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Welcome to the Curtis Creek Trout Rearing Station. If you have additional questions, please contact the rearing station manager.
Hours: 8 am to 4 pm, seven days a week, except winter holidays.
Indiana has two coldwater fish hatcheries, Mixsawbah State Fish Hatchery at Walkerton and Twin Branch State Fish Hatchery at Mishawaka. Fish hatcheries have the facilities to produce fish from eggs and raise them to any desired stocking size. Curtis Creek Trout Rearing Station is not a fish hatchery. A coldwater fish rearing facility is designed to raise trout or salmon from the fingerling stage to the desired stocking size.
Six concrete linear raceways were constructed at Curtis Creek in 1956 for the purpose of rearing 60,000 catchable trout for Indiana's put-and-take program. The linear raceways were renovated in 1983.
In 1981, an iron filter and four circular ponds were added. This system is fed by well water. The circulars are used April thru June to hold the next year's production fish. In June, the fish are transferred to the linears for rearing. Rainbow broodstock are held in the circulars from November to January. After eggs are taken, the broodstock are then transferred to another state fish hatchery for holding.
- Rearing Station
Fish roe (eggs) are removed from adult trout and salmon when the eggs are fully developed. The eggs are fertilized using sperm from male fish of the same species. The eggs are placed in incubating trays at the coldwater fish hatchery. Hatching takes place within 35 to 40 days. After hatching, the fry (newly hatched fish) grow by absorbing the yolk sac. After about 16 days, many of the fry are free-swimming and able to feed on a prepared diet. The fry are moved to small inside raceways.
Each day the young fish are fed a percentage of their body weight of a prepared fish food. When the trout and salmon reach fingerling size (about 2 inches), they are moved to outside ponds or raceways. At 3 to 4 inches (6 to 7 months), the trout being raised for put-and-take fishing are transferred to the Curtis Creek Trout Rearing Station.
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The trout, rainbow and/or brown, are raised in six 10' x 86' linear raceways. The water source is Curtis Creek. The creek is fed from springs in the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area and farmland which surround the rearing station. Curtis Creek flows through the raceways and empties into the Pigeon River. Well water is used to warm the raceway water in the winter and cool it in the summer. This blending keeps the water temperature within the range suitable for raising trout.
Trout are held at Curtis Creek year-round. They are fed a trout-salmon diet daily. One or two weeks before the opening day of the trout fishing season, selected lakes and streams are stocked with 7- to 11-inch trout. Because lakes do not have a closed trout fishing season, they are occasionally stocked in March or October.
- Volunteer Opportunities
Need a reason to get outside and move? You can volunteer alone or in small groups at this property. Some activities include trash pick-up, basic gardening, painting, and more. Call the property office for details.
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I lose my voice on a regular basis- in fact I have no voice right now – and my husband rather likes it. Cheeky divil! (as m'gran would say). Then there's the entertaining aphasia in which dishwashers become fish-dishes and disappearing boxes as my dd so eloquently relates. Along with this are the times when the words are there and I can't get them in the right order to make sense, or when someone is speaking to me and they sound like the parents in Humpf "blah blah blah". I know they are saying real words but I just can't make my head work out the meaning. This happens more often and is much worse when I'm tired or when I'm on the phone.
I slur my words like a drunk and mix them up so I can speak like Yoda.
And what is it with the phone? I think it must be that the only clues my brain is getting is spoken language, and because I can't see the person speaking, it's much harder to understand them. There are plenty of times when this isn't a problem at all, but at other times I have to really concentrate hard to understand what someone is saying to me and sometimes I say something banal in reply because I just don't really get it.
I am not sure why, but for long periods of time I can behave like a sane person (my children may disagree). I can enunciate and use the appropriate vocabulary for the occasion. I sometimes have the skills I had when I worked, taking messages, handing out complicated information (in two languages) and generally looking and sounding efficient. Then out of the blue – it's all gone. Worse still, I can't always tell beforehand that it has gone , so I'll answer the phone and be struggling to make sense or understand the other person. The fish-man can phone and I am struggling to remember what a fish is, let alone whether I want to order any.
My children are remarkably patient. My husband has a wicked sense of humour over it but that keeps it from getting too scary. I still tease him about the night he came home to find no dinner cooked and me unable to string a coherent word together, let alone a sentence. He looked at me with that face he does and said, "I'd better get a takeaway."
I've got an appointment with a speech therapist in October. She's supposed to be assessing me for some kind of larynx dysfunction. We'll see what happens there.
THIS SITE on Dysautonomia has just been shown me. It's pretty good, clear info on the joys of having this silly illness. All I would say is the advice about salt should be taken with extreme caution; salt is for people with neurally mediated hypotension and low blood volume which usually manifests with narrow pulse pressure. Those of us on the other end of the dysauto scale with hyperadrenergic stuff going on; hypertension; or like me rapidly fluctuating blood pressure, and wide pulse pressure (had one of 80 recently YIKES!) should not be taking salt. unless a doc has noticed sodium issues and that needs proper treatment anyway.
I do get salt cravings- I know this happens with other dysauto folks too. It is more likely due to electrolyte imbalance than a genuine need to grab the Marmite. Try Diaoralyte instead m'dears. (Marmite tastes better…)

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Larry Moore Answers Gardening Questions, Part 2
Longtime Gardener Larry Moore Shares His Tips
Longtime gardener Larry Moore is answering viewer's questions this week.
Guila wrote: I have two tomato plants blooming, but the blooms keep falling off. Help!
Larry answered: You have blossom drop, which is caused by fluctuation temperatures day and night and fluctuating water conditions. A lack of pollination also causes it.
Hsanker wrote: My lone tomato plant has green tomatoes, but they have dark black of brown areas on the bottom. What's happening?
Larry answered: You have blossom end rot, which is very common this year. It's caused by too much rain, plants that grow too fast and sometimes it's a lack of calcium. Eggshells sometimes help.
Patsy wrote: How do you know when a bell pepper is ready to pick?
Larry answered: When it reaches the size you like. If you leave it on longer, it will turn red.
Billy wrote: What's your favorite way to fix zucchini?
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Instituto Cervantes at the National Hispanic Cultural Center is launching another film series this week with Óperas Primeras, spotlighting the first works of young directors that have not been widely distributed around the world. Obscure though they might be, these films have all been singled out for praise, awards and/or film festival recognition.
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I'm with Garfield the Cat: Don't talk to me until I've had my morning cup of coffee! Now, the geniuses over at ThinkGeek ("stuff for smart masses") have invented a way to get that good caffeine into your system without going through all the early-morning rigmarole of grinding the beans, brewing the coffee and pouring it into a travel mug, only to spill it on the way to your Kia Spectra. (Don't ya hate that?) Shower Shock is an all-vegetable-based glycerine soap that does not contain any harsh ingredients like ethanol, diethanolamine, polyethylene glycol or cocyl isethionate. (Now, you're talkin' my language, ThinkGeek!) The bars are pleasantly scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, providing 200 milligrams of caffeine per serving. No, you don't eat it, silly! You absorb it through the skin. For maximum effect, ThinkGeek recommends you build up a good Shower Shock lather across your entire body before rinsing. This stuff may not drive Starbucks out of business (vente mochaccino for me, please), but it sure does give my private parts a tingle in the morning! **** (soaps-on-a-rope) out of five
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Bar Soap vs. Liquid Soap
A slippery debate
As cleanser connoisseurs know, liquid soap was first patented in 1865 by William Shepphard. The product didn't gain widespread acceptance, however, until 1980 when the Minnetonka Corporation introduced their popular product Softsoap. The company actually cornered the market on liquid soap for several years by buying up the entire stock of plastic pumps necessary for making liquid soap dispensers. (Clever devils!) In 1987, Minnetonka got bought out by the Colgate Company, ushering in the modern-day liquid soap era.
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Glitzy, escapist drama gambles it all on a game of cards
America loves to play cards. Hollywood loves to gamble. Over the years, and with increasing frequency, the movie industry has tried to exploit this by giving us films about card-playing: The Cincinnati Kid, California Split, Maverick, Rounders, The Cooler, Lucky You. Hell, even the last James Bond film managed to shoehorn in a pivotal Texas hold-'em sequence. The new film 21 adds to this ever-increasing pot, providing yet another Vegas-bound drama for people who have watched "Celebrity Poker Showdown" once or twice and can sing at least the chorus to Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler."
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Is network television dead?
When the dust from the recent Writers Guild strike settled, TV executives were gloating as if they'd won the lottery. Sure, some networks were forced to give refunds to aggrieved advertisers, but five months of not paying anyone (other than the executives) any salaries more than made up for that. The pittance eventually granted the writers was also recouped (and then some) by canceling countless development deals and dumping the traditional "upfront season" in which dozens of TV pilots are filmed and then whittled down to the one or two that will actually make it onto the airwaves.
