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A Winter Haunting
Morrow, Feb 2002, 25.95, 303 pp. ISBN: 0380978865 Overcoming the nightmare of his childhood (see SUMMER OF NIGHT), Dale Stewart became a successful literature professor and novelist, though his Jim Bridge: Mountain Man books do not attain the literary standard he desires. However, he threw away a loving family life with a cherished wife and daughters for an affair with a student that ended badly. Filled with self-recrimination, Dale takes a...
A Winter Haunting
(Science Fiction)
Dale returns to his home town after being caught having an affair and losing his wife and family. He hopes to settle some bad dreams he has been having about his past. He rents the house his childhood friend lived and died in. He receives messages on his computer and runs into an enemy of the past. Dal'es quiet winter turns out to be his worst nightmare. Black dogs appear around his property yet no one around there owns black dogs. Dale spends his winter...
Children of the Night
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT is a novel Dan Simmons published in 1992. Kate is a well-known american specialist in haematology. After a professional stay in Romania, she decides to adopt a rumanian baby and brings him back in the U.S.A. The baby suffers from a very rare blood illness but seems to develop the ability to cure by himself when given blood transfusion. Kate, with his colleagues researchers, discover that this virus could be used to find a cure to...
Endymion is told by Raul Endymion, looking back from a future prison/death sentence. He tells of his adventures crossing many worlds with Aenea, an 11 year old girl who is to become humankind's 'messiah' and A. Bettik, an Android first mentioned in Hyperion. They are fleeing attempts to capture Aenea by the new Christian Church, whose members accept the new cruciform - and virtual physical immortality. ...
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Fires of Eden
Multi-millionaire Byron Trumbo is hot to sell his Hawaiian resort, Mauna Pele, to a group of Japanese businessmen whom he has invited to the island. However, the ancient goddess who rules the island has other ideas--including vengeance--and the strange and mysterious events that transpire on the island, in and around the resort--including murder--parallel events that happened years before when Mark Twain visited the island, barely managing to escape wit...
To meet the great Hyperion, a group travels on a spaceship and tell their stories about their connection it. ...
Eos, Jul 2003, 25.95, 592 pp. ISBN: 0380978938 The Greek Gods prefer human fodder to serve as scribes rather than wasting energy by doing it. Thus they send Dr. Thomas Hockenberry and several scholarly peers from the future into the past to study the war at Troy that "launched a thousand ships". Though the years of rebirth were painful, Thomas expects to have a grand old time of comparing reality to Homer. However being enslaved to the Greek...
Phases of Gravity
PHASES OF GRAVITY is a novel written by Dan Simmons in 1989. It's curiously not a thriller nor a science-fiction book but an introspective novel. Richard Baedecker is a former astronaut who had the chance to walk on the moon during an Apollo mission of the glorious seventies. From this moment on, he began to lose little by little interest in life. A divorce, an uninteresting job, problems with his son will drive him in 1988 throughout the United State...
Song of Kali
Bobby Luczac accepts an assignment from Harper's magazine to go to India to retrieve a poetry manuscript allegedly written by a man that has been presumed dead for the last eight years. He takes his wife and seven month old baby with him, never dreaming that he is about to expose them, as well as himself, to one of the most filthy and evil cities in the world. Calcutta is a noisy, dirty, crowded city and as Bobby soon discovers, it is an extremely dange...
Summer of Night
SUMMER OF NIGHT is a book written by Dan Simmons in 1991. 1960. Elm Haven, Illinois. Duane, Mike, Dale, Kevin, Lawrence and Jim, all 12 years old boys, have just finished school. In this little town lost in the middle of corn fields, there is nothing peculiar to do during the summer holiday. So when Tubby, the little brother of one of their classmates, disappears, the young boys begin their own investigation. Convinced that Tubby has never left the Ol...
Dan Simmons list of books
Summer of Night
(Science Fiction)
On the last day of school, as summer stretches before a group of young students, one of them is snatched away by a nightmare creature. As more and more disappearances and deaths take place over the summer, and the dead walk among the living, a few close friends must find the key to the mystery or the terror from an earlier age, which stalks them now, will kill the whole town--maybe the whole planet!...
The Fall of Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion and the opening of the Time Tombs is told mostly from the point of view of a cybrid created by the TechnoCore (AIs), with the memory of the poet John Keats. He is able to watch, in dreams, what happens to the pilgrims at the time tombs: Kassad looking for his love, Moneta, and to destroy the Shrike, Sol, trying to understand whether he should give his infant daughter up as a sacrifice, Brawne, with her implant of the original Keats p...
The Hollow Man
THE HOLLOW MAN is a novel published in 1992. Jeremy Bremen is a mathematician married to Gail. Both are telepaths and Jeremy is trying to put into equations this unique phenomena. When Gail dies from a brain tumor, Jeremy who will have to defend himself against the mob, a serial-killer and the urge to leave this world in order to rejoin his wife in death....
