Cheap Gas!

Cheapest gas in Utah currently is at Costco in Orem. Price: $2.14 a gallon for regular gas. Most expensive: $2.59 at the Sinclair in Orem.

Kind

Be kind.

Think

Think first of someone else.

Examine

Examine demands on others.

Understand

Try to understand.

Apologize

Apologize

Forgive

Forgive an enemy.

Forget

Forget a grudge.

Promise

Keep a promise.

Manifest

Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.

Encourage

Encourage youth.

Soft Answer

Give a soft answer.

Write

Write a letter.

Dismiss

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Seek out

Seek out a forgotten friend.

Mend

This month starting today through the 24th, I will have a post of something to do that day. The first one: Mend a quarrel.
#givethegift
#thischristmas

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Super Man's Photo Album

Super Man looking through his photo album: "It's a bird it's a plane it's me!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

The Second Coming

D&C 29 has information about the second coming.

Pocket

Now you can save my posts to Pocket. Just click the post title. Then click the Pocket button. If you don't have an account then sign up. If you do and aren't signed in then sign in. If you are signed in then the button will say "Saved!" and you will be done.

New Book!

Today Ms. Lewis's book came out!

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Conference Center

Yesterday I went to the conference center for the priesthood session.

native languages

The speakers can now speak in their native languages.

Apostle Facts

Anderson, Neil L.

• grew up in Idaho
• newest apostle
• served a mission in France later was a mission president there
• speaks 4 languages fluently English, Spanish, French and Portuguese

Christofferson, D. Todd

• grew up in New York
• mother had cancer
• got a job at LaVell Edwards Stadium
• got married to a cheerleader he met at LaVell Edwards Stadium

Cook, Quentin L.

• from Logan, Utah
• super athletic
• great grandson of Heber C. Kimball

Bednar, David A.

• youngest apostle
• missionary in Germany
• has 3 sons

Holland, Jeffrey R.

• Elder Holland and Elder Cook were missionary companions
• seminary teacher
• became president of BYU and bought land for the BYU Jerusalem Center

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Yay!

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9-11

Today is 9-11.

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Welcome Back

Today's the first day of school.

Back To School

Tonight is back to school night.

Less Than a Week...

...'till school.

School Soon

10 days until school.

Hi

Hi nice readers.

Tommorrow...

...is my birthday.

Soon

3 days until my birthday.

Birthday

Tomorrow is Daniel's birthday.

My Birthday

8 days until my birthday.

It's Here!

Happy Pioneer Day!

Pioneer Day 2014

Tomorrow is Pioneer Day.

Newspaper

7-13

7-19

7-11!

2 days until free slushies at 7-11.

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day!

July

Happy July.

Remember: 7 days without chocolate makes one weak.

Library

I've got a library checkout system.

Summer's Here

Happy Summer!

I'm coming home tomorrow

nothing.

I'm at camp

of

I'm at camp

bunch

I'm still at camp

big

I'm at camp

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Camp

Scout camp is on Monday.

Unlucky?

Happy Friday the Thirteenth.
There is a full moon today.

Summer

9 days 'till Summer.

Scratch

Scratch is awesome!

Today

Today!

Edison Lee

User Requested

Mom requested to

give ideas of fun things to do this summer in Utah

Go to the library.

Go bowling.
Go to Utah's awesome national parks!

Ha

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Questions/Ideas

Need help? Do you have an idea? Click on the speech bubble at the bottom right with the question mark and type. I will try to look at the ideas and questions when I can.

June

Happy June!

Camping

I just came back from a backpacking trip.

School Is Done

School ended today.

My Yearbook

Here is my yearbook for this year.

Hi

Hi.

End of School Soon

2 days until the last day of school.

Yearbooks

Tomorrow is Yearbook Day.

Feed

Check out my feed section.

Memorial Day

hAPPy meMorIaL DAY!

Here's the cover of The Blood of Olympus.

It will be released October 7, 2014

We were experiencing technical difficulties. All fixed now.

This is what I'm learning about in science.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? I don't know. What are you thinking?

No shopping here, only Rube Goldberg at work. Click this link and move your mouse over the cup to start.

Here's how to make a envelope and a card to go in it.

Print out these pictures by right clicking. Then click open image in new tab. Right click on the picture in the new tab and click print. Then print and follow the first picture's directions.