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The Week in Sloth
"Miss Guided" (KOAT-7 7 p.m.) Screwed out of her first big TV appearance as Miss Golden Globes on the Golden Globes (canceled due to the Writers strike), Rumer Willis gets revenge with a sitcom cameo. Watch this Teenage Frankenstein act and try to guess which leftover parts her parents (Demi Moore, Bruce Willis) used to construct her.


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As part of the weekly Internet program This Week in Libraries, I was interviewed though a Skype call by Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer. The discussion revolved around the latest Automation Marketplace feature, titled The New Frontier: the Battle Intensifies to win hearts, minds, and tech Dollars which appeared in the April 1, 2011 issue of Library Journal. We talked about the new generation of library automation platforms, discovery systems, and some of trends in libraries that impact they way we use technology.
It was great to have this discussion with Erik and Jaap. In 2008, I visited with them in their home library, the DOK in Delft in The Netherlands, gave a presentation as a Masterclass at the Rotterdam Public Library, and have seen them many times Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian.
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LONDON - Manchester United gave reigning champion Manchester City a glimmer of hope in the Premier League title race on Sunday, conceding a stoppage-time equalizer in a 1-1 draw at Tottenham that reduced the leaders' advantage to five points.
Chelsea could yet threaten the top two after beating Arsenal 2-1 to end its barren run at Stamford Bridge, but the European champions must make up an 11-point gap to United with 15 matches remaining.
Clint Dempsey rescued Spurs with a close-range strike in the third minute of stoppage time, cancelling out Robin van Persie's league-high 18th goal of the campaign that looked to be enough for United at White Hart Lane.
"We did so well at everything . the disappointment is not finishing them off," said United manager Alex Ferguson, who could find himself in disciplinary trouble for criticizing a linesman for not awarding a penalty for a foul on substitute Wayne Rooney shortly before Dempsey's goal.
Despite the draw, fourth-place Tottenham fell four points behind Chelsea in the fight for the third automatic Champions League place after goals in the opening 16 minutes by Juan Mata and Frank Lampard secured the win against Arsenal.
Dreadful in the first half, Arsenal improved after the break but couldn't add to Theo Walcott's goal in the 58th minute. Arsene Wenger's side is seven points behind Spurs, and its hopes of qualifying for the Champions League for a 16th straight season are hanging in the balance.
"We can't afford to lose more points," Wenger said. "It's a concern."
Famous for rescuing points by scoring late goals, United got a taste of what it feels like to concede in the final minutes.
Goalkeeper David De Gea failed to deal with a cross into the area and Aaron Lennon prodded the loose ball across to Dempsey, who stroked home coolly from the edge of the six-yard box. The United States forward also scored what proved to be Spurs' winner at Old Trafford in a 3-2 victory in September.
"It was a big relief," Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said. "I thought we dominated the complete game.
"I think the boys have embraced the spirit that we want to be in the Champions League next year."
Van Persie continued his stunning first season at United by rising to meet Tom Cleverley's cross with a powerful header in the 25th. That was one of the few chances created by Ferguson's side, which was put under pressure after Man City's 2-0 win over Fulham on Saturday.
"Before the game we would have taken a point," United defender Rio Ferdinand said. "We have a good record here over the years, but Spurs have improved so we would have taken a point, but we are disappointed."
Playing in north London for the first time since his summer move from Arsenal, Van Persie showed once again what his former club is missing as Arsenal lost for a second straight league game.
The Dutchman's goals were the main reason why Arsenal qualified for the Champions League last season but they have found him impossible to replace.
Chelsea overwhelmed its London rival in the first half at Stamford Bridge, with Mata crashing in a fine opener in the sixth minute and Lampard slotting in a penalty after Ramires fell under the challenge of Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.
The boos and jeers that have been a regular feature of Benitez's turbulent two-month tenure abated but the home crowd had to live through a nerve-wracking final half hour following Walcott's goal — his ninth in the league this season and first since signing a new contract with Arsenal on Friday.
It was Chelsea's first win in four home matches in all competitions.
"We have been doing well, creating chances in all our games," Benitez said. "In the games we didn't win, we deserved to win. It was just a matter of time until we had a performance like this."
The title may well be beyond Chelsea but the team is the favourite to finish third.
"There is a big difference between the top of the table and us," Mata said, "but we are trying."
Arsenal's game in hand is against West Ham on Wednesday.
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NOAA's GOES-13 satellite spotted the remnant clouds and showers from former Tropical Storm Chantal lingering over the Bahamas on July 12. Chantal's chances for regeneration are diminishing because of upper-level winds.
A visible image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite at 9:45 a.m. EDT on July 12, 2013 showed Chantal's remnant clouds and showers moving north in the Atlantic. The image of Chantal's remnants resembled the sideways view of a jellyfish. The GOES image was created by NASA's GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that the remnants remain disorganized, and that development has become less likely. Upper-level winds helped cause the demise of the tropical cyclone and continue to affect the storm. On July 13 at 8 a.m. EDT, the NHC gave Chantal's remnants a 10 percent change of regenerating into a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours. In fact, the NHC even canceled the Air Force reconnaissance mission scheduled for July 13.


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Lacey Chabert is heading to ABC Family's Baby Daddy, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
The Party of Five alum will guest-star in two episodes as Dr. Amy Shaw, a headstrong, newly minted sports psychologist who has just landed a job working with the New York Rangers. Her first patient? Danny (Derek Theler), whom she'll help come out of a major slump. And, of course, sparks might fly
Has your favorite show been renewed?
Chabert, famous for her role as the precocious Claudia Salinger on Party of Five, most recently appeared in the Hallmark television movie Matchmaker Santa.
Baby Daddy returns in spring 2013.


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Infor recently held its annual Inforum user group meeting, along with a series of sessions with analysts. The $2 billion business software company has products in the major categories of ERP (including enterprise financial management), human capital management, customer relationship management and performance management among others.
In their presentations, executives stressed three key themes. One was the company's focus on microverticals – that is, providing software that meets the needs of 10 specific types of business (for example, fashion, aerospace and defense, distribution and food and beverage). This focus on microverticals is an important part of the company's strategy for differentiating its software from that of other vendors, even those that also have vertical industry applications with a broad offerings; Infor aims to make it faster and less expensive for companies in the microverticals to deploy its software.
The second was theme architecture. Infor's ION middleware facilitates the integration of Infor's and third-party applications, potentially lowering the cost for companies to implement and maintain a suite of business software. Its Business Vault serves as a central data repository of transactional and other data from multiple systems to enable immediate reporting and analysis from them. It enables integration of financial and operational data to use, for example, in business planning and performance management. Our benchmark research on finance analytics shows that companies whose software facilitates the use of analytics are able to obtain performance metrics sooner than those with less capable systems.
Third, Infor executives emphasized attention to making the business user experience more productive by (to paraphrase the speakers) "throwing off the tyranny of the superuser." Toward this end, rather than presenting screens that offer every conceivable option, Infor attempts to simplify interactions by drawing on decades of experience in how work is actually performed. It utilizes the capabilities of today's IT systems and an evolved palette of man/machine interactions to simplify training and speed process execution without sacrificing comprehensiveness; infrequently used commands and functions are hidden until they are needed.
In addition, to improve productivity Infor continues to refine Infor Ming.le, its social collaboration platform, which offers contextual interactions. In some of its applications, Infor is adding rewards, a component of what is generally called gamification, which I have written about. One example would be using it in purchasing to encourage policy compliance, such as choosing preferred vendors. By bringing a modern look to its applications – in many respects superior to its competitors' designs – Infor also is attempting to deflect a perception sown by its competitors that Infor offers an amalgamation of old technology.
All three of these themes support the company's cloud applications strategy. This year's Inforum provided further evidence that Infor is at the end of its beginning, as I have put it. I mean it has completed the first stage of transforming a collection of discrete companies and applications into a coherent whole. From my point of view, Infor's major challenge now is to accelerate its revenue growth, which increased just 6 percent in the quarter ending in July, even as its software license sales were up 22 percent. That is, the impact of rapid gains in new software license sales was diluted by the much slower growth in maintenance revenues, which were up just 2 percent. To increase revenue faster, Infor wants its existing customers to move from their on-premises deployments to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. The company insists that it can deliver substantial savings to customers by lowering their total cost of ownership (including hardware and the costs of operating and maintaining the application) and improving performance (often, these systems are running on older servers and may not have been optimally configured) while charging a subscription fee that can double the current maintenance charge. It's no coincidence that the three main themes of Inforum are essential to make migrating to the cloud an attractive option for customers and a profitable one for Infor.
