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This was Iran's first official reaction to the death of Sattar Beheshti, in a rare example of parliament taking up allegations of human rights abuses first raised internationally. The case gained publicity over the weekend when U.S. State Department and a press freedom group called for an inquiry.
It was known that the blogger died in custody, but how he died was not disclosed.
Deputy parliamentary speaker Mohammad Hasan Abutorabifard said that the legislature's influential committee on national security and foreign policy has been assigned to look into the circumstances of Beheshti's death.
"The committee has been informed about the incident and its report will be announced to the nation and lawmakers," IRNA quoted Aboutorabifard as saying.
The announcement came after a speech by lawmaker Ahmad Tavakoli, a prominent conservative critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the open session of the parliament that was broadcast on state radio, in which he criticized officials for their silence over a case that has received international attention.
"Why do the Foreign Ministry and judiciary not explain this? A death has happened and it should be explained," said Tavakoli.
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all 32 militants involved, the Algerian government said.
With few details emerging from the remote site in eastern Algeria, it was unclear whether anyone was rescued in the final operation, but the number of hostages killed on Saturday — seven — was how many the militants had said that morning they still had. The government described the toll as provisional and some foreigners remain unaccounted for.
The siege at Ain Amenas transfixed the world after radical Islamists linked to al-Qaida stormed the complex, which contained hundreds of plant workers from all over the world, then held them hostage surrounded by the Algerian military and its attack helicopters for four tense days that were punctuated with gun battles and dramatic tales of escape.
Algeria's response to the crisis was typical of its history in confronting terrorists, favoring military action over negotiation, which caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens. Algerian military forces twice assaulted the two areas where the hostages were being held with minimal apparent mediation — first on Thursday, then on Saturday.
''To avoid a bloody turn of events in response to the extreme danger of the situation, the army's special forces launched an intervention with efficiency and professionalism to neutralize the terrorist groups that were first trying to flee with the hostages and then blow up the gas facilities,'' Algeria's Interior Ministry said in a statement about the standoff.
Immediately after the assault, French President Francois Hollande gave his backing to Algeria's tough tactics, saying they were ''the most adapted response to the crisis.''
''There could be no negotiations'' with terrorists, the French media quoted him as saying in the central French city of Tulle.
Hollande said the hostages were ''shamefully murdered'' by their captors, and he linked the event to France's military operation against al-Qaida-backed rebels in neighboring Mali. ''If there was any need to justify our action against terrorism, we would have here, again, an additional argument,'' he said.
In the final assault, the remaining band of militants killed the hostages before 11 of them were in turn cut down by the special forces, Algeria's state news agency said. The military launched its Saturday assault to prevent a fire started by the extremists from engulfing the complex and blowing it up, the report added.
A total of 685 Algerian and 107 foreigner workers were freed over the course of the four-day standoff, the ministry statement said, adding that the group of militants that attacked the remote Saharan natural gas complex consisted of 32 men of various nationalities, including three Algerians and explosives experts.
The military also said it confiscated heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, missiles and grenades attached to suicide belts.
Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company running the Ain Amenas site along with BP and Norway's Statoil, said the entire refinery had been mined with explosives, and that the process of clearing it out is now under way.
Algeria has fought its own Islamist rebellion since the 1990s, elements of which later declared allegiance to al-Qaida and then set up new groups in the poorly patrolled wastes of the Sahara along the borders of Niger, Mali, Algeria and Libya, where they flourished.
The standoff has put the spotlight on these al-Qaida-linked groups that roam these remote areas, threatening vital infrastructure and energy interests. The militants initially said their operation was intended to stop a French attack on Islamist militants in neighboring Mali — though they later said it was two months in the planning, long before the French intervention.
The militants, who came from a Mali-based al-Qaida splinter group run by an Algerian, attacked the plant Wednesday morning. Armed with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers in four-wheel drive vehicles, they fell on a pair of buses taking foreign workers to the airport. The buses' military escort drove off the attackers in a blaze of gunfire that sent bullets zinging over the heads of crouching workers. A Briton and an Algerian — probably a security guard — were killed.
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The annual garden show is back, and this year it is at the Sioux City Convention Center.
It's also bigger than ever, and it was kicked off this morning in a pretty unique way. Event staff, sponsors, and volunteers held a ribbon cutting, but it wasn't an ordinary ribbon. It was actually a vine.
"We chose to do a vine cutting to be symbolic of the growing of the greenery, growing food," said Adrienne Jansen with ISU's Extension office in Woodbury County.
Here's something else that's interesting. This year the Sioux City Garden Club designated a new city flower. The former flower, was a petunia chosen back in 1957. And now Sioux City's flower is the compass flower.
"The compass flower was chosen because it has a lot of qualities, a deep root system, rises above the rest of the prairie you know has flowers that are visited by native bees and butterflies," said Derek Carmona with the City of Sioux City.
