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Thaneeya, from the Zazzle store thaneeyamcardle, shares with us her multicultural inspirations as well as her immense gratitude for online commerce. Check out the interview below and don't forget to check out her store thaneeyamcardle!
Zazzle: Hi, start off by telling us a little about yourself.
Thaneeya: My name is Thaneeya McArdle and I'm a full-time artist and entrepreneur. In addition to creating art, I run several art-related websites: an art instruction website, an online art community, as well as my online storefront that showcases my products for sale, the majority of which are Zazzle products! Aside from my art obsession, I am also addicted to travel and books.
Zazzle: When did you decide to create art professionally?
Thaneeya: At the end of 1999, I decided to major in Art in college. That's when I knew I'd need to sell my art to survive. There was no other lifestyle I could imagine, so I knew I had to make it work. Thanks to the Internet, my dream became a reality. I am so grateful for having been born in this time and place, because if I'd have been born a generation earlier, I'd probably be stuck in a job I hated just to pay the bills, with little time to do art on the side. But the Internet provides the tools for artists – even emerging artists – to make a healthy living. It's awesome!
Zazzle: What inspires you?
Thaneeya: So many things inspire me! Anything with vivid colors and detailed patterns, such as alebrije (Mexican folk art sculptures), Tibetan thangkas, Persian miniatures, Indian textiles, Mexican Huichol art, Peruvian retablos, Aboriginal art, modern abstract art (particularly Paul Klee, Hundertwasser and Kandinsky)…
I'm also inspired by the materiality of my art materials – the texture and viscosity of the paint, the waxy quality of my colored pencils, and the glittery sheen of patterned craft paper. Just looking at art materials makes me want to create with them!
fZazzle: How would you describe your style?
Thaneeya: Funky, eclectic, and detailed! I love detail – whether it's an intricate abstract or hyper-realism. I could never stick to just one style (that would be too stifling), so I swing between making abstract art, whimsical art, photorealistic art, and combinations of these different styles. Each style offers so many different opportunities for self-expression.
Zazzle: What's your favorite medium to use?
Thaneeya: For painting, acrylics are my favorite medium. For drawing, I prefer colored pencils. I love the rich colors that can be created with both.
Zazzle: Where's your favorite space to create?
Thaneeya: Anywhere! I paint on a tabletop easel in our lanai overlooking a sleepy bayou, which is a quiet, inspirational place to make art. When I'm drawing I often like to just sit on the couch with my colored pencils or pens, because it's so comfortable. Since my drawing materials are portable, I like to take them with me when I travel, to sketch or draw from different locations.
Zazzle: What got you interested in selling your art on Zazzle?
Thaneeya: It just seemed like such a cool idea. In the beginning it was such a novelty to see my art on t-shirts and products, so I did it for fun… when I first started, I never realized that it would grow to be a genuine source of income over the years!
Zazzle: What was the first product you ever sold on Zazzle?
Thaneeya: My very first sale on Zazzle was actually a batch order of 105 Day of the Dead sugar skull shirts, all sold to the same customer on October 4, 2006. What an encouraging first sale that was! This was one of the shirts he ordered:
Zazzle: What tips can you give someone who is just starting out on Zazzle?
Thaneeya: First of all, create great art! That's the most important thing.
Another thing to keep in mind when you're just starting out is that Zazzle offers an overwhelming amount of different products, so don't try to put your art on every single product available. Be discerning and only post an item for sale if the artwork actually looks good on that item. For instance, a landscape painting probably wouldn't look good on a hat, but it might look great as a mousepad. You get the idea!
Zazzle: Can you give us a sneak peek of future designs?
Thaneeya: I don't have any images ready to share yet, but I am currently working on more sugar skulls and more funky owls.
Thanks for sharing Thaneeya!

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Writing R Scripts and the R Console
Chapter 3: Viewing and Plotting Data
Chapter 4: Managing R Projects
Chapter 5: Generating Reports
Chapter 6: Using RStudio Effectively
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- RStudio at a glance
- Installing RStudio
- Installing R
- Installing R on Windows and Mac OS X
- Installing R on Linux
- Building R from source
- Building R using Windows
- Installing RStudio
- Installing RStudio Server
- Installing R packages
- Overview: A first R session
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Getting help
- What if I uninstall RStudio?
- Further reading
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Writing R Scripts and the R Console
- Moving around RStudio
- Features of the R console
- Executing commands
- Command history
- Command completion
- Completion of functions and arguments
- Object completion
- Completion of filenames
- Keyboard shortcuts for the console
- Features of the source editor
- Editing R scripts
- Syntax highlighting
- Indenting code
- Commenting code
- Find and replace
- Folding, sectioning, and navigation
- Code folding
- Code navigation
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- Code execution
- Summary
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- Viewing data and the object browser
- Plotting
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- Interactive plotting with the manipulate package
- The manipulate function
- Using more options of manipulate
- Advanced topic: retrieving plot parameters from manipulate
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- Further reading
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- Chapter 5: Generating Reports
- Prerequisites for report generation
- Notebook
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- Publishing a notebook
- R Markdown and Rhtml
- Workflow for R Markdown
- An extended example
- An introduction to Markdown syntax
- Rhtml
- Code chunks
- Chunk syntax and options
- RMarkdown: .Rmd files
- Rhtml: .Rhtml files
- LaTeX: .Rnw files
- RStudio's chunk support and keyboard shortcuts
- LaTeX
- Further reading
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Using RStudio Effectively
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- Function extraction
- Function navigation
- Introduction to package writing
- Prerequisites
- Basic structure and workflow
- Creating the package directory structure
- Documenting functions with Roxygen2
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Overwork is not good for productivity. If you're doing physical labor, you get tired. If you're doing customer service, you get cranky. If you're sitting at a desk doing so-called knowledge work, you get stale and unimaginative. Moreover, these deficits are cumulative; the longer you work crazy hours, the more of a strain this puts on your productivity.
