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An ambitious new lodge and trail system near Kingfield is betting hikers and skiers are looking for luxurious accommodations.
Pickups, along with pulp trucks, rule Kingfield. You'll never fit in here if you don't drive one or the other, which is why I'm thrilled to shed my station wagon and hop into Dave Herring's full-size Toyota Tundra for the short drive to a trailhead up the road in Carrabassett. Herring, the executive director of the nonprofit Maine Huts & Trails, is taking me to see the six-hundred-thousand-dollar backcountry lodge that his group is opening this month, and the brawny pickup helps us both seem a bit more like men of the woods. But what I learn after spending a few hours with Herring is that he views these woods less as a wilderness used exclusively by the hook-and-bullet crowd than as an outdoor playground that should also be open to skiers, hikers, and mountain bikers - people as likely to drive a Prius as a pickup.
Starting with its first lodge, at Poplar Stream Falls, and adding another at Flagstaff Lake and a third on the Dead River west of The Forks as soon as next winter, Maine Huts & Trails is pairing groomed cross-country skiing trails with comfortable backcountry accommodations. Within seven years, Herring hopes to be operating twelve backcountry lodges and 180 miles of trail from Bethel to Moosehead Lake. So far his group has raised more than $5 million from private individuals and companies and cleared or cut some thirty-six miles of old logging roads and new trails between Carrabassett and The Forks.
Dozens of hemlock bridges, reinforced with metal I-beams, now span stream crossings. In warm weather, the wider, eight-foot-wide trails will be open to mountain bikers, hikers, and even hunters, the narrower terrain
reserved for foot traffic only. (Motorized traffic is prohibited year-round.) On Fridays during the winter, a motorized groomer - essentially a smaller version of the Sno-Cats found at downhill ski areas - will smooth a trail to allow cross-country skiers to practice their diagonal and freestyle strides on fresh-cut corduroy.
At around four thousand square feet and boasting many of the comforts of home, the Poplar Stream Falls lodge is the only facility currently in operation, but the Land Use Regulation Commission is expected to take up the applications for two others early this year. Each lodge (if these are "huts" then I must admit to living in a "shack") will be nearly identical, and backcountry adventurers will find the same experience at each one: check in at a reception desk, toss your backpack into whichever detached bunkhouse you've reserved (you can choose from a four-person private one to a twelve-person communal unit), hang your sweaty polypropylene in a specially vented drying room, and then pad your wool socks across the slate floor to one of the tables and chairs arranged in the lodge's cavernous living room. Don't worry about your toes getting chilly; the radiant-floor heat system, powered by a wood-fired boiler in the lodge's basement, takes the edge off. Before the five-person staff sets out the evening's dinner you'll probably want to hit the showers (though with only four stalls serving forty-two guests, you might want to plan early) or perhaps take care of some other business in the composting toilets (they cost more than thirty thousand to install, so you better use them!). After dinner (meals are included in the room rate, which ranges from fifty-five to ninety-five dollars per person), you might indulge in a staff naturalist's discussion before trudging out to your bunkhouse and snuggling under thick blankets (provided by the lodge, of course). In the morning, you'll feast on a hot breakfast before strapping on your boards or snowshoes and hitting the ten or twelve miles to the next hut.
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Look at all the main tourist attractions in Maine - they're all within ten miles of the coast," says Dave Herring. We're ascending the first steep uphill climb of the 2.5-mile trail between the trailhead in Carrabassett and the Poplar Stream Falls hut, situated at an elevation of about 1,300 feet. "The state has been looking for ways to bring tourists inland, and what better way than this? The product is here - it's the Maine woods - but by and large it's not accessible. We're trying to change that."
If climbing this steep grade is a challenge for me - Herring reassures me that the first rise out of the parking area off Carriage Road is the toughest of the whole trail - bringing a new way of experiencing the backcountry has been far more difficult for Maine Huts & Trails and its founder, Larry Warren. The former president of Sugarloaf/USA first conceived of the hut system as a 180-mile network of twelve huts from the Mahoosuc Range near the New Hampshire border to Rockwood, with the trail wandering through private and public land and passing near such scenic spots as Height of Land, Flagstaff Lake, and the Bigelow Preserve, north of Carrabassett. Indeed, Warren's decision to route the trail through the Bigelows would prove to be pivotal, as it galvanized opposition groups such as the Friends of Bigelow, which saw the idea of mechanized groomers as paving the way not just for skiers but for other high-impact uses in this strictly traditional area.
