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The Lauren Conrad Reading List
After the loss of two celebrated writers this week — Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger — it's easy to feel like there's nobody left. But there is! Lauren Conrad, Hills star and author. And now she's sharing her favorite books.
In a searingly in-depth interview for EW.com's book blog Shelf Life, Conrad, who has a new YA fiction book coming out (it's her second, both are about a girl who lives in California and is on a reality show), discusses her favorite and most influential books. These are her Great Books:
Goodnight Moon
A book that she remembers from childhood. It's fitting that this book still reverberates with her, given that her old television show, The Hills, was basically a weekly half hour of people saying the same thing to each other over and over again. Instead of "Goodnight," the refrain was usually something along the lines of "I like you" or "I don't like you" or "Riiiight?" As in, "I like you, Audrina. I like you, Brody. I like you, Heidi jumping over the moon." Or, "I don't like you, Justin Bobby. I don't like you, Kelly Cutrone frowning in the dark. I don't like you, math." And, "Riiiiight, trees? Riiiiight, Mercedes? Riiiiight, blonde friend oh wait that's just me in the mirror?" Simple, but effective.
The Great Gatsby
Lauren says she is "obsessed" with the 1920s, and that Gatsby is a "fun story." Which is true! It is a fun story. A fun story about casual, careless rich people who don't think much about anything and then in the end their lives are either awful or over. It would be achingly and comically fitting for Lauren to have been into the clothes and the fun hairstyles and stuff while completely missing the whole grand point about listless, shallow, material lives, but that would mean that we believed she's actually read the thing. Which we don't. So.
Spark Notes
"I read a lot of Spark Notes in high school." You and us both, girl. You and us both.
Bang Bang and Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea
About Chelsea Handler's hilariously original memoirs about drinking and celebrity gossip, Lauren issues the following Kakutani-esque
assessment: "I'm a fan of hers. I think she's very funny. She lacks a filter, which I really admire. I find her very entertaining. I really liked reading her books. She's really good at having her personality come across in her writing. It was like she was telling the story herself. You could hear her voice in there." Delicious. "It was like she was telling the story herself. You could hear her voice in there." See Lauren is a bit confused here. Unlike Ms. Conrad, Ms. Handler actually did write her own books, so she really is "telling the story herself." You could hear her voice because, well, it is her voice.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
This is a book that really profoundly touched Lauren as a teenager. What with its mishmash olio of feel-good stories and inspirational essays, we can't think of a single one of us who didn't get it as a present from our aunt and then disinterestedly read a couple of the things and then put it on the shelf and mostly forget it until we were asked questions about what books we were reading these days and, boom there ya go, easy answer.
Lord of the Flies
"I made up my essay. I don't think I even finished my Spark Notes. I probably got a very bad grade." She could have learned a lot about Lo and Heidi by actually reading this. Or at least from finishing the dang Spark Notes, for sheesh's sake! Geez Louise, Lauren!
The Contortionist's Handbook
Evidently her boyfriend, the kid who played Grover in the seminal Wim Winders classic House Arrest, has been reading it and likes it so now she wants to read his fancy book too. She says she downloaded it onto her Kindle. She has a Kindle! Because she likes to read so very much. The novel is about a forger who lives in Los Angeles, so if she ever gets around to having her assistant read it for her (there are no Spark Notes, we already looked), we think she'll relate.
The Notebook
Her favorite book-to-movie adaptation. There's not anyone who doesn't like that movie. That movie is like having a summer morning talk to you. It's warm and breezy and a little too easy, but it's pleasant. The book, however, was written by Nicholas Sparks, and is not very good, because he is a bad writer. Thankfully he invented Sparks Notes, which is like Spark Notes only instead of reading a summary of the book, you read a better version of the same story. We believe the Sparks Notes for The Notebook is, oddly enough, My Antonia.
Update: I forgot one! She mentioned Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The novel is about an outcast high school student who, all of a sudden, nobody can hear. (Or something.) This is one of Lauren's favorite books because it's how she felt for a few seconds after the cameras turned off on her last episode of the The Hills, but then it was time to promote her fashions so she felt just fine.
At the end of the interview, when asked if there's a character she has nightmares about, Lauren says: "I feel like, in a lot of the books I read, the protagonist's enemy is themselves. I read about a lot of self-torturing characters. I'm not big on happy endings."
Well, neither are we:
Lauren Conrad's new book, Sweet Little Lies is in stores February 2nd.


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DOVER, Del. — Clint Bowyer sponsor 5-Hour Energy announced Friday that it would return next season as a sponsor of Bowyer and Michael Waltrip Racing.
The company, which is a popular energy drink maker, is in its second year of a three-year deal through 2014 to sponsor Bowyer for 24 races each season.
In 2012, the company expanded that commitment to nearly the full season and then kept it at the original 24-race plan in 2013. Its commitment for 2014 came into question following the recent integrity controversy embroiling MWR, sparking 5-Hour Energy officials to say they would wait until the end of the year before making a decision.
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If 5-Hour Energy had dropped MWR, it could have put the team into a financial crisis. It already is trying to figure out what to do with its No. 56 team and Martin Truex Jr., as sponsor NAPA has announced it would leave the team after this season.
"There are scores of passionate fans, numerous charitable organizations, and hundreds of hard-working MWR employees and their families who are directly impacted by 5-Hour Energy's NASCAR sponsorship," 5-Hour Energy communications director Melissa Skabich said in a statement Friday.
"After several internal discussions and meetings with MWR, we are prepared to announce our decision ahead of schedule. 5-Hour Energy will be back as a sponsor of MWR and Clint Bowyer for 2014. We look forward to another great year of competitive racing."
The company had been non-committal for 2014 after Bowyer spun with seven laps remaining in the Sept. 7 race at Richmond International Raceway.
That spin set off a chain of events that resulted in MWR being penalized for manipulating the finish of the race and altered who got into the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Bowyer escaped without much of an actual points penalty (he was docked 50 points pre-Chase, which then was wiped away when the Chase standings reset). But Bowyer has taken the brunt of the uproar as most believe he spun intentionally, which he has denied, and for Truex's points penalty resulting in Truex being pulled from the Chase by NASCAR.
Last week, 5-Hour Energy president Scott Henderson questioned NASCAR chairman Brian France's integrity because of France's statement about having the authority to add Jeff Gordon to the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
"There's been a lot of talk about integrity," Henderson said prior to last Sunday's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. "When the guy who is in charge can say, 'I can do whatever I want, I'm going to do it and I just did it,' I wonder about integrity.
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One of the many criticisms that come with success and popularity? Authenticity. Some—especially those that followed Nicki Minaj on her come-up—have harped that the queen of rap had somewhat abandoned the raw, edgy style that hooked us in the beginning. Hit pop songs like "Starships" and "Pound the Alarm" live as a testament to that. But Nicki's clearly been tapping into her mixtape roots lately and showing us that she never lost a step. Here, a few reasons why the Barb will reign supreme this year. —Roenny Hernandez


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I must admit that since I have given up on faith I feel somewhat rudderless and hopeless. I look at the bins of Christmas decorations in my hallway and want to cry. Some of those ornaments are treasures and precious memories to me of people who gave them to me or made them for me. Now what do I do with them? I am 50 years old and for all of my previous years it has been tradition to put up a tree and decorate and celebrate and my son is 14 and I have always done this with him. Now do I just say "No present for you, no reason to celebrate."?