Five thousand compass flower seed packets will be passed out for free at the garden show this weekend.
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Vol. XXI, no. 2 THE THOMAS J. GARLAND LIBRARY Nov 2010-Jan 2011
Library Hours:
Holiday/Intersession Hours: December 2010-January 2011
Greeneville Campus
Block 4 Break
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:00
a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday, December 17, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 CLOSED COMMENCEMENT
Christmas Holiday
Sunday, December 19, 2010 - Sunday, January 2, 2011 CLOSED
Winter Intersession
Monday, January 3, 2011 - Friday,
January 7, 2011 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday,-Sunday, January 8-9, 2011 CLOSED
Regular Semester Hours resume Monday, January 10, 2011
Knoxville Regional Center
Christmas Holiday
Friday, December 17, 2011 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 - Sunday, January 2, 2011 CLOSED
Winter Intersession
Monday, January 3, 2011 -
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Regular Semester Hours resume Thursday, January 6, 2011
New Book/DVD Recommendations 2011:
Faculty wishing to recommend new titles for the circulating collections of the Greeneville or Knoxville libraries may do so at any time. In order that they might be entered into the institutional approval process, suggestions may be sent to the library director email@example.com by e-mail (with complete pricing and bibliographic information) or sent online employing the form located on the library's home page http://library.tusculum.edu/facpurchaserecommend.html. Occasionally, faculty will be sent lists of possible titles for acquisition seeking input or support. Amazon (and not its affiliate retailers) is the library's vendor. Thanks in advance for your response.
New Reference Display:
In the spirit of the season, Mr. Tunstall has made a display of some of our latest Religion books on the top of the first Information Commons (reference room) book shelf behind the photocopy machine.
Fall Semester Programming Events:
Haints and Boogers: Part 2: Elmer's Revenge
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For the second year, members of the library staff presented the program "Haints and Boogers: Ghosts and Spirits at Tusculum College and in Upper East Tennessee" in the Library's Information Commons (reference room) on Thursday evening, October 29 at 6 p.m. Stories concerning paranormal activities on campus and in the surrounding community were explored for the 160 people in attendance. This year's "Part 2: Elmer's Revenge," also included tales from the home states of three staff folks not born in Tennessee. Refreshments followed.
Children's Story Hour 1:
Members of the Garland library staff and Bonner leaders presented a 2nd annual children's story hour program in the library on Thursday, November 18 from 6-7 p.m. The event was free and open to all Tusculum College family members ages 8 and under. Approximately 25 TC faculty, staff and students brought their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc. (about 20) for a fun night of stories, crafts and refreshments. A variety of photos from the event have been posted on the library website http://library.tusculum.edu/garlandlibrarystoryhour11182010.htm
Lessons and Carols:
For an hour on the morning of December 8, the lobby of Garland Library was the scene for the annual Christmas tradition, the Festival of Lessons and Carols. Readings and carols were offered under the direction of Mark Stokes, Director of Religious Life, Church and Community Relations.
Spring Programming Events:
Details of our Spring programming are being firmed up as we write. Several programs are in the works and we can offer details on a couple of these.
UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life. A program examining this phenomenon will be presented by Charles Tunstall. Time and location details to follow.
Copyright and Illegal Downloading Workshop This workshop will be presented in coordination with the faculty Instructional Support Committee on January 28, 2011, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Hurley Room. Reservations for the limited seating are being taken and should be directed to the committee chair, Prof. Will Lewis. Funding is provided by a FELR grant from the ACA Central Library.
Children's Story Hour 2: Kathy Hipps, Carolyn Parker, and associates. Room 206 Library. Time and location details to follow.
Melanoma Awareness Forum. With students by now preparing once more to enjoy the sun, the Library and Athletic Training Department will offer an important awareness forum in Chalmers on Thursday February 28 at 6 p.m. Facilitated by the Cancer Registry of Laughlin Hospital, the forum, presented by noted Greeneville physicians Dr. Lawrence Reid and Steven Flohr, will provide faculty, students and all members of the Tusculum Community with the latest information regarding melanoma, the dreaded and potentially fatal disease.
Route 66. A fresh program by the sweet sounds of Route 66 will be presented in the Garland Library lobby. Time and location details to follow.
Millennium Upgrade:
The ACA Central Library will be installing an upgrade to the library's Millennium online catalog on January 7. No significant difficulties with service are expected, either with the catalog or any of the databases it supports via the proxy server. If, however, you encounter any problems in using either the catalog or databases that day or the several following, please let us know.