The Rise of Endymion
Aenea and Raul, still chased by the Pax/new Catholic church, who have an unholy alliance with the parasite AI Technocore, race to spread a new message which teaches the new physics of Love - a new way to live. As they cross worlds, hunted by terrible AI constructs, the Pax wars against the Ousters, and all those societies who will not accept the cruciform - a gift from the Technocore which gives near-immortality, and allows the parasite AIs to prey on th...
The Terror
The Terror is a fast-paced story of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin in 1845 and the fate that may have befallen his crew. Sir John is confident he will locate the long-sought Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans across the artic. An Esquimaux woman has joined the crew of the HMS Terror when her father or grandfather is killed by crew members. Franklin will not allow the native woman aboard his ship, the HMS Erebus, but Cro...
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What in the heck is Elvis doing in his bathrobe?
Here is an Elvis/Beatles painting i found while "surfing"Attachment 31643
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What in the heck is Elvis doing in his bathrobe?
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I was wondering the same thing.
Well, good lord! Looks like the beatles in this picture is "peeping Toms"!
I think Elvis looks like he is in pain or something. Take a look at his face.
Goodbye Rosanne...Your "family" in TCB will always remember you.
Isn't Elvis's pool room in the basement at Graceland? How would the 'Fab 4' be able to look through his window?
'Taking Care of Beaulieu'.
Well it suppose to represent "The Beatles meet Elvis" But, every Elvis fan knows their meeting wasn.t at Graceland. And if they had met at Graceland, a glass partition wouldn't be separating them!And by the way Elvis did remark "well if you guys are just going to sit & stare at me all night i'm going to bed". And i know wasn't in his bath robe at the meeting.
Naturally, my favorite anecdote from this fabled meeting is the moment when Priscilla arrives...
PAUL "She came in, and I got this picture of her as a sort of a Barbie doll - with a purple gingham dress and a gingham bow in her very beehive hair, with lots of makeup. We all said hello, and then it was, "Right, lads, hands off - she's going." She didn't stay long. I can't blame him, although I don't think any of us would have made a pass at her. That was definitely not on - Elvis's wife, you know! That was unthinkable - she didn't need to be put away quite so quickly, we thought".
Imagine the Beatles' excitement! No wonder Elvis dismissed her quickly.
Of course there were no pictures taken on the day, but does anyone have any photos of her from another occasion wearing this gingham dress?
'Taking Care of Beaulieu'.
I didn't realise Cilla was there at that meeting
"NO-ONE, BUT NO-ONE,IS HIS EQUAL, OR EVER WILL BE. HE WAS, AND IS SUPREME".Mick Jagger
That's one painting,I wouldn't buy!
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Between You and Me
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Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade is trying to build a life for herself far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. Until she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant— an offer she can't refuse.
Logan hasn't seen Kelsey in person since their parents separated them as kids; in the meantime, Kelsey Wade has grown into Fortune Magazine's most powerful celebrity. But their reunion is quickly overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her parents as Logan discovers that, beneath the glossy façade, the wounds that caused them to be wrenched apart so many years ago have insidiously warped into a show-stopping family business.
As Kelsey tries desperately to break away and grasp at a "real" life, beyond the influence of her parents and managers, she makes one catastrophic misstep after another, and Logan must question if their childhood has left them both too broken to succeed. Logan risks everything to hold on, but when Kelsey unravels in the most horribly public way, Logan finds that she will ultimately have to choose between rescuing the girl she has always protected . . . and saving herself.
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"Okay, we're coming up on our final hill." Sandra, my instructor, puffs into her microphone, reaching out from her bike to dim the spin room's lights even further. "I know it's crazy cold out there, folks." She takes a jagged breath as she prepares to urge us on. "I know the sun's not even up yet. But you are. And you're here. And you're going to make it—harder. Let's make it harder! Give me a full turn to the right in . . . five, four, three, two, one . . . go, go, go!"
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Today I am learning that if you want to pretend things are one thing when they're another, it helps to have millions of dollars at your disposal. For example, it was easy—as I leaped over the three-foot gulch of black slush into the moneyed interior of the town car, as I sank into its leather seat and swiveled open the gratis Evian, as I lay back, letting the driver glide me through Manhattan's rush-hour-congested streets—to tell myself, despite coming off two nights of anticipatory insomnia, that I was on my way to a vacation and not a reunion.
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THE JINDABYNE Rugby Union Club held its annual season presentation night at the Lake Jindabyne Hotel over the weekend. It was a great night with more than 80 family and friends coming along to congratulate and celebrate with the Bushpigs and Miss Piggies for the 2012 season.
It was a remarkable season by the Bushpigs who became the first team in the club's history to ever host a home grand final and went on to win it convincingly 44 - 17 over the Crookwell Dogs.
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Ellie doesn't smile much.
It takes an hour into our first meeting before I see one. It starts shyly at her cheekbones, and then her eyes crinkle and her lips curve and it spreads across her teenage face like happy wildfire.
It's a gorgeous smile, or rather it almost is. It's a revealing smile, because when Ellie grins she can't hide her pain.
The problem is her teeth. When she smiles, you can see all of them, and you can see that many are twisted and broken and brown.
The 15-year-old been talking for an hour about the painful infections that rage in the molars and the cavities that form atop cavities and the sobering news that a dentist recently gave her.