Now hiring bus drivers. To learn more contact Canyon View Jr. High School.
Phone: 801-610-8130
Address: 655 East 950 North, Orem, UT 84097

Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day 2012
Mother's Day 2013

Beware the revenge of the 6th.

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(This message is in code.)

Happy Cinco de Mayo.

May the 4th be with you because tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo.

Two more days until something.

Happy May Day!

4 days 'till...well you'll find out.

What plastic is that? Look at the number in the recycling symbol.
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/

1. Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE/PET)
Usually accompanied by the letters “PETE” or “PET,” this resin is generally used for soda bottles and other containers for edible and non-edible goods. When it's not being used to manufacture containers, you might recognize it by another name: polyester. (Yes, it's the stuff that insulates your jackets.) It's also one of the most widely accepted forms of plastic in curbside recycling programs, though the amount of useable material available for new products after breaking down this plastic is relatively small.

2. High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
The second most widely used resin for plastic bottles, HDPE is a stiff, strong material with a high resistance to chemicals, which has made it the go-to plastic for food items like milk and juice, as well as household cleaners and trash bags. It's also easy to break down in the recycling process and easy to reform, making it one of the most efficient consumer plastics. Most curbside recycling programs have no problem with accepting products made from this plastic.

3. Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
First discovered in the 19th century, PVC is commonly used in building materials today—especially pipes and plumbing material—due to its strength and chemical resistance (although it's occasionally used for some household products). It has a nasty habit of releasing highly carcinogenic toxins into the atmosphere when it's burned, so recycling is a significantly less appealing option for PVC disposal, and it's usually not accepted by curbside recycling programs.

4. Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
This plastic is becoming more common today, especially for manufacturing squeeze bottles and grocery bags. Plastics made from LDPE are usually very strong, and they're regularly used as sealants because of this quality. While they weren't included in curbside recycling programs at first, plastics made from LDPE are now becoming more commonly accepted.

5. Polypropylene (PP)
Regarded as one of the “safest” plastics produced today, PP is generally used for squeezable bottles, bottle caps, and straws. Along with LDPE, it's also used for Tupperware and other food-storage containers that can be reused over time. It has an extremely high melting point, so it's one of the best consumer plastics for items that will be exposed to heat. Like LDPE, it's becoming more common for curbside recycling programs to accept items made from this plastic.

6. Polystyrene (PS)
More commonly known as styrofoam, this type of plastic is not only notoriously difficult to recycle, but it's also been shown to leach dangerous toxins over time into anything packaged in it—and even greater amounts of toxins when it's burned. This is the resin usually found in disposable serving trays, egg cartons, and cups, and it's rarely accept by curbside recycling programs due to the danger it poses and the difficulty of recycling it. Basically, this is the worst of the bunch.

7. Everything Else
There are countless other plastics, but very few of them are easily recycled in curbside programs, making this category the catch-all for everything that could conceivably be broken down and reformed, but might be better off reused or reformed in some way that doesn't require a chemical process. This category encompasses everything from bulletproof material to those large water jugs on office coolers, and is rarely included in curbside recycling programs.

12 made up words we accepted into the english language.
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/

1. CONTACT

While many people still don't like impact as a verb, contact has settled into verbdom quite comfortably. But it had a hard time in the beginning. In 1937, it was number four on a widely published list of the 10 most "overworked" words, with members of the advertising industry named as the worst offenders. In 1931, an official at Western Union wanted to institute a company-wide ban on the usage. He said the verb shouldn't be allowed "to soil any good Western Union paper." He went so far as to say the "loathsome" person who invented this "hideous vulgarism" should have been "destroyed in early childhood," arguing that "so long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview or talk to people, there can be no apology for contact."

2. INTERVIEW

While interview may have been a proper alternative to contact in 1931, people weren't always friendly to it, at least in the sense where it means the asking of questions by members of the press. An 1882 book on rhetoric describes how this verb was "first accepted in jest, then violently denounced, and finally, by a strange fate, it appears to be accepted with mournful resignation." In 1890, a New York Times article took to task the "newspaper fiends who have forced us to admit to the rights of citizenship the verb 'to interview.'"