Free e-books:
Check out 17 Websites to Download Free eBooks. You won't find many best sellers here, but the various sites focus on classics, computer/technical/scientific texts, and self-published fiction in various formats. http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/05/18/17-websites-you-should-bookmark-to-download-free-ebooks.html
Ever wonder where all the free e-books come from that are available on Kindle, Nook, or IPad? Many of them are hosted by the Digital Book Index, which you can also access on your PC, Mac, or laptop. Over 160,000 are available—and Garland Library does not count them among its total—in a variety of disciplines http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm
Citation guide:
EasyBib helps students properly cite research sources. Examples of MLA, APA, and Chicago style are freely available. Students can also enter citation elements (title,
date, author, etc.) and have them
formatted into MLA style for free. APA and Chicago style formatting require a
Faculty/Staff Lounge:
A faculty/staff lounge (Room 319), dedicated to that purpose during the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, remains set aside from the suite of study rooms on the second floor of the Greeneville library. The room may also be booked for committee meetings.
Coffee in Tech Services:
When visiting in the Greeneville library (8-5 weekdays), faculty and staff are invited to drop by the Technical Services office where a coffee pot is maintained. We hope as many folks who have time will swing by for a cup.
Staff News:
Library Director Jack Smith has been notified by Amazon that his latest title, USS Carondelet, has been chosen to become a Kindle book. Anyone wishing to sample a chapter of his 81st work may find it for free at Google http://books.google.com/books?id=dJ8rV8ro7L4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=uss+carondelet&hl=en&ei=O30LTaGLNoO78gat1KTEDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Use Statistics (September 2010):
Greeneville |
Knoxville |
Physical Use |
In House Patrons |
5,843 |
2,143 |
Days Open |
29 |
24 |
Average Daily Attendance |
201.48 |
89.29 |
Circulation |
Books |
357 |
67 |
Periodicals |
na |
4 |
Reserves |
0 |
68 |
Media |
59 |
0 |
Ebooks |
netlibrary 185 |
G-K e-bks combined |
Reference |
In House |
347 |
77 |
Phone |
22 |
DE 2 Residential 7 |
14 |
406 |
113 |
Library Instruction Sessions |
11 |
10 |
Residential |
18 |
Website (library only) Visits: 7,271; Subscription database searches (total): 89,891; Total electronic visits to the Thomas J. Garland Library : 97,162.
Interlibrary Loans:
Greeneville to Knoxville, 1; Knoxville to Greeneville, 0; via OCLC from other libraries for both campuses, 21; Books by mail,1.
Use Statistics (October 2010):
Greeneville |
Knoxville |
Physical Use |
In House Patrons |
5,947 |
2,142 |
Days Open |
30 |
26 |
Average Daily Attendance |
198.23 |
83.38 |
Circulation |
Books |
172 |
100 |
Periodicals |
na |
3 |
Reserves |
2 |
92 |
Media |
87 |
4 |
Ebooks |
netlibrary 160 |
G-K e-bks combined |
Reference |
In House |
317 |
88 |
Phone |
20 |
DE 5 Residential 2 |
4 |
361 |
112 |
Library Instruction Sessions |
7 |
8 |
Residential |
4 |
Website (library only) Visits: 6,535; Subscription database searches (total): 95,909; Total electronic visits to the Thomas J. Garland Library : 102,444.
Interlibrary Loans:
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If you love to ski, snowboard or just take part in aprés ski time in a beautiful setting, you need to start planning to visit one or more of the top 10 best ski resorts in the world. From the American West to the Alps in Europe, there are many fantastic ski resorts that will test your skills while providing stunning scenery at the same time.


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Melissa Follett and Michael Pietrkiewicz announce their engagement. Follett is the daughter of Darlene Follett of Fredonia. Pietrkiewicz is the son of David and Carol Pietrkiewicz of Fredonia.
The bride-to-be served in AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps in Sacramento, Calif., in 2003. She graduated with honors from Fredonia State University in 2009 and earned her master's degree in social work with honors from the University of Buffalo in 2012. She works for the Cassadaga Job Corps Academy.
The prospective groom is a 1999 graduate of Fredonia High School and graduated with honors at St. Bonaventure University in 2007. He is an outreach and admissions counselor at Cassadaga Job Corps Academy.
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A wedding is planned for Aug. 25, 2012.


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New movies opening this weekend....
BRANDED...a futuristic sci-fi thriller about corporations trying to control the masses.
COLD LIGHT OF DAY...another thriller about a family that is kidnapped by intelligence agents while on a beautiful sailing vacation in Spain.
THE WORDS...the latest from Bradley Cooper, one of Hollywood's hottest actors. This time he plays a writer who finds extreme fame after finding a manuscript that he passes off as something he wrote. He regrets his actions after his life changes in ways he never thought were possible. This storyline reminds me a little of another Bradley Cooper movie...Limitless. Remember that one?
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Attention boys and ghouls, Jimmy unearths a Video Vision tape that has lots of helpful tips for all things Halloween.
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Video Vision: Halloween
Remember This: Video Vision: Finding a Hobby
It's time to revisit a retro favorite: Video Vision! From this installment alone you'll learn everything you need to know about finding a hobby. Highly informative!
