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The Stress of Caregiving
Ah, the golden years. You've worked hard, earned a decent living, raised your children who are now adults, and are looking forward to a little rest and relaxation. If you are the primary caregiver of your grandchildren, however, you probably don't have much time for that.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 4.1 million American households include grandparents and grandchildren. Of these households, 1.4 million have no parent in the home, and studies have shown that grandparents who are caregivers to grandchildren - grandmothers, in particular - are more prone to stress and depression than non-caregivers. If you are a caregiving grandparent who often feels overwhelmed, this fact may not surprise you.
The most recent research conducted to examine these statistics began in 2001 at the Case Western Reserve University's school of nursing. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the four-year study, which concluded in 2005, looked at the effects of caregiving on the health of 450 American grandmothers, as well as the impact it had on their families.
Admirably, you have stepped up and taken on the responsibility of raising your children's children. But now you may be facing some worrisome issues. Although you recognize the life-giving and energizing benefits of your position, you are also aware that the role can be time-consuming, tiresome, and often financially and emotionally burdensome. The decisions you have made out of love and a sense of familial duty can put quite a heavy weight on your shoulders.
According to Carol Musil, associate professor of nursing at Case University, grandmothers are "older women who may have health needs of their own, so caring for a grandchild who may have health problems, developmental challenges, or an increased need for more care creates additional stress for [them]."
The ages of the children you take care of may make a difference in the type of stress you suffer from. Younger children, for example, are more physically demanding, but older children tend to require more of your emotional and psychological energy.
By far the most important thing you can do to help ease the negative effects of stress on your health is to seek support. A sufficient amount of emotional and physical support from friends and family can make a dramatic difference in your health and ability to provide care for your grandchildren. You'll experience less stress if you have other women around you to rely on for support, especially if they are in similar situations.
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Jack Welch called the other day. He wanted to talk about his friend Bill. Forget the notion that the ex-GE chief is a curmudgeon — the guy just gushed. Bill "is a man with enormous capability, a man who can rally a team around a vision." Bill runs a fast-growing organization based just outside Chicago that today has affiliates on every continent except Antarctica. "I have my four Es," Welch says, referring to the four leadership qualities he looks for in executives: Someone who has energy; who energizes others; who has edge ("someone who can say yes or no decisively"); and who can execute. "Bill has them all, along with a strong P: passion. He's a winner. He could be running a company — or a country."
He could be, but he is not. Instead, Bill Hybels runs a church. Willow Creek, the congregation that he founded 35 years ago, has grown into one of America's largest — on a typical Sunday, 23,000 people attend services. And each year since 1995, Hybels and his team have done something unprecedented: They run what amounts to a pop-up business school called the Global Leadership Summit, bringing a stellar faculty, including Jim Collins, Colin Powell, and Jack Welch, to the Willow Creek campus in South Barrington, Illinois, to teach pastors and laypeople leadership and management.
"Willow Creek offers a deep set of lessons about organizational life that I have not been able to learn anywhere else," says Babson College president and former Limited Brands COO Len Schlesinger, who has studied the church for nearly two decades, though he himself is Jewish. This year, he took several of his Babson colleagues to the summit, which has also attracted delegations from Best Buy, Chick-fil-A, and Toms Shoes. "The quality of the teaching is extraordinary," Schlesinger says. "The fact that Willow Creek is a church and the fact that it is evangelical mean that some people may have a great deal of difficulty with it, but they skip it at their loss."
Hybels's primary targets are not secular execs like Schlesinger; he's aiming for church leaders. "I think the local church is the most important institution on the planet because of its transformative potential, so why should we limit the learning that pastors and faith-based leaders are exposed to?" Hybels says. "We try to find the people with the most thoughtful ideas about leadership, and we ask them to take their expertise and learning and spread it out over our audience."
That audience is enormous. This year, pastors from more than 70 countries were among the 7,000-strong crowd at Willow Creek, including the leaders of 4 of the 10 largest congregations in America: Hybels; Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv in Edmond, Oklahoma (27,000 weekly attendees); Andy Stanley of Atlanta's North Point Community Church (23,000); and T.D. Jakes of the Potter's House in Dallas (17,000). The summit is simulcast by satellite to more than 130 locations, where 62,000 more people across the U.S. and Canada watch. It is also taped and translated into 31 languages — this year, Albanian, Khmer, and Congolese French were added — and by the end of January, an additional 65,000 people from Argentina to Zimbabwe will have attended local video-based Global Leadership Summits.
Evangelical Christianity proudly has no pope, and given its predilection for splintering, it can hardly be considered a single church. But if evangelicalism does have a global power center, it would have to be Willow Creek, thanks largely to the summit. According to cable-TV pioneer and venture philanthropist Bob Buford, who played a key role in the summit's development, "Willow Creek is the most influential Protestant church in the world — one might even say the most influential church in the world save for the Vatican."
Among arborists, the willow is known as a particularly aggressive, versatile tree. In ancient times, medicine men harvested its bark and leaves, which are full of salicylic acid, a natural precursor to aspirin that soothes aches and pains. The willow's hardy, enterprising roots spread widely and rapidly to find the water that it needs to grow. Most varieties can thrive in poor soil.
All of this makes the willow a perfect, if unintended, metaphor and namesake for this congregation and its ambitions for the summit. (Willow Creek was named after neither a tree nor a babbling brook; it started meeting in 1975 in a movie theater called the Willow Creek, in Palatine, Illinois.) The summit sprang from Hybels's conviction that church leaders lacked leadership training. "I'd been trying to help churches train pastors, and I kept asking myself, Why do some churches flourish and others languish? Is it location? Denomination? Urban versus rural? Rich versus poor?" Hybels says. "I could think of an exception to every theory, until I realized that every thriving church was not just well fed but also well led. It was a potent combination of great teaching and great leadership."
A dinner conversation with management guru Peter Drucker in the mid-1980s helped crystallize Hybels's vision. Drucker, a committed Christian, had been writing about the importance of America's social sector, including charities and churches, since the 1930s, and as megachurches rose to prominence in the U.S., he began working with leaders like Hybels. "He asked me, 'Bill, what is your unique contribution to Willow Creek?' I said, 'Well, I'm the pastor,' " Hybels recalls. "He said, 'I didn't ask you what your title was. What is the unique contribution God is asking you to make?' I said, 'Maybe you should order another glass of wine and let me think about it.' "
Hybels decided that one of his unique contributions could be to create a resource for pastors who didn't have firsthand access to thinkers like Drucker. The need was clear. A 1993 survey of evangelical pastors by seven seminaries found that while they said their education had prepped them well in church history and theology, they felt undertrained in administration, management, and strategic planning. "In the 1950s, a pastor preached on Sundays, did weddings and funerals, and visited the sick," says Dennis Baril, senior pastor of the Community Covenant Church in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, which hosts a satellite summit site every year. "I have almost 50 ministries that need to be put together, scheduled, organized, and led. It's a different skill set."
