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Three kilometres west of Loutra Ipatis in Ladikou, this is a real find: this gem of a taverna serves up warmth and mayirefta dishes all year round. In winter there's a giant circular fireplace; in summer, the garden.
Three kilometres west of Loutra Ipatis in Ladikou, this is a real find: this gem of a taverna serves up warmth and mayirefta dishes all year round. In winter there's a giant circular fireplace; in summer, the garden.
Seafood is cooked to perfection and starters are accompanied by homemade sourdough bread with organic olive oil. The emphasis is on organics and local products, and the sommelier pairs everything with excellent wine.
This friendly taverna run by the Delakis family has an excellent selection of mayirefta and traditional Greek dishes in a garden setting overlooking the sea. Its rooms and studios rent for around €40.
For a heady Greek dining experience, try the Michelin-starred combination of Acropolis views and delicious seafood. Service can be spotty but the wine list and rooftop terrace are enviable.
Set in a handsome Italianate building, this bakery is packed with baklava, cheesecakes, strawberry tarts, croissants, spinach pies and locally made ice cream. If heaven were a bakery...
The local favourite in town for grilled fish and octopus stifadho (stew), tasty pork dishes and great mezedhes such as black-eyed beans and fava dip. Wines and service both excellent.
This busy beachfront ouzerie with large outdoor patio specialises in fresh fish and is known for the best mezedhes in the village. Good service and worthy wines.
Outstanding Turkish eatery worth a visit just for the copper fixtures. Handmade pitta and perfect kebabs, salads and tea. A tasty and filling lunch plate is €4.50.
One of the best tavernas around here, the 'Garden of Arkoudenas' turns superb organic produce into gorgeous dishes, many of them prepared in the wood oven.
Burrow into the backstreets to find this excellent eatery popular with locals. Imaginative, fresh specialities include the pistachio pesto and pitas of the day.
Perhaps the best restaurant outside of Vathy is Yefuri, with its fresh produce and rotating menu. It's on the road between Stavros and Platrithias.
Just inland from the port in Kamini, Mrs Christina and her kids dish out some of the island's best Greek dishes and fresh fish.
Delectable sweets of all sorts from fantastic homemade ice cream to pastries like liknaraki (sweet cheese cupcakes).
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Our Autumn holiday just started today. So time to make it comfy in our home. Like my new Reindeer fur from Stockholm( gift yesterday from my sweet Husband). The new Bolig-Liv arrived by post. Love the Reindeer snowball (the description is in Danish but maybe you can translate it by google).Pleun is making lots of drawings.And she made here own Autumn scene.I'm making new crochet eco rope bracelets with a leather button.The wooden block for Pleun's markers I bought last week at the Tiger store.
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By STEVEN HOWELL
---- — MONTREAL — A few good Boston folks are getting together by way of Montreal.
The Centaur Theatre's "Good People" by Pulitzer-prizewinner David Lindsey-Abaire, that is. The play ventures to Southie, the hard-working Boston Irish neighborhood where resident Margie (pronounced "Mar-ghee") struggles to care for her adult disabled daughter. When she loses her job at the dollar store, Margie visits an old flame, now a successful doctor, who has moved up the ladder to the more affluent Chestnut Hill part of town.
Actress Johanna Nutter is thrilled about landing the plum lead role.
"I see the play as David Lindsey-Abaire's love letter to his home," Nutter said. "It's a tribute and a send-up to all the wonderful people of South Boston."
To prepare for the work, Nutter and Centaur artistic director Roy Surette ventured on a Southie road trip this past summer.
"I'm glad I went there to understand the magnitude of what it means to be from Southie," she said. "It really is a special place."
Before the trip, Nutter said she didn't even know about the play. In fact, Nutter didn't even audition for the play. Nutter said Surette saw the play during its New York run where it won actress Francis McDormand a Tony Award for the role of Margie. Surette, who had worked with Nutter in the past, immediately felt she would be perfect for the part. Nutter soon received a copy of the script.
"I went home, read it and was blown away," she said. "I immediately felt that Margie and I were sort of one."
Nutter cited similar life experiences to her on-stage character.
"I grew up in a similar situation," she said. "It's the instrument that you are in this world. It's just a really good fit."
Nutter said it's not every day you get a play that's contemporary.
"And that means the people there are accessible." She said. "It's just a bus ride away."
Nutter said it wasn't her first trip to the area — she actually lived in Jamaica Plain when she was 9 years old.
"A long time ago," she quipped. "My mother was a radical hippie and I grew up living inside an ice cream truck traveling up and down the Eastern Seaboard."
While in the Boston area as a youngster, Nutter attended an alternative school called Hollow Reed.
"It's where they taught girls to box and boys to sew," she said.
Nutter said she spent only about half a year in the area at the time and appreciated the chance to return.
As for Southie, "I don't really know if there's another place on the planet like it," she said.
Nutter said she felt a great deal of nostalgia for the area during the trip.
"More in the sense of a Southie that's going the way of the past," she said. "It's really gentrified now. A lot of people are moving away. It's not the same place it once was."
Nutter said that no matter what era of Southie is considered, the play is nonetheless timely.
"Especially today, my goodness, it's a play about the division, the widening rift between the haves and the have-nots," she said. "It's a play about luck versus choices."
The argument follows Margie and her high-school sweetheart.
"He made it out," she said of Margie's ex, who is now a prominent doctor.