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Creative thinking may not just be a matter of good genes. It can be taught, according to a study at Tel Aviv University's School of Psychological Sciences. Prof. Nira Liberman and undergraduates Maayan Blumenfeld, Boaz Hameiri and Orli Polack showed that kids can be "primed" to consider alternative realities and perspectives if they're exposed to new ways of looking at the world around them.
As the researchers explain in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, this type of thinking could help children develop better interpersonal and problem-solving skills and perhaps even invent new theories and concepts leading to successful careers in the arts, sciences and business.
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The key seems to be teaching "expansive" thought — encouraging children to think about distant objects and perspectives such as the galaxies in outer space, as opposed to objects and perspectives in their immediate surroundings. And it's relatively simple to get kids thinking in this direction, says Liberman.
"I do a lot of work on the effects of psychological distance on creativity," she tells ISRAEL21c. But her previous studies all focused on adults. "We did not know whether people learn to associate psychological distance with expansive thought over a period of years, or whether it is deeply rooted and learned before, perhaps even intrinsic."
The new study, the world's first to test theories of psychological distance and creativity involving children, used 55 subjects aged six to nine from Ra'anana and Ramat Hasharon. "The fact that these young children show that connection demonstrates to us it's not an effect of years," she says.
Thinking from the inside out
Liberman's students showed half of the children a series of photographs that started with nearby objects and gradually progressed to more distant ones — from a close-up of the pencil sitting on their school desk progressing to a picture of the Milky Way galaxy. The other half was shown exactly the same photographs but in reverse order.
After looking at the photographs, both groups of children completed an abbreviated version of the Tel Aviv Creativity Test (TACT), in which they were given an object and asked to describe different possible uses for it. Points are given for the number of uses mentioned and the creativity of the use.
The children in the expansive mind-set group – those who viewed the series of photos from close to far away — scored significantly better on all of the creativity measures, coming up with a greater number of uses and more creative uses for the objects.
Liberman and her students believe that the increased creativity was a direct result of priming the children to think expansively rather than contractively. "Psychological distance can help to foster creativity because it encourages us to think abstractly," explains Liberman.
This echoes her previous studies with adults, and it's good news for those of us who don't have an obvious creative streak. Apparently, exercises can train our minds to think more creatively, just as physical exercise trains our bodies to be stronger and more flexible.
"The flexibility of your mental operations is important because it underlies many human qualities, such as empathy, self-regulation, problem-solving and the ability to make new discoveries," she adds.
She's eager to continue this line of study, using even younger children. The three students who carried out the research have since moved on to graduate school. "I have to find people who wish to collaborate with me since I don't usually study young children and it's a different expertise," she says. "I am waiting to see if there is interest."


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I'm preparing to go back to work part time, at the end of the month. 2 and a half days per week. Full day would be probably an 8-9 hr absence, for a half day, 6 I guess. However, I am fortunate that I can bring my baby with me to work. I may do this every time, or occasionally depending on if it goes well.
IF I can't manage it well, For the days that I leave her with my husband or her grandmother I will leave EBM. I currently have an electric Phillips Avent, single pump. My concern is that I don't want any decrease in my milk production. 1. is this pump strong enough so that my production will maintain? (I have used it many times but not continuously past a couple weeks. It was used in the beginning when I had nipple trauma on one breast. So I used it to pump one side, and BF on the other side.) Although I know I will be with her most of the time BFing, and am sure it will be fine bc it will be so infrequent, BUT IF for example I don't bring her with me the two and a half days will it be affected?
Second Q- I want to store up a small stock in the freezer. Suggestions on total QTY? I know 3-4 OZ per frozen qty, and I read a PP that said a couple 'top offs' at 1.5OZ. I like that idea. but how much TOTAL should I be ok w? I don't want to pump to stock unless necessary.
How should I go about pumping this extra amount now without throwing off my supply? I tend to oversupply easily in my opinion, as I feed 8-10 a day depending on my baby and I still leak sometimes.
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US Blames Iran for Post-Quran Burning Violence in Afghanistan
The massive anti-US protests in the wake of the organized book burning at Bagram Air Base were the result of "anti-American provocation" by the Iranian government, according to US officials familiar with the situation.
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Israel's C-Span is the Knesset Channel (33) which political junkies like myself are hooked on. It's better than Hollywood boxing matches because it's just as bloody but with real athletes. A case in point was Monday's fantastic bout between fresh Finance Minister Yair Lapid and three Haredi MKs which the former won, in this sportscaster's opinion, if not by a knockout then surely by points.
Lapid, who actually does some amateur boxing in his spare time, was at the Knesset podium to discuss the coming cuts his office will introduce, in order to stop the deficit hemorrhaging of state funds (holding at about $13 billion at last count). It was Lapid's first speech in his new capacity, which the chairman, MK Meir Sheetrit used when asking the Haredi MKs to cut him some slack this being his "virgin speech." Lapid mumbled that it was the first time in many years his name and the concept of virginity were used in the same sentence.
It was that kind of a parliamentary confrontation, stormy, angry, and deliciously witty.
As soon as Minister of Finance Lapid rose to get to the podium, he was already attacked by members of the United Torah Judaism, accusing him of a slew of sins, all of which stemmed, supposedly, from his bigoted attitude towards Haredim.
"I empathize with Mr. Porush sorrow over the fact that you are no longer members of the coalition government," Lapid shot back, clearly enjoying himself. "these must be very difficult times for you."
That was funny! But Lapid had just begun. Next he turned on the same Haredi MKs, after they accused him of running a deficit budget. "Did you juts come down to Earth from mars?" he asked. "Were you not partners over the last thirty years in the governments that created this deficit? This deficit is written on your name, my job is to solve the deficit you created. And, mind you, you were not exactly the cheapest coalition members…"
When he presented his proposed vote of no-confidence (there was a whole bunch of those Monday), MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) made the tactical mistake of mentioning that Israel is a country surrounded by enemies.
Lapid replied: "You had the courage to come and say that the most important issue is security. You are worried about the decline in the rates of IDF recruitment? Do not concern yourself, this government will make sure that there will be many new recruits from your very own backyard. Do not concern yourself about the strength of the IDF. Every draft dodging is unacceptable, everyone will be drafted."
Swoosh! Score! Three pointer!
Haredi Mk Gafni asked Lapid: "Why do you issue Facebook Messages on Shabbat?" to which Lapid responded angrily: "I'm entitled to send messages on Shabbat, I'm not a religious man, you are free to do what you want on Shabbat, and I'll do what I want on Shabbat."
On Tuesday morning, MK Gafni told the Army radio it was a mistake to confront Lapid as he and his two colleagues had done. Lapid ate them for lunch and the entire country cheered him on. A Haredi journalist told The Jewish Press he was begging the Torah Judaism MKs not to play into Lapid's hands, and instead get him where it hurts, make fun of him and his dubious liberal arts education. The Haredim will have to think outside the box on this one, or the next four years will be an endless sitcom with themselves in the role of the village idiots.
The pièce de résistance of Lapid's manhandling of the three Haredi amigos was the issue of cutting back child support. Of all the coming cuts, this one is expected to be the cruelest. So you'd have thought that the Haredi MKs would score big on this obvious slow ball over center plate? Not on Monday.
"The people who are expected to take care of children in the first place are their parents," he said sternly, and then poured forth a hundred years of prejudiced, Haredi loathing criticism about making all these babies without a care in the world, because the nanny state will take care of them. It was hard to watch, and if the Torah Judaism MKs are not careful, their own Haredi voters would go for Lapid next time. Already Time Magazine has included the new handsome in its list of 100 most influential people – while dropping Netanyahu altogether!


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So I decided to use .5oz of Dried Ginger Root I bought at my local homebrew shop for my 5 gal batch of Saison. I added it at 15min and left it in the Primary for 2 weeks before racking to the secondary. WOW the Ginger flavor is HUGE! It's way more than I was looking for. What could I have done different?I was looking for subtle tones of Ginger not IN YOUR FACE GINGER! Also, it completely took away the amazing notes the WYEAST 3711 gives to the nose of the brew.