Church conferences did little to address that need. "Most of them are pastors learning from pastors," says Jim Mellado, who wrote a 1991 Harvard Business School case study on Willow Creek. "If you only hear preaching from the choir, you're never stretched. You never see things from another perspective."
In 1992, Hybels hired Mellado to inject that perspective as vice president of a loose alliance of evangelical churches called the Willow Creek Association. Two years later, Mellado was named president and charged with staging a leadership summit. The first one was held in August 1995, with speakers including Ken Blanchard (The One-Minute Manager) and Pat MacMillan (The Performance Factor). Some 2,200 people nearly filled what was then Willow Creek's main sanctuary.
Today, the Global Leadership Summit is a full-scale multimedia production with live music and drama, short films, and a slate of 13 speakers. Willow Creek's 7,000-capacity auditorium — built as part of a $75 million expansion in 2004 — boasts two balconies, cushy seats, numerous video screens, and free Wi-Fi. (For portions of this year's summit, the hashtag #wcagls made it to No. 2 on Twitter's trending topics, though it never could top Naomi Campbell and her blood diamonds.) And ticket prices are low: just $349, with deep discounts for association members and those who book early.
The two-day summit schedule is carefully choreographed to balance secular voices with those of pastors. "If we filled all our sessions with the Jim Collinses and Jack Welches and did not have the faith leaders, the summit would go away in a year or two," Hybels says. "What has made this thing last is the mix: It's the blend of high-impact, God-honoring messages with savvy, street-smart, don't-spiritualize-everything lessons from business."
So on the first morning, before Good to Great author Collins took the stage, a team of Willow musicians led an ebullient set of contemporary Christian praise songs ("Hear the holy roar of God resound/ Watch the waters part before us now"), and Hybels gave his opening lecture. After Collins — who talked about the five stages of organizational decline, from his book How the Mighty Fall — came Australian evangelist Christine Caine, who transformed the sanctuary from a sedate biz-school lecture hall into a modern church-revival meeting. An activist who runs a campaign to combat trafficking of women, Caine roused the crowd, citing Ephesians 5:14 ("It is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: 'Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you' ").
After lunch, Super Bowl-winning football coach Tony Dungy got a thunderous ovation, discussing mentoring, team building, and work-life balance. ("Don't mistake hours for productivity!") Then Adam Hamilton, pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, spoke about the need for leaders to guard against temptations such as sexual impropriety — not the stuff of Davos.
The summit taps speakers from a wide range of fields: experienced executives like Welch and W.L. Gore CEO Terri Kelly; management theorists such as Collins and Marcus Buckingham (First, Break All the Rules); politicians including Tony Blair and Jimmy Carter; cultural leaders turned do-gooders like Bono and Four Weddings and a Funeral screenwriter Richard Curtis; and sports figures such as Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.
The speakers, many of whom are not paid, agree to come for a variety of reasons. Dungy heard about the summit in church circles. Harvard professor Ashish Nanda taught the Willow case study in his classes, and after Hybels visited as a guest speaker, Nanda recalls, "He said to me, 'Would you be willing to return the favor?' " Collins, who has appeared four times, more than any other speaker, says he does the summit "for a simple reason: If we only have great for-profit business corporations, then we will only be a prosperous nation, not a great nation. We need superb leadership in all sectors of society." (Several speakers, including Welch and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, testify to the spiritual rewards of working with Hybels. "I do not like to talk publicly about my spirituality," says Welch, "but I am on a journey, and Bill has helped me immensely.")
For Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie, who spoke this year about his company's "conscious capitalism," the summit was also a learning experience. The highlight for him was Hybels's interview with Welch. "Welch talked about the dangers of the 'meeting after the meeting.' That was happening at Toms, and it's not anymore," Mycoskie says, citing a new daily senior-leadership meeting implemented in direct response to Welch's summit message.
"Bill Hybels talked about recruiting fantastic people and being bummed when they quit," Mycoskie continues. "That has affected our hiring process. Before, we were hiring as fast as possible. I've since told my HR director to take the extra month to make sure we're getting the right people."
Mellado's wish list for future speakers gives a sense of the kind of leadership he wants featured at the summit: Nelson Mandela; Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks ("one of the best examples of a company that got a little fuzzy about its 'why,' " says Mellado, "and then he makes a tremendous comeback"); Cisco's John Chambers ("We haven't really made a strong play in technology"); and Anne Mulcahy and Ursula Burns of Xerox ("They really turned that company around").
If you ask organizers and attendees why corporate types, especially non-Christians, have any business telling church folks how to run their organizations, they repeatedly cite a popular paraphrase of John Calvin — "all truth is God's truth." (Reading Calvin's actual words in his seminal Institutes, you can see why they paraphrase: "If we believe the Spirit of God is the only fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself wherever it shall appear, unless we wish to insult the Spirit of God.") "The church has been closed to the world for too long," says Caine. "Jesus learned from everything and everyone. He says in John 17, 'My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.' We need to dialogue with those who are not of our faith, and bring our brains to the table."
Occasionally, some attendees feel stretched too far beyond their comfort zones. In 2000, Hybels invited President Bill Clinton to appear at the summit and, in his interview with Clinton, skirted controversial issues, including abortion and the Monica Lewinsky affair. That, Hybels joked onstage this year, "nearly got me fired."
At least Clinton is a Baptist. Willow's openness to leaders from outside Christianity — whether Hindu, Buddhist, agnostic, or atheist — attracts consistent criticism from some conservative Christians. "What they bring is knowledge of organizations that do not have biblical truth as their driving force," says David F. Wells, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston. "Willow Creek has confused what leadership is in a company and what it must be in a church. We're in a very different orbit from the corporate world. Our objective is night-and-day different."
"No smart person would characterize the church as being the same as a business," Hybels responds. "But when you have gained leadership expertise in one arena, there are insights to be gleaned for other arenas. We're not asking a non-Christian to come teach theology."
To borrow a non-Christian concept, the Willow summit balances the secular yin with the Christ-centered yang. This careful calibration reflects Hybels himself, who, as a teen, began working after school for his father's produce company, which he expected to run. But in college, he felt the pull to ministry and switched his major from business to biblical studies. Thoughtful and geeky, he chooses his words carefully, punctuating a conversation with both long pauses and disarming self-deprecation. "I'm not offended if people don't come along," he says of his leadership. "I'm surprised by how many do come along. I'm not always sure I'd follow me either."
