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Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Margaret Ann Simon, the book's protagonist, hopes to have her first menstrual period and figure out which religion she wants to practice before completing the sixth grade. When she runs into trouble on both fronts, she worries she is not normal.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
A composite of short stories that take place on the fringes of the ultra-Orthodox world, each with a compelling hook: a Jerusalemite denied sexual intimacy by his wife obtains his rabbi's permission to visit a prostitute; a matchmaker tries to force a husband to grant a divorce to the wife he has abandoned; a rabbi moonlights as a department store Santa Claus to pay back his synagogue's debts.
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Eliza Naumann, an otherwise undistinguished fifth grader, wows her classmates and family by spelling her way to the national finals on the basis of her supernatural ability to envision letters and words forming inside her head.
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Samuel Klayman meets Josef Kavalier, and they instantly form a strong friendship. Sam and Joe create a comic book hero called The Escapist, who wanders the world in aide of those who "languish in tyranny's chains."
Miss Lonelyharts and the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
In Miss Lonelyhearts, a young intellectual man takes a job, as a joke, as a newspaper's advice columnist, but begins to break under the stress as people write to him, begging for advice to help them. The Day of the Locust, meanwhile, is about Tod Hackett, who comes to California dreaming to be a movie-set artist, but soon joins the ranks of lowly actors, workers, and other characters who are living in Hollywood trying to get their big break.
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So what does it mean for the winner of Tuesday night's GOP caucus? Historically, not much.
In 2008, Huckabee took 34.4 percent of the caucus, topping Mitt Romney (25.2%), Fred Thompson (13.4%) and the eventual nominee McCain (13%). McCain pulled off a surprising win in New Hampshire a week later, which sent Romney tumbling and gave McCain a boost that he rode into the summer.
But in 2000, George W. Bush took 41% of the caucus votes to top businessman Steve Forbes (30%) and a group of other candidates that included McCain.
In 1996, Sen. Bob Dole narrowly defeated Pat Buchanan, 26 percent to 23 percent, and went on to claim the GOP race.
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Could Jennifer Love Hewitt be the latest star to insure a body part?
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"I need like an insurance invitation," the actress, 34, told USA Today when asked if she would ever insure her breasts. "If someone's like, 'You know what? We would like to insure your boobs for $2.5 million, I'd be like, 'Do it!' Love it. Why not?"
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Johnny Depp and Jennifer Love Hewitt are re-imagining stories, both classic and bizarre, in upcoming movies.
Depp will help give life to Miguel de Cervantes's famed character Don Quixote in a modern-day film for Disney, Deadline.com reports. The actor is set to produce the movie about the hero of La Mancha, but no word yet on whether he'll be acting in the project.
Hewitt will executive produce a Lifetime movie based on a post from Heather Gattuccio's blog Derfwad Manor, Deadline.com reports. In the blog post, the happily married mother dreams of polygamy with A-list stars. The movie tells a new version of the story of a bored homemaker's fictional blog about her own polygamy but when she starts getting noticed for her online presence, she must keep up the charade.
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Finding and maintaining love in the spotlight can be tough. Just ask Jamie Kennedy, who says dating Jennifer Love Hewitt wasn't easy when no one wanted them together in the first place.
"People weren't rooting for a good relationship," Kennedy tells PEOPLE. "That was really hard to deal with. You see snarky headlines and eventually you just have to stop reading that stuff."
Kennedy, 42, dated his Ghost Whisperer costar, 33, for a year before the relationship "ran its course".
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Jennifer Love Hewitt surrendered to her sweet tooth on Monday when she picked up cupcakes at Sprinkles in Beverly Hills.
"She was buying a birthday gift for someone special," an onlooker tells PEOPLE.
The Client List star ordered a dozen cupcakes including three cinnamon sugar, three lemon, three red velvet and three s'more flavored.
Dressed in a white top and black skirt, Hewitt seemed preoccupied on the phone as she placed her order, but was extremely apologetic for her distraction, mouthing that she "absolutely loved" Sprinkles.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt's Mother Dies
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Jennifer Love Hewitt's biggest supporter has died.
The actress's mom Patricia, 67, lost her battle with cancer on Tuesday, Hewitt's rep announced in a statement.
"Her family mourns her loss," the rep says. "She was an angel to all who knew her and they are grateful she is now in a better place. They ask for privacy at this difficult time. No further details are being provided."
Betty White to Appear in Finale of The Client List
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Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt are teaming up for what could be one very happy ending.
The former Golden Girls star is paying a visit to Hewitt's racy Lifetime show, The Client List, about single mom Riley Parks, who works at The Rub of Sugar Land, a day spa in Texas that offers a little more than standard massage therapy.
In the show's season finale, Riley, played by Hewitt, will be left in charge of the spa when her boss goes on vacation.
Jennifer Love Hewitt's Boobs Are 'King Kong' Size
Originally posted 04/19/2012 11:05AM
Jennifer Love Hewitt has admitted she likes her boobs. Still, she was fairly horrified to see them super-sized up close on Wednesday.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress, 33, was discussing her mildly racy billboards for The Client List when Kimmel, 44, surprised her by having in a giant section of billboard featuring only her cleavage brought into the studio.
"No! No!" cried Hewitt, amused but mostly embarrassed, as stage hands placed the giant image behind her chair. "Seriously, that looks like a horror movie, blown up like that ... They look like King Kong's."