"But all of the arguments these two have with each other seem to be the same thing that played out in the recent presidential election."
Nutter said the work offers these arguments in a lighthearted but serious manner.
"It's a little bit of everything," she said. "There are moments that are really intense, and then sometimes we're just surprised to see how many laughs there are. David (the playwright) understands the humor in tragedy."
Nutter said the dry wit of those memorable Southie residents is evident throughout the play. As for bringing that wit to the Centaur stage, Nutter said she "feels like the luckiest actress in the world right now."
Steven Howell is the author of Montreal Essential Guide, a Sutro Media iPhone travel app available at iTunes.com.IF YOU GO WHAT: "Good People." WHEN: Through Dec. 9. Most performances are at 8 p.m., but some Wednesday and Sunday performances are at 1, 2 and 7 p.m. Check with box office for show times. WHERE: The Centaur Theatre is at 453 St. Francois Xavier St. in Old Montreal. ADMISSION: Adult tickets cost $47.50. Discounts are available for seniors, those 30 and younger, students and matinees. CONTACT: Call the box office at (514) 288-3161 or visit www.centaurtheatre.com.


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Daily Mail Magazine has a lengthy feature online with Emma Watson that includes some stunning new photos of the actress, as well as new comments from her on fame, fortune and new roles post-Potter. She talks at length about fame and the spotlight can effect the behavior of some, noting that she along with co-stars Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were lucky while growing up during the course of the Harry Potter films. Quotage:
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Finally, Emma Watson speaks again to a role in the Napoleon and Betsy film that she has been rumored to be taking on for some time now. 'It's a strong relationship but it's not sexual,' she says. 'It's very complex. A touching of souls. She was a very young girl and he was this older, incredible man. I read the script two years ago and just knew this was the perfect film for me.'
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Original post made by Conductor Jerry on Jul 6, 2012
Need more info about China's failed high speed rail project?
Here you go > Web Link
Note the author's last line in this article of April 2011...
(Since the U.S. has not built HSR yet)..."On the whole, I'd say China should envy us."
Guess they won't be so envious now that another sucker has bought into this failed mode of transportation.
on Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Has it ever occurred to you unemployed far-right teabloggers that if you spent less time scouring the internet for China birther socialism Obama apocalypse horror stories, you might be able to get actual jobs?
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Nice try, dweeb.
My feet are firmly planted in the private sector and I probably pay more taxes for losing democrat initiatives than you could ever imagine.
Speaking of "actual" jobs, you are probably referring to government jobs which suck the life-blood out of the private sector. If you have a job at all, it is probably in this parasitic class of government work or perhaps SEIU.
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"I probably pay more taxes for losing democrat initiatives than you could ever imagine."
Sure. You make a billion dollars and you're going be a quarterback and win the superbowl when you grow up and your dad is the strongest in the world and is gonna beat me up.
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Danville, NH — Jacob Carver, age 15, passed away on Monday, March 11, 2013.
Jacob was born on November 10, 1997 in Beverly, MA, the son of Geoffrey and Debbie (Santizo) Carver. He was raised and educated in Danville, NH and was a freshman at Timberlane Regional High School.
Jacob was a sweet, smart, compassionate and thoughtful young man. He loved his family and friends and always wanted to make sure everyone was happy. He loved to ski, play football, hang with his friends, play the drums and was an exceptional writer. He was responsible, kind and always did the right thing. He was a goofball and a free spirit who had a great sense of humor and always made people laugh. He was a ray of sunshine that brought so much happiness to the world and will be greatly missed.
He is survived by his mother, Debbie (Santizo) Carver, his father, Geoffrey Carver, his sister, Sophia Carver, his grandma and grandpa, John and Connie Santizo, his favorite uncle, Carlos Santizo, his sweet aunt and uncle, Diane and Tony Luciani, uncle, Joseph Carver, aunt, Susan Carver, aunt and uncle, Ann Marie and Ted St. Germaine, cousins, Chloe Luciani, Megan St. Pierre and Joshua St. Germaine, Anthony and Julissa Jimenez, along with many more close relatives from all over the country. Many close friends also survive him.
ARRANGEMENTS: Friends and family are invited to attend a "Celebration of Life" on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, with visiting hours from 4 to 5:45 PM at Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home, 116 Main St., Route 121A, Plaistow Village, Plaistow, NH. A Service will follow visiting hours at 6 PM in the chapel at the funeral home.
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Here's how to write a resume that will get the attention of hiring managers and help you land the job you really want.
By Allison Martin, Money Talks News
When you're applying for a job, your resume is the essential tool that helps you get your foot in the door.
So, how do you write a resume that makes you stand out from the competition in the brutal job market we face today?
This basic piece of information is obviously hard to keep secret, but there are some steps you can take to make thieves' lives harder.
Your personally identifiable information (PII) is all around you, and much of it is impossible to protect. While your driver's license and Social Security numbers are a significant part of the equation, you can take certain protective measures to keep those from prying eyes.
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Fewer cars are stolen than in decades, but that's no comfort if you own one of thieves' perennial favorites, like a Honda Accord or Chevy pickup.
The good news: Car thefts continue to drop. The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports in its annual Hot Wheels report that the number of stolen vehicles reached its lowest since 1967.
The bad news: That's still a car stolen every 45 seconds – and the vast majority of them are older models that are easier to steal and whose owners may not be covered by comprehensive car insurance.
