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June 9, 2011
Dear Friends of Kalamazoo,
It is from the bottom of my heart that I relay my thanks to Kalamazoo Public Library and the Kalamazoo Center for Social Justice for helping to coordinate Kalamazoo's recent reading of "Strength in What Remains." The invitation you sent us to hear about Village Health Works in Burundi and the warm welcome you offered us last month made us feel at home.
It is critical that communities around the world come together to support those that have been forgotten. This, I believe, is how we can measure world progress. From Kigutu to Kalamazoo, we all have a role to play in making the world a place of peace, health and hope. This is why we created Village Health Works. Our Village Health Works (VHW) project in rural Burundi is many years overdue and is in the perfect place for everyone who truly wants to make a difference in the world. When I think of the unspeakable misery in that country so badly forgotten and still off the map, I always wonder: what have the poor Burundians done wrong to deserve such kind of punishment? But that misery also can be looked at in another way: as a test of morality for those who sit idly by watching what happens and choosing to do nothing about it.
In the 21st century, letting some of our world citizens lag centuries behind is a serious challenge to social justice and a threat to human progress as well as global peace.
Although there is no shortage of woes in Burundi, there is no shortage of opportunities either. There is always a reason for keeping hope alive when I look at how VHW has brought so much joy and hope to the lives of our community members in such a short time and despite the meager resources and other challenges we have faced.
The mission of Village Health Works is to become a center of excellence for healing and teaching for our world so that existing conditions that have dehumanized Burundi for so long can shift into ones that favor life. There is no question in my head that this mission will be fully accomplished. All it takes is a community of compassionate people who, arms linked, get together to understand the world as it truly is.
When one does good after seeing with an open heart and mind what we eyewitness and deal with on a daily basis in Burundi, it is a humane act, more about what makes us all human than being generous.
You have dearly recognized that fact, and I trust that the event you organized in May 2011 to hear more about our work was the first step in an important collaboration between your Kalamazoo community and our growing organization. So, whatever you do, keep us in mind and let's make a difference together.
With many thanks,
Deogratias Niyizonkiza, Founder, Village Health Works.
P.S. Please continue to follow our work by visiting us at www.villagehealthworks.org.
PO Box 75 New York, NY 10013 | 917.546.9219 | villagehealthworks.org
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Although there is still one more Reading Together related event in 2011, I wanted to report out on the success of the program. Check out these numbers!
• Over 1,700 copies of the book and audiobook circulated
• Over 800 readers attended the Tracy Kidder program on March 10 at Chenery Auditorium
• 1,063 patrons attended one of the 13 events with an average of 82 at each event!
The above numbers show that over 3,500 individuals either read Strength in What Remains, attended an event or both. So if you average this number over the six weeks we celebrated Kidder's novel, over 580 a week participated in Reading Together! This does not even include the many community book clubs and partnering libraries who hosted events.
I would like to thank the Steering Committee, Community Partners, and Sponsors for making it another great year.
About fifty dedicated readers braved the cold to attend the first Reading Together program of 2011, "Appreciating Kidder".
Bill Combs, WMU professor emeritus of English, examined all nine of Kidder's books with particular emphasis on Strength in What Remains. He described them as narrative nonfiction - a true story written in a style more closely associated with fiction with plot structure and character development to make the story as compelling as possible. That's a good description of Kidder's style.
I'm just about through rereading Strength in What Remains. I don't often reread books, but I want to be ready for all the programs and events and have the book clearly in mind. I'm now inspired to read as many of his other books as possible before his visit here on March 10.
Reading Together 2011 is off to a strong start!
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"Powerful story that touches your heart, mind and soul."
"Powerful and inspiring."
"Powerful, well written."
"So much in it. Powerful on many levels."
These are five reader responses to Strength in What Remains. As I read through the first couple dozen surveys, I couldn't help but notice that "powerful" was the most frequent word used to describe the book.
A powerful book has great effect. The story or the way it's told may cause us to remember it for a long time. It may create awareness, challenge assumptions increase knowledge, or strengthen conviction. And it may prick any number of human emotions. The responses to a powerful book are as unique as we are.
What makes a book powerful to you?
photo: Tracy Kidder speaking at University of Delaware, September 2010. Photo by Tyler Jacobson.
At one time or another, we've all heard stories so amazing they make us say, "It has to be true. You can't make that up."
Some events and situations simply exceed our imagination because they fall outside what we have come to consider everyday possibilities.
Strength in What Remains is such a story. It is a biography that, at times, reads with the breathless pace of an adventure novel. At other times, the book causes us to reflect, not only on the conditions of Deogratias' life and the people encountered in his remarkable journey, but on how we might respond in similar situations.
And we have Tracy Kidder to thank for that. In the hands of another writer, this true story might not be as believable, or even as bearable to read. It might have been preachy or maudlin or sentimental. It's none of those things. In Kidder's hands, Deo's story inspires us.
