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very slow. plan on being there waiting for him to get to work at 1 hour. then once he finally gets working seeing patients, you will still be sitting in the room wondering what is taking sooooooooooooo loooooooooong. very frustraring if you have a job to get to. very arrogant man. don't you know his time is way more valuable than yours? really?!
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Horrible. Terrible bedside manner. Bad ethics. Do not see this man.
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Dr. Sidney Crackower and his staff is so rude. I was under his care for pain management. When I first went to his office I told him I just needed to be seeing because, I had an appointment with my official pain management doctor and he said I am taking over. After months of care he cut my medication saying that he is under investigation which caused me poor management. It did not have to due with me it was due to his practice being under scrutiny. By far he is the worse I have ever encountered. Stay away from this doctor because, he is very rude and shady. He has even threatened me that if I default with his contract I would never be able to see another pain management doctor in the state of Louisiana.
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Horrible bedside manor. Absolutely NO concern for patients. More concerned about money than your well-being. Has an in-house councillor who will refer you to Dr. Crackower; and here's the kicker: He is Dr. Crackower's significant other. Had I known this fact, or how Dr. Crackower treats his patients, I would never have gone. I noticed someone mentioned how he pushes the "age reversing wonder drug". You will probably also be interested to know that he's related to someone that does marketing work for the company that manufacturers the "drug", which is nothing more than over-priced herbal extracts. Stay far away from this doctor.
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Dr Crackower is the bestest doctor I have ever encountered. I don't like going to the doctor and he and his staff always make me feel important and valuable to his practice. I am always seen in a timely manner and all of my questions are answered. He never rushes out of the room like other doctors I have been too. HIghly recomend this doctor for all general medical needs.
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Dr. Crackower gave me the impression of being superior to his patients - arrogant. He did not seem to want to give me time to discuss my reason for the office, and devoted most of his time to the selling of the new "wonder drug" that turns back the aging process. He got indignant when he asked me how old he looked and I responded with the correct age (in his 60s), rather than the, "Like you are 50" response he was hoping to get (literally told me that I was supposed to say he looked like he was in his 50s). I was not comfortable with the 2 office visits that I had with him and have found another doctor to work with. I do question the value he places on the health and concerns of his patients.
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Without a doubt the worst excuse for a doctor I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I contacted the office in advance of the first appointment, explained that I needed a routine annual physical, to be paid by Blue Cross. That exam consisted of a single conversation; no check of eyes, ears, nose, throat, BP, etc. I was given Rx for $1,500 in lab tests, and when the doctor's office incorrectly billed Blue Cross for the follow-up visit to discuss lab test results, Blue Cross refused to pay for the physical. I question Crackower's ethics, both as a doctor and as a "pain clinic." My advice: look elsewhere and NEVER look back!
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LOWER PROVIDENCE Ś When it opened in 1973, the brightly lit little ōCokes and smokesö shop with the curious name, stocked with Tastykakes, Tums antacids and steaming hot java quickly became more than just a pit stop on Egypt Road.
Though it wasnÆt the first golden egg laid in Lower Providence by the goose that flies high as the company logo Ś that honor went to the Wawa on Ridge Pike in Trooper Ś the local regulars turned this newest outpost of the regional chain into a destination.
Back then, ōGottahava Wawaö translated to, ōPeople on the go Ś go to Wawa Food Markets.ö
Now 40 years later, WawaÆs 72nd store at 2809 Egypt Road, with its tight squeeze of a parking lot and cozy Ś some would say cramped Ś quarters, seems practically untouched by time Ś the anti-superstore.
ōThat is a pretty good neighborhood store, like a lot of these older stores,ö said Vic Musso, WawaÆs regional director of store operations, who was in town for the original Audubon storeÆs 40th anniversary celebration, which featured an appearance by Wawa mascot Wally Goose.
ōWhen the company first started back in the Æ60s and early Æ70s, we were purely interested in neighborhoods and looking to build stores where a lot of people lived, versus today, when itÆs more about the commute. You have so many families that have both husband and wife working now, so everybody is traveling somewhere. Back in Æ64, when Wawa opened its first store (in Folsom), my dad had one car and mom was stuck at home,ö Musso remembered. ōThere was no running around the corner to the local store, so you walked. So that was WawaÆs strategy then and a lot of the early stores were located in neighborhoods, where today weÆre looking at more heavily traveled roads and are less concerned with residential neighborhoods.ö
Musso was hired by Wawa in 1970, when there were just 69 stores in existence.
