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Carnival of Genealogy – My Favorite Technology – I Love My Droid
by Sherry Stocking Kline
April 28, 2011
I love the "Favorite Current Technology" Carnival Challenge, and can't wait to read everyone's posts. I know I will learn about some cool new technology to add to my gotta-have-it list!
The topic for the next edition of the COG will be: Favorite Current Technology, and you can read more about it at Creative Gene and post your own blog post at Blog Carnival.
What's your favorite technology of the moment? Do you love your iPad? Do you find yourself spending a lot of time on the site of a newly discovered database?
Do you have a handy new cell phone app you'd like to share with others? Are you learning a new piece of genealogy software? Got a new digital camera?
Tell us all about your latest and greatest technology and how it benefits your genealogy research or the recording of your family history.
Deadline for submission is May 1st.
After seeing all the ads on the television, doing research, reading reviews, and even tweeting "how do you like your Incredible?", I bought a Droid HTC Incredible. (iPhone wasn't an option in my rural area at the time.)
Now I understand why everyone who tweeted me back said "I love my Droid" because I think this phone is one of the handiest little gadgets to come along in a long time.
How do I love my Droid? Let me count the ways.
1. First, I love that it 'connects' with my G-mail/Google account. When I update my G-mail contacts on my computer they're immediately on my phone. When I update my phone's contacts, they're immediately on my computer. Woo Hoo! It's all searchable and it's all backed up on-line. (No more drowning the phone in cherry Coke and losing my friends & family!)
I love that when my friends and family call me, their photo flashes on the screen before I have time to read the Caller ID. (After uploading the photos to my Google contacts.) It's like a warm and fuzzy 'hello' from my favorite people!
I'm Gonna Love Having my Family History info in My Pocket!
2. I can't remember how many times that I've wished I had my family tree with me when I've gotten an unexpected research opportunity. Now, I've got my choice of one of the new genealogy family tree apps in the Android Market, such as "Gedstar Pro," "Family Bee" family tree viewer, or "Families" by TelGen Limited. I just have to choose which one to try and which one to buy.
3. I just downloaded (haven't tried everything out yet) the "Quickoffice" app. It was reasonable and I will be able to take Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files with me, and tweak them if I want to. I think that's going to be handy; I have a lot of Word files that contain family history. The website states that it will sync with Google Docs, and Dropbox, (I need to go to Legacy Family Tree and listen to Thomas MacEntee's webinar Dropbox for Genealogists again and create my own Dropbox), as well as Sugar Sync, Box, and MobileMe. (I sure hope I can figure that all out!)
GPS Your Tombstones?
5. A while back, I downloaded "GPS Status." Now I need to go back to the cemeteries, and get the latitude and longitude of family tombstones and add them to my Tombstone Tuesday posts and from now on, when possible, I will include the latitude and longitude coordinates along with my photograph.
Not only will that make it easier for others to find the stones, it will make it easier for me to go back and find them again as well.
6. And speaking of posting on my blog, there are both WordPress and Blogger apps for the Droid, so if I wanted to (and I don't) I could update my blog on the run.
7. I also love that when I get an unexpected opportunity to stop at the library and do some genealogy research the Droid actually does a fair job of snapping a readable photo of the book that I can't quite squeeze into the photocopy machine. And then, it lets me e-mail it home to be added to my genealogy files.
8. I also like it that when I'm sitting in the courthouse trying to read the fine print in my ancestor's will that my Droid has a magnifying glass app. (Yes, there's an app for that!) And actually, there's more than one app, several of them are free, and most not only magnify, but they also shed more light on the subject while doing it.
9. Did I mention that the Droid's have "mobile hotspots?" For a few bucks more a month, your Droid can be the hotspot that your laptop needs to access the internet. Pretty handy!
Patience is Not One of my Virtues…
10. And number 10 on my list, but not in my heart, I love my Droid because patience is not one of my virtues. I hate to wait in lines, in doctor's offices, or even in the fast food line. I can pull my Droid out of my pocket, check my e-mail, text a friend, open up my Kindle or Nook app, my New International Version Bible app, or even my Bubble Breaker app, and the time passes a lot more quickly.
Did I mention I love my Droid?
I do. Not just because it's a fun little gadget, but because it makes my life easier, keeps me in touch with the people I love, keeps track of where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to be doing, and I didn't even mention the "Find a Grave", Tweet Deck, Facebook, or Grocery List (handy to text your grocery list to your kids to pick up what you need!) apps that are also pretty nifty to use!
4 Responses to "Carnival of Genealogy – My Favorite Technology – I Love My Droid"
I am still trying to understand droid. Wonder if I could use the iPAQ from Compact my Hero left me. Would that be a droid? Just asking. 🙂
I'm so intrigued by the Droid but I don't know if I could live without my iPhone! Next time my contract is up I may look into my Droid options, especially after your glowing review! 🙂

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text: A late lack of composure could have cost the Ravens two games in a span of five days. Brandon Weeden air-mailed Paul Kruger's gift out of the back of the end zone as time expired Thursday night, but the Cleveland Browns quarterback shouldn't have gotten an extra shot at the end zone in the first place. The Ravens outside linebacker, who actually had a pretty good game with a sack and two passes defended, was flagged for a personal foul after pushing Browns left tackle Joe Thomas well after his portion of the play had ended. To be fair, Thomas did his best impersonation of a futbol player, tumbling to the ground as if Kruger had just Tazered him. After the game, Kruger said in at least two different interviews that Thomas flopped. "I wish I was that strong," he said. But whether Thomas took a soccer dive or not, Kruger's late loss of composure was inexcusable and it could have cost the Ravens the game. "From what I have been told, there wasn't much there," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "I'll have to see it first, but we talked about it. And that's always a concern. That's always something, as a football coach, I think you have to look at. Sometimes, the smallest thing is going to be misinterpreted, maybe in your eyes, and you just have to walk away from everything in that kind of situation. He knows that." If Harbaugh is concerned, he has every right to be. It was the second time in a span of five days that flared tempers and the subsequent tossing of yellow flags nearly cost the Ravens a football game. In the final quarter of Sunday's 31-30 win over the New England Patriots, cornerback Lardarius Webb got three flags thrown at him for committing a clear illegal contact penalty on Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker. Webb then barked back at the official, but didn't receive additional discipline. On the next play, though, Harbaugh was called for unsportsmanlike conduct for bumping into an official while trying to call a timeout. I don't think it was intentional and Harbaugh seemed sincere in his apology after the game, but those heated moments gave the Patriots two first downs, 20 free yards and an opportunity to run out the clock on the Ravens. Had Justin Tucker's last-second kick veered a few more inches to the right, that sequence would have been heavily scrutinized throughout the week. But for now, it is mostly forgotten. Throw in the slap-fight between Cary Williams and DeSean Jackson and those skirmishes in the Week 2 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Ravens have at times displayed a lack of composure when the going got tough. The replacement refs are back to running their fantasy football teams, so they can't be used as scapegoats anymore. If the Ravens insist on making each game a thrill ride, then they absolutely need to avoid bone-headed penalties like the one Kruger committed in crunch time Thursday night.