For Hybels, studying management alongside his Bible and theology "is a discipline." At the summit, he implored his fellow pastors to read books on business principles, so when we speak a couple of months later, I ask what he's been reading. The Truth About Leadership, by James Kouzes and Santa Clara University professor Barry Posner, he says. He read it on a flight back to Chicago after giving a talk in New York. When I ask if this was fun for him, he sighs: "You sound like my wife." Then he says, "It's like asking, Do you like running 3 or 4 miles each day? It's fun when it's done. For reasons known only to God — I think it's his sense of humor — I've been put in a position of influence, and reading is one of the most economical ways to get better at it. Would I rather have watched a movie? I cannot lie. But I had an hour and a half, and I had a book. I felt it was the responsible thing to do to make use of that time."
He pauses momentarily before adding, "Sometimes I watch the movie."
Willow Creek, like many megachurches, looks less like a traditional steeple-and-people structure than a spiritual mini mall. It has a food court, a coffee shop that's clearly a Starbucks knockoff (complete with your choice of tall, grande, and venti), and a slate of ministries, events, and services comprehensive enough for a Christ-centered cruise ship. All of this telegraphs the message that the church is trying to meet present-day wants and needs. And it reflects the pragmatism that infuses the leadership summit, which Hybels says is meant "to mess with people's minds a little."
In spite of the stereotype of evangelicals as rigidly conservative, says Rice University sociologist D. Michael Lindsay, "they have long been some of the earliest adopters of technologies and strategies," from fire-and-brimstone evangelists on the radio in the 1920s to Pat Robertson on satellite TV to megachurch-friendly PowerPoint displays replacing hymnals. Willow Creek's embrace of business strategy "is a 21st-century version of that. They know that churches have to change with the market shifts going on around them. If they don't, they die," Lindsay says. "Relevance is fundamental for their message to be legitimate."
One such market shift is globalization, which presents both challenges and opportunities for evangelical Christianity. The world's largest Protestant congregation, Yoido Full Gospel Church, in Seoul, South Korea, claims nearly 1 million members. Some 53% of the Willow Creek Association's nearly 9,000 congregations are now overseas. In response, Willow has aggressively expanded the summit by video to serve emerging markets. In 2005, the first year that translated DVDs of the summit were available, just nine countries hosted meetings built around them. This year, 70 countries will have their own mini summits, at a cost to the association of $4.6 million. Twenty-five countries are on a waiting list. Occasionally, to speed the spread of the summit, a country will be "adopted" by a U.S. church that pays the staging costs, which run from $25,000 to nearly $100,000; Dennis Baril's Massachusetts congregation, for instance, sponsors Haiti.
Internationalizing the summit has opened the Willow Creek team's eyes to all sorts of demographic quirks and cultural challenges. Scandinavians, for instance, shy away from more flamboyant Pentecostal-style preachers, while Eastern Europeans tend to resist including messages by female speakers in their summit DVDs. In keeping with Hybels's stated mission of messing with people's minds, Willow Creek does push back. "It's a high value to us that leadership gifts are given regardless of gender," says Gary Schwammlein, who heads the international expansion effort. "The first year, we may start out and say, 'Okay, it's fine [not to feature women speakers],' but then in the second and third year, we have to say, 'How about now?' "
The summit hasn't worked everywhere. Two years ago, the association quit India; the cost of putting on an event there — from renting professional-grade projection equipment to subsidizing travel for local pastors and lay leaders — was prohibitive. Nations with poorly educated populations have also been challenging, forcing the association to reconsider its position that anyone can benefit from its leadership training. "We do say, 'Lead where you are. Fathers and mothers lead a family. Boy Scouts lead their troop.' But we like to have influencers — in church, school, government, whatever — who can run with what we have," Schwammlein says. In one country he declines to name, he recalls, "The organizers went out to the highways and byways and just brought people in to fill the seats. If there's a guy with an IQ of 50 and he has little leadership capacity, for him it's all hocus-pocus. And if you have 90% low-level leaders, you could say that would be discouraging."
I first attended a service at Christ Presbyterian Church, in Edina, Minnesota, one Sunday early in the summer of 2009. The message that morning was on the unusual power of music, and to illustrate that, the worship leaders had put together a special medley including the theme song to Gilligan's Island and — jarringly, for a relatively conservative church — "YMCA." Yes, that "YMCA."
That the church would find a way to deploy the Village People in the service of the Lord isn't surprising once you meet its eclectically minded, erudite senior pastor, John Crosby, a veteran of 14 Global Leadership Summits. In one conversation, he cites motivational author M. Scott Peck, Presbyterian history, and a trio of JCs — Jesus Christ, Jim Collins, and John Calvin. "Truth is found in a variety of voices and places," Crosby says. "We don't just have the option to learn; we have the obligation to learn."
On the first evening of this year's summit, he gathered his 55-member delegation at a house in the Chicago suburbs for fellowship and contemplation. As they feasted on deep-dish pizza and mosquitoes feasted on them, the group — about one-third church staff, two-thirds laypeople — rattled off example after example of lessons they've taken home from Willow Creek: admonitions to be more thoughtful in management, smarter in HR, and bolder in ministry.
Progress from the summit "has been iterative — like small drops of water," Crosby says. "The net result is that this church is not the church we were 14 years ago when we started to come." The summit has even changed the language used to communicate within the church's offices. One year, Hybels spoke about needing to create honesty and candor among the staff. To do that, he said, "you have to offer umbrellas of grace" — reassurance that candor won't be punished. "Now, when one of us asks for an umbrella of grace, we know exactly what that means," Crosby says. "We would not have had that as a cultural insight if not for the summit."
The summit's lessons have rippled past the church's walls into the rest of Edina and beyond. For the past seven years, CPC has partnered with Feed My Starving Children, a charity that recruits volunteers to package meals for the poor in developing countries. CPC packaged about a million meals in a week in 2008. But at the summit that year, speakers talked about the world's needy, the church's wealth, and the gaping disconnect between the two. John Mitchell, a longtime CPC lay leader, recalled Jim Collins's talk at an earlier summit about setting "big, hairy audacious goals." That night, Mitchell chided the CPC contingent — and himself — in unusually blunt terms: "Let's face it, you guys. Our goal is chicken shit."
So the church organized a community-wide event last May called One Community, One Day, One Purpose: Feed Haiti. They rented a disused Mervyn's department store and recruited help from schools, businesses, and other churches. In the end, 5,500 volunteers put together 1.7 million meals — in just 24 hours.
In August, as they finished their pizza and turned to mulling the day's lessons, the members of this year's delegation began talking about how they could — and should — do even more. One man said that what really resonated with him was Collins's anecdote about a professor who once told him that instead of spending so much time trying to be interesting, he should try to be interested. Several people commented on pastor Andy Stanley's talk about managing tension rather than trying to "solve" it. "I like to problem-solve," one woman said. "It's a huge thing to acknowledge that I can't always do that." Another woman recalled a story that Christine Caine shared, about a conversation with a sex slave who had been freed from a Greek brothel: "Her words stuck with me: 'Why didn't you come sooner?' "
The evening closed with prayer. "Thank you for all the things we have learned today," said Max Fitzgerald, a medical student. "Help us to put them in practice, and transform us for your purpose and your glory." Then Crosby added: "And all God's people said ..."