In the months since Strength in What Remains was selected for Reading Together's 2011 season, our committee of volunteers has been crafting a schedule of events to complement the book. Coming soon will be a complete list of discussions and programs taking place from February to May. Mark your calendar for March 10 – that's when author Tracy Kidder will visit Kalamazoo.
In the meantime, pick up your copy at a bookstore or library. Tell us what you think about the book by completing an online survey.
We'll be announcing the 2011 Reading Together title very soon. In the meantime, we're looking to expand our network of community members.
Do you belong to one of these groups:
— high school students and teachers— college and university faculty, staff, and students— service clubs and community groups— book clubs
If you'd like to be involved with next year's Reading Together, send us an email.


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What's wrong with removing Banan14kab's image? I know it will cause problems by idiots who will then put to Naruto that he can use Chidori and Sasuke uses Rasengan! OMG How would they be a Naruto fan without common sense?! --Ilnarutoanime 16:45, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you again llnarutoanime! This kind of thing pisses me off a bit because I put serious thought into this and was not just goofing around. Is the image too good or something? Yes it may confuse readers, but that is what the synopsis is for. Why do you want to settle for an image that does not fully represent the point of the episode? Also I disagree with Cerez365 about this image causing problems. Like llnaruto said: "All Naruto fans know that Naruto can't use Chidori and Sasuke can't use Rasengan" or rather they should know. I guess it is obvious to us, but even new readers can get it with explanations. Banan14kab 16:50, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- The switch of jutsu didn't cause any significant confusion when it occurred in the manga. I don't see why the anime would produce a different response. ~SnapperTo 17:08, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- Oh yeah! So you agree or not?
- As a user, I suggest the image to be fitting to the title. Like the title is "Two Fates" and we will put the image of Team 7, it's rather funny.. The image looks better for the infobox since the title "TWO FATES". Oh come on this pissed me a lot!!! --Ilnarutoanime 17:14, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- The switch of jutsu didn't cause any significant confusion when it occurred in the manga. I don't see why the anime would produce a different response. ~SnapperTo 17:08, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
I never noticed that Kishimoto switched the two in the manga. I wasn't paying attention >.< 22.214.171.124 (talk) 17:43, June 10, 2011 (UTC) This sort of thing has become tradition now apparently. I suggest we just let the image section stay blank until Banan's done thinking every week and finds the perfect image. While I still disagree with the image this week,it's not enough of an issue for me to pursue any further.--Cerez365™ 18:04, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- Um..wow. I don't edit the episode articles very week. I just sometimes put up images I think fit better. I didn't edit last week's episode because the image seemed perfect. My ideas have been shot down before and I accepted it when enough people disagreed or found good reasoning to change it. I got carried away on the episode Danzō Shimura, but that was just an issue with image variety. Other users can add images if they want to and then we should just discuss it. Also I hope that wasn't sarcastic patronizing because if it was I don't appreciate it. Banan14kab 18:18, June 10, 2011 (UTC)
- It wasn't...--Cerez365™ 18:45, June 10, 2011 (UTC)

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The Hearst Connecticut Media Group apologized Thursday because one of its newspapers ran an ad for an antique gun show next to an article about the Newtown school shooting.
A statement released by Group Publisher Paul Farrell said the ad's placement in The Advocate of Stamford was the result of an oversight.
"Our newspapers should not be running gun ads — including ads for antique and collectible gun shows — next to stories about Sandy Hook. It's insensitive, and it shouldn't have happened," the group said in the statement referring to the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "We have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again."
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The ad for the East Coast Fine Arms Show appeared Thursday beside an article about students at the school. The promoter for the gun show, which is scheduled to begin Saturday in Stamford, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The gunman, Adam Lanza, killed 20 first-graders and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook. He also killed his mother on the morning of the rampage and committed suicide as police arrived. Police have not offered a possible motive.
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by different colours do you mean the actual map or maybe border/key colours?
i think stronger text (maybe larger too) would be helpful as its quite hard to see as it is.
realism is pretty subjective though i think adding different textures to moutnains, forests, seas etc might help (though you have a great base to start from).
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"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
"With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
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Against the Day is Thomas Pynchon's most recent and one of his most accessible and entertaining works. (Mason & Dixon and The Crying of Lot 49 are better books, imo, but this one is certainly a worthy addition to Pynchon's formidable oeuvre.) Dick Hill's reading makes it even better.
Taking place between 1893 and 1914 in Chicago at the Columbian Exposition and going from there to the globe, inside and out, the story involves a group of very fictional hot-air balloonists, western mines unionists and anarchists (terrorists?) and their families, tycoons and their goons, scientists, mathematicians and a whole menagerie of assorted characters some historical, some not.