It is likely that even modest success in migrating its installed base would have a major impact. If Infor can convert 4 percent of its existing customers to SaaS each year, its annual revenue growth could increase to around 10 percent. Companies that operate their systems in Infor's cloud would also find it easier to add more Infor applications (such as a performance management suite), further boosting subscription revenue growth. If Infor is able to demonstrate sales growth in low double digits, it would be able to go public and replace relatively expensive debt with equity. This, in turn, would substantially increase its net income and cash flow, enabling it to increase spending on sales and marketing to acquire new customers to further accelerate growth. Although converting a small fraction of its on-premises customers to a cloud deployment each year may not seem especially ambitious, it's still too early to assess the feasibility of that happening.
One important factor in determining Infor's near-term success is will be how well it executes its microvertical strategy. As I've noted many types of business find that cloud-based ERP systems do not meet their precise needs because of peculiarities inherent in their specific business. Infor's success in migrating users to its SaaS offerings will be linked to how well it expands the capabilities and configurability of the software to meet the needs of these businesses.
To attract new customers and to provide its existing customers with a cloud alternative, Infor announced three offerings at Inforum. CloudSuite Financials brings together core financial management, consolidation and closing (including reconciliation management), treasury and cash management as well as "business intelligence," which in this case means the ability to create reports and dashboards from the data stored in the system without having to purchase additional applications. CloudSuite Business comprises financials, human resources, supply chain management, project management, sales force automation and customer relationship management. These integrated suites of functionality can significantly reduce the time and cost required to implement a system. As names Financials and Business sound generic, but they incorporate the requirements of the targeted microverticals. For instance, CloudSuite Healthcare is designed for hospitals and other health delivery organizations. It comprises financial management, supply chain management, enterprise asset management, enterprise performance management, expense management, business intelligence and analytics tailored to the needs of this microvertical. Each of the suites incorporates Infor's redefined user experience. Because the suites all run on its ION middleware, adding capabilities such as performance management is designed to be straightforward and well suited to operating in a multitenant environment.
At the conference, Infor executives reported early success with converting healthcare and government customers to its CloudSuite offerings. Our research shows that these types of organizations have far less mature information technology environments than most other kinds, so it makes sense that their business managers and executives would be eager to offload the management and support of their business applications to a third party for total cost and performance reasons.
A new development featured at the conference was Infor's investment in creating more advanced analytics applications in its Dynamic Science Labs program. The idea is to build more easily consumed analytic applications tailored to the needs of the installed base of microverticals and business users that lack backgrounds in statistics or data science. Our research finds that two-thirds of companies make little or no use of advanced analytics and that a lack of training and data availability and inadequate software are among the reasons why. One of Infor's pilot efforts is a price optimization application specifically aimed at distributors (one of the microvertical targets). Pricing software is a well-established category, as I have discussed, but applications in this category must be business-specific because of differences in the products sold, the information available to buyers and sellers, personal preferences and company cultures. For example, the requirements of travel and hospitality companies are different from those of retailers, and both are different from financial services. The factors driving value to customers, the availability of pricing information to sellers and buyers, time sensitivity and the determinants of buyer behavior patterns are just four of the considerations that determine the structure of the application and construction of the analytics that support users. It also matters that set prices are a feature of western cultures while negotiation is more the norm elsewhere. Our recent finance research shows that outside of specific verticals (such as hospitality and retail) price and profit optimization software has achieved limited adoption. From discussions we've had in the past several years, there are a range of reasons why companies have been reluctant to adopt price optimization software, including skepticism that the approach works, a lack of awareness of available software, ambiguity over who "owns" pricing in an organization and the related difficulty of implementing any change management initiative.
Infor has come a long way in its transformation. Yet there's still much more to accomplish in executing its strategy, especially in migrating existing customers to its multitenant SaaS offering. Building out its microverticals will be harder than it sounds. Adding new customers is also essential, but the market for its on-premises and cloud offerings is highly competitive, and Infor needs to build brand recognition. In addition the replacement cycle for ERP systems has been getting longer. Our research finds that the average age has increased one year in the past decade. Companies are reluctant to replace their systems because of the expense, risk and disruption. Until there is a long list of successes, most are likely to be reluctant to migrate an existing ERP system to the cloud.
The measure of the success of Infor's strategy and execution will be its ability to accelerate revenues over the next six quarters. Although the company is closely held, its financial statements are public. Infor is quite profitable when amortization of acquisition-related costs and intangibles as well as restructuring costs are excluded. I expect that achieving low double-digit revenue growth would enable the company to issue equity at a valuation attractive to its owners and in sufficient quantity to retire all or most of its debt. Being private has been advantageous because software companies in transition usually are shunned by public investors, but having its shares publicly traded now would enhance brand recognition, and eliminating interest expense would enable Infor to step up its sales and marketing efforts.
Robert Kugel – SVP Research
Like most vendors of on-premises ERP and financial management software, in moving to the cloud Oracle has focused on developing for existing and potential customers the option of multitenant software as a service (SaaS). (I'm using the term "ERP" in its most expansive sense, to include such systems employed by all types of companies for accounting and financial management rather than only systems that are used by manufacturing and distribution companies.) Oracle's ERP Cloud Service includes Fusion Financials as well as planning and budgeting, risk and controls management, procurement and sourcing, inventory and cost management, product master data management, and project portfolio management. Although to date our benchmark research has consistently found that a large majority of finance departments do not prefer to deploy software in the cloud, we also observe the balance shifting in this direction. SaaS vendors that address finance department requirements have demonstrated faster revenue growth than those that offer products only on-premises. Like other vendors Oracle must establish itself as a credible vendor of cloud ERP and financial management services to be well positioned as market demand shifts further in that direction. The company made sizable investments in acquiring ERP and financial management software in the 2000s (notably PeopleSoft – which included JD Edwards – and Hyperion), and the investments have paid off as many companies have opted to keep their existing systems (and continue to pay maintenance) rather than replace them. Our Office of Finance benchmark research finds that over the past decade the average age of ERP systems in use has increased to 6.4 years from 5.1 years. The longevity of these systems is partly the result of the slow pace of innovation in underlying technologies used for business computing. Even so, modest year-by-year changes are adding up to make replacement a more attractive option while negative attitudes toward the cloud are dissipating. To retain its installed base, it's important for any established vendor to have solid customer references and the ability to make sales of cloud products as demand for ERP and financial management software in the cloud increases.
Oracle also has faced a broader marketing challenge because it is seen by some industry observers as being late in having a cloud offering and as not being a "real" cloud vendor. On this last point, some IT analysts (and certainly "real" cloud vendors) draw a sharp line between incumbent, on-premises vendors and the newer cloud-based ones. Yet strict definitions of what qualifies as the cloud are becoming less relevant to the market generally and to business buyers in particular. Moreover, the issue of which company is a "real" cloud vendor will become increasingly less important to users of cloud-based systems over the next five years as software environments evolve to a hybrid cloud model that combines multitenant, single tenant and on-premises deployments. As I've noted, I don't believe that cloud vs. on-premises is a binary situation. Finance departments are likely to take a hybrid approach to sourcing software that best suits their needs. As tools that integrate cloud and on-premises systems improve, more companies will elect to deploy some – but not all – parts of their core financial systems in the cloud. For example, in the early 2000s corporations began to switch deployment of their travel and expense management software to the cloud; today very few run this application on-premises. Moreover, I don't expect cloud ERP to completely displace on-premises installations. One reason is the substantial challenges that SaaS vendors will need to address to make their software more configurable to reach the widest possible market.
Since it wasn't a first mover in the market, Oracle has needed to apply its products' strengths to its cloud offerings and take advantage of its market position to generate new sales. It is differentiating its financial cloud offerings by building on substantial depth and breadth of functionality and existing vertical specialization across multiple industries – although not manufacturing and distribution, which almost always require a much higher degree of configurability than services businesses. Oracle also offers Hyperion Planning as part of its cloud offering, simplifying integration between planning and ERP systems. In the past, Oracle has touted the strong capabilities of its ERP and financial management software, but to acquire many of these meant purchasing the entire stack from Oracle, notably its middleware and database; this limited its appeal. The cloud-based offerings are built on the Oracle full stack, which facilitates provisioning, configuration, synchronization and process and data integration of the cloud-based elements, as well as integration with existing on-premises Oracle systems and, to some extent, other vendors' systems. Oracle's architecture also facilitates multidimensional reporting without a separate data warehouse, which provides users with considerable utility without added investment.