A version of this article appeared in the December 2010/January 2010 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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More than 60% of U.S. adults believe payments made via smartphones will replace credit card and cash transactions in the future, yet only around 30% believe that will happen within the next five years, according to an online poll by market research firm Harris Interactive.
Harris polled 2,383 U.S. adults online between Nov. 14 and 19. Of the respondents, 66% say they think smartphone payments will one day replace card payments, but only 32% think that will happen in the next five years. Meanwhile, 61% say smartphones will one day replace cash payments, but just 26% think that will happen in the next five years.
The survey results illustrate some of the reasons why few consumers today pay with mobile phones in stores. The respondents, who could select multiple answers, cited the following obstacles to mobile payments:
Among the ways phones could be converted into physical payment devices is to equip them with chips that communicate with payment terminals through a wireless connection, a technology called Near Field Communication. But NFC adoption is minimal, with players like Google Wallet just scratching the surface. Only 13% of survey respondents say they've used NFC to make a purchase. Close to 100 million NFC devices will ship in 2012, according to estimates from Forrester Research Inc., with the United Kingdom, Poland, Turkey, the United States and France leading the way in rolling out the technology, the firm reports.
Another type of smartphone payment is with mobile apps and two-dimensional bar codes. Starbucks uses this method and has processed millions of dollars of transactions. In the poll, 26% of respondents say they've used a mobile app as a coupon to make a payment and 16% as a gift card. Meanwhile 17% of respondents say they've used a mobile scan as a transportation ticket and 15% say they've used one to gain admission to an event or movie.


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The first thing to do is see a urologist. A urologist is a doctor who specializes in medical care of a man's reproductive organs. Your urologist will take your medical history and do a physical examination to make sure you have no other health issues that would affect your fertility. Your partner should also see her doctor to make sure she has no fertility issues.
There are two types of vasectomy reversal procedures. The procedure used depends on the area of the male reproductive tract that was blocked during your original vasectomy procedure.
Your doctor will decide which procedure is better for you during the operation. Both types of vasectomy reversal may let you and your partner have a baby naturally through sexual intercourse.
During this procedure, your doctor aspirates (gently suctions) sperm from your testicles. This procedure is usually performed under local anesthesia (with the use of numbing medication) in the office. It can also be done under general anesthesia (when you are put to sleep). A tiny needle is used to remove sperm directly from each vas deferens close to the testicle, or even directly from each testicle. Most men have some minor pain complaints after this procedure is completed.
The sperm is then used to fertilize your partner's eggs in a laboratory by using IVF. The sperm can either be aspirated the day of the IVF procedure or it can be removed in advance and frozen for a future IVF procedure. Because the quantity of sperm is small, its use for artificial insemination is not recommended.
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The Blue Knights football game against Shorewood/Messmer on Oct. 5, was voted "game of the week" on Radio 540 ESPN. They broadcast the game and streamed the broadcast at ESPNWisconsin.com. The pregame show on Friday night featured an interview with Brookfield Academy's varsity football coach, Jon Kahle.
Brookfield Central
College Night, sponsored by both high schools, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Central auxiliary gym. Representatives from public and private colleges such as Carroll University, Marquette University, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Waukesha will share information about admission requirements, the college experience and more.
Brookfield Christian
Pre-kindergarten students studied the changes that take place in God's world during autumn, completed squirrel- and owl-related activities, pressed leaves and visited the Brookfield East Nature Center during the week of Oct. 1.
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College Night, sponsored by both high schools, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Central auxiliary gym. Representatives from public and private colleges such as Carroll University, Marquette University, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Waukesha will share information about admission requirements, the college experience and more.
Burleigh Elementary
The third- and fourth-graders attended a performance by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 9. The theme for the performance was "American Landscapes" and it featured well-known works by American composers and other standard American songs. Students have been listening to some of these pieces in their classrooms as well as in music class. This trip was sponsored by FAB (Fine Arts at Burleigh).
Dixon Elementary
"A Day Made Better" is OfficeMax's annual, companywide community initiative involving every OfficeMax business area and many key vendors. This is the sixth year OfficeMax is initiating "A Day Made Better." To help bring this to life, OfficeMax has again partnered with the nonprofit organization, AdoptAClassroom.org. The mission is to find a community partner for every teacher, providing financial support to buy the supplies they need, and moral support to show that the community cares about their success.
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Immanuel Lutheran
Immanuel is hosting a girls volleyball tournament Oct. 11 through Oct. 13. There will be eight teams at the fifth- and sixth-grade level and eight teams at the seventh- and eighth-grade level participating. The tournament is sponsored by the parents involved in Immanuel's PTL/Booster Club.
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Gordon Korman, Young Readers Choice Award recipient and New York Times bestselling author, will be visiting the school and speaking to students Nov. 19.
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In an effort to provide real-world experiences to students, first-grade teachers Jenny Williams and Melissa Klement spent a day with the kids in the village of Greendale on Sept. 28. The students learned the difference between goods and services by visiting businesses in the village. Map-building skills were an important part of the visit, as the students drew their own maps of the village and created a map key to round out the project. It was a sensation for their senses, too, as the kids enjoyed the village's English garden design and tasted sweet treats from Ferch's Malt Shoppe.
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Twenty-four students have been participating in the Sumdog online math contest. Students in Waukesha County are competing against each other to be top dog each day. Swanson earned those honors Oct. 4.
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Harrisburg head coach Randy Smithpeters has kept one word from being erased on the drawing board all season long.
That one word: adversity and Harrisburg got plenty of it Friday night at Massac County.
In a game the Bulldogs never led in, Harrisburg suffered its first loss in 21 games dating back to last season, suffering a 74-56 defeat to the Patriots.
It was a win, that for Joe Hosman, knows might not mean much considering how many more times the two teams will see each other.
It's likely Harrisburg and Massac County could meet in the semifinals of the Eldorado Holiday Tournament and aside from the near 20-point defeat, Hosman knows the final score isn't any indication of Harrisburg as a whole.
"This game is not indicitative of how the next two games will be. It's not. We're just happy with the win, because coach Smithpeters and the Bulldogs have had such a strangle hold on us for the past three years. He's had it on a lot of people though.
"Coach Smithpeters runs a great program and has sustained such a level of success for so many years," Hosman said. "They're a team, right now, that will play better than they did tonight."
The loss snapped a 12-game win streak against Massac County, but for Smithpeters, the game proved to be more of a learning experience than anything else.
"We have to play good teams to make ourselves better and I thought this was the best team we have played all season. I mentioned, even before our first game of that season, that we have to experience things. We do have an inexperienced team and here is a Massac County team that plays hard, runs the floor well and rebounds well.
