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From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the downfall of Mussolini had created a novel circumstance: prisoners who theoretically were no longer enemies. Many of these exiles were sent to work on isolated farms, unguarded.
The Paperbark Shoe is the unforgettable story of Gin Boyle - an albino, a classically trained pianist, and a woman with a painful past. Disavowed by her wealthy stepfather, her unlikely savior is the farmer Mr. Toad - a little man with a taste for women's corsets. Together with their two children, they weather the hardship of rural life and the mockery of their neighbors. But with the arrival of two Italian prisoners of war, their lives are turned upside down. Thousands of miles from home, Antonio and John find themselves on Mr. and Mrs. Toad's farm, exiles in the company of exiles. The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
First published in hardcover as Toads' Museum Of Freaks And Wonders
The Paperbark Shoe
I was hiding in the orchard, pretending to check for creepy-crawlies rutting on the beginnings of the fruit when the Italian prisoners of war arrived, descending from the sergeant's green Chevy: one fella tiny, nervous, prancing sideways, shaking his glossy black mane, a racehorse of a man, sixteen if he was a day; the other bloke a walking pie safe, draped in a freakish magenta army uniform, complete with a pink blur in the buttonhole that I reckoned was an everlasting. Some prisoners. They looked more like two obscure French artists mincing along behind the curator of a museum of primitive art. The curator, my husband Toad, pointed to the house, and I imagined him saying, 'And over here is the Toady masterpiece - The Farm House - painted in a mad rush in 1935 before the wife had her first child - notice the delightfully eccentric stone chimney, the listing veranda, the sunburnt children lurking under the mulberry.' And the tame cockatoo, Boss Cockie, saw ...
The Paperbark Shoe is a miracle of a book - so perfect, it's astonishing that it is Goldie Goldbloom's first. Along with the characters, we experience sweat and toil, success and defeat on unforgiving land, and we mull over the pain of the injustices we all wreak on each other. The relief we may feel because we aren't physically like Gin and Toad is made moot when we remember that what binds us all is a shared human nature.
(Reviewed by Lisa Guidarini).
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Australian author Goldie Goldbloom discusses her debut novel, The Paperbark Shoe, with Lisa Guidarini. The following are selected excerpts from the full interview.
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I'm always excited when someone asks me a question that I haven't been asked before, especially one that makes me think deeply. I don't know enough about rural America to write well about it. The red dirt of Australia is still underneath my fingernails. Themes of isolation and xenophobia and heartbreak and loss are universal, but in a squeaky little corner of...
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What a difference a week makes. Last week I was asking you to vote for me in the Dog TV logo contest. And this week I had a party to celebrate winning the contest. To say my head is spinning would be an enormous understatement.
Dog TV is the television channel devoted to pets and the people that love them. It recently ran a logo contest asking dogs to submit their photos to be used on the channel.
So when my Aunt Patti Jones and my mom, Tracie VanDeWalker, learned of the contest, the race was on. They were determined to put me out there.
They searched for just the right photo that would attract attention since they knew there would be a ton of contestants. In fact, there were about 3,200 beautiful dogs that entered the race. Honestly, there were some that were so special even I voted for them.
Even though the other dogs were wonderful, I did want to win. After all, thats why I was in the race.
I wanted to win not only for my nonprofit group, Central Georgia CARES and the Homeless Pet Clubs, for which Im also the mascot, but also for my hometown that I love so very much because its filled with people that care about animals.
It was my wonderful friends that pushed me ahead in this very, very close competition. In fact, my fabulous supporters rallied and cheered me on encouraging others to vote for me as well.
If it werent for each of you, the prize would have eluded us, but you were determined to help me win. To all those folks that voted for me and asked others to as well, please know how grateful I am to you. Thank you so very much.
Do you know why thats so special to me? Not because I can claim the title of winner of the Dog TV contest, although thats quite an honor. Not because I had a magical celebratory party, although that was a party of a lifetime.
Its because I think people believe in what CARES and I represent. I feel like the people that care about animals are ready to take a stand for animals. People are ready to speak up. People are ready to be animal advocates.
And I believe the people that voted for me in this contest and propelled me to the top spot were not just hoping I would win, but that homeless, abandoned and abused animals would win. I can promise you that whatever attention ever comes my way, it will be used to shine light on animals in need. After all, I think animals are sort of a big deal and Im glad you do, too.
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The Only Difference that Matters between Windows 8 and Windows RT
Backward compatibility.
That is it. Features like Media Center are inconsequential to this conversation; as our the myriad of supported CODECs. Those are things people who are technology enthusiasts know and care about. The important difference, the only difference is Windows RT RUNS ONLY applications available in the Windows store.
Also just to remind everyone, Windows 8 and Windows RT SHARE the same Run Time for touch applications. So if its a Metro app in the store, its available for both ARM and Intel. There share the Windows Run Time (WinRT).
The majority of tablets and hybrid tablets coming to market this week will run Windows 8. The MAJORITY. There will be a handful of Windows RT tablets coming to market; Surface RT and the Asus VivoTab RT are but a few.
Trying to get more complicated with the public by concentrating on minor details does nothing but confuse users. Telling people Windows RT is not backwards compatible clears most of the questions people have.
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Come enjoy a dramatic reading from The Wind in the Willows, a classic tale of forest animals. We'll also read some fables and craft animal friends based on Aesop's fable The Lion and the Mouse!
Participants in the program will be eligible to win a family 4-pack of tickets to the Two River Theatre's production of A Wind in the Willows Christmas.
This program is for children aged 4 and up. Space is limited; please call the Hazlet Township Public Library ahead of time to register.


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From a background in art and design, she studied photography at Brighton University and is now a leading female wedding photographer in Sussex and the South East.
Recognising that today's couples simply want to enjoy their wedding day without spending hours posing for photographs, Christine specialises in spontaneous and natural images that capture the true spirit of each couples day.
Christine has enjoyed documenting weddings for 10 years and is a professionally qualified wedding photographer with the Master Photographers Association and the British Institute of Professional Photography. She has gained national recognition as a Craftsman of The Guild of Photographers and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers - coveted awards held by only a hundred practising wedding photographers in the country.