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Lego National Socialist Republic of Denmark
|Motto: We Don't Own Norway Anymore?
|Anthem: Who Wants Another Beer?
|Largest city
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|‑ Bartender/Head of Bartending
|Kong Rugbrød XI or Den Døde Dansker
|Weapon of choice
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Denmark is a mixture of mud, mountains of Lego bricks, beer and bacon which is populated by brave but insane Vikings. It is ruled by King Erik Thorgard XIV, who still collects the heads of his political enemies and uses them as flowerpots.
At the beginning of Insomnian times. The delicious smell of bacon attracted reindeer from Finland, who inbreed with Vikings creating a race of superhuman cold-blooded Vikings - called Valhallans. After conquering what they thought was the world at least twice most Vikings became bored and thus moved to Iceland to chill out.
Denmark Today[edit]
Today Denmark is a member of the Fourth Reich, NATO and various other international open source associations. This has led to the previous Crime Minister Anders Fjogh Rasmussen (amongst "friends" and their allies called Fudge Factor.) to suffer from delusions of grandeur, and he has continued the Viking style of waging war against the entire world with his beer buddy George Who-ever Busk. The Fjogh is now an editor of the monthly NATO magazine published in Uganda and Falkland Islands.
Free medical care: Until the turn of the century, this meant that everyone was free to die on the waiting list, while hospital management argued with the Nurse's Union and politicians on how much more money they would need to actually treat anyone. Following the 2001 election, obscene amounts of money was instead given to the "private health care sector", meaning the same doctors operating in the same premises after 4pm. Clearly an improvement.
Free education: Centered on the teachings of former Minister of Education, Ms Ritt Bjerregaard, whose tenet was "what cannot be learned by everyone, shall be taught to no-one" (And that is not even a joke). Scientists speculate that this is the reason not only for poor rankings in international PISA comparisons of math and science, but also for the exceptionally low standard of the Uncyclopedia entry on Denmark.
Most linguists have come to believe that the Scandinavian languages, including Danish, sounding approximately as a seal with pneumonia holding a potato in its mouth, are most closely related to the languages of Sea-animals including Seals and Penquins. Many argue that Danish is more closely related to Sealese, though some dispute this and think a relation to Penguinese to be more likely. However, the Sealists have gained an upper hand recently, with the argument that there have been long standing contact between native Scandinavians and Seals.
The Penguinists argue that the vocabulary and phonemes of Danish much resemble Penguinese, and that the Penguins obviously have a much superior culture and language, much more likely to be copied from. However likely, many argue against it because the contact between these two groups have arguably been non-existent in the relevant time period, the Penguins residing only in the southern hemisphere in present times.
Phrenologists who study the Danish language have come to the conclusion that it is not so much a language as a throat disease, probably caused by a mutated form of the same virus that causes Swedish, which itself is a mutated form of the Trollish/Dwarven virus. The cause of the Danish mutation is thought to be due to a rampant allele which became manifest due to excessive contact with fatty cheese and old beer.
The latest research puts forward the theory that the Danish language was created by drunk Norwegians Vikings, that having been drunk, got lost and ended up in Denmark. This theory has also argued that Danish is in fact a long-running situationist joke and not really a language at all, more a sort of attenuated collection of grunts and base howls. However, as the Danes are fond of saying, "at least y comes from the fact that Danes can understand drunk Norwegians, but not sober ones (nor drunk Swedish people, only sober ones). Controversially, linguist [[David it is not Finnish".
It should be noted the Swedish theory on Danish language, that is sounds like throwing up, is not even admitted by the Danes. The Swedes think this is an obvious case of alcoholics denial of truth. Though the Danes believe the Swedes are just not drunk enough to see the epicness of the Danish language.
Danish Mentality[edit]
The Danish mentality is famous the world over. Success is frowned upon; as is being different or just standing out from the herd, but they excel at racism, drinking, and producing bacon.
Some Danes enjoy harassing other ethnic groups, especially Muslims, but any minority will do, and even Eastern Europeans have been known to be subjected to quite serious accusations of criminality in Denmark, even though the evidence suggests that Swedes in fact are the most ardent criminals.
In general, Danes don't have a lot of trouble on their minds. As long as there is beer, bitches and Horn(y)music, there is no problem. When one of these things run out, they always blame a minority. There's a few minorities often blamed by Danes. Here is a few examples:
Eastern Europeans: Often accused of stealing the beer and then drive home in a bus. A certain country is blamed for all the black labour. The poles. Therefore poles are always hated by masons and carpenters, whether they are drunk or not!
Muslims: Because of Holger K. Nielsens (National-)Socialistic policies Muslims are being blamed for everything. Stealin' our beer, kidnapping our women to Afghan-land, breeding like rabbits and spreading the reach of the Patriachy.
Greenlanders: People from Greenland, though part of the Danish Kingdom, are often frowned upon by the rest of the Danes (the danes who are even aware they exist, that is). Being called 'Ice nigga' and 'drunken bastards' they have earned themselves as the danes favourite enemy.
The hardiness of the Danish people is by no doubt due to the large amount of vicious wild animals constantly being preyed on by such vicious people intent on invading England. This
wasteland country is also a home of the common human subspecies, Humanus Intoxicus Incrediblus, the Very Drunk Man and its female counterpart Puella basianda, the Smooching Girl.