"Our goal for this game is to use it to make ourselves better — to learn from this — and thats what I hope we do. We need to keep our head up and we know we have things to learn from."
Harrisburg trailed at the end of each quarter, including trailing by 10, 40-30 at halftime.
The first half showed a glaring weakness in the Harrisburg arsenal as they got beat in transition on defense, committing eight turnovers, that led to easy buckets for Massac County.
"Their lead in the first half is from layups, dunks and just breakaways. If you take that away, we are probably tied at halftime," Smithpeters said.
The 10-pont, 40-30 lead Massac County built in the first half grew to 17 in the second half after Jalen Roundtree sunk in a free throw with a little less than two minutes to play in the frame.
"We come out in a little bit of a hole," Smithpeters admitted. "We don't keep them off the glass and that was one of our keys before the game. If we don't rebound, we don't win this ballgame. We knew they were going to put up a lot of shots, a lot of quick shots and when we had to have a rebound, we didn't do a very good job of doing that."
Page 2 of 3 - Harrisburg was outrebounded 39-36, while the Bulldogs committed 23 turnovers on the night, as opposed to just 17 by the Patriots.
The Bulldogs put three players in double figures as Eli Taborn-Scott scored a team-high 19 points. Bahari Amaya added 11 points and Jarren Goldman scored 10.
Dalton Mitchell led all players with 23 points as the Massac County senior guard joined Roundtree (18) and Andy Walquist (12) in double figures.
"Anytime you beat Harrisburg in anything...They're well coached and compete in everything they do," Hosman said. "It's just one game, we'll probably have to see them again two more times and we're happy with the victory. You have to win your games at home if you want to have a chance to win the conference and I'm just proud of how my kids played. We built on a lead, attacked the basket and we still, down the stretch, shot the ball too quick. It was a good win for us."
For Smithpeters, the loss showed things his Bulldogs can improve on and Smithpeters noted, "It's not a case of this being a situation where we don't have the skills or athletes. Its just something we have to learn to do better.
"We have to get better at running our offense," he said. "The intensity and not letting up. They shoot a shot, we relax, they get the rebound. We make a turnover, we relax, they run out in transition. We don't run the floor. Little things. Things we talked about all week and things we just didn't do very well."
Harrisburg 10 20 16 10 — 56
Massac Co. 18 22 14 17 — 74
Harrisburg (4-1, 1-1): Houston 1-6 3-5 5, Goldman 4-8 2-7 10, Simerly 2-6 0-0 4, Amaya 5-17 0-0 11, Scott 8-20 3-7 19, Crim 3-5 1-2 7, Street 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 23-61 9-21 56.
Massac Co. (6-2, 2-0): Blye 1-5 2-7 8, Mitchell 5-16 12-13 23, Roundtree 8-18 1-2 18, Walquist 6-8 0-0 12, Kendall 4-8 0-0 8, Rose 0-0 0-0 0, Stoner 0-1 0-2 0, Welch 1-1 0-2 2, Reinwald 3-5 0-1 7. Totals: 28-62, 15-25 74.
3-pointers: Harrisburg 1-10 (Houston 0-2, Goldman 0-1, Amaya 1-6). Massac Co. 3-12 (Mitchell 1-5, Roundtree 1-5, Reinwald 1-3). Rebounds: Harrisburg 33, Massac Co. 39. Turnovers: Harrisburg 23, Massac Co. 17. Fouls: Harrisburg 20, Massac Co. 25.
Harrisburg 82, Du Quoin 45
DU QUOIN — Eli Taborn Scott became the latest member of the Harrisburg High School basketball 1,000th point club when he tallied 19 in a bounce-back victory against Du Quoin Saturday night.
"We're happy with the win and I'm very happy for Eli," Smithpeters said. "He's had a great career here at HHS and its far from over. We really wanted to rebound after (Friday night). Not sure how much it helped us from a competitive standpoint, but it helped up from a coaching perspective because we still talk about how we want to do things correctly even though the competition may have not been there."
Page 3 of 3 - Corbin Crim had a big game for the Bulldogs as the sophomore pumped in a game-high 20 points. Amaya scored 17 to finish in double figures for Harrisburg.
Harrisburg 17 25 22 18 — 82
Du Quoin 05 10 14 16 — 45
Harrisburg (5-1): Houston 1-3 2-6 5, Goldman 0-2 0-0 0, Simerly 3-6 0-0 6, Amaya 8-12 1-1 17, Scott 7-11 5-5 19, Crim 8-11 6-9 22, Street 1-1 0-0 2, Batts 1-2, 1-1 4, Lane 0-0 1-2 1, Gregg 0-1 0-0 0, Fowler 2-2 0-05, Owens 0-1 0-0 0, Bittle 0-0 2-2 2, Barger 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 31-54, 19-27 82.
Du Quoin (0-7): Hopkins 1 0-0 2, Bullar 4 6-6 14, Mercier 3 0-0 6, Smith 2 2-2 6, Showalter 2 0-0 4, Wright 3 2-2 9, Heatherly 1 0-0 2, Kuhnert 1 0-1 2. Totals: 17 10-11 45.
3-pointers: Harrisburg 1-4 (Fowler 1-1, Houston 0-1, Amaya 0-1, Batts 0-1). Du Quoin 1 (Wright). Rebounds: Harrisburg 26, Du Quoin 20. Turnovers: Harrisburg 16, Du Quoin 30. Fouls: Harrisburg 17, Du Quoin 22.
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highest bidder, payable in lawful money of the United States at the
time of the sale, at the south main entrance of the Emery County
Courthouse at 1850 North 560 West, Castle Dale, Emery County, Utah, on
February 23, 2011 at the hour of 9:00 a.m. of said day, for the
purpose of foreclosing a Trust Deed originally executed by Surveying
Associations, Inc. as Trustor, in favor of original beneficiary Cipra
Living Trust, covering real property located at in Emery Utah and more
particularly described as:
BEGINNING at a point in the extension of a fence lien, which point is
North 1650 feet and West 1068.074 feet (Basis of bearing + Solar
Observations) from the Southwest corner of Section 3, Township 22
South, Range 6 East; SLB&M; thence West 961.579 feet to a point in the
extension of fence line; thence along said fence line and extension
thereof north 00°43'36" West 999.711 feet to a fence line; thence
along said fence line South 89°40'52"
East 480 feet; thence South 6.958 feet; thence East 491.449 feet to a
fence line; thence along said fence line and extension thereof South
00°21'49" East 357.843 feet to a fence line; thence along said
fence line South 00°02'58" East 632.164 feet to the point of
beginning. Situated in Section 4, T22S, R06E.
Tax Parcel #1-78-10.
The current beneficiary of the trust deed is Russell Taylor and the
record owner of the property as of the recording of the notice of
default is Surveying Associates, Inc. This Trust Deed is recorded as
Entry Number 347545 of the records of the Emery County Recorder.
