolled past the valet-parking kiosk into the outdoor segment of the mall, which was designed to resemble a European village.
"Are they closed, too?" she asked, peering into a shuttered storefront.
"Maybe they were too expensive," the mother offered. They both turned and looked across the corridor at another store where a large sign pronounced "Going out of business. Everything must go."
That space is now a seasonal Halloween costume shop.
Larkridge is set to open on October 20. Months before, the home site of Jordan Perlmutter & Co. featured a banner ad with a bulldozer pushing a pile of dirt and the question "When was the last time you felt the earth move?"
The earth is certainly moving in this part of the metro area -- and not just because of Perlmutter's development. Taking note of the transportation confluence of I-25, Colorado 7 and the recently completed E-470 interchange, retail developers have spent the past two years securing prime tracts of commercially zoned property that could provide convenient shopping for all those future consumers driving along I-25.
The borders of three cities and three counties converge here; all are racing to put the next big regional mall project on their side of the fence. Although some experts already consider this market oversaturated with retail, developers and municipalities alike are confident that the tenant mix at each project will be sufficiently unique to serve non-competing segments of the marketplace. These regional retail centers not only expect to pull the "underserved" customers from the 120,000 housing units already within a ten-mile circumference of the interchange, but they're betting that the retail and office developments themselves will spur an influx of new residents to the area.
They're in "edge node" mode. In Dolores Hayden's A Field Guide to Sprawl, a pictorial encyclopedia that defines different types of suburban development and uses numerous aerial photographic examples from Colorado to do so, an edge node is described as a large, loose grouping of office and retail usually found off highways. "People may work in edge nodes, but they don't like to live there," she writes. "So they jump in the car at 5 o'clock and drive for an hour to some place that they think is unspoiled, and that's why some of the fastest growing places in the US are the rural fringes."
Will Coyne, land-use advocate for the non-profit Environment Colorado, has been following the growth trend in the northern metro area and contends that regional shopping malls are the antithesis of sustainable planning. "Smart growth is about creating livable communities where people can live, work, shop and play all in the same area," he says. "Where you don't have to get in your car and drive ten, fifteen miles to go somewhere. These things are built on automobile culture." He argues that cities that allow low-density, auto-oriented housing developments end up forcing themselves into a position where they need to build large regional shopping centers.
"The cost of the infrastructure of services to residential subdivisions is so enormous that [the developments] don't come anywhere near paying for themselves," he says. "So to pay for them, they build a new regional shopping mall or a new Wal-Mart." Colorado cities have been inordinately dependent on sales-tax revenues since the state adopted the Gallagher Amendment in 1982, which stipulated that no more than 45 percent of the total amount of state property tax collected must come from residential property, while 55 percent of the property tax collected must come from commercial property. "The only way they can continue to feed it is to build," Coyne says. "More residential development for immediate money and then big retail developments to bring in more sales tax."
Thornton began prepping its northern property along I-70 for future development ten years ago, putting sewer and water lines in to make the area more appealing for developers. "We knew this growth was going to come, and we wanted to be prepared," says Mayor Noel Busck. But the city wasn't just trying to be accommodating -- Thornton officials recognized that their financial health was at stake as well. "The I-25 corridor is really our cash cow because we're so sales-tax-based," he adds. "Every municipality in Colorado is." So when Perlmutter and Co. approached Thornton a little more than two years ago with the idea of a mega-power center modeled after their earlier project in Northglenn, the city enthusiastically welcomed the proposal for Larkridge.
At the same time, both Broomfield and Westminster were shooting for their own regional retail centers in the area, and everyone recognized that the first developer to put its footprint in the sand could determine the ambitions of the other two. "This has been a horse race," Busck says. "But Mr. Perlmutter is a visionary person. He said, 'We can build this. We can do this now.'"
The developer originally projected that the power center would open sometime around 2008, but with a strong interest from retailers, it was able to fill up the tenant slots and open nearly three years earlier than anticipated. "So we got out of the blocks first," Busck says proudly. "We hit the home run first."