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By Cathy B. Koplen Contributing Writer
The Daily Star
---- — As a genre, fantasy games offer many possibilities with modern technology for the computer gamer, while the board and card gamers have worlds of games to explore.
What was limited to Dungeons and Dragons 30 years ago, has expanded to include worlds of aliens and space travel, apocalyptic creatures, fantastic elves and goblins as well as historic occurrences. Board games such as Dead Zone, Dead Man's Hand, War Hammer and Bolt Action appeal to gamers on several different levels.
"These games, they kept me out of trouble when I was growing up," said Keith Gray, co-owner of The I.T. Guy and Technoir. "Being a computer geek is not such a bad thing anymore. I mean, being a nerd is kind of fun."
The I.T. Guy and Technoir is located at 112 Main St. The store specializes in all things gaming, from card collecting to specialized computers made especially for gaming. There are nightly board games and collectible card swaps.
"We do a midnight madness with a drafting of the 'Magic the Gathering, Born of the Gods' where people can come in right at the release of the new cards," said Nate Roberts, co-owner of The I.T. Guy and Technoir.
Saturday and Sunday the store will feature a released sealed event for Magic the Gathering Born of the Gods.
"It is like baseball cards," Roberts said. "Some cards are rare and worth a lot, but it really depends on the game. Some cards will launch high, and then tank. You don't know what you will get. But there was this World of Warcraft card that sold for $1,000. And some games, like Magic the Gathering, (have their) own currency."
Roberts and Gray play many of the games that are sold at their store. They have tables set up to accommodate game night. Some of the tables have a space theme with Star Trek ships facing off, while others tables have medieval castles, moats and bridges.
"Me and Nate are really fond of the Star Trek game." Gray said. "You get into it, you buy your figures and then you paint them and mount them. The scenery is really important too. You need a big table to play these big boy games."
Roberts has recently acquired a new set for a Wild West game called Dead Man's Hand. He is building a western town and will paint his metal outlaws game pieces to reflect his idea of a Wild West gang of thieves. While Gray has decided to invest in lawmen, which he will paint and mount to suit his tastes.
"It really is about the collecting too," Roberts said. "You get your pieces, and then you paint them and mount them like you want to. They become very personal to you."
Another game that has been recently introduced is Bolt Action, a historically correct World War II fantasy game with soldiers from around the western hemisphere. The accessories for that game include historically accurate buildings, bridges and landmarks.
Another aspect of The I.T. Guy and Technoir is the technology aspect. Roberts said he can make custom gaming computers, both desktops and laptops. In addition, they offer computer services such as cleaning, antivirus and updates.
"Alienware was the best manufacturer of gaming computers, but it is really expensive too," Roberts said. "I can build a custom rig, gaming machine that can handle all the games."


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New Works by Randy Shull
January 29 - April 5, 2013
Neil Britton Art Gallery at Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk VA
Exploring the iconography of the USA, Randy Shull's Channeling the USA exhibition bridges the gap between art and the myriad themes associated with this familiar shape. From spontaneous paintings with energetic compositions to sculptural representations where vacancy becomes a form of its own, Shull has made an exhibition that is both physically open and open to interpretation.
Channeling the USA made its debut exhibition at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC on November 16, 2012 in an exhibition that ran through January 12, 2013. After the inaugural exhibit, Channeling the USA traveled to the Neil Britton Art Gallery at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, VA.
Creative Loafing Review
Charlotte Observer Review
Bold Life Review
Guardian, 2011
70 x 96 x 4", Acrylic on carved wood panel
2012 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
2009 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2008 San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, California
2008 Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
2008 Belleview Arts Museum, Belleview, WA
2008 Juxtapositions, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2005 Swann House Coach Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2002 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2002 John Elder Gallery , New York ,New York
2001 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 Albers Fine Arts, Memphis,Tennessee
2000 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1998 John Elder Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Zone One Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
1997 Albers Fine Arts, Memphis, Tennessee
1997 Mint Museum of Art, Art Currents, Charlotte, North Carolina
1996 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1995 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York
1994 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 The Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
1991 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1991 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Belair, Florida
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama
First Charter Bank Headquarters, Charlotte, North Carolina
Independence Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
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My Wimbledon 2014 Preview
I do the research so you don't have to <g>. You're welcome. Links, resources, TV schedule and more.
I do the research so you don't have to <g>. You're welcome. Links, resources, TV schedule and more.
Continue reading "Thoughts Betwixt French Open and Wimbledon" »
There is much bourhaha about NBA star LeBron James being unable to finish the first game of the NBA playoffs because of cramps. Now, the air conditioning in the San Antonio Spurs' area was out, which produced stifling heat.. {see column by Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
Continue reading "Of Nadal, the NBA, and the French Open Draw" »
A few random if interesting discussions from Roland Garros:
John Isner? Nope. Rafael Nadal? Not even close.
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Having heard TV announcer Chris Fowler claim that using a split step while returning serve slows you down, I feel compelled to offer this.
And this means you Justin Gimelstob
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Can you name this Grand Slam champion? Not many players have used two hands on both sides, but their share of Grand Slam titles is disproportionately large. My pix from Stanford.
Trying to figure out how to hit this shot, so I turned to the master for instruction. I grabbed a short replay on Tennis Channel of Roger Federer hitting a forehand, swinging volley vs Delpo at Basil, slowed it down, put in some stop action and captions. Most of what I see reinforces what you hear about hitting the "modern, ATP forehand" groundstroke, with some specifics to this stroke. Video at the link, with a vidcap of his swing path here:


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In 2010, attorney Ronald H. Balson self-published his first novel, Once We Were Brothers, a haunting, fast-paced tale originating in Nazi-occupied Poland. The book opens in 2004, though. Philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being former SS officer Otto Piatek. The accuser is Ben Solomon, whose family took in the orphaned Piatek as a child, only to be brutally betrayed by him during the war.
Inspired by Balson's travels in Poland, Once We Were Brothers became a runaway hit, selling more than 120,000 copies. Three years later, the film rights have been optioned, and St. Martin's Press has published a new edition—released today—that will introduce this enthralling page-turner to an even larger audience.