"A lot of people in Friends of Bigelow are like me, old-time Mainers, and they can't see staying in such a lodge - they camp out," explains Lance Tapley, a founder of Friends of Bigelow. "They were concerned about a noisy machine going through the woods and were afraid that it would disturb the tranquility of that part of the Maine woods. They also worried that [the lodge] would be a palace for well-to-do out-of-staters."
The deal that Tapley brokered between the Friends of Bigelow and Warren, an agreement that still smarts for some die-hard traditionalists, moved the trail from an eight-mile crossing to one that uses an existing right-of-way to slip across a tiny corner of the preserve. The key to making this possible was a twenty-five-year lease Warren secured with the Penobscot tribe for access to 306 acres of their land around Poplar Stream Falls. This $114,000 deal, which has an option to renew every five years, allowed Warren to connect all the sections of trail that he had negotiated with such landowners as FPL Energy, Central Maine Power Company, and Plum Creek Timberlands, as well as several smaller landowners and the state of Maine. In total, Warren spent about $1.6 million to secure the right to run his trail between Carrabassett and The Forks. Once the deals were in place, he estimates he spent more than two hundred thousand dollars to build the thirty-six-mile trail itself, which was scaled down from the original sixteen-foot-wide swath to an eight-foot-wide groomed area.
This winter Maine Huts & Trails will groom the twenty miles from Carrabassett to the future site of the Grand Falls hut on the Dead River. The final trail obstacle in what Warren has termed Phase I, the network of trails and huts between Carrabassett and The Forks, will almost surely prove to be the most expensive: Maine Huts & Trails is finalizing the application for a cable-suspension bridge thirty-five feet over the Dead River, a pedestrian crossing Warren says could cost as much as $350,000 to build.
Ecotourism experts say the money is well spent. Worldwide, backcountry accommodations are proving increasingly popular, with baby boomers and young families alike seeking out everything from the helicopter-accessed Milford Track in New Zealand to the more rugged and unstaffed 10th Mountain Division hut system in Colorado. No matter where they're going, this new group of outdoor adventurers is pursuing a different type of experience, explains Costas Christ, global travel editor for National Geographic Adventure and president of the Adventure Council. "Call it the spoiled baby boomer," Christ says, "but these people want to feel that their experience is as fresh today as it was on the Marrakesh Express, but now they don't want to do it with a backpack and sleeping on the ground, they want to do it in comfort, with a soft bed and a shower."
Herring says that based on statistics from other hut systems, including the Appalachian Mountain Club huts he operated in New Hampshire before moving to Maine, and from Sugarloaf/USA and nearby sporting camps, he is aiming for about 30 percent occupancy at each of the Maine huts. With three huts operating at that level, he believes his organization can break even within three years.
Despite the complexity of connecting the pieces of the trail system, it is the new so-called hut near Poplar Stream Falls that is the most tangible proof of Maine Huts & Trails' success thus far. Because it is located on Penobscot land, the Poplar Stream Falls hut only required a building permit from Carrabassett, though Maine Huts & Trails did require Department of Environmental Protection approval for the turbine it installed in South Poplar Stream to provide a steady source of power (the hut also has a backup solar panel). Herring says he learned from his experience in New Hampshire to place the huts in lowlands and tucked within the trees, instead of above timberline like many of the huts in the White Mountains. "The AMC had real challenges because the huts were in high alpine areas," he tells me as we inspect the new lodge.
To keep each hut replenished with food and equipment, the grooming machine will haul supplies on its weekly pass through the area; during warm weather a tracked vehicle will be used to minimize trail damage. Finally, other hut systems advised Maine Huts & Trails not to build any lodges that would accommodate fewer than thirty-five guests - such smaller buildings would result in "deficits in perpetuity," according to Warren.