VideoVision's Guide To Thanksgiving Dinner
Jimmy has discovered yet another instructional tape from the 80's made by VideoVision! And it comes at the perfect time of year, because this one is all about hosting your own Thanksgiving dinner. Roll the VHS:
VideoVision's Guide to Being a Sports Fan
Jimmy uncovered another instructional VHS tape from the 80's produced by VideoVision! This time, it's all about how to become a sports fan. Trust me, with football season starting, you're going to want to watch this. A hundred times.
VideoVision's Educational Film about The Importance of Hobbies
Tonight, Jimmy discovered an old VHS tape which contained another educiational film by the 80's instructional video company, VideoVision. This time, Jimmy and the gang teaches about the importance of finding a hobby:
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by K. D. McentireA YA urban fantasy/romance set in a world a breath away from our own. Similar in tone to Tithe and Unleashed, this story tiptoes down the line between love and horror as Wendy discovers herself and the darkest parts of the afterlife. Wendy has the ability to see souls that have not moved on-but she does not seek them out. They seek her. They yearn for her . . . or what she can do for them. Without Wendy's powers, the Lost, the souls that have died unnaturally young, are doomed to wander in the never forever, and Wendy knows she is the only one who can set them free by sending them into the light. Each soul costs Wendy, delivering too many souls would be deadly, and yet she is driven to patrol, dropping everyone in her life but her best friend, Eddie-who wants to be more than friends-until she meets Piotr. Piotr, the first Rider and guardian of the Lost, whose memory of his decades in the never, a world that the living never see, has faded away. With his old-fashioned charms, and haunted kindness, he understands Wendy in ways no one living ever could, yet Wendy is hiding that she can do more than exist in the never. Wendy is falling for a boy who she may have to send into the light. But there are darker forces looking for the Lost. Trying to regain the youth and power that the Lost possess, the dark ones feed on the Lost and only Wendy and Piotr can save them-but at what cost?
Lighten Up
by C. W. Metcalf Roma FelibleSimple, everyday techniques show how to stay calm, cool, and creative in a down-sized, stressed-out world that is constantly changing. Based on the author's highly successful workshops for major corporations, this book shows how to see the absurdity in difficult situations and how to take ourselves lightly while we take our work seriously. Excerpted in Reader's Digest.
Lighten Up
by Peter WalshIt seems as though not a day goes by that we don't think about money. We cut back on spending. We chase a bargain. We try to save more. We strive to use less credit. We worry about funding our retirement and our children's education. Yet we continue to spend money on things that don't matter. Peter Walsh knows that money and debt can overwhelm your life even faster than clutter, and he has a plan to help you deal with that emotional and financial chaos. Peter's previous bestselling books inspired us to successfully evict the clutter in our homes, on our bodies, and in six key areas of our lives. But for many people, clearing the clutter suddenly exposes deeper issues--financial, physical, and emotional. Sometimes our problems are not really about the physical stuff but about the emotional fabric of our lives--from our relationships with money to our relationships with people and even how we define and find happiness. In Lighten Up, Peter demonstrates that this reassessment of priorities is a great opportunity to examine our lives and circumstances and to make the changes necessary to focus on the things that really matter. Exploring the real source of happiness, Peter offers a clear strategy for finding the delicate balance between what we have, what we need, and what we want or feel entitled to. With three unique audits that cover every aspect of our well-being, he takes us step by step through sizing up not just our possessions and financial statements but also our thoughts, goals, use of time and energy, and even our innermost sources of tension. He then shows us how to embrace the changes we've experienced, set a new path for the future, and come to accept that living on less can feel--and be--so much richer. In Lighten Up you will learn how to: * Change the way you and your family measure happiness * Face your financial situation and set realistic priorities * Create space for what really matters * Plan realistically for financial and emotional security * Be happier with less Peter's plan will help you achieve a personal balance that brings you happiness and the courage to choose a richly rewarding life over the mindless pursuit of more stuff. *** In the same way that I conquered clutter in your home, heart, mind, and lives in my previous books, Lighten Up will help you to clear a path to financial health and emotional harmony. I am going to show you how to live a life of abundance on less in a way that doesn't plunge you deeper into misery and despair, and my belief is that with a changed mind-set will come a sense of calm, authentic personal identity, and . . . yes . . . happiness. Your well-being doesn't have to be measured by monetary wealth. You'll learn how to capitalize on where you derive happiness, and discover that your truest sources of pleasure and joy are actually free. With a little bit of mental and, in some cases, physical rearranging and reprioritizing, you can come to view your life from a completely different--but much more satisfying--place. I'll show you how to psychologically transform your pain, anxieties, and anguish into a spring of courage and action no matter how much you've lost or had to give up. The old adage rings true: With crisis comes great opportunity. --from Lighten Up
The Lighter Side of Life and Death
by C. K. Kelly MartinAcclaimed YA author C. K. Kelly Martin offers a sexy, soulful story of one confused boy, two girls, and all the complications that ensue in this romantic feel-good love story that celebrates friendship, first love, first lust, and second chances. Sixteen-year-old Mason Rice is having the night of his life. He's just delivered an incredible performance in the school play, basked in celebratory afterglow vibes at the party of the year, and lost his virginity to one of his best friends--the gorgeous but previously unobtainable Kat Medina. His dreams are coming true, and the future looks golden. Unfortunately, Kat sees things very differently. Crossing the friendship line was a big mistake, and all she wants is to forget it and move on, even if that means forgetting Mason altogether. What's a guy to do? Well, if you're Mason, you hang your hopes on the first attractive twenty-three-year-old you cross paths with. At first Mason wonders if he's imagining the chemistry ... until Colette invites him over to her apartment. Suddenly Mason's living in a whole new world.