The plot involves the children of slain anarchist Traverse Webb as they basically try to 1. avenge his death and 2. escape the clutches of the evil tycoon Scarsdale Vibe. Meanwhile, the Chums of Chance glide around observing from their balloon above. But that's a very, very simplified version of the intricate convolutions the plot of this encyclopedic novel takes.
The themes are the closing of the frontier and the onset of modern life, including the boom of technology and capitalist greed. Meanwhile, the common man is doomed to live under the oppression of totalitarian regimes willing to use militaristic force to ensure domination.
Different styles are used for different plots of the book varying from Dime Novel to American Western to erotica and spy novel. This is quite effective in maintaining interest throughout such a long book.
The narrator Dick Hill gives a bit of very appropriate energy and drama to the reading and although it took a few minutes to get used to the voice (as usual for me), it's obvious Hill knows and loves the material and his interpretation is "cracker-jack!" Good show!
"Pynchon's best yet!"
The broadest and most joyous of this remarkable author's unique, sprawling, epic, poetic sagas. An absorbing, sometimes surreal and almost overwhelming miasma of fact, fiction and fantasy, set during the period of tumultuous advancement in thought and discovery between the 1890's and 1920's, and peripheral to the dark and foreboding "war to end all wars". But even more so than his other masterful works – Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49 – this is a positively decadent and ultimately joyous celebration of history, scientific delusion and fact, mysticism, social turmoil and evolution, love real and imagined, flight, time travel, light, energy and ultimately redemption and hope. Pitting industrial and political czars and goons, unionists, mathematicians, inventors, spiritualists, explorers, anarchists, visionaries, charlatans, airship travelers, transcendentalists - all of them basically regular folks like you and me - against and with each other. Dick Hill's narration, voicing, inflection and pace, at first seemingly quirky, are quickly found to be perfect for the material. Though some 52 hours long, it was increasingly absorbing, and ended most graciously, though I'm sorry it had to end at all. This is one for you, whoever you are.
Quite an investment in time, but worth the effort in my judgement. I downloaded this book Jan 30th and didn't finish until June 8th! 53 hours and 38 mins later, I'm still a little confused on some of the plotlines. Nevertheless, the concepts I did understand are brilliant and the character names are like Dickens on steroids. Pynchon has a knack for presenting ideas or observations in a couple of pages that other authors would use to fill an entire book. The wit is very smart, all sorts of sly allusions to history and pop culture abound. Worth the effort for me but, as the WSJ and NYT said in their reviews, this book isn't for everyone. There were times when I thought it might not be for me either, but I persevered and am glad I did. The narrator was excellent, it's got to be quite a challenge to deal with this many characters, the sheer size and all of the mathematical terms, scientific jargon and strange locales.
"Excellent book, but minor quality issues"
This is an excellent book, but not for everyone. Some other reviewers pointed out that they couldn't follow it, and, yes, Pynchon is hard to follow. I'm actually listening after reading the book (I read a couple of chapters then listen to the same parts.) With the strange character names, obscure ideas, and many twisted concepts, this is probably not a good choice for something to listen to in the car.
The narrator, however, turns this into a tour de force - his reading is inspired, and his wide variety of voices fits perfectly with the variegated characters.
The only issue I have is with the sound quality of the book. When listening on headphones, there is noticable distortion when the reader's voice gets louder than normal. I don't notice this on speakers, but it does detract slightly from the enjoyment of this book when I listen on my iPod. Also, there are a couple of points where you hear a voice saying "This is the end of CD X." Apparently, the file wasn't perfectly cleaned up when Audible put it up for sale. Finally, there is no cover art attached to the files - no big deal, but another minor quality issue.
"Stil Undecided; Uneven"
I finished this book months ago, after taking months on it, between and while reading many other books. I have waffled on it. Listening to it began as pure elation. Then things bog down. A lot of the material is the egghead equivalent of celebrity name dropping; where a People Magazine will show you pics of this or that actress on a bad hair day, Pynchon throws out these somewhat obscure historical and mythical names: so as a reader you say "Oh my gosh its Esche's camels! And a Tassle Worm!" Or if you don't know of these things Pynchon seems very learned and brilliant and your head spins. But in this book I felt they just got tiresome, and they were all very shallow; nothing is added to your knowledge of Tassle Worms for example. There is something of a plot, though as usual in this author's books, the characters are more names and a general class of human (professor, gambler) rather than fleshed-out individuals you care for, though a few of the characters in this book I at least remember vaguely. Things bounce around take on an epic feel only because everything begins to feel epic when it goes on long enough. The end becomes quite excellent again and is a highlight. This is not as good as "Mason Dixon" or "Gravity's Rainbow" I think, but is a good book on the whole. A lot of it felt meandering and some of the sketches felt undeveloped. In some sections I wanted more and in some other places I could have done without the typical Pynchon bizarre graphic sex scenes. In general if you have not read Pynchon you will appreciate him if you ever sigh reading books thinking that everything is done too typically and wishing someone just did their own style- but his style is mostly the same book to book, so your second Pynchon will feel more like nostalgia than discovery. There are zany songs and silly names and complex math equations. This novel seemed to have no plan at times but on the whole I suppose I am enriched and the voice work is mostly spectacular.