If you keep these teeth, you are going to need more root canals, he said. Nine root canals.
The Bellevue West sophomore and her mother have been talking for an hour about the constant visits to the dentist's office since she was a toddler. The classmates who assume she doesn't brush or floss. They have been trying to explain the horror of the recent dentist's visit when they learned just how much fixing Ellie's problem would cost.
But it's when you see that smile that you really understand.
Ellie needs new teeth.
She needs new teeth, and those new teeth cost almost as much as a new BMW.
She needs new teeth, and insurance may not cover much of the bill, and there's no good Plan B.
There's no way around any of this.
"It just doesn't seem fair," Ellie says.
My smartphone buzzed early one September morning. Suzanne Kolesik, Ellie's mother, had sent me an email. Not an ordinary email — a 1,500-word history of Ellie and her teeth.
It is a screed against the insurance companies and the cost of modern medicine. It is a plea for understanding. It is an email only a mother could send.
"A full mouth reconstruction (will) stop the infections and the pain forever," she wrote. "She would have a smile that would only add to her wonderful personality.
"Imagine our utter disappointment when we were told this procedure would cost $50,000!"
When Ellie was a toddler, her mother noticed that her teeth were coming in strangely. They felt chalky. Flaky. Kool-Aid stained them for hours.
By Ellie's second birthday, Dr. Carmen Dana, an Omaha pediatric dentist, had diagnosed enamel hypoplasia, an absence of enamel on her teeth.
In most people, this lack of enamel happens on two teeth, or four. It's a minor nuisance. An inconvenience.
For Ellie, it meant twice-a-month trips to the dentist's office before she could talk. It meant the dental assistants wrapping her in a blanket so she couldn't squirm or run away.
It meant a whole lot of tears before kindergarten.
"I knew when it got bad, because she would just quit eating," Suzanne says. "By the time she was 3, she knew what the area around Dr. Dana's office looked like. She would start to panic and cry when we pulled up."
The silver lining turned out to be Dr. Dana herself. She treated her young patient so gently that Ellie started calling her "Auntie Dana."
As the dental bills stacked up, Dr. Dana let Suzanne run a debt that sometimes ran into four figures. She never complained about the late payments. She never denied Ellie a procedure she knew the young girl needed.
But as Ellie got older, the money got tight, and she sometimes skipped dental appointments for months after she blew past the dollar amount of dental work that the family's insurance company would cover.
Every toothache worried her, because she knew that it probably meant another infection burrowing its way into a tooth. Dr. Dana put the strongest crowns she had on several teeth — and so many cavities formed underneath one of those crowns that the tooth began to rot and the crown fell off.
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By the time she entered junior high, Ellie had learned not to smile. She had learned not to smile because smiling showed her teeth, and showing her teeth meant the other kids would notice.
So you can understand her jubilation the day that Dr. Dana sent her to a cosmetic dentist, and that dentist sent her to an oral surgeon, and together they agreed that the next step was to get Ellie some new teeth.
First they would pull all of Ellie's old ones — goodbye brown, cavity-ridden teeth.
Then they would insert an implant on her top gum and another on her bottom gum. Finally, they would screw her new teeth into those implants, one by one.
All was fine until someone mentioned the price tag. And then the doctors mentioned that insurance companies often don't cover this procedure, as it is considered cosmetic.
Of course the doctors themselves don't consider it cosmetic. In fact, they have told Ellie and her mother that if they pull her teeth and then give her dentures — a far cheaper option — those dentures will grind on her jawbone until she needs further surgery as a middle-aged woman.
"I asked, 'If this was your child in this chair, what would you recommend?' " Suzanne said. "And the answer back: 'I would go with the implants.'"
There is another issue: Is this a dental problem or a medical one?
The Kolesiks say it's a medical condition that happens to affect the teeth. Golden Rule Insurance Company, in its original denial, argues that the problem is dental, and the Kolesiks' health insurance therefore doesn't cover it. The implicit suggestion is that dental insurance should. Which would be fine, except that the Kolesiks' dental insurance pays out a maximum of $1,200 a year.
"Since the proposed services do not meet the plan requirements for coverage, no benefits are available for these services," a rep from the health insurance company wrote in a letter to the family.
The Kolesiks are appealing. Suzanne just sent the insurance company letters written by both Dr. Dana and Ellie's childhood doctor. She also has written letters to the governor, the state's insurance board, her state senator and yours truly. Doctors have told the family that the appeal process sometimes works. Sometimes it doesn't.
As they wait, the costs are piling up.
The implants themselves cost $19,886, according to the original estimate, even after the oral surgeon gave the family a discount on his normal fee.
Actually pulling out the teeth — the part insurance is most likely to cover — is $5,800.
The prosthetic teeth are thousands more. Paying the dentist who puts in the prosthetic teeth is more still. The conventional dentures Ellie will wear for several months between the "full mouth extraction" and the placement of the prosthetic teeth that will be screwed into the implants cost even more.
Total tab: $47,000, give or take. That's the total despite discounts from several of Ellie's doctors.