Another very commonly seen animal in Denmark is the Polar watch bear (called Wizzies). But be aware: tourists are prohibited from feeding these animals, as they often get in the way of them, thus causing bad foraging and a lousy temper because of vomiting.
The Devil sheep used to live in the Frodo mountains of Denmark. Until it was wiped out by the Beowulf in the star-year of log 215.352c after the Two Muslims war, on a command of the Big Kingfisher of Denmark, Uffe Elle-Bälle-mand, who used to be a former wanna-be editor of the NATO warlord magazine.
Denmark is also full of pink elephants and female rhinos (called Nørrebro Stonehenges), however it's normally drunken Swedish or Norwegian tourists that come in contact with these animals.
Denmark in Literature[edit]
Denmark is featured most prominently in two major works of English literature, although not so prominently in any works of Danish literature (more on this later*). The first of these is Beowulf, an epic poem written several hundred years after the fact by some guy in England with way too much time on his hands.
The second piece of literature is Hamlet, his tale was soon discovered by Shakespeare, who liked the overall emo-traits. Hamlet thinks he sees his dad's ghost telling him about his uncle being a murderer. Although your English teachers will undoubtedly try to tell you that all of Hamlet's problems arose because he listened to the ghost and slowly drove himself mad, do not be fooled. Hamlet simply had a terrible case of depression from the awful weather and it drove his mind to create its own reality. Since Hamlet the Danes have become better at dealing with their weather related depression, resorting back to Beowulf-esque amounts of alcohol and brainwashing each other into believing that they live in the happiest country on earth.
'Out of Africa' by Karen Blixen (published under the name Isak Dineson for fear of persecution by the Jantelov and the work of Danish philosopher Søren Kirkegaard. 'Out of Africa' provides a lovely example of the lengths some people will go to to get away from the Danish weather.
Danish people are all members of the big religion Legoism, where the most fanatic believers only do things by the holy Lego book. If you shave a Dane completely you will notice that his skull has the form of a Lego-mans head and he can therefore "click" objects on to his head and carry them around effortlessly. The supreme leader of the Legoists is His Popeness, Popeye "Klods Hans"(In English: "Lego Las"). You can always recognize a real Lego Believer on the Lego hair. When someone or something marry in Denmark, the customary ceremonials includes gifts of imprecious wooden Legobricks and shark-ivory Lego Sombreros to the Groom. There are a few Playmobil Believers in Denmark too though. As the Playmobil belief is very, very forbidden, they are severely hunted by the axe-killing murderers of the Lego Viking police and thus hide underground in the Magasin du Nord sours. Whenever a Playmobil believer is taken alive by the the Legoists, he, she or it will be put into Cultural Lego Integration camp (called GuLegos). The plan was originally then to release the Former playmobil believers out into society after a few months, but many playmobil believers are still being tortured until they believe in Legoism.
Some Danes believe in Santa Klaus Rifbjerg. He is said to come hurling down from Greenland in an old school bus from the 1950's at Legoday plotting to put his writings down the chimneys of all the children who have been naughty this year. However, most of today's Danish children don't have chimneys. Oddly though these incredible naughty children always get the latest copy of Santa Klaus Rifbjerg's work and are then forced to read it in school as some sort of severe punishment. The older people of Denmark still believe in Santa Klaus Rifbjerg and each year they write tedious reviews to the newspapers about the importance of his latest book. It has indeed been argued that it's not just superstition but a real Santa Klaus Rifbjerg cult, which ought to be looked at in the same way as anthropologists misunderstand people from New Guinea or baby-seals from Greenland.
It appears that the Danes whilst producing such talents as Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, both very good Doctor Whos, however, some argue that Tom Baker will always rule their hearts.
Ancient Danish culture centers around the great Kronborg castle in Elsinore. The castle was original build by Og the Magnificient in 1214 over the objections of Queen Oggette. Construction was finished in record time and the queen was eventually drowned in the moat since, as one Danish ka-niggit put it, "the lady doth protest too much!" (in Danish: Øv, hvor lagde jeg dog mine vafler!"). Her ghost is said to be living under the castle and having an affair with Beowulf.
Eventually, the castle was turned into a theater by Og's son, Bard the Borg, who was quoted as saying "the play's the thing". Unfortunately, for Danish theatergoers everywhere, Bard gave away the ending by telling the public that Hamlet (and everyone else) dies in the last act. The entire story was later plagiarized by William Shakespeare and used by George Lucas as a model for future Star Wars prequels.
In the system of nursing homes Denmark people are forced to work, because only diligent workers may reserve places in nursing homes. The main goal of an ordinary Dane is to spend his or her last days in a plejehjem, being cared for by young people, who will take their place in future. Some people even save money so they can retire faster and move to a nursing home.
The second largest pillar of the Danish economy is the export of sketches, paintings and drawings of religious leaders and prophets. This was started in the recent millennia by Jyllands Posten, a small art studio and cookie bakery. Though this production have lead to many Eco Terrorists attacks against the original drawer, Kurt Vestergaard.
The third largest pillar of the Danish economy is young people from Sweden who go there to buy alcohol, since you have to be 18 to consume alcohol in Sweden. That's why their economy went through the roof when the öresundsbridge was finished.
Superseding the previous two is the cruel killing of hapless hogs, exported through the conspiracy of the EU that the Danish Prime Minister helped bring about by exploiting the hysteria of the nation during the national oil shortage in 1976. Since then, mass quantities of pigs are butchered every day to feed the nation's unending lust for wholesale slaughter, revenue and craving for bacon. Due to this practice, vegetarians are denied citizenship on general principle.
Travel Information[edit]
Denmark is a dangerous country to visit. There is a high-risk of getting shot in the country side, because decades ago martial law was declared outside the city boundaries. If you want to go into the cities you should also always bring a shotgun to kill the polar bears and looting Vikings.
Similarly to how a European goes to the US, as stated by John Lennon, an American only needs to go to Greenland and then turn right.