Today there are 605 stores sprawling across five states.
ōThere were people at the anniversary celebration who were there the day that Wawa opened,ö said Musso, who began his Wawa career as manager of the Aston, Delaware County, store. ōIÆve been to a lot of these things, and theyÆre pretty consistent. There are the regulars that are in every single day and love the staff and enjoy chatting with the staff when they get their coffee or sandwich. The associates know the customers by name, exactly what theyÆre buying, how they want it prepared, what they do for a living, how many kids they have. They seem to make a real connection with the customers. So itÆs pretty interesting being in my shoes and being there to see all this.ö
Also celebrating a milestone this year, the Wawa at 207 N. Henderson Road in King of Prussia, turns 25.
ōWith this company, most of the people have been here a long time. In fact, we kid around with people and say if theyÆve worked there less than 20 years theyÆre a rookie,ö said Musso, who has regionally managed all 226 stores in the state at one time or another.
The old-time Audubon Wawa survived the rise of the mega gas-pumping Wawa a few miles away in Audubon on South Trooper Road a few years ago and will likely stay the course when another one is erected down the road in Oaks later this year.
ōTrooper Road is more of a predominant location,ö Musso said. ōIt certainly didnÆt put the Audubon store out of business, but it did affect them. And IÆm sure the Oaks store will have some impact on it too.ö
TheyÆre not building the little ōlegacyö Wawas anymore, but Musso believes that many of the features that distinguished those neighborhood icons live on in the larger stores too.
ōRight now there are three or four size models for the gas Wawas and theyÆre built for todayÆs world where everybody is pressed for time,ö he said. ōWe do like to build bigger stores to give the customer some room to move around so you donÆt feel like youÆre being bumped into all the time. But I think quality, cleanliness and friendliness are still factors, no matter what. People donÆt mind waiting a few extra minutes for good food. If the food is not good, thatÆs not a good experience. But I know that I wouldnÆt sacrifice the food quality and the friendly service over another 30 seconds or so of being in the store. ThatÆs why we focus on making sure the customer can get the same thing wherever they go, in any Wawa, made the same way and of the same quality. And we try to continue to support the local neighborhoods everywhere we are.ö
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LONDON (AP) - The London Grand Prix will be staged at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, exactly a year after the venue hosted the opening ceremony of the London Games.
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Radiation therapy. The goal of radiation is to kill cancer cells using powerful X-rays. This treatment can be used to shrink a tumor before surgery. Or it can be used after surgery to get rid of any remaining cancer cells. It may also be used instead of surgery.
Chemotherapy. For laryngeal cancer, the goal of chemotherapy is to reduce the chance that the cancer will spread to other parts of the body. Or, if the cancer has already spread, chemotherapy can treat the spread. Your doctor may prescribe chemotherapy before or after surgery. In some cases, the doctor may use chemotherapy and radiation therapy together to kill all cancer cells. If that's the case for you, you may not need surgery and your voice box may be preserved.
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For anyone else that has a pc without hdmi it would be worth it to buy a video card with hdmi for $30. Then you can download hd movies(or Football games) and play them directly to your tv, or go ahead and spend $150 so you can play Max Payne
people got to be nuts to shell out $20 to watch the preseason games.
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Etc, etc. Also anxious to see how Wayne Hunter performs during preseason games (heading into the regular season).
To sit here and say, that 4 preseason games aren't worth $20.00 must mean that you couldn't care less in regards to the pulse of our young talent moving forward. As long as we stay healthy (injury free), I've always enjoyed preseason games, for the simple fact; I enjoy watching our young talent take the field.
It's well worth the $20 dollars, which comes out to an average of only 70$ per day during a 1 month period time.
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In a Wired opinion piece, Jonathon Keats argues that this year's Nobel Prize for literature should be awarded to Google.
"Given that literary fame is so fickle, it might make more sense to anoint a work that's mutable—an all-encompassing text that changes at the pace of society itself. Today there is such a work. And that is why, in 2013, the Swedish Academy should award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Google.
Is Google literature? As a search engine, of course, it lacks a conventional narrative. But a traditional bildungsroman would hardly suit our era. Not even James Joyce could capture the fractured nature of 21st-century life, let alone the nearly unlimited interconnectedness among people and events these days."