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POMONA, Calif. --
The season-opening event of what promises to be an action-packed 24-race schedule will be the perfect opportunity for dedicated NHRA fans to reconnect with their favorite drivers and continue to make memories they will carry with them for a lifetime. Many drivers will be sporting new sponsors, paint schemes and new crew members and this event will allow fans to see the new combinations early in the competitive season.
Fans will also be treated to a sensory overload environment with the sights and sounds of the tradition-rich event as drivers rocket down the track at speeds of more than 320 mph in an attempt to join the prestigious list of O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals winners.
Defending Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown returns to the site where he clinched his first historic championship last November. His focus is set on a second championship at the controls of his Matco Tools dragster, but Tony Schumacher, Morgan Lucas, Doug Kalitta, Brandon Bernstein and Shawn Langdon will all be looking to unseat him from his throne during the season. The Top Fuel class will grow this season as rookie Brittany Force, daughter of drag racing legend John Force, makes her historic debut in Top Fuel behind the wheel of the Castrol Edge dragster.
The Funny Car category is up for grabs with defending event winner John Force looking to join Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden with seven wins at the season-opening Winternationals. Force got his 134th career Funny Car victory here one year ago and will once again look to get out of the gate with a fast start in his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang as he is reunited with talented crew chief Mike Neff. Defending world champion Jack Beckman along with last season's runner-up Ron Capps, four-time winner Robert Hight, rookie of the year Courtney Force and returning driver Del Worsham will make an early season push towards a championship when the Christmas Tree flashes yellow for the first time in 2013.
Allen Johnson is fresh off his Pro Stock world championship in the factory hot rod class and knows now that it is a clean slate going into the year for his Team Mopar Dodge Avenger and his fellow competitors will be gunning for him this season. Two-time world champ Jason Line finished second in the points last season, while Erica Enders-Stevens had a breakout 2012 season with four victories, and Vincent Nobile will once again be a serious contender for a Winternationals victory as well as a world championship title.
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Buck, Mets down Marlins
Flushing, NY – John Buck had four RBI, and the New York Mets used a three-run seventh inning to snap a tie and beat Miami, 7-3, in the second of three games between the clubs.
"Last year, if something could go wrong, it went wrong. And then I tried harder to fix it," Buck said about his 2012 season with the Marlins. "It was a lot of stuff just piling up that I couldn't get right."
David Wright finished 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, while Collin Cowgill added a solo homer for the Mets, who snapped a two-game slide.
Josh Edgin recorded the final out of the top of the seventh and Brandon Lyon (1-0) pitched the eighth to get the win.
Greg Dobbs totaled two hits and drove in two runs for the Marlins, who couldn't maintain momentum from a 7-5 win in Friday's series opener.
Ryan Webb (0-1) was charged with the defeat after giving up three runs (two earned) and two hits with two walks over 1 2/3 relief frames.
New York picked up three runs in the home seventh to take a 6-3 lead.
Mike Baxter walked with one down, stole second and scored on a Daniel Murphy triple, then Wright added a single to plate Murphy for a two-run spread. Wright stole second ahead of an intentional walk to Ike Davis, then Buck's fly to right brought in Wright for a three-run edge.
Cowgill's two-out solo homer in the eighth made it 7-3 for the hosts, and Bobby Parnell retired the side in order in the ninth.
Dobbs' two-out single pushed across a Miami run in the top of the first, but the Mets countered in the home half on a sac fly from Buck.
Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada's bad throw to first on a potential double-play grounder from Dobbs in the fifth scored Placido Polanco to give the Fish a 2-1 edge. Polanco singled with one down and advanced on a Giancarlo Stanton base hit.
In the sixth, Wright and Davis hit consecutive one-out singles and Buck doubled both home for a 3-2 Mets' edge.
Dobbs drove in Juan Pierre to tie the score in the seventh, but was called out by home plate umpire Jim Joyce after he ruled Pierre interfered with Buck as he tried to throw to second to erase Dobbs.
"I've been watching the game for 42 years at this level and never saw anything like it before," said Mets manager Terry Collins.
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Mets starter Jon Niese allowed eight hits and one earned run over his six- inning start, while counterpart Ricky Nolasco exited after 5 1/3 frames having given up six hits and three runs with three walks and as many strikeouts.


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A 70-year-old Savannah woman was in serious but stable condition Monday night after her car struck two trees off Abercorn Street in Ardsley Park.
Ruth A. Vanderhorst of Inglesby Court was taken to Memorial University Medical Center after the 5 p.m. wreck at Abercorn and East 48th streets.
Vanderhorst was driving a 2011 silver Toyota Corolla northbound on Abercorn Street in the right lane when she drifted to the right side of the street, said Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.
The car struck the bottom portion of an oak tree before crashing head-on into another tree, he said.
Vanderhorst was extricated from her vehicle by Savannah Fire & Emergency Services.
The northbound lanes of Abercorn Street between 48th and 49th streets were closed to traffic for about two hours while the police department's Major Accident Investigation Team was on scene. Miller said the investigation into the wreck is ongoing.


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Utility should tear down Enloe Dam
I attended the Nov. 5 meeting of the Okanogan County Public Utility District. I found it to be interesting and informative.
The PUD presented two options, remove Enloe Dam at a cost that could reach $1 billion or replace the existing powerhouse to feed it at a cost of $60-80 million.
Enloe Dam went offline in the 1950s and has sat vacant for nearly 53 years. Now, all of a sudden, we need it.
I think those benefiting will be the PUD and the Colville tribe, which will receive 49 percent of the power at cost. The ratepayers are being asked to foot the bill with a 50-year bond, on top of which, it did not work out to be 9.5 percent as stated, but more like 26 percent.
I asked at this meeting about federal funding and grants for dam removal. The answer I received was that it would take an act of Congress. The Bureau of Land Management, which owns the land, should have to share in the cost since it is mandating use it or remove it.
The federal government funded removal of two dams on the Elwha River at a total cost was $385 million. So why would it cost $1 billion to remove Enloe Dam? That's nearly three times the cost of the overall Elwha project.
I am interested in hearing about "other" options utility commissioners say they are not at liberty to discuss.
I believe the cost of putting Enloe Dam back online is far too much for the amount of produceable energy. I would like the PUD to ask its 15,000 customers what they want to see done. Otherwise, take down this dam. We cannot afford it.
Richard C. Klein, Tonasket
Dam does not make fiscal sense
Okanogan County Public Utility District's development of hydropower at old Enloe Dam has been a hot topic.
As vocal opponents of the project, we have challenged the wisdom of adding $40-50 million more to the $38 million already owed by our utility. We are trying to avoid a huge blunder that will bankrupt the PUD and have severe negative impacts on the outdoor recreation future of north Okanogan County.
The math is simple, using the project estimates from 2007 — 45,000 megawatt-hours will be generated annually. It will cost the PUD $2.61 million dollars annually to operate.
Since this is surplus power, it would be sold at wholesale rates to outside utilities. Northwest (Mid-Columbia) Wholesale Power sold in September at $23.50/MWh and is expected to remain low long into the future.
Here is the equation: 45,000 MWh times $23.50/MWh equals $1,057,500 annually. The $2.61 million in expenses for a return of $1.1 million in revenues spells $1.5 million dollars in losses each year. Who pays to keep this sinking ship afloat? We do.
Thanks to The Chronicle for conducting the public opinion poll concerning the future of the Similkameen River. We, and the vast majority of the people we talk to, believe in her future as a wild scenic river, cleaned of its polluted mining sediments, serving as a source of inspiration, enhanced fisheries, wildlife and outdoor recreation.
The PUD claims the utility will be financially responsible and forced to remove Enloe Dam and the sediments behind it are without substance. The Bureau of Land Management would release them of liability if they would choose not to go forward.
Let's get to the table and make it happen.
Joseph Enzensperger, Oroville
Easements restrict public access
In response to the topic of conservation easements. The loser with conservation easements has been the public.
One of my grandparents, Amelia Zachman, homesteaded hundreds of acres on the end of Bear Road.
The land was sold to the game department in the early 1960s and the public had access until 2001. That fall, the road was closed and a gate was installed to keep the public out.
Since then, the public has lost access to state land. The game department tore down all the structures and removed all equipment. All that is left is the foundation next to the lake.
I will never be allowed access to pay homage to the homestead.
Bear Road was vacated, but only the non-traveled section.
Jim Bear gave Mr. Taylor the deed to that road for him and others to have access to their cows. How much did the game department pay for that easement?
Ernie Buchanan, Okanogan
Stress, frustration create hostility
Power, stress and frustration lead to resentment and abuse, and finally burnout, which turns ugly.
Recently at the food bank, I saw such a situation when the room with food was empty of recipients while people stood in line outside in 20-degree weather. I asked why and was told to mind my own business; 15 minutes later the same thing happened.
Perhaps if this volunteer knew you appreciated them, it might get better. As a volunteer myself for the past 35 years, I have reached a point of burnout and thankfully I've had a friend along the way help me see.
If you are getting crabby from stress, take a break.
Vickie Ledger, Omak
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Admission as a Non-Degree Graduate student is available for those persons who desire to take classes without being involved in a specific degree program.
You might choose a Non-Degree Graduate status if you:
- Only have one or two classes that you want to take at United, either as a lay person or clergy.
- Are seeking to determine if United is the place for you to pursue theological education.
- Are exploring a call into ministry by beginning seminary slowly.
- Enroll in United classes in order to transfer the credit to another institution.
- Don't have time to complete the standard application before the term begins.
Whatever your reason, United offers this status for those exploring the many options available in Christian ministry and theological education.
Guidelines for this status are as follows:
- Students must submit a Special Student application and the Non-Degree Graduate application fee.
- Students must have a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
- Students must pass a background check.
- Students can take up to 9 semester hours under this status. It is not a full application for admission in a degree program.
- For admission to a master's program or before one registers for their 10th semester hour, one must complete the full application process and submit the application fee.
- All courses taken for credit will transfer into our degree programs.
- Non-Degree Graduate students may register in the Fall or Spring terms as long as they have not completed more than 9 credit hours.
- Please see Tuition and Fees for costs. There is no financial aid available for Non-Degree Graduate students.
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Rokita Educating Hoosiers on New Photo ID Requirement
Contact: AJ Freeney-Ruiz
Indianapolis, IN - Today, Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita unveiled a new website dedicated to educating Hoosiers about the new law requiring Indiana voters to show photo identification when voting at the polls. The website is one part of a massive statewide education initiative already underway that lets Hoosiers know what to expect at the polls during the May 2 and November 7, 2006 Primary and General Elections.
The website, found at http://www.photoid.in.gov/, explains the exemptions under the law, what kinds of IDs are acceptable, how to get an ID, how to vote without an ID, how to vote absentee, and what documents are necessary to get a free ID. The new site walks voters through the steps to get a free state-issued ID from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) as allowed by law, and allows voters to print off a checklist for required documents and an explanation of the new law to take with them to the BMV.
In addition to the website, the Secretary of State's office is spending $1.2 million of state and federal dollars on television, radio and print ads encouraging Hoosiers to register to vote, bring ID to the polls, and provide general answers to voting and accessibility questions. Currently, print ads and six television and radio spots cover all 92 Indiana counties. Reminders to bring photo ID to the polls are also being placed on the inside and outside of transit systems in major metropolitan areas as well as at bus stops in order to target voters who may not drive or have a driver's license.
Rokita's office also continues to train pollworkers and county clerks on the new requirement to have better informed sources of information in local communities. As part of the first uniform pollworker training program in Indiana, election officials and county administrators are taking advantage of the voluntary training in order to assist voters with the new requirement.
Finally, the Secretary of State's office is offering materials and presentations on Photo ID statewide by partnering with groups like the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the Indiana Healthcare Association to educate voters. The office has already presented to NAACP chapters in Gary, Hammond and Muncie. Rokita's office also is touring Indiana's public and private colleges and universities to educate young and often out-of-state voters about the new requirement. As a result of one of the first stops on the college tour, the Purdue University student government voted unanimously to add an expiration date to their university IDs in order to make them compliant with the Photo ID law.
Many of the ideas currently in use for the education campaign are a direct result of input given by the Vote with ID Task Force Rokita assembled in 2005 following the passage of the new law. Bringing together community and statewide leaders and interested parties ranging from members of the Indiana General Assembly to the media, Rokita's team provided invaluable suggestions that helped frame the Photo ID education plan. Members of the task force have also worked hard to educate members of their constituencies about the new law.
"These education initiatives are vital to providing Hoosiers with the information they need come Election Day," Rokita said. "By putting significant money behind the campaign and drawing ideas from the Vote with ID Task Force, we are taking unprecedented steps to inform all Hoosiers about what they need to expect at the polls."
Public Law 109-2005 requires Indiana residents to present a qualifying state or federally issued photo ID before casting a ballot at the polls on Election Day. To learn more about the law and how to get a free photo ID for voting purposes, visit http://www.photoid.in.gov/. To see the complete Vote with ID Education Plan and roster of the Vote with ID Task Force, visit www.sos.IN.gov.