See also[edit]
|Northern Europe
|Channel Islands · Denmark · England · Faroe Islands · Finland · Guernsey · Iceland · Ireland · Isle of Man · Northern Ireland · Norway · Jersey · Scotland · Sealand · Svalbard · Sweden · Wales · United Kingdom
|Western Europe
|Austria · Belgium · France · Flanders · Germany · Liechtenstein · Luxembourg · Monaco · Netherlands · Switzerland
|Eastern Europe
|Armenia · Belarus · Bulgaria · Bulgovia · Czech Republic · Estonia · Hungary · Latvia · Lithuania · Moldova · Poland · Romania · Russia · Slovakia · Ukraine
|Southern Europe
|Albania · Balearic Islands · Bosnia · Catalonia · Croatia · Cyprus · Gibraltar · Greece · Italy · Kosovo · Macedonia · Madeira · Malta · Portugal · San Marino · Serbia · Sicily · Slovenia · Spain · Turkey · Vatican City


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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Krista Voda Returns To The SPEED Studio
Now that the NASCAR Now changes have been formally announced by ESPN, it is no surprise that there is an opening in Charlotte at the SPEED Report.
What may be surprising to TV viewers is that there are actually...two openings.
In addition to Nicole Mankse moving on to ESPN, her former co-host Drew Johnson will also not be returning to The SPEED Report for this season. Instead, the network will use a variety of announcers from their diverse motor sports stable.
Among those will be NASCAR fan favorite Krista Voda. This is certainly a big circle for Voda, who departed SPEED under tough circumstances and is now returning to participate as one of the hosts of their one-hour primetime motor sports show.
Voda will be joined by Bob Varsha, Leigh Diffey and a group of other announcers who will basically rotate through on weeks that fit into their motor sports schedules.
I think this is an exciting and dynamic change for a program series that has been having a bit of a tough go recently. SPEED has the production staff to make this show a franchise in terms of multiple types of racing, and now they will have a wide group of racing-oriented personalities to make it run on-the-air.
Veteran fans have seen several different versions of this show, and still feel remorse for some earlier fan favorite announcers that were released to make room for the Nicole and Drew pairing.
SPEED has certainly had a lot of faces in the anchor chair, including former ESPN veteran Bob Jenkins, South Carolina TV anchor Connie LeGrand, and current AMA Supercross announcer Ralph Sheheen. This program used to be called SPEED News.
The series will remain a one-hour look at all forms of motor sports, with SPEED using the network's field resources to keep viewers updated on the race results. The Sunday night series will also add a full one-hour Daytona preview program on Monday, February 11th at 8PM Eastern Time.
It certainly is proving to be a season of change in "TV land."
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Simply click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. We do not require your email address, and there is nothing to join. We just want your opinion on these changes at SPEED.
19 comments:
- Matt said...
Drew Johnson leaving the SPEED Report? Yay!! I'm sorry, but he made SPEED Report unbearable. Now that there will be actual racing reporters hosting, I may actually watch again.
- January 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Sorry, but I never liked the Barbie and Ken show, either.
Will look forward to this season now.
- January 23, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- elena said...
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- January 23, 2008 at 10:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
This is great news! Krista is awesome and did a good job in the one show last year when she filled in for Nicole.
Now if they would only stop showing those motorcycles...
- January 23, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
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- January 24, 2008 at 5:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'll take genuine racing reporters over Cleavage Girl and Highlight Man any day.
I've watched less and less Speed Report because the best I could say about the people who were supposedly giving me my racing news was that they were better than the people at ESPN.
Now if they could just make it a daily show.
- January 24, 2008 at 7:28 AM
- Lisa Hogan said...
Now, this is an interesting development. Seems a long time coming, but, Chris Long's "innovations" on SPEED are being corrected.
I might actually give the new show a look.
- January 24, 2008 at 9:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
I haven't been watching the show at all. Finally Krista is back on a Nascar show. Someone that actually knows racing! I will start watching now.
- January 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM
- Truck Series Fan! said...
This is great news I couldn't stand LeGrand as she was never able to pronounce the driver's names a la Rusty. Now all I have to wait for is the lineup of INC or oops ISC and I'll be all set for the 2008 racing season. Krista will be great on the show.
- January 24, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
Great news!! Krista's back. Now just get rid of the Waltrip idiots on any broadcast and the world will be right!!
- January 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- earl06 said...
I used to watch SPEEDNews every Sunday, but I haven't watched in over a year now. "Buh and bye" to Ken and Barbie!
I wholeheartedly agree that as SPEED gets rid of the Chris Long pestilence, it might become a network worth watching again.
- January 24, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
Once again, SPEED shows it is responsive to viewer complaints and concerns.
Thank you. I will continue to watch!
- January 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Richard said...
Yeah, Ken and Barbie are dead. Long live the real announcers!! Now, I'm really looking forward to the Speed Report in 2008.
- January 24, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
Drew Johnson fired - (tongue in cheek) - didn't see that one coming - yeah right. JD he was lookin like a Chris Berman look-alike and a candidate for that diet that Golik is on. in other words - if the suit does not fit you must go.
I though he actually had potential but was a pompous you-know-what spoiled brat kid as it turned out.
Way to go Ralph Shaheen. A real gig other than six races on TNT and Super Cross.
- January 24, 2008 at 5:35 PM
- Newracefan said...
Glad to read we are going to get more of Krista, that is always a good thing. I really only paid attention to the taped pieces on the show this past year but now I I'll pay attention to much more.
- January 24, 2008 at 8:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yippee!!! Krista rocks and as far as I'm concerned, she could be on nearly every NASCAR related show out there and make them all worth watching. We need more Krista's out there in NASCAR land.
- January 24, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wouldn't it be great to have Voda and John Kernan together on a show? Wouldn't it be even better if we never had to listen to either of the blithering Waltrip babies ever again?
- January 26, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- munson said...
I too agree, Krista-good; Nicole-bad!
It got to the point on Sunday nights I would only watch Wind Tunnel.
- January 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- JPJ said...
John Kernan? That moron? Surely, you jest.
- February 16, 2008 at 9:33 AM


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For the Luli Fama show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim in Miami, Make Up For Ever key artist Lottie created a glamorous make up look for the show on Sunday, July 18th that was inspired by the vibrant colors in the brand's swimwear collection. Lottie gave the models a dramatic eye with hues of coral, purple and gold that complimented the core colors in the collection.