So why, over the past few decades, have knowledge workers come to work such long hours? A recent column by James Surowiecki explores the issue, and he hits a lot of good points. But I want to highlight one possibility that he doesn't mention: As work has gotten more specialized, the penalty for handing off work to multiple people has risen.
When people complain about work-family balance, they frequently complain that two people who each work 30 hours a week are paid much less than half as much as one person working 60 hours a week. Surowiecki notes that it's more expensive to hire two people (benefits, desks, etc.). But that's not the only cost. In specialized jobs, two people who are each working 30 hours a week may actually be much less productive than one working 60 — even if working 60 hours makes each of those hours much less productive than they could be.
The problem is that when work is specialized, each worker has individual knowledge about the job that has to be passed off to anyone else working on that job. If you split the job, you increase the amount of time that is spent telling the other person what you know . . . and increase the risk that something will be missed because one person knew one thing and the other knew something else, and those two pieces of information never met in the same head.
More workers also means more time managing those workers. Ever been at a firm or department that went from five people to 35? How much more of your time got sucked up in meetings? As work teams grow, you start to need elaborate hierarchies of communication and control that absorb lots of time and require extra people whose jobs are just managing all the others.
And as the pace of communications has accelerated, it has paradoxically gotten more difficult to do without people. If you're an American working with folks in Europe, you quickly learn to write off the summer, because it's impossible to get anything done when everyone takes multiweek vacations. By the time one person gets back, the other person is off. This is maddening if you're working on anything time-sensitive.
This is not to say that the overcrowding of the American schedule is the right approach. I have the American tendency to fill every waking hour with work, as much as someone is willing to give me. After seven years of blogging professionally, I've come to realize that I have to force myself to take vacations — real ones, where the phone is off and I don't promise to work on just a couple of little tidbits, such as maybe a reported feature. Every time I come back from vacation, I dive back into work with new ideas and a lot more energy, and I think, "Why don't I do this more often?" And still, every year, I lose most of my vacation days.
Maybe U.S. employers should be more like the Economist, which, when I worked there, required you to take all your vacation — not "use it or lose it," just "use it." But you can see why they aren't, when most of the economic and cultural pressures run the other way.
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June 14, 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 24
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Local fisherman, Ed Wood, spied a bright yellow growth on one of the pilings at the minus tide of the North Harbor Thursday morning.
"I went to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and brought Becky Knight to look at the growth," Wood said. "While she was taking photos, I crawled down and got a sample of it with my knife."
One of the bigger fears of fishermen in these waters is the growth called Didemnum vexillum, also called D. vex, which was found in Sitka a few years ago. D. vex, also known as rock vomit, is an invasive species that smothers the ocean bed and disallows area fish from feeding. D vex is commonly known as the Whangamata sea squirt, but also referred to as a colonial, compound ascidian and/or tunicate. It is a filter feeding animal, sponge-like in appearance, yellow or orange in color and its surface has darkish leaf-like veins with pores. Colonies often droop when living under surfaces.
The origin of this species is unknown at this time. Natural dispersal of this species is created sexually by releasing tailed larvae which can be dispersed via water currents. Alternatively, colonies can reproduce asexually by budding, hence fragments can break off and grow into new colonies.
Artificial dispersal happens by way of infected hulls of vessels, aquaculture equipment and fragments in ballast water.
This invasive species is a threat to the marine farming industry because of the species smothering capabilities and preference and great survival rate on artificial structures such as wharf pylons, mooring lines and vessel hulls.
Colonies of D. vex exhibit a wide variety of morphological variants. Where velocity is low, they form long, ropey or beard-like colonies that commonly hang from hard surfaces such as docks, lines and ship hulls. Where current velocity is high, they form low, undulating mats with short superficial appendages that encrust and drape rocky sea beds.
According to a June article written in Pacific Fisherman Magazine, the Alaska legislature passed a bill ordering the Department of Fish and Game to put together a prototype emergency response plan for quick, geographically localized action when a new aquatic invasive species is discovered anywhere in the state.
This bill, HB 365, was introduced out of frustration with the department's plodding response to the potentially catastrophic infestation of Sitka's Whiting Harbor.
The potential danger of this invasive species to the marine life in Petersburg's own harbors should keep fishermen and harbor officials on their toes and cause them to be on the lookout.
The species found by Wood Thursday morning has been sent to officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service. NMFS representative has stated, "Upon first glance, this looks like a sponge and not the D. vex, but will run tests to see."
There are procedures for collecting and preserving samples of D. vex for identification. If possible, photograph D. vex in its natural environment, do not attempt to remove D. vex if smothering other organisms. Place each D. vex sample inside separate screw top containers with enough sea water to just cover the specimens. Sprinkle menthol crystals on top of the sample and place the lid on tightly. Gently tip the sample upside down to ensure mixing. Menthol crystals help relax the D. vex to assist with the identification procedure. In place of menthol crystals, place specimens inside a plastic bag and freeze for 24 hours and label.