In the near term, Oracle is likely to be most successful in selling its SaaS offerings to its installed base, either in adding some process or functional capability or as a "tier two" ERP system used in smaller or remote locations or business units. Selling subscriptions to existing customers also is likely to be more profitable in the near term than attracting new ones because for software companies the sales and costs associated with adding contracted products and services for existing customers typically are lower than adding new customers. Selling to larger companies can be more profitable than selling to midsize ones, which almost always have higher ratios of contract acquisition costs to contract value. Both sizes of companies require about the same sales effort, but contract values tend to be higher for large corporations. From the customer's perspective, adding or replacing existing on-premises functionality with a cloud-based version may be attractive financially or the result of a corporate decision to offload management of its general portfolio of software from the IT department to concentrate on systems that are strategic to the company. The latter may include, for example, Oracle's project portfolio management functionality, which can be used to manage professional services organizations. Many industrial manufacturing and business services companies have a consulting group that customers employ to assist in making use of the product or service (such as with design, implementation or engineering consulting). It's much easier to handle these sorts of operations with a single application that manages in an integrated fashion the operational elements (scheduling, time and costs tracking and task management, for example) as well as the financial aspects. Web-based software for managing professional services is particularly well suited to the needs of companies in which professional services are only part of the overall product line because it may be less expensive than using an on-premises approach. Moreover, since Oracle has integrated mobile capabilities, it suits the needs of professionals who spend most of their time in the field with customers. Other add-on functionality capabilities useful to existing customers and attractive in the cloud include revenue management (Oracle's software is aimed at high-tech companies), procure-to-pay for nonstrategic (indirect) items, sourcing and contract management and product item master management.
Tier-two systems offer another opportunity. In the 1990s, larger corporations that operate in geographically dispersed areas began to standardize the ERP software they use in remote locations with few employees or in offices they could not support their main ERP system. These "tier two" systems typically were software packages designed for midsize companies because they were easier and less costly to implement and maintain. For global organizations, Oracle's software has localization for more than 50 countries and supports 23 languages. It is also designed to support country-specific statutory accounting and tax requirements as well as enable management of centralized payments and receipts across multiple legal entities and business units. Cloud ERP is well suited to tier-two use. Often, it is attractive because it requires no on-site servers or software that require maintenance and upgrades. Cloud-based systems also make it easier to maintain financial and IT controls such as separation of duties, change management and IT security because potential intruders don't have physical access to the applications and hardware. The downside is that they also require integration at process and data levels to operate efficiently.
Stressing Oracle's opportunity to sell to existing customers is not meant to downplay its opportunity in the cloud ERP market. However, as with all other SaaS ERP vendors, its long-term success will depend on how easy it is to configure a system to the needs of the broadest set of users. Multitenant cloud offerings are inherently more economical than single-tenant configurations, and these savings provide a compelling reason to acquire software in this format. The flip side of that is that many companies – especially those in manufacturing or production of physical goods – find that cloud ERP systems do not offer enough flexibility in their configuration to meet their business needs. (This is one reason why Oracle does not address this market now.) While cloud-based ERP has been a hot market, expanding rapidly over the past 10 years, a majority of ERP deployments remain on premises. So the rapid growth in the cloud segment has been driven by the superior economics for buyers that are able to accept the software's limited configurability and by growing midsize companies that can migrate from entry-level accounting software sooner than was practical with on-premises software.
The biggest challenge – and greatest opportunity – in the ERP software market lies in developing a multitenant cloud ERP offering that provides ample functionality and configurability to address the requirements of a majority of the market. Just one in five companies in our research said that it is easy or very easy to implement new capabilities in their ERP system; one-third said it is difficult or very difficult. The root cause of the difficulty is the forms-based table structure almost all ERP systems use. The first generations of all business computing systems were created as analogs to existing paper-based systems, similar to the way that the first automobiles were "horseless carriages" in their configuration. ERP systems also have mimicked the multiple ledger structure of paper-based accounting systems (which is pointless and even counterproductive in a computer-based system) and the paper-based forms that are the information containers used in accounting processes. In the first stages of business process automation, this simplistic automation was the only practical approach since it was the easiest way for programmers to start. But just as the design of cars evolved into a totally new form to reflect the capabilities of the underlying technologies, business computing systems have to evolve to break out of the shackles imposed by paper analog structures.
To break the configurability barrier ERP systems have to be more flexible in their basic design. Ideally, they should eliminate the need for customizing the underlying application. Companies would benefit if modifications are easier – and potentially less expensive – to make initially and to adjust as business conditions change over time. Easier configurability also can make it possible to reconfigure processes and capabilities faster and more cheaply than is possible today, enabling companies to make their ERP system more adaptable to their business needs. Separating the individual configurations from the core code base means that SaaS vendors can give a much broader set of users the flexibility they need to make the system work as they wish while maintaining only a single instance of a code base to modify, upgrade, debug and patch. A more configurable system also has the advantage of being easier to upgrade in an on-premises deployment and possibly easier to implement in the first place. To remain a leading vendor in ERP in the coming decade, Oracle, like all other ERP software vendors, will need to evolve its software into an attractive choice in the multitenant cloud for an ever widening market by making the software as configurable as possible to reduce the level of consulting and customization required.
Robert Kugel – SVP Research


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Tonight I e-mailed off my final paper in Church History I. Greek final was written on Monday and so half of my classes are now finished for this semester. It feels good.
Of course I am still finishing up the last two of my online classes. Two research papers, one book review and one final exam. That is still enough to keep me glued to the books for the next three weeks.
Out of my reading tonight comes this quote from Basil of Caesarea:
" A single plant, a blade of grass is sufficient to occupy all your intelligence in the contemplation of the skill which produced it"
Hoping we begin to see some blades of grass soon – although there is a marvelous lot of wonder to be seen in ice-coated branches.


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Teacher firing bill gains momentum
Legislation that would make it easier to fire teachers accused of sex crimes against children and other serious offenses appears to stand a good chance of reaching Gov. Jerry Brown's desk after similar measures repeatedly stalled through the years.
The breakthrough came when the powerful California Teachers Association endorsed a compromise bill that is expected to be approved by the Assembly Education Committee Wednesday.
The measure amends the current dismissal process by:
• Allowing districts to remove a teacher accused of a serious offense at any time. Current law states that only those teachers accused of sexual or physical abuse can be dismissed outside the normal school year.
• Permitting districts to use evidence older than four years in cases of suspected child abuse or sex abuse as long as an administrative law judge deems it "relevant."
• Speeding the dismissal hearing process and requiring that cases be settled within seven months. The process can now take many more months or even years.
• Expanding current provisions to require districts to place on leave teachers accused in a criminal court of homicide and serious drug offenses.
• Allowing the teacher and district to mutually agree to a dismissal hearing before a single administrative law judge rather than an appointed "Commission on Professional Competence."
• Placing dismissal appeals in an administrative court instead of a Superior Court.
In announcing the support, CTA President Dean Vogel said the complex legislation will provide "immediate protections for students and streamline and shorten the dismissal process to ensure charges are handled fairly and in a timely manner."
Two key lawmakers who split on the issue last year have united to add even more muscle behind the latest legislation.
One is Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, an Alamo Democrat and chair of the Education Committee, who is carrying the new bill. The other is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Pacoima Democrat, who had introduced his own measure that had not won over the CTA.
Buchanan was a key player in helping shelve a similar bill authored by Padilla last year. This year, he has dropped his own bill and embraced hers.
"We share a common interest: keeping our children safe at school. I believe we can accomplish more by working together on these important issues," Padilla said in a statement endorsing the compromise, Assembly Bill 375.
Buchanan echoed those sentiments in her own statement. But it was a different story last year.
That's when Padilla's fist bid failed to clear the Assembly Education Committee by one vote. Buchanan was one of two no votes. She later explained that she was not convinced that the provisions protected teachers from unjust firings and had other flaws.
Lawmakers were under pressure to act following a scathing audit of how the Los Angeles Unified School District handled child abuse allegations against teachers.
The state audit found that the district wound up paying teachers to quit because the firing process was too costly and cumbersome, among other shortcomings. Auditor Elaine Howle uncovered 47 settlements involving misconduct with a student resulted in payouts of more than $2 million. In addition, 111 teachers and administrators who had been put on paid leave while their case was being reviewed collected more than $4 million in salary in 2011-12.
Most unsettling was a case involving a teacher who received a $40,000 check in return for resigning even though he had been charged with sexual acts involving bodily fluids against students in his classroom.
Republicans were handed a ready-made campaign issue during the fall election when Padilla's legislation was killed in the Assembly Education Committee.
One of those targeted was then-Assemblyman Marty Block, a San Diego Democrat who nevertheless went on to win his Senate campaign against GOP rival George Plescia of La Jolla.
Block never had an opportunity to vote on the initial legislation last year because it died in the Assembly Education Committee. He immediately signed on to co-author Padilla's since-dropped measure this year and supports the later bill advanced by Buchanan and the CTA.
"This is getting them out as quickly as possible so children are safe from harm and balances that with the need to protect due process for accused teachers," Block said in an interview this week.