"Best Pynchon Novel"
I have read several Pynchon novels before starting this audiobook, so I understood the scope of characters and grand, sweeping events I was in store for. What I *wasn't* ready for was Dick Hill's narration. I have been impressed with audiobook readers before--George Guidall on American Gods, Simon Vance on Wolf Hall, and Roy Dotrice on the Fire and Ice series, each outstanding in his own way handling a multitude of voices and complexity of langauge--but Dick Hill in Against the Day set a new standard which few others will ever reach. His handling of song lyrics, foreign languages, tricksy Pynchon prose mixing both high and low brow culture, and a cast of characters far too long to list here made a very difficult novel come to life and entertain in ways people can't imagine a Pynchon novel can even do. Dick Hill was essential to my enjoyment of this read/listen.
Obviously it compares to Pynchon's other classics such as Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon. From the point of view of how it synthesizes so many different ideas from so many different cultural and scientific fields, it reminds me of Joyce's most challenging works: Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. It also covered much of the same ground as Umberto Eco's recent Prague Cemetery, although it does so in a much more fulfilling and far reaching manner.
Too many to count. It could be the many discussions of the cultural and political implications of fin de siecle science and math--aether and Riemann Functions for example. It could be the Chums of Chance, the perfect parody of pulp fiction of the early part of the 20th century (think Doc Savage for example). It could be the exploration of the political changes from the 1890's that lead up to the First World War. It might well be the masterful ways in which Pynchon mixes high brow and low brow culture. He'll move from discussing the Michaelson-Morley experiments in the speed of light moving through aether that helped set the groundwork for Einstein's Theory of Relativity to having a Arabic character named Al Mar-Faud who wears a hunting cap, carries a shot gun and loves to go hunting for "wabbits."
The Traverse boys, all with different points of view spend most of the novel hunting for the man who was responsible for ordering their father's death. They are as a whole perhaps the most human and fleshed out characters in all of Pynchon's work. Their whole story arc is very moving.
It's not an easy read/listen, but it's well worth the time. Enjoy the laughter even as you puzzle through the implications of some of the weightier issues and themes. Pynchon is a master at that blend in a way no one else is.
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"two big thumbs up and one down"
Quality Control Alert.
Thomas Pynchon and Dick Hill are a perfect combination of excellence. The problem is that the download was VERY messed up. Listener beware, if you end up with the same download of seven parts, most of them ten hours long--and I can't imagine why it would be different for me than someone else, though none of the reviews I read before purchasing mentioned this problem, which baffles me. I've listened to quite a few Audible audiobooks before and have never seen anything like this.
All of a sudden you are hearing what you heard several hours earlier, with no indication. At first I thought the player had bounced back on the progress bar, but when it happened again I was paying closer attention and knew it wasn't that. I bought the ebook so I could follow along to confirm and clarify. Sure enough: WTF?
For a long and somewhat challenging book with a lot of characters, it is especially difficult to follow when full of recording discontinuities; frustrating to try and find the proper place to pick up from, which, once I figured out the problem, turned out to be the beginning of the next downloaded section, thus, the story should only be fifty-something hours long, not over sixty.
I LOVE the audiobook otherwise. Too bad about the terrible engineering, but it should be easy to fix in post. Maybe Audible could give me the credit back for suffering through it, giving you a heads up, ands spelling this out for them.
"Quite good!"
Hill does quite a good job with <i>Against the Day.</i> Easy to follow, nice leisurely pace, and a welcome variety of voices, never overdone, make this an enjoyable listen.
"A plethora of characters - too many words"
This books starts being really interesting, but after a quarter of an hour you discover that your mind has wandered and you haven't listened to the last five minutes at all. You rewind and start over. Same thing after a while again. There are so many characters and the events change so quickly and between caracthers that you quickly lose track of who is who and what they say and why.
The story takes place at the end of the 19th century. It is a mix of Jules Verne and Charles Dickens. Jules Verne had really interesting ideas and twists and turns (at least in his earlier novels). Dickens had really faboulus characters who became more alive the more you listened to his stories. This book is just a lot of words amassed; it is a lot of exchange of views, but nothing really drives the story forward. It lacks the originality of Jules Verne and the likability and life of the Dickens charaters. Pynchon tries to spice up the novel by placing references to other novels, events, known people, etc. but that just serves to blur the story and make it more confused.