In this guest blog post, Balson discusses how he was originally inspired to write the book:
Heroes, All
In the early 2000s, I was hired by a small Chicago company that had an exclusive license to install telephone service in the Nova Sacz province of southern Poland. Unfortunately, they couldn't deliver the project on time, and they lost their license. They, in turn, sued the manufacturing company. Although the lawsuit was filed in Chicago, the witnesses, the documents and all the evidence were in Poland. So, off I went. Many times.
I had read a lot about Poland during World War II, but I didn't really know what to expect on my visits. I knew that Hitler had bombed 80 percent of Warsaw, and I knew the city had been rebuilt under the Soviet regime. But I failed to anticipate how much of the landscape would still show the wounds. Bullet holes remain in buildings. Plaques on brick walls commemorate ruthless murders that took place there. And the monuments. So many monuments, statues and memorials. Memorials to the fighters of the Polish Uprising, the Warsaw Ghetto, the Polish airmen and even the code breakers. And then there are the heartbreaking memorials to the camp victims.
Poland never stood a chance. It was facing the world's largest, most menacing war machine. Yet, here and there, all across Poland, are glorious monuments in praise of heroism—to those who resisted, to those who fought in the uprisings and in the underground, and to those ordinary families who just tried to carry on and maintain their dignity in a time of insanity. They were heroes, all. That's what the monuments tell us.
I became fascinated by the monuments and spent more time than I should have thinking about the people to whom they were dedicated. It was an easy step from there to Once We Were Brothers. My novel opens dramatically: A prominent philanthropist, Elliot Rosenzweig, is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer known as the Butcher of Zamosc, Poland. His accuser, Ben Solomon, claims that they grew up together in the same household, only to be betrayed by Rosenzweig during the war.
The underlying message of Once We Were Brothers, though, is one of heroism. Like the monuments, it lies in praise of the ordinary families of small-town Poland, who tried to live their lives in the face of the Nazi scourge. When their dignities were stripped from them, piece by piece, they did their best to carry on. The book's message is also praise for the courage of those who resisted and those who served in the Polish underground.
An important section of the novel concerns a Catholic priest who risks his life to save the Solomon family. In a time when many averted their eyes and showed moral indifference, others, in the face of extreme consequences, displayed extraordinary courage. They are the ordinary folks—families, clergy, businessmen—who are honored at Yad VaShem as the "Righteous Among Nations."
Ben Solomon seeks the help of a young lawyer, Catherine Lockhart, to bring Rosenzweig to justice. Over a series of interviews, he narrates the moving story of his family and of Rosenzweig's betrayal. Although overmatched by Rosenzweig's powerful team of lawyers, Lockhart must find the courage to confront them. To do so, she draws strength from Ben and his story. And isn't that akin to the residual effect of the monuments? They are there to remind us of courage and moral conviction. Do we not draw strength and resolve from remembrance of these heroes?
If Once We Were Brothers entertains and informs, I am pleased with the result. But if the message of heroism is conveyed as well, then I have accomplished something that was born out of my visits to those emotionally powerful monuments several years ago.
Marlen Suyapa Bodden was working at the Legal Aid Society in New York when she stumbled upon the story that would turn her from a lawyer to a novelist. She first published The Wedding Gift herself, but intense reader interest led to it being picked up by St. Martin's Press, who will re-release the novel next week. In a guest post, Bodden shares the inspiration for her compelling debut.
In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.). A slaveholding man sued his bride for divorce because the child she gave birth to was not his. The court ruled in his favor and granted him all the property his wife brought to the marriage, including a young slave woman, who was a wedding gift from her father.
The fact that a person was given to another as if she were china or a tea service is shocking to our 21st-century minds, but what I learned while researching slavery, historical and modern, is that dehumanization is the chief tool that slave owners have used throughout time to control people and keep them enslaved. It was common for wealthy Antebellum slave owners to give their daughters maids as wedding presents, so the brides would have familiar faces in their new homes.
Though the Talladega case captured my imagination, I did not begin drafting The Wedding Gift until 2003, when another real-life story shocked me into action. A social worker at a women's homeless shelter in New York City contacted me about a resident of the shelter who wanted to sue her former employers for unpaid wages. I found out that she had been brought from an Asian country to New York as a slave, and eventually escaped with the help of police. It occurred to me then that, like most people, I had thought slavery was in the past—but there I was, looking into the eyes of a former slave.
When I started writing The Wedding Gift, I was not predisposed to write a novel that cast White people as villains and Black people as heroes. As a novelist and reader, I think characters who are either complete demons or saints are boring. Sarah Campbell, the young slave who is given to her half-sister as a wedding present, is a heroine, but she is not perfect. Similarly, Theodora, wife of master Cornelius Allen, may be kind to Sarah, but she remains a slave owner. Even Cornelius, the villain of the novel, engages in acts of kindness, although he is motivated by keeping his slaves in good health so they can reproduce.
I first went to Alabama in 1997 to work on a civil rights case (I am also a lawyer) and since then have traveled throughout the state, including Talladega, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile. The people of Alabama, of all races, have Southern charm and could not have been kinder to me. In The Wedding Guest, I hope to have done their complicated history justice—and to have given voice not only to the more than 27 million slaves of today but also to my own ancestors who, beginning in the 16th century, were kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the New World.
Thanks, Marlen! For more on The Wedding Gift, on sale September 24, visit her website.
I am so excited to share news of The Plum Tree with readers of The Book Case. This is a historical novel by debut author Ellen Marie Wiseman, a first-generation German American who was inspired by her mother's experiences in Germany during World War II. The book is on sale now.
In the novel, Christine lives in a German village and works for the Bauermans, a wealthy Jewish family. She falls in love with son Isaac Bauerman—but their lives are complicated in very painful ways when Isaac is arrested and sent to Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany. But Christine is desperate to be with him as she's left on the home front.
Ellen's publicist shared with me why the author had to tell this story:
Ellen grew up listening to her German relatives tell tales of poverty, hunger, bombings, and constant fear—a time when the country was made up of women, children and the elderly struggling to stay alive while the men were drafted and sent off to fight. In writing the book, Ellen's hope was to put a face on the countless destitute German women and children who lived and died under Hitler's regime, most often as victims of their government's actions.
Here, you can see how the author's family history inspired the book. These are her own family photos and the captions and explanations are in her voice.