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With a little patience and effort, you can repair your own credit without soliciting the assistance of a credit repair company.
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You've managed to get back on your feet after a financial disaster, and you've finally reached the last hurdle: the credit repair process.
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To cut costs more students are living at home and picking two-year programs and in-state schools.
A college education is supposedly more valuable than ever -- so families are sacrificing everything to make sure their kids can attend their dream schools, right?
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Many families are choosing to forego those dream schools in favor of more affordable options. In fact, over two-thirds of students and parents dismiss certain college choices because they're too expensive. That's a big increase from 2009 when, even at the height of a recession, only 56 percent of families said "no" because of cost.
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When Johnnie was trying to figure out what to do about his student loans that were in collections, he got more than the runaround. He was almost misled into making what could have easily been a costly, bad decision.
Johnnie was thinking of getting a personal loan to consolidate about $12,000 in federal student loan debt that had gone into collections. He was in the process of rehabilitating his loans to get back on track, but the student loan debt collector made it sound like taking the rehabilitation route would bring Johnnie nothing but misery in the future.
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I was told my loans can be bought and sold at (the lender's) discretion and that I would have to randomly renegotiate my terms. That bothers me a lot. Should I just constantly deal with this ridiculous flip-flop of lenders selling my loans off and always renegotiating my payments and interest constantly changing, or will it be OK to pay them with something I can get set in stone?
What Johnnie says the lender told him was flat-out wrong.
Sales of jeans are down by 6% in the US as clothing choices move toward active and casual.
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Denim is singing the blues.
Sales of the American-born fashion staple have plummeted, according to NBC News. The NPD Group, a market research company, told NBC that domestic jean sales declined by 6 percent last year.
"A 6 percent drop may not seem like much, but it's rare for denim to take such a dramatic drop. It's a commodity business, we buy it and replenish it all the time," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of The NPD Group.
Jeans have been an American uniform for decades. But Americans' love affair with jeans isn't what it used to be. Women prefer "athleisure" clothing these days, a comfort-based casual clothing that includes yoga pants, leggings and jeggings. NBC said:
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More than 1,500 museums in all 50 states will be open free of charge on Saturday, Sept. 27, aka "Museum Day Live!" That is, they'll be open to those who take advantage of a Smithsonian magazine offer: a ticket good for two people to any participating museum.
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Hunting has fascinated man through the ages. Ancient man hunted for food and clothing and the natural instinct carried through the ages and is still within you. The dark and mysterious continent is still home to millions of hooves finding their way to the waterhole after a warm day and predators tracking their pray!
Whether you are hunting for Big Five or Plains game, a safari in South Africa will be full of experiences you will never forget.
Marvel Africa Safaris caters for every hunting preference, would it be bow, rifle, black powder or a handgun, traditional or modern we will accommodate your natural instinct to hunt. With our professional staff guiding you on your hunting safari in South Africa all of them qualified professional hunters and guides will ensure that you have the most memorable experience. Walking and stalking or hunting from stands, all hunting is done in an ethical manner and with the utmost respect for nature.
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Hunting for the Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, Rhino or Elephant is the most exciting and challenging hunts in Africa. Big Five Hunting Safaris are conducted primarily in South Africa but we also venture to Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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Viewtique in St Lucia
- bedrooms 4
- baths 4½
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community Cap Estate
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vacation rental description
Cliffside villa in private location with stunning ocean views to the island of Martinique. Newly built in an open plan Caribbean style with infinity-edge swimming pool, sun-deck, lawn area and large shaded verandah.
Large (20ft x 40ft) living area opens to verandah through 3 double-doors, linking inside and outside providing indoor and outdoor dining options.
Main house includes master bedroom (king bed), and 2 bedrooms upstairs (each with 2 twin beds and rollaway bed). Separate guest cottage has queen bed.
Each bedroom has its own private patio with outdoor seating and spectacular views.
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Susan White 978 6497455
house rental amenities
- A/C and en-suite bathrooms in all bedrooms
- Cable TV, DVD player
- Phone and high-speed wireless internet access
- Fully equipped kitchen
- Garage
- Full-time local agent
- House-keeping services provided
- Concierge services available (including airport pick-up, car rental and private chef)
activities and attractions in St Lucia Caribbean
- 5 minutes to 18-hole golf course and club
- 5 minutes to Smugglers' Cove Beach
- 15 minutes to Rodney Bay for marina, shopping, dining
- 15 minutes to Reduit Beach and Pigeon Point National Park for hiking and snorkeling (Pigeon Point is also the venue for St Lucia Jazz Festival)
- 15 minutes to National Cricket Stadium at Beausejour
- Close to luxury spas and fine dining
- Scuba diving, sailing charters, fishing, trips to other islands, rain-forest hiking, horse-back riding, ATV tours, zip-lining conveniently available
vacation rental rates
High Season
- 1 - 4 guests (as 2-bedroom) $225 per day.
- 5 - 6 guests (as 3-bedroom) $350 per day.
- 7 - 8 guests (as 4-bedroom) $380 per day.
Low Season
- 1 - 4 guests (as 2-bedroom) $200 per day.
- 5 - 6 guests (as 3-bedroom) $220 per day.
- 7 - 8 guests (as 4-bedroom) $280 per day.
Discounts available for longer stays.