Lightfoot the Deer
by Thornton W. BurgessWhen a hunter determines to get Lightfoot the deer as a trophy because of his antlers, all the forest animals team up to help him survive hunting season. When he talks to Peter Rabbit about his new antlers, he finds out that a hunter admired those he had the last year. He receives the most help from Paddy the Beaver, a blue jay, and a most unlikely ally that will surprise readers! After he survives that trouble, he finds trouble of a different kind: a lady love, whom he must win by fighting.
by Terrance HayesFrom the award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways. In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative collection presents the lightheadedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
The Lighthouse
by P. D. JamesA subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James's novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.From the Hardcover edition.
Lighthouse Ghosts and Legends
by Nina CostopoulosFrom the Book jacket: There is something mystical and romantic about the soft glow of a lighthouse spinning out across the ocean. Beyond that protective light, however, many of America's lighthouses are plagued by a dark history of vicious storms, violent shipwrecks, and, in some cases, even murder. Today, the ghosts of the past still linger in the lonely corridors of many American lighthouses, making their history known. In 1899, Muriel, the sweet-tempered daughter of a sea captain disappeared from the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon, leaving behind only a small pool of blood and her white handkerchief. Today, she is seen on dark stormy nights and has been known to bolt the lighthouse door, allowing no one in-not even those with a key. The sounds of former Captain William Robinson's footsteps and the methodical tap of his cane can still be heard walking the corridors of the White River Light in Whitehall, Michigan. Ernie, the ghost of the former keeper of Ledge Light, near New London, Connecticut, polishes brass, swabs the decks, leaves tools about the lighthouse, and rearranges books on bookshelves. Following on the heels of Crane Hill's bestselling Lighthouse Ghosts, Lighthouse Ghosts and Legends brings fans of watery hauntings more of their favorite lore. Author Costopoulos weaves eighteen tales of mystery surrounding some of America's best known beacons, including St. Simon's Island, Alcatraz Island Light, Owl's Head Lighthouse, Hendricks Head Light Station, and more. Covering the extent of coastal America and the Great Lakes, Lighthouse Ghosts and Legends runs the gamut of sprites, spirits, mysteries, miracles, and madness.
Lighthouse Island
by Paulette JilesPaulette Jiles's novels have been called "beautiful," "unforgettable," "impeccable," "pitch perfect," "life-affirming," "deeply relevant," "Homeresque," "remarkably engaging," "glorious. " Now the acclaimed poet and New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women limns new territory with this captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future--a beautiful and engaging literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope. See the rain forests . . . northern beauty, misted nights. Come to Lighthouse Island . . . In the coming centuries, the world's population has exploded and covered the earth with endless cities. Animals are nearly all gone. Drought plagues the land and cloudy water is issued by the quart. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years. On this urban planet the only relief from the overcrowding, the petty informers, and the harsh rule of the big Agencies is the television in every living space, offering dreams of vanished waterfalls and the promise of virtual vacations in green spaces for the lucky few. It is an unwelcoming world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, abandoned by her parents on a crowded street when she was four with only a drawing of the constellations of the Big Dipper--Cassiopeia's Chair and the North Star--and her mother's parting words: "Look to the North Star, and we will always be there. " Shuttled from orphanage to orphanage, foster family to foster family, Nadia grows up dreaming of the vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest where she believes her long-lost parents must be. As her obsession grows, so too does her determination to find her way there. In the meantime, this bright and witty orphan falls into the refuge of old and neglected books; the lost world of the imagination filled with characters who can't disappear, or be arrested, or hurt her. And there is the voice, bounced from an abandoned satellite, that patiently reads, over and over, the great classical books of the world--Big Radio, a sound in the night that lifts Nadia above the relentless television noise and the dull and perpetual Present. Despite deprivation, uncertainty, and the deceptions she must use to survive, Nadia's dream never waivers. "It will get better, life will get better. " When an opportunity for escape appears, Nadia takes it, abandoning everything to strike out for Lighthouse Island in a dangerous and sometimes comic adventure. She faces every contingency with bottomless inventiveness and meets the man who changes the course of her life: James Orotov, a mapmaker and demolition expert. Together, they evade arrest and head north toward a place of wild beauty that lies beyond the megalopolis: Lighthouse Island and its all-seeing eye.