This photo was taken to send to Opa while he was off fighting on the Eastern Front. At one point during the four years Opa was gone, he was captured by the Russians and sent to a POW camp in Siberia. For two years my mother and her family had no idea if he was dead or alive until he showed up on their doorstep one day. Opa and his stories were the inspiration behind Christine's father in The Plum Tree.
For years, Oma rang the bells every day to call the farmers in from the fields for Mittag Essen (the midday meal); every evening for prayer; and every Sunday morning for church service. During the war, the army took the bells down to be melted into bullets, a bomb hit the steeple, and the congregation, afraid to assemble without fear of being labeled traitors, met secretly in their homes. In The Plum Tree, this is the church were Christine attempts to expose an SS camp guard during the first service after the war was over.
My aunt's face is bandaged because she tried to swallow fire after watching a fire-eater at a carnival. In The Plum Tree, Christine remembers her sister, Maria, doing the same thing.
My mother is wearing one of her best dresses; the rest were made from printed cotton sheets. The tall door behind them led to the goats' indoor enclosure, which shared a wall with my great-grandparents' first floor bedroom. The neighbor's house (to the right of the tall door) shares a roof with my mother's childhood home. This is the setting for Christine's home in The Plum Tree.
Ellen, thank you for sharing your story with us. Readers: The Plum Tree is on sale now! For more information, visit the author's website, Facebook page or Twitter.
In her debut novel, Kelly O'Connor McNees imagined the life of Louisa May Alcott. It was "a compelling, heart-wrenching story about the difficult choices women face," wrote reviewer Susan Schwartzman back in April 2010, and a "bittersweet, stirring debut."
More than two years later, McNees is back with her second book, another historical novel about extraordinary women. Called In Need of a Good Wife, this book takes place in the American West of the 19th century and stars Clara Bixby, a woman who works as a broker of mail-order brides. (How's that for an unusual profession?)
One of my favorite aspects of good historical fiction is that it drops us into situations and eras that seem very unusual to us today. Have you ever wondered why women from New York would have shipped off to Nebraska as mail-order brides? Here, McNees shares fives reasons why a woman would go down this path.
Five things mail-order brides hoped to find on the American frontier
by Kelly O'Connor McNees
Before match.com there was the Matrimonial News, where, for about a quarter, prospective brides could place an ad describing what they were looking for in a husband. In the aftermath of the Civil War, many young women had lost a sweetheart to the battlefield and others still waited for their first chance at love. For the starry-eyed, nothing was more romantic than the idea of a lovelorn man sending letters from the prairie. Of course, things didn't always work out quite the way these young brides hoped.
Other brides were more practical. Women with few prospects for marriage in their own social circle had scant hope of financial security unless they found a way to make a match elsewhere. Many arranged marriages were little more than business compacts—a husband agreed to provide food and a place to live, and in exchange his wife would clean, cook, work the farm and give him children. Mr. and Mrs. aspired to be on friendly terms (there was the matter of producing those children, after all), but often love was a luxury neither of them could afford.
In 1867 the newly completed Union Pacific Railroad finally joined the east to the frontier and made rapid travel a real option for most Americans. Suddenly, places that had seemed impossibly far away were within a day's journey. Women who had believed they had no choice but to spend the rest of their lives cooped up in the same old towns, trying to live up to the rigid standards of the day, found themselves with new prospects. They could escape and go west, in search of gold, in search of new vistas, in search of a new way of life.
These days people wear pajama pants to the grocery store, so it's hard for us to imagine just how many rules governed the choices women made every day about their behavior and speech and dress in the well-established cities and towns of the east. But for women weary of these strictures, the frontier offered freedom. Homesteading required a great deal of back-breaking physical labor, and women worked right alongside men. They were dirty, calloused and sunburned, perhaps, but also free of stiff petticoats and corsets that kept them sitting uncomfortably on the edges of chairs back east. For those with the means to hire workers, the Homestead Act of 1862 allowed single women to claim land of their own, which meant they might not need a husband at all—a kind of freedom most women never dared to hope for.
Many of the men and women who traveled west to homestead hoped to leave the past behind and start again, or yet again. Failed businesses, blighted reputations, the unwanted destiny of a family name or a country or religion of origin—all of the disappointments of the past would stay there, in the past. These brave pioneers set out to write a new destiny for themselves, and for the nation, one hard-won page at a time.
For more on Kelly O'Connor McNees and In Need of a Good Wife, visit her website, blog, Twitter and Facebook.
Kristina McMorris' debut novel, Letters from Home (Kensington) is a World War II love story with a twist: It's based on McMorris' own grandfather's letters to his sweetheart—her grandmother. Here, the Portland author writes about the unique challenges this premise created for her work.
The challenges of writing historical fiction—when those who lived it are around to correct you!
guest post by Kristina McMorris
Finding inspiration to write my first novel, Letters from Home, was relatively simple. My grandmother had saved every one of the love letters my grandfather sent to her during World War II. Based on those beautiful pages, I imagined a Cyrano de Bergerac twist to their story, and voila! I had the premise of my book.
I brainstormed. I outlined. And then—oh, yes—I researched. A lot.
At first, my main motivation for accuracy stemmed from my fear of critics' feedback—namely from those ever-scary "anonymous" Amazon reviewers who supply their lengthy critiques in the form of bullet points. The deeper I delved into research, however, the more responsibility I felt to do justice to our humble veterans, whose sacrifices secured the freedoms we too often take for granted.
Writing historicals about any era poses a great number of challenges. In my case, I was featuring a period in which many of those who lived through it are still alive to call me a "nincompoop" over potential errors. (Not saying they'd use that word, precisely; but it's a great word, isn't it?)
On the upside, I eventually realized I had a wonderful opportunity that most historical authors don't: the possibility of hearing true accounts of the era firsthand. Before I knew it, my research process gained in-depth momentum. I had the pleasure of interviewing a wide variety of veterans, and even befriended a few members of the famed "Band of Brothers."
While I've gained an enormous amount of knowledge from textbooks, archivists, docents, and memoirs, no experience has compared to listening to tales from men who actually fought in the trenches. I'll never forget the Japanese-American vet who grew teary as he described the day that, unknowingly, he watched his own brother—an airman for the Japanese Empire—being shot down in a fighter plane overhead.