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Two centuries ago this year, an expedition under Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike left from their quarters near St. Louis for what would prove to be an epic adventure with profound effects on the subsequent history of the American Southwest.
Recognizing this, the Santa Fe Trail Association (SFTA), a non-profit national organization dedicated to preservation and educational projects involving the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, formed the Zebulon M. Pike Exploration Bicentennial Commission to initiate and coordinate events commemorating all aspects surrounding the Pike expedition.
Communities all along Pike's route, aware that their communities were a direct result of the historical processes brought on in the wake of Pike's endeavor, embraced the bicentennial as their own.
During the two years that Pike's expedition was in the field, its members traveled through what would become the modern states or Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Moreover, the expedition's entry into Spanish territory also earned them as involuntary tour through today's modern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila, making his reconnaissance of the Louisiana Purchase an international junket as well.
The Pike-By-State section contains essays that address Pike's travels within the boundaries of today's modern states. When Pike left St. Louis in 1806, none of these political entities existed as U.S. states; however, once in Spanish territory, the expedition traveled through formal geopolitical provinces lumped under the general rubric of New Spain: Nuevo Mexico (modern New Mexico), Nuevo Vizcaya (Pile's state of "Biscay" and today's Chihuahua), Coahuila, and Tejas.
This site originally was funded and produced through the efforts of the Santa Fe Trail Association, with the generous support of their partner, the U.S. National Park Service. As an extension of their work, an effort to nominate the Pike footprint as a National Historic Trail under the 1967 National Trails Act, was begun.
This site is now managed by the Pike National Historic Trail Association aimed at continuing and improving the Bicentennial Commission's quality tools to the educational community; as well as providing a wealth of information and tools for the public outreach or the Association.
Pike's expedition from St. Louis to the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase was as significant in its results for the nation as was that of the Lewis and Clark expedition which preceded him. Pike's 1810 book on his southwestern expedition was one of the first detailed examinations of the geography, people, and economics of the northern region of New Spain.
Pike's expedition generated an economic interest among frontier businessmen in the U.S. that would lead to the establishment of the Santa Fe Trail and a subsequent westward expansion into Texas and the Southwest by the United States.
Because of Pike's importance in the eventual establishment of the Santa Fe Trail, the Santa Fe Trail Association established a five-member Zebulon M. Pike Expedition Bicentennial Commission to oversee planning and scheduling of events during 2006 and 2007.
The members of The Pike Commission:
* Clive G. Siegle, Dallas, TX, Executive Director
* Hal Jackson, Placitas, NM, Committee Chairman
* John M. Murphy, Colorado Springs, CO
* Ramon Powers, Topeka, KS
* Craig Crease, Shawnee, KS
* Leo E. Oliva, Woodston, KS
The Pike Commission sought cooperation from the U. S. Congress, the Mexican
and Spanish governments, the National Park Service, historical societies in the seven states where Pike traveled (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana) as well as the Mexican Provinces of Chihuahua, Durango & Coahuila, and local communities, organizations, and schools along the entire route of the expedition. In addition, the Commission devoted attention to the expedition of Spanish troops led by Lt. Facundo Melgares, who crossed the plains looking for Pike a few weeks before Pike arrived on the scene, and went to the same Pawnee village in southern Nebraska that Pike later visited.