The Lighthouse Mermaid
by Kathleen KarrKate, who lives in a lighthouse and often dreams that she is a mermaid, has a chance to rescue two real mermaids one stormy night.
by Jeanette WintersonMotherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Pew teaches her to "man the light" but more importantly he tells her ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life, not least those of the local inhabitants. One local, Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman who loved one woman but married another, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and regret, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal.A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way in to the rooms of our own that we secretly inhabit and the lighthouses we strive towards. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation and this shows her at her lyrical best.From the Hardcover edition.
Lighting a Lamp: A Diwali Story
by Jonny ZuckerHere is a simple and delightful introduction to the Hindu festival of Diwali - suitable for the very youngest child. Follow a family as they make rangoli patterns, light diyas, and watch a brilliant fireworks display to celebrate their amazing festival of light. Also in the Festival Time! series: Apples and Honey - A Rosh Hashanah Story Eight Candles to Light - A Chanukah Story Four Special Questions - A Passover Story It's Party Time! - A Purim Story Lanterns and Firecrackers - A Chinese New Year Story Hope and New Life! - An Easter Story Fasting and Dates - A Ramadan and Eid Story
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
by Roy Morris Jr.In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it's time "to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest." Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally is trying to "sivilize" him, and Huck Finn can't stand it--he's been there before. It's a decision Huck's creator already had made, albeit for somewhat different reasons, a quarter of a century earlier. He wasn't even Mark Twain then, but as Huck might have said, "That ain't no matter." With the Civil War spreading across his native Missouri, twenty-five-year-old Samuel Clemens, suddenly out of work as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, gladly accepted his brother Orion's offer to join him in Nevada Territory, far from the crimsoned battlefields of war. A rollicking, hilarious stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six-year-long odyssey that took Samuel Clemens from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Hawaii, with lengthy stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco. By the time it was over, he would find himself reborn as Mark Twain, America's best-loved, most influential writer. The "trouble," as he famously promised, had begun. With a pitch-perfect blend of appreciative humor and critical authority, acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris, Jr., sheds new light on this crucial but still largely unexamined period in Mark Twain's life. Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction--never an easy task when dealing with Twain--to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away. With the frequent help of Twain's own words, Morris follows his subject on a winding journey of selfdiscovery filled with high adventure and low comedy, as Clemens/Twain dodges Indians and gunfighters, receives marriage advice from Brigham Young, burns down a mountain with a frying pan, gets claim-jumped by rival miners, narrowly avoids fighting a duel, hikes across the floor of an active volcano, becomes one of the first white men to try the ancient Hawaiian sport of surfing, and writes his first great literary success, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Lighting Out for the Territory is a fascinating, even inspiring, account of how an unemployed riverboat pilot, would-be Confederate guerrilla, failed prospector, neophyte newspaper reporter, and parttime San Francisco aesthete reinvented himself as America's most famous and beloved writer. It's a good story, and mostly true--with some stretchers thrown in for good measure.
Lighting the Way
by Thupten Jinpa Dalai LamaThe Dalai Lama offers Westerners an accessible introduction to the path of Tibetan Buddhism. He begins with a discussion of the Four Noble Truths, which contain basic teachings on dealing with suffering and cultivating happiness and peace. Next, he provides commentary on two important short texts: Eight Verses on Training the Mind and Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment. A glossary of terms completes the volume.
The Lightkeeper
by Susan WiggsOnce, the sea took everything he loved...Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories.Now, the sea has given him a second chance.A beautiful stranger washes ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Penniless and pregnant, Mary Dare is a woman who carries painful memories of her own.With laughter, hope and joy, Mary and her child bring light into the dark corners of Jesse's world. But when their friendship turns to passion and passion becomes love, secrets from the past threaten to take it all away.
The Lightkeeper's Daughter
by Iain LawrenceThree years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Island-paradise to some, a stifling prison to others-brings an onslaught of memories. It is the place of Squid's idyllic childhood, where she and her brother, Alastair, blossomed into precocious adolescents. But Lizzie Island is also the place where Alastair died. Now the past collides with the present as Squid's homecoming unleashes bittersweet recollections, revelations, and accusations. But nothing is what it appears to be. No one possesses the complete truth, and no one is without blame. From the Hardcover edition.