Block said there is one significant difference between Buchanan's new measure and the one carried by Padilla last year.
Padilla wanted the school board to have the final say in firing a teacher. Buchanan's bill would retain existing law that leaves the decision to a special hearing panel.
Block said he prefers Buchanan's approach because it takes some of the politics out of the decision.
A dismissal, Block said, "could not be on the whim of a school district."
Block predicts that the measure will advance to the governor's desk given the endorsement of the CTA.
"I think it makes it through easily," he said.
The bill delves into other areas and changes what backers say is an outdated provision of California law. The bill would drop membership in the Communist Party as a legitimate reason for dismissal.
The only opposition voiced so far is from a group that opposes that change.
If passed, the bill's next stop would be the Judiciary Committee.
Buchanan, a former school district trustee, is carrying companion legislation, AB 1338, that requires districts to make sure that all teachers and staff understand they have a legal responsibility to report abuse. In Los Angeles, some employees reportedly knew of problems but failed to notify authorities. That bill also is expected to pass Wednesday.
Hers is not the only effort to change the teacher firing process.
Sen. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, is carrying legislation that would make it simpler to terminate predator teachers, but he also includes provisions to dismiss incompetent teachers in the same bill.
"Most teachers want teachers who are preying on our kids or not performing to be dealt with quickly," he said in an interview. "You want to keep professional standards as high as possible."
Knight's SB 531 is unlikely to pass given that he sets standards on classroom competence opposed by the CTA.
Brown has not taken a position on any of the related bills.
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Lisbon Sound Map is a work in progress over five years, but with a public presentation of the first sound collections after six months. Taken from the fixed stations, the monitoring and recording of sonic territories will be done in studies, particularly those with classic sound marks and considered historical places (the Pombaline lower part of the city), those with changes in their acoustic space through erosion and urban renewal of the previous urban space (some historic
districts), and finally, those who are in the process of radical change, either by the construction of buildings or through channels of communication (within the city limits or in areas where the Municipal Head of Planning allows construction).
Places, inhabited or uninhabited, always have a sound memory whose contents may or may not persist in time. Recording and understanding the maintenance and sound alterations in a given territory not only constitutes an individual memory, but above all, a collective one. The acoustic album has become an indispensable instrument and source of information essential to anthropological, sociological, cultural and urban study. With the sound mapping of a given area the
assumed strategy is to first to listen to the sound complexity of the place (the users being communication elements) and, secondly, to develop new ways of listening that are revealed in knowledge and expression. The sound map in its interactive form (with the use of different support media) enables social, cultural and political use and expresses the daily life of a place that can be recreated years later, artificially or by removing the causes that coerce the acoustic space.
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• JORGE, Rui Pereira – "Krapp's Last Tape de Samuel Beckett e a Construção de Narrativas", in Rosa, Jorge Martins (org.), Cibercultura e Ficção, Lisboa, Documenta, 2012, pp. 109-117.
• RIBEIRO, Luís Cláudio e PINTO, José Gomes – Para una fenomenologia parcial da la escucha in La Tecnología Audiovisual al Servicio de la Sociedad (Coord. de Javier Sierra Sánchez). Madrid: Editorial Frágua, 2011, pp. 206-223.
• JORGE, Rui Pereira – "The Sound Sweep de J. G. Ballard e a Memória do Som" in Revista Babilónia, Lisboa, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, nº 10/11, 2011.
• RIBEIRO, Luís Cláudio – O Som Moderno – novas formas de criação e escuta. Lisboa: Edições Lusófonas, 2011.
• RIBEIRO, Luís Cláudio – O Mundo é uma Paisagem Devastada pela Harmonia. Lisboa: Edições Vega, 2011.
• JORGE, Rui Pereira; LUZ, Filipe Costa e BILA, Vasco "Randomness-Based Manipulation of Sounds Assisted by Robots" in Nijholt, A.; Reidsma, D.; Hondorp, H. [org]: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Berlin, Springer, 2009, pp. 143-152.
• JORGE, Rui Pereira, 2007, "A Arte do Ruído" in http://www.artecapital.net
• JORGE, Rui Pereira, "Utilização de Música Virtual e Modelação Física na Música para Contextos Interactivos" in Damásio, M. J. [org]: Estratégias de Produção em Novos Media, Lisboa, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2005, pp. 316-325.
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So this is my review of the new book Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live [1]. It's been making the rounds for a few weeks now, and although some other people have already weighed in, I'll add my two cents. At the outset, I'd like to make very clear that I actually agree with a decent portion of Marlene Zuk's individual arguments. Though it may surprise you to know that Mark Sisson agrees with the most prominent paleo debunker du jour on several topics, I'm not saying I support the overall product or her final conclusions. In fact, Paleofantasy is an odd, meandering book whose ultimate purpose I'm not really sure I truly understand.
There are two main problems with the book, as I see it. First, she's working against a straw man [2]. Many of the arguments she debunks, like "eyeglasses aren't paleo" or "the paleo diet was carnivorous," seems to have been dug up from some random Internet commenter or drawn from fringe camps. In other words, they aren't arguments people like Robb Wolf, Chris Kresser, Paul Jaminet, or me (or our readers) are making. Second, many of her counterarguments or "nuanced approaches" are the very same ones we've been exploring at length for years! After reading the book, John Durant tweeted [3] "Paleofantasy shouldn't have been a book in 2013, it should have been a blog post in 2010," and that's as good a description as I can think of.
It's all very uncontroversial:
There is no one paleo diet.
Who's saying that? Humans have spanned the globe for millennia, surviving and even thriving in environments ranging from tropical to temperate, from arctic to near-aquatic, all the while subsisting on the wild foods available to those regions. Same basic diet of animals and plants, different configurations.
Evolution doesn't just stop and humans didn't just reach a state of perfect adaptation back before agriculture from which we've never progressed.
Sure. I talked about how we're still "evolving" last year [4], even mentioning Zuk's favorite topics – lactase persistence (35% worldwide, which is far from 100%) and amylase production. She discusses a few more recent changes, like malaria resistance, adaptation to high altitude, and earwax differentiation, but that's it. If she wanted to, I'm sure she "could keep adding to the list" and mount an overwhelming case for widespread genetic adaptations to grain consumption, chronic stress tolerance, and sedentary living, but she's saving up material for the next book. Or something. Either way, I'm not very convinced by her "list" of rapid evolutionary changes, especially considering most of them have little to do with the mismatches we discuss in this community and none of them are even present in a majority of humans.
Zuk is also quick to misrepresent "our" arguments so she can swoop in and take the sensible position – positions the ancestral health community has long occupied!
In her exercise chapter, she characterizes paleo exercise proscriptions as "short and intense" and "literal-minded," mimicking activities like "having to run down a rabbit for dinner." We type away at our computers on caveman forums, spend a little while lifting weights and running sprints, and sit back down. Then, Zuk explains that contrary to our reenactment fantasies, the real problem and the real divergence from our past is that modern humans sit too often. It is our inactivity, our hours and hours spent doing nothing physical that hurt us. What we should be doing is lots of slow moving, steady low-level activity like walking, hiking, gardening, yard work, house work, rather than sitting all day and trying to make up for it with a hard gym session. Hmm – where [5] have [6] I [7] heard [8] that [9] kind [10] of [11] stuff [12] before [13]? Why hasn't the ancestral health community addressed this pernicious force in our lives?
Later, she rightly claims that paleo authors are suspicious of endurance training, mocking my position that the idea that "natural selection redesigned our simian shapes to run the Boston Marathon is… ludicrous." As support for her claims, she cites Louis Liebenberg's persistence hunting studies (PDF [14]) with the Kalahari bushmen of Botswana where men would go on hunts lasting "two to five hours, with an average running speed of 6.3 kilometers (about 4 miles) per hour." Those are fifteen minute miles. If you were running the Boston Marathon at a 15 minute-mile pace, you'd finish in six and a half hours (roughly). That's an easy run (fast walk?), especially for someone who's reasonably fit. You could hold a conversation at that speed. You could get up and do it again the next day at that pace. That's not chronic cardio [15]. That's not a competitive time for an endurance athlete – the dogged pursuit of which is precisely what I've always warned against. It's easy aerobic activity, the kind I promote!
Even when she acknowledges the potential utility of an evolutionary approach to analyzing health or current environmental "mismatches," they are glossed over or relegated to a single sentence buried in a paragraph. Zuk spends an entire chapter explaining how traditional child-rearing, with its extended family members available for childcare, extended breastfeeding [16], co-sleeping [17], baby-wearing [18], parental "indulgence" of crying babies, is likely the biological and evolutionary norm for human infants, citing Dr. James McKenna's extensive research on the benefits of the aforementioned methods… and then ends the chapter by saying "most children grow up fine" so let's not bother with it. Let's just keep on keepin' on.