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Your 1-year-old loves to sit at the table with you. But he also loves to fling her food and shriek. You:
A. Feed him in the kitchen, with a tarp on the floor. Switch off with your spouse so you each get ten minutes to eat.
B. Teach him how to use a fork and remove him from the table if he yells.
C. Feed him first, but then let him join you.
Answer: C
It's never too early to start socializing your baby. And even though you wouldn't expect a younger child to sit still for long, what you want to show him is that eating together can be a (mostly) pleasant experience.
Of course, to keep it more agreeable for the rest of you, take the edge off by giving him dinner first. Then when you're ready to eat, let him sit at the table with a snack so he can watch how the rest of the family interacts at mealtime.
You're visiting your sister. When she tries to hug your toddler, he yells, "I don't like you! Stop it!" You:
A. Shrug and chalk it up to his being little and not understanding how to act.
B. Punish him with a time-out for talking like that.
C. Apologize to your sister, and then explain to your toddler how you want him to behave.
Answer: C
It's up to you to draw the boundaries of acceptable behavior. A little kid can't control his emotions all of the time, but he should know what you expect of him. If he acts disrespectfully to others, get down to his eye level and explain that, for example, "We don't talk to Aunt Kate like that. She's my sister, and I want you to talk nicely to her." It may also help to prep your child before he gets to a relative's house—especially if you don't see her often. Tell him that she will probably want to cuddle with him.
Everyday life is filled with opportunities to show your child the effects of being civil. What's the underlying lesson? "Manners aren't just about saying the right words at the right time," says Cindy Post Senning, co-director of the Emily Post Institute and coauthor of The Gift of Good Manners. "They're about showing respect for others as well as yourself."
When you and your preschooler run into her teacher, she buries her face in your legs instead of saying hello. All efforts to make her greet her are foiled. You:
A. Apologize and laugh it off. You'll explain how you would like her to behave next time.
B. Insist your daughter say hello, even if you have to pry her off you with a crowbar.
C. Hide from the teacher next time to avoid a repeat.
Answer: A
Even though a 3-year-old is probably old enough to know better, meeting a person as important as her teacher outside the classroom may well be overwhelming. "Some three-year-olds can step out from behind your leg and shake hands with a teacher, and some can't. Don't over-expect," says Senning.
After I was repeatedly getting frustrated with my then toddler when she refused to acknowledge any grown-up (even ones she knew well), my mother set me straight. Annie was a quiet baby, she reminded me; she simply wasn't ready to come out of her shell.
I backed off, introduced her anyway, and stopped expecting her to say hello. Free from pressure, she'd watch me greet people. And that's how it should be. Kids want to know what to expect in a social situation, so demonstrate how you want them to behave. Sure enough, in first grade she introduced herself to her school principal without my prompting.
Your 7-year-old received many gifts at her birthday party, but now she refuses to write thank-you notes, saying it's too hard. You:
A. Agree. It's too much to ask of a kid, and no one will notice that you never sent them.
B. Admit that it's hard but tell her why it's important, and then find the time to do them together.
C. Write them yourself.
Answer: B
This lesson can begin before your child knows her ABC's. A 2-year-old can put a sticker on a card to personalize it; a preschooler can draw a picture and maybe even sign her name. By starting this at an early age, you train your child that writing (or drawing) thank-you notes is as much a part of the party as making the cake and sending out invitations. By the time they're around 12, kids can do this without you by their side (so that you're responsible only for nudging).
As with anything, kids ultimately pattern their behavior on their parents. Try to follow through on your own thank-yous, even a quick e-mail and do it in easy view of your child.
Your 3-year-old has two friends over. She starts eating with her hands, using potty words, and ignoring you. She's just showing off, but what do you do?
A. Threaten to send the kids home if she can't behave. After all, she should know better.
B. Be cool but firm: Restate your rules.
C. Let it slide. There's safety in numbers, and she's feeling her oats with her buddies.
Answer: B
You're the mom, and you set the tone for your household. But don't overreact; nothing reinforces bad behavior like getting angry (hey, it's better than no attention at all). Stay calm and remind your daughter how you want her to behave, in front of her friends: "We don't use those words at the table." She'll readjust her attitude, and her pals will tone it down as well, in the face of your kind authority.
And if they don't? Give a warning that you'll send her to her room while her friends continue to play—and then do it. Afterward, you can discuss your actions with your child, and point it out when you see it in others.
This is a favorite with my kids, for whom egregious behavior (in public) is a vicarious thrill. Annie once went to a party where the birthday girl screamed at her mother because her mom wouldn't let her open presents until after lunch. "What would you do if I did that?" Annie whispered to me.
"I'd send all the guests home with their presents," I said. "And I'd make you write an apology to every one of them for being rude and selfish."
"Well, I'd never do that," she said. "I'm not a spoiled brat."
Your toddler has become such a chatterbox that every phone call compels her to talk louder so you'll pay attention to her. You:
A. Distract her while you're talking, then finish up quickly.
B. Send her to her room. That'll teach her not to interrupt!
C. Excuse yourself from the adult conversation and gently ask the child what she needs.
Answer: A
Learning to take turns talking and not interrupting is something we all have to master at some point. But we also have to know what a toddler is capable of—and waiting until you're finished speaking with someone isn't a possibility for her. Instead, tell your child you'll be talking to this grown-up for a few minutes more and give her a choice of two distractions (any more will confuse her): a snack or coloring, for example.
Don't expect perfection, and keep a sense of humor. Deana Busch of Lake Forest, California, taught her 3-year-old daughter, Julie, to say "Excuse me" before interrupting her. "Now all I get is a loud 'Excuse me, Mommy!'" She employs distraction techniques like a bag of dry cereal for now until Julie's old enough to learn how to wait her turn.
Your preschooler's observations are all too accurate (and loud)—like the time he pointed out a very fat lady. Next time he does it, you:
A. Shush him and pretend it didn't happen.
B. Apologize to the woman in front of your child.
C. Tell your child to keep his comments to himself.
Answer: B and C
Small children are infamous for their truthfulness. When something like this happens, it's best to apologize to the person in question, and tell him you're working with your child on tactfulness. "That's about all you can do this time," says Senning. "But now you have an opportunity to teach her why commenting on people's appearance in front of them isn't polite."
While you're talking, remember to be specific, because what's obvious to us isn't to a young child. For instance, say that everyone looks different and that that's okay—some people are big, others are small; people come in all different skin and hair colors.
When this happened to me, I only followed part of this advice. I was eating out with Jack when he pointed to the back of an old woman's head in the booth next to us. "Mom!" he yelled. "A snowball! Look!" Sure enough, from behind, the lady's puffy white coif looked like a perfect snowball.
Luckily, I don't think she heard him (and I wasn't going to bring it to her attention). As I shushed Jack and reminded him that it's not polite to point, his sandwich came and he forgot the "snowball." But I hope the lesson won't be so easily forgotten.


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Pink regrets updating her Twitter.com account after undergoing surgery in May as she has "absolutely no recollection" of the messages she posted.
The pop star had her gallbladder removed after experiencing crippling stomach pains, and she uploaded a picture of herself in a hospital bed onto the microblogging site.
Pink, who was forced to scrap plans for a lavish party for daughter Willow's first birthday while she was being treated, insists she has no memory of the tweet, and wishes her loved ones had stopped her from opening up about her health scare online.
She tells Britain's The Sun, "I am fantastic, amazing – as happy as a clam right now. The only bum out was being in hospital on Willow's first birthday.
"I had spent six months planning her party and told the doctors, 'Do whatever you have to do, but I have to be out of here tomorrow by 10am – I am not cancelling this f**king party.'
"They said, 'Well, you might want to think about cancelling this party, because you are going nowhere in a hurry.' I don't usually tweet revealing pictures but the morphine really doesn't go too well with social networking. I should have had my phone confiscated.
"When I got out of the hospital, I checked my timeline and I had done all this stuff I had absolutely no recollection of doing. Next time someone gives me an anesthetic they should take away my iPhone."
Pink regrets updating her Twitter.com account after undergoing surgery in May as she has "absolutely no recollection" of the messages she posted.