Susan White 978 6497455
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Top things to do in St Lucia
- swim, snorkel and scuba
- golf, horse riding, tennis
- tour the volcano
- zip-line the rain forest
- dining
Top things to do on a budget
- enjoy the beaches
- investigate the markets
- explore the island
- relax by our pool
- hiking
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Fluffy Caramel Apple Dip Recipe
This sweet, smooth and fluffy dip is really a crowd-pleaser. Be careful—it's so good that you won't want to stop eating it! —Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup caramel ice cream topping
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup marshmallow creme
- 3 medium tart apples
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons water
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, brown sugar, caramel topping and vanilla until smooth; fold in marshmallow creme. Cut apples vertically into thin slices.
- In a small bowl, combine lemon juice and water; toss apples in lemon juice mixture. Drain.
- Using Halloween cutters, cut out the center of each slice. Serve apple slices and cutouts with dip. Yield: 2 cups.
Originally published as Caramel Apple Dip in Halloween Party Favorites 2008, p17
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This dip is so good, perfect pair with apples. Very light texture, very sweet and rich. I have to admit it was so good I could have just ate it with a spoon! :)
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I added 2 T. finely chopped and lightly toasted walnuts..
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This is a huge hit with everyone, kids and adults alike. It is so sweet and creamy and can me used for dipping anything for apples to spread on graham crackers. I will make this again and again!
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to DAWSON1457 the apples are cut vertically , off the sides not through the middle.
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July 2014: Dublin City Electoral Lists 1908 to 1912, 1915 We're delighted to announce that we've digitised another three years of the Dublin City Electoral Lists, and in addition to the years 1908 to 1910, the 139,552 entries for the three years of 1911, 1912 and 1915 are now fully searchable on dublinheritage.ie - a great resource for family history, local history and social history, now containing in total 280,717 records.
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It was billed as the "biggest fight in UFC history."
And if pay-per-view (PPV) buys are the barometer for success then UFC 91: "Couture vs. Lesnar" at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 15 appears to have been just that ... almost.
Dave Meltzer from WrestlingObserver.com, which several weeks ago projected a buy rate of about 800,000 based on early trends, now reports that "Couture vs. Lesnar" scored about 1,010,000 buys. Therefore, UFC 91 falls just shy of the mark set by UFC 66 in 2006, which featured a showdown between Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, netting the record for most buys with around 1,050,000.
We're not mathematicians, but is you multiply the PPV by number by around $44.95 then you have a pretty juicy profit. And that doesn't even count tickets sales, merchandise, etc.
Accordingly, UFC 91 should be considered a massive win for the promotion -- especially when you consider the current state of the economy.
It also clearly indicates that new UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar is a box office drawing behemoth, bringing in a whole new legion of interested of viewers thanks in large part to his days as a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar not too long ago.
UFC 91 sold 10,845 tickets for a live gate $4,815,675, according to The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) . The promotion dished out $1,118,000 in UFC 91 fighter salaries for the pay-per-view (PPV) event, as well as $240,000 in additional bonus money for four participants who delivered outstanding performances.
Lesnar defeated Randy Couture via second round technical knockout to capture the heavyweight crown in the UFC 91 main event. Kenny Florian toppled Joe Stevenson with a first round submission in the co-featured bout of the evening, reinforcing his position as the clearcut number one title contender in the 155-pound division.
In fact, UFC President Dana White guaranteed Florian a title shot against lightweight champion BJ Penn in the near future. However, he may have to wait his turn because Penn -- if he defeats Georges St. Pierre on January 31 to regain his welterweight title -- will first fight Thiago Alves in a 170-pound title fight.
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Dan Radcliffe has announced a ghost story competition on YouTube to celebrate the upcoming release of "The Woman in Black." This contest is open to residents of the UK and Ireland only and submissions are open from October 31st to December 20th. The winner will receive a merchandise set from "The Woman in Black" and a signed poster, a trip to London for the world premiere of "The Woman in Black," and their story will be featured on the DVD extras and will be read by Dan Radcliffe himself.
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My idea of sweet decadence is reading a good book over a cup of strong coffee in a beautiful place. Clearly, if all Americans got their kicks this way, Las Vegas would still be a desert.
So there I was last week on the porch of a cabin on a shimmering lake in the Adirondacks, binging on Edith Wharton novels. Wharton, a searingly honest social observer, trained her laser vision on America's upper crust society in the late 1800s, exposing the rigid social mores that kept women in gilded cages.
My husband doesn't understand my fascination with writers like Wharton and Jane Austen, who wrote with great insight and wit about English gentility in the early 1800s. When we're picking DVDs to rent, his plaintive request is always, "Please, nothing with carriages."
So while I'm living in the past with some of my choices in literature, I'm debating whether to embrace the future of Kindle, Nook and other e-readers that allow you to read electronic books on a small screen computer tablet.
This week, Bethlehem Area Public Library started offering a service called Overdrive.com that allows library members to borrow e-books to read on their Nooks, iPads or Sony readers and audio books for iPods and MP3 players. The service will also be available to members of libraries in Nazareth, Hellertown and Northampton who come in for a Bethlehem Area Public Library card, according to Gail Reichard, a Bethlehem Area library technician. The library's e-books are currently incompatible with the Kindle, which is an Amazon e-reader, Reichard said.