In response to the idea that limiting artificial light at night and getting plenty of natural light during the day might improve sleep and preserve our circadian rhythms [19], she asks "is this really the solution to our health problems?" She creates an argument that we are all apparently positing – that smashing light bulbs and waking up at dawn are the cure to all our health problems – and then proceeds to dismiss it, to laugh it off. And yeah, it's ridiculous to say that unnatural light is the cause of all our health ills… but who's saying that? Who's making this argument but her? And on that note, what about the negative effects of artificial light at night? Aren't they worth investigating? Isn't the data we already have [20] fairly compelling?
(If you notice me asking a lot of questions in apparent exasperation, it's because I'm puzzled and exasperated and driven to inquiry by some of these "arguments." Forgive me.)
A worrisome theme starts to emerge: that the past is murky and we need more data so let's not make any sudden changes to the way we live, especially not if they're couched in evolution. I disagree. Whatever most people are doing isn't really working for most people, whereas whatever we're doing (whether it's a paleofantasy or not) seems to be working [21].
To her credit, Zuk doesn't throw out the idea of evolutionary mismatch altogether (although you could have fooled me). She just rails against "denouncing modern living as unsuitable to our Stone Age genes," calling for research into "just what parts of that life send us too far out of our evolutionary zone of tolerance," as if she's stumbled upon some revolutionary concept. Really, though, we are exploring and identifying the specific aspects of modern life that trigger a mismatch. We are gathering data. Academics and scientists and bloggers and lay individuals are figuring out, in fits and starts and lurches and self-experiments [22] and clinical trials and study analyses, just what works about modern life and what does not work. We're not resting on our laurels, on our assumptions.
So we kind of agree, even though it appears she doesn't know it.
I don't necessarily blame Marlene Zuk for her failure to comb the ancestral health community's tomes, read all the blogs, study the comment sections (although she seems to have a fondness for anonymous blog commenters), attend the symposiums and conferences (although much of the material is available online for free), and explore the message boards. There's a lot of material to cover. It'd probably take years to really do a thorough job. But if she hoped to publish a relevant critique of the community, she probably should have understood its actual claims instead of erecting a straw man for easy defeat.
In John Hawks' favorable review [23] of the book, he says that we must "play with hypotheses, explore their predictions and try very hard to falsify them."
I completely agree. I think Zuk agrees, too, and I think I may have divined her ultimate goal with this book. In her 2009 NY Times piece [24] on the same subject, she said "we shouldn't flagellate ourselves for having modern bodies, and we shouldn't assume that tweaking our diets or our posture will rescue us from all our current ills." She thinks people are rushing headlong into such dangerous lifestyle changes as giving up grains [25], sugar [26], and seed oils [27] without doing their due diligence.
You'll have no arguments from me. Assume nothing, test/tweak/research everything. It's not like I'm sitting here typing away, conjuring up fantastical stories about the past and making big lifestyle proscriptions based on said stories. Those success stories [21] are actual success stories from actual people. Those studies cited are actual studies from real journals. I suppose you could make the argument that all these folks losing weight and gaining muscle and getting off meds and regaining their lives after adopting a Primal way of eating, living, and moving cannot definitively establish the lifestyle was the precipitating factor. They can't "prove" it works. It could all be a big dream.
A big paleofantasy. I could be making this entire world up in my head as I go along, a lonely brain in some amniotic sac with electrodes attached, my entire history and the blog and the books and my relationships all constructs of my mind. I don't think I am, though. I think this is real, flesh-and-blood stuff.
Are improved blood sugars, better blood lipids, a hundred pounds of weight loss, newly emergent abs, steady midday energy, improvement of autoimmune disease, and new leases on life paleofantasies? No.
Are sitting in front of an LCD screen until 2 AM, spending zero time in nature [28], living off of Cheetos and Coke, walking under a thousand steps a day, and working 20 hour days at a miserable job evolutionary mismatches with drastic health consequences as shown by current science (and hinted at by anthropology)? Yes.
And that's what it comes down to in the end: results. We got 'em, and people recognize that.
Have you read Paleofantasy? What do you think? Let everyone know in the comment board, and thanks for reading!


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Oprah Winfrey meditated with more than 400 women in southeastern Iowa and also talked to students about her spiritual journey.
Suzanne Stryker says she was among the women participating in the transcendental meditation Wednesday at the Maharishi School in Fairfield. She says no one in the meditation group knew the TV personality was going to be there until Winfrey, who heads the OWN television network, arrived with a film crew.
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Director Richard Beall says on the school's website that Winfrey spoke with students about her spiritual journey. He says the school will host a discussion Monday night about the visit.
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We know that Matt Smith's Doctor will be celebrating a bittersweet Christmas in this year's Doctor Who special, and in this video from Not Literally, he gathers with his companions for a parodic rendition of "Baby It's Cold Outside."
The Not Literally ladies invite Matt Elliott to join them as the reluctantly departing Doctor.
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2012 Recall Initiatives
The Government Accountability Board ordered recall elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and four members of the State Senate, based on the six recall petitions filed on January 17, 2012 against those officeholder.
Recall primaries were held May 8, 2012. Primary results are available here.
Recall elections were held June 5, 2012. Results of the recalls elections are available here.
For information about the individual recall committees and officeholders, please see the table below.
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CAMPO (AP) — Firefighters recovered a body from a burned house Monday as they raced the winds to contain Southern California wildfires that destroyed 20 homes and threatened several hundred more in rural areas.
Crews battled the blaze amid winds gusting up to 20 mph that were expected to continue late Monday in southeastern San Diego County, where a 3-square-mile fire churned slowly through hilly brushlands in a desert area near the U.S.-Mexico border.
It's too soon to know the gender of the body found just before 2:30 p.m. inside a home on Tierra del Sol Road near Campo, said Cal Fire spokesman Capt. Richard Cordova.
A man described by U-T San Diego as an 82-year-old with one leg was living at the home and was reported missing by neighbors.
Neighbors told authorities he had refused to evacuate and his only car was parked outside, prompting the search. Firefighters and sheriff's deputies had to wait several hours before it was safe enough to enter the charred home, San Diego County sheriff's spokeswoman Melissa Aquino said.
The 2,000-acre blaze was 10 percent surrounded Monday. About 80 homes were ordered evacuated near the Campo Indian Reservation.
The fire has destroyed 20 homes, damaged 10 and burned 15 outbuildings since it erupted Sunday, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Capt. Mike Mohler.
An evacuation center was set up at a high school in the nearby community of Pine Valley. Many residents gathered at the Golden Acorn Casino, which also served as the command post for firefighters, to learn whether their homes were still standing.
Christopher Kirchner told U-T San Diego that the place he rents was about 200 feet from a residence that burned down.
"I was just talking to some of my neighbors," Kirchner said. "They were crying and saying they had no place to go. We've heard rumors that our place is still standing, but nobody will tell us anything."
Farther north, a 150-acre wildfire in Riverside County was about 90 percent contained. It had been reduced mainly to embers but still posed a potential threat to as many as 200 homes in the Murrieta area if afternoon winds pushed it over fire lines, Murrieta Fire Chief Matt Shobert said.
The cause of both fires was under investigation.
Elsewhere in the West, major wildfires in Washington on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range were relatively calm, but smoke continued to blanket some communities Monday.
The two largest fires were reported as bigger in size due mostly to better mapping and the use of burnouts to create fire lines, officials said. The Wenatchee Complex of fires was reported Monday morning at 82 square miles, while the Table Mountain fire was reported at nearly 57 square miles in size.
State officials said air quality in the Wenatchee and Cashmere areas remains in the "hazardous" category, while many other Eastern Washington communities have "unhealthy" air quality. Air quality was not expected to improve much Monday.
In Montana, Musselshell County lifted an evacuation order for about 50 homes southeast of Roundup after a 5 1/2-square mile wildfire was reported about 60 percent contained.
Fire officials hoped to have the blaze fully under control by Tuesday.
The human-caused blaze ignited Saturday and was under investigation.


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College football may be trending more to the passing game, but the Doak Walker Award reminds us all there are some top quality running backs playing key roles on their teams as well. This year's Doak Walker Award watch list includes 53 of the nation's top running backs. The list includes semifinalists from last year's award, Mike Davis of South Carolina and Melvin Gordon of Wisconsin. Nebraska running back Ameer Abdullah, the nation's leading returning rusher, is also considered a top candidate.
Boston College's Andre Williams was the winner of the Doak Walker Award last season. The award has gone to a player from a power conference each year since 2002. BYU's Luke Staley and Rice's Trevor Cobb are the only players from non-power conferences to win the award (although Rice was a part of the old Southwest Conference at the time Cobb won the award). Texas leads the nation with three Doak Walker Award winners. Arkansas, Texas Tech and Wisconsin each have two.