The Flagstaff Lake hut will be situated on a peninsula about 350 feet from the lake itself and thirty-five feet above it. Warren says that with the existing forty-five-foot-high tree canopy, builders will not have to remove any trees for the hut. Most important, the lodge will not be seen by boaters. "With all of our huts, we've tried to site them so that they are not visible and do not impair the experience of being at the resource," Warren says.
Perhaps the most dramatic of the Phase I lodges will be the Grand Falls hut, located about two thousand feet from the thirty-five-foot waterfall where the character of the Dead River changes from calm to white water. The hut will be located on the opposite side of the river from the put-in that rafting companies use, but Warren expects that once the bridge is built hikers and skiers will not be the only ones staying at the hut. "We anticipate there will be a number of users of the hut who will want to take rafts to The Forks, and we've had some discussion with the companies about it," he says. In fact, the proximity of the rafting put-in is one of the aspects of the Grand Falls hut that sets it apart from either the Flagstaff Lake hut or the Poplar Stream Falls hut. "In summer, eight thousand rafters get bused to within a half-mile of the hut site," Warren says. "Remote should never be confused with wilderness."
That distinction is key to understanding and perhaps even accepting the Maine Huts & Trails model for opening up the woods of western Maine. Start skiing from the trailhead in Carrabassett and you'll notice that you're not passing through old-growth forests, but, instead, you're meandering through stands of spindly pine, evidence of the commercial timber operation that worked this area in years past. The views of the Bigelows are hardly the sort of wide-open vistas that you might find in Baxter State Park or Acadia, but, rather, are more subtle, almost secretive glimpses between the leafless trees.
Lance Tapley, the founder of Friends of Bigelow, says that while the success of the new hut system remains to be seen, he believes it strikes a balance between recreation and preservation. "The Maine forest was pretty much raped, beginning in the seventies and up through the nineties," Tapley tells me. "I think this use goes a long way toward tying up the area for recreation and for preserving it, rather than allowing much more destructive uses."
Finally, tourism experts say that what is happening in the western Maine woods is only one way to accommodate the new breed of ecotourists - and the expectations that those tourists are bringing with them. "I was talking to some Maine kayaking guides the other day, and they said they're seeing a lot of people who want to paddle with them to some offshore island, but they want to stop for a nice lunch with some artisan bread and some family farm-raised goat cheese," remarks Costas Christ. "Welcome to the new world of adventure travel."
The trailhead is located off Route 27 on Gauge Road, just after Tufulio's. To reserve a hut call 877-634-8824 or visit www.mainehuts .org. Trails are open to the public at no charge; dogs are allowed on un-groomed trails but are not permitted in the huts.
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Had a minor inflight mechanical failure today... My z-bent rudder pushrod pulled through my control horn in flight, luckily it was just rudder, made for a fish taily like flight though, and had a BEUTIFUL landing :P.
On the crappy side though was low and thick cloud ceiling (entered cloud at around 200 meters, and gave up at about 450 meters to find the topside, VERY DISORIENTING! First time I was forced to fly instrument, but that worked out well enough, just came back down to below cloud level . |
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I used my IMU on the OSD to keep level, and the degrees towards home to maintain my orientation... Certainly confusing because you have NO IDEA what direction you are going, even if you are sideways or upside down or diving, you have NO idea other then instruments :P.
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It's help having an artificial horizon (like I spose you have). I only have a nova osd, but if conditions are calm and SS/bix is trimmed out right, it should keep itself level, just need to use a bit of rudder to maintain heading on OSD and maintain needed climb rate. I really wanna fly into some low cloud now! |
Jul 09, 2012, 07:35 AM | ||
It was a good thing you don't have any mountains in that area. |
Jul 09, 2012, 07:39 AM | ||
If that is too difficult just go back to LOS and bring it in. Almost like a simulator but in real life. |
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One thing was for sure, I had no idea the cloud was that thick :P I climbed about 250 meters through that cloud before giving up, I was very close to hitting the RTH switch a couple of times before I decided to just instrument it back, So I just watched the IMU and my compass bearing (headed for myself) and sure enough I emerged from the cloud aiming right at myself nice and level :P. It does make me feel more confident to do some night flying which I have been really wanting to do. |
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Nokia's (NOK) bullish move through the summer appears to have tapered off. But will the Lumina 920 give it new life this autumn? With competition kicking in and Microsoft's (MSFT) other alliance, it may prove difficult.