Jennifer Love Hewitt Says She Dresses for a Man's Imagination
Originally posted 04/08/2012 06:20PM
Jennifer Love Hewitt may play a provocative call girl on her upcoming Lifetime series, The Client List, but had the role called for baring it all, she'd have declined the offer.
"I wouldn't have done nudity, no," Hewitt, 33, said during a conference call when asked if she'd have taken on the project had it been on a racier network like Showtime or HBO. "That's not something that I feel particularly comfortable with."
Added the actress, "I also think that it's sexier not to show everything. I feel like imaginations can do way more."
Jennifer Love Hewitt Has Her Eye on Newly Single Adam Levine
Originally posted 04/05/2012 08:30AM
Jennifer Love Hewitt says she's happily single, but could be looking to change that – now that a certain rock star has come on the market.
"I always have my eyes out," the Client List actress, 33, says in an interview airing Thursday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "I just read two days ago that Adam Levine is single again ... I'm just saying."
The Maroon 5 frontman and judge on The Voice is indeed single, having split from his girlfriend of two years, model Anne Vyalitsyna. Now, Hewitt thinks she should probably swoop in.
Jennifer Love Hewitt: My Boobs Are My Best Body Part
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Gracing the cover of PEOPLE's 2011 Hottest Bodies issue, Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared confident baring her cleavage in a colorful two-piece bathing suit.
And the self-assurance she has when it comes to those body parts is no act, she says.
"It's horrible to say, but I like my boobs," Hewitt, 33, tells Maxim in its April cover story when asked what body part she is most proud of. "They've always served me well. They're good."
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Dick Wilson was one of the best course architects of the post-World War II era, but alcoholism kept him from greater achievements
When Joe Jemsek hired Dick Wilson to design a championship-caliber course at his Cog Hill facility in Lemont, Ill., in the early 1960s, Wilson rivaled Robert Trent Jones as the best architect in golf. Oddly, though, Wilson didn't have the run of the place when he made site visits to create Jemsek's vision of a public layout to stand up to nearby Medinah No. 3.
"Dick told [design partner] Joe Lee, 'That's the most exclusive damned clubhouse I've ever seen in my life,' " Jemsek's son Frank recalls. "Dick complained, 'They won't ever let me in the clubhouse.' "
Joe Jemsek was a man of the people if there ever was one, his doors open to all. He also knew, however, Wilson was in the midst of a losing battle with alcoholism. "My father didn't want him to have any alcohol," Frank Jemsek says. "My father knew he would start drinking if he went in the clubhouse and the day would be over by noon. They bought him lunch out on the golf course."
Brawny and beautiful Cog Hill No. 4, also known as "Dubsdread," is a testament to Wilson's skill as an architect, but Jemsek's clubhouse ban typifies how dramatically Wilson's drinking affected him, particularly near the end of his career. "It was a love-hate relationship with Dick, with intensity of both feelings," says architect Robert von Hagge, a long-time associate who worked on 40 courses with Wilson. "He was a true Jekyll and Hyde."
More than four decades after his death at age 61 in 1965, Wilson is back in the spotlight. Cog Hill No. 4 will re-open this spring after a renovation by Rees Jones, one of Robert Trent Jones' two sons. Regarded by many as an everyman's gem—it was No. 29 on Golf Digest's 2007-08 ranking of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses—the longtime home of the Western Open will host the BMW Championship as part of the FedEx Cup Playoffs this September. Joe Jemsek had a life-long dream of having a U.S. Open on Dubs, and Jones believes his update of Wilson's layout, where Tiger Woods has won four times, could make it Open worthy.
If Cog Hill—lengthened to more than 7,600 yards and boasting Jones-revamped greens, which now feature a SubAir drainage system—lands the national championship, it will be a fitting tribute to Wilson, whose 74 designs include some of the game's best-known courses. He did Doral's Blue Monster, Royal Montreal, Pine Tree, Laurel Valley, PGA National and Moon Valley in Phoenix, site of Annika Sorenstam's memorable LPGA record 59 in 2001.
The son of a contractor, Wilson grew up in Philadelphia and got an early taste for the business as a water boy during the construction of Merion GC. A fine athlete who attended the University of Vermont on a football scholarship, he joined the design team of Bill Flynn and Howard Toomey after college. Wilson became a construction superintendent with Toomey and Flynn, and oversaw the implementation of Flynn's design at Shinnecock Hills in 1931. The Depression impacted the design business and Wilson was forced to take a job as a pro/greenkeeper at Delray Beach (Fla.) CC.
After serving in World War II, where he constructed and camouflaged airfields, Wilson formed a design company and added Lee as his partner in the 1950s. The pair collaborated on many projects—Lee was the safe and conservative voice, Wilson innovative and daring, according to von Hagge. "He always preached to stay within the history and tradition of the game, but push it out as far as you can," von Hagge says. "He was doing stuff that hadn't been seen before. He loved bold expression. If you turned the hole right to left, it was like a speedway; you were high on the right, low on the left."
Wilson put a premium on requiring players to work the ball and control their trajectory. He liked doglegs as well as strategic, artful bunkering. Pine Valley and Merion were favorites. "A golf course should appear more vicious to the player than it actually is," Wilson told Sports Illustrated. "It should inspire you, keep you alert. If you're playing a sleepy-looking golf course, you're naturally going to fall asleep."
A third of Wilson's courses were built on the flat terrain of Florida, where he was known for building up his greens four to eight feet so golfers would have a defined target. Pine Tree, in Boynton Beach, Fla., generally regarded as Wilson's finest work, is built over a 168-acre stretch of sand and scrub pines. The layout features several doglegs and is known for its exceptional bunkering. Ben Hogan once called it, "The best course I have ever seen."