This year's semifinalists will be announced on November 18, and finalists will be announced on November 24. The Doak Walker Award will be presented on December 11 during the annual awards show on ESPN. The watch list will accept nominees until October, so more names could be added along the way. Here is the full watch list as it stands right now;
Ameer Abdullah (Sr.), Nebraska
Jay Ajayi (Jr.), Boise State
Javorius "Buck" Allen (Jr.), USC
Leon Allen (Jr.), Western Kentucky
Terry Baggett (Sr.), Army
Bill Belton (Sr.), Penn State
Malcolm Brown (Sr.), Texas
Tra Carson (Jr.), Texas A&M
B.J. Catalon (Jr.), TCU
David Cobb (Sr.), Minnesota
Tevin Coleman (Jr.), Indiana
Alex Collins (So.), Arkansas
James Conner (So.), Pittsburgh
Marcus Cox (So.), Appalachian State
Mike Davis (Jr.), South Carolina
Kenneth Dixon (Jr.), Louisiana Tech
Jahwan Edwards (Sr.), Ball State
Kenneth Farrow (Jr.), Houston
Josh Ferguson (Jr.), Illinois
D.J. Foster (Jr.), Arizona State
Melvin Gordon (Jr.), Wisconsin
Michael Gordon (Jr.), Arkansas State
Johnathan Gray (Jr.), Texas
Todd Gurley (Jr.), Georgia
Kenneth Harper (Sr.), Temple
Alonzo Harris (Sr.), Louisiana-Lafayette
Derrick Henry (So.), Alabama
Bronson Hill (Sr.), Eastern Michigan
Joe Hill (Sr.), Utah State
Duke Johnson (Jr.), Miami
Jeremy Langford (Sr.), Michigan State
Daniel Lasco (Jr.), California
Shock Linwood (So.), Baylor
Robert Lowe (Jr.), Texas State
Tre Madden (Jr.), USC
Terrence Magee (Sr.), LSU
Raymond Maples (Sr.), Army
Byron Marshall (Jr.), Oregon
Kevin Parks (Sr.), Virginia
Christian Powell (Jr.), Colorado
Donnel Pumphrey (So.), San Diego State
Josh Robinson (Jr.), Mississippi State
William Stanback (So.), UCF
Cameron Stingily (Sr.), Northern Illinois
Kelvin Taylor (So.), Florida
Thomas Tyner (So.), Oregon
Jamaal Williams (Jr.), BYU
Jonathan Williams (Jr.), Arkansas
Trey Williams (Jr.), Texas A&M
Aaron Wimberly (Sr.), Iowa State
T.J. Yeldon (Jr.), Alabama
Kelsey Young (Sr.), Stanford
Zach Zwinak (Sr.), Penn State
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Maxwell Award (best player)
Bednarik Award (best defensive player)
Hornung Award (most versatile player)
Davey O'Brien Award (best quarterback)
Biletnikoff Award (best receiver)
Mackey Award (best tight end)
Rimington Trophy (best center)
Outland Trophy (best interior lineman)
Lombardi Award (best down lineman)
Butkus Award (best linebacker)
Jim Thorpe Award (best defensive back)
Lou Groza Award (best kicker)
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Gary Farrell Winery:
Beginning in the late 1970s, Gary Farrell was working with seminal Russian River Valley vintners such as Davis Bynum, Joe Rochioli, Tom Dehlinger and Robert Stemmler – a group that was instrumental in showcasing the world-class Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of the nascent Russian River Valley AVA, a breathtaking, redwood-studded wine region 55 miles north of San Francisco whose mighty riv... Read more
Beginning in the late 1970s, Gary Farrell was working with seminal Russian River Valley vintners such as Davis Bynum, Joe Rochioli, Tom Dehlinger and Robert Stemmler – a group that was instrumental in showcasing the world-class Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of the nascent Russian River Valley AVA, a breathtaking, redwood-studded wine region 55 miles north of San Francisco whose mighty river cuts a scenic swath through the heart of Sonoma County. He made his first wine under the Gary Farrell label in 1982 and built the winery into one of the most acclaimed producers of small-lot Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays in the Russian River Valley. Gary built a state-of-the-art winery in 2000 on a ridge overlooking the Russian River Valley. The barrel room and cellar reflect his legendary obsession with cleanliness, natural process flow, small-tank fermentations, top-flight French oak cooperage and meticulous attention to detail. With its northeastern orientation, the "crush pad" houses custom belt systems for gently moving and hand-sorting grapes, European presses and varying sizes of temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The fermentation room is a winemaker's dream with ample room between the rows of small custom-designed, open-top stainless steel tanks, raised tank pads and pneumatic punch-down devices. The barrel rooms allow for precise temperature and humidity control to provide a perfect environment for fermentations and barrel aging. Although he sold the winery in 2004, the Winery continues its collaborative partnerships with many of the same growers we've worked with for 30 years as well as Gary's legacy of crafting wines that capture the unique character of the vineyard. Today, Gary Farrell Winery is in the capable hands of The Vincraft Group, a fine wine investment company led by a trio of top wine industry executives: Pete Scott, former CFO of Beringer Wine Estates; Walt Klenz, former president and CEO of Beringer Wine Estates; and Bill Price, owner of Sonoma Valley's famed Durell Vineyard and a partner in Kistler Vineyards. In addition to Gary Farrell Winery, Vincraft owns Kosta-Browne, a celebrated Pinot Noir specialist who's 2009 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir was Wine Spectator's 2011 "Wine of the Year." Vincraft is actively nurturing Gary Farrell's legacy of producing small lots of Burgundian-styled, varietally expressive and regionally distinctive Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. This regimen is being maintained and evolved by Winemaker Theresa Heredia, a highly respected winemaker who has long specialized in small-lot, single-vineyard wines. She joined Gary Farrell Winery in 2012 from Freestone Vineyards in the Sonoma Coast appellation, where she achieved significant critical acclaim, including "Winemaker to Watch" honors from the San Francisco Chronicle. Over the years, Gary Farrell Winery wines have garnered innumerable awards and accolades, but we're not satisfied with the status quo. We are preserving Gary Farrell's legacy while striving to push quality to an even higher level. To that end, we are seeking additional elite grape sources within the Russian River Valley to elevate wine quality even further. Gary Farrell Winery is a "Grand Cru" of the Russian River Valley. Year in and year out, our wines achieve the pinnacle of wine quality and regional typicity to be found in the appellation, but we're not resting on our laurels. With new vineyards coming on line and the various experiments we're conducting, our wines will continue to grow and evolve. Our winery's hallmark wine style remains one of balance, elegance and purity of varietal expression over power and brawn. Gary Farrell Winery wines are conceived for the table, beautifully complement food, and are built to age gracefully in bottle. They perennially appeal to discerning wine lovers eager to experience the pure essence of the Russian River Valley. In the elegantly appointed tasting room at Gary Farrell Winery, that experience comes with a breathtaking view. Read less
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:42 am
Post subject: Books: Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Edition; 2006)
It is hard to say whether or not there has been a book that has made a greater impact to American home cooking as the Joy of Cooking. This extraordinary cookbook that the New York Times has called "the Swiss Army knife of cookbooks" received a face lift late last year as the 75th Anniversary Edition was published. Does everyone need a copy of Joy of Cooking in their kitchen? Should you buy this edition if you have a previous one? The answer to both questions is a resounding "yes"!
There have been a total of eight versions of Joy of Cooking published since Irma Rombauer self-published her book of recipes collected from family, friends, and neighbors in 1931. Joy of Cooking was then picked up by a publisher and Irma expanded it from over 1,000 to over 2,500 recipes. By 1975, when the most successful and famous version of Joy of Cooking was published, over 4,500 recipes (and 1,000 illustrations) were part of the package. (Compare the number of recipes to the 1,000 that
The New Best Recipe
has or the 100-150 recipes that a Rachael Ray cookbook contains.)}?>
In 1997, a completely revised version of Joy of Cooking was released that was more like a re-imagining of the original than an updated edition. There were both good and bad things about this version. A lot of topics were dropped from the previous edition while microwave ovens, food processors, and "exotic" ingredients were given appropriate attention. Unfortunately, the tone of the cookbook also changed. A multitude of authors contributed to the content and the personal voice of the prior editions had almost completely disappeared. Although it contains a great deal of information beyond recipes, it reads like a recipe book instead of the great all purpose resource on learning to cook that the Joy of Cooking name represents to so many. Another problem that I found with the 1997 edition is that some of the recipes were unreliable (such as the
14-in-1 master cookie recipe
) -- a problem others have attributed to insufficient testing and relatively low standards of quality when preparing the 1997 edition (small wonder, with so many recipes to revise and test and a team that already spent over three years on the material). (My copy of the 1997 edition also had a weak binding causing pages to start becoming partially detached.)