For those patrons who aren't sure they can ever love an e-reader enough to buy one, the Bethlehem library has three Nooks and a Sony e-reader it plans to lend out, she said.
also lends e-books, including 170 titles of fiction, according to Maryellen Kanarr, adult services librarian. Cardholders can try out a on library premises.
I asked a couple of enthusiastic Kindle owners what they like about e-readers. Barbara Katz, a pediatrician with ABC Family Pediatricians, said she enjoys being able to download a book anytime. Katz said she's able to bring lots of e-books on vacation with her and still only take carry-on luggage on a flight. "I have no more eyestrain with my e-reading than I do reading books," she said in an e-mail.
That's true too for Jenni Levy, medical director of St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem. Levy said she reads most of her Kindle e-books on her iPhone and iPad. She bought the Kindle for a trip out West that included a 36-hour train ride. "I read quickly so two cross-country flights plus two days on a train meant carrying 10 or 12 books …With the Kindle, I could take every book I wanted and then buy more if I changed my mind," she said.
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The last line has always stayed with me — "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
Although I don't have a lot of tree climbing experience, I do have memories of playing with my brother in a magnolia tree in our grandparents' front yard.
We weren't allowed to ride the boughs up and down like the young boy in Frost's poem. It was exhilarating enough to sit among those giant leaves and look at the world around us from a new perspective, even if it was only a few feet up.
That tree isn't there anymore, but now Zac and I have a cedar at the end of our driveway that offers us some shade as well as something pretty to look at it when it snows.
A couple of months ago, Zac got the bright idea to climb it. The sight of his daddy hanging out in a tree made Wyatt crack up.
Last weekend, Wyatt and I were chasing each other from one end of the yard to the other when I decided that it was my turn to tackle the tree.
I put one foot on the trunk and reached for the limb closest to the ground.
I could grab hold of the limbs on my left and right but not well enough to feel comfortable pulling myself up and into the tree.
I feared losing either my footing or my grip and falling backward to the ground — hard.
Wyatt giggled at my half attempt.
"Girls don't climb trees," he said.
Dejected, I updated my Facebook status to reflect that I had either lost the flexibility or the nerve to properly climb a tree.
Then I got to thinking about some wisecracks I've gotten lately about my age.
Over the last few years, I have learned that many readers don't care much for my mug shot that runs with this column.
I can't count how many times I've heard, "You don't look anything like that picture of you they put in the paper. Why don't you make them take a better one?"
No one has ever explained exactly what makes me look so bad in the current one.
The other day, a friend of mine finally hemmed and hawed around before finally coming out with it: "It makes you look like a little girl."
I can understand that. The photo dates back to when I was still an intern here in 2007.
That was pre-husband, pre-child, pre-mortgage, pre-adulthood, really.
I'd love to believe that I haven't aged that much in five years, but I'll concede that I probably have.
I was also taken aback recently when I brought up the 30th birthday of someone who gets a hard time from me on a fairly frequent basis. Still, I didn't expect him to come back with "Yeah...what's it like?"
For the record, I have several more years to get there. He is very lucky that he was the one in the room carrying a firearm and not me.
These are the kind of remarks that floated through my mind as I stood there at the base of our cedar tree last Saturday.
Age is nothing to be ashamed of. I've known enough people who haven't made it to 30 to realize that it is a gift.
However, I am not old. I had just stopped believing that the rules of gravity were meant to be broken.
I was thinking about all the things that have changed since my days hanging out among the magnolia leaves.
What if I got hurt or somebody drove by while my big butt was squeezing into the middle of tree trunk?
I would look foolish, and responsible adults like myself ought never to look foolish.
Then something deep inside me started to fight back.
No, this is not the person I want to be.
I will not place limits on myself that should not exist.
I will not allow my child see me give up in the face of fear. He will know that girls do climb trees.
More importantly, he will know that I climb trees.
As soon as Zac got home to serve as a spotter, I took my rightful place in the cedar tree.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over...
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.


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It's taken Yann Martel's best-selling novel "Life Of Pi" close to a decade to come to the screen. Directors including Jean-Pierre Jeunet, M. Night Shyamalan and Alfonso Cuaron all flirted with the project, but for various reasons, elected not to shoot it. And it's fair enough, really, because it's difficult material, driven by a single character, mostly set in a single location at sea, and crucially, with the second lead is a wordless, enormous Bengal tiger.
Even with the technology of the early 2000s, it seemed almost impossible to make it happen, but thanks to the evolution in CGI in the last few years -- and the advent of 3D -- the film is finally hitting screens tomorrow (read our review here), with the great Ang Lee directing. The film is generally expected to be a big Oscar player, with Picture, Director and technical nods likely to happen, but perhaps its strongest chance at a victory comes in the visual effects category, thanks not just to that tiger named Richard Parker, but a host of other CGI animals, and plenty of other effects besides. As such, it seemed appropriate to focus our category microscope this week on the Best Visual Effects contenders as well as its closest cousin, Best Make Up & Hair Styling (which 'Pi' is unlikely to be contesting).