3. OPTIMISM/PESSIMISM

These came into fashion in the 1880s, and by 1892, one magazine columnist complained about "the way in which the word Pessimism gets flung about of late … one encounters it at every turn … and it is made to serve as the label of almost every expression of discontent with the existing order of things." In 1904, another exasperated magazine writer asked, "Who will contribute the first dollar to a fund to furnish definitions of the words optimism and pessimismto writers who use the words as synonyms of cheerfulness and despondency?"

4. MORTICIAN

This word was first printed in the February 1895 issue of Embalmers Monthly, where it was proposed as a replacement for "undertaker" or "funeral director." People outside the industry didn't much care for it, complaining that it "grates the ear." For decades afterward it was called "ugly," "affected," an "uncouth stranger," and an "atrocity" of a euphemism. The literary critic Harry Levin called it a "pseudo-Latinism of dubious currency."

5. PURIST

In 1883, a journalist named Godfrey Turner went on an awesome rampage against purist, writing, "What a word! We have here positively the only instance of an attempt to make a noun, by this clumsy inflection, direct out of a raw adjective." He wasn't done with it yet though, going on to write in another publication, "whoever first committed to the legibility of black and white that vicious noun-substantive has, it may be hoped, lived to repent a deed that offends forever against verbal purity … among all blundering conceits of modern phraseology, [it] stands distinguished from its misshapen fellows by an unapproachable singularity of malformation."

6. RELIABLE

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An 1860 review of a new dictionary of English lamented that author "gives a place to the superfluous word reliable, which has well nigh superseded the old fashioned idiomatic termtrustworthy." The reviewer is pleased, however, that the dictionary explains why "this anomalous and deformed word" makes no sense: To get the intended meaning, the word should be "reliuponable," which would be "ludicrous."

7. ANTIBODY

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In his 1916 writing guide, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch calls this word "a barbarism, and a mongrel at that." He complains that "when it became an accepted custom for each nation to use its own language in scientific treatises, it certainly was not foreseen that men of science would soon be making discoveries at a rate which left their skill in words outstripped," and that "they would bombast out our dictionaries with monstrously invented words." He concludes that "for our own self-respect, whilst we retain any sense of intellectual pedigree, antibody is no word to throw at a bacillus."

8. ELECTROCUTION

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In 1899, the Chicago Eagle advised its readers that this word, though "popularly applied to this process of inflicting capital punishment, is a bad and incorrect one," and the correct term was "execution by electricity." The Sacramento Daily Record-Union said, "the English language has enough to bear in the way of absurdity, slang and vulgarity, without this new affliction." But the best condemnation of electrocution came from Ambrose Bierce's 1909 catalogue of language peeves, Write it Right, where he called the word "no less than disgusting, and the thing meant by it is felt to be altogether too good for the word's inventor."

9. PROPOSITION

For decades, style guides hated the use of proposition for proposal. In 1914, an English professor named Richard Burnton described his irritation with the word this way: "Take the ubiquitous and awful word proposition. Used at first in business and perhaps needed there, it has waxed so arrogant that you hear it on every side, wherever two or three are gathered together. 'That's a different proposition' is sickeningly familiar to the jaded ear, and may now be taken to refer to anything from a comparison of the beauty of women to a statement of a new turn in the Balkan imbroglio."

10. DEMOTE

When people started using demote as the opposite of promote in the 1890s, they would put quotation marks around it to indicate there was uncertainty about whether it was okay to use. Some argued that retromote would be a better word from an etymological standpoint, but one letter to the editor called both coinages "barbarisms," and proposed that the proper term for sending someone down a class was the one used at Harvard—drop. Though demotecame to be accepted pretty quickly, it appeared on the "Don't List" of editorial standards for the New York Herald until 1918 with the comment, "there is no word demote."

11. BALANCE

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Balance, in the sense of "what's left of something" was once frowned upon as an irritating misuse of bookkeeping jargon. In 1913, The American Business Encyclopedia and Legal Adviser advised against using it in social situations outside the office where it was considered "vulgar." The literary critic Richard Grant White lamented that "people speak even of the balance of a day, of spending thus or so the balance of their time, or even the balance of their lives" and that he found this "hideous English…it cannot be too often or too severely censured."