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Dr. Robotnik, also known as Dr. Eggman, is the antagonist in nearly every Sonic the Hedgehog title.
Big Earl is a laid-back, seriously jammin' alien from the planet Funk-o-tron. Although he's totally loyal to his best bud ToeJam and is good to have on your side in a fight, he's not terribly bright, is an absolutely awful driver, and his pants have a habit of falling down.
Sammy/Eddie "Skate" Hunter is a character from the Streets of Rage series. He is the kid brother of Adam from Streets of Rage 1 and first appears in Streets of Rage 2 to help Axel and Blaze look for his kidnapped brother.
Whip-swinging villainess from the Streets of Rage series.
First appeared in Knuckles' Chaotix, and has appeared in a few more games since then. One of the more prominent members of the Chaotix.
(referred to as Nack the Weasel in America) A character in the Sonic the Hedgehog Games. First appeared in Sonic Triple Trouble.
Motorbike-riding thugs from the Streets of Rage series. Named after weather conditions.
Galsia is the most common of the thugs in all 3 Streets of Rage games.
Leader of the Battle Kukku/Battle Cuckoo Army and the final boss of Tails Adventure.
A member of Dr. Robotnik's SSSSS Squad in AOSTH and he was seen in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 as an enemy in the Aquatic Ruin Zone.
A popular American character in the Street Fighter series. He is known for having only two special moves.
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Knife-wielding Streets of Rage sub-boss. He and his copies are named after snacks, oddly.
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You are a man among men. You always took the high road when contraversy came your way. You have always been a good man. Unfortunatly time catches up with us all. Move on to bigger and better things. If the passion still burns to compete. Move to the coaching box.
Thank you for all you have done for SU. We love you.
First I tredge from the west side of ROC and so to see a practice was cool. It was only a practice and it was more for AB than anybody elese.
Friday night game such. I have to take time off from work and get kids out of school early. the 2.5 hour drive back late at night also sucks. Don't think I'm going to renew this year because of the Friday games and the NYC game.
for Bball in NYC. Lets get into the ACC see who the big rivals become. Then you can switch the less competitive games there.
Why not play games in Philly? we get lots of bball recruits out of philly sounds like a great place for a few ACC games. Hell lets play games in all the major cities and see where it tames. us.
Keep voting republican. Dan Maffee sponsored a bill to take away the tax credit for outsourcing, and Shumer proposed a 5 cent per call tax to call centers out side the US.
SO WHAT DOES CNY DO? Vote for PRO CHINA ANN MARIE BURKLE. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
The Problem without a doubt is the O-line. Wide outs could not get open quick enought , Add in all the drops and you have 5 straight loses. It all starts with the Oline. They open holes, we run for 5 yards every time. They pass block, Nassib hits open recievers. Nassib's biggest weakness is throwing the long ball.
OMG. You are nuts. Public employees include scientist, lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, computer programmers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters.
If you think that you can grab any joe off the street and run the government you must be drinking Onondaga Creek water.
Are you kidding me. This is a non story. This happens with all students not just student athletes. If I had a dime for every time I was told to "give the kid a break" I would have a million dollars.
The worst culpert are the principals and superintendents. ITs a CYA cover your ars.
At this point if the kid is doing well then it has nothing to do with SU or him.
I agree with the drug test as long as we can have corporate officers, and business principal's who recieved tax credits or contracts have to live up to the same standard.
We should also add that business who take tax credits with the promise of jobs should have to take lie detector test before getting tax credits.
Can sombody tell what makes a good teacher. Is it the teacher that works, with the kids that can't read or one that works with kids whom need remedial help, Or maybe it is a teacher that works with the high level perfromers. Is it a teacher that gives lots of homework, A teacher that can captivate students with lecture, or a teacher that has great orginizational skills. Maybe its a teacher whom students get good grades on standardized test.
What if the best teachers are the teachers that come into school at the last minute and stay late or come in very early and stay late. What if the teachers fights the administration but their students gets great grades. Should we keep the teacher that swears and makes jokes and student rock on Regents exams. What about teachers whom their students hate them because the teachers drive them like a rented mule. Is the best teacher the one whom never sends kids to the office or one that can't tollerate distruptive students.
So what makes a good teacher? That is the million dollar questions.
The only reason she was picked by the party is she is wealthy, and can fund her own campaig. Its funny the last 4 candidates for that seat came from the same wealthy little town
Ya Right Burkel you voted to give 31 million to sponsor NASCAR. Pissing money aways. Plus extending the bush tax cut cost the DEBT another 100 billion so cutting 61 billions means you have to get another 139 billion just to get aback to the point where you started.
Its been 103 days since the last eletions and where are the JOBS? She and the repubs said that jobs was our number one prioirty.
America is not out of money but the middle class and poor. The rich still have plenty. The questions I have is where does BUERKLE get her money from and whom does she support.
Ya Right Burkel you voted to give 31 million to sponsor NASCAR. Pissing money aways. Plus extending the bush tax cut cost the DEBT another 100 billion so cutting 61 billions means you have to get another 139 billion just to get aback to the point where you started.
Its been 103 days since the last eletions and where are the JOBS? She and the repubs said that jobs was our number one prioirty.
America is not out of money but the middle class and poor. The rich still have plenty. The questions I have is where does BUERKLE get her money from and whom does she support.
as long as business (big corporation) have so much power over elected officials , and partisans play politics our state will falter. The only way to get thing back is reform of the election system.