Complexion & Cheeks: The skin was bronzed with highlights.
Eyes: Lottie first applied MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Cream #14 to the outer corners of the lids and blended inward. Next she applied MAKE UP FOR EVER Eye Shadow #17 to the crease and then dusted the outer corners and crease with MAKE UP FOR EVER Star Powder #930 to add a golden brown shimmer. The inner corner of the eyes were then dusted with MAKE UP FOR EVER Star Powder #946 to add a lighter dimension of shimmer. The eyes were lined with MAKE UP FOR EVER Waterproof Liner #1 in black and the lashes were coated with MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Smoky Lash.
Lips: For a shimmery nude lip, Lottie applied MAKE UP FOR EVER Fascinating Lip Gloss #16 as the finishing touch.
From this look we will be giving away 1 Aqua Cream in #5 (a peach with gold flecks, 1 Star Powder in #954 (a purple) and 1 pair of Faux Lashes in #157.
To enter, simply leave a comment below on this entry by midnight on Friday, July 30th. A winner will be chosen at random and notified via email on Saturday. Good luck!
Check back with us tomorrow for the look created for the Marysia Swim show and giveaway. And don't forget to check back with us on Sunday for the look created at the Tyler Rose show.
Good luck and don't forget to enter our Ed Hardy, Dolores Cortes, Mara Hoffman and Aqua di Lara/Qiss Qiss giveaways!


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The 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore test station went online at a site in the North Sea lying 45 kilometres north of the island of Borkum.
It is not a fully commercial project. Alpha Ventus is a test wind station that is also being used for research and development. It is supported by the federal environment ministry, which is supporting research at the station to the tune of EUR50 million.
But the 12 5MW turbines, six supplied by Multibrid, the other six by Repower Systems, signals the start of German offshore development.
Investment by the owners – energy companies EWE, E.on and Vattenfall – amounted to EUR250 million. At €4.2million per MW the cost was high. But the project used two types of German-manufactured wind turbines, built on two different types of foundations.
"One can say that we have built two wind parks," says Ralf Lamsbach, managing director of project company DOTI.
Just two projects are likely to get under way this year. The EnBW Group expects to commission its 48MW Baltic 1 project in the Baltic Sea, using Siemens 2.3MW machines. Once in operation, the company intends to sell off 49.9% of the project, but not the rights to the electricity it produces, to a number of municipal energy utilities.
Secondly, work will begin on the 400MW Bard Offshore 1 project, developed by Bard Engineering, which will use 80 of the company's own 5MW offshore machines at a location lying 100 kilometres north-west of the island of Borkum.
At least 50 turbines totalling 250MW will be installed this year, says the company. By February, the company had 35 machines and their foundations waiting to be shipped to sea.
Project delays in early 2010 due to late delivery of Bard's installation ship Wind Lift 1 will be offset later in the year by increasing the use of a rented offshore installation platform, says Kölling.
The project was sold in August 2009 to a joint company set up by Südwestdeutsche Stromhandel, with participation of around 15 municipal energy utilities, and WV Energie, which has the minority 30% share.
WV Energie is owned to 50% by around 200 municipal energy companies and 50% by oil and gas company Wintershall. Project financing has been agreed with the Unicredit bank group for €1.2 billion or about 70% of the investment volume including financing costs.
Building the cables to shore for the offshore wind stations is the responsibility of the transmission system operators. The costs are rolled over to German electricity consumers as a component of electricity network usage charges.
The Bard Offshore 1 project, also known as Ocean Breeze Energy, is one of four German offshore wind station project that have received funds from the European Union's European energy programme for recovery.
The funds earmarked for Ocean Breeze are a contribution to the extra costs of an innovative tripile foundation system and the direct current mains connection.
It looks likely that the EEPR project beneficiaries will be the first major German commercial offshore stations to be completed. Aside from the Ocean Breeze station, these are Global Tech 1, Nordsee Ost and Borkum West 2.
Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy has teamed up with Strabag Offshore Wind for installation of the 400MW Global Tech 1 station.
Strabag will use its newly-developed gravity foundation system in which the whole wind turbine including steel tower, turbine and hub with rotor blades is assembled at the production works in Cuxhaven before being transported out to sea. Areva Multibrid 5MW turbines will be used.
Project investment amounts to €1.5 billion, of which €59 comes from the EEPR support programme. Wetfeet is owned by municipal utilities Stadtwerke Munich and Heag, of Darmstadt, each of which has 24.9%, as well as investor company Aktiwo with 10%, and Financial Consulting, Wolfschlugen with 40%.
Installation is scheduled to begin in 2011, with completion due for 2012. RWE Innogy, too, expects to begin commissioning the first turbines of its 295MW Nordsee Ost project about 35 kilometres north of the island of Helgoland from mid-2012.
Under a framework deal with Repower Systems dating back to February 2009, it confirmed an order for 48 turbines at a whopping 6.15MW each at the beginning of February 2010, destined for the project which will be built during 2011-2013.
The Nordsee Ost project, which RWE acquired when it took over Dutch utility Essent in 2009, gets €50 million from the EEPR fund for the installation of 6MW turbines with jacket foundation structures in challenging offshore circumstances.
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum's 400MW Borkum West 2 project, gets €42.7 million in EEPR funds for innovative 5MW wind turbine generators on tripod foundations. The first phase of the project, using 40 Areva Multibrid 5MW turbines, is to be implemented by 2012, the other 40 to be installed in a later phase.
The station will be located 45 kilometres north of the island of Borkum. Aside from these four projects, Energiekontor's Nordergründe project is also well advanced, and due to use 18 Repower 5MW machines to total 90MW. But the project is being held up by appeals by environment organisation BUND and other groups, which oppose its construction.
Finance is also still outstanding. We hope the legal problems and financing can be cleared by mid 2010 so that construction can begin in 2011 or 2012, says a company representative.
Nordergründe is one of Germany's few offshore projects to be located within Germany's national waters, that extend 12 natical miles from its coast.
A site 15 kilometres north-east of the island of Wangerooge has been earmarked for the project. Wind development is prohibited in most of Germany's national waters, due to nature protection regulations.