City officials anticipate that Larkridge will generate around $8.5 million in sales-tax revenue in its first year of operation. Much of that will be funneled to the urban-renewal district that the city created in order to upgrade the vast infrastructure improvements that the development will necessitate, but Busck is still giddy about the revenue possibilities that the mall will create. He's much more wary of growth to the north, especially in the fast-growing towns of Dacono, Firestone and Frederick, and has been an outspoken critic of large-lot, semi-rural ranchettes in Adams and Weld counties. "These folks are going to be coming into my city one way or another," says Busck, who's also a boardmember on the Denver Regional Council of Governments. "And they're coming in now, and a lot of them aren't even counted in the metropolitan district."
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But as long as they come with cash -- and leave when they're done shopping -- he can live with it.
In Northglenn, the earliest of the mall pioneers, officials recognize that the continued growth will have its effect -- particularly since landlocked Northglenn is missing out on the northern I-25 boom. With the opening of Larkridge, the city is preparing for a 10 percent drop in sales-tax revenue at the Marketplace at Northglenn. But that's not much of a concern to Perlmutter, which recently put the Marketplace up for sale, with a reported top bid of $87 million.
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Hoax. I watched a special on tv where they discussed this. They gave very strong arguments that made me think it was all a Nasa hoax.
For all of you believers in the idea of it being a hoax can you explain how the hoax was so thorough as to fool the Soviets? Or if they weren't fooled why they went along with it?
I would assume it is impossible that they couldn't have seen the command module circling the moon via telescope or that at some point they couldn't have seen either our landing or landing site via telescope. And since a big portion of the moon program was a space race, it would be a feather in their cap to debunk our landing.
And I would assume their shouts of "fraud" (if they were made) would be impossible to keep from our shores... eventually.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
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I was really hoping that someone would take a shot at my question from above. Is there a logical reason the Soviets would've went along with a hoax or that the Americans could've managed things so that the Soviets could be fooled or at the least couldn't discredit the effort?
Did the US claim to be landing in spots that would be blind to Soviet telescopes (Is that even possible?)?
Were the ships, men, and debris too small to be visible from an Earthbound telescope in 69-72? I would assume not, but I have no idea.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
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Hoax. Kaufman and Jerry Lawler were in cahoots.
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I can't believe we're discussing this. How many times do I have to say this,
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Andy Kaufman always thought it was a staged hoax...
"Sometimes, when you look Andy in the eyes, you get a feeling somebody else is driving." -- David Letterman
My grandmother has been on record for 20 years that we never went to the moon that it was all a big show. She also does not believe that dinosaurs ever existed.
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post."
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Maybe....but then again why has so much money been put into the place to make wierd renovations? Sorry for digging this up, but my boss literally just started telling me about it today. The stuff that has been put in there asks a awful lot of question in my mind. Of course the realist in me cant seem to grasp or believe it all...but if not then what is really going on there?
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Well, this takes over as the silliest thread of the year. About that flag waving, do a little research, there is an explanation....... ...
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Real. My favorite comedic scientists (The Mythbusters) proved it.
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You won't have to worry about the fake moon landing in eight days you know. I've have given everything away except my computer and will continue to visit PD until the earth is destroyed. I won't even buy a lottery ticket now because what good will it do.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Oh boy.
Realz cause the US had skillz.
Had. Don't really have skills anymore. It's all downhill from here.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
RIP NASA. *Pours out a 40 for my homies*
I actually have a third cousin who went to the moon. no lie. James Irwin.
never met him though, he passed when i was only 1.
Very interesting topic. I am on the that it actually happened side, but I was not around when it happened. You never know with our government and what secrets that may have or deny having.
Has anyone ever seen the Big Bang Theory episode where they pointed a laser at the moon and got a reflection off of the reflectors left by the Apollo astronauts? Well, it's true. This actually can be done and is still being routinely done today by professional and amateur scientists. Now, the Russians also left reflectors on the moon that can be used in the same way. However, their reflectors were not adjusted by hand like the US reflectors because they were obviously not left there by manned missions. You can do the laser range experiment with the US reflector coordinates, and then do the same experiment with the Russian coordinates. The US mirrors give better results because they were placed at the correct angles and spaced by hand while the Russian results were dropped from unmanned equipment and some of them made it to the proper place and some did not. So it's possible to get these reflectors to the moon without actually visiting the moon. It is NOT possible to get the difference in the US results and Russian results without actual hand placement of the reflectors by astronauts who were ON THE MOON TO PLACE THEM. You may ask how I know this. Well, as some of you may remember, my wife holds a degree in Physics and actually performed this experiment many times throughout her schooling. Believe me, don't believe me, whatever. But for me personally, I've heard enough about it to believe it 100%.