The growth found by Wood, may not be the invasive D. vex that could be so damaging to any fishing community, but awareness is still needed in this situation.
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is a Port Washington icon. The store is family run, and has called Port home since 1946. But many residents, including owner Patti Vunk, fear that a ban on takeout goods will hurt the shop's , and possibly lead to the demise of this long-established business.
Nearly a year ago Vunk applied for everything needing approval before beginning construction on the café. One section of the agreement that was overlooked was the paragraph concerning the customers' ability to take food or beverage with them off the premise. According to the variance, patrons could not bring any food or beverage purchased from the store with them when they left.
For Vunk, the matter is causing concern. According to the store's attorney, Joseph Asselta, reactions from customers told they could not take what they bought out of the store "ranged from mild annoyance to utter disbelief."
Vunk and her staff worry that the ban makes it more difficult, as a smaller mom-and-pop store, to compete with larger companies.
The shop put out a petition, in store and online, encouraging residents to support a request to receive permission for patrons to take food and beverage off the premises.
At the meeting Wednesday evening, Vunk's attorney, along with many Port residents, defended the store's right to offer takeout.
Howard Blankman, a long-time resident, told the council, "It's a win-win situation." He sees the Dolphin as an asset to Port Washington. "It's a place that's done with taste and refinement and civility," he said.
Also speaking on behalf of the Dolphin was local couple Betty and Hugh Stephens. "We've seen how difficult it is on lower Main Street," Hugh Stephens said. "Whatever we can do to help them in this terrible business climate, we should."
Betty Stephens agreed, noting that Dolphin should have the same rights as other businesses. "It should be fair and equal with the
different businesses," she said.
Barbara Lawrence, a Port resident for 49 years, said, "I don't remember there not being a Dolphin Bookshop in town. We are so lucky to have it."
Resident Mark Gamell spoke from the consumer perspective. "Let us buy what we like and drink what we like," he told the council.
Other speakers included Mindy Germain of Residents for More Beautiful Port Washington; Anthony Testa, who manages the building in which Dolphin is located; and Mitch Shwartz, co-president of the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce. All agreed the ban should be lifted.
After the session, Patti Vunk said she felt very positive about the upcoming
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Tonight I attended a Democratic Delegate's meeting. We were fortunate to hear from one of our potential Democratic candidates running for County Executive of Westchester. Mayor of New Rochelle Noam Bramson put his bid in to be the party's possible candidate. He would be running against the incumbent Republican, Rob Astorino, if he gets his party's nod.
Westchester County Executive is the head of the executive branch of the Westchester County government. The county executive has power to veto acts of Westchester County Board of Legislators .
The office of Westchester County Executive was created in 1937 when voters approved a new county charter giving the county an executive branch to complement the County Board of Legislators.
Yes, I wiki-ed that! I did it for all of us. When I look at that definition it brings home, all the more, why I support my New Rochelle leader and neighbor, Noam Bramson. His vision, as he stated, is to help all residence of Westchester bring out the best of all of us toward achieving our best. As a leader in New Rochelle, he has shown tremendous leadership through compassion and action. He wants to bring that energy to the County level. I believe he can do it. Here are some quotes from tonight's remarks...."All of us are better off when our community is healthy.....What matters here, Matters everywhere...We need to budget reform...we need to plan for the future..Too easy to forget the future and the big picture...Sustainability and the Quality of our plan is essential for our future
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Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High-Level Scientific Conferences
in association with the Newton Institute programme entitled Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equations
(20 January - 4 July 2003)
7 April - 11 April 2003
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Scientific Committee:
Mark Ainsworth (University of Strathclyde), Wolfgang Dahmen (RWTH Aachen), Christoph Schwab (ETH Zürich), and Endre Süli (University of Oxford)
Invited Speakers:
Mark Ainsworth (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Franco Brezzi (University of Pavia, Italy)
Claudio Canuto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Carsten Carstensen (University of Vienna, Austria)
Albert Cohen (University of Paris, France)
Wolfgang Dahmen (University of Aachen, Germany)
Ron DeVore (University of South Carolina, USA)
Weinan E (Princeton University, USA)
Björn Engquist (Princeton University, USA; KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
Tom Hou (Caltech, USA)
Claes Johnson (Chalmers University Göteborg, Sweden)
Ricardo Nochetto (Maryland)
Rolf Rannacher (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Jinchao Xu (Penn State University, USA)
Theme of Conference:
Many computationally challenging problems that arise in science and engineering exhibit multiscale behaviour. Relevant examples of practical interest include: structural analysis of composite and foam materials, fine-scale laminates and crystalline microstructures, flow through porous media, dendritic solidification, turbulent transport in high Reynolds number flows, weather forecasting, large-scale data visualization, spray combustion and detonation, many-body galaxy formation, large-scale molecular dynamic simulations, ab-initio physics and chemistry, and a multitude of others.