Sadly, two of the vets I met have passed away. Estimates claim we're losing a thousand of them daily, likely more. Hopefully, though, their amazing accounts and, perhaps more importantly, the lessons they've shared will live on through the written word. For that, I feel honored to contribute. And if, in the end, I still earn the label of a "nincompoop," it certainly won't be for lack of trying to get their stories right.
Kristina McMorris resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their two sons, bundles of energy who take pride in transforming any cylindrical household object into a weapon. She is a former host of "Weddings Portland Style" and a winner of the Golden Heart. Find out more on her website.
Writer Tasha Alexander and her Victorian-era novels featuring the intrepid, ahead-of-her-time Lady Emily should be well-known to BookPage readers—see our reviews of them here. The fifth in the series, Dangerous to Know, came out last week. Here, Alexander gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of the research required for Dangerous, making us even more jealous of the life of an author!
I spent much of last summer housesitting in rural Normandy, writing and doing research for my latest book. It was heavenly. The landscape is extraordinary, like walking through an Impressionist painting, and the food is everything you'd expect from France. I'd do just about anything right now for the village boulangerie's still-hot croissants. Spending a significant amount of time in the place your novel is set enriches the story in ways you can't anticipate—and in ways that would be impossible if you limited your research to reading.
But the thing that surprised me the most about my time in France was driving. Or navigating, really. And that was something that couldn't go into a novel set in 1892.
To start, let me say, for the record, that I absolutely adore France and the French. Always have, always will. Until I came to Normandy, I'd not spent much time in France outside of Paris (it's pretty hard to tear yourself away from Paris), and I was looking forward to exploring the coast, the crumbling châteaux, and the lush countryside. Armed with directions printed from Google Maps, I set off for my first excursion, to the seaside town of Étretat.
Within about half an hour, I was hopelessly lost.
Google Maps, you see, doesn't quite fit with France. I was approaching the trip like an American—an American planning to follow numbered highways to numbered exits.
Now. The French have both numbered highways and numbered exits. But to get to them isn't quite so easy as you might think. It requires a different frame of mind. You don't want to look for the number—instead, you need to go through each roundabout in the direction of the next village that's on your way to your final destination. Knowing you need the N15 or the D8 isn't enough. From that day on, I abandoned Google for a real, hard copy map, and made lists of towns before setting off. In the end, it made for much more pleasant excursions. How lovely to look for Pierrefiques or Fauville-en-Caux, wondering what you'll see there, rather than fixating on numbers. Sure, you may eventually wind up on the N15, but more likely, you'll never see the entrance and will spend a gorgeous afternoon meandering through charming places you'd never have seen otherwise.
Once you get accustomed to it, switching back to taking I-80 to exit whatever seems pedestrian and crass. I'm already looking forward to my next trip along the back roads of France.
Thanks, Tasha! Next time you go to France, take us with you. :) Visit her site for more about Tasha Alexander and the Lady Emily series.


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Andrew Przybylo, running for Mayor on the Niles New Party ticket along with George Alpogianis, Danette O'Donovan Matyas and John Jekot for Trustees, will announce their party's plan to restore "Niles Pride" at a special Niles New Party Rally on Saturday, February 23, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the White Eagle Banquet Hall, 6839 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Niles.
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The Hotspotr HT-710 sits on top of server cabinets and delivers 1,300 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air to help cool targeted areas of the data center. The company already has an underfloor model for raised floors. The devices can work on their own to control temperature to a specific area, or work in concert with other similar devices to control temperature to an entire data center.APC upgrades data center security monitoring tools
APC (or American Power Conversion) has updated its NetBotz data center monitoring tools to improve support for cameras, cabling and Power over Ethernet.
The devices can be installed to record video and audio from the data center, and now have Pelco IP cameras, which APC said have better resolution. Pelco and APC are owned by the same parent company, Schneider Electric. Using Power over Ethernet prevents data centers from having to hide a power device in the wall or ceiling.
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MIFFLINBURG — Keystone Exams continue this week at the high school. The SUN Area Technical Institute will hold their certificate program on Thursday, May 23 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Susquehanna University. Three teams from the high school have been awarded 3 of the 5 regional awards for the Economics PA Spring Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.


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Co-Interim Executive Directors' Welcome
Dear Colleagues and our ECHO Family,
We wish to extend our sincere sympathy to our students, staff and families regarding the loss of our ECHO Executive Director, Dr. Debra Hooks. Dr. Hooks had an impressive career serving students with disabilities and was a great leader for the cooperative. We thank her for her leadership and extend our condolences to her family. She will be missed.
During second semester, we will be serving as co-interim executive directors for the ECHO Cooperative. Committed to the education of students with disabilities, we will work with all of our staff to ensure programs and services continue without interruption. Our role is to support our children, staff and families as we move forward and provide leadership to ensure a successful transition for the new executive director.
As Dr. Hooks was anticipating a retirement date of June 30, 2014, the search has begun to select her successor. The position has been posted on our website and will be advertised nationally to ensure the selection of the best possible candidate to fill this position. The Board of Directors is seeking input from the school community to ensure all voices are heard in this process. A link for a survey is posted on the ECHO Cooperative website. It is anticipated a new director will be selected in late spring with a start date of July 1, 2014.
As co-interim executive directors, we share a philosophy of open and transparent communication. In keeping with this tenet, we remain available to discuss any questions or concerns that may arise relative to the Cooperative. One of us (Dr. Longo or Dr. Bridges) will be here every day the Cooperative is open.
We look forward to working with the ECHO family. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.
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Pretty Little Liars season 3 has seen Byron begin dating Meredith, and Aria even tried signing her mother up for online dating to lessen the blow. Well, it sounds like something's going to end up working since there is good news for Ella's love life.
PLL Season 3 Spoilers and Casting
According to TVLine, Steve Talley is going to be appearing as a new "hot younger" love interest for Ella. That's some good news for Holly Marie Combs' character, and she certainly deserves it. But will things work out, or will this just be a one-episode possibility? Aria's heart was in the right place with finding her mother a guy, so where is Ella going to meet Talley's character?