1. Remove political parties from the ballets.
2. Require all money to be raised from within the district of which a candidate runs for office.
3. No campaign funds can be carried over after the election.
4. Candidates can only use funds raised for the candidates.
Let take bribary out of politics
Some guy with money didn't get his way. Well f him. But I hope he gets it back and UCONN SUCKS next year.
coercion. Solid Progressive. Not in his district But he is integrity. WIsh there were more polititions like him.
There all the same they love power and money and hate anybody who gets in their way. That goes for Rep and Dems.
Cuomo mentions he wants to reform NY Campaign Finance. Great Idea. Here are my suggestions
1. All campaign donations must come from within the district your campaigning.
2. Remove all political parties from the ballets. We should be voting for people not parties!
3. All funds raised can not be held over to future campaigns. All unused funds are given to local school districts lowering property taxes.
4. Polititians can not loan or give the funds they raised.
5. Goverment fund canidates who are ra...ising lower amounts of money, Thus making fund raising less imparitive to a cadidates and encourageing unknow challangers.
This helps all candidates D,R,I, L, C, and G parties.
Thats too Funny Gov't oversight. Thats like leaving the rat in control of the cheese. This is just another way for her to get away with not paying her taxes.
. Tried to Purchase Extra Tickets But Ticket Master said that there are none available. So I called the SU Box office and the person that answered said they can not sell ticket only ticket master can.
No wonder the attendce is so shoddy ticket master is lost and has no clue.
Called SU back to tell them of the situation and they said well there are ticket available so just go online. Did not offer to look into the issue, and he acted like its not my job. Zero customer service. So if other people have the same experience I doubt we will get over 35k at the biggest fball game in a Decade. I wish the box office cared as much as the coaches and fans did.
If we had a news paper or news agency worth anything they would follow the money. Find out out much these companies gave to and what politatians to get those empire zone give aways.
If you listen to the companies, not one of them would be doing business if it weren't for goverment give a ways. It just stinks of bribery. (or campaign comtributions.(


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|Interior Height
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|Gross Weight
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|Axle Weight
|12,400 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|34 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|23 gals
|Black Water Capacity
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Body Construction
- Aerodynamic Curved Wall Construction
- Laminated One Piece TPO Crowned Roof
- Aerodynamic Front Fiberglass Cap
- Smooth White .070 Filon Plus Fiberglass Sidewalls
- Large Storage Compartment
- Locking Exterior Storage Doors
- Deluxe Exterior Mirrors
- Integrated Manual Entrance Step
- Rear Wheel Mud Flaps
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- Ford E350 Chassis
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- Rear Axle Ratio 4.10:1
- Radial Tires
- Stainless Steel Wheel Covers
- Rear Multi-Leaf Spring Suspension with Stabilizer Bar
- ABS Brake System
- Dash Heating and Air Conditioner System with Defroster
- One 12V Chassis
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Chevy Chassis / Engine / Suspension
- Vortec 6.0L V8 Sequential Fuel Injection (SFI), 300 HP @ 4,400 RPM, 360 lb. - ft. Torque @ 4,000 RPM
- 4-Speed Automatic, Heavy Duty Transmission, Electronically Controlled with Overdrive; Internal Transmission Oil Cooler
- 145 Amp Alternator
- Rear Axle Ratio 4.10:1
- Radial Tires
- Stainless Steel Wheel Covers
- Rear Multi-Leaf Spring Suspension with Stabilizer Bar
- ABS Brake System
- Dash Heating and Air Conditioner System w/ Defroster
- One 12V Chassis
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- Dual Air Bags
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- Comfort Lounge & Dinette
- Fabric Covered Dinette Back & Arched Top
- Large Double Bowl Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink w/Gooseneck Faucet
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- Laminate Countertops with Wood Grain Edging - Kitchen
- Laminate Dinette Table with Wood Grain Edging - Dinette
- Mortise & Tenon Overhead Cabinet Doors (Galley & Living Area)
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- Spacious Wardrobe with Two Drawers
- Residential Linoleum Throughout
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Windows, Doors & Awnings
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- Radius Corner Slider Windows
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- Fire Extinguisher
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- Large Double-Door Refrigerator
- Microwave Oven
- Sink Covers (2)
- TV Antenna / Booster / Jack, Cable Ready
- DVD Video Package
- Decors: Autumn Trail II, Brass Ring
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Electrical Systems & Lights
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Plumbing & LP Systems
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Various Local, Regional and National Non Profit Environmental and Conservation Organizations.
SLVEC working group members dealing with issues such as:
- Energy Development on Public Lands Surrounding the SLV
- The Village at Wolf Creek, Protection of Roadless Areas
- Travel Management Planning on Public Lands
- Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) - Environmental Health Risk Assessment within the SLV
- Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) - Public Outreach to inform about asthma and asthma triggers, radon gas, dust, smoke and preventaive measures
- San Francisco Creek Working Group- Local Residents Monitoring Oil and Gas Exploration in a Major Watershed of the San Juan Mountains
- San Luis Valley Solar Master Planning Process
- Alamosa Ranch/Healthy Living Park
• Brown Foundation
• El Pomar Foundation
• Fund for Wild Nature
• Maki Foundation
• New Land Foundation
• Patagonia
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utility Service Solid Waste Management
• Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area
• Colorado Creative Industries
• New Venture Foundation
• Kenney Foundation
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Environmental Justice Program
• Many Individuals, Families, and Businesses
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Vision Statement
Through education, stewardship practices, community investment and public policy advocacy efforts, SLVEC fosters understanding of complex ecosystems and the constructive interplay between human cultures and the natural world. SLVEC embraces and promotes the preservation of beauty, biodiversity and the health of the San Luis Valley and upper Rio Grande region.