The Kolesiks, whose total family income is around $50,000 a year, took out a loan to pay half the cost upfront. The other half will need to be paid in the next few months. They are hoping.
"In some way, I just don't care," Suzanne says. "I want her to have this done. She needs to have this done. We'll figure it out somehow."
They will need to, because today is the day Ellie goes to the oral surgeon. Today, he yanks out the teeth that have given her a lifetime of trouble.
Today is the day that Ellie has been awaiting for years. Today is the day that a mother hopes will change her daughter's life.
Today, Ellie takes the first step to a new smile.
"I want her to be able to eat without being afraid," Suzanne says. "I want her to be confident. I want her to be happy."


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Tae starts by identifying which of the 8 major sectors have momentum in the current market (materials, consumer cyclicals and non–cyclicals, energy, transportation, finance, industrials, technology and utilities).
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Compare this to most analysts, who start with a stock they "think" looks good…while ignoring the momentum of the overall sector. Then they often end up fighting the market, because they don't invest using a larger "context."
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The sniffy project can trace/log the data of any pseudo terminal in the system. Due to the way the terminal works, such a terminal trace provides complete information of what happened on the terminal screen, and sniffy is able to display/replay this information. It consists of a kernel module able to connect/hook on the pseudo terminal, a program to display the contents of any pseudo terminal on the fly, a daemon process tracing the pseudo terminal content into the file, and a replay program to replay any stored pseudo terminal session.
Grml is a live system (live CD) based on Debian. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of texttools. It provides automatic hardware detection and its default shell is the zsh. You can use it e.g. as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks, or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a hard disk; you don't even need a hard disk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression, it includes more than 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.
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sudosh can be used as a default login shell or a filter that takes advantage of PTY devices in order to sit between the user's keyboard and a program, in this case a shell. It was designed specifically to be used in conjunction with sudo, and allows the execution of a root or application shell with logging. It is basically a VCR and will record root shell sessions and also has the ability to play back the sessions as they were originally recorded. It records all input/output, keyboard input, and timing information so that the session can be played back in the original format.
vp-usb-lock is a Linux kernel driver and PAM module that utilizes the PC wireless USB lock and makes it possible to use it as authentication method for your Linux box. It is easy to install, but needs access to the sources of the kernel and PAM to build correctly. It has been tested under Fedora Core 2 with a custom made 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel, but it should also work with other kernel versions and distributions.
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Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers from Black Pants Game Studio incorporates various elements ranging from handmade visuals to a soundtrack composed of independent bands which deliver an experience that is both highly unusual and charming. The narrative has players stepping into the role of Tiny and partaking in his mission to recover a pair of underpants stolen by nemesis Big. With a brief tutorial section and introduction to the main characters, the journey begins in a desert that's cluttered with ancient and mysterious ruins. The game rotates between platform, exploration, and adventure sections which results in an ever-changing experience.
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Two trophies for Ellen
Ellen McCormack, a pupil in Grammar (Year 10) has won 2 trophies in the Lancashire Schools Archery Competition, held in Wigan on Sunday 26th June. Ellen, who has specialist coaching each week, has high hopes of being selected for the 2016 Olympic Games!
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text: In light of Pablo Sandoval's epic performance in Game 1, USA TODAY Sports breaks down some of the best World Series performances throughout history. Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports Don Larsen, 1956: The are hardly ever perfect games and yet the Yankees Larsen did that in Game 5. He finished a career record of 81-91, which makes all the more unfathomable. AP Reggie Jackson, 1977: Jackson hit three home runs on three swings of the bat against three different pitchers in Game 6 to give the Yankees the game and the series. Ray Stubblebine, AP BIll Mazeroski, 1960: Fans and teammates mob Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Mazeroski as he came home on his ninth-inning home run that gave the Pirates the win over the Yankees. It was the first series-ending home run in history. Harry Harris, AP Kirk Gibson, 1988: Gibson celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a game-winning two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a Game 1 win. Easily the greatest pinch-hit home run in baseball history sparked a series upset over the A's, who went 104-58 that season. Rusty Kennedy, AP Jack Morris pitched one of the greatest Game 7s ever with 10 shutout innings against the Atlanta Braves in 1991 World Series. He was matched pitch for pitch by Atlanta's John Smoltz, but Minnesota won the series in the 10th. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Enos Slaughter, 1946: The St. Louis Cardinals speedy base runner, had his best moment in the bottom of the eighth inning in Game 7 with the score tied 3-3. Harry Walker hit a single to left-center and Slaughter never stopped running despite the "stop" sign from the third-base coach. The Cardinals held the Red Sox won 4-3 and took the series. AP Willie Mays, 1956: Running at top speed with his back to the plate, the New York center fielder got under a 450-foot blast off the bat of Cleveland first baseman Vic Wertz to pull the ball down in front of the bleachers wall in the eighth inning of the World Series in 1954. In making the Game 5 miraculous catch with two runners on base, Willie came within a step of crashing into the wall. AP Joe Carter, 1993: Toronto Blue Jays' Carter celebrates his game winning three-run home run in the ninth inning of Game 6. Carter's homer over the left-field wall at Skydome was the first World Series-ending home run since Mazeroski's homer in 1960. Mark Duncan, AP Carlton Fisk, 1975: The Boston Red Sox's Fisk ended a 12-inning Game 6 with a home run that barely stayed fair. The image of Fisk waving the ball fair is one of the most famous in sports history despite the Reds winning the series. Harry Cabluck, AP Dave McNally, 1970: He hit a grand slam in Game 3 vs. Cincinnati, the only pitcher ever to hit a grand slam in a World Series game. AP Mickey Lolich, 1968: Lolich gave the Tigers a complete-game victory in Game 2 before he threw another dominating performance in Game 5. And in Game 7, he threw a complete-game five-hitter to complete the Tigers comeback and their first World Series victory since 1945. AP Sandy Koufax, 1963: The Dodgers gave up two runs on six hits, but most impressively struck out 15 Yankees that afternoon, establishing a new World Series mark for strikeouts in a game. AP Bob Gibson, 1968: Pitching in Game 1 against the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals hurler Gibson went on to throw a five-hit shutout, striking out 17 Tigers in the process to eclipse Koufax's old mark. AP Babe Ruth, 1932: The truth behind Babe Ruth's "called shot" in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Yankees and Chicago Cubs is one of the biggest question marks in baseball history. Ruth pointed to the sky in reaction to taunts. AP Tom Glavine, 1995: Atlanta Braves pitcher and World Series MVP Tom Glavine had picked up the win in Game 2 and then combined with Mark Wohlers to close it out, giving the Braves a combined one-hitter and delivering the first-ever World Series championship to Atlanta. John Bazemore, AP Albert Pujols, 2011: Pujols smashed three home runs on his way to a 5-for-6 night with six RBI as the Cardinals crushed the Rangers 16-7 in Game 3. It was a record-tying night in three ways—his three home runs tied Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson for the most in a single World Series game, his four hits in four consecutive innings tied a record, and his six RBI matched the record held by Bobby Richardson and Hideki Matsui. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Sports David Freese, 2011: David Freese's two-out, two-run triple in the ninth inning tied the game 7-7 and then crushed a solo shot in the 11th to give the Cardinals a walk-off 10-9 win and send the series to a seventh and deciding game. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Kirby Puckett,1987: He told the Twins to jump on his back in the 1991 World Series and put on a memorable performance that was capped off by a walk off home run that sent the Twins to Game 7. Peter Southwick, AP Josh Beckett, 2003: After dominating the postseason, he made sure the New York Yankees would get no chance to push the Marlins to a Game 7 at Yankee Stadium, allowing only seven base runners and striking out nine Yankees. H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY Two all-time greats, 2001: Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson, left, and Curt Schilling hold the World Series MVP trophy they will share after being named co-recipients of the World Series Most Valuable Player award after the Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees 3-2 in Game 7. APLike this topic? You may also like these photo galleries:ReplayLast SlideNext Slide


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Aquarium is a Web-based GUI for Linux based systems. It currently covers/supports some of the most important Linux-based systems that are meant for server computing platforms, networking devices (including custom-built devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, WAN optimization, and Web caching), remotely rented hosting and other dedicated custom servers, systems/servers within an intranet, and systems/servers within cloud networks, CDN networks, or distributed SaaS Application Nodes. It supports Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera, and runs on Fedora Core. In the future, it should be supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Knoppix, and Debian. It provides abstraction for common Linux tools and other popular command line tools: ping, traceroute, ifconfig, netstat, who, arp, route, some important /proc system information and statistics, a custom file manager/explorer, iptables or Linux Firewall, Linux static routes, Linux brctl, cron scheduling, Linux users, and GRUB bootloader. It also supports MySQL. It should support exclusively all of the features of Traffic Squeezer.
MediaCore is a media-focused CMS. It features rich video and audio support, YouTube/Vimeo integration, HTML5 video, support for the iPad/iPhone, podcasting, iTunes RSS generation, user-submitted content, an embedded media player, and searching. It is highly customizable. There is both a front-end for users and a back-end for administrators. Users can browse videos or podcasts. Users can search for videos by topics and tags. Users can upload videos to the platform; administrators can moderate newly uploaded videos. Administrators can add video, audio, or podcasts. A comment platform for moderation is built-in. Podcasts can be video or audio. It also has automatic iTunes feed generation, automatic RSS feed generation, and feedburner support.
Stantor-Domodulor is a home automation software system. It lets you manage electric and electronic facilities through Web pages and WAP 2 and 1 for smartphones. Stantor can drive Velleman k8000/k8055/k8061 boards, Ethernet and USB Arduino Mega, Uno and Duemilanove boards, X10 materials, USB webcams, and sound boards. Stantor correspondents can sent alerts via email and instant messaging. The Linux distributions supported are Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva.
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I visited Haiti with Oxfam in 2002 and it's the poorest place I've ever been, by a long way - it seems doubly unfair that it should be hit by such a devastating earthquake, especially after the hurricanes of the last two years. They do not have the resources needed to cope with a disaster of this scale, that is what makes this so much worse. I know how hard people there work to try to survive, they have an incredible spirit and face hardship head on without self pity. I can't imagine how they are coping now.