Bidders must be prepared to tender to the trustee $5,000.00 at the
sale and the balance of the purchase price by 12:00 noon the day
following the sale. Both payments must be in the form of a cashier's
check or certified funds.
The trustee maintains a bona fide office in the state meeting the
requirements of Subsection 57-1-21(1)(b). The address of the office
of the trustee is 76 N Merchant Street, American Fork, UT 84003. The
hours during which the trustee can be contacted regarding the notice
of default are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with the
exception of legal holidays. The trustee may be contacted by
telephone during these hours at 801-874-4983.
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Lillian M. Meredith
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Friday, November 1, 2013 in Hansen Stadium at DSU is the event called the Red Rocks Invitational and is sponsored by the Utah Music Educators Association. This event is THE STATE OF UTAH MARCHING BAND FINALS COMPETITON endorsed by the Utah High School Activities Association.
The Red Rocks Invitational will begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude about 9:00 p.m. There will be 42 bands from throughout Utah, some from Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and California competing at this large event. There will be 3,000+ student performers. Small bands of 40-50 members and very large bands of more than 200 students will provide hours of entertainment. Each band will perform a 15 minute show on the football field marching in precision formations and supported by their flag and rifle corp. A panel of nationally recognized judges will fly into St. George to adjudicate the show and the highest scoring bands will take home trophies. The Bands from Utah will be eligible for State Awards based on their final performance in Red Rocks Invitatio
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The volunteers to run the show will be provided by three high school band booster organizations, American Fork HS, of Am. Fork. UT; Davis HS, of Kaysville, UT; and Mountain Crest HS, of Hyrum, UT with the assistance of the Washington County School District.
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On Saturday, November 2, 2013, another giant marching band competition will be held in the Hansen Stadium. This event is sponsored by a national band organization called Bands of America, a branch of Music For All Corporation. The corporation headquarters is in Indianapolis, IN. They sponsor 15 Regional Championship Marching Band Competitions throughout the United States leading up to the Grand National Championship held in Indianapolis on November 13-16, 2013. This event is the St. George Regional Championship for the western region of the United States.
The competition is designed to have a Preliminary Competition beginning in the morning at 9 a.m. in which each of the 23 registered bands will perform. Following these judged performances an award assembly will be held at 4:30 p.m. The top 12 scoring bands will be announced to compete in the Finals Competition that will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end about 10:00 p.m. Admission prices are:
General Admission $14 Prelims / $14 Finals / $22 Day Pass. Children 10 and under admitted for free to general admission seats. Student Discount –Youth 11-18 years old: $7 off any General Admission ticket. College Student Discount –$7 off any General Admission ticket. Seniors Discount - 62 years and over: $3 off any ticket type.
The size of these events brings a wonderful weekend of cultural activity to St. George residents and will be a major financial benefit for St. George City Hotels, and other businesses. Come and see the best High School bands in the west perform for you.


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Richland Takes Step Forward In Purchasing Delta High School
The Richland School District takes another step toward purchasing Delta High School.
Last night board members approved closing the deal on the school, the district started the process of purchasing the school and the land last year for about one million dollars.
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Comments: I cannot recommend this product due to the fact that, having purchased 2 for my new Bauer X80 shaft and not one would fit correctly. I used an entire glue stick + tape and still nothing. Regardless, I shouldn't have to tape to fill the gaps and it seems to me that it speaks of crappy quality control, which begs the question, "how reliable will these be?".
From: Anonymous
Comments: Just got this the other day. Pairing it with a Bauer X80 shaft. Talk about LOOSE! Be prepared to tape the end of the blade before trying to fit it. And I am not talking a little loose, but a whole heck of a lot! Debating on returning because I've never liked having to tape the blade in.
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July 2009
Navigator Newsletter
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In May, we let you know about saving on fuel and RVing with pets. This month, we are excited to bring you a great new vacation opportunity that encompasses both. Woodall's understands that while spending quality time together is important, the cost of a family trip is often expensive. So, we would like to introduce you to a vacation club that you can enjoy up to 240 camping nights per year and pay no nightly rates. Woodall's Vacation Club, through an affiliation with Equity LifeStyle Properties' private resorts, is a membership that allows you to vacation close to home with the entire family in the most breathtaking natural settings. See section
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By Millie Evans
Navigating America's Roads
How our modern highway system came to be and how to make sense out of its identification and numbering scheme
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…
– Walt Whitman, "
Song of the Open Road
Some road trips live on as legends, but others are best forgotten. Some journeys merit retelling and remain impossible to forget…like the road with no name or number.
When you're RVing down the highway at a good clip, enjoying the freedom of the path ahead, singing Willie Nelson's classic "On the Road Again," it's nice to know where you are and where the pavement ends. Sure, it's fun to be free and easy traveling America's vast highways, but at some point you'll have to make decisions.
"Are we on the Dixie Highway or the Dixie Beeline?"
"Is the Ventura Freeway the same as the 101?"
"Where the heck are we?"
Fortunately, the funding and enactment of the Federal Aid Highway Act resulted in the comprehensive numbering of roads. RVers traveling across the U.S. today may find it difficult to imagine the country without the interstate highway system, but when President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act, on June 29, 1956, interstates began to meet the challenge of the growing number of vehicles on the nation's highways.
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Life on the Road with Pets and Kids
When we first decided to become full–time RVers, we never imagined that we would find ourselves playing defense for a way of life that we love so much. Needless to say, full–time RVing isn't for everyone. Space is tight. Fuel is expensive. And even though you're living out in the margins of society – there are still deadlines to meet, bills to pay, things to fix, and lessons to learn.
However, when we first started writing about RVing with pets, we ran into an unexpected form of resistance from other pet owners that disapproved of the treatment of our traveling companions. The criticism, it seems, stems from the assertion that cats and dogs were not meant to spend their lives moving from place to place.
At first glance, I found their comments (usually delivered by e-mail) a little odd – given the fact that cats and dogs have accompanied travelers since time began. Explorers routinely took dogs along (and still do) for both companionship and protection. And without cats, ocean voyages would have been nearly impossible due to uncontrolled rodent populations that would have devoured essential food supplies and spread disease. Today, cats and dogs routinely accompany people on houseboats, yachts, RVs, cars, and everything else that move from place to place.
And yet the criticism still remains. And then, when I gave birth to my first child last year, people were amazed that a couple living in an RV could cope with the challenges of bringing a baby into the world. (Of course, they weren't the only ones). But it was only a matter of time when a familiar criticism made its way into the conversation. And once again, the criticism stemmed from the assertion that children were not meant to spend their lives moving from place to place.
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How Fresh Is Your Fresh Water?