I have read other books by Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow, V), both of which I really liked. But Against the Day is just so boring, that I listened with some interest only to the first 10 or so chapters; the rest I just forced myself to go thru until I completely lost interest because of all the mannered and affected style of writing after the third part (of seven in all).
The narrator tries his best to give different dialects and tones of voice to the plethrora of characters. But he breaks RULE NO. 1 for narrators of audio books. Rule No. 1 is to read with a relatively even voice volume. This narrator varies between whispering to almost screaming and every conceivable volume in between. If you set your listening volume to hear the whispering, it becoems far too loud for the screaming parts. So I had to set the volume somehwere in between, in order to not have to change the volume every 15 seconds, and then you miss some of the less loud parts. Not good narrated at all by Dick Hill.
"Work of genius well told"
This is a towering performance of narration which perfectly compliments a fabulous work of art. It is always hard to categorise Thomas Pynchon's work but this lives up to my adoration-soaked expectations. It is joyous, darkly comic, poignant and explosive in its perceptions. It's Technicolor writing performed by a Eastman film voice. And, just to get all value-for-money on you, it's Hours of entertainment at a snip. Bold and beautiful stuff.
"An epic romp through the end of an era"
As always, Pynchon develops a huge caste of vivid and diverse characters who navigate through various long and convoluted plots which eventually converge together. The immerging technologies of the 20th century are well used to pepper his tale with seeming phantasmagorical happenings, leaving the reader to sometimes wonder where one is being led, only to find oneself in a recognisable place or happening of the time.
I am full of admiration for Dick Hill as narrator/navigator through this maze. He manages to give each character their own voice which well reflects their personalities, and keeps a good pace going throughout. Even so, I have been forced to re-listen to huge chunks of the book as I suddenly came down to earth and realised that I was completely and irrevocably lost!
Yes, great value for money and great fun. I was fully immersed in this wondrous tale for several weeks, in the end, and probably listened to the book more than twice by the time I had finished.
Don't hesitate, jump in head first and enjoy!!
"Too much"
I really struggled through this. It's very long but I didn't feel immersed in it. I didn't care for any of the characters, who were like figures in some endless, unresolved mathematical equation. The storyline plots were so unconstrained and random that I got lost and past caring. I thought his sympathy for violence in the anarchist cause was cartoonish, naive and unquestioning. I couldn't see the depth, humour or intelligence that others have seen. There is some great writing but it was swamped by too much of everything, with no sense of resolution or even of stories merging. Some people love him but I'd recommend David Foster Wallace or Jennifer Egan instead.
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In the Back-end, look at Template Management
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The Help pages here are useful - (include Help icon) Screen of Template Management GSTemplateMan
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Change the Default Template
The Default Template is the one in use and usually applies to the whole site. (You can assign different Templates to different pages - cross ref) Changing the Default Template alters the appearance of the site. You can see this by altering the Default.
- Click on the radio button to select one of the Templates
- Click the Default button on the menu
- Refresh the Site page
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- Look at each in turn.
Summary of Templates shipped with Joomla!
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- http://docs.joomla.org/Beez
- Makes use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) fomatting. It needs experience to do the customization
- RHUK_Milkyway
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- This is the system's default template. It has only a few configurations.
- JA_Purity
- http://docs.joomla.org/Ja_purity
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RHUK_Milkyway and JA_Purity allow some changes to be made from Edit in Template Management
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With RHUK_Milkyway some colours can be altered.
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- Click Apply
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- Click Preview (which Previews what the page would look like when the changes are made.)
Repeat with JA_Purity
- Make the Default Template JA_Purity
- Click on the name of the Template or Click Edit
Here there are more options for change. Try them in the same way - remember to Apply the change before a Preview.
Other Editing with the Template [Edit] screen Note that there are also options on the Toolbar for Edit HTML and Edit CSS.
These give access to the files, so that changes can be made from the Template Manager. These facilities are not covered here. They are beyond the scope of this document. These files are, however, documented elsewhere - refs at end probably.
What is a Template and where is it located?
Templates are a series of css, xml, php, html and image files that work together They are stored in the templates directory of your site. On localhost you can see these files. If you are using an existing web site, you may not be able to view the files (they will be on a server that can usually only be accessed by a few people - for security)
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- Don't edit or delete any of them - obviously.
The Templates are located under the templates folder. For each template there are a series of folders with the relevant files for controlling the appearance and the parameters for the changes that can be made in the Template Manager pages.
More about Templates
You do not have to use one of the Templates shipped with Joomla! If you want to use a different Template, you can:-
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To buy one with a suitable design, you need to find it, download it and install it. So some computing skills and familiarity with the Back-end of Joomla! is needed for this. This is beyond the scope of the documents in this series.
To write your own is also beyond the scope of the documents in this series. You need coding skills and to be the sort of developer who writes their own code for part of the web site.(there are other resources that do- cross ref to setting one up for yourself)
This series is about creating a web site which uses core Joomla! and uses one of the Templates that ships with Joomla! So for planning the site, all you have to do is to decide which one has the best appearance for what you want to do.