In stark contrast with the multiscale behaviour exhibited by such problems, classical computational methods for the numerical simulation of multiscale physical phenomena have been designed to operate at a certain preselected scale fixed by the choice of a discretisation parameter. As a result of this, the task of numerically computing or even representing all of the physically relevant scales present in the problem by classical numerical techniques results in excessive algorithmic complexity. The consequential difficulties manifest themselves in various guises: An attempt to represent all relevant scales in the physical model may lead to an extremely large set of unknowns, requiring a tremendous amount of computer memory and CPU time; For certain multiscale problems one is not actually interested in the fine scale information; however, due to the presence of nonlinearities in the model, the effect of the fine, unresolvable scale information on coarse scales cannot be ignored and must be precisely incorporated in order to achieve physically meaningful computational results; Exacerbating the computational problem is the fundamental question of optimal data representation for multiscale problems where it is known that even modern wavelet basis representations can yield overall suboptimal algorithmic complexity when the quantity of interest contains embedded low-dimensional manifolds across which the function or its derivatives exhibit discontinuities (as is the case in nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, for example).
Programme content:
Multiscale problems will remain computationally expensive or completely intractable for the foreseeable future unless new algorithmic paradigms of computation are developed which fundamentally embrace the multiscale nature of these problems.
Thus far, there has been little interaction between these communities despite a considerable overlap in their scientific objectives. The aim of the meeting is to stimulate interactions and cross-fertilisation between the various subject areas involved, an assessment by leading researchers of the state-of-the-art in the field, identification of key problems and obstacles to progress, and indication of promising directions for future research.
Technical topics:
Multiscale modelling techniques in science and engineering:
Mathematical modelling of multiscale phenomena; Homogenisation theory for partial differential equations; Hierarchical modelling.
Computational multiscale modelling:
Computational/algebraic homogenisation; Multiscale finite element methods; Subgrid scale modelling and upscaling; Variational multiscale methods and residual free bubble algorithms.
Optimal-complexity and adaptive algorithms for multiscale problems:
Multiresolution algorithms; Adaptive wavelet algorithms; Adaptive h- and hp- version finite element algorithms based on a posteriori error analysis.
Structure of the meeting:
The meeting will include the following:
15 one-hour in-depth invited lectures from leading specialists (with 3 invited lectures scheduled for each of the 5 days),
13 thirty-minute contributed talks chosen from abstract submissions; abstracts will be competitively selected, with the possibility of adding an optional poster session. Short abstracts of 500 words or less are requested, for submission to the Scientific Committee on or before 15 November, 2002 with selected abstracts announced by 15 December, 2002.
5 one-hour coordinated discussion sessions with a preselected topical subject area; the subjects of these will be identified 6 months before the meeting to ensure that they are of current research interest; the topics will be chosen in consultation with the invited speakers, some of whom will be asked to act as moderators for the discussion sessions.
4 two-hour informal breakout sessions and informal time for researchers from various disciplines to explore (and exchange ideas about) future solutions to currently unsolved problems.
a thirty-minute closing session to summarise the outcome of the meeting and identify major open problems.
Schedule of the meeting:
09:00 - 10:00 Invited lecture
10:00 - 11:00 Coordinated discussion session with a preselected topical theme
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Invited lecture
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break [Wolfson Court]
14:00 - 15:00 Invited lecture
15:00 - 15:30 Tea break
15:30 - 16:00 Contributed lecture
16:00 - 16:30 Contributed lecture
16:30 - 17:00 Contributed lecture
17:00 - 18:45 Informal time for researchers from various disciplines to exchange ideas and explore currently unsolved problems.
18:45 - 19:30 Dinner
The first and last days of the meeting deviate slightly from this pattern.
08.30-09.55 Registration
09.55-10.00 Opening remarks
10.00-11.00 Invited lecture
followed by the same pattern as above.
Friday: The afternoon invited lecture is followed by a closing 30 minute discussion.
Location and Cost
The conference will take place at the Newton Institute and accommodation for participants will be provided at New Hall. Dinner and Lunch will be served at Wolfson Court . The workshop package cost is £420. This includes accommodation and breakfast from Sunday 6 April until breakfast on Saturday 12 April 2003, and lunch, dinner and refreshments during the days that lectures take place. Numbers will be restricted to about 100 participants.
The EuroConference is supported by the European Community and funding is available to support a limited number of young (under 35 years of age) researchers and overseas senior researchers who are nationals of EC Member States or of the Associated States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Israel, Switzerland). Self-supporting participants of any age and nationality are welcome to apply.
Further information
Please e-mail your enquiries to Tracey Andrew.
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The project has two pieces, said Anita Deming, executive director of the Essex County office.
One, she said, is a food-hub connection study that will evaluate how products are delivered with the end result of creation of collection and distribution centers for wholesale specialty crops.
Farmers and their customers, among them stores and restaurants, will be interviewed about their present system.
"We will try to find out how to get the products to the user in the most efficient way," Deming said on Thursday.
Perhaps multiple producers can share a truck, she suggested, "reduce the energy footprint."
And then the farmer wouldn't have to use his or her time or an employee's time to make deliveries.
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As well, she said, the distribution of specialty crops tends to follow the north/south route of Interstate 87, and they'd like to see more east/west delivery, as well.
Specialty crops are such products as fruits and vegetables, maple syrup, honey, herbs and flowers.
They do not include dairy, livestock, beef, grains — "the commodity crops traded on the stock market," Deming said.