Pretty Little Liars season 3 has seen the girls having to deal with a new "A," one who doesn't mess around. Hopefully "A" doesn't interfere with Ella's love life next. Ella has already had a difficult beginning of the season, between Byron and Meredith and the matter of Emily's test. Things seem to have a habit of coming back to haunt these characters, and it is possible that Ella could be dealing with that at some point in the future. Even if this new "hot younger" love interest doesn't last, it could be something she needs amidst some drama and it could always lead to something good in her life.
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When two or more firms share responsibility for the management or the "ownership" of an employee it is called co-employment. Typically, this can happen when a temporary worker (the employee of a staffing firm) works on a project for client firm. While it may be initially clear that the employee works for the staffing firm, during the assignment the employee may feel that they have received signals or instructions that they are actually the employee of the client firm.
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F, appeared in San Mateo County Superior Court Thursday morning where he waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
Edwards, 53, on April 15, 2011 to two counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Appearing in the courtroom with his attorney Eric Hove, Edwards told the judge that he agreed to the terms of the waiver.
Assistant district attorney Karen Guidotti explained that by waiving his right to a preliminary hearing, Edwards' defense team felt that there was nothing to be gained in a preliminary hearing, and also, no further charges can be filed against Edwards. The case will proceed to an arraignment hearing, a pre-trial conference and a jury trial.
Superior Court Judge Jonathan E. Karesh set an arraignment date for April 10 at 8:45 a.m. The initial felony arraignment was held on April 15, 2011.
Defense attorney Eric Hove requested that Edwards' bail, which is about to expire, be reduced from $200,000 to $50,000. Deputy district attorney Jennifer Ow had no objection to lowering amount, and the request was granted. Edwards will remain out of custody on bail.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - Individuals interested in the Highway 212 Granite Falls concrete rehabilitation project are invited to attend an open house Thursday, July 1. The project is scheduled to begin Wednesday, July 7.
The open house, hosted by the project contractor, Forby Contracting, Inc., will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kilowatt Community Center, 600 Kilowatt Drive in Granite Falls.
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By Bryan Fischer
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The zoological world is all atwitter over "gay" penguins. Two penguins at the Toronto Zoo, Buddy and Pedro by name, have been buddies for some time, and have formed some some kind of bond. They "preen" each other and spend a lot of time alone together.
It's an exaggeration to say they're gay, though, since there has been no observed sexual behavior between them.
But homosexual activists, never ones to let facts or science get in the way of the truth, not only celebrate "gay" penguins, they write books about them. Tango Makes Three is the story of two male penguins who incubated an egg together and raise it together for a time, before they were tragically and cruelly separated by their human overlords.
But zookeepers have run into the same biological fact over which the entire homosexual agenda trips and falls: males cannot mate. Males cannot conceive children together. Males cannot reproduce.
It takes, as it has since the dawn of creation, a male and a female to conceive offspring, whether in the world of humans or animals.
So, sadly, zookeepers have been forced to bust up this loving homosexual couple because if they don't, penguins might continue their march to extinction.
As the Toronto Star puts it, "the zoo intends to separate them from each other and pair them with females for breeding."
According to the Star, the African penguin population has been declining by about two percent per year, and concerns have been raised about their long-term sustainability.
So, as should be the case in human politics, reality has trumped political correctness.
In truth, evolutionists should be even more ardent opponents of homosexual behavior than evangelical Christians, for one simple reason: homosexuals cannot propagate.
And evolution is supposed to be all about the survival of the species. For a true believer in evolution, homosexuality represents an evolutionary degrade, an lunge backward, an evolutionary nightmare, evidence of a species that is de-evolving and headed toward extinction.
For true Darwinists, homosexual behavior must be stopped its tracks so the great cosmic dance of life can continue in its inexorable climb toward evolutionary perfection.
So unless a Darwinist is a raving, irrational, self-contradictory hypocrite, he will oppose the normalization of homosexual behavior with every fiber of his being.
But I'm not holding my breath and neither should you. Since the theory of evolution is both morally and scientifically bankrupt, it should not surprise us that its devotees are as well.
(Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.)


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By "caliber," of course, I refer to both the size of her gun barrels and the high quality of her character… Two meanings… caliber… it's a homonym… Forget it.
See, Armie Flores looks good being all tough, with guns and shit, for Actiongirls.com, but as I was pulling together her badass pictures I realized that she is really no less hot when she's taking pictures of herself in the bathroom mirror. She's hot when she's painting in her studio. She's hot lying on a towel in a bikini. She's hot with that little old-school digital time-stamp in the bottom corner of the picture.
Her Facebook page is a festival of her massive Filipina cleavage and her neo-cubist paintings. Oh, and there's a series of "Pinup" doodles which are mostly nude self-portraits. Because if you were Armie you'd paint yourself naked too.
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Welcome to the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program which includes California Telephone Access Program (CTAP) and California Relay Service (CRS). CRS provides a relay service where Communication Assistants will relay messages between a person using a TTY and a person who does not use a TTY. Under CTAP, each consumer certified in the Program can receive an amplified telephone, TTY, or other specialized telephone equipment for use at home.
Equipment is "on loan to you" until you can no longer benefit from the equipment. If the equipment becomes damaged, CTAP will replace it with identical equipment. If the same equipment is not available, the closest substitute will be provided. If you move out of California, please get in touch with the State of California CTAP Contact Center to arrange for pick up at no cost to you, or bring the equipment to a State of California CTAP Service Center below.
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Jul 23, 2014
Professor's productive year saw exhibitions, acquisitions, residencies, travel, and press
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2014 Student Summer Show
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CIA grad's iconic monument to be rededicated
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60 Looney Tunes cartoons coming to the Cinematheque
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Thursday night concert series rocks CIA's neighborhood
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2014 Faculty Exhibition
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Cuyahoga County unveils county seal designed by CIA student
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2014 Faculty Exhibition Opening Reception
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7/31-8/2: Looney Tunes finale, The Double, Brasslands & more!
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CIA named one of the "Best in the Midwest"
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Filmmaker and author John Waters to present one-man show
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Course No. BMA223 Credits: 3.0
A survey of vertebrates from jawless fishes to mammals. Functional morphology, physiology, behavior and ecology as they relate to the groups' relationships with their environment. Evolution of organ systems. Two lectures and one laboratory per week. The laboratory will involve a study of the detailed anatomy of the shark and cat used as representative vertebrates. Students are expected to spend at least three hours of unscheduled laboratory each week. This course fulfills a laboratory requirement for the biology major. Recommended preparation: BIOL 214. You must choose a lab section, A (Tuesday) or B (Thursday). Cross-registration at CWRU required.