In terms of effects, there's no doubt that 'Pi' is the front-runner. In a year without the obvious innovations of an "Avatar" or "Inception," 'Pi' has the most immediately impressive stuff going on, thanks to its expressive, near-photorealistic animals. It might not be pushing the craft forward especially, but it's grabbier than some of its tentpole competition. Most crucially, it's also all but certain to be a Best Picture contender. Since visual effects got their own category, a Best Picture nominee, when up for an effects awards, has always won, even when up against more traditionally effects-driven films. Take last year, for instance, when the less showy effects of "Hugo" triumphed over "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
So one could surmise that the only film that could beat it would be another Best Picture nominee, and there are a couple that should be competitive in the category. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy won all three of the effects awards it was nominated for, and while its innovations with huge battle scenes and performance capture aren't going to be quite as novel with the first part of "The Hobbit: An Expected Journey", it's still certain to be a nominee. It's definitely the biggest challenger facing 'Pi,' but will certainly stand a better chance at upsetting it if it nabs a Best Picture nomination (something that we're far from sure of at this point in time).
The other awards-chasing film in this particular race is "The Impossible," and given that Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter" managed a nod a few years back for its similar scenes of tsunami destruction, we'd expect the film to contend. Even if it does sneak into the Best Picture field, it probably won't challenge for the win, and as an independent, mostly Spanish-backed project, could end up being a surprise omission from the bake-off shortlist, but we think its chances are pretty good. Also a possibility is "Flight," thanks to its impressive plane-crash sequence, but it's a longer-shot; films reliant on a single sequence, "Hereafter" aside, are less common as nominees, though it could end up making it in. Probably better placed is "Cloud Atlas," but again, it's far from a sure thing.
Otherwise, we're looking at blockbuster fare. Sometimes Best Visual Effects can be confused with "most visual effects" in this category, but there needs to be a veneer of quality of sort, so films like "Battleship," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Snow White & The Huntsman" can probably be counted out, while "The Hunger Games" isn't quite effects-driven enough to make it in. Despite underperfoming, "John Carter" shouldn't be excluded from the possibilities; it arguably had some of the most impressive effects of the year, and Andrew Stanton's animation heritage will carry it a certain way. A dark horse, perhaps, but one to keep an eye on.
Though "Inception" won two years ago, with its mix of highly publicized practical effects, few nominees since the advent of computer effects have made it through on that (a nomination for "Cliffhanger," in 1994, being one of the last, by our count). So it will be interesting to see how "The Dark Knight Rises," which takes a similar approach, factors into this race. That leaves two other big summer movies, "The Avengers" and "Prometheus." Effects were crucial in both, but neither feel like absolute home-runs either; "The Avengers" had some slightly patchy moments, while "Prometheus" was darker and dingier. Still, we suspect both will make the cut when it comes down to it. So, our five predictions for now:
"The Avengers"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"The Impossible"
"Life Of Pi"
boobytrap | November 27, 2012 4:00 PM
Blech! "My, look what they can do with computers, these days."
Ally | November 24, 2012 5:34 AM
Life of Pi deserves to be considered in all categories, including the acting department, most of time Suraj Sharma was acting opposite nothing, and Pi's transformation from a youth to a man fighting to survive is not just knee-jerk reactions; an actor must have fully understanded the material he's given and inhabited the role to have such wisdom gradually showing in his eyes, and of course, this film will will definitely sweep the effects awards; there's a tremendous amount of love and respect from the filmmaker and everyone involving in the making of the movie, and the audience can feel that in every wave of the monstrous ocean and every hair of the CG-tiger Richard Parker.
Yessir | November 22, 2012 2:27 AM
Life of Pi will defintiely sweep the viz effects awards, no question.
Dryer | November 21, 2012 3:35 PM
You know why Pi deserves Visual effects Oscar ? The scene involving the flying carp (?) , it's simply astounding in 3D ! To describe further would take away from the experience, but I would pay to see again just for that scene on a big screen.
Life of pi | November 21, 2012 8:51 AM
yes, life of pi is gonna be big
Kyle | November 21, 2012 12:35 AM
So I can only assume that Life of Pi actually looks good on the big screen because the CGI animals look terrible in the trailers. Of the things I've seen Prometheus is easily my number 1.
Josh Slater-Williams | November 20, 2012 2:11 PM
Considering its potential nominations elsewhere, I'm curious as to whether 'Rust and Bone' might also manage to score an effects nod.


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Washington, DC—The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has appointed Cecelia Prewett to the newly created position of Vice President, Strategic Communications. Prewett will manage the day-to-day operations of the War Room and will be AAJ's chief communications strategist. Prewett joins the association as a seasoned media relations professional with over a decade of experience in political communications, media relations and journalism.
"Cecelia Prewett's political and media experience will be a huge asset in our Fight for Justice Campaign," said Jon Haber, CEO of the American Association for Justice. "She will continue our work to protect and strengthen our civil justice system."
Most recently, Prewett was a senior spokesperson for AARP, focusing on increasing AARP's visibility and positioning that organization on health and financial security issues. Cecelia spent seven years on Capitol Hill as communications director for U.S. Representatives Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), and Bob Filner (D-CA), where she earned an outstanding record of media placements in the nation's largest media markets. She also served as senior communication manager for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, supervising the communication managers in 23 separate state government agencies. Prewett has also handled issue campaigns for the National Environmental Trust, and has worked on several political campaigns.
A native of Tennessee, Prewett earned her Masters in Political Management from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and her undergraduate degree in communications from the University of Tennessee.


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Born in Champlain, N.Y., on may 4, 1924, the daughter of the late Leander "Leon" J. and Ruth G. (Fifield) Trombley. Mrs. Harvey loved to dance with her husband, enjoyed being around people and having a good time and she liked to laugh and always enjoyed a good joke.