According to the ancient Greek poet Pindar, "
Water is the best of all things
." But would Pindar, who lived from 518 to 438 BC, understand our contemporary concept of carrying fresh water with us, or of tapping into a different source of city water each evening? Certainly there was a high degree of importance placed on the availability and the freshness of water during those ancient times. And so it should be today. We
wonder just how fresh (safe) the water is at the various campgrounds we visit.
The Bad…
Not long ago, USA Today analyzed millions of records from the nation's 170,000 regulated water systems during the years 1993-1997 and concluded, "
Each day, millions of Americans turn on their taps and get water that exceeds legal limits for dangerous contaminants. Millions more get water that isn't treated or tested properly, so there's no telling if it's clean.
" Think water worries are just a dilemma from the long ago past? The worst outbreak of a waterborne illness in U.S. history was just a few short years ago in 1993 when a parasite in Milwaukee's water system killed 111 people and made 403,000 people sick. A report by the Medical College of Wisconsin and the EPA estimates that 7.1 million Americans suffer nausea or diarrhea yearly just from foul water. The bottom line? Take a proactive attitude and be sure the water you allow into the fresh water system of your RV is indeed fresh and free from contaminants.
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Frommer's National Parks with Kids
by Kurt Repanshek
Frommer's National Parks with Kids is a great resource to learn where and how to experience family fun activities together such as kayaking, sailing, hiking a canyon or rainforest, or even becoming a junior ranger. This book provides detailed information on kid friendly programs and the best little known spots that are available at each national park. Make your family vacation memories last forever without breaking the bank and
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By Mark Nemeth
Hi, all!
I hope you are enjoying a summer of RVing. We've got a mixed bag of questions this month and some additional information submitted by readers on the battery drain problem we discussed in the May newsletter.
I have a 2008 V–10 Class A and want to know if the Banks power intake system will help with the gas and power for the cost of it.
Thanks, Don.
Hi, Don:
The Banks systems can be a great addition if you are interested in increasing engine horsepower and torque for towing and hill climbing. The modifications will also help the engine perform more efficiently and may offer modest improvements in gas mileage. The overall improvements vary from vehicle to vehicle, so I suggest you contact Banks directly. They have some excellent information available for most late–model gas and diesel engines, showing the average performance and economy gains you can expect from various Banks systems. Visit their website at
. It is very well designed and easy to navigate. Banks also has a very good reputation for quality and service.
What product can I use to remove "sap" from my rubber roof and travel trailer?
Thank you, Frank.
Hi, Frank:
This is a common problem, and the rubber roof complicates it a bit as you should not use petroleum solvents on it. You can always use a cleaning product that is designed for rubber roofs, such as Thetford's rubber roof cleaner, but there are some other possible solutions. Some I have talked to report good results using rubbing alcohol (or drinking alcohol), and some folks have successfully used "Goo–Gone," but I would suggest caution, as it is powerful stuff! You may think I'm a loony when I tell you that mayonnaise is very effective on tree sap. Really! I read about it somewhere years ago, tried it, and was amazed at how well it works. It will dissolve tree sap on skin, clothing, auto paint, and even on rubber roofs. Spread it on, let it sit for a few minutes, and wipe off. Then clean the area with soapy water to remove the residue.
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Mini Maglite LED AA–Cell Flashlight
The new Mini Maglite LED flashlights are now available with new MAG-LED technology. Choose the super bright two–cell AA model for its smaller size, or the longer three-cell AA model with its high performance. These flashlights provide a powerful beam that focuses by rotating the head. They can also be used in "candle mode" by unscrewing the flashlight head and placing the head on a stable flat surface, then setting the flashlight barrel in the head. MSRP: MAG doesn't set retail prices, but we found the two–cell model at retailers for around $24.
MAG Instrument
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Mag Instrument is the only flashlight company with significant market share that still manufacturers its entire line of flashlights in the United States. Unlike its competitors, Mag Instrument has chosen not to outsource the manufacturing of its flashlights to foreign countries in order to take advantage of cheap labor and less stringent environmental standards, which may also result in inferior quality.
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Prince Rupert Halibut
3 small halibut steaks
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons salad oil
Season steaks with salt, pepper and paprika. Blend butter or margarine, oil and lemon juice and brush steaks with mixture. Lightly oil the cooking grill and place the fish on grill about 4 inches above cooking coals. Cook for about 10 minutes, turning and basting frequently.
Thetford Corporation recently introduced its new line of RV care products that include five products, all of which meet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Design for the Environment (DfE) program's criteria without giving an inch on cleaning power. The EPA DfE program was founded to reduce pollution through prevention. All products that carry the EPA/DfE certificate logo contain no inorganic phosphates, hazardous solvents or environmentally harmful ingredients.
Included in the Thetford Premium DfE RV Care product line are: UltraFoam Black Streak Remover, UltraFoam Awning Cleaner, Mildew Stain Remover, Hard Water Spot Remover and Wash & Wax. Non–toxic and biodegradable, these products are also packaged in recyclable plastic containers that are made from 25–percent post–consumer recycled content.
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From the Pages of Camping Life Magazine
Wildlife sightings are a delightful part of being outdoors. Like all highlights of outdoor recreation, the desire to capture these moments with a photograph is a natural reaction to such a pleasurable experience. To help make it a more pleasurable and rewarding experience, here are 10 tips that can make the pictures you bring back home even better.
Know your camera
– Most of the time, the best wildlife photos present themselves in situations that last but seconds. You have a much better chance of capturing these moments if you know your camera well enough that its operation is second nature.
Know your subject
– Understanding animal behavior puts you in the position to anticipate action. The more you know about various species of wildlife, the more successfully you'll photograph them.
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Locks are Good – Sometimes!
I decided to put a king pin lock on our 5th wheel so that someone couldn't just drive away with our trailer while we were away from camp in our truck. One morning on the Oregon coast I went to hitch up, not noticing that the lock ring was still in place. I ended up breaking our truck's 5th wheel hitch, 800 miles from home, and had to pay $1200 for a new one.
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The average stock mutual fund gained 14.6% in 2012, but a few fund categories fared far better. The question for investors: Will their hot streaks last in 2013?
The average stock mutual fund gained 14.6% in 2012, but a few fund categories fared far better. The question for investors: Will their hot streaks last in 2013?
Let's start with real estate funds, which gained an average 18.3%, according to Lipper, which tracks the funds. These funds typically invest in real estate investment trusts, which buy and sell commercial real estate -- apartments, office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, even storage units.
ROUNDTABLE: 13 investment themes for 2013
REITs had three hot buttons for investors last year:
-- Yield. REITs must pass virtually all their income on to investors. The average REIT yielded 3.51% at the end of December -- nowhere near a record, but still better than the 10-year Treasury note, which yielded less than 2%.
-- Taxes. Investors sold some dividend-producing stocks because they were worried that dividend taxes would rise. But REIT dividends, unlike most corporate dividends, are already taxed at individual rates.