Of the four large offshore projects likely to get going first, three are owned by groups of municipal energy utilities, which are keen to build up their own power station generating capacity to counter the dominance of Germany's big four energy companies.
All in all, a total 1.4GW of offshore wind projects could be in operation by the end of 2012, growing to 4.6GW by 2016 and 10GW by 2020, according to a forecast by the renewable energies association BEE (Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien).
Projects that come online before the end of 2015 benefit from a sprinter bonus of €0.02/kWh paid on top of the initial feed-in tariff of €13/kWh, which is payable for the first 12 years of operation. At €0.15/kWh, offshore wind is close to being twice as expensive to consumers as the onshore wind tariff in 2010 of around €0.09/kWh.
Some 8.9GW of Germany's offshore projects already have construction permit. Another 18.2GW are in the construction permissions process, according to German energy agency Dena. The permits generally cover pilot projects of 80 turbines, which developers hope to expand on at a later date.
For the North Sea, there are currently 21 permitted projects totalling 7.5GW. Another 42 projects totalling at least 16.6GW are in the construction permissions process. For the Baltic Sea, four projects totalling 1.4GW already have construction permissions. A further six projects totalling 1.6GW are in the construction permissions process.
*An extended, in-depth version of a market report that appears in next month's Market Status special edition of Windpower Monthly. The issue features incisive reports showing the state of play for wind in key markets across the globe.


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Local school leaders are planning to implement a new system � Synovia Solutions GPS � to track the locations of school buses.
What time did your child�s bus leave the school?
What route did the bus take?
What time has the bus arrived at your home the past several days?
Cleveland County Schools plans to soon have those answers for administrators and parents at a cost of about $86,000 a year.
Local school leaders are planning to implement a new system � Synovia Solutions GPS � to track the locations of school buses.
�We hope to have units on all of our yellow buses by the start of the 2013-14 school year,� David Pless, the schools transportation director, said in an email to The Star.
The system would help make bus routes more efficient, reduce the amount of time drivers sit idling in one place and provide information on the location of each bus at all times, Pless said.
Pless said there were no bus incidents that led CCS to examine and implement the bus-tracking system.
�Knowing we have the technology to locate a bus as fast as possible when we have a breakdown, medical emergency or some type of crisis is important to us,� he said. �If there is a problem we want to be able to get help to those kids and that driver as soon as possible. Student safety will always be our No. 1 priority.�
Pless said school officials studied a similar system in Rutherford County Schools and have already conducted a pilot program on some buses in the county.
�We have buses that carry 72 little people,� Pless told the school board during a presentation on the program this week. �We need to know where they are. And I believe we would save fuel and save time by buses not idling as much.�
To implement the system, CCS expects to pay a monthly service charge of $36 per vehicle, which will cost about $86,400 a year. Equipment would be installed as part of that service charge.
�The money will come from the State Transportation Allotment we receive each year,� Pless said in an email to The Star.
Pless requested the school board's approval to move forward with plans to implement the tracking system.
�Sounds like you�ve got it,� school board Chairman Jack Hamrick said Monday night.
Reach Matthew Tessnear at 704-669-3331, at email@example.com or on Twitter @MatthewTessnear.
By the numbers
7,783 -- Bus riders in 2012-13 school year
15,449 � Cleveland County Schools enrollment
50.4% -- Percentage of students riding bus
193 � Number of yellow school buses
172 � Buses that run daily
37 � Number of activity buses
$86,400 � Estimated cost of implementing tracking system for all yellow school buses
Source: Cleveland County Schools
What are school board members saying?
�This is a whole lot more high-tech, but I have this on my kids� cars. I want to know where my kids are all the time.�
-- Kathy Falls
�I think it�s a good program.�
-- Phillip Glover
�It�d be nice to know where the activity buses are, too.�
-- Roger Harris
What are residents saying?
The Star asked its Facebook fans what they think about a bus-tracking system. Here�s a sample of the response. To join the conversation, "like" The Shelby Star on Facebook.
�If you need to track a bus, call the bus driver.�
Heather H. Greene
�Be interesting to hear the whole story. May save some money.�
Michael Winecoff
�There is a schedule for the bus around here and it is right on time, most every morning and evening. No studyies or tracking system needed. If it is late, then there is a human system to go see where it is. Parents or grandparents. Keep our tax dollars safe till this road and others need fixing and guard rails coming down bill hill. (Hwy. 10 out of Casar.) Keep the teacher assistants with those tax dollars.�
Phyllis Woods Mosteller
�Seems to me like the money could be spent better someplace else. Our school system is not huge! Use the money for those teachers assistance or those gravel roads that the bus has to travel on. Do the Buses have cameras on them?�
Brenda McIntosh Carlile


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Every Thursday night DSD put on their dancing shoes. We play the old skool tracks you didn't know you knew, the classics you can't help but dance to and the new releases you're trying desperately to Shazam.
Join us while Mr DEX @mr_dex will be mixing the tracks and team DSD mix your favourite Drinks!
Free entry until 10pm, £3 after.
Get on guestlist for queue jump & free entry until midnight.
We can get really busy and there may well be a queue from 10pm. Strictly over 18's after 7pm, please bring ID. Last entry is 1.30am; Close at 2am.


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PAWNO wrote:I just wanted to check there wasn't a typo here...
But does everyone like STILLMATIC over ILLMATIC?
The reason i ask, is i'm suprised to see it listed in y'all top albums... for me personally, i respect that ILLMATIC is a CLASSIC, But STILLMATIC easily is one of my most bumped albums and i have it held in a higher regard then NAS DEBUT.
The Rewind track... IS BRILLIANT!!!
Illmatic is a classic as well but it's such a one-generational album ... that sound just doesn't fit anymore. Stillmatic has 100x the replay value.


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Welcome to the AYSA Upper Division U19 Girls Playoffs!
Information on the First Round of Playoffs
Each team in the U19 Girls league will play two first round playoff games. Teams have been seeded according to regular season record as of July 4. The two teams earning the most points as a result of first round playoff games will advance to a Championship.
Ties are allowed in first round playoff games.