12. DONATE

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White didn't hold back on donate either: "I need hardly say, that this word is utterly abominable – one that any lover of simple honest English cannot hear with patience and without offence. It has been formed by some presuming and ignorant person from donation…when we havegive, present, grant, confer, endow, bequeath, devise, with which to express the act of transferring possession in all its possible varieties."

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Here are some words that don't mean what they used to.
Source: http://mentalfloss.com

HEARTBURN

Used to mean: Jealousy or hatred

"Heartburn" hasn't ever actually involved the heart. It once referred to feelings that come from the mind. Now it describes an issue with your stomach or esophagus.

INMATE

Used to mean: A tenant or housemate

Try posting an "Inmate Wanted" ad on Craigslist today and see what happens.

BULLY

Used to mean: Superb, wonderful

When Theodore Roosevelt referred to the presidency as a bully pulpit, he wasn't talking about name-calling, harassment, or beating anyone with a big stick. He was praising the social change he might shape in office. Bully for him!

 ARTIFICIAL

Used to mean: Full of artistic and technical skill

Think about it: It takes a lot of skill to reproduce a flower in silk or realistic-feeling latex.

AWFUL

Used to mean: Commanding awe

Here's an awfully good example from Moby Dick: "There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."

Happy Earth Day!

And now The Mom Song!

Hello people.

Listen to The Browsers on iTunes!

Happy Saturday!

9 days until Easter.

Listen to The Browsers here from 1-3 PM.

Check out the new conference page!

Watch the Sunday Afternoon Session live while it's going on!

There was an earthquake in Chile yesterday.

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April Fools!

70 degrees Tuesday + Snow Wednesday + Hail, Rain and Snow Thursday = Spring in Utah.

It's a new term!

Conference next month!

Today is the end of 3rd term.

Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody) Lightsaber Duel - ThePianoGuys

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Would you like to have infrared or ultra violet vision just by putting in contact lenses? 'Tis possible!

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Happy pi day! 3/14

Pi=3.1415926535898

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Check out my new pages.

The chickens caught and devoured a mouse!!!

Spain's Dst is March 30th.

The time in Spain is now 12:38 AM.

Remember to change your clocks on Sunday.

Today's Hannah's Birthday.

Google Translate is awesome!

Hi.

Google Translate turned this

New Look, Same Great Program

We would like to inform you of some minor, but visible, changes that are coming to the current FamilySearch indexing program on February 26.

The intent of these changes is to help volunteers recognize the connection between FamilySearch.org, with its recently updated look, and the existing indexing program. Specifically, you will soon notice the indexing program displaying:

• The new FamilySearch logo
• Changed fonts in some screens to match the new FamilySearch.org fonts
• Minor changes of color in various places throughout the program

While the underlying functionality has not changed, there are two additional changes in the interface you should be aware of (as shown below).

1. The location of Work Offline is changing from a check box to a drop-down menu.

Current

New

2. The look and location of the Close this batch, and return to start page green arrow will change.

Current

New

Please note: These changes do not signal the arrival of the new indexing program. The new program is still in development and is scheduled for release later this year. For more information about the new indexing program, pleaseclick here.

Thank you for your tremendous efforts to help further indexing and family history work!

Sincerely,

FamilySearch indexing

to this

The new interface is still the same great program

We would like to inform you about a number of small changes are visible , but in the Feb. 26 program , Family creep appears .

And these changes will help new reptiles to see . And the link to the website FamilySearch.org , a redesigned user interface , and soon the following improvements in the indexing program period will see .

New Family logo

Changing the line pages of new online site to synchronize FamilySearch.org

A slight color change in different areas of the program

While the main function has not changed , two additional changes to the interface ( see below ) .

Job site without the connection dropdown box .

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new

Web - based green arrow and the game close and send it back .

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Interesting. Such changes do not indicate that he was prepared to the new program to compare : The new program is under development and should be released this year . For more information about the new indexing program , click here .

Thank you for your efforts in promoting crawling and family history .

Sincerely ,

Family crawler

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The Olympics are awesome!

Tomorrow are the olympics in Sochi.

Today grandpa Zundel brought wifi.

Olympics are coming soon. Will you watch them?

2 more days until Ground Hog's Day.

Next holiday: Groundhog's Day

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Hi readers.

5 days until Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

2nd Semester coming in 5 days!

It's slowly getting warmer.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is coming this month.

Happy New Year!