The Lightkeeper's Daughter (Mercy Falls #1)
by Colleen CobleAt a lavish estate in Mercy Falls, California, Addie Sullivan finds danger--and quite possibly the love of her life. Growing up as the lightkeeper's daughter on a remote island at the turn of the century, Addie Sullivan has lived a hardscrabble life. When a long-lost and wealthy relative finds her and enlists her to work as a governess at a lavish estate, she hopes to discover the truth of her heritage. But at Eaton Hall, nothing is as it seems. Not the idyllic family she hoped for, not the child she was hired to help, not even the aloof man she's immediately attracted to. Soon she must turn for help to Lieutenant John North, a man who views her with suspicion. As Addie edges closer to the truth, danger threatens even as her romance with John blossoms and together they unravel a decades-old mystery. As Addie faces down her enemy, she discovers that faith in her one true Father is all she needs.
Lightness of Being
by Frank WilczekOur understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being. " Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid-a modern ether- and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus. The Lightness of Beingis the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of "empty space. " In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.
by Seymour SimonExceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.
by Danielle SteelAs a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage--until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news.Sam Parker is a star venture capitalist, a Wall Street whiz kid, and is as proud of his longtime marriage to Alex as he is of his successful career. As a major player in New York's financial world, Sam is used to being in control--until he is caught off guard by Alex's illness. Terrified of losing his wife and family, and haunted by ghosts from his past, Sam is unable to provide any kind of emotional support to Alex.Unable to cope with her needs, Sam takes his distance from her, and almost overnight she and Sam become strangers. As lightning strikes them yet again, Sam's promising career suddenly explodes in disaster, and his very life and identity are challenged. With their entire future hanging in the balance, Alex must decide what she feels for Sam, if life will ever be the same for them again, or if she must move on without him.What happens to people when every aspect of their lives and well-being is threatened? In Lightning, Danielle Steel tells the story of a family thrust into uncertainty and explores whether the bonds of love and marriage can withstand life's most unexpected bolts of lightning.From the Paperback edition.
by Vladimir A. Rakov Martin A. UmanComplete and comprehensive, this text for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering features exceptional clarity and minimum of mathematic notation. Topics include lightning phenomena and terminology, lightning photography, lightning spectroscopy, electrical and magnetic field measurements and current measurements, and more. 140 figures and tables.
Lightning (87th Precinct #37)
by Ed McbainTwo perps --one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims--test the limits of the 87th Precinct's detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city's streets.
Lightning's Last Hope (Thoroughbred Ashleigh #1)
by Joanna CampbellBefore Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses--and dreaming of becoming a jockey some day... Can Ashleigh protect Lightning? Ashleigh Griffen thinks horses are the most wonderful animals in the world. She can't imagine why anyone would want to hurt a horse. So when Ashleigh discovers Lightning living in a filthy stall on a neighbor's farm, she can't ignore the horse's suffering. Ashleigh knows Lightning isn't her responsibility. But Ashleigh is sure that Lightning's life is in danger if she stays with her abusive owner. How far will Ashleigh go to save the beautiful horse?
Lights, Action...Family!
by Patricia ThayerExtra extra! Meet the cast of Hunter's HavenReese McKellan-(Stuntman) vowed to give his orphaned niece the small-town upbringing he'd never known. But Emily Hunter, The blue-eyed beauty who was running the show, had other ambitions. . . . Emily Hunter-(Screenwriter) had written romance out of her life, until Reese burst onto the scene. But were a brooding cowboy and his tiny tot worth the sacrifice of her hopes and dreams?Little Sophie-(Diva-in-training) wanted a family. Now she had to show her uncle she knew what was best for them all!
Lights, Action, Lily!
by Nancy RueLily's at it again, but this time, she's destined to be the next big "star." She's certain her name will be up in lights and she'll be front-and-center stage. Cast in a school play as Kate in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Lily springs into "action" and throws herself into the role. But there is one major problem--Shad. He is cast in the major role of Petruchio opposite her and plays her suitor. However, when Ashley gets jealous, she's determined to stop at nothing to bungle the show. Filled with tons of antics, hi-jinks, tangles, and knots, Lily has to learn that relationships are more important than a perfect performance.
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Current Biology, Volume 18, Issue 8, R329-R330, 22 April 2008
Add/View Comments (0)Lateral asymmetry of bodily emotion expression
Claire L. Roether1, Lars Omlor1 and Martin A. Giese1, 2,
1 ARL, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Clinic Tübingen, Frondsbergstr. 23, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
2 School of Psychology, University of Bangor, Penrallt Road, Bangor LL57 2AS, UK
- Emotional behaviours in humans and animals, such as kissing or tail wagging, sometimes show characteristic lateral asymmetries [1,2]. Such asymmetries suggest differences in the involvement of the cerebral hemispheres in the expression of emotion. An established example is the expressiveness advantage of the left hemiface that has been demonstrated with chimeric face stimuli, static pictures of emotional expressions with one side of the face replaced by the mirror image of the other [3]. While this result has been interpreted as support for a right-hemisphere dominance in emotion expression [4], substantial ipsilateral innervation of the relevant facial musculature [5] and findings of reduced or reversed asymmetry for positive emotions [3,6] complicate the conclusion. It is therefore critical to investigate lateral asymmetries in emotion expression using effectors with clearly contralateral innervation. We report here a pronounced lateral asymmetry for emotional full-body movements [7], the left body side moving with higher amplitude and energy, and causing higher perceived emotional expressiveness of the left body side compared to the right. This finding provides strong support for a right-hemisphere dominance in the control of emotional expressions independent of the specific effector.