Cross-references and further information
Basic information on Templates
- Joomla! Administrator's Manual - on-line
- Quick start guide Thisalso has something on your own design and writing your own templates.
- http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Introduction_to_Joomla!_templates
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ST. LOUIS (USA TODAY) - The precocious Michael Wacha did it again Saturday.
The St. Louis Cardinals rookie right-hander blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers on three hits over allowed 6 2/3 innings of Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium, one-upping presumed Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw.
The Cardinals won 1-0, scoring a run off defending three-time NL ERA leader Kershaw in the fifth inning when David Freese hit a leadoff double, took third on A.J. Ellis' passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jon Jay.
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Fayetteville, AK (Sports Network) - Marshawn Powell dropped a career-high 33
points as the Arkansas Razorbacks pulled ahead late and defeated the Oklahoma
Sooners, 81-78, at Bud Walton Arena.
Powell hit 11-of-17 shots from the floor and 7-of-8 from the free throw stripe
to lead the Razorbacks (4-3) to the win. BJ Young contributed 10 points and
eight assists while Mardracus Wade scored 10.
Romero Osby finished with a season-high 22 points off the bench for Oklahoma
(6-2), which won three straight contests prior to tonight. Amath M'Baye added
14 points and Steven Pledger scored 12 points on 4-of-7 from behind the arc.
The home team shot 55.0 percent from the floor in the first half and led 41-38
at intermission. Oklahoma controlled the boards but struggled shooting from
outside, knocking down just 1-of-8 shots from behind the arc while Arkansas
made 5-of-12 3-point attempts.
Oklahoma shot 64.0 percent from the field in the second half while they kept
the score close. The Sooners took their first lead with 20 seconds remaining
on a Pledger 3-pointer, but Young came right back down the court seconds
later and hit a runner to give Arkansas a 79-78 advantage. Osby had an
opportunity to give OU the lead back, but his jumper was off the mark with
eight seconds remaining, and the Razorbacks secured the rebound and held on
for the victory.
Arkansas leads the all-time series, 15-12.
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Six years ago, when 43-year-old James and a father of two daughters who lives in Dar es Salaam's Kawe suburb, gave Tsh 100, 000 to his wife for shopping, he got a bag of charcoal, 10 litres of kerosene, 20 kilogrammes of rice, 10 kilos of maize flour, 10 kilogrammes of beans, 10 kilogrammes of sugar and 10 kilos of meat, which were the basic foodstuff they needed to survive.
After shopping, his wife remained with Tsh 11, 000, which she used to buy other necessary kitchen items such as onions, tomatoes, edible oil and salt. The Tsh 100, 000 budget could at least sustain James's family for 20 days, before some items would have to be purchased again.
But today James, a painter whose monthly income is approximately Tsh300, 000, faces a bleak future as inflation surges ferociously, adversely impacting the basket of items he used to budget for with his meager income six years ago.
Today, the Tsh 100, 000 can only afford a 100-kg bag of charcoal, 20 kilogrammes of rice and 10 kilogrammes of sugar, thanks to the untamed inflation that is ruining millions of other families in Dar es Salaam and the country at large.
Millions of Tanzanians like James are struggling and finding it hard to put food on the table owing to the soaring food prices.
Though government statistics put the current inflation rate at 24 per cent, up from a single digit in 2006 when President Jakaya Kikwete took over as the head of state, the reality on the ground paints a gloomier picture than official data shows.
The economy, in the common man's perspective, paints a bleak future and casts doubt on the government's ability to curb the soaring cost of living, which is fuelled mainly by higher food prices.
According to a survey of food prices conducted by the Guardian by comparing inflation levels in 2006 and today, the prices of some basic foodstuff have skyrocketed by 100 per cent.
For instance, while in 2006 a bag of charcoal weighing 100 kilogrammes cost Sh 15,000, today the same costs consumers between Tsh 40,000 and Tsh 50,000. Charcoal is the biggest source of energy in most parts of the country, especially in urban areas. In 2006 a 30-litre gas cylinder was costing Sh 28, 000, but today the same costs an average of Sh 55, 000.
In 2006, a kilogramme of rice was sold at an average price of Tsh 700, but today the same costs between Tsh 2,100 and Tsh 2,800, depending on the grade and quality. Sugar, the sweet but deadly commodity if consumed carelessly, used to cost an average of Sh 800 per kilogramme then, but today it costs Sh 2,000 a kilogramme.
The year 2006 was the beginning of the current government's slogan of better living for every Tanzanian, which was however thwarted by power rationing and record-high fuel prices at the global market, which reached $140 per barrel of crude oil.
