Water district moves to ease recreational uses of its land

Good news for dogs, astronomers and sweaty campers:Proposed changes to rules that govern recreation on hundreds of thousands of acres of land owned by the South Florida Water Management District will make it easier - and more comfortable - for hunters, anglers, hikers, bikers, birders and dog lovers.

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Facebook Friends Welcome at Bar; Others, Maybe Not

Facebook users in or around the Stockton, Calif., area may be getting a new friend. A local business owner has made it his mission to friend every bar patron as a precautionary measure to keep the good patrons in and the bad ones out. Finnegan’s...    

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Cooking with Kids: Make good ice cream better by mixing in cookies, candy and pretzels

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PHOTOS: Check Out This Beautiful Book Art

Ekaterina Panikanova's beautiful book art is absolutely mesmerizing and we can't stop looking at it. Her work was recently shown at the Z2O Gallery in Rome, so it has been circulating on the Internet. Panikanova was born in St. Petersburg, and graduated at the top of her class from the Academy of Fine Arts. She...

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Reporters’ Notebook / Bits and pieces of news …

OLAF FUB SEZ: According to author Salman Rushdie, born on this date in 1947, “The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”...LICKIN’ GOOD – Barbecue lovers will celebrate the arrival of summer from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday at Gateway-Longview’s fifth annual BBQ & Blues Bash...

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Amanda Saunders: Steer Clear of Tourist Traps

Summer is here, school is out, and if you're like a lot of families, that means a road trip or a short flight to the beach. But admit it; you've been sucked into those tourist traps before while on those last minute vacations. The ones with the flashy signs and overpriced admission fees, where all you end up walking...

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Collette DeBenedetto: 10 Ways to Stay in Shape While Traveling

Ahhh... vacation, the time for you to kick up your feet, pick up a drink, and take off your top (to tan in your bikini, pervs). But while we're relaxing and imbibing in drink after frozen drink, we tend to forget about our waistlines. The excuse I most often use is a simple, but clear "who cares? I'm on vacation!"...

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PHOTOS: We Found Kate Moss' Favorite Clothing Item

Kate Moss is arguably the queen of uniform dressing. Whether or not you like her style, the supermodel has a look (think: skinny jeans and flats for daytime and monochromatic minis for the evening). But we think we found the garment that holds the most weight in Kate's closet: the black tuxedo jacket. Last night, we...

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Mike Montgomery: Obama Demands Expanded Airwaves

Last week, the White House dropped a broadband bombshell in the form of a series of initiatives aimed at freeing up government-controlled spectrum for wireless providers. It also released a new report, "Four Years of Broadband Growth," which is brimming with positive news about our nation's broadband infrastructure....

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Maurice Tracy: In Defense of the Selfie

NOTE: A version of this post, titled "The Fat Boi Diaries: Why Selfies?," originally appeared on my blog BlaQueer and on The Good Men Project. Last week I engaged in my weekly I-am-tired-of-job-searching-and-thinking-about-my-dissertation-ritual of watching the HuffPost Live while I twisted my hair for a twist-out...

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Facebook: The Key To Boosting Organ Donor Registration?

In May 2012, Facebook gave users an option to share their status as an organ donor on the social media site, and also provided access to links where people could get officially registered online with their state's department of motor vehicles. And turns out, that social media push added up to huge gains in organ...

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Pa. child-protection laws targeted for overhaul

State Rep. Keith Greiner believes that nothing in life is so bad that some good can't come of it.As a proud Penn State graduate and lifetime member of its alumni association, the Leola Republican was horrified by what he perceived as a culture of concealment at the university surrounding the Jerry ...

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Market Echoes June 2012 FOMC As Dow Swings Most Since Oct 2011

For the sixth day in a row, the Dow managed a triple digit gain/loss - the first time since Sep/Oct 2011 - as markets appear to playing out a perfect echo of last year's June FOMC meeting with a ~3% 4-day gain in the run-up to the decision only to give it all back in the next few days. In the same way as last year,...

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Jesse Jackson Jr. Wants To Head Behind Bars Before Wife Sandi

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandi appear to be preparing for the likely possibility that they will both be heading to prison when they are sentenced on July 3 for spending campaign cash on personal items. In a Monday court filing, Jackson Jr.'s attorneys wrote that if both the ex-congressman...

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5 Biggest Complaints About Working At Facebook Are Just Humblebrags

Lots of people dream about working for Facebook, and why wouldn't they? It has, after all, produced its fair share of millionaires and billionaires. Facebook employees voted the company the best place to work in 2013 in Glassdoor's annual survey. So when Facebook's workers blow off steam about their employer, their...