For first round playoff games, the winning team coach should call the game scores to AYSA at 624-1713 immediately after the game is played. Both coaches call if the game ends in a tie. Please leave team names and numbers, age group, score, and which team won. Remember, the sooner you call your score in, the sooner scores will be posted and sooner the Championship pairing can be determined. First round scores will be posted on this web site daily and the Championship pairing when determined.
The point system used to determine advancement to the Championship is as follows:
Win = 6 Tie = 3 Shutout Win = 1 Each goal = 1 (max 3 per game)
The two teams with the most points will advance to the Championship. If teams are tied in points at the end of first round play, the following tiebreakers will determine advancement.
Information on the Championship
In the U19 Girls Division, the two teams with the most points after the first round of play will advance to a Championship game.
Championship game players will receive an AYSA Final Four t-shirt. There will be no other tournament awards for teams.
Ties are not allowed in the Championship game. If tied at the end of regulation time, the Championship game will go to two (2) golden goal five-minute overtime periods. Golden goal means that the game will end immediately after the first overtime goal. Kicks from the penalty spot per FIFA rules will occur if the game is still tied at the end of overtime. The exception to FIFA rules in this situation is that all players will be eligible to be chosen by the coach to kick. Players need not be on the field at the end of overtime.
General Information
First teams listed on the schedule will provide game ball and change if there is a color conflict in both first round and Championship. This means your team needs to be prepared with an alternate jersey or pinnies in case of color conflict.
The playoffs are a time when coaches and fans get a little more tense, and can take out their frustrations on our referees. This is a time to be very respectful to all those involved in our games, especially the referees. Please be gentle with our referees, pick up your garbage and leave your dogs at home.
If you have questions, please call the AYSA office at 218-624-1713 or email email@example.com
For team rankings, records and playoff points, please see the team rankings and records page.


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Judge Q was a high ranking official in the Q Continuum who had the ability to control the powers and lives of any Q in the continuum – ranging from removal of powers to change in form.
In 2378, Judge Q determined the future of Q's son, Q Junior, after he underwent testing by the crew of the USS Voyager, following a streak of misbehaving and trouble making. After bumpy testing with problems and successes, Judge Q sentenced "Junior" to serve his life as a Human. This sentence was eventually changed by persuasion from Q, and his son's powers were restored. (VOY: "Q2")
Judge Q was played by actress Lorna Raver.


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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Text | Taken from: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html
Guidelines for Visualizing Links
Summary: Textual links should be colored and underlined to achieve the best perceived affordance of clickability, though there are a few exceptions to these guidelines.
Here are the current usability guidelines for showing textual links:
- To maximize the perceived affordance of clickability, color and underline the link text. Users shouldn't have to guess or scrub the page to find out where they can click.
- Assuming the link text is colored, it's not always absolutely necessary to underline it.
- There are two main cases in which you can safely eliminate underlines: navigation menus and other lists of links.
- However, this is true only when the page design clearly indicates the area's function. (Remember: your design might not be as obvious to outside users as it is to your own team members.) Users typically understand a left-hand navigation rail with a list of links on a colored background, assuming it resembles the navigation areas on most other sites.
- Exception: underlining is essential if you use link colors such as reds or greens, which cause problems for users with common forms of color-blindness.
- Exception: underlined links are important for low-vision users' accessibility, so retain underlines if accessibility is a priority for your site or you have many users with low vision.
- Don't underline any text that's not a link, even if your links aren't underlined. Reserve underlining for links. Because underlines provide a strong perceived affordance of clickability, users will be confused and disappointed if underlined text doesn't have an actual affordance to match this perception.
- Use different colors for visited and unvisited links.
- The color for unvisited links should be more vivid, bright, and saturated than the color for visited links, which should look "used" (dull and washed out).
- The two colors should be variants or shades of the same color, so that they're clearly related. Using drastically different colors (say, orange and green) makes it hard for users to understand the relationship between the two types of links and to identify which color is the "used" version of the other.
- Shades of blue provide the strongest signal for links, but other colors work almost as well.
- As always, when using color to signal information, you should provide redundant cues for color-blind users. Making unvisited links brighter and more luminous than visited links will usually accomplish this goal.
- Never show text in your chosen link colors unless it's a link.
- You should generally avoid color for text unless it's a link. However, assuming it differs from the link color, you can sometimes use colored text without causing major usability problems. For example, in a checklist summary, you could show the word "okay" in green and the word "error" in red. (The fact that the word meanings are clearly different provides the required redundant cue for color-blind users.)
- Don't use blue for non-link text, even if you don't use blue as your link color. Blue is still the color with the strongest perceived affordance of clickability.
- There is no need to use special colors or other visualizations when the cursor hovers over a link. Doing so only makes the page appear more cluttered as the user moves the mouse across the screen.
- Exception: if you've opted to present links with less than the maximum perceived affordance for clickability, you can recover some of the lost usability by signaling clickability when the user hovers over the link. For example, if your links aren't underlined, you can make an underline appear while hovering.
- One useful hovering effect is to use link titles to help users predict where a link will lead before they click it. (If you're using a mainstream browser, you can see this effect by hovering over the links in this column.)
- Don't use tiny text for links. Don't place links so close together that users with reduced motor skills will have difficulty selecting them. These guidelines are particularly important to ensure usability for older users.
- Exception: It's okay to use small font for links that few users will need (such as copyright info), as long as you place those links in a secondary location (such a footer) so users don't feel obligated to read them.
- If you target seniors or otherwise have many older users, ensure that your links appear in a big font (12 points or higher) and that links include enough text to make them easy to click on.
These guidelines all relate to the textual link appearance. It's even more important that you carefully choose the link content (the actual words), but that's another topic. (For advice, see Homepage Usability's six guidelines for links, twelve guidelines for writing, and seven guidelines for navigation.) Graphical links are yet another story, but it's usually best to use text for most links anyway.
Following the usability guidelines for link appearance on your site will make it easier for users to immediately determine what they can do on each page and will reduce the probability that they'll overlook important links.


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15 Km Afternoon Dogsled TourKarte anzeigen
Dogsledding is especially important and popular in the Alta area, as the city is the host, starting and ending point for Finnmarksløpet, the world's second-longest dogsled race. Come take a ride and discover the fun and excitement of traveling by dog power.