For the last few years, Bookish.com — the joint venture between S&S, Hachette, and Penguin — has seen a number of iterations and had its share of setbacks. Most articles — including this one — tend to lead with a description of all the difficulties Bookish has had, from CEO change-overs to more than a year in delays. Even fresh off its launch several weeks ago there's a lot of discussion about what role Bookish.com fills in the ecosystem and whether or not it's addressing a consumer need. When it was announced yesterday that Goodreads.com was being acquired by Amazon, one of Forbes' headlines covering the announcement was Amazon Buys Goodreads. Take That, Bookish! As if it's another string of bad luck in the Bookish saga.
Were people happier in the 1950s than they are today? Or were they more frustrated, repressed and sad?
To find out, you'd have to compare the emotions of one generation to another. British anthropologists think they may have found the answer — embedded in literature.
Full piece: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/01/175584297/mining-books-to-map-emotions-through-a-century
Teleread has a piece on hollowed out books that people are making and selling on Etsy
Excerpt: I fell in love with this idea and purchased one of the books on offer: a blue Reader's Digest Condensed Books in which I planned to store my passport, checks and some cash we are squirrelling away for vacations.
I was impressed with the look and feel of the 'book' when it arrived. I liked that it was 'authentic' and can, of course, pass for a 'real' book on the shelf, since it was one.
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In reaction to the recent purchase of Goodreads by Amazon.com, LibraryThing announced the following:
In the wake of Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads, we've had some blow-back on the fact that LibraryThing charges for a membership to add more than 200 books. In fact, when you go to pay, it's pay-what-you-want. The money helps pay for the site, and keeps us advertisement-free for members. Also, we believe customers should be customers, with the loyalty and rights of customers, not the thing we sell to our real customers.
However, some people don't like it. And we want everyone. So, as a test and a welcome, we're giving out free year's accounts to everyone who signs up through the end of Sunday. We've also upgraded everyone who signed up since 4pm yesterday.
More on their site.
They neglected to mention however that they too are part-owned by Amazon.com (40% due to previous small business purchases by Amazon). This was referenced in the NYTimes article about Amazon's purchase of Goodreads.
"The deal is made more significant because Amazon already owned part or all of Goodreads' competitors, Shelfari and LibraryThing. It bought Shelfari in 2008. It also owns a portion of LibraryThing as a result of buying companies that already owned a stake in the site. Both are much smaller and have grown much more slowly than Goodreads."
A new book documents the murders, murderers and capital punishment overseen by the highest court in the U.S. Jeffrey Brown talks with veteran journalists Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien about their new work, "Murder at the Supreme Court," about some of the most notorious crimes and subsequent penalties.
Interview with authors here.
Were we really expecting a different outcome? Several months after Google bought Frommer's to bolster its location efforts, Skift hears that the iconic travel guide maker has completely stopped publication of print editions as its focus swings to the online realm.
Will this have any impact on your library? What do you think of this move by Google?
The Verge asks: "What if best-selling albums had been books instead? That's the question graphic designer Christophe Gowans asked for his new collection, The Record Books. Gowans took album titles and artist names and constructed a fictional backstory behind each. The full collection is up on Gowans' site"
Just in time for the tournament, Bookreporter.com has some book brackets.
"As the NCAA brackets were announced we decided to have some fun with the lineups. While everyone was searching stats and scoring potential, we naturally looked at the selected schools another way, as bookworms are apt to do.
We researched alumni and faculty from each school --- as well as some notable facts. From there we culled a list of authors --- and their books --- and chose one to represent each school on our version of the "bracket.""


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Featuring an indoor pool, Bangkok City Hotel is in Bangkok, a quarter mile from BTS-Ratchathewi Station. It offers the convenience of a 24-hour front desk and on-site parking.
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In Bangkok's business district, Oaks Bangkok Sathorn offers spacious 5-star accommodations with a private balcony.
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The Staff is very friendly( without the reception!) The rooms are every day cleaned.
The Taxi Drivers never knows where the hotel is. You have to pay for the WiFi!! There is no service for swimming pool!