Look the government couldn't even cover up Bill Clinton getting BJs from a chunky intern in the oval office, I don't understand how people expect them to cover something like this or bigger.


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THE last time Scott Walker released an album, 2006's The Drift, I began and ended my review by warning potential listeners to seriously consider whether they really wanted to enter here. And I wasn't joking.
A grim, almost misanthropic catalogue of human bastardry and ugliness that wallowed musically in a stygian morass at times and at others lanced the atmosphere with the sharpness of the abattoir knives and machines featured on one track, The Drift was not easygoing. Astonishing, yes, one of the artistic statements of the year and a must-hear if you had any interest in the outer reaches of popular music, but neither easy nor easily recommended.
Bish Bosch is not quite as loaded with loathing and might even have a very dry and very black joke or two. There's a wider range of instruments and sounds (the brass actually sounding like brass and not a squealing animal, there's something that could well be a ukulele and some extra vocals are unaffectedly attractive) and there are rhythms that charge and at times might hint at some kind of dance.
But I would be lying if I said it makes this album comfortable enough for anyone but the hardy adventurer. Not when Tar offers both sounds and imagery that raise the hairs on your arm even as Walker's voice is at its warmest baritone, and See You Don't Bump His Head is one long, high-intensity chase scene, all heavily prodding guitars and drums in pursuit. Or when Corps De Blah is like walking into a Dario Argento horror film soundtracked by an opera deviant.
Or indeed when Zercon, a Flagpole Sitter takes you on a 21-minute journey through trembling trees and rumbling bodies, past shadowed buildings of thick concrete and into corners where thinly dressed men curl up into the smallest targets. This track in particular can be brutal. And yet, strangely, compellingly beautiful in a way that is hard to explain, except to say Walker hasn't lost any of the alluring pull in his voice from the days when he was in thrall to the songs of Jacques Brel. (The golden years of Scott Walker, it must be said.)
Remember, too, at least hints of humour - well, that's my explanation, anyway, for the frequent references to gonads, bollocks and other variations of the same dangling bits. Not to mention sphincters and organs plucked, crushed and smooshed. And there are those translatable rhythms, most clearly in Epizootics!, where we leap from tribal to terminal to danceable and back again in a way nightclubs might recognise.
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Education and promotion are driving mango consumption in the U.S.
"Most U.S. consumers did not grow up with mangoes in their homes and are not sure about how to select, cut or use them, so there is a big opportunity for the industry if we can bridge that knowledge gap," said Greg Golden, partner and sales manager, Amazon Produce Network, Mullica Hill, N.J.
The National Mango Board focuses on teaching consumers, according to Megan McKenna, director of marketing.
"Although consumption is on the rise, the mango board continues to focus on key messages about selection and ripening and how to cut a mango. These are the biggest barriers for consumers to purchase mangoes," McKenna said.
Others agree that education is a continuing area of focus for the industry.
"It's a slow process, but we are reaching more and more people every year," said Michael Warren, president, Central American Produce, Inc., Pompano Beach, Fla.
Choosing a mango is one of the main teaching points in the board's outreach materials, but it isn't as simple as simply educating consumers on what is best.
"Ideal ripeness is a personal choice, and some recipes call for a greater or lesser level of ripeness in the fruit," she said.
"We want consumers to be well educated so they can choose the fruit that meets their needs, so we teach them to squeeze gently, and let them know that if the fruit is too firm they can leave it at room temperature to ripen for a few days," McKenna said.
The board offers header cards and tear pads for use in retail locations.
Recipes are an effective tool for promoting mangoes at a retail level, and the board works with chefs and bloggers to create recipes each year, according to information from William Watson, executive director.
In-store demonstrations also are effective, according to suppliers.