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Fun and games!
From film workshops, to real life Australian animals, crafts and retro gaming Join the library in creating fun these school holidays.
Due to popular demand, your booking will be held for 15 minutes after the session begins, after which, Sunshine Coast Libraries may give away your place.
Come in and take part in the Game On! Scavenger hunt during the holidays. Search the library for hidden retro game characters and check them off as you find them. Hand your completed entry into staff at the front desk to receive a bonus prize.
Pixel Art IRL (5+)
Beerwah: Tuesday 29 March, 10.00 am
Kawana: Wednesday 30 March, 10.00 am
Kenilworth: Wednesday 30 March, 10.30 am
Maleny: Thursday 31 March, 9.30 am
Nambour: Thursday 31 March, 10.00 am
Caloundra: Tuesday 5 April, 10.00 am
Coolum: Thursday 7 April, 9.30 am
Maroochydore: Thursday 7 April, 9.30 am
Join us for pixel art and crafts inspired by the world of pixelated games!
Pyjama Party (8 and under)
Maleny: Tuesday 5 April, 5.00 pm
Come in your Pyjamas for stories, songs and craft.
Retro Gaming (5+)
Kawana: Tuesday 29 March, 10.00 am
Beerwah: Friday 1 April, 1.00 pm
Nambour: Tuesday 5 April, 2.00 pm
Caloundra: Wednesday 6 April, 10.00 am
Drop in and play classic video game systems like Sega, Pacman, Wii, and more!
Easter Holiday Activities
Check if bookings required & book online.
Character Creations (5+)
Coolum: Thursday 31 March, 9.30 am
Maleny: Wednesday 6 April, 9.30 am
Create your own comic cuff and construct your favourite gaming characters out of craft materials.
Filmmaking (6+)
Maleny: Wednesday 30 March, 9.00 am
Caloundra: Wednesday 30 March, 11.30 am
Nambour: Wednesday 30 March, 2.00 pm
Join the Activate team to create your own Heroes Vs Villains short film. Jump into the fun world of super-strength, invisibility and flight in the ultimate showdown in good against evil!
Geckoes Wildlife (5+)
Maroochydore: Tuesday 5 April, 10.00 am
Coolum Civic Centre: Tuesday 5 April, 12.30 pm
Kawana: Wednesday 6 April, 10.00 am
Beerwah: Wednesday 6 April, 12.30 pm
A wildlife experience that stimulates the senses! Get up close and personal with Frogs, Lizards, Turtles, Pythons and Tree Snakes, Possums, an Owl and of course a baby Crocodile!
Caloundra: Thursday 31 March, 10.00 am
Kawana: Tuesday 5 April, 10.00 am
Maroochydore: Wednesday 6 April, 9.30 am
Nambour: Thursday 7 April, 10.00 am
Are you a LEGO Master builder? Drop in for a morning of building and creating with the library's collection of LEGO bricks.
Ozobots (8+)
Maroochydore: Wednesday 30 March, 10.00 am
Beerwah: Tuesday 5 April, 10.00 am
Kenilworth: Wednesday 6 April, 10.30 am
Learn all about these tiny tinker robots to discover the fundamentals of coding.
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Stand Up and Speak Out Has MOVED!
I apologize for the lack of posts recently. I have been working on moving Stand Up and Speak Out to my own website. The new website at www.standupandspeakoutblog.com.
This site change is mostly because I was unhappy with the Blogger platform. I originally chose to use Blogger because it seemed to the easiest, but I soon discovered that there were many things that I could not do in Blogger. For example, I was unable to change most of my Blogger profile. Other factors included Blogger's server repeatedly going down, and the lack of tools that I wanted to use on my blog. For instance, I liked the idea of having categories, but Blogger doesn't easily allow that. So, I began researching other blogging software, and stumbled across a free one called Wordpress. With Wordpress, the options are unlimited. It is Open Source, which means that people all over the world are working on it. I used Wordpress when I made the American Conservative Youth Union, and it worked fantastically.
For Blogger users who plan to expand their site, I would strongly recommend buying a domain name (websites are surprisingly cheap) and installing the Wordpress software. For those of you who are just starting a blog, or may not be interested in anything that isn't free, you can get a hosted blog using Wordpress at Wordpress.com.
Anyways, please check out my new blog. I plan to keep my old blog as is for a few days, then I will close the comments and redirect anyone who enters to the corresponding page at my new blog.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!


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Magic Tree by Science & Nature: Grow your own Crystal Tree Garden
A simple kit for growing crystals on a cardboard tree.
Demonstrates crystal formation and evaporation. Contains the necessary chemicals, cardboard tree, container and instructions to make it happen. Non-toxic ingredients.
For children aged 8 and up.
*Subject to item availability. Please leave your contact phone number where possible*
Delivery times are dependent on your location.
International orders please contact us prior to ordering
For your security and peace of mind all postage is registered through Australia Post and is a flat rate of $12 inc. GST throughout Australia.


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Initial Tree of Life web Import
Last updated about 7 years ago
Tree of Life (ToL) project is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. ToL pages are linked to one another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things. Once the EOL has established its infrastructure for disseminating species page content through web services, ToL will concentrate on collecting content about supra-specific taxa and phylogenetic relationships between species. Last indexed January 1, 2008


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A couple of years ago, the Daily Press' own music buffs Sam McDonald and Mike Holtzclaw shared some favorite tunes for setting that very romantic mood on Valentine's Day. Here are the songs they chose - as well as a few clunkers to avoid:
Great songs, according to Sam:
"Fell in Love with a Girl," The White Stripes. Jack White's lyrics lay out a classic case of romantic confusion. Also, it rocks.
"Let My Love Open The Door," Pete Townshend. When I started this list, my mind immediately raced back to high school -- when I had absolutely no idea what love was all about. This is one that filled my young heart with joy.


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Tag: talkie-toaster
Talkie Toaster you will be upgraded
Short videos of Talkie toaster in action
Talkie Toaster pictures
Talkie electronics
Talkie Toaster
MWH Projects Blog
Electronics projects, experiments, tutorials, and more!
The Potato Hack Chronicle
Weight loss, gut health, and mental well-being using potato diets, resistant starch, fiber, and potato science!
Arduino, ESP8266 & Raspberry Pi stuff
Arduino and related stuff (including Attiny and ESP8266) and the Raspberry Pi
Most trippy.


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Statewide Voter Registration System Update
Contact: AJ Freeney-Ruiz
Indianapolis, IN - As the deadline of January 1, 2006 for implementing Indiana's first statewide list of registered voters nears, the Secretary of State's office continues to offer monthly updates regarding the status of implementation of the Indiana Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), or FirstTuesday, created by Quest Information Systems.
Started more than two years ago as an initiative by Indiana election administrators and legislators, and then as part of Indiana's implementation of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, the project will be completed and the new system completely implemented by the end of the year. In May, a pilot version of the new system was implemented in the ten counties selected from over forty who volunteered to serve as pilot counties. The pilot counties are Benton, Fayette, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Rush, Spencer and Wayne. All pilot counties are now using the system to add voters and maintain voter registration records through FirstTuesday
As of last week, "first wave" counties have joined the pilot counties in using SVRS. First wave counties now using the system include Bartholomew, Jennings, Johnson and Shelby. By the end of this month at least six more second wave counties (Clay, Knox, Park, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo) will also begin using FirstTuesday , bringing the total number of online counties to twenty.
Beginning this week, the SVRS County Coordination Team will begin a survey during which counties who have recently begun using FirstTuesday will be interviewed concerning the training, support and overall comments regarding the new system. County officials using the system will also be asked about the success of the new program and whether they find it better than their previous systems.
The surveys reflect the efforts of Secretary Rokita and the Election Division Co-Directors to gather as much information as possible during the transition to the new software and to ensure the lines of communication remain open throughout the process. Furthermore, the surveys will be used as a tool to make sure the service and support offered to new counties joining SVRS are consistent with the highly regarded help given to the pilot counties.
"We ask the counties to provide candid and thorough information about the education and implementation processes of the Statewide Voter Registration System," Rokita said. "What we gather from these surveys will be crucial in the ongoing process of guaranteeing counties receive the highest level training and support possible."
In other news, Quest has identified 4,811,154 registered voters pulled from the existing county-based systems from all 92 counties. To date, Quest has prepared almost 2 million of those records for use within the SVRS. This month, the state project team has begun a random auditing of this process.