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6 Things You Must Do Before A Move

Moving is so difficult, I've known of friends who have stayed at the absolute worst apartments in order to avoid the task for as long as possible. And by "friends" I also mean "myself." I had come to my senses right before my 5th anniversary in a city I didn't necessarily like, in an apartment with floors so crooked...

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Lonely Island 'Wack' It Out Of The Park

-- The Lonely Island, "The Wack Album" (Republic Records) The Lonely Island pull another magic trick out of the fun box – and it's their third studio record, "The Wack Album." The Weird Al Yankoviches of the 21st century tackle sexual etiquette, double standards, general stupidity and wardrobe malfunctions with the...

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Lawyer In Gay Marriage Case Speaks On Forthcoming Supreme Court Ruling

WASHINGTON -- Predicting the outcome of Supreme Court decisions is a bit of a fool's errand, as most people who tried to do so before last year's ruling on the Affordable Care Act can attest. But if anyone has a good sense for how the nine justices will rule, it's the lawyers who argued the cases before them. On...

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'Long Shot' illustrates Piazza's desire to prove himself

Here's what outsiders saw: Mike Piazza hit more home runs than any catcher in baseball history. Here's what Piazza saw: a world that questioned whether he was good enough.

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Rehab Does Lindsay Lohan GOOD

The first photos of Lindsay Lohan in rehab have surfaced, and the actress is looking happier, healthier and better than she has in a long time. Photographs of Lohan smoking on a balcony at Cliffside Malibu rehab center emerged this week, showing the smiling star looking fresh-faced and relaxed. In the photos, first...

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Vanessa Garcia: From Red to Blue: An Interview With Diddier Santos Moleiro

This past week, the documentary film, Ni Rojo, Ni Verde, Azul! (translation: Not Red, or Green; Blue!) debuted online. The production company that made the film, Matraka Productions, hopes it goes global. Viral. But more lies in this wish than just the typical ego rub, audience wrangling, and the ubiquitous...

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Abercrombie: Ellison good for Lanai after 1 year

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie says Oracle Corp. billionaire Larry Ellison is proving to be good for Lanai one year after buying most of the Hawaiian Island.

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S.E. Cupp Urges Conservatives To Back Gay Adoption: Not ‘Comfortable,’ But Is A ‘Moral Imperative’

On Tuesday, MSNBC host and New York Daily News columnist S.E. Cupp addressed what she thinks is a deficiency in the conservative political platform relating to issues relating to the promotion of life and parenthood: support for adoption rights. Cupp said that the GOP would be well served to aggressively support the...

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Where Should SEC Start A Fraud Crack Down? Maybe Look At Fake Restatements

It’s so good to hear that the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to refocus its enforcement efforts on accounting fraud. It would be even better for investors if the regulator used all the information already available – no need to resort to fancy computer algorithms - to prosecute accounting frauds and the...

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Scott Porch: Hot in Hollywood: Producer Lynda Obst on Tentpoles, Tadpoles and TV

Film producer Lynda Obst's career has had more twists and turns than a big-budget action movie -- which is not the sort of movie she makes. (Not yet anyway, but more on that later.) Obst started her career as associate producer on Flashdance and made a film every year or two from the early 1990s through the early...

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‘Riotous Baroque’ and Robert Crumb

This is good.To get Baroque art out of its boilerplate niche of embellishments and flourish, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers a show called “Riotous Baroque,” a pairing of the 17th century style with that of 21st...

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Abercrombie: Ellison good for Lanai after 1 year

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie says Oracle Corp. billionaire Larry Ellison is proving to be good for Lanai one year after buying most of the Hawaiian Island.

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Is The Credit Cycle Over?

No matter how much pushing on the market- or economic-string a central planner tries, eventually the risk-based pricing of credit (as opposed to nominal price based stocks) turns the corner from accepting rising leverage as potentially good thing for growth to worrying that cash flows are at risk from an...

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AP: PennDOT withholds funding plan from public

HARRISBURG - The state Department of Transportation has built a website that compares competing plans to spend billions of dollars on highways and bridges in new transportation money under proposals being considered by the Legislature, but agency officials have refused to release similar information to the public,...

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Abercrombie: Ellison good for Lanai after 1 year

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie says Oracle Corp. billionaire Larry Ellison is proving to be good for Lanai one year after buying most of the Hawaiian Island.Click to Continue »

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