Excellent facilities, as good as staying at home
Staff response is poor, 24/7 food is not available
Just location
Breakfast poor Swimming pool dirty Furniture is dated
Great hotel And staff service very well
Slowly Wifi
I didn't like the place. Price was really high. Definitely not worth it
If you compare price with other places. It's not value for money
Room size 'with a balcony' was excellent, clean & well equipped. Staff were efficient and friendly.
No bottle opener in the room..I like a beer..
Finish and quality of the rooms, views from the building were excellent. Reception staff were courteous and upgraded a room.
Very few added value benefits. A three star hotel we stayed at offered a welcome drink for example. Also there was no towel service at the pool, the sauna and jacuzzi in the changing room were not working.
Good location.
The noise from the main road starts quite early in the morning and woke us up even though we were on the 10th level. The condition of the hotel is tattered and a little worn.
- great swimming pool (larger than in other hotels) - really nice suites - great helpful staff - very convenient location, close to SalaDaeng BTS, close to street food places - excellent prices
- nothing major, but add a little more toiletries to the bathrooms.
Just walk 10 minutes to Silom Road and close to MRT station. Staff are friendly.
i love this hotel. all
It was an excellent place for me and my family. Especially I was travel with a lots of kids. I was stay in a three bed room suit which have a large living room. So kids feel very comfortable as home.
So far nothing bad about the hotel
The room was lovely, everything on hand, the cleaning staff were great. Great view from the pool / lounge area.
If you can't stand the heat it is a long walk to the MRT or BTS
You get a luxury apartment for a price of a regular hotel room. can you ask for more?
The gym can be better.
The roons are new, clean and very confortable. Awesome pool! Breakfast worths a lot!
Pool and gym should close later (usually close at 10pm).
The 2 BRm unit was superb and very comfortable.
choice of programs on TV was poor.
The small flat we lived in during our stay was in very good condition. We had a great view over Bangkok. The Pool was beautiful. The stuff was very friendly. Breakfast and the Restaurant were very good.
The Location is convenient. Lots of Restaurants in Convent Road about 500m to walk. The only thing we could complaint about is you need at least a half hour by taxi to get to the sights of Bangkok.
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Wifi kept dropping out and was complicated to use.
Room was dirty with many insect
Eerything was top draw, staff were friendly the room was incredible. Would definately stay there again.
There was no channel showing the Premier League games and the internet couldnt really handle a few different devices being connected to it.
Good: Location, facility, big room, big fitness room, two TVs platform low price (compared with Banyan Tree and Sofitel So nearby)
Bad: more than ten min walk to BTS station, but you can take a tuk tuk.
great bed in main bedroom, fantastic location - easy to get to royal district, siam square, sukhumavit. Pool is enormous as is better than average. Around the corner on the the nearest soi is a bunch of resturants, 7-11's, markets, banks - everything you need.
kitchen is not well equipped by we did not really use it much anyway.
location, kindness of staff, high floors rooms (great view and no moquitos!), choice for breakfast
not many restaurants nearby, wifi not include (when booked with booking.com)
The hotel on the whole was good Breakfast was great
There were not enough towels No instructions for appliances No spare toilet roll Tea, coffee, sugar and whitner would of been nice No tea towel or cloth to wipe down the sink We did go to the front desk and they were able to get the things we were short of. There was no hotel information booklet in the room
Good location and nice rooms. Will come back again.
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Behind big banks profits, a sea change
Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase all reported earnings Tuesday morning. The results were more or less what analysts expected, with two banks barely beating expectations, and JP Morgan Chase barely missing. But all three are profitable, with gains in the single-digit billions of dollars for the quarter.
"The return to profitability by banks of all sizes is a good thing for our economy," says Aaron Klein, director of the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "It shows that loans are being made and repaid."
But the more significant change since the financial crisis is the quality of those loans. "You've seen a significant reduction in lending to individuals who are outside the traditional credit box," says Klein.
Safer loans are part of a broader sea change in bank processes that have reduced risk, sometimes at the cost of profits.
"I would say [the big banks are] far safer, better capitalized today than they were before the crisis, but they certainly aren't as profitable," says Fred Cannon, global director of research at KBW.
In addition to making safer loans, banks have been forced to spin off risky "proprietary trading" desks, and to increase capital or equity. The latter directly impacts one key measure of profitability: Return on equity.
"Citigroup is a good example," says Cannon. "Before the crisis, because they didn't have much equity, the returns on equity, were you know in the mid-twenties. And today, Citigroup struggles to make it to 10 percent."