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With so much to do your tots will be making their own instruments and music, or getting messy with paint plus enjoying nursery rhymes and much more!
Join us for a different theme everyday - take a look at some of our fantastic activities below!
Join Lizzie down on the farm for tractor racing, giant puzzles and the rounding up of Lizzie's lost sheep.
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There is a lot to do on our list today! Whiz around make believe town and have lots of pretend play.
Prepare to sing, dance and wiggle your way around.
Step into a world of stories and help tell the tale of the three little pigs - with a little help from Lizzie.
Get your wellies on for fun in the garden with games, bug hunts, stories and songs.
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Best Mismatched Outdoor Furniture Grouping
We spent all weekend outdoors revamping our outdoor area (well, mainly staining and sealing the new picnic table). So we were super appreciative to see Lynn-Anne's wonderful (and sprawling) outdoor area that was decorated to a T.
Robin's Egg blue and yellow are one of our favorite color combos--it's bright, bold and breathes ton of life into any space. Lynn-Anne has translated these colors wonderfully onto mismatched wrought iron chairs. The space reads playful with the help of a bright yellow textile, complete with a fringe of pom-poms. A grouping of hanging lanterns brings a pop of color upwards--which frames the outdoor setting. A few added accessories such as a tin basin, a bird bath and painted bird house fill the seating area for a welcoming vibe.
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Distant Lands Coffee Roaster in Tyler, Texas is one of the most efficient and quality conscious coffee roasters in the world. It is part of an organization that oversees all parts of the coffee production from plantations in tropical lands to the wonderful roasted coffee we brew and serve. At Cotton Palace we freshly grind beans from their Costa Rican coffee estate, La Minta, considered by many professionals to produce the finest specialty coffee in the world.
Sterling Tea is privately owned and based in Rockwall, Texas. They custom blend and distribute the highest quality teas and tisanes. They specialize in premium quality white and green teas, robust black teas, delicious fresh herbal teas and rooibos blends. The Cotton Palace B & B offers an extensive selection of Sterling Teas.
New Canaan Farms offers unique recipes using the freshest ingredients for their jellies and sauces made in Dripping Springs, Texas. They make all of their delicious products from scratch. Some of our favorites are the Brazos River Blackberry Jam, Peach Amaretto and Pecan Jam and their Rio Raspberry Jalapeno Jelly. They go great with our homemade southern style biscuits at breakfast every morning at The Cotton Palace.
Brazos Valley Cheese produces homemade specialty artisan cheeses at Homestead Farms, just outside Waco, TX. They use raw cow's milk, vegetable rennet and all-natural ingredients with no additives or preservatives. Their cheese contains no artifical flavors, coloring or preservatives making it a pure all-natural product. The Cotton Palace loves using a variety of their cheeses in our breakfast dishes.
Enjoy the taste of fresh-ground whole grains from Homestead Gristmill. The gristmill is located just a few miles out of Waco, Texas and is the newest addition to the Homestead Heritage Craft Village. They grind fresh whole wheat flour and cornmeal daily. We use their whole wheat flour and pastry flour in our baked goods at The Cotton Palace.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chauncey Billups scored 15 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, hitting three huge 3-pointers to keep the Minnesota Timberwolves at bay and lift the short-handed Denver Nuggets to a 119-113 victory on Wednesday night.
Michael Beasley scored 33 and Kevin Love had 26 points and 14 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who missed a chance for their first three-game winning streak since February of last season.
The Nuggets were playing without star Carmelo Anthony for the fifth straight game and were missing starters Kenyon Martin, Nene and top reserve Al Harrington with injuries.
Chris Andersen stepped in with 11 points and seven rebounds and Ty Lawson had 19 points, five assists and five rebounds off the bench to help the Nuggets to their second straight win.
The Timberwolves turned the ball over 19 times, leading to 22 Denver points and had no answer for "Mr. Big Shot" in the fourth quarter. Minnesota twice pulled within one point in the final four minutes, only to see Billups answer with 3-pointers to quiet the crowd.
Lawson's speed in transition also was huge in the fourth quarter, fueling Denver's fast breaks during a 12-0 run that gave them a 95-88 lead with 8 minutes to play.
The Wolves clawed their way back to tie it at 105 with 3:15 to play, but Billups drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing and the offensively challenged Andersen scored five points in the final two minutes to help the Nuggets close it out.
Luke Ridnour had 20 points and eight assists and Martell Webster scored 17 for the Timberwolves.
The Nuggets had everything going against them on Wednesday night. They were playing on the second night of back-to-back and missing Anthony, Nene (back, hamstring), Harrington (thumb) and Martin (knee).
They had also lost nine of their previous 11 on the road and were looking a bit lost without Anthony, who has missed five games after the death of his sister. Denver lost three in a row before routing Portland at home on Tuesday night, but Martin and Nene both were injured in the win and unable to go on Wednesday.
Billups did his best to keep Denver in the game early, hitting four of his first five shots and scoring 14 points in the first half.
Playing in just his third game this season, Renaldo Balkman gave the Nuggets a huge lift with his energy off the bench. He scored 10 points in 19 minutes, throwing down four big dunks to energize a tired team.
After putting up 43 points and 17 rebounds in a loss at Denver on Dec. 18, Love took advantage of the depleted Nuggets frontcourt from the start. He had 20 points and eight boards by halftime. But he scored just six points in the second half as the Wolves faded.
Notes: Anthony is expected to rejoin Denver on Thursday. … Nuggets coach George Karl said before the game that the team inquired about trading for Love this summer. … Wolves C Darko Milicic bruised his left hip in the second quarter and returned briefly in the third before sitting for the rest of the game.
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Inuktitut phrasebook
Inuktitut is the name for the varieties of Inuit spoken in Canada. It is an Eskimo-Aleut language that known for being a language with lots of very long agglutinative words, owing to the fact that there are a very large number of infixes (parts of speech which modify the meaning of a word), but it does not have the same irregularities as Indo-European languages. There is also a rumour that the language has hundreds of different words for snow, in reality there are only four (these four are: spread-out snow aput, snow like salt pokaktok, newly-drifted snow akelrorak and soft snow mauyaôlertok). There are a few (not hundreds) of words relating to snow eg. snow block (auverk), igloo (iglu), snow knife (panar), snow on clothes, boots etc. (ayak).
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The Ram 1500 EcoDiesel climbed to the top of Consumer Reports' full-size pickup truck ratings with an impressive performance in the organization's fuel economy tests.
Sylvan Lake, AB -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/08/2014 -- The EcoDiesel (82 point overall road test score) turned in a best-in-class fuel economy of 20 mpg overall and 27 mpg on the highway, to help it score better than the previously tested Ram 1500 V8 (81) regular gas version and Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT(80).
"These are about the same fuel-economy numbers that we typically see in a mid-sized SUV. The Ram is currently the only truck to offer turbo-diesel technology. It will be interesting to see what impact it will have on the half-ton truck market," said Jake Fisher, director of automotive testing for Consumer Reports.
Consumer Reports engineers found the EcoDiesel to be as luxurious and refined as the previously tested V8 version. The EcoDiesel remains fully capable of doing dirty work when duty calls. A unique coil-spring rear suspension gives it a smooth ride, and the interior is whisper-quiet.
Consumer Reports noted some telltale diesel clatter at idle and low speeds, but the engine noise is well-hushed when cruising. Some buyers may like hearing the distinctive diesel engine note. The continued interior and powertrain improvements make the Ram a particularly well-rounded choice for most consumers.
Updated test results for the Ram EcoDiesel are available today at http://www.ConsumerReports.org
In other tests, the redesigned Toyota Highlander Hybrid's impressive performance earned it the top spot in Consumer Reports midsized SUV ratings. Consumer Reports engineers found it refined and comfortable, loaded with creature comforts, and the ability to tow 3,500 pounds. Yet it gets a very thrifty 25 mpg overall, which is the same as many small SUVs and midsized sedans.
The Hybrid takes the smooth, powerful V6 from the regular Highlander and adds a hybrid battery pack and three electric motors, increasing horsepower by 10, to 280. In place of the conventional six-speed automatic transmission, the Hybrid uses a continuously variable transmission, which is well-matched to the engine. That combo delivers 25 mpg overall, which is 25 percent better than the regular Highlander's 20. Power delivery is smooth. Transitions between electric power and the gas engine are seamless. And the Hybrid can usually propel itself on electric power up to about 35 mph.
The new Highlander also handles better, with a steadier ride and reduced body lean in corners. When pushed to its handling limits, a well-tuned stability-control system kept things secure. Energy-saving regenerative brakes make the pedal a little touchy, but stopping distances were good.
Testers were impressed with Toyota's new infotainment system, which has simple menus that make it easy to select functions, as well as knobs for volume and tuning. It also has excellent voice controls and one of the most comprehensive Bluetooth streaming-audio interfaces Consumer Reports has seen.
Complete tests results of the redesigned Toyota Highlander Hybrid, as well as additional reports for the recently tested Chevrolet Suburban("Very Good"), Chevrolet Tahoe ("Very Good"), and Ford C-Max Hybrid("Very Good"), are available online at http://www.ConsumerReports.org and in the October issue of Consumer Reports, on newsstands starting August 28, 2014.
Consumer Reports' testing procedures are the most comprehensive of any U.S. publication or Web site. More than 50 individual tests are performed on every vehicle, including evaluations of braking, handling, comfort, convenience, safety, and fuel economy. Roughly 6,000 miles of general driving and evaluations are racked up on each test car during the testing process. CR buys all its test cars anonymously from dealers. Other reviewers base their evaluations on press cars that are hand-picked by the automakers.
Consumer Reports is the world's largest independent product-testing organization. Using its more than 50 labs, auto test center, and survey research center, the nonprofit rates thousands of products and services annually. Founded in 1936, Consumer Reports has over 8 million subscribers to its magazine, website and other publications. Its advocacy division, Consumers Union, works for health reform, food and product safety, financial reform, and other consumer issues in Washington, D.C., the states, and in the marketplace.
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The Sunday Telegraph (14 Dec 2008) has showcased the Washburn Hannah Montana guitar range. 'Washburn's Hannah Montana guitars offer budding rock goddesses the ideal learning platforms"
The perfect starter guitar for rock goddesses in the making!
The Washburn Hannah Montana guitar series is highlighted in The Sunday Telegraph, with the distinguished national broadsheet newspaper featuring the acoustic and electric in its 'Buy a Gift for a Girl' piece.
Hannah Montana is seen on Disney Channels all over the world. A record-breaking franchise, the programme was second only to American Idol in the key 6-11 age range in the US and has been supported this year in the UK with a DVD release, 3D film, magazine launch as well as DS, Wii and PS2 releases.
Recently, US president-elect Barack Obama's daughters have been invited to appear on Hannah Montana's TV show.
The secret star - fourteen year old Miley Stewart - is the typical girl next door but she has a hidden identity, she just happens to be the biggest pop sensation in the world.