"We believe the strongest promotional tools used to market mangoes in stores are cutting demos and large displays in areas of high foot traffic," said Sandra Aguilar, marketing manager for Ciruli Bros. LLC.
Michael Warren, president of Central American Produce Inc., Pompano Beach, said he agrees retail stores have the opportunity to really reach consumers.
"Displays or promotions that provide cooked product for the customers in the store are helpful," he said.
Seasonally, mangoes are good to promote in summer and late fall or early winter.
"Mangoes are great to promote in April through August and October through December. Volumes are more consistent year to year and very strong during those months," said Isabel Freeland, vice president of San Diego-based Coast Citrus Distributors Inc.
Cinco de Mayo is the best holiday, however, according to Wade Shiba, managing partner at GM Produce Sales LLC, Hidalgo, Texas.
"Easter and Memorial Day are good, but the big one is Cinco de Mayo. I think we will have promotable volume for Cinco de Mayo this year. We're hoping to have a good spring," he said.
Online outlets are also popular.
"Having direct communication with consumers is extremely valuable. Their comments play a key role in the types of recipes we develop and the information that we publish," Aguilar said.


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Bogota hotel in Chico with free parking
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly Bogota hotel is located in the entertainment district, within a 10-minute walk of Virrey Park and Rockefeller Casino. El Retiro Shopping Centre and Atlantis Plaza Shopping Mall are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a rooftop terrace, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 56 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Guests can enjoy private pools, and other standard amenities include 24-hour room service, DVD players, and LCD TVs.
Guest Highlights
- Refreshing pool
- Friendly, helpful staff
- Good location
- Breakfast
- Clean guestrooms
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool, Cite Hotel provides a fitness center and complimentary bicycles. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. 3 meeting rooms are available. This family-friendly hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, a shuttle from the airport to the hotel (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in 2012.
Cite Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation - pickup (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 56
- Number of floors - 10
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 4
- Multilingual staff
- Rooftop terrace
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Year Built 2010
- 24-hour business center
- Smoke-free property
- Garden
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- DVD player
- Premium bedding
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Room service (24 hours)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Pillow menu
- Private pool
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Bistro - This bistro serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and complimentary bicycles.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
- Free bicycles on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 8 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- The national sales tax (19%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Colombia regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying 60 consecutive days or more. Foreigners on a tourist visa are exempt from this tax. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: COP 42000 for adults and COP 42000 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: COP 52000 per vehicle
- Airport shuttle fee per child: COP 52000 (one-way), (from 1 to 8 years old)
- Early check-in fee: COP 105
- Late check-out fee: COP 105
Hotel Name
- Cite Bogota
- Cite Hotel
- Cite Hotel Bogota
- Hotel Cite
We should mention
If you are traveling with a child your property may require you to present the following documents: Parents traveling into Colombia with a child under 18 may be required to present the child's birth certificate and photo ID (passport for foreign visitors) upon check-in. If a relative or legal guardian is traveling into Colombia with the child, that relative or legal guardian may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by both parents and a copy of both parents' ID. If only one parent is traveling into Colombia with the child, that parent may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by the other parent. Visitors who plan to travel with children should consult with a Colombian consulate office prior to travel for further guidance. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. One child 8 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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I'm not surprised that China is about to over take over America economically. Shucks, with the kind of leaderships we have I wouldn't be surprised if Cuba eventually overtakes us.
Fox News propaganda and the willingness of the ignorant public to believe anything anti-Obama is ruining our country.
Most of our elected clowns in Washington would get something done if they would quit using that word "comprehensive." Comprehensive this and comprehensive that.
After being in Germany in the 1960s and talking to the German people about Adolf Hitler's policy on gun control. We are now carrying that same policy in this country today and we all know what that did for Germany back then.
As a veteran I find it most offensive that someone put in there that Bush didn't do anything that other rich kids didn't do. Look at it this way, how could you send somebody else to a war that you wouldn't go to. He's a chicken hawk and a sissy boy and that is all I got to say about that.
They should make the parents pay for what the hoodlums did to the Top-o-Rock house. If they catch them they won't do anything to them anyway.
Anytime you hear of a shooting, thank Capito for standing with the NRA to put a gun in the hands of anyone that want one. No background check.