-- Growth. Commercial real estate is economically sensitive -- that is, it fares best when the economy is roaring. The economy managed a "meow" at best in 2012, but nevertheless had steady growth -- and didn't fall into a recession. That was enough to intrigue investors, who were counting on increased traffic at malls, higher occupancy rates in offices and higher rates at hotels.
Will the trend continue? At 3.51%, the average REIT yield is just about a quarter of a percentage point from its all-time low -- typically, not the best time to buy. (The average REIT yielded 10.1% in February 2009, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.)
The bright spot for REITs: Financially strong REITS have good access to low-cost borrowing, which means they can refinance existing debt and borrow more at low rates for purchases and acquisitions. Mergers could power U.S. REITs higher in 2013.
Investors who have a slightly more speculative bent could consider international REITs. Building and construction cratered in Europe and elsewhere during the financial crisis, meaning sharp managers can snap up bargains. Should the dollar fall in value, U.S. investors in international real estate funds would get an added boost from converting foreign gains into U.S. dollars.
Small-cap value
While most investors were riveted on large growth companies such as Apple, funds that looked for small, undervalued company stocks quietly outperformed their large-cap brethren. The average small-company value fund rose 16.7% in 2012, according to Lipper, vs. 13.4% for the large-company Standard & Poor's 500 stock fund.
Small caps are typically defined as those whose market value -- price times number of shares -- is $1 billion or less. As the stock market has grown, however, that boundary has grown: Morningstar defines small-cap stocks as those with a market value of about $2.2 billion.
Because value funds look for stocks that Wall Street hates, and because many small-company stocks fly under the mainstream radar altogether, some managers can find standout small companies even when large companies are in favor with the rest of the world. Schneider Small Cap Value, for example, took a big positionin Meritage Homes, one of the 10 largest home builders in the nation. The $1.4 billion company gained more than 60% last year.
Small-company stocks often soar just before the end of a bull market. Remember all those tiny start-up stocks that flared out spectacularly at the end of the technology bubble in 2000? Because small-value funds hate to pay high prices for stocks relative to earnings, they typically lag during overheated markets. So far, however, the small-value market shows no signs of overheating.
Large-company foreign stocks
The average large-company foreign fund soared 18.1% last year, and you can thank Europe -- and a falling dollar -- for that.
European stocks were clobbered early in 2012 as investors fretted that Greece would leave the euro, prompting other, weaker countries, such as Italy, Portugal, and Ireland to follow it. Fears about the financial condition of Spain and Italy also prompted big sell-offs of European stocks.
Surprisingly, however, Europe seems to have muddled through, and their markets rebounded strongly:
-- Germany, up 25.2% in euros, according to MSCI, which tracks international markets.
-- Belgium, up 34%
-- Denmark, up 28.1%
Those figures got even better when translated back into U.S. dollars. German stocks scored a 27.2% gain for U.S. investors, for example, and Belgium soared 36.1%.
Despite worries of an overheated housing market, China managed to record impressive gains in 2012, as well, rising 19% in U.S. dollars. India's market soared 23.9%.
Economists worry that European austerity programs, which raise taxes and slash spending, could weaken those economies even further. Should the U.S. and China continue growing, however, some of Europe's woes could be ameliorated.
U.S. and foreign markets are becoming increasingly intertwined: When Wall Street falls, so does London and Tokyo. But if you think Europe remains undervalued, and you think the dollar will continue to decline, then it might be profitable to send some of your portfolio overseas this year.


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Found 5 Mentors.
Mentor In: Diabetic, Dessert, Dinner, Soup, Egg-Free, Gluten-Free, Lactose-Free
Why I want to be mentor: I have experience with multiple diets and restrictions. I do baking on the side and am familiar with gluten free diets.
Lesson Learned: Freshness is the key, I love the taste of natural ingredients with bold flavors.
Tip: I love grilling and roasting, They bring out the natural sugars of vegetables and add a whole level of flavor to the food.
Die Hard Foodie
Arlington VA
Mentor In: Gluten-Free
Why I want to be mentor: I had an easy introduction to the gluten-free diet through m boyfriend and his mother, both of whom are Celiac patients. Nothing beats being able to email someone with a question and being sure that they know what they\'re talking about.
Lesson Learned: I\'ve learned to NEVER give up after a failure. If something I bake doesn\'t turn out, I eat it anyway and try to figure out what happened. Nothing like a little experimentation to get a cupcake recipe right!
Tip: Move away from the mixes! They're costly and not as good as homemade in most cases. Don't be afraid to start from scratch!
Gluten-Free Goddess
Mentor In: Gluten-Free
Why I want to be mentor: It took me AGES to refine my cooking to a point where it could be sold - and in the process I learnt a lot I\'d like to be able to share with other cooks out there.
Lesson Learned: How to make cakes rise and pastry be light even when using a gluten-free flour which by its very nature is heavier.
Tip: Always add more liquid into any recipe you are adapting to be wheat or gluten free if you want it to be moist and flavourful
Kent, UK
Mentor In: Gluten-Free
Why I want to be mentor: To highlight the need for more gluten free cooking and to prove that it doesn\'t have to be difficult
Lesson Learned: Check ALL ingredients on ALL products... It\'s amazing where gluten hides!
Tip: Be creative.. Being Gluten Free shouldn't be restrictive
williamsburg virginia
Mentor In: Gluten-Free
Why I want to be mentor: because gluten free and organic cooking is very beneficial for everyone and i want to spread the word and help others see that this way of eating is more than just bland commercilized packaged food... ask me i will tell ya
Lesson Learned: that baking and cooking are very different and patience is key
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Roux White Bleach
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- Features
- Professional speed bleach with hydrolyzed collagen proteins
- Lightens while conditioning
- Into a clean glass dish, pour the required amount of 20 volume hydrogen peroxide
- To this add the proper quantity of Roux White. To measure the proper quantity of Roux White, use the measuring cup enclosed in the canister. Always use 4 oz. of hydrogen peroxide for each two level measuring cupfuls of Roux White.
- Mix with an applicator brush until the powder is completely dissolved and a smooth creamy consistency is attained; then let stand 1-2 minutes to attain proper viscosity.
- Application should begin immediately after mixing.
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The Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA), Leon County and the City of Tallahassee will
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The library will serve as the kick-off site for the program's 33rd season honoring the accomplishments and successes of great neighborhoods. CONA President Leroy Peck, Leon County Commission Chairman Nick Maddox and City of Tallahassee Mayor Pro Tem Nancy Miller are scheduled to speak at the event.
CONA, the County and City are accepting nominations for the 2013 Neighborhood of the Year and Neighbor of the Year. The Neighbor of the Year is considered to be an individual who exemplifies the characteristics of leadership and servitude in making contributions to his or her community. Additionally, CONA is accepting nominations for its 2013 Public Servant of the Year and 2013 Business Neighbor of the Year.
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