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AT&T (T) will be launching its flagship smartphones for the holidays in October and Nokia's Lumina 920 will be one of them. The actual launch date is Oct. 21.
What does one do when your "only true love" is promiscuous? This is exactly what Nokia feels like as Microsoft jumped into bed with HTC, a smartphone manufacturer out of Taiwan. The company is presenting two phones this fall it is calling Windows Phone 8S and Windows Phone 8X, and needless to say Microsoft is behind the operating system. Are these two products innovative of nothing but re-brands of existing products? Claiming to be "signature devices" for the Windows 8 Phone, they appear similar to Nokia's Lumina. Tierman Ray wrote an article about the phones and said this about the similarities:
Like the Lumina, the 8X and 8S have brightly-colored frames made of polycarbonate. Rather than being bricks slightly curved at the sides, like the Lumina, the 8X and 8S have curved backs and tapered edges.
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Recently, 6,525 April 3 calls were sold for the bid price of $0.60. The volume was more than twice the open interest in the strike at the start of the day, so this is a new position. The call selling is a bet that Nokia won't see much upside beyond $3. The options were likely sold against long shares as a covered call position, which would be bullish up to the strike price but would not partake in gains beyond that level. It does not look like there is too much optimism for this stock to perform well over the next six months, even with the Lumina.
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After a hopeful rise through the ranks from mid-summer on, it looks like Nokia man once again be in a bearish pattern. It is too early to tell for sure, but its nice five-week climb ended the last week of August. As it starts to redefine its direction for us, it has established one low point at $2.25 and recently also set a lower high. Will it continue to move down? The RSI is not revealing anything out of the ordinary. It is following Nokia.
The Bollinger Bands are moving sideways now. If we look at the bands and also at the 50-day MA, we might observe a possible support at the 50-day MA with the stock trading in a neutral channel. It is too early to tell for sure, but this is one outcome just from my observations. The MACD is giving us a standalone negative divergence, which I have observed as a fairly accurate indication that the stock in slowing down and looks as if it will consolidate for a period of time. I would want to see a negative divergence in the RSI to support and confirm a turnaround in order, but it does not show that here. On a weaker note, there is also the possibility of a head-and-shoulders reversal pattern forming. If this is the case, it has a very high reliability rating as a reversal pattern. Investors should keep this in mind.
The Options Trade
Presently trading at $2.85, I am mildly bearish on the stock. At this point, with the Lumina coming out this fall, I would pick a trading channel for the stock by buying a straight-up 2.5 put option with an expiration of January 2013.
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The face of the fast pitch softball and after winning two Olympic medals she's arguably the biggest star in the sport joining us now is Jennie Finch well done.
-- CEO and could be -- and -- has its that -- seven months pregnant but.
I don't believe that I promise he's there sometimes he makes use of evidence and known that -- yes.
That's great and you -- We refer to her -- -- you have two young sons of course that you know that this time.
You're having a daughter and I -- do you think that there are different responsibilities.
And -- -- different values.
That come with having a daughter.
Definitely and I am trying to become -- lot more aware I think I had two older Brothers so why it likely was brought up in the -- of the -- -- which I think.
Help me athletically -- we -- -- for softball -- which really excited but.
Definitely there's some worries and I think one of the biggest ones is how soft my husband's going to be she -- there and -- you clarity rats that or are he has.
Pound senior tractor around so it'll be it'll be -- we're looking forward -- it.
And of course I mean obviously you believe in sports for young girls what do you think that gives them.
Definitely -- cities have proven that obesity rates grades are higher pregnancy rates are lower -- -- it's tremendous the benefits of sports and we will definitely have her involves knowing what teamwork leadership discipline on those life lessons that.
I was able to learn in my -- -- winter sports definitely.
Our kids will be involved in athletics.
Your husband of course is also an athlete.