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Parakeets: Everything about Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior
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Customer Service Representative
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Customer Service Representative job at Signature Flight Support in Santa Barbara CA
Description, duties, responsibilities
Full-Time Customer Service Representatives Needed!
Training Provided
We Service Private Jets
Signature Flight Support, the world's largest FBO network, is hiring elite Customer Service Representatives at our SBA Facility in beautiful Santa Barbara, California! We are looking for new, self-starting candidates to join our team! Looking for the opportunity to grow in a fast-paced industry? You've come to the right place!!
Position: Customer Service Representative
Status: Full-Time, 40 hours per week
Schedule: Varies
Benefits: Access to a range of option for Medical, Dental & Vision coverage, 401(k) w/company match, and Tuition Reimbursement
Pay: Depending On Experience
Customer Service Representatives are the face of our business. As our customers land their planes at our facility, our Customer Service team provides everything our customers need from concierge services and assistance with scheduling to questions on hot spots in the city to visit and general itinerary planning. Our Customer Service Representatives provide an elite level of service that keeps our customers coming back!!
- High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
- At least 1-2 years of solid face-to-face Customer Service experience.
- Aviation Customer Service (Private or Commercial) or Hospitality (Hotel, Restaurant) preferred but not required.
- Must have a valid State-issued Driver's License.
- Must be able to obtain airport badge (passing a 10-year background check)
- Must be able to take/pass a pre-employment drug screening.
Ready to give your career wings? Join the leading global provider of flight support services! Apply today using the link below or visit www.signatureflight.com/employment, hit "View USA Jobs" and search by keyword "SBA". A Recruiter from our Talent Acquisition team from our headquarters in Orlando, FL (407 #) will be in touch!
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South Dakota State's John Stiegelmeier on Youngstown State Win, FCS Playoff Opener at Northern Arizona
All of the 'must win' talk going into last week's South Dakota State regular season finale at Youngstown State turned prophetic this week, as the Jacks' 42-13 win did, in fact, propel them into the FCS playoffs, as one of only two teams from the Missouri Valley Conference to make the field of 24.
Head Coach John Stiegelmeier told me he's happy his team had control of their own destiny, winning four straight down the stretch:
Before the game, Stiegelmeier challenged each player to have 'game of their life', and his team responded with a dominating performance, starting with the guys up front, including an offensive line that paved the way for a season-high 312 yards on the ground:
Offensively, quarterback Austin Sumner didn't throw the ball a lot, given the snowy conditions in Ohio, but when he did put it up, he was very effective, 15-of-19 for 170 yards and two touchdowns. He also added another score running and earned himself Missouri Valley Offensive Player of the Week honors in the process:
While the offense continues to click right along, the SDSU defense has gotten downright stingy, allowing just 25 points in the last three games. The defensive turnaround has been a big key to the Jacks current four-game win streak. Coach Stiegelmeier says a lot of things go into the transformation of coordinator Clint Brown's group:
So it's off the the FCS Playoffs for the second straight year when South Dakota State (8-4) plays at Northern Arizona (9-2) Saturday night.
Last season, the Jacks opened the post season with a home victory over Eastern Illinois before falling to eventual national champ North Dakota State in round two.
Is there a different mindset on this year's team thanks to that post season experience last season?
Saturday's game will be played indoors at the Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff, which is situated right at 7,000 feet above sea level. Stiegelmeier says his staff has a game plan in place to try and neutralize the effects of altitude:
This game will feature two of the top ten running backs in FCS, South Dakota State's Zach Zenner (2nd in the nation - 1,695 yards) and Northern Arizona's Zach Bauman (8th in the nation - 1,355 yards). The two Zachs get their yards in two very different ways:
Besides running the ball. one of the other keys to watch for Saturday is the Jacks offense on third down against the Lumberjacks defense.
NAU is one of the Big Sky's best, allowing teams to convert just 36% of the time, while SDSU has been moving the chains at a 57% clip during their four game winning streak:
South Dakota State is the fifth team from the Missouri Valley Conference to qualify for the FCS Playoffs with three or more conference losses, but the Jacks are the first to advance after losing back-to-back league games during the regular season. Overcoming adversity is one thing this team has learned this year:
Kickoff in Flagstaff is 7:00pm CST Saturday.
View the entire FCS Playoff bracket here.


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BT Throttling Online Video For Competitive, Not Congestion, Reasons
from the not-nice dept
Case in point? BT. The British telco is starting to heavily throttle all video -- especially the BBC's online video player. This is the same BT, by the way, that just two years ago was saying there was no need to traffic shape or break net neutrality, and that it could handle all traffic issues with basic upgrades. So what happened? Well, it appears BT didn't like the competition from online video providers, so it decided to pretend it needed to do this for congestion purposes.


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By virtue of Suffolk's location in the heart of downtown Boston, the city is your campus. The engines of government, business, and culture that you learn about in class are churning just blocks away. The spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation, and service that permeates Suffolk's curriculum and activities also infuses the life of the city.
But what does all of this mean for you, as a Suffolk student?
- Your next career move could be next door. As a freshman, the institution of government or finance you walk past everyday on your way to class may be where, as a senior, you'll hold a coveted internship.
- Your weekends are easy to fill. You could grab cheap tickets at the HUB to a world-class production just down the street in Boston's Theater District. You could get some cultural immersion in the North End (Boston's Little Italy) or Chinatown. Or you could play on the city's front lawn, the Boston Common, which beckons you to relax, amble, ice skate or toss around the Frisbee.
- Shopping, dining, entertainment—it's all just steps away. Whether you're on a budget or looking to splurge, there are restaurants and shops a-plenty, plus one of the nicest movie theaters in the city right next door.
- Living in a city means giving back to the city. Connect with one of the city's many nonprofits to volunteer your time—every hour helps. Don't know where to begin? Our S.O.U.L.S. Center for Community Engagement can help you find the perfect match.
- Itching to explore? Pick a T line, any T line—Boston's MBTA system can take you anywhere across the city and even beyond.
- If you're worried that living downtown might be dangerous, fear not. Our dorms are guarded 24/7 to ensure only Suffolk students and their approved guests can come and go. And our campus escort program can provide that extra sense of security whether you're criss-crossing campus or headed to the T or your car.