However, at that time the shilling was trading at Sh 1,300/-against the US dollar while inflation was at a single digit, standing at an average 9 per cent. Today, the shilling has lost its value against all major foreign currencies, trading at Sh 1,600/- per dollar, thus hurting the economy badly because the country imports more than it exports.
As Tanzanians waited eagerly for the promised better living, their hopes gradually fading as the economy continued to perform abysmally, though in 2008 oil prices dropped dramatically to $65 per barrel in the wake of the global credit crunch.
Oil is one of the major factors which play a crucial role in reducing or increasing food prices, because high transport costs caused by soaring fuel prices are finally borne by the final user, the consumer.
From 2009 till today, fuel pump prices have been on the increase due to various factors, including the weakening shilling against major foreign currencies. When oil prices soar, they not only affect motorists, but everyone is affected in different ways.
In the past six years during which Tanzanians have witnessed the soaring of food prices the government has remained almost silent, without any effective measures being taken to cushion consumers against the worsening inflation.
Today a kilogramme of maize flour costs between Sh 900 and Sh 1,200, three times what it cost about six years ago, while a litre of kerosene currently costs Tsh 1,900, up from Sh 900 which it cost in 2006.
Today a kilogramme of beans is sold at the retail price of Sh 1,500/-, up from Sh 600/-it cost six years ago, while a loaf of bread that used to cost Tsh 600 then now costs between Sh 1,200 and Sh 1,800, depending on the quality, as wheat flour, sugar and other ingredients surge due to high transport costs and scarcity in the market.
Ironically, the situation seems to have outsmarted the government, especially the ministry of Finance and the central bank, whose primary role is to curb inflation. While prices of basic commodities have increased by an average of 100 per cent, salaries in the public and private sectors have marginally increased.
According to the Bank of Tanzania, inflation minus food prices is just 8 per cent, which means that a surge in food prices accounts for over 80 per cent of inflation. With the production of food declining due to inadequate rainfall and lack of effective measures to boost agriculture, especially in the key producing regions, Tanzanians have literally been abandoned to deal with spiralling food prices.
Ironically, while food production has been declining in the past few years, domestic demand has been increasing dramatically, triggering hyper inflation in the country.
As Tanzanians struggle bitterly to face the worsening inflation, policymakers and politicians seem to be taking it in stride, perhaps because they believe that this is 'another blowing wind' that will come to pass. Neither the National Assembly nor the cabinet seems to have adequately addressed the situation so far, casting doubt on whether the administration is really concerned about by the effects of the current inflation rate.
With about four weeks before the national budget is tabled in Parliament, the future looks bleak because preliminary indications show that the exchequer doesn't have any concrete measures up its sleeve to address the rising cost of living as well as inflation.
Though the newly appointed Minister for Finance, Dr William Mgimwa, said this week that curbing inflation was one of his top priorities, he didn't explain clearly what measures would be taken to cushion consumers against the worsening situation.
The most puzzling situation is that while the cost of living has gone beyond the means of millions of Tanzanians, policymakers and politicians, including those from the opposition, seem to be occupied with petty issues revolving around the two camps.
No party has so far addressed the current soaring food prices seriously and put the government under pressure to act. In most speeches at political rallies, the word 'inflation' is a rare terminology because, to our politicians, it doesn't send any shock waves compared to power shedding, Dowans, Richmond and what have you.
At the end of the day it's the common man who bears the brunt.
"They are busy politicking, but we are suffering as food prices soar dramatically…we want to know what the politicians and policymakers are doing to make our lives easier." James said this week as he narrated how the soaring food prices have affected his living.
Central bank Governor Professor Benno Ndulu said recently that he is optimistic and confident that the situation would improve by the end of this year. He made the claim when speaking to the Guardian, saying inflation would be reduced to a single digit by the end of the year.
Governor Ndulu said although his office had tried to intervene, two factors were to blame for the high inflation rate. The factors are food prices, especially of cereals and sugar, and fuel.
"It must be understood that the core inflation, resulting from the liquidity (amount of money on the circulation) has been steady at 8.7 percent for a number of months, as we have managed to control it, but it has been difficult to deal with the other type of inflation because it is determined by foreign factors," noted Professor Ndulu.
He mentioned one of the major factors as fuel prices which for a so long time have remained unstable in the world market, but in the case of Tanzania they have consistently remained high.
"Let's hope that by June and July fuel prices will go down a bit, and even better later on towards the end of the year. We hope also that crises among influential nations and oil producers would be resolved and thus ease prevailing difficulties on our economies," he added.
A survey published in January 2012 by a non- governmental organization, Twaweza, shows that there has been a decrease in food consumption, a situation attributed to the high prices of foodstuffs.
The survey results show how the soaring food prices directly affect low-income households which could not afford three meals a day, bringing the number down by 20 percent since the baseline survey was conducted in 2010.