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The mission of the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council (SLVEC) is to protect and restore, through research, education, and advocacy, the biological diversity, ecosystems, and natural resources of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion, balancing ecological values with human needs.
Board of Directors
Dave Miller, Crestone, Colorado
Suzanne Shriber, Alamosa, Colorado
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Suzanne arrived in the SLV in 1978. She was first a bus driver for a migrant school and then became a guidance counselor for the Center Schools System. She taught for 23 years and recently retired. She has been in education for 30 years. Suzanne graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is very involved with the Water Quality Project and Citizens for the Alamosa Ranch.
Richard Luckemeier, Alamosa, Colorado
Jim Turnbull, Creede, Colorado
Karen Lemke, Alamosa, Colorado
Don Thompson
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Beth Kinney is a family physician who has worked both in family practice and emergency medicine in the San Luis Valley for the last 21 years. She is an avid outdoor person enjoying both hiking and mountain biking. Beth is interested in increasing public awareness of the benefial activities that SLVEC offers to the San Luis Valley community and environment. She believes that encouraging and enabling citizen stewardship of our land and resources is crucially important to maintaining our environment and for curbing/preventing the devastating effects of man-made global warming. " While my trainig is in improving health on an individual basis, environmental and community health are vital to our future survival."
Dr. Joel Kaufman
Board Member
Joel was raised and educated in New Jersey. He landed in the San Luis Valley 33 years ago and began practicing medicine. " I had an obligation to serve in a poor area with a shortage of physicians, due to my government sponsored medical education. The San Luis Valley was a great fit because I wanted to be far from a city, in the mountains near great snow (Wolf Creek) and close to my brother. Most amazingly, I found a practice in which I fit. This was Valley Wide Health Services (now Systems.)
I took a world tour from 1988-89, going to 4 European countries, 12 African and 6 Asian nations. All told, I have been to 35 countries, 47 states amd 7 canadian provinces."
Staff and Support
|Christine Canaly, Crestone, Colorado
Chris joined SLVEC in June 2000. Chris mobilized key local and regional constituencies to support legislation for the Great Sand Dunes National Park and remained on their Management Plan Advisory Board through 2006. She originally worked with the Citizens for San Luis Valley Water to protect the Baca Ranch from a trans-basin water diversion and received congressional recognition for that work. She has voluntarily developed organizational infrastructure for a number of Valley non-profit restoration and conservation organizations. Before moving to the SLV in 1988, she worked as an engineer with CNN Headlines in Atlanta, Georgia and NBC News in New York City.
Michael Armenta,
Project Coordinator- Solid Waste Management Project
Michael is a native of the San Luis Valley, growing up in Manassa and graduating from Centari High School in 1999. He graduated from Colorado University at Colorado Springs in 2008 with double BA degrees in Geography/Environment and Anthroplogy. After completing undergraduate studies Mike served with the Peace Corps in Ecuador from 2009-2011 and then with the Peace Corps Response in Guatemala in 2012. Michael was awarded a MA in Development from Denver University in 2012.
John Stump, Alamosa, Colorado
John brings his acquired organizational talents to the newly emplaced Solid Waste Management Program. A former board member, John recently retired from being director of research and planning for the Development Resources Group. He was an early participant on the Steering Committe for the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
|David Montgomery, Alamosa, Colorado
Consultant, Projects and Programs
Dave is a nationally known landscape painter. He has lived in Colorado since 1958 and was "drug here" to the SLV by his family in 1965. Dave has been a persistent voice for conservation and the environment in the San Luis Valley for the past 35 years. Dave was one of the original founding board members and now contributes to the council as a consultant.


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Four jailed on felony charges Saturday
Four jailed on felony charges Saturday
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BARBOURSVILLE -- Four men were incarcerated on felony charges at the Western Regional Jail between midnight and 9 p.m. Sunday.
Khahleff Chandler, 19, was incarcerated at noon Saturday. Authorities in Cabell County charged him with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Bond was denied.
Neshawn Nelson Peppers, 31, was incarcerated at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. Authorities in Cabell County charged with a violation of his home confinement on a prior felony charge. Bond was denied.
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office brought in Robert Dale Scarberry, 24, and Jesse Joe Scott, 44, at 1:20 a.m. Saturday. Both were charged with a felony count of grand larceny and a misdemeanor count of destruction of property.
Bond was denied pending arraignment.
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Shocking as this may sound, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not have been the worst human rights abuser to speak at Columbia on September 24, 2007. Given that few Americans know or care about Turkmenistan and its new President, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, it would be a difficult case to make. But Berdimuhammedov has quietly continued the work of his predecessor by imposing a neo-Stalinist program of social and political control on a country with over 6 million people. For the dictatorial ex-dentist, the anonymity which ensured that his speech here went without protest and without notice masks a human rights record that is at least as abominable as that of his country's southern neighbor.