Casey -- where you are an athlete you're a mother to two young sons you are a career woman -- pregnant.
How are you balancing at all.
It's not easy and I think every working parent out there is constantly torn between trying to do it politics in this -- native multitasking everything but.
I'm exciting -- -- with her she's and that -- moderation nation and its.
Moderation nation dot com there's tons of tips on how to balance in fine and I know for myself looking at least in my job.
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How important it is for not only myself but for my kids and so encouraging -- activity and I know for me it's not an hour at the gym anymore it's.
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Submitted by Mike Tipping on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 1:38pm.Leif Parsell, the State House reporter for the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center's new Website, The Maine Wire, has apparently left a long online trail of statements advocating for the superiority of people of "European descent" and against diversity, immigration and the intermingling of people of different races.
MacDonald Wins, Vows Revenge
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Bob MacDonald won the runoff election to become mayor of Lewiston last night, defeating his recently deceased opponent, Mark Paradis, by just 70 votes.
Rather than revelling in his victory, MacDonald took the opportunity to vow to exact an unknown revenge on an unnamed group of people in Paradis' camp who he says smeared him during the campaign.
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Submitted by Mike Tipping on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 10:38am.Despite the death of candidate Mark Paradis of cancer last week, the mayoral runoff election in Lewiston between him and Robert MacDonald will still be held today. If MacDonald wins, he will become mayor, but if the voters select the deceased Paradis, a new election will be held.
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Submitted by Mike Tipping on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 7:00am.For the last few years, Maine Senators Snowe and Collins have taken fewer stands outside the mainstream of their party, even as the national GOP has been pulled to the right. Snowe especially has taken a rightward tack as she faces a Tea Party primary challenge (albeit one that seems less electorally dangerous as time goes by).
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so wiring in paralel have advantages: 4times more power to each bulb
and wiring in series also have advantages: 4times less power consumption thant series wiring
Volts x Amps = Watts
Wattage=Power Consumption
The power consumed by the lights will not change dramatically by wiring the lights in series or parallel. The lights "require" a specific wattage, eg. 60w, and besides adding a dimmer, will just "automatically" get it.
By wiring the lights in series, you increase the amount of resistance in the circuit, and this reduces the voltage like was pointed out already. But it does NOT reduce the amount of power you are using. If you refer the the formula I wrote above and keep in mind the Wattage is going to be constant, you can understand how when the voltage decreases the light will respond by increasing the amount of amperage. In fact this is how many house fires are caused because amperage causes heat. The old christmas lights without the fuses could get so hot they'd melts when you plugged to many strings into eachother like this.
The ONLY way to reuce the power consumption in a light circut like this is with a dimmer, and not all dimmers qualify. The modern Levitron dimmersw you pay about $20 a piece for DO reduce the power consumption, but the old style only reduce light output and not consumption.
Hope that was helpful :)
let calc internal resistance of the bulb
R=120/0.5=240 omhs
now let see if at 60volts it stay at 60w (60volts 1 amp)
as you can see, according to ohm law, if voltage to buld decreasse, amp decreasse too
The reverse is true. Standard batteries are 1.5 volts each. Wire them in series and the voltages add up. Lots of items use 3 batteries wired in series to produce 4.5volts. Close enough to power electronics meant for 5volts.
It's not quite as simple as four times as many bulbs = four times the resistance = one quarter of the current, because the resistance of a lightbulb depends on its temperature, so a lightbulb driven at half the voltage will draw more than half the current. With longs strings of bulbs in series (like the old christmas lights), sometimes you can see them initially turn on brightly when the string is cold and at a low resistance, then dim as they heat up and increase resistance. In this case, the effect would be quite mad-scientist-y anyway :)
Put the bulbs in series, 2 in series will run them at half the voltage. They WILL take less power. If the brightness of 2 bulbs in series is the same as using a dimmer then the power taken should be the same.
Forget Ohm's law with bulbs, the resistance (R) is not constant! A hot bulb has a higher resistance than a cold one!
Also make sure the bulbs are the same wattage or the power (and hence brightness) will be shared unevenly.