Video Basic Tools I
Course No. FVPA461.1 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Mark Tekushan
Video Basic Tools is a required class for Photography and TIME-Digital Arts. It is also an open elective class for fine art credit in all majors and for second year foundation students. Using the tools of video, computer graphics, audio and other electronic media, this course focuses on the design elements and thought processes inherent in effective audio/visual communications. Hands-on approach features work in videography, lighting, audio production and mixing, and video editing, as well as support activities such as scripting, research, brainstorming and storyboarding. Emphasis is placed on creative thinking and problem solving, with both group and individual projects required. This course is intended to be an introduction to a very broad area, rather than an in-depth concentration in one subject. 3 credits. An external Firewire drive is required for this class. Required of FVPA and TIME-Digital Arts majors. Electives accepted, including sophomoresexpand collapse
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Video II is an advanced studio elective, fulfilling the needs of students who have successfully completed Video I coursework. This class is geared for all disciplines and is designed for students who wish to further explore the use of audio-video media and motion graphics. This course will concentrate on editing techniques, compositing, and the narrative style of video.expand collapse
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Course No. PHV297 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Kasumi | Mark Tekushan
This course is designed as an introduction, both to the craft of digital filmmaking and to the appreciation of film as a premiere medium of communication, entertainment, and art. Using the tools of digital cinema, computer graphics, audio and other electronic media, this course focuses on the design elements and thought processes inherent in effective audio/visual communications. Hands-on features work in digital cinematography, lighting, audio production and mixing, and non-linear editing, as well as support activities such as scripting, research, brainstorming and storyboarding. Emphasis is placed on creative thinking and problem solving, with both group and individual projects required. This course is intended to be an introduction to a very broad area, rather than an in-depth concentration in one subject. Required of Photography majors. Open Elective.
Video/Digital Cinema II: Sculpting in Time
Course No. PHV497 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Kasumi
Prerequisite(s) Video/Digital Cinema I: Screen Grammar
This advanced studio course expands upon the knowledge of students who have successfully completed the Digital Cinema I and Studio Lighting coursework. A working knowledge of Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere is requisite. This class is designed for further exploring the use of digital cinema as a cinematic tool, method of artistic expression and communication. Topics include continuity, discontinuity and montage style editing, colorgrading, compositing, special effects and composition within the frame. Emphasizing the relationship between image and sound, we will discuss the concept of sound as a material with basic structural properties that may be manipulated, layered and edited. Students will explore methods of composition using various sound materials in assigned projects.Required of Photo Majors in the Video track. Open Elective. Prerequisite: PHV 267 Video/Digital Cinema I or permission of the faculty.
Visual Anthropology
Course No. SNS321 Credits: 3.0
Visual anthropology is an important growing subfield of cultural anthropology. The course focuses on how anthropologists have used visual media of various kinds, especially ethnographic film, to record, document and study human cultural and social diversity worldwide. A series of ethnographic films, readings and class discussion will explore this method of anthropological data collecting and analysis. As a counterpoint to earlier, popular, western cultural biases in visually "representing" non-western, non-industrial peoples as "romantic," "noble," "savage," "enigmatic," "curiosity," anthropology's film studies sought a stronger objectivity. Did they succeed? Worldwide, indigenous peoples now make extensive use of visual media/communication to reflect on their "contested identities." How has visual anthropology helped in that effort? From the 19th century's still photographs to today's cyberspace, visible culture and visual media interface. The course reviews ethnographic film as part of that communication process. $15 course fee required.
Visual Concepts in Illustration
Course No. ILL371 Credits: 3.0
Faculty John Chuldenko
This course encourages students to develop a confident knowledge of design in illustration, the thinking process, and production techniques necessary to compete in the field of applied arts and prepares illustration students to become working professionals within the marketing communications community. It will motivate the student's visual awareness, teaching the student to conceptualize, design and execute on a professional level. Students become familiar with several techniques used in editorial illustrations, book illustrations, advertising illustrations, as well as many others using an extensive range of materials. Students learn to produce quality illustrations and to be responsible for the conceptual aspects of a project whenever necessary. Offered fall.
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A person became trapped in wreckage Wednesday morning when two vehicles collided in Winchester, a fire official reported.
The crash was reported at 7:13 a.m. at Winchester Road and 9th Avenue, according to CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department Spokesman Mark Annas.
"Firefighters responded to a traffic collision involving two vehicles with one person trapped," Annas wrote in a report.
Crews performed a cut-and-rescue maneuver to free the trapped person, who was transported to an area hospital with moderate to major injuries, the spokesman reported.
Another person was also transported with similarly-described injuries. Both were taken via ground ambulances.
According to California Highway Patrol, the vehicles involved were described as a Toyota pickup truck and a Toyota sedan.
A county hazardous materials team responded to the crash site.
The roadway was cleared by about 8:29 a.m., CHP reported.


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2009-2010: Bowled as part of pacer teams Nov. 14 at Crusader Classic and Feb. 13-14 at Warhawk Classic, rolling six total games ... averaged a 149.2 on the year ... made a pair of appearances as a substitute in traditional action Oct. 24 against #2 Vanderbilt and Mar. 12 versus #13 Sacred Heart ... rolled a season-best 168 as part of the pacer squad at Crusader Classic.
Prep: A two-year letterwinner for the Cougars ... earned team's Cougar Award as a senior ... bowled leadoff for Plainfield South during senior season ... served as co-captain during senior year, helping to lead Cougars to first-ever appearance at states, where the team finished fourth.
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- Kills cold and flu viruses*
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Mariachi Bands
Nuevo Leon features Mariachi Relampago on Friday nights and La Feria features the same group on Thursday nights. Relampago is an 8 piece band probably the best in Austin.
A new an group on the scene is Mariachi En Fuego they just started playing at La Terraza Grill & Bar. This group is a 8 piece and they are young, energetic and very entertaining. Most of the group members were part of the program that Travis High School has.
Mariachi Garibay is an 6 or 8 piece I think they just lost a few members. But they play at Azul Tequila.
Hope this helps.