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We investigated motor asymmetries in emotionally expressive walking and tested whether such asymmetries lead to differences in the perceived emotional expressiveness of the movements of the left and the right body side. Twelve right-handed lay actors were recorded, using a VICON motion capture system, during neutral walking and emotionally expressive walking (anger, happiness, sadness). Before the recording, the actors' involvement in each effect was maximized by combining free facial and bodily expression of the emotion with a validated mood-induction paradigm based on imagining emotionally charged past life events (see Supplemental data available on-line). Gaits expressing different emotions differed along many postural and kinematic dimensions, and they were recognised with high accuracy (>88%) by 15 observers.
From the recorded trajectories the flexion angles of the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee joints were computed for the quantitative analysis of lateral asymmetries. The movements of the left and right joints were characterized by two measures: maximum joint-angle amplitudes (difference between maximum and minimum amplitude; see Supplemental data ), and a measure for 'movement energy' defined as , where x(t) denotes joint angle as a function of time. For all three emotions, both measures exhibited a pronounced lateral asymmetry (Figure 1A,B), the left body side moving with significantly higher amplitude (F1,35 = 36.56, p < 0.001) and energy (F1,35 = 32.50, p < 0.001) than the right. Emotional walking was also significantly more asymmetrical than neutral walking. For anger and happiness, both asymmetry measures were significantly higher than for neutral walking (t143 > 2.69, p < 0.004), and for sadness, the energy measure exceeded significantly the one for natural walking (t143 = 3.01, p < 0.002).
To rule out the possibility that the observed asymmetry is a consequence of handedness, we tested twelve left-handed subjects using exactly the same experimental procedure. We found comparable asymmetries across emotions, again the left side moving with higher amplitude (F1,35 = 25.01, p < 0.001) and energy (F1,35 = 36.15, p < 0.001) than the right (see Supplemental data ).
Do these motor asymmetries also affect perceived emotional expressiveness? To answer this question, we tested how subjects perceive 'chimeric walkers'. These stimuli were created by using the joint-angle trajectories of real human walkers to animate completely symmetric puppets, avoiding a possible confounding influence of anatomical asymmetries. The joint-angle trajectories of one body half were replaced by those of the other side, phase-shifted by half a gait cycle. The movements of the resulting right-right or left-left chimeric walkers were thus completely symmetric (for details see Supplemental data ). These chimeric stimuli were not perceived as 'artificial', being rated as comparably natural to animations using the original trajectories (see Supplemental data ).
The emotional expressiveness of the right–right and left–left chimeric walkers for each of the twelve actors was rated on a seven-point scale by 21 observers. Each walker was presented once facing 35° to the left and once 35° to the right of the view direction in order to control for view-dependence effects. The mean difference between the expressiveness ratings for left–left and right–right chimeras is shown in Figure 1C, separately for the different emotions and collapsed across view directions. Consistent with the asymmetries in the motor behaviour, the left–left chimeras were more emotionally expressive than the right–right chimeras for the three tested emotions (Wilcoxon Z503 > −3.28, one-tailed p < 0.001; for further statistical analysis see Supplemental data ).
Our experiment provides the first demonstration of pronounced lateral asymmetries in human emotional full-body movement. These motor asymmetries influence the perceived expressiveness of emotional gait. Lateral asymmetry of emotional expression is thus not specific to the face, but extends to the movement of the human body, consistent with a general dominance of the right hemisphere in the control of emotional expression, independent of the effector. Such asymmetries in locomotion patterns seem surprising given the selection pressure towards symmetry in locomotion [8]. While clinical studies have indicated reduced expressiveness in the production of emotional face movements and speech prosody after right-hemispheric lesions [9], future imaging [10] and lesion studies will be required to isolate the cortical substrates that cause the observed asymmetry.
We thank S. Tipper, T. Hendler, and P. Thier, I. Thornton, T. Flash, J. Raymond, D. Menne, B. de Gelder and J. Grèzes for helpful comments. We are grateful to W. Ilg for help with motion capturing and A. Zimmermann for help with data collection. This research was supported by HFSP, EC FP6 project COBOL, DFG, the Volkswagenstiftung and the Hermann Lilly Schilling Foundation.
Supplemental data
- Movie S1. Movements of left-left or right-right chimeric walkers. (AVI 971 kb)
- Left-left (left panel) and right-right (right panel) chimeric walker, produced from angry walking of one individual. Left-left chimera rated 19.8% more expressive than right-right chimera.
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