Ethel was the wife of the late Francis E. Harvey. Dearest mother of Susan (late William) Horn of North Tonawanda and Calvin (Carol) Harvey of Plattsburgh, N.Y. Proud and loving grandmother of David (Jennifer) Horn of Tonawanda, Karen (Jason) Horn - Jansen of Broadalbin, N.Y., Frank Harvey of Plattsburgh, N.Y. and Carrie Zales; and great-grandmother of Brianna and Emily Horn of Tonawanda, Natalie Jansen Broadalbin, N.Y., Wyatt Harvey of Plattsburgh, N.Y., Mason and Carter Zales of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; dear sister of Rita Roberts of Champlain, N.Y. Doris (Gary) Neale of Rouses Point, N.Y., Pauline (Morris) Roberts of Champlain, N.Y. and Donald Trombley; and nieces and nephews.
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Barry Davis enters his tenth season at Rider University with a career record of 818-433, including 247-237 at Rider. In 2010 he led Rider to a program-best 36 wins and in 2011 and again in 2013 he set the program record with 34 regular season wins.
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A 1987 graduate of Bridgewater (VA) College, Davis has assisted at George Mason and Frostburg State. Davis was an All-Conference and All-State shortstop at Bridgewater, earning team MVP honors as a junior. Davis is Rider's eighth baseball coach and just the third since 1960. He resides in Morrisville, PA.
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Coach years W L TClair Bee 1929 3 2 0Rex Ellis 1941-42 3 11 1Paul Ricatto 1946 4 4 0John Kelly 1947-52 63 34 2Carl Nawoj 1953-60 116 38 0Tom Petroff 1961-70 155 84 3Sonny Pittaro 1971-2004 766 674 8Barry Davis 2005- 247 237 0
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This unique American holiday called Thanksgiving has a profoundly religious core. So too does the American experiment in ordered liberty. This richly diverse Nation reaffirms its reliance upon God as the source of its liberties.
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Keywords: Thanksgiving, American founding, Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll, Inalienable Rights, Religious liberty, marriage, family, Right to life, Self Evident Truths, Deacon Keith Fournier
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - We are all ready to stop thinking about politics. I find myself grimacing every time I see or hear another purported analysis of what happened in the last Presidential election. I am ready for the celebration of Thanksgiving - and so is the United States of America.
Many households are already filled with the smells associated with the pies and side dishes which will accompany the Thanksgiving Feast. Last minute shopping for the celebration will bring neighbors to stores throughout the day and prompt early closure of many businesses.
There is something so very good about this day - and we all seem to know it intuitively. This richly diverse Nation reaffirms its reliance upon God as the source of its liberties. We stop to give thanks.
Though Thanksgiving is referred to as a secular holiday, it is most assuredly NOT a secularist Holiday. Secularism as an ideology seeks to exclude religious influence and the values informed by religious faith from our common life. That is profoundly at odds with the American idea.
This American holiday called Thanksgiving has a profoundly religious core. So too does the American experiment in ordered liberty.
The Declaration of Independence, the Birth Certificate of our Nation proclaimed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights - that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."
The words are still memorized by at least some of our schoolchildren and can bring a tear to the oldest American eye with little effort.
The principles the Declaration communicates have informed our history as a free people and inspired our neighbors in other parts of the world to stand up against all forms of tyranny. Our forebears were not declaring their independence from Divine Providence. Rather, they were trusting in the primacy of the Governance of God over their own lives and their noble undertaking.
They sought independence from a monarchy which had become tyrannical precisely because it had forgotten the implications of the primacy of Divine Providence. The principles set forth in that Declaration were a rallying cry which called forth extraordinary sacrifice from ordinary men and women.
They were rooted in something much greater than political expediency. That is why those principles became a measuring stick against which all governments of men would be measured in the future.
The founders of this Nation actually believed there were truths - objective truths- to be held and that those truths are self evident.
Those truths include the existence of unalienable rights which are given to all men and women by a Creator. Rights to Life and Liberty, including religious liberty, the first freedom. They believed that those truths and those rights can be discerned by all men and women because they are revealed by the Natural Law which is written on all human hearts and is a participation in God's eternal law.
Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, cousin of the Archbishop John Carroll of Baltimore, was the only Catholic signer. At the time of his signing it was illegal for Catholics to hold public office or to vote in Maryland. Yet, he still pledged with all of the signatories:
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." He knew the importance of the vision of freedom, rights and liberty which that Declaration proclaimed in those three profoundly simple but supremely powerful words: "We Hold These Truths."
There are competing visions of the human person, human dignity, human rights, marriage, family and human freedom contending for the future of the American experiment. The very foundation of our freedom is at risk as a result of confusion over the very notion of human rights; what they are, who receives them and where they come from.
Human rights are goods of the human person. Therefore, there must be human persons to receive and exercise them.
The recognition of the preeminent Right to Life which is so clearly set forth in the words of this Declaration is now routinely undermined by the positive/civil law of the Nation which the Declaration helped to birth. How can a Nation which has enshrined the killing of innocent children in the womb in its positive law now claim that that it still recognizes the unalienable right to life?
Certainly all of the American founders would have agreed it is wrong to kill an innocent neighbor. How can we read Jefferson's words, "God who gave us life gave us liberty" and not see the evil of a jurisprudence which puts the police power behind the intentional taking of her/his life?