A less profitable Citigroup, but a safer financial system?
"So that's the good news," says Dennis Kelleher is the president of Better Markets, an organization that pushes tighter regulation of the financial industry. "The bad news is if those circumstances repeat themselves, we're not in dramatically different position than we were in '08."
The problem, he says, is that while the big banks may be less likely to fail, if they do fail, they're still too big to avoid having taxpayers bail them out.
Weak demand for oil is sign of weak global economy
Oil prices have been on a downward swing for the past few months and now there is an expectation among industry forecasters that demand for oil will slow soon.
The International Energy Agency says oil demand growth is at its lowest in five years, with demand expected to grow by 700,000 barrels a day. That's 200,000 fewer than it previously expected.
Antoine Halff is the chief oil analyst for the agency: "The main driver really has been the economy," says Halff. "The economic recovery continues to be slower than expected."
The agency lowered its forecasts in large part because the International Monetary Fund recently lowered its forecast for GDP growth worldwide.
"And now China, which for the last 10 to 15 years was the main engine of economic growth, has been slowing dramatically as well," says Halff.
Slower growth in Asia and in developing nations around the world is a big factor in oil demand. Last year, for the first time, the demand for oil in developing countries exceeded that of developed nations.
Growth in those developing nations is slowing, a worrying sign for oil producers, says IHS oil analyst Jamie Webster. "It's also a worrying sign for the economy and for oil markets because that is really considered to be the home for demand growth long term."
Despite the drop in global demand, so far at least, oil production has not declined. As a result, analyst Steven Kopits expects gas prices to drop in the U.S. which could spur demand.
"The caveat on that is that the miles per gallon for our automobiles has increased quite a bit," he says. "For new cars over the last seven years, or so it's up 20 percent."
Renewable energy sources don't make up a big enough share to cut into demand for oil. But gains in efficiency, and the rise of the electric car, Kopits says, could be game changers.
The BuzzFeed wizard who changed media as we know it
Dao Nguyen got a big promotion Tuesday. She's now BuzzFeed's publisher, a title that means something a whole lot different than it used to in the media world. But that media world is a whole lot different too, in no small part because of Nguyen.
As BuzzFeed's head of growth and data, Nguyen is credited with orchestrating the by-the-numbers approach that has made the site explode to more than 150 million users a month and changed the way we consume media. Before a listicle gets posted or a headline goes viral, it's gone through BuzzFeed's testing system, orchestrated by Nguyen.
"Data should not dictate your strategy," Nguyen says, "But you should understand what data tells you and also what its limits are."
Nguyen and her team have used that data to figure out how and why we share content, and it's led to some surprising discoveries.
"Women share at a much higher rate than men, and when I talk about that now at a conference or with other people I say women share more than men online as it is in life. But men click at the same rate as women," Nguyen says. "So women will start the conversation and men will participate. If you think about it in the context of just regular human people, it isn't that surprising."
Nguyen says she spends her days deep in sprea sheets and data, but her team thinks about people all the time. "That's our competitive advantage."
She now has a seat at BuzzFeed's leadership table, and Nguyen is pretty confident in the company's future.
"I think that BuzzFeed has a great opportunity to become the pre-eminent media for the social age."
The numbers for October 14, 2014
A World Bank projection pegs the total global economic cost of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa at $32.6 billion by the end of 2015. The New York Times reports that model is a "worst-case" scenario, but doesn't take into account dramatic, global spread. In contrast, the same report notes if the disease is contained in the short term, the total economic hit might be as low as $359 million.
As a nurse in Dallas is hospitalized with Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control is calling for a reassessment of treatment protocols.
Here's what we're reading - and other numbers we're watching - Tuesday.$950 million
That's how much Disney could end up paying for Maker Studios. The YouTube network was acquired by Disney in May, and now Maker's YouTube stars are getting their own programming blocks on Disney XD and Fusion, Variety reported. The news comes less than a day after the Wall Street Journal reported on the wave of book deals being thrown to YouTube personalities.$50,000-$75,000
The cost of digital projectors, the new movie theater standard some studios are still subsidizing. Digital distribution should theoretically be cheaper, but those costs could still be keeping major releases from small markets, the Los Angeles Times reported, and theater owners aren't happy about it. Another reason one executive gave for the delayed release of "Gone Girl" in those markets: "R-rated movies in small towns don't always go together."25
That's how many Crumbs Bake Shop locations will open in the next 30 days, Bloomberg reported. After dramatically closing down in July, the cupcake chain just refuses to die.