In its annual survey of "failed states," Foreign Policy magazine gave Turkmenistan a 9.3 out of a possible 10 on human rights, while Iran lagged behind at 8.7—perhaps because the Islamic Republic lacks the costly exit visas and the systematic state intimidation of political opponents that have kept Turkmen civil society stagnant, if not non-existent. Far from the American mainland and the American imagination, Turkmenistan seems more like a punch line than an actual country, and thanks to the cartoonish, two-decade rule of Berdimuhammedov's predecessor Sapuramat Niyazov, that is exactly what it is: a farcical symbol of central-Asian, post-Soviet backwardness. The newspaper Der Spiegel even referred to it as "Stalin's Disneyland."
Turkmenistan is more important than his generally uncritical treatment would suggest. Although it is remote, small, and sparsely populated, Turkmenistan highlights some of the world's most complicated and intractable problems—specifically problems of democratization and the difficulties inherent in the promotion of democracy and human rights. The larger problem is that the United States and the international community seem unable, or unwilling, to address these issues. Even were Turkmenistan not languishing in political and geographic obscurity, the current international framework for human rights enforcement ensures that Berdimuhammedov can continue to oppress his people at will. Making matters worse, American and international diplomacy is structured so that Turkmenistan and countries like it continue to be ignored and enabled. Diplomacy with Turkmenistan treats the country's human rights record with systemic apathy and impotence. A look at the country's history since independence—as well as its eventful past eleven months—helps reveal why.
Turkmenistan became an independent state in October 1991, although the country's descent into autocracy began long before that. In an interview, William Fierman, Professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University, said that Turkmen society was always tribal and decentralized, so Soviet purges of traditional tribal leadership created the kind of long-term social and political disruption that would allow a party thug like Sapurumat Niyazov to seize power 60 years later. Niyazov immediately embarked upon a radically ethnocentric program of national "renewal," renaming himself Turkmanbashi, or "father of the Turkmen," and spending 15 years making sure Turkmenistan remained the only former Soviet state with a one-party system. It might be accurate to say that Niyazov was motivated by some abstract ideology or another—at least insofar as an authoritarian concept of national pride can be considered "ideological." Indeed, Niyazov's distrust of all non-Turkmen social elements, from Islam to the country's sizable Russian and Uzbek minorities, suggests a nationalist project having as much to do with Turkmen pride as with the thuggish maintenance of permanent, absolute control. Indicative of Niyazov's approach to power was one of his last decisions as president, when he imprisoned the country's aging Chief Islamic Mufti on trumped-up charges of treason
But Niyazov did more than use nationalism to justify a rigid, exclusionary political system in which power was vested in a unitary leader and his small ruling clique. He also employed tactics harkening back to 17th-century European absolutism, implementing policies that deliberately blurred the line between Turkmenistan and Turkmanbashi. Niyazov's Rukhnama, a book of meditations on Turkmen history and culture, was published in 2003 and became both the basis for civil service exams and a cornerstone of Turkmenistan's ailing public education system. While the West joked about Niyazov renaming the months of the year after himself and forcing doctors to swear allegiance to him in lieu of the Hippocratic Oath, both decisions were effective in solidifying his political and cultural centrality. And his country's radical isolationism helped drive the point home: not only was there no world beyond Turkmenistan, there was also no world beyond Turkmanbashi. Anyone who suggested otherwise or was suspected of suggesting otherwise was dealt with severely and immediately.
Only strengthening this form of thought police was the political purge following a 2002 assassination attempt, during which Niyazov eliminated any domestic check on his power. In the months after the assassination attempt, security forces arrested over 200 people, including a former foreign minister who was viewed as a possible rival to the president-for-life. The crackdown, coupled with the firing of several cabinet ministers, ensured that Niyazov would be in absolute control of his country.
School of International and Public Affairs professor Rafis Abazov, whose Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan provides an exhaustive and accessible overview of the country's complicated 3,000 year history, says that Niyazov's ability to exploit the social chaos and lack of an organized opposition movement in the years after independence allowed him to seize almost unlimited control of the country. Niyazov's autocratic political philosophy excluded everything outside of his cultish and hyper-nationalist purview, a tack which Abazov blames for leaving Turkmenistan totally unprepared for modern political and economic challenges. In a time of globalization, terrorism, and Russia's increasing assertiveness, Turkmenistan barricaded itself from the outside world. One way it did so is through its institutionalized radical brand of civic parochialism propped up by, among other things, a $50,000 fee for marrying a non-Turkmen national. As the world became increasingly connected and increasingly complicated, Turkmenistan's outmoded form of government kept the country's citizens isolated, deprived of Internet access, and subject to prohibitively expensive exit visas. The government's distrust of private enterprise and its formal policy of "neutrality" further distanced Turkmenistan from global trends and events. Due to these policy decisions and others, Turkmenistan lags in terms of economic efficiency and foreign investment even though it sits atop one of the largest natural gas deposits on earth.
Niyazov's one-man state failed to collapse after his unexpected death in December of 2006. His cultish system of total control had become so entrenched in Turkmen life, according to both Abazov and Feirman, that Turkmenistan is years away from making any significant moves towards democracy. Niyazov's success in positioning himself as an all-powerful national father figure kept prospects for systemic change scant. As the invulnerable source of everything from the names of the days of the week to a guiding, pseudo-religious national philosophy, his influence was so great that Turkmenistan seems to be an exception to Hannah Arendt's observation that totalitarian regimes are marked by their inability to reproduce themselves. While the leaders of post-war Germany and post-Stalinist Russia attempted to distance themselves from their totalitarian predecessors, Turkmenistan's Berdimuhammedov, who seized power after he helped supplant the constitutionally-appointed acting president, vowed continuity. In his speech at Columbia, he lauded Niyazov and referred to him as "a part of our history." Although Berdimuhammedov has been praised for attempting to dismantle Niyazov's cult of personality by taking down pictures and statues of the former leader, the reality is unsettling: "In the political field, there have been no big changes," Abazov says of the past eleven months. "Practically no changes at all."