Glastonbury is supporting Oxfam's appeal for Haiti - if you go to the website Oxfam.org.uk you can make a donation. Thank you.


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The 1972 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (known as the Clean Water Act or CWA) provide the statutory basis for the NPDES permit program and the basic structure for regulating the discharge of pollutants from point sources to waters of the United States. Section 402 of the CWA specifically required EPA to develop and implement the NPDES program.
The CWA gives EPA the authority to set effluent limits on an industry-wide (technology-based) basis and on a water-quality basis that ensure protection of the receiving water. The CWA requires anyone who wants to discharge pollutants to first obtain an NPDES permit, or else that discharge will be considered illegal.
The CWA allowed EPA to authorize the NPDES Permit Program to state governments, enabling states to perform many of the permitting, administrative, and enforcement aspects of the NPDES Program. In states that have been authorized to implement CWA programs, EPA still retains oversight responsibilities.
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Shylenai can be found near the main gate to Darnassus. This pet is only sold to alliance characters. Horde characters may purchase this pet through a neutral auction house and on occasion through their own auction house.
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If the Olive Garden in Baxter looks a little different to you, it's not just that it's new to the lakes area.
The much-anticipated restaurant addition to the lakes area isn't the same Olive Garden. The chain changed the look for its new restaurants creating a rustic stone exterior and using a farmhouse look with exposed wooden beams and character of a farmhouse in Tuscany, Italy as a model.
"This is how they'll all be from now on," said Olive Garden General Manager Miranda Ahlers. "We're one of the newer ones to have the exact layout we have."
Last week at the restaurant in Baxter, time was spent on staff training. (About 150 people were hired for the restaurant) and Friday servers invited family members and friends to check out the offerings and provide a real run-through for services. Ahlers has been with Olive Garden for more than seven years and made the move to the Brainerd lakes area from Wisconsin.
With changes in the building design, Ahlers said the food will be the same with the traditional entrees. The Baxter restaurant, which seats 246, is a little smaller than some but pretty typical, she said. This is Ahlers' first restaurant to manage for the chain.
"It's been fabulous," she said. "Things have gone much more smoothly than I could ever imagine."
Inside the bar area is separate from the rest of the dining. Full service dining is available at the bar. Ahlers said the restaurant can respond to any size of group. The parking lot has dedicated parking for to-go orders. The restaurant doesn't take reservations, at least that continues to be the policy now.
As for opening day. Every new restaurant in the lakes area typically has a strong showing after it opens its doors as people check out the latest offering.
"We're expecting organized chaos," Ahlers said.
Olive Garden has been involved in a year-long overhaul, which includes highlighting lower-calorie meals and those which are expected to appeal to folks on a budget.
And a new wrinkle for Olive Garden is a "Dinner today, Dinner Tomorrow"as customers get a meal at the restaurant and take a second meal home with them with instructions on how to heat it for the next day. Guests may pick from five entrees for $12.95 for the take-home meals. The promotion across the chain starts Monday.
Among other seasonal food, Olive Garden has a winter soup on hand now in its chicken and potato Florentine.
Ahlers said a couple is typically able to get a meal soup, salad, dinner meal with a drink for about $30 to $40.
Another change for Olive Garden comes with its signature wines, now Porta Vita created from the Cavit Winery in northern Italy exclusively for the restaurant. The wines come in a white, blush and red. Olive Garden notes it has been influenced by the popularity of moscato varieties.
The changes are all part of Olive Garden's recent efforts to update its image, complete with new commercials and ad campaign slogan of "Go Olive Garden." The company reported the menu changes are designed to make it easier for guests who are looking for lighter menu options less than 575 calories with entrees such as lasagna primavera with grilled chicken, seafood Brodetto, herb-grilled salmon, linguine alla marinara, Venetian apricot chicken.
Olive Garden is still looking to hire employees and is taking applications online.
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Among the new elements of Meeting Professionals International's upcoming World Education Conference is a four-hour breakout session.
In this age of short attention spans, that might sound like a step backward in agenda planning. In fact, it's a pretty cool innovation designed to give attendees 10 quick viewpoints from 10 different speakers all in one place. The "Flash Point Idea Assembly" limits each speaker to 15 minutes, with (one hopes) entertaining and pithy results. The new type of session debuts at the WEC, set for July 24–27 in Vancover, British Columbia.
Seven of the 10 Flash Point speakers have been confirmed, including a futurist, a Gen-Y expert, and eco-crusader Ed Begley Jr. Attendees can stay for all 10 or pop in and out.
Also debuting at the WEC is a revised hosted-buyer program. MPI considered its first hosted-buyer outing, at MeetDifferent in Cancun in February, a success, but has made some adjustments for this summer's event. Planners and suppliers will meet for 10-minute appointments instead of 15 minutes, and their appointments need not take place at the trade show but can be scheduled any time during the entire WEC. According to MPI, 100 hosted buyers will be attending the conference.