I wired 2 sets of old Christmas lights in series for my parents (about 10 years ago) - the brightness looks about 50% less (approx !) but the bulb life is MUCH longer!
I remember quite a few of these old (approx 60 years!) bulbs failed when I was a kid, but none of them have failed since!
Bulbs are not transformers, completely different
When the resistance goes up then the current goes down!
I(current)=V(voltage)/R(resistance) (Ohm's law)
If you have a 100W bulb running on 110v, it will take 100 Watts ONLY when running on 110v.
If you run it on a lower voltage then it WILL take less current!
Try this simple experiment...Switch on the headlights of your car then start the engine. As the starter is turning then the lights dim (the voltage of the battery is dropping) then the engine starts and they are brighter (higher voltage-battery on charge!)
The brightness IS proportional to the actual watts being consumed by the bulb.
When we put 2 bulbs in series, the same voltage is shared between 2 bulbs. Twice the resistance*, Half the total power consumption, each bulb running at a quarter of the wattage*
*I mentioned earlier that a cold filament is a lower resistance than a hot one so this isn't exactly true but it gets complicated here!
I hope this helps!
I'm not saying, I'm just saying
Actually, that's wiring them in series. Parallel is when all 4 share the same ungrounded coming off the dimmer, and the same grounded going to the dimmer.


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Fairy Odd Parents on Xbox and that's it for now! but i'll sure get more of these since i buy a lot of games that sellers don't want to sell individually...
Yeah the guys at Game Crazy already noticed I was grabbing every single game I didn't have yet when they were going for $2.50 a piece and later $1. So they didn't say a word when they saw Barney's Hide & Seek and Barbie for Genesis, NSync Get to the Show for Game Boy Color, or even Mary Kate & Ashley Crush Course and Spiceworld for Playstation 1. Haha, one employee said his cousin tried to play Spiceworld and beat it after a while.
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i can't seem to remember any games from my childhood that i've played that'd be kinda "wow"...
and your childhood is the only time when you'll experiment with really crappy games and perhaps develop a liking D:
OH quest 64, that was really awesome back in the day and i got wicked far into it, but i recently bought it and i cannot see how i did good in this game.. also it looks really terrible and the score isn't as great as remembered.
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The Warehouse Game.
This is actually the title. The cover looks so generic and plain bad. It's about a gut that moves boxes in a warehouse for a living.? All day he thinks about hot chicks, fast cars and cold hard cash. It says if you can beat the game you get this stuff. I have to beat this game. In between levels it has a really bad animation of him sliding a box across the warehouse floor. The game isn't really that bad. It's kinda a good puzzle game? But who had the idea to make a game about a guy in a warehouse? Then call the game Shove it! The Warehouse Game! Really? That's the best there imagination could do? All they had to do was change the sprites of the guy, change the sprites of the boxes, keep all the workings and definitely change the name of the game!!! Aliens, gross stuff, Cartoon things IDK!? Anything but Shove it! The Warehouse Game!!! I love how f'n stupid this game is!
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I still shudder whenever I look at Shadow the Hedgehog on my shelf. Even though it wasn't that bad in general.
And don't bring up that stupid girlie Aladdin rip off! Shantea?
Any "kiddy" games I have
Those old kiddie Genesis games.
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For me it'd be Sonic Riders. Not a very good game at all but I own it for completism.
As with chemdawg (and many here) I used to play Pokemon Blue/Red when I was younger, and never bought another after Yellow, but have been going back and re-collecting the ones I skipped over the years because my oldest kid has taken a liking to them. He also likes pogs so its fun to see someone enjoying something you did at a younger age...