Google expands delivery service
In a bid to take a bigger bite out of Amazon's business, this week Google is expanding its same-day delivery service.
If you didn't know Google was in the delivery business, here's the gist: In a handful of cities — now including Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. — you can buy stuff from brick and mortar stores and receive it the same day.
The service formerly known as Google Shopping Express, and formerly free, it will now be called simply Google Express. Members can pay $10 a month for unlimited same-day and overnight delivery on items costing more than $15.
Google used to be the go-to place for product research, says Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru.
"Amazon is now the primary place where consumers go when they are looking to research almost any product," she says. "Google wants its crown back."
In a speech in Berlin yesterday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledged as much.
"Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo," he said. "But, really, our biggest search competitor is Amazon."
Delivery is an expensive and labor-intensive business, though, says analyst Colin Gillis with BGC Financial. Another same-day delivery service, offered by eBay, has struggled to get off the ground.
"Either you hire an army of people to get these packages and to deliver them to your customers, or you outsource it to a carrier or logistics company," Gillis says.
Then again, Forrester's Mulpuru says Google is such a profitable company, it can afford to experiment.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continues to cut the price of oil in part because there's so much of it being produced in the Middle East and North Africa, and also here in North America. More on that. And Google's taken another step today in its quest to take over world commerce. The search engine giant is expanding its Google Express delivery service this week, and introducing a new fee. And as we discover, it's all about competing with Amazon. Plus, they are a city's permanent residents, yet many of them are forgotten; often ignored. We're talking about statues. But there's a British non-profit that says statues have stories to tell, and they're working to give these figures...a voice.
Banks seek profits in credit cards
When J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup announce earnings Tuesday, many analysts will be looking for profits in a traditionally less-than-exciting place: credit cards.
Unlike a few years ago, consumers are being smart with their cards, which means low delinquency rates, and they're also starting to feel comfortable enough with the state of the economy to spend a bit more.
Credit cards look pretty good compared with mortgages or other low-interest bank products, says Jim Sinegal, who covers banks and credit card companies for Morningstar. They generally charge rates of "12 percent plus, up to 20 percent in some cases," he says.
He says banks also like the steady income from merchants each time people use their cards.
Overall, the economy is stronger and the industry is reaping the rewards of tighter lending standards.
"That made for really good results in the way of losses," he explains. "Banks aren't losing much money at all because of those two factors."
Ironically, the industry may also be benefitting from regulation. The CARD Act of 2009 sought to limit certain fees and simply interest rates.
"Obviously, the card industry did feel it had increased costs as a result of the regulation," says Andrew Davidson, a senior vice president with Mintel Comperemedia. "They, I think, in the long term, benefit from this better consumer behavior in terms of paying back their bills."
Davidson says card issuers are feeling confident enough to again pitch cards to mid- and sub-prime borrowers.
But Madeline Aufseeser, a senior analyst with Aite Group, cautions that credit cards are also a very competitive business.
"It's bullish compared to where we've been over the last couple of years," she says, though she notes that recent security breaches could be costly. "But in the credit card business, it's a very tight rope that we walk on balance between expense and revenue. It's a low margin business."
Giving voice to London's statues
With an aquiline nose, deerstalker hat, meerschaum pipe and haughty air, he cuts a familiar figure.
Sherlock Homes is instantly recognizable, but on his plinth outside Baker Street subway station in London, the statue of the famous fictional detective is often ignored. Most people pass him by with barely a second glance.
Colette Hiller, a U.S.-born resident of London, is determined to change that.
"Too many people walk through this city without paying attention to the public art," says Hiller. "They bury their faces in their phones and miss so much that's around them."
As part of a group called Sing London, which tries to promote the enjoyment of public spaces, Hiller came up with the idea of "Talking Statues."
"You use your smart phone to scan a barcode which we have placed on or near a statue," Hiller explains. "You then get a call from Sherlock Holmes, or Peter Pan, or Queen Victoria and they tell you something about themselves."
This is what Sherlock Holmes has to say:
The dour-looking statue of Victoria on Blackfriars Bridge offers this insight into her private life: the