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ORANGE HISTORY • Most types of citrus originated in southeastern Asia and India. Many modern varieties were developed in China and Malaysia and transplanted across Asia and Europe.

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• California used to be the top orange producing state, but Florida surpassed California in 1942 and now produces three times as many oranges as California. (The average difference in rainfall between Florida and California amounts to an extra 1,140,000 gallons per acre falling on Florida.) Floridians call them orange groves, but Californians call them orange orchards.

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• Brazil is the world’s leading orange producer, with an output almost as high as that of the next three countries combined. Almost 99% of the fruit is processed for export. The United States is the second largest producer, followed by India, China, Mexico, and Spain.

• The total weight of citrus fruit produced in the U.S. each year is greater than that of any other fruit tree in the U.S. • 98% of Florida oranges are harvested by hand. Over

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100,000 people in Florida are employed in the citrus industry.

WORD ORIGINS • The Sanskrit word ‘naranga’ meaning ‘fragrant’ passed into French, where the word ‘or’ means ‘gold.’ From there it became ‘orange’ meaning ‘gold and fragrant. ’ • The Cedars of Lebanon had round, hard orangecolored cones (like pine cones), and the word for cedar was ‘citron.’ When a new fruit showed up that resembled them, it too was dubbed ‘citron.’

This is the origin of the word ‘citrus’ which actually means ‘cedar.’

• Tangerines are a variety of citrus which first appeared in Tangier, a city in Morocco. (A person from Tangier is also called a Tangerine.)

Mandarin oranges originated in China, where they speak Mandarin. Clementines may be named after Father Clement Rodier who hybridized them in an orchard in Algeria.

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ORANGE TREES • All citrus trees graft very easily so it’s easy to have oranges growing from a lemon rootstock, or lemons growing from an orange rootstock.

In fact, a single citrus tree can have numerous grafts so that it bears lemons, limes, grapefruit, tangerines, kumquats, and oranges all on the same tree at the same time.

• During cold snaps, owners of orange groves will sometimes spray their trees with water in order to form ice. The trees will die if the temperature drops to 24F (-4C), but with a layer of ice, the temperature stays at 32F (0C) if the wind is calm and conditions are right.

• The lifespan of a typical orange tree is about 40 years, but there’s one tree in Europe that was planted in 1421 that lived until the year 1894 and survived several transplants. Some trees in Florida are more than a century old.

• Citrus trees are evergreen. An orange tree seedling doesn’t start to bear fruit until it’s about 15 years old. Grafting new shoots to old roots makes orange production much faster.

FRUIT FACTS • You can’t pick an orange when it’s wet because moisture causes the skin to tighten which makes it very fragile. Orange picking has to wait until the dew dries in the morning and until after the sun has come out following rainstorms.

• Oranges have a natural wax which protects the fruit from dehydration. During processing, the wax is washed off as the fruit is cleaned.

Therefore, an artificial (and edible) wax is applied to the skin of the orange before it leaves the processing plant. Too much wax and the orange suffocates. Too little and it shrivels due to dehydration.

• An orange will last about a month after being picked. An orange will not continue to ripen after it is picked.

• Oranges that grow high on the tree are sweeter than those that grow on the lower branches. Oranges that grow on the outside branches are sweeter than those growing on inside branches. Oranges growing on the south side of the tree are sweeter than those on the north side of the tree.

• The same is true about the amount of juice in an orange, and the amount of vitamin C it contains.

Within a single orange, the blossom end will always be sweeter than the stem end. California oranges, where the climate is arid, have thicker skins than Florida oranges, where the climate is wet.

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Medical researchers ascribe the words – “a smart virus”, “ability to adapt”, “a killer bug” giving the virus almost human characteristics, whereas the biochemist will ascribe chemical reactions and base pairings as a laboratory experiment devoid of all living character. They are both right.

A virus’s job is to make as many copies of itself as quickly as possible. Viruses enter the body and make large numbers of viral copies using the cat’s cells as a virus factory. Ultimately the infected cells burst, shedding large numbers of viral copies that infect other normal cells and then the process is repeated over and over again. Viral infections can spread throughout an animal’s body at a very rapid pace causing sickness or death.

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The name sapphire is derived from the Greek meaning “blue”. The sapphire does have a deep rich blue that can vary all the way to a pale blue.

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What month is it that we move our clocks forward one hour?

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Complete this sentence: Greenwich Mean (or Meridian) Time is the mean (average) time that the earth takes to rotate from ____________ to __________.

Name the four US mainland time zones.

If Monday was named after the moon and Sunday was named after the sun, what planet or Roman god was Saturday named after?

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If am stands for ante meridiem and pm stands for post meridiem, what does meridiem mean?

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If you were to tell time using a sundial, which direction should the sundial face to give you the correct time?

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• The majority of California’s crop is sold as fresh fruit, whereas Florida’s oranges become juice products.

• 53% of total global frozen concentrated orange juice production comes from Brazil.

• Orange juice squeezed at home will begin to turn bitter within hours because it reacts with oxygen.

Orange juice squeezed in a factory is pasteurized which helps prevent this.