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The Oaxaca-US Connection and Remittances By Jeffrey H. CohenPennsylvania State University January 1, 2005 Oaxacan migration to the US is a small percentage of the overall flow of Mexican migrants. The state ranked 16th among Mexican sending states according to INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas Geografía e Informática) estimates for the 2000 census. INEGI also estimated that 96.8 percent of the state's population of just over three million individuals above the age of five were in their natal hometowns in 1995. For those Oaxacans who migrate, 91.2 percent remained within Mexico's national borders and 8.8 percent (7,439 individuals) crossed into another country. Contemporary migration in the central valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, is motivated by the real and perceived needs of migrants' sending households. These needs are often economic — the household head is searching for higher-paying work, the physical household needs repairs, or the goods and services desired are unaffordable on local wages (see map). Most often, the decision to migrate follows one of two paths to an internal or international destination, with few households sending multiple members to both destinations. Destinations within Mexico include urban centers like Mexico City, where wage work is typically available, or to the northern border and the state of Baja California, where agricultural work can be found. Migrants who move internationally and cross the border into the US typically travel to destinations in southern California. According to a recent study of Oaxacan migrants, more than 96 percent chose destinations in and around southern California and Los Angeles although they may also travel to the Midwest (particularly Chicago) or the Northeast. History of Oaxacan Migration Contemporary Oaxacan migration is rooted in the mid-20th century patterns of movement that characterized Mexico in general. Migrants from the central valleys left for national destinations as well as the US as early as the 1940s, and many found contract work through the Bracero Program. The "Bracero" Program The "Bracero" program, which lasted from 1942 to 1964, involved 4.5 million people. The program was established through formal negotiations and an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the purpose of meeting US food supply needs during World War II. The program imported agricultural workers on a seasonal basis, although in later years it also involved workers for railroad companies. At its root, however, it was an agricultural program. For more background on Mexican workers in the US, please see US Temporary Worker Programs: Lessons Learned After the program ended, in 1964, Oaxacans sought jobs in agricultural and service industries settling throughout California and beyond. Nevertheless, international migration from the region remained low and was of minor importance through the early 1980s. In fact, through the 1980s, internal destinations were somewhat more common among central valley movers. International or transnational migration — circular, repeated movement between sending communities in Oaxaca and receiving communities in the US — increased rapidly through the last two decades of the 20th century, partly in response to Mexico's continued economic crises. Although Oaxacans continued to travel to internal destinations, the nation's poor economic health and Oaxaca's position as one of Mexico's poorest states effectively pushed Oaxacans across the border. By the year 2000, Oaxacans were well represented in the migrant stream heading for the US. According to our data, on average, 46 percent of a central valley community's households included at least one migrant (see Table 1). However, Oaxacans remained a small part of the flow from Mexico, at approximately four percent of the total Mexican population living in the US. Table 1: Communities Surveyed in Oaxaca's Central Valleys Location District Kms from Oaxaca City Population (2000) Households surveyed Migrant households San Pablo Huitzo Etla 31 5,066 41 9 San Juan del Estado Etla 27 2,277 66 35 Guadalupe Etla Etla 19 2,000 66 30 San Pedro Ixtlahuaca Centro 10 3,599 50 26 Santa Maria Guelace Tlacolula 23 753 28 12 San Juan Guelavia Tlacolula 37 2,919 87 54 Villa de Diaz Ordaz Tlacolula 40 5,583 61 25 San Lorenzo Albarradas Tlacolula 68 2,542 56 17 San Juan del Rio Tlacolula 85 1,349 47 20 Santa Ana del Valle Tlacolula 35 2,140 54 34 Santa Ines Yatzeche Zimatlan 40 1,175 30 17 San Martin Tilcajete Ocotlan 23 2,776 58 30 TOTAL 32,179 644 309 Source: Cohen, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, 2004 Of the 309 migrant households surveyed, 199 of them — nearly two-thirds — have sent a family member to the US. The majority of US bound migrants from the central valleys were men (76 percent) who depend upon strong social networks, defined through kinship and friendship, to successfully negotiate their border crossings. Oaxacan migrants settled with family or friends once in the US (87 percent lived with a relative or friend), in southern California; the Los Angeles-Santa Monica area is home to 94 percent of the central valley's migrants. Sixty-two percent found work in the region's service sector, mainly in restaurants, small businesses, and homes. Mexican sociologist Lozano Ascencio estimated in 1993 that Oaxacans working in the US returned at least US$55 million to their home communities in 1990, and that total has only risen through the last decade. US-bound migrants remitted, on average, just over US$730 every two months for an average of 6.5 years. This amount is in line with remittance patterns for Mexicans in general. Internal movers remitted much less money, an average