We will bring you to our farm from Alta, make sure you are properly outfitted and instructed on how to control the sled, and then you're off on your ride through the nearby forest. The morning tour will give you the best views in the arctic day; while the afternoon tour gives you the exhilaration of traveling through a twilight or nighttime forest.
Afterwards, you'll meet in our lavvo tent for hot drinks and fun conversation about raising and racing husky dogs. And of course, there will be some extra time to visit and take pictures of your new four-legged friends, before returning to Alta again.
The tour includes:
- Transport from and to Alta city center
- Thermal suits if needed for weather
- Proper instruction on handling the dogsled
- The tour, approx. 15 km, traveling with guides from Holmen Husky
- Hot drinks (coffee or blackcurrant) and conversation afterwards


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Anna Ranch
From an early age Anna Lindsey rode horses, roped cattle, helped mend fences and set fence posts alongside her father and her brothers on their land in Hawai'i County, Hawai'i. In later years, she would compete in horse races, brand cattle, and bring the beef to market, living the life of a Hawaiian Rancher and cowboy. Born in 1900, she lived until 1995, leaving a legacy of a working ranch and many charitable deeds. Her ranch, titled Anna Ranch, is still active today. Located on the island of Hawaii and consisting of 3.48 acres at the base of the Kohala Mountains. She was a unique woman in the male dominated profession of cattle ranching. She worked on and successfully operated the ranch, bringing innovations and new castle breeds to Hawai'i and making significant contributions to her community. Her legacy and that of her family is being perpetuated, as set out in her trust, with the formation of "the Anna Ranch Heritage Center "in Waimea.
The history of Anna Ranch begins with Anna Leialoha Perry-Fiske's great grandparents, the Englishman James Fay and Hawaiian native Ka'ipukai, (her full name was Kai'pukai'ikapuokamehameha Kahahana). They wed around 1828, and acquired land where the Anna Ranch house would later sit. The union of James and Ka'ipukai Fey produced one child, a daughter, named Mary Ka'ala Fay in 1830. She wed twice, having 12 children altogether. Her second marriage was to Englishman George Kynaston Lindsey. In 1858, a year before he died, James Fay sold the land where the Ana House is located to his son-in-law George.
As a young girl, Anna was sent away for her formal education. At Sacred Heart's Academy in Honolulu, there she met Queen Lili'uokalani, the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands whose kingdom had been deposed in a coup in 1893. When the Queen died in 1917, Anna was asked to sing in the choir for the Queen's funeral. At the age of 19, Anna married Henry Lai Hipp of Hilo, who later in 1935 won a seat in the Territorial House of Representatives. During her 25 year marriage to Henry Lai Hipp in Hilo, Anna was particularly active in community beautification projects. She served as a park commissioner for Hawai'i County from 1933-1939 and was an active member of the Hilo Women's Outdoor Circle where she served as its chairwoman for eight years. Two significant projects Anna took part in were the tree-planting project along Banyan Drive in Hilo and the beautification of the Akaka Falls area. Anna would visit her family and help with brandings and ranching activities. She also kept up with her equestrian activities, charging a dollar per hour for riding lessons. Through the 1920s and 1930s, Anna trained her own race horses and was one of the few female jockeys in Hawai'i at that time. She won many races and the horses she trained often took top honors.
In 1939 while her father was ailing, Anna separated from Henry Lai Hipp to return home to care for her parents. Her father died that year and Anna divorced Henry and took over the running of the ranch. When Anna took over the running of the ranch she had no idea that during her father's long illness the ranch was on the verge of bankruptcy. Mary Rose Lindsay died in 1940 leaving Anna in complete charge of the ranch. Through the sale of properties she owned in Hilo, some smart investments, and by doing most of the ranch work herself, she was able to save the ranch and pay off a loan in the allotted time.
In 1941, the year after her mother died, Anna changed the name of the ranch from Lindsey ranch to Anna ranch. Anna Lindsey truly was a "cowboy" as she worked six days a week riding the range, mending fences, branding cattle, and buying stock from nearby ranches. She only occasionally hired other cowboys when she needed help with branding or moving cattle. During World War II, Anna was one of the first women in Hawai'i to get her butcher's license. She selected the cattle to be slaughtered and when she felt the local butcher was charging too much, she slaughtered her own beef, driving the carcasses to the Hilo Meat Market, which in those days was a five hour trip each way. During World War II, many service men were stationed in Waimea. In 1945, Anna wrote the central Pacific Base Command complaining of the marines damaging the stone wall cattle pens, which led to her cattle running loose. She did entertain officers and nurses from Camp Tarawa at the ranch during the Second World War. In 1943 Anna Lindsey married James Lyman Perry-Fiske, also part Hawaiian, and also a keen horseman who loved the outdoors. Anna earned an award in 1975 from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. She raised more money for the American Heart Association than any other individual in the United States for several years, using the pageants "Old Hawai'i on Horseback' that ran from 1964-1983. She received three distinguished service medallions from the American Heart Association, the highest award accorded to a volunteer. In 1979, Congressman Daniel Akaka honored Anna on the floor of Congress for her fundraising efforts. Anna was also on the Board of Governors for Hawai'i Preparatory Academy since its inception in 1945 and continued to serve on its board until a few years prior to her 1995 death. She also supported Easter seals and donated her own money to help build an emergency room at the Lucy Heniriques Center in Waimea.
The major buildings on the property, including the ranch house, the slaughter house, the barn and the garage were constructed between 1910 and 1930 The buildings are vernacular in style, and are rectangular or modified rectangular with gable roofs made of corrugated-metal, painted white. There are some design aspects of the buildings that respond to the Hawaiian climate, such as elevated floors above ground level, exterior porches, screened-in porches and installation of windows and screens. The ranch house is a wood-frame, single-wall structure comprised of additions and alterations that were completed by 1930. With a foundation of lava rock and Douglas Fir wood, the ranch-house is a one-and-a-half- story bungalow with a modified, rectangular plan and four major intersecting gable roofs and adjacent shed roofs. The Anna Ranch was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 2008.
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