That Turkmenistan continues to be ruled by a firmly ensconced, authoritarian dictator—and that the world is apparently unable to do anything about it—is due in part to the changes Berdimuhammedov has made. In the months after Niyazov's death, the international community saw an opportunity to engage a resource-rich country bordering both Iran and Afghanistan. In a speech before the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on September 17, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Evan Feigenbaum said that the U.S. had sent "fifteen Executive Branch delegations to Turkmenistan at both senior and working levels" since last December. Revealingly, he said that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice ordered Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher to Niyazov's funeral. The U.S. has made its interest in Turkmenistan abundantly clear, and Berdimuhammedov's government has replied by making Turkmenistan more open than it has ever been as an independent nation.
Yet this has initiated a diplomatic exchange in which democracy and human rights have hardly been relevant. Turkmenistan is looking to tap into the U.S.'s technologically superior energy sector, and the U.S. is looking for an economic and strategic partner in an increasingly troublesome part of the globe. While Feigenbaum identified "democracy and human rights" as among the "five key areas" on which American diplomacy would focus, Fierman says that the U.S. has little leverage in a country like Turkmenistan. "We are at the margins," he says, explaining that Turkmenistan's resource wealth has afforded it the opportunity to remain semi-isolated without running the risk of complete social and political collapse. The U.S. is unwilling to squander its already limited leverage on human rights issues. Thus in March of 2004, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State traveled to the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat to discuss possible military and political cooperation with Niyazov's government. Turkmenistan is a strategically useful country, and, as Feigenbaum mentioned in his speech, it is seen increasingly as a place where American, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian interests are very much in conflict.
This lukewarm commitment to human rights issues is standard practice for American foreign policy, especially in places where the chances of democratization are so slim. But if we were to believe President Bush's rhetoric on American foreign policy, current political crises are resolved—and future crises are prevented—through a hard-line commitment to democracy and human rights. President Bush said as much in his second inaugural address: "America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." Other parts of the speech also evoke the idealism of American foreign policy. "America's belief in human dignity will guide our policies," Bush said, going on to claim that "all who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors."
Human rights historian and Professor of History Samuel Moyn explained that America's commitment to human rights has always been subject to the prevailing political climate. According to Moyn, the idea that democratization should be a fundamental goal of American foreign policy began with Woodrow Wilson's vision of a democratic post-war Europe, and gained traction during the decline of a realist approach toward the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1970s. But, says Moyn, "it is fair to say that the general story is one of hewing to interest at the expense of rhetoric, especially idealistic rhetoric." Wilson's failure to get the Senate to endorse the League of Nations is a case in point. So is Turkmenistan, where our prioritization of strategy over human rights proves the widely-held belief that countries are incapable of breaking with their own self-interest—an academic theory that Moyn cited in connection with America's inconsistent diplomatic commitment to its own higher ideals.
Further de-legitimizing the lofty rhetoric of America's democratizing zeal is the degree to which American foreign policy could pursue democratization at the expense of human rights. Citing a controversial Cold War-era theory that short-term support for oppressive regimes could provide the political and economic stability needed for lasting democratic change, Moyn explained that human rights and democratization often run against each other. President Bush might have spent his second inaugural address arguing that "democracy" is a cure for human rights problems, but things play out quite differently in places where democracy is far from a top priority. In Turkmenistan, the single-minded push for democracy outlined in Bush's inaugural address simply is not an option. So what is?
In a country showing as little movement towards democracy as Turkmenistan, aggressive promotion of democracy could alienate Turkmen leadership while having no discernable impact on the Turkmen polity. Though a hard-line on democracy would be counterproductive, incremental improvements in human rights might create the preconditions for broader change. For instance, Human Rights Watch researcher Maria Lisitsnya said that NGOs could jump-start Turkmen civil society and become vital instruments of political change—so long as Berdimuhammedov can be pressured into allowing them to operate freely.
The fact that Berdimuhammedov has not allowed NGO's to operate freely highlights the incoherence of U.S. attempts at balancing human rights and strategic interests. Since Niyazov's death, the usual conditionality governing human rights enforcement has been all but absent. Erika Davis of the Turkmenistan Project at the Open Society Institute notes that the U.S. has not changed its policy of aggressive engagement with Berdimuhammedov's government, even though our modest demand for the release of political prisoners has not been met. "We could be demanding a lot more" she says, citing the country's hefty $250 exit visa as one Niyazov holdover that the U.S. could be targeting.
But the U.S. government is not demanding anything, partly because it is afraid that agitating for human rights will cede vital strategic ground to China, Russia, and Iran and partly because of the international community's unfounded optimism in Berdimuhammedov's commitment to political reform. On the former point, Turkmenistan's diplomatically neutral status and historically fractured relationship with Russia make it unlikely that Turkmenistan will accommodate anyone's narrow strategic interests. Case in point: within two months of his Columbia speech, Berdimuhammedov had met with both Condoleeza Rice and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
With regard to international faith in Berdimuhammedov's reformist tendencies, Niyazov's death prompted Abazov to ask in an article whether the new president would be a "Gorbachev or an Ahmadinejad?" In other words, would Berdimuhammedov tend toward gradual reform or maintain a traditional hard line? According to Davis, there is much to suggest that Berdimuhammedov is trying to whet the U.S.'s modest appetite for civil reform in order to reduce the prospect of major change. For instance, the Rukhnama is still integral to the education system, and Berdimuhammedov has released no political prisoners taken during the 2002 purge. It isn't a settled issue, but the new president is firmly in Ahmadinejad territory for the time being, both in his flagrant disregard for human rights and for his apparent unwillingness to liberalize or otherwise reform a system that actively abuses these rights.