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La Feria-great mariachi band, terrible restaurant. I'm basing this on one visit years back which carries a rather dubious memory for me, but that experience has stuck with me. The service was godawful and the food was not much better. I even remember how our server came by late in the meal to see how everything was, and my reply was, "meh". She really didn't even know how to respond and just turned around uncomfortably and walked off. On a positive note, the mariachi band was really good....
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Once the database tables are in place, you can begin setting up the model. In the model, things like data validations--to ensure required fields are present--and relations can be defined. Two relations will be used.
A blog post has many comments. The has_many relationship doesn't require any special fields in the posts table, but comments table has a post_id to link it to the posts table. From Rails, you can say things like @post.comments to get a list of Comment objects that belong to the @post object. Comments are also dependent on their parent Post object. If the Post object is destroyed, all child comment objects should be destroyed as well.
A comment belongs to a post object. A comment can only be associated with a single blog post. The belongs_to relationship only requires a single post_id field to be in the comments table. To access a comment's parent post object, you can say something like @comment.post in Rails.
The following are the Post and Comment models. Several validations have been added to the comment model to ensure that users fill out the required fields. Note also the has_many and belongs_to relationships.
# File: app/models/post.rb
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments, :dependent => :destroy
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Updated on June 24, 2013
More and more employers are finding that background checks are a necessary hiring tool. In fact, about 70 percent of organizations conduct background checks on job candidates, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Employers often seek background information on potential hires through a variety of means, including court records, criminal records, driving records and motor vehicle registrations, sex offender lists, Social Security numbers, and fingerprinting. Through a background check, employers can search for information related to credentials, past employers, personal references, and state licensing.
However, as you might guess, employers must carefully follow rules governing these items. As I explained in my previous post, Are Background Checks Really Necessary? employers must follow state and federal laws. All criminal background checks must comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and candidates must sign a release form before a background check can be conducted.
Here are some other rules employers must follow, according to the Small Business Administration:
Lie detector tests. The Employee Polygraph Protection Act prevents most private employers from using lie detectors in the course of employment or in the hiring process. However, there are a few exceptions, such as armored car services and pharmaceutical businesses.
School records. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and other state laws protect the confidentiality of school records, such as transcripts, and won't be released without consent.
Medical records. Employers cannot request a job applicant's medical records, and some state laws protect the confidentiality of medical records. The Americans with Disabilities Act allows employers to only inquire about an applicant's ability to perform the duties of the job. If the employee can perform the work (with or without reasonable accommodations) employers cannot make job decisions (hiring, promotions, etc.) based on the disability. For more information, read "Adding Disabled Employees to Your Payroll."
Bankruptcies. While bankruptcies are part of public record and may show up on a candidate's credit report, the Federal Bankruptcy Act prohibits employers from discriminating due to a bankruptcy filing.
Military records. The military may choose to disclose limited information without the candidate's consent, including name, rank, salary, duty assignments or status, and awards. Consent is likely to be required for other types of information.
Worker's Compensation records. Because worker's compensation appeals are part of the public record, employers may use this information in hiring decisions if they can show the injury may interfere with the candidate's ability to perform the duties of the job.
The takeaway: While background checks can be a useful hiring tool, it's important to learn the applicable federal and state laws and make sure your methods are in compliance. If you use a third-party for your background screenings, they should be able to advise you on what's allowed and what's not.


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Bethenny Frankel Wears Her 4-Year-Old's Clothes, Folks Freak Out
Another morning, another time to try out your four-year-old daughter's clothes and make all your Instagram followers scream, right? »
Another morning, another time to try out your four-year-old daughter's clothes and make all your Instagram followers scream, right? »
Did you totally forget to buy Valentine's Day cards for your friends, co-workers, or loved ones? Are you that lazy? If so, then you probably watch a lot of TV, right? Probably a lot of reality TV. Well, you're in for a treat. Pairing the romantic, heart-felt musings of reality stars with the equally mature aesthetic… »
In order for camp, as a genre, to be truly enjoyable it needs to rely on the naïveté of its subjects. It needs to be unintentional Like on the first season of Dance Moms, when kiddie choreographer Abby Lee Miller and the moms whose children are enrolled in her studio didn't realize just how fucking ridiculous they… »
The Girl Scouts of America, those delightful scamps, keep tirelessly working to promote not only delicious cookies, but also real social issues affecting girls today. The latest output from one of the last Feel Goodery outposts of American girldom addresses reality TV, and the results are in. Turns out, reality… »
Earlier this week, Vladimir Potanin bought Ford Models. But just who is this billionaire oligarch, media mogul, mining tycoon, philanthropist, and ex-politician? And what's the deal with Potanin's former partner and that whole prostitution-ring scandal? »
Katniss Everdeen is not here to make friends — she's here to win. In fact, her livelihood depends on it. »
The season finale of The Bachelorette fulfilled all of my mildest dreams. It had everything I've ever wanted: love, loss, and a surprising amount of bodily fluids — except for one thing: it was mind-numbingly safe. »
Laurence Sunderland, father of teen sailor Abby Sunderland, has admitted that he signed on to do a reality TV show just weeks after Abby set off on her solo sail. However, he maintains that her trip "wasn't a stunt." [NYP] »
Perhaps inspired by the success of shows like Intervention and Hoarders, Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, which debuts in January, has commissioned a rehab series of its own, which will revolve around patients in an eating disorder facility. Oh, dear. »
The Wrap reports Kate will soon be back on TV with a new reality show that will have her trying out different professions and places. "It's more like Kate Gosselin firefighter, not Kate Gosselin wife" says a source. [The Wrap] »
There's no real penalty for being a jerk anymore. Sure, Michaele and Tareq Salahi might end up facing criminal charges after crashing a White House party, but in the end, they've already accomplished what they set out to do. »
Everyone I know is sick to death of Jon and Kate Gosselin. And yet at least half of the people I know will be glued to their television set tomorrow night in order to hear the Gosselin's big "announcement." »
Whenever those stories about scary-adult kids starts to make you doubt for the future of the world? Just watch an episode of Made. It'll make you believe. Seriously. »
As mentioned previously, Fox is casting a reality show for "real" women to vie for the affection of a "Kevin James type". One casting was in Brooklyn this weekend, and so was I. »