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Rustic bling I got this pillow cover on sale. I doubt if I would have paid full price for it but I had been checking it out for a while. Was so happy to see it on sale. I love the rustic and quality homespun linen with bling. I am kind of a 'leather and lace' person and can go both extremes. It is fun and of good quality...usual for Eileen Fisher. January 22, 2014
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A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children -- a seemingly perfect existence.
But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder, and, eventually, redemption. As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s.
Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century. As in We Were the Mulvaneys, a "darkly engrossing novel" (Washington Post Book World), she examines what happens when the richly interwoven relationships of parents and their children are challenged by circumstances outside the family.
The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted, and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.
The Bride
"No. Please, God. Not this."
The hurt. The humiliation. The unspeakable shame. Not grief, not yet. The shock was too immediate for grief. When she discovered the enigmatic note her husband had left for her propped against a mirror in the bedroom of their honeymoon suite at the Rainbow Grand Hotel, Niagara Falls, New York, Ariah had been married twenty-one hours. When, in the early afternoon of that day, she learned from Niagara Falls police that a man resembling her husband, Gilbert Erskine, had thrown himself into the Horseshoe Falls early that morning and had been swept away -- "vanished, so far without a trace" -- beyond the Devil's Hole Rapids, as the scenic attraction downriver from The Falls was named, she'd been married not quite twenty-eight hours.
These were the stark, cruel facts.
"I'm a bride who has become a widow in less than a day."
Ariah spoke aloud, in a voice of wonder. She was the daughter of a much-revered Presbyterian ...
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Forest Grove Campus
The drive will benefit St. Vincent De Paul Food Bank and Relay For Life.
Apr 17-25, 2013
Relay for Life Information Table
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Apr 19-21, 2013
Northwest Conference Championship events on tap for Golf, Tennis and Softball teams.
Apr 20, 2013
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The 17th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will be held April 19-20. Paper sessions will take place in Marsh Hall classrooms on Saturday, April 20.
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|Excellent - 685 reviews
Millennium Hotel Minneapolis is in the heart of Minneapolis, walking distance from Minneapolis Convention Center and Minnesota Orchestra Hall. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Loring Park and Orpheum Theatre. Make yourself at home in one of the 321 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Cable programming provides entertainment...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 685 reviews
Excellent 9.6
Esay Location
Hallway noisey
Great location!
The pool was closed during out stay! I wish they would have mentioned that when we booked it.smaller rooms but clean!
|Excellent - 1099 reviews
Home of the original flagship Radisson Hotel built in 1909, the sophisticatedly stylish Radisson Blu Minneapolis has been designed to interact with the buzz in the beating heart of downtown Minneapolis offering world-class, upper-upscale hospitality. A location sensation: where history and heritage meet contemporary innovation and culture. The Radisson Blu M...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1099 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Location, new looking, clean, cheap parking
Pool would be nice.Great price!! Book and you will not be disappointed!!!
Good 8.0
Fire Lake restaurant! delicious breakfast and the late night menu was awesome!The room was nice, the decor was really cool
|Excellent - 1034 reviews
A stay at The Grand Hotel Minneapolis, a Kimpton Hotel places you in the heart of Minneapolis, walking distance from Minneapolis City Hall and Mary Tyler Moore Statue. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Hennepin Center for the Arts and Minneapolis Public Library-Central Branch. Make yourself at home in one of the 140 air-conditioned rooms featuri...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1034 reviews
Excellent 9.0
It was very well maintained, with excellent amenities and service.
Whoever was in the room next door to us left their TV on all night so we were not able to sleep for most of the night. :(
Excellent 10.0
Very quiet room, lots of character, accomodating staff
|Excellent - 1374 reviews
Remember the mantra location, location, location! It really means something at this fantastic Minneapolis hotel where the city is your front yard. BEST WESTERN PLUS The Normandy Inn & Suites is more than just "another" hotel in this half of the Twin Cities. Great price, brand rewards, and loyalty to our customers are what make us stand out. There are many h...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1374 reviews
Good 7.0
parking and security
the place had an odor to it that was not friendly .
Excellent 10.0
Everything was great. no issues.
Internet could have been a bit faster but it was manageable.
|Excellent - 1668 reviews
Experience the newly renovated Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, perfectly situated on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Following the recently completed $50 million transformation, guests will enjoy a striking new lobby, luxurious new guestrooms and suites and a brand new restaurant and market place. The hotel's premiere downtown location provides convenient...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1668 reviews
Excellent 10.0
It was very nice and very clean! The staff was fantastic! We had a great stay
Mediocre 3.0
The size of the bathroom. There was plenty of room to comfortably use as a dressing room and twice the counter space of other hotels I've been to.
The room was dirty. They did a poor vacuuming job which leads to wonder what else they skimped on. They charged $18 per 24hrs to park in the ramp which is the only parking option. There was hair on washcloths. Told staff and they didn't seem to care.I will NEVER stay there again. I would rather pay full price to stay at a hotel that takes pride in their standards. When staying at a 4+ star hotel you shouldn't have to feel like you need to keep your shoes on in your room. When we first arrived, a man came to us with a luggage trolley asking if we'd like assistance. We accepted and tipped him. My husband loaded the trolley himself and all that guy did was push it from the front door to registration desk (maybe 30ft). After I finished checking in it was a different guy who was actually going to bring our l...
|Excellent - 1685 reviews
Located in Minneapolis, Hilton Minneapolis is in the business district and minutes from Minnesota Orchestra Hall and Mary Tyler Moore Statue. This hotel is within close proximity of Minneapolis Convention Center and Orpheum Theatre. Make yourself at home in one of the 821 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and iPod docking stations. Your pillowto...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1685 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Location perfect for the event I was attending. Very elegant hotel too.