Using a half-million-dollar pledge from InterContinental Hotels Group, the MPI Foundation has created a corporate social responsibility measurement tool that will be unveiled at the WEC. "The MPI Foundation has decided that CSR will be one of its main pillars," said a spokesperson.
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Amazing. My only problem with this book is that when Rudy Steiner died, I cried (sort of). Rudy is a powerful charecter. READ THIS BOOK.
Great book! Having Death as the narrator was unusual, but very interesting. The story made me laugh and cry....I absolutely loved it!
Very unusual way to present a story but interesting. The author showed the suffering of the average German during WW11, yet still reminded the reader of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
I loved it so much that I spent the whole day reading and finishing it. I enjoyed the book far more than the movie.
Such a good book, such a lousy movie.
I really liked reading this book. It took me a a few chapters to really understand and get used to the style of writing, but it was well worth it. I definitely recommend it!
I didn't care for Death being the third person narrator. I believe he was trying for some kind of philosophical overtone, but it didn't work for me. And I didn't like all the foreshadowing he gave -- I'm not taking that soul yet, he has another 4 months... things like that. I did make it through the entire book but it took me a long time. And now I don't think I want to watch the movie.
I thought this book was very well written. The author wrote it in a different perspective, in a different style. It was told by the Grim Reaper, Death. This reminded me of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. It stuck true to World War II facts and history, and had a ton of personality with the characters and the seriousness of it. It had comic relief as well, and I silently cheered for the characters throughout the book. I loved how it went into great details about the characters, the times, and places. The story of Max, the Jew, who is kept hidden in the basement, reminded me of Anne Frank's Diary.
Very good book! Agreed, it was a little confusing for me in the beginning but stay with it, as it gets easier to read once the story starts taking shape and more understandable by the third chapter. Then you can re-read the beginning and it will make more sense. Very sad in some places, I cried about 4 times, but very moving and well told story from the narrator who is death, personified. Loved this book!
Liesl is a young girl living with a foster family in Nazi Germany. Her life is not easy. She is living in a new place with a new family. Her brother died en route to the new home. Liesl is lonely and struggling. Her foster parents, the Hubermanns, are different from Liesl's parents. Rosa is not exactly a nurturing figure. Fortunately, Hans is a little softer than Rosa. Liesl enjoys rolling cigarettes with Hans and listening to him play the accordion. Of course, Liesl's struggles with her new family and new school are further complicated by the war being waged in Europe. The Hubermanns do not support the Nazi agenda, and they even hide a young Jewish man, Max, in their basement. Liesl befriends Max, and her confusing world suddenly expands. Narrated by Death (really, this is too contrived for me), The Book Thief is the story of Liesl, her family, and her friends during WWII. It is the story of a girl who finds solace in words and shares it with others. Unlike many novels set in this period, The Book Thief examines the lives of Germans, not Jews, during the war. Readers are given a sense of what it was like to live in Germany and oppose the Nazis. I liked this novel and its message quite a bit, but the narrative voice (Death) really annoyed me. I think Liesl's story could have been much more compelling if told in the first person.
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"It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul."
Introduction: During WWII in 1939, Liesel and her brother are being taken to Molching, Germany with her mother, to live with foster parents. Sadly, her little brother dies on the train and is buried along the way there. This is when Liesel steals her first book, (Gravedigger's Handbook- marks brother's death). Entering her new home, Liesel finds most comfort and love with her new father- Hans Hubermann. Stealing books becomes somewhat of a hobby now, as it motivates her to learn to read and write. An important aspect of the introduction is the hint at Liesel's background. She learns more about why, how, and what actually happened to her real parents. As of right now, all we know is that Hans is gentle/welcoming, and that Rosa may need anger-management classes. Rising Action: After the book-burning celebration for Hitler's birthday, Liesel realizes that the Nazis are responsible for all of her losses. At this point, she steals another book (the Shoulder Shrug- marks hatred for Hitler). Along with her friendship with Rudy Steiner, good friend from school, she forms a relationship with the mayor's wife, who lets Liesel in her library every time she comes by for laundry (as she saw Liesel's interest in stealing the Shoulder Shrug). But when the wife, Ilsa, ends the laundry service, Liesel is infuriated and begins stealing her books. Eventually though, forgiveness awakes due to a complicated friendship that was always present. Back to Rudy, he's a fearless boy with lemon hair, and he wants Liesel's lips. Remember that. Meanwhile, there's the story of Hans Hubermann and his great friend during WWI who saved Hans's life and died in consequence. This friend happens to be a Jew, and his son is now seeking help with Hans, in hiding from the Nazis. Expectedly, the family is worried about the potential situation, since the act of housing a Jew in WWII was life-jeopardising. But they do, and Max turns out to be very friendly. So does Rosa. Especially Hans. Climax: A series of little events tagged along for the journey to the climax. But, everything explodes when Max leaves for safety. Liesel is…she's devastated. But, there is worse to come. He's seen in a hoard of Jews on their way to Dachau, and this just tears the girl apart. Soon after, Ilsa gave Liesel a blank book. This saves the girl's life, keeping her busy writing in the basement in an unexpected bombing. Sadly, all of Liesel's loved ones die in their sleep. Death takes his time picking up Rosa, Hans, Kurt... Oh yeah, Rudy dies too, but at least he gets his long-awaited kiss from Liesel. Too bad it happens like this. Falling Action: Well, the climax occurs late in the book, and in consequence, there's not much to be said in this section. But, it is notable that Liesel drops her book in shock of everybody's death (book = her life-story painted on the beloved blank pages from Ilsa). Death picks it up. The book is to be remembered. The mayor's wife takes her in. Liesel talks with Alex Steiner. About Rudy. I'm sorry, am I being too specific? It's...well...just that......I love this part. Resolution: In the epilogue, Liesel dies. But, she has lived a happy life with a husband and offspring. We also see Liesel being reunited with Max, having miraculously survived his sentence at Dachau. The book ends under a fulfilling atmosphere as Death gives back her book and takes her soul away. "I am haunted by humans."