The introduction of last year's 75th Anniversary Edition of Joy of Cooking has brought back the magic of the pre-1997 editions. This 2006 edition keeps the good parts of the 1997, but ditches a lot of the bad. Entire chapters that were missing from the previous edition have returned such as the section on canning and homemade ice cream. Gone is the 14-in-1 cookie recipe, replaced with a collection of individually tailored cookie recipes (which are hopefully better). Also new is a section on "cook for a day, eat for a week" (although only 2 half-pages are spent on this topic), sushi (1997 had one recipe for Japanese rice that mentions sushi, but doesn't tell you how to blend the vinegar; 2007 has expanded to cover sushi rice as well as maki sushi), extensive high-altitude discussions, and slow cooker recipes. The tone of the cookbook is also greatly improved making it much more readable than the 1997 version. Updated ingredient information and health and diet recommendations bring the Joy of Cooking up to the current prevailing theories.
As compared to the 1997 edition, the layout and font have been modernized. Making the book easier to reference while in the kitchen, a clean, crisp sans serif font replaces the old serifed ones. As a result, the signature method of listing ingredients (within the recipe procedures, indented, and bold) is much easier to spot and read. In addition, the introduction of symbols to highlight important principles and high-altitude tips makes it easier to find helpful pointers. The image shows the same recipe from both the 1997 (on the left) and the 2006 (on the right) editions to demonstrate the updated recipe style as well as typography design.
Naturally, if you don't have a copy of Joy of Cooking, you should pick up a copy of the 75th Anniversary Edition - it'll soon become your go to cookbook for finding the "standard" recipe for just about any dish you'd expect to be prepared in an American home. If you already have a previous edition, then this new edition is a great replacement/update (especially if you have the 1997 version).
Also, be sure to check Simon & Schuster's
errata page
for any misprints.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:19 pm
Post subject: Link to the book
Since you gave the book a good review, you should put a link to the book in the article; I don't see any.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:46 pm
Post subject: Re: Link to the book
Anonymous wrote:
Since you gave the book a good review, you should put a link to the book in the article; I don't see any.
I can't believe I forgot to link to the books. I put in links to both the 2006 edition and the 1997 edition (don't buy this one, just look at the picture to help you identify if you own it...) into the article.
75th Anniversary Joy of Cooking (2006)
The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking (1997)
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Michael R. Bernstein
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:25 pm
Post subject: Typography
I have a spiral-bound facsimile edition of the '75 version. It's worth noting that the '97 version crappy typography was another gratuitous change, and that the 2006 typography seems a reinterpretation of the better '75 version.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:52 pm
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Great article. Do you know where I can buy the 1975 edition? I actually have one, but it is falling apart and some pages are missing.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:44 pm
Post subject: Re: 1975 Edition
Try that link...
the zen kitchen
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Good Cook
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:04 pm
Post subject: The Joy Kitchen
I suggest that all check out the website for the JOY family
It has a great review of JOY history, recipes, a forum and much more.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:50 pm
Post subject: Oh, Joy!
My wife and I got
Joy of Cooking
as a wedding gift (quite a few years ago now), and it's always been a great help. The peanut butter cookie recipe is perfect! I still remember that it says something like, "For those who dote on peanut butter cookies...." That's me!
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:19 pm
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I recently purchased the new edition of Joy of Cooking. Getting somewhat sick of most typical cookbooks which, while good, tend to present very specific versions of recipes. A simple beef stew? Nah the typical cookbook gives you beef stew with glazed carrots and ginger (okay not really, that sounds not so tasty). I haven't actually had a chance to make anything from Joy of Cooking yet but reading through it, it seems to provide plenty of 'general' recipes. Recipes that are simple enough to provide a cook with a base recipe that can easily be customized once the basic recipe is understood. Yeah. I'm going to keep this one handy.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:58 am
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We have had the Joy of Cooking for a long time. It is a touchstone of cookbooks. A standard reference. I reccomend it to anyone who wants to learn to cook from scratch. I have made many things from its pages, and have never been disappointed.
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Wow, by coincidence I have started to buy organiy meat from a nearby Bavarian farm, and the lady who runs it is American who has been in Germany since 1953. She lent me her original 1954 edition which I fin fascinating. Although a Brit I find many recipes in common with us in Britain so am reading lots of it at the moment.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 3:24 pm
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Any suggestion on where to find a cookbook stand that can hold this monster? I'm tired of propping it up in an unused loaf pan (and spattering on the pages)...
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:03 pm
Post subject: Make a copy
Regarding the stand, I always make a copy of the recipe before I create the dish. I am fortunate to have a photo copied printer at home, so it is easy enough to stick a magazine or book on the machine and copy the recipe.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:09 pm
Post subject: Joy of Cooking
For those of you who DOTE on peanut butter cookies....try these rich and crumbly ones! THE best p.b. cookies ever and so many great American recipes. So many of my old cookbooks went out of fashion but not this one!
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I found a neat design for a kitchen bookholder - mine is wood, but the design is essentially the same as:
if your layout permits a "good spot" it a boon - works for JOC - but the "oversized" formats don't fit on the platform.
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They may have walked the red carpet -- but these celebs have never walked to "Pomp & Circumstance." Either because of their blossoming careers or their struggles with bullying, many celebrities opted out of a traditional high school experience, and decided to be homeschooled instead.
From Demi Lovato to Christina Aguilera, we bet you never knew these celebrities were taught at home:
1. Demi Lovato
Sadly, Demi Lovato left school to escape her tormentors. "Bullying is something I went through when I was 12 years old," she said. "I actually ended up leaving school because of it."
The actress -- who starred in Camp Rock and Sonny With A Chance as a child -- opted for a home-schooled education from 7th grade onwards.
2. Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez boasts millions of fans these days -- but in school, she barely had any friends. "I was never the popular kid at school," she revealed. "I had two friends, but I just sat at the back of the room and got on with my work."
Gomez eventually left a traditional school environment to be home-schooled. When she graduated from high school, she didn't have an official ceremony, but she did shoot one for her film Monte Carlo. "In a weird way, I was able to experience an official graduation, LOL," she wrote on Facebook.
3. Bella Thorne
Bella Thorne left school due to bullying and struggles with dyslexia. "I have been bullied for different reasons," she told Do Something. "I was bulled for... speaking a different language. I was also made fun of and humiliated for my lack of reading skills. I am dyslexic, but I wasn't aware of that at the time. I was called really hurtful names and... it was tough going to school every day."
At the age of 14, Thorne made the decision to leave school and pursue a home-schooling curriculum instead.
4. Cierra Ramirez
The Fosters star Cierra Ramirez opted to be home-schooled, so she could focus on her film and TV career. She graduated on time, and received her diploma!
5. Becky G
Becky G revealed that severe bullying in the fifth and sixth grade forced her to exit school and do a home-schooling program. "For kids who get bullied in school, be strong. Whatever a person says, let it in through one ear and out the other. You are you," she told Scholastic.
6. Victoria Justice
Victoria Justice reportedly attended Cleveland High School in Los Angeles, but finished her diploma through a home-schooling program. The boricua got a taste of high school life as the star on Victorious, which takes place at a performing arts academy.
7. Frankie Muniz
Unlike his character. Malcolm, Frankie Muniz didn't step foot in a classroom after the sixth grade. The Malcolm in the Middle star expressed no regrets over his decision to forego high school for an acting career. "Why? I'm going to like the Emmy's, the Golden Globes, the Grammy's," he told CBS News. "I'm meeting my favorite celebrities. I have the opportunity to do that, and why would someone pass that up to go to a high school prom. I'm extremely happy, and I wouldn't trade it for anything."
8. Christina Aguilera
Teenage pop star Christina Aguilera graduated from high school via home school. Reportedly, Aguilera suffered from bullying and ostracization because of her love of singing and performing. However, the diva did attend one important high school event: the prom!
"I called my friend Marcy and said, 'Let's just have fun with this! Set me up with a really cute blind date.' But then a friend of mine was hurt because he wanted to go with me, so I ended up having two dates for the prom," she told Entertainment Weekly.
9. Alexa Vega
Spy Kids star Alexa Vega had a bit of an unconventional childhood -- on and off-screen. Her incredible film career led to bullying from other high school girls. She learned some hard lessons in her early high school days, and eventually decided to take a different route. "I was acting a little bit more mature in high school, rather than in middle school, so I decided not to go to a regular high school and to be home-schooled; it was the best thing," she told IGN.
10. Bethany Mota
Beauty guru and YouTube sensation Bethany Mota has been home-schooled for most of her life. Her mother made the decision to teach her and her sister, Brittany, at home.