• When Citrus Hill decided to call their orange juice “Fresh Choice,” the FDA seized 2,000 cases because the label, reading “Citrus Hill Fresh Choice Orange Juice” led people to believe the juice was fresh when it was not.

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ORANGE JULIUS • In 1926 Julius Freed decided he wanted to open an orange juice stand in Los Angeles. Real estate broker Bill Hamlin helped him find a location for his stand downtown. Julius and Bill subsequently became friends.

• Julius didn’t do badly, but he thought there was room for improvement. Bill had a sensitive stomach and the acid in the orange juice bothered him. Bill also happened to be a chemist, so be began experimenting with orange juice recipes.

• One day he presented Julius with a recipe that mixed orange juice, ice, and milk in a blender for a creamier, smoother, more interesting drink than just plain orange juice.

• When Julius began selling it, his income jumped, rising from an average of $20 a day ($266 in today’s money) to $100 a day ($1,333). Because people in line at his stand would call out, “Give me an orange, Julius!” he named the new drink after himself:

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DYLAN TAYLOR MCMAHAN

24 years old 6’0” 230 lbs Brown hair, Brown eyes LKA: Lone Tree, CO Charges: TRESPASS TO DWELLING, TRESPASS TO PROPERTY

TAKE NO ACTION TO APPREHEND THIS PERSON YOURSELF For immediate action call 303.660.7500 or call your local law enforcement To provide information and remain anonymous, call the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Tips Hotline: 303.660.7579 or E-mail us at DCSO@dcsheriff.net.

Boutique Chic How to Be Fashionable • Read fashion magazines like: Vogue, Kiss, Elle and Glamour.

• Know what's "in". For example, skinny jeans go in and out of fashion periodically. The key to being fashionable is timing.

• Know some fashion rules. These rules generally persist despite trends. If you look bad in skinny jeans, for example, you'll still look bad in them no matter how trendy they are at the moment.

Pederson - Lead Stylist at Bonnie • Shop at high fashion shops & boutiques, like Bonne’ Erica Bella Boutique Bella. They will always be following the fashion trends and have the newest, most unique items.

• Buy high quality and versatile clothes you will wear at every occasion, instead of buying cheap items you will never wear. Try buying hand bags or accessories that are expensive, but can last for years, even decades.

• Try to search online for the newest fashion. Read fashion blogs. Personally, we LOVE Pinterest!

Need more advice? Come to the store and see us! Erica Pedersen is the lead stylist for Bonne’Bella Boutique. It is “Parker’s most Unique Boutique. We are located at: 11020 South Pikes Peak Drive Suite 110A, Parker, CO 80138. (720) 851-9350. bonnebella@bonnebella.net Check us out on facebook: Bonne’Bella Boutique Bonnie Bruns, Owner, with Union of Angels at Magic fashion show in Las Vegas, NV.

3.2 Protect Your Mind from Depravity Do you watch those mystery documentaries where they take a crime and re-live it, then follow through to the capturing of the perpetrator, his/her trial and ultimate incarceration? We do.

One especially gory episode we started to watch featured a variety of hideous acts that led to the brutal deaths of a whole family. Before the story got too far along I grabbed the remote control and shot it toward the TV with great vigor, pressing the OFF button.

I turned to my wife, “I don’t think we need that kind of depravity to be described to us. It is polluting our minds and ruining our evening.” She agreed.

The television is only one of a variety of convenient ways to pollute your mind these days.

You can turn on some popular music. The lyrics of some popular songs are so vulgar they shock even the most liberal minded listeners. The “singers” glorify rape, murder, incest, homosexuality, bestiality and other perversions all in the name of art or freedom of speech or some other excuse to spread their polluting message.

You can watch pornography. It is easily accessible in print, video and on the internet. Sometimes it pops up in front of you uninvited. Recently I was searching on the internet for some humor and came across a website that had cute little riddles, the kind children enjoy. As I scrolled through the pages some vile and explicit pornographic images appeared that had nothing to do with the riddles.

There is a word for this kind of nasty mind withering wickedness: depravity. Now there is a word you don’t hear often these days. Depravity refers to the moral corruption of the heart and mind. If you would like a simpler definition, use the Bible one: sin. I know that people don’t like talking about sin, but I will because it has a particularly destructive impact on your mind.

Who can protect you from such pollution? There is only one person who can defend you against the debilitating impact of depraved ideas, images, actions and words; that person is YOU. You are singularly responsible for what you allow into your mind whether via your eyes or ears or out of your mouth via your tongue.

In a world so smudged with depravity, how do you keep your mind from being polluted?

The defense I propose: Stay in the Light. When your thoughts become perverted or evil, only you can change them to virtue and decency. When ideas (plot lines, humor, song lyrics, discussions, etc.) become immoral or depraved, only you can opt out and refocus your mind on goodness and propriety.

When you are tempted by smut and tawdry media, only you can hit the off button on the computer or TV and turn on clean, uplifting and life-giving messages.

When nasty obscene words began their journey from your heart to the ears of those around you, only you can choke them back.

Only you can replace depravity with goodness, maliciousness with kindness and the repulsive with the respectable. Only you. ©2015 Ronald D. Ross

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy) (I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

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The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still can't believe that pig ...quality over quantity.)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm.......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(Okay, so that would be a good thing.)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

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