No free breakfast. No free parking. However, I knew that going in.Nice bar/lounge in the lobby.
the staff member I checked in with was awesome!
the staff wasnt always the most friendly especially the lady i checked out with. the brunch was very average and expensive.it was extremely busy because there was a shriners convention, so getting an elevator sometimes took 5+ minutes.
|Good - 674 reviews
The Days Hotel on University is ideally located on the eastern edge of the University of Minnesota campus, just one touchdown pass away from the new TCF Gophers Football Stadium. Our six-story non-smoking hotel has 131 beautifully appointed guest rooms, including Days Business Place Rooms, a complimentary Continental Breakfast every morning and a Business Ce...
Overall Rating - Good - 674 reviews
The location. In general the staff was very friendly and helpful.
In general the hotel was very dingy. There was a general unpleasant smell throughout the hotel, and it just felt 'damp'. Furthermore the breakfast bar was awful. How is there no water?The price was right for this hotel. With it's location right downtown, it was very conveinent. However, I don't think anyone would ever mistake it as a 'nice' hotel.
Poor 2.0
It's location is walking distance within lots of places.
Really need to update and fix. No water pressure whatsoever in shower -- could barely wash hair. Office chair was broke and couldn't even sit in it. Air Conditioning was a joke and sounded like it was going to blow up.Nice location but almost a dump. Needs lots of fixing up. The staff was all very nice; but needs work in the rooms.
|Excellent - 444 reviews
Located in Minneapolis, Hotel Ivy - A Luxury Collection Hotel is in the business district and minutes from Minnesota Orchestra Hall and Minneapolis Convention Center. This 4.5-star hotel is within close proximity of Mary Tyler Moore Statue and Orpheum Theatre. Make yourself at home in one of the 136 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 444 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The hotel was quiet, clean and inviting. Although I didn't spend time in the main floor sitting area - it was a great space.
I was shocked that I was not allowed to cross the SKYWAY Saturday evening; the hotel was hosting a private event. It was also pouring rain, so I had to go down to street level and cross outside and get soaked.......just to retrieve something from my car.
Excellent 10.0
Located in the heart of downtown. Ready access to reasonable overnight parking. Bell hop waited while we checked in and took our baggage with us to the room. All staff smiling and very helpful. Decent Restaurant in the Hotel. Very quiet.
Low water pressure but adequate for showering.
|Excellent - 1091 reviews
With a stay at The Marquette by Hilton, you'll be centrally located in Minneapolis, steps from Mary Tyler Moore Statue and minutes from Hennepin Center for the Arts. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of State Theatre and Minneapolis City Hall. Make yourself at home in one of the 281 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Your pillowtop bed...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1091 reviews
Good 6.3
The room was very spacious. The staff was fairly responsive once we alerted them of the issues.
There were several little things that added up to a disappointing stay for us. Wireless internet was not free in our rooms, which I have only ever experienced at a hotel that was SO nice that it made it worth it to come down to the lobby and use the free wifi. This was not, however, SO nice. The lobby area was small. No late checkout? I have literally never heard of this. I wasn't allowed to check in until 3, so why do I have to be out of the room by noon? They forgot to take off the disabled movies from the previous resident. Again - not a huge deal, but when I called the front desk, the person told me "that's just how it is sometimes" and he "doesn't know how the movies work up there." O-kay... so I asked to speak with a manager, and was placed on hold for way too long. Someone finally called us back and fixed it, but at that point we didn't really feel like spending the money on it. They really should have offered us a free movie or something to make up for it. Oh, they forgot towels when cleaning the room. And there were only 2 to begin with. This seems like a pretty basic step. All of this would have been fine/expected at a 2-3 star hotel, but I expected a little better from this one.
Excellent 10.0
Spacious room, Great location, Walking distance to plenty of entertainment
|Excellent - 1750 reviews
A stay at W Minneapolis - The Foshay places you in the heart of Minneapolis, walking distance from Mary Tyler Moore Statue and Minnesota Orchestra Hall. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of State Theatre and Orpheum Theatre. Make yourself at home in one of the 229 air-conditioned rooms featuring iPod docking stations and LCD televisions. Your pillo...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1750 reviews
Excellent 10.0
I reserved 2 rooms and originally they were on completely different floors, about 6 floors apart. I asked to have them on the same floor and they were kind and arranged to have the rooms on the same floor. The staff were very willing to help!
Excellent 10.0
Great downtown location in historic building
No coffee maker in room. Expensive wifi (no free access) Elevators at times were slow but one was being repaired.
|Excellent - 578 reviews
A stay at Hilton Garden Inn Minneapolis Downtown places you in the heart of Minneapolis, walking distance from Minneapolis Convention Center and Minnesota Orchestra Hall. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Mary Tyler Moore Statue and Orpheum Theatre. Make yourself at home in one of the 210 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-scre...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 578 reviews
Good 6.3
Paying for parking
Free WiFi. Nice looking building. Nice lobby. While we didn't eat at the restaurant, it appeared that many enjoyed ordering breakfast there.
