Utah adopts online textbooks

Utah adopts online textbooks - It is about time that Utah decided to adopt online textbooks. It is cheaper, and we need to make our dollars stretch to take care of the children and young adults in our school systems. Now if we can get the colleges and universities to adopt this as well, we will be making real progress.

DC 12-Volt Power Cord for Respironics, Cigarette Lighter

DC 12-Volt Power Cord for Respironics, Cigarette Lighter

This is the DC shielded cord that I need for my Remstar Auto M-Series with A-flex CPAP unit (model 1051158). I need to have this for use in my truck. I also need to do a follow up for sleep apnea too. I've called my doctor's office to get a copy of my sleep study, etc so that I can provide this to Schneider National, for my DOT physical. I will have to wait to get my unemployment insurance before I can buy this cord, but it is good to be able to get one.

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A Cool Site for Sharing your Music Tracks

I stumbled across this site and it looks like a great way for aspiring artists to get their music out to the public so as to get noticed. Also, the services look really good if you are needing a good way to share any audio file with the public, like lectures, recording books to share with your kids while you are on the road, etc. Here is a short video describing this service.

SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.

AP News | The Times-Tribune | thetimes-tribune.com

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It isn't surprising for people to speculate that Obama will win if the unemployment holds steady or drops again by August 2012. Statistically and historically they are correct. The problem, though, is there are more people no longer counted as unemployed even though they are unemployed still and this makes matters difficult. If these people reenter the workforce process, even if they are still unemployed, the unemployment rate will go up. The problem here is that big business and financial people made a gamble that backfired and they still have not been held accountable for this. There fiasco is what has caused the downfall in the real estate market and the spending slow down that has plagued this recession. While they may say that the recession was officially over in 2009, people like myself know otherwise. I have been struggling with unemployment and underemployment since 2009 and this is a problem that every other middle to lower class American has been dealing with. Part time work removes one from the unemployment numbers but part time work won't feed your family nor make a mortgage payment. At the moment, GOP has been a party of 'no' and has not produced any concrete results other than to stifle any improvement in employment. Obama and the Democrats have not been as communicative as they could have been, that is until recently, and the American public doesn't know the details of the plans they have been proposing. All we here is what GOP wants us to hear and the Democrats are not smart enough to figure out that if you do not communicate with the people then the people will consider what they are hearing to be the truth, even if it is not. The only good news is that there has been headway made in opening up the voting process to third parties that are neither GOP or Democrat and that is the one bright side to all of this.

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Just obtained my CDL Learners Permit

Just passed my CDL Tests at the DMV and I was able to get my CDL learners permit. Now I just need to finish the last three weeks at Roadmaster Drivers School in West Valley City, UT and I will receive my hard copy. I will be studying for my CDL endorsements for doubles-triples, tankers and Hazardous Materials on 27Jan2012 (Friday). I am hoping to complete my TIA screening for the Hazardous Materials by then, so that I can get this completed.  With these endorsements I will have more options available to me.  So far, I have a pre-hire letter from Werner Enterprises, which is good. I still need to hear back from Schneider and BTC which offer some really good opportunities. The future holds a lot of promise, I can become a lead driver/trainer as well as become an owner operator.  I will wait at least a year before trying to become an owner operator.  However, I am stoked that I passed my CDL tests to get my permit. 

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The tandem stops will be great, as it helps you with resetting your rear trailer tandems as you load and unload your trailer.

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