Since when are young people that vandalize property like the Top-o-Rock house called children? When I was growing up they were called juvenile delinquents.
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The City of Charleston should worry less about gun ordinances and concentrate on panhandling ordinances in their city.
I am looking for a place in the area that has ramp dinners or lunches. Could someone let me know.
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Someone called to declare Obamacare a success. You better wait until you see how much it pays your hospital, lab and your doctor. The answer is — not much.
Instead of legalizing marijuana and same sex marriage, they ought to be legalizing Jesus and they ought to be legalizing prayer.
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I just had to laugh at the reader who declared Obamacare a success. What a joke.
To the parent with the son who has learning disabilities, you probably are the best person to help your son. Sit down with him for 10 minutes in the evening or quiet time and go over his letters with him. Be kind, be patient praise him for trying. You are the best person to help your little boy. Do it now, don't put it off.


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New Director of Department of Administration for Human Services
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appointed Willard K. Garnes as director of the Department of Administration for Human Services, effective April 28, 2003. He has been the acting director of this agency since September 2000. Prior to that Garnes was the Human Resources Manager for the agency for five years where he managed and directed all human resources support for Human Services systems serving 3,500 human services employees.
Garnes has been with the county since 1983, when he was hired as a coordinator for Clinical and Community Support Services, Office of Mental Health, Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board. Prior to that Garnes worked as a clinical social worker for Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Va. for nine years. He also has served in the Army on active duty or in the Army Reserves, from 1972 to the present in a variety of social work positions with increasing levels of responsibility. Garnes currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Garnes graduated from St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va. with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in May 1972. He later earned a Master of Social Work degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. in 1982. A native Virginian, Garnes currently resides in Vienna, Va.
As director of the Department of Administration for Human Services, Garnes will continue to provide oversight to the department and coordinate work in the five business areas, which are financial management, human resources, contracts management, physical resources, and information technology strategic planning for human services. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fairfax Alcohol Safety Action Program. He will also continue to serve as a member of the Human Services Leadership Team working collaboratively to set organizational goals, objectives and strategic planning processes. Garnes is responsible for an agency budget of approximately $9.7 million with a 164-member staff.
He will receive an annual salary of $104,486.
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The Brahan Seer memorial at Chanonry Point. © Elsie Maclean
The Brahan Seer's prophecies have intrigued people for centuries and such is his reputation that his predictions are still spoken of today.
Most of what we know about him and his prophecies has come from the oral tradition and, according to folklore, the Brahan Seer's birth name was Kenneth Mackenzie. He was said to have been born in Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the 17th century and was known as Coinneach Odhar in Gaelic. There is no documentary evidence of his existence at this time but there is a record of a Coinneach Odhar in court archives who was accused of witchcraft in the 16th century.
He is said to have prophesised many events such as the Second World War, the demise of various Scottish clans, the Battle of Culloden, the construction of the Caledonian Canal, and the introduction of railway lines across the Highlands. A book of the Brahan Seer's prophecies was first published by Alexander Mackenzie in 1877. There has been much speculation about whether the predictions originated from one person and if the Brahan Seer really existed.
According to legend, the Brahan Seer worked for the third Earl of Seaforth and was employed as a labourer at Brahan Castle near Dingwall when one of his prophecies led to his own brutal death. The Earl of Seaforth was away in France and his wife, Countess Isabella, wanted news of his welfare. The Brahan Seer had a vision of the Earl with another woman and when he told her of this, the Countess had him burned alive in a barrel of hot tar at Chanonry Point on the Black Isle.
The Brahan Seer was said to have used a stone with a hole in the middle to see his visions and there are various tales as to how the stone came into his possession. Some say that he fell asleep on a fairy hill and awoke to find it in his pocket and in other accounts he found the stone in a raven's nest. In this version told by Donald Sinclair from Tiree, the Brahan Seer was on a beach one night when he met the phantom of a drowned maiden who told him where to find the stone, one that she herself had used for prophecy. Donald refers to him as 'Dun Kenneth' which is a translation of his Gaelic name.
Listen to 'How the Brahan Seer got the stone he used for prophecy/ Mar a fhuair Coinneach Odhar a' chlach a thug dha an dà-shealladh'
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