The sliding closet door was off the track. I fixed that for them. The mattress cover was bumpy and not pleasing to the touch. Air conditioner went from too cold to too hot with one click. Valet parking only. We parked a block away for 1/4 the cost.For the PRICE, extremely average. I've stayed in nicer places that I got for--- less. We expected a lot more.
|Excellent - 1380 reviews
Located in Minneapolis, The Westin Minneapolis is minutes from Mary Tyler Moore Statue and Hennepin Center for the Arts. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Minneapolis Public Library-Central Branch and Minneapolis City Hall. Make yourself at home in one of the 214 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comfor...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1380 reviews
Excellent 9.6
Loved the history of the hotel and the comfort of the rooms.
No free wi-fi in rooms.
Excellent 10.0
Beautiful room, helpful, knowledgeable friendly staff, gorgeous lobby
I can't afford to pay $39/night for valet parkingBrilliant- what all hotels should aspire to be.
|Good - 679 reviews
Conveniently located off Interstate 35, this Ramada Plaza Minneapolis hotel is near downtown Minneapolis, Francis A Gross Golf Course, sports games at the Metrodome and Target Field, and the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. After an exciting day, refresh at this hotel with complimentary wireless Internet, pool, hot tub, fitness center, on-site restaurant, room s...
Overall Rating - Good - 679 reviews
Free parking. Nice room.
Isolated location. Long wait at check-in, check-out. Out of towels at the pool. Fitness center crowded. Lukewarm water in the hot tub.
Excellent 9.0
updated room, great staff! A couple miles away from downtown areas, but the hotel shuttle will go within 5 miles so not a problem.
No fridge or microwaveNice room!
|Good - 1253 reviews
Downtown Minneapolis Hotel's Location is the Best Centered in the vibrant heart of downtown Minneapolis, our hotel's location, superb service and unrivaled amenities make the Crowne Plaza® Minneapolis - Northstar hotel the best. Corporate travelers appreciate our hotel's downtown Minneapolis location near major corporations. Being within 2.5 blocks of two li...
Overall Rating - Good - 1253 reviews
Poor 1.0
There was nothing at this property that would meet the star rating stated.
The front desk staff was very rude. The bartender ignored us until we flagged him over and house keeping was continuously knocking on our door from 9:00am until we checked out at 10:30 am.There is no way this property deserves any where near a 4 star rating.
Good 8.0
The room size was average. Nice large bathroom and extra outside sink was beneficial.
Parking cost.
|Excellent - 560 reviews
" With a stay at Aloft Minneapolis in Minneapolis, you'll be minutes from Guthrie Theater and Mall of America Field. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Mill City Museum and Washburn ""A"" Mill. Make yourself at home in one of the 155 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wirele...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 560 reviews
Good 7.0
This hotel was very modern and clean. The location was good for the price. 15 minute walk to the downtown center. The beds were very comfortable and staff was very nice and helpful. Although the rooms were small they were very stylish and well laid out.
The bathroom door didn't close properly. We also had trouble with lightswitches; some worked, some didn't. The room was also freezing, no matter how high we turned up the heat. The bathroom door was my main concern.
Excellent 10.0
Friendly staff.
N/AFriendly staff, great shuttle service, interesting decor style.


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NORMAN — Nike Football unveiled special uniforms Monday for the Oklahoma-Texas game. Both team jerseys will feature a classic gold Red River Rivalry patch above the numerals on the front of the jerseys, with those numbers outlined by gold twill.
Custom embroidery of "Boomer Sooner" for OU and "Longhorns" for Texas can be found on the inside of the jersey necklines. The Sooners' jersey also features an additional gold logo neck patch in reference to last year's victory as the Sooners retained the Golden Hat Trophy.
On Monday, OU coach Bob Stoops said discussions about doing something special with uniforms for the game began last year and it could happen again this season.
"Keeping up with the times, man. You gotta do it," he said. "Kids like to see it. We'll probably have some other stuff here and there … Gold accent looks pretty good."
When asked if it would ever go to the level schools like Oregon, Oklahoma State and Baylor have taken uniform combinations in recent years, Stoops said it wouldn't happen.
"Probably, not to that extreme," he said.
Players were pretty happy OU was willing try something a little different.
"We'll feel a little better; we'll feel like we look a little prettier but at the same time, it'll be good for us," cornerback Aaron Colvin said. "I see guys are excited about it, so it's cool."
Different uniform combinations have been the rage in recent years. Some potential recruits like the idea of it. Schools like Oregon, OSU and Baylor have benefited from the uniform talk.
The only thing different about OU's uniform Saturday will be the gold trim, but sometimes a little goes a long way.
"When you've been wearing the same thing for four and a half years, you put a little gold trim in there and you get excited — I promise," center Gabe Ikard said. "It's been in every group text I've gotten from anyone on this team. We're excited about it."


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GASTONIA, N.C. -- Katherine Dennis, 23, is resting comfortably in a hospital room in Gaston Memorial Hospital after she delivered 7-pound, 21-and-a-half-inch-long Landen Scott Dennis on the floor of the living room of her step mother's house.
"I'm a very strong believer in things happen for a reason," said Dennis, "And for some reason that was supposed to happen. I was supposed to deliver him on my step mother's living room floor."