It (the survey) was based on mobile phone interviews involving 358 residents in the three Dar es Salaam districts of Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni and focused on their food consumption and their perception of their economic situation.


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Mary, who I met on the street the other day looking sharp in Nanette Lepore, came to visit me at The New Museum with her friend Doris. I asked them about how they met, and the two let me in on a little of their history.
Mary: We've been friends for about 30 years.
Doris: We worked together at the Whitney Art Museum.
Mary: I was fired for insubordination.
Doris: I offered to help her fight for her job--
Mary: And she had a very high position there! But I didn't want her to have to fight for it, because of my boss. He was nicknamed "Lobotomy."
As Mary and Doris have advanced in age, they've maintained an appreciation for each other's fashion sense, and still firmly believe in looking their best every day.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
An Advanced Friendship
Posted by Ari at 12:55 PM
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- r l n ! said...
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- September 9, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- 20th Century Woman said...
Lovely ladies, brave, too.
- September 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM
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- September 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM
- That Girl Ang said...
They are too cute.
- September 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM
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- September 10, 2009 at 1:09 AM
- Fiona said...
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- September 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM
Never thought, that Corbusier frames could work onwomen, but so it does!
So nice to see those gorgeous ladies together in their different and adorable styles.
- September 10, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- Dr. Ding said...
So sassy and well, sassy!
- September 14, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- thwany said...
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- September 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
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Anistar City (ヒャッコクシティ Hyakkoku City in japanese) is a city in the region of Kalos, that appears in the sixth generation games, Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. This city is located in the eastern part of Kalos. It's the seventh city you visit through the natural order of the game.
This city is noted by its great meteorite that proceeds from space, similar to a great crystal, that decorates the west part of the city and makes the function of a sun clock. For the rest, this city is very modern, and it has the seventh Pokémon Gym in the region. It is said later in the game that the sun clock reacts to the Mega Stone.
Anistar City Gym
Anistar's Pokémon Gym is specialized in the Psychic type. Its leader is named Olympia.
Old man's house
Below the Gym, there's a house with an old man that lives alone, and will ask you if you have a Pokémon whose level is 5 or under to make him company.
If you leave a Pokémon and return after several days, you'll find the house empty with a Pokéball in the middle, with your Pokémon, and a note. This note explains that the old man has deceased and he's thanking you for leaving the Pokémon with him. After reading the note, you'll get a Comet Shard and your Pokémon back. Your Pokémon won't get any experience points.
Man's House
If the player talks to the man in the house, he will tell the player stories and legends about the Legendary Pokémon, Xerneas or Yveltal.


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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Saidi Mwema said yesterday despite decreasing crime rate, the country's peace and security is being threatened by organised crime and terror threats by groups associated with Al Qaeda.
He said crime in the country decreased by 19 percent from January to December last year compared to 2010 statistics.
Last week a group, which identified itself as 'Al-Shabaab Tanzania', threatened to attack Efatha Life Ministry structures at Mwenge in Dar es Salaam.
The IGP who was briefing journalists on the two-day official visit of the Acting National Commissioner of South Africa Police Service and Chairperson of the Southern African Regional Police Chief Council Organisation (SARPCCO) Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said: "We have peace but it is threatened by terrorism threats."
Last week police said they would launch immediate investigations into threats by a suspected terrorist group to blow up a Dar es Salaam church.
Director of Criminal Investigations Robert Manumba made remarks to that effect in a telephone interview with this paper, which had shortly earlier received a copy of a three-page written statement apparently prepared and circulated by a suspected terrorist group giving Tanga as its base.
The group, which identified itself as 'Al-Shabaab Tanzania', threatened to attack Efatha Life Ministry structures at Mwenge "any time from now."
Mwema said piracy is another problem, citing the attacks that have been made and a number of people arrested in Tanzania. He said some of the cases are still pending in court.
He thanked South Africa for assisting in the arrest of illegal fishermen operating in Tanzanian territorial waters.
"We are also experiencing piracy in Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria," said Mwema, stressing that a multi agency approach is required to permanently end the problem.
The Police Chief said human trafficking is on the increase and that most Tanzanians involved are taken to South Africa before they are transported to other destinations.
Mwema said the visit of Mkhwanazi is to follow up on the implementation of resolutions reached in their past meetings, chart ways to fight against trans-border offences and challenges facing police officers regionally.
According to Mwema, the visiting South African counterpart will also hand over SARPCCO Chairmanship to Tanzania. Meanwhile, Mkhwanazi has said it is important for countries to cooperate and share experiences in the fight against organised crime, human trafficking, terrorism and piracy.
"This is an ordinary meeting that brought us together to discuss issues touching countries regionally for better plans and future implementation," he said.
Mkhwanazi said that as the SARPCCO Chairperson he is responsible of making follow up on implementation of resolutions reached in the last meeting before handing over the chair to Tanzania next year.