American diplomacy in Turkmenistan is based on two false premises: that Turkmenistan can be convinced to serve the United States' interests and that the new leadership could be committed to long-term reform. The U.S. should be orienting its Turkmenistan policy around a coherent set of human rights benchmarks rather than working off of unreasonable expectations and unfounded optimism. But so far, Turkmenistan's authoritarian system has thrived by exploiting the U.S.'s eagerness to work with the new government and by successfully convincing the rest of the world that broad-reaching political reform is still a realistic prospect.
Indeed, the dilemmas posed by Turkmenistan go beyond age-old questions of enforcement. The contrast between University President Lee Bollinger's notoriously hostile introduction of Ahmadinejad and decidedly uncritical presentation of Berdimuhammedov is a helpful microcosm: Bollinger could summon the moral outrage to denounce a government that is placing itself at the forefront of opposition to western and American interests. But he was unwilling to take a similar tack with a president whose offenses are so isolated and devoid of the bombast and dictatorial verve that has made Ahmadinejad such a global superstar. Similarly, the international community won't pressure Turkmenistan because its human rights abuses do not appear to fit into a larger geopolitical puzzle.
If the United States government were truly interested in the international spread of human rights, it would need to centralize Turkmen (and general Central Asian) history and society in crafting its diplomatic approach. For instance, it is vital for us to appreciate how Turkmenistan's present situation could help explain why newly-independent states in Central Asia and elsewhere follow divergent and often disastrous paths. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are Central Asian countries that became independent at almost exactly the same time—Kazakhstan is a classic "despotic democracy," while Kyrgyzstan rapidly democratized after its "Tulip Revolution" in 2005. Turkmenistan still flirts with totalitarianism. If we better understood the political and social factors accounting for such significant differences, we would be less vulnerable to presumed "reformers" like Berdimuhammedov.
It is easy to understand how the rise of radical Islam factors into our collective interests. It is far harder to see how historic fragmentation, a domineering Soviet occupation government, and global democratizing trends that worry ultra-nationalist dictators like Niyazov have all helped create a fiercely independent state with no civil society, no democracy, no respect for human rights, and little interest in, or respect for, the outside world. Sometimes countries like these really are irrelevant to us (Swaziland comes to mind). But sometimes they border Iran and sell natural gas to Western Europe. And when they do, diplomatic policies that prop up the very autocrats who allow these countries to continue on such a trajectory are strategically unacceptable and morally indefensible. True to the rationale of Bush's second inaugural address, democratic countries are more likely to cooperate with us than rogue autocracies. But we have an obligation to understand how to proceed with countries like Turkmenistan in a manner that would benefit us and the people who live in them.
Underscoring the folly of our Turkmenistan policy is the reality that the U.S.'s diplomatic approach of the past eleven months has succeeded in making Turkmenistan more economically and politically open but has failed to make it more transparent or cooperative. Lisitsnya says that Human Rights Watch has been denied the opportunity to send a mission to the country, where NGOs are tightly regulated and often prohibited from providing vital services. Further severing Turkmenistan from the outside world is the high cost of Internet access. Two dollars for an hour of Internet is an improvement over Niyazov's strict web access policies, but the government still controls and closely monitors all traffic. When asked if Turkmenistan still has a secret police in addition to its regular forces, Listisnya explained that such a distinction is meaningless. "It's just a question of how [the Ministry of National Security] operates," she said. "In Turkmenistan, there is a general policy of keeping everybody silent." Journalists, meanwhile, receive threatening phone calls when the government wants them quiet, such as when foreign delegations visit.
The United States and the international community have the ability to enforce a meaningful policy of conditionality by making concrete demands that could lead to the gradual reversal of Turkmenistan's upsetting historical trend. American diplomatic and economic engagement should depend on Berdimuhammadov's willingness to meet basic human rights benchmarks, beginning with the release of political prisoners and the free functioning of NGOs. Until America realizes why it is important, first and foremost, to promote human rights in Turkmenistan, Turkmen can probably look forward to more of the same—and we can probably look forward to similarly impossible moral and strategic quandaries in parts of the world we barely understand.
Armin Rosen is a List College sophomore. Since writing "Mamdani's Darfur Lobby" for The Current in Spring 2007, Armin has been kept busy covering the madness on campus as an associate editor for Spectator and a daily editor for Bwog.


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Publication: Lubok move into uncharted waters with a new book from Neo Rauch
We've become accustomed to German publisher Lubok Verlag producing beautifully crafted lino-cut books by a selection of relatively obscure international artists. It's for this output that we've grown to love them; the laborious volumes of print, offering a sense of depth and discovery while simultaneously being aesthetically delightful.
It's nevertheless exciting to see them moving into new territory. For their latest book they've produced a catalogue of paintings by the atoomstijl artist Neo Rauch. The 39 surreal paintings in Gespenster are printed in four colour offset on coated stock, making this the shiniest book that Lubok have ever released. It might not smell as good as their other offerings but it's an essential addition to any fine art library nonetheless.