It happened Monday. Dennis, who is a nurse, said she started experiencing labor pains Sunday after a family outing. She said she even went to CMC Pineville where her OB/GYN was. But doctors told her she wasn't ready to deliver.
"He did not want to come yet." said Dennis, "But then, at about 12:30, they got so unbearable I couldn't sleep, I couldn't stand, I couldn't walk-- I couldn't do anything."
Since her husband Travis was working, Dennis went to her step-mother's house. That's where her labor pains intensified. Her step-mother, Sherri Kiser, who is a retired nurse and also worked as a paramedic, tried to ease her pain; at one point she ran a warm bath for Katie.
"We think that's when my water broke... they (contractions) were coming every two minutes."
But then the contractions became more frequent and there wasn't time to get Katie to the hospital. Sherri said she called 911 as Katie called Travis.
"I told him (Travis) to come now," Katie said, "It took him about 10 minutes to get here; he is only 15 minutes away," said a laughing Dennis.
Just as firefighters from Station #3 arrived, the baby, who had already crowned, was coming.
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Ya have to love the Grand Old Tea Party these days. Fresh off being trounced by a black "Muslim-Kenyan-Socialist," the unrepentant loonies are at it again, closing down the federal government until the president caves on their perpetual crusade to kill Obamacare (41-plus times and counting).
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Brake dancing with facts
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Mike Brake (
Letters to the editor, "Big, bloated government," July 3,
Oklahoma Gazette
wails about government waste, but given complete Republican control of state government, why was vital education funding slashed 20.6 percent between 2008-2013 while the pork goes untouched? Why are Oklahomans being slammed with a 50-percent tax increase to renew their drivers' licenses?
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
A tax cut to die for
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D.W. Tiffee
Gov. Mary Fallin's $106 million-a-year tax cut proposal effectively precludes Oklahoma from spending a net $50 million annually to insure 200,000 Oklahomans under Obamacare, a coldblooded death sentence for thousands who will suffer and die from treatable medical conditions. The pro-life crowd's road to prosperity is paved with human bones.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Getting real about Obamacare
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D.W. Tiffee
Mike Brake (
Commentary, "Point: Disaster is ahead for Obamacare, Aug. 8,
Oklahoma Gazette
claims that the Congressional Budget Office "has now projected total Obamacare costs through 2022 at $1.76 trillion, about twice the initial 10-year estimate."
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Medicaid expansion vital
Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
David Blatt (Commentary, "Oklahoma and Medicaid Expansion," July 18,
Oklahoma Gazette)
makes some important points about the benefits of expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, but neglects to mention the astonishing profit of the plan to the state and taxpayers.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Larry, Moe and Curly
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D.W. Tiffee
I have to give it up to Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican leadership for agreeing May 18 to a tax "cut" scam that actually raised taxes for a quarter of Oklahoma taxpayers, including families with children.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Oklahoma is not OK
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D.W. Tiffee
In support of Republican plans to eliminate the state income tax, the deranged Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs claims that "states with no income tax and with the lowest overall tax burdens consistently outperform the high-tax states, the national average and Oklahoma." (Commentary, "Point: Phase out state personal income tax," Feb. 1,
Oklahoma Gazette).
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
'Let them eat cake'
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D.W. Tiffee
I see that Chris Smith (Commentary, "
Point: What is the endgame
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Oklahoma Gazette)
is using the typical lawyer tactic of sneer and smear when he describes the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as "bum(s)" who are a "blight on our community."
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Shame on The Oklahoman
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An Oct. 12 editorial in The Oklahoman ("Occupy Wall Street movement: Raging against what exactly?") described the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as "useful idiots" who were protesting "The Man" — people like Steve Jobs.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Putting people to work
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B. Ellis (Letters, "
Truth and taxes
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confused with The Oklahoman when he demands they stop publishing my "slight-of-hand statistical shifting." Blame billionaire Warren Buffet for noticing that his secretary pays double the effective federal tax rate he does.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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I got a good chuckle at Mike Brake frantically waving the crying towel for rich Americans (Letters, "
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What is the relevance that the top 1 percent pay 40 percent of income taxes given that they constitute just half of all federal revenues?
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Jason Reese (Commentary, "Point: For legislative authority," July 13, Gazette) says that "education is the centerpiece of not only personal advancement, but national prosperity and, therefore, security," but believes the delusional Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs can solve higher education's woes.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
'No pain, no gain'
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I see that U.S. Rep. Tom Cole continues to praise the deranged Ryan Medicare scam as "thoughtful."
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Misrepresenting government spending
Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
I see that Brandon Dutcher (Commentary, "Counterpoint: A matter of perspective," Jan. 5,
is gloating over the prospects for further cuts in Oklahoma spending, which is already third to last in the nation.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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All Rachel O'Brien's 4-year-old wants is her doll back.
On Saturday, O'Brien's children put four pink bins, a chair and some bubbles outside on the corner of Ninth Ave and Niantic River Road to create a stand to sell bubbles. The kids went inside to grab some supplies for all of 10 minutes, and when they came back outside, everything was gone.
Inside one of those pink bins was a doll that Rachel O'Brien had as a child and passed on to her 4-year-old daughter. All O'Brien and her daughter want is the doll back.
O'Brien is not sure if somebody took the bins because they thought they were put out there to take for free or if somebody just outright stole them. Either way, she doesn't care, she just wants "dollie" back.
If you know anything, email firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get you in contact with O'Brien.