of US$130 every two months over an average of eight years. US-bound women returned only about half of the total remitted by men, while women who moved internally returned 80 percent of what men remitted. Remittance Use To understand migration and remittance practices in Oaxaca's central valleys, a random sample of 15 percent of households in 11 communities was selected. In total, data for 590 households was collected, of which a little less than half had direct experience with migration. Remittances typically went to daily and household-related expenses, with 60 percent covering immediate household expenses, construction and renovation). Other expenses include education, the purchase of appliances and domestic goods, ritual costs, and health care. Daily costs of living ranged from the purchase of food to payments for utilities (electricity, gas, and firewood). Many interviewees suggested that using remittances to cover daily expenses was a waste of hard-earned cash, but given the lack of local jobs, most argued there were few alternatives (see Table 2). Table 2: Remittance Use in Oaxaca's Central Valleys Outcome Number of households(Total = 590) Percent No remittances received 60 14 Daily expenses 182 43 Home construction/renovation 71 17 Education 27 6 Purchase of domestic items 16 4 Ritual expenses 8 2 Healthcare 6 1 Purchase of agricultural/farm goods 2 - Business start-up and expansion 27 6 Land 7 2 Other 13 3 Source: Cohen, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, 2004. Many first-time migrants supported home construction and/or renovation, which accounted for 17 percent of the remittances returned. They often made their sojourns with the goal of building a home. Typically, this meant building a home of cement and brick, with a concrete floor and finished roof to replace cane or adobe structures with dirt floors and palm roofs. Migrants refurbished their homes by adding second floors and building "modern" kitchens and bathrooms that replaced open fire kitchens and latrines. Standing in the center of his patio during an interview in 2001, Mario Sánchez Martínez gestured to the freshly painted rooms around him, "Look at this kitchen. We finished it with the money we saved from my time in the US. And now we have a nice bathroom with a shower too!" Investing Remittances Finally, a small percentage of remittances (eight percent) went to starting or expanding businesses, the purchasing of land, or the purchasing of equipment for commercial ventures. In each case, investments were made after some of the funds were put aside for immediate needs or other expenses, and in no case did a migrant's entire remittance go directly and exclusively to support business start-ups or commercial ventures. Migrant households about to make these types of investments included 27 households from throughout the valleys, but 75 percent were concentrated in just four communities: San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, Villa Díaz Ordaz, San Juan Guelavia, and San Juan del Estado — communities with good access to Oaxaca City and links to area market systems. Migrant households that were able to invest remittances fell into three categories. First, there were households that invested in commercial activities focused on local business opportunities (opening small markets, beauty shops, and the like). Second, there were households that invested in businesses tied to Oaxaca's tourism industry, mainly producing crafts. Third, there were households that invested in agriculture, animal husbandry, or dairy production. Looking Ahead How remittance patterns will play out in the future is keyed not to migration outcomes, but to the continued involvement of migrants in their sending households and communities, the location of a community vis-à-vis an urban center and the local resources that village households can access. Currently, migrants share a level of social commitment to their households and communities that is nearly identical to non-migrants. If households and local communities are to keep benefiting from their migrants, that social involvement and engagement cannot decline. Because the majority of migrants have families (and often children) in sending communities, that social commitment should persist. While strong ties will continue to pull Oaxacans home to rural sending villages in the central valleys, the prospects for development that would allow Oaxacans to live their lives locally and out of poverty, and most importantly without the pressure to migrate, will be in the distant future. Jeffrey H. Cohen is an economic anthropologist and a member of Penn State's department of anthropology and program in demography. This article was based on his new book, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, published by the University of Texas Press (2004). Currently, he is part of a multidisciplinary team investigating Dominican migration and movements to new destinations in the US. He is also the author of Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca, also published by the University of Texas Press. Sources: Cohen, Jeffrey H (2004). The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. INEGI (2002). XII Censo General De Polbacion Y Vivienda 2000. Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico: INEGI. INEGI (2001). Población Residente Según Condición Migratoria, 2000. Available online.
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1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup white sugar
1 lemon, zested
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 room-temperature eggs
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups fresh raspberries
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
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