What makes this even more profane is that the ground for such a violation of fundamental human rights comes from Supreme Court opinions which manufactured out of whole cloth some alleged "right" to commit a heinous crime, claiming to find it within a so called "liberty interest" of the U.S. Constitution.
At the core of the American founder's vision of a "good" society, one where all men and women could pursue happiness, was a bedrock belief in the need for a common morality upon which this virtuous and free society could be built. After all, the classical vision of happiness was a reference to the moral life where human persons flourished by living virtuously.
While the founders embraced a freedom of religion, they did not ascribe to an enforced secularism, a freedom FROM religion, where the influence of religious principles or the leavening role of religious institutions was viewed as some kind of threat to true liberty. Yet, we face the awful threat of the HHS mandate through which the Affordable care Act which seeks to compel Christians to violate their conscience.
If we had the ear of the founders today, would anyone really argue that they would have viewed marriage and family as expendable, capable of being redefined by judicial fiat or a feat of legislative alchemy?
The two parent, man/woman, marriage bound family was viewed as the first government, first school, first economy, first church, and first mediating institution. Yet, we walk under the ominous cloud of a libertine counterfeit of marriage and family being forced upon us all by the police power of the State.
A question asked by Thomas Jefferson cries out for an answer on this day before Thanksgiving: "Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"
The entire infrastructure of human rights and freedoms is at risk when we fail to recognize the preeminent Right to Life. Liberty is at risk when there exists in our positive law a so called "right" to kill the human person required to receive them or to exercise them.
Blessed John Paul II wrote the "Gospel of Life" in 1995. He warned of what he called a "remarkable contradiction" which has been unleashed in our current age, precisely at the "level of politics and government. He cautioned of the emergence of a "tyrant State" and the "death of true freedom":
"The process which once led to discovering the idea of "human rights"-rights inherent in every person and prior to any Constitution and State legislation-is today marked by a surprising contradiction. Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death - the original and inalienable right to life is questioned or denied on the basis of a parliamentary vote or the will of one part of the people-even if it is the majority."
"This is the sinister result of a relativism which reigns unopposed: the "right" ceases to be such, because it is no longer firmly founded on the inviolable dignity of the person, but is made subject to the will of the stronger part. In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism.
"The State is no longer the "common home" where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members, from the unborn child to the elderly, in the name of a public interest which is really nothing but the interest of one part".
No matter how diverse the American founders were in their religious convictions, or even lack thereof, they all affirmed the self evident truths the Declaration proclaimed and recognized that the unalienable rights which flowed from them were given not by civil government but endowed by the Creator. The implication is obvious; they could not be taken away by civil government either.
On April 18, 2005, in a homily preceding his selection as the Successor of Peter, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger asked a probing question and shared a prophetic insight: "How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking?"
"The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true".
"Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires".
In May of 2005, when he took possession of the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, he explained the Petrine mission: "Peter expressed in the first place, on behalf of the apostles, the profession of faith: 'You are the Christ, the son of the living God.' This is the task of all the Successors of Peter -- to be the guide in the profession of faith in Christ, the son of the living God."
"This teaching authority frightens many men within and outside the Church. They wonder if it is not a threat to the freedom of conscience, if it is not a presumption that is opposed to freedom of thought. It is not so..The power conferred by Christ to Peter and his Successors is, in the absolute sense, a mandate to serve."
The Catholic Church has a vital task in this hour. She must point the way to authentic human freedom in a world deluded by a multitude of counterfeits and competing claims. She offers authoritative teaching concerning the existence of self evident truths in an age which insists there are no truths at all.
To make such a claim is not politically correct in a culture which has adopted the notion that there are no objective truths. According to Pope Benedict, freedom was Blessed John Paul II's mission, "when, in face of all attempts, apparently benevolent, in the face of erroneous interpretations of freedom, he underlined in an unequivocal way the inviolability of the human being, the inviolability of human life, from its conception until natural death."
Now it is Pope Benedict's mission - and he needs our help.
Catholics are the champions of freedom in an age rushing toward a new form of slavery. The work of exposing the "erroneous interpretations of freedom" and proclaiming the full truth concerning its constitutive nature is integral to the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI. In one of his seminal works entitled "Introduction to Christianity" wrote:
"One could very well describe Christianity as a philosophy of freedom." And, so it is. Philosophy deals with existential questions such as what is freedom and how it is to be exercised. This neo-pagan age has become intoxicated on the wine of a false notion of freedom as a power over others who are weaker and the "right" to do whatever one wills.
In the same homily, the Pope uttered these profound words "The freedom to kill is not true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the human being to slavery." While they call doing what is wrong a right contemporary men and women are being bound in the chains of self delusion, atheistic materialism and nihilism. The new slavery of this age treats persons as property to be used rather than gifts to be received.
The task we have as Catholics is to proclaim a different way, the "more excellent way" that St Paul writes of in his letter to the Corinthians, the way of love. (I Cor. 12 and 13) That is the only way to authentic human freedom. The Catholic Church proclaims the words of her founder, Jesus Christ - that all men and women can "know the truth and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:32)
As sons and daughters of the Catholic Church living in America, we need to live the truth and be willing to defend it. On the day before this Nation pauses to give thanks, a defining question must be asked of all Americans: are there still self evident truths and unalienable rights?
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