I started this book and it just didn't keep my attention, so gave it up, for a time. It had been so highly recommended I knew it would come back on my list. When next I picked it up I was ready for it and absolutely loved it. An engrossing, warm, and thoughtful read about a very difficult time.
An amazing story that takes place during World War II in Nazi Germany. Death narrates the story of a young girl named Liesel and her life living with her foster parents, the Hubermanns.
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Other: Film is released in New Zealand 9th January.
Frightening or Intense Scenes: They get bombed several times. You can't see alot, but it may frighten younger children. And like i stated above, some fist fights.
Violence: Just alot of fighting. There are some fist fights and Germans beating people. There are also dead bodies shown.
Other: Release date November 15, 2013 (USA)
Coarse Language: german and english swearing but not to bad.
Sexual Content: Only kissing.
Coarse Language: Swearing in German and English
Violence: Bombs, whipping etc.
Coarse Language: Swear words are used in both English and German.
Violence: Some extremely graphic death and fight scenes.
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***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.
''Do you still play the accordion?''
The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you." ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
"I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me." (p.245 LP version) said by Death.
"Look at the colors," Papa said. It's hard not to like a an who not only notices the colors, but speaks them. - Markus Zusak
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like the regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers. Her hands were trembling, her lips were fleshy, and she leaned in once more, this time losing control and misjudging it. Their teeth collided on the demolished world of Himmel Street.
Point five: Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out. (p. 60)
Mr. Steiner was a remarkably polite man under normal circumstances. Discovering one of his children smeared charcoal black on a summer evening was not what he considered normal circumstances. "The boy is crazy," he muttered, although he conceded that with six kids, something like this was bound to happen. At least one of them had to be a bad egg. (p. 58)
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Peter Lely (1618-1680), Dutch-born English portrait painter, known for his paintings of 17th century English aristocracy. Born Pieter van der Faes in Soest, Westphalia (now in Germany), Lely trained in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where he became a guild member. In the mid-1640s he settled in London and was thereafter commissioned to paint the leading figures of the English court. King Charles II made Lely court painter in 1661 and knighted him in 1680. Lely's painting, fashionably elegant and marked by strong composition and lively color, shows the influence of Flemish master Sir Anthony van Dyck. Lely's series of paintings, called collectively the Windsor Beauties (1660s), is in Hampton Court Palace, London. Another series, the Admirals, (1666-1667) is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.


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Swain commissioners recommend DSS employee suspension DSS board to meet on the matter TuesdayWritten by Becky Johnson
Swain County commissioners voted 4 to 1 in a special meeting Thursday (March 3) to formally recommend that the Department of Social Services Board suspend with pay four employees involved in a State Bureau of Investigation probe into an alleged cover-up at the agency.
Commissioners emphasized that their recommendation is not a reflection of whether they think the DSS employees are guilty of wrong-doing. But commissioners said that suspending the employees will protect the integrityof the ongoing investigation.
The DSS board will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at the DSS office to discuss the commissioners recommendation.
Swain County commissioners met with three members of the DSS board in closed session for over an hour Thursday evening prior to the commissioners' vote. The meeting could legally be held behind closed doors since the discussion centered on personnel and a criminal investigation.
About 30 friends and family of Aubrey Kina-Marie Littlejohn, a 15-month-old baby who died in January, waited outside during the duration of the closed meeting to see what commissioners would do. Relatives say they had appealed to DSS to take Aubrey away from her caregiver and complained of suspected abuse and neglect. The SBI is investigating whether DSS employees engaged in a cover-up following Aubrey's death to hide potential negligence on their part.
Several social workers came to the meeting as well and expressed their dismay that their agency was under attack. They pointed out the many dedicated social workers in Swain County who put their heart and soul into what is a very tough job.
So far, only one of the employees named has been put on leave ŌĆō Craig Smith, a social worker with the agency since 2006, who was directly involved in falsifying records following the death of a child, according to an SBI search warrant. However, Smith told investigators he was acting on orders from his boss. Smith also told investigators that the DSS director and program manager knew he had never followed up on whether the child saw a doctor, even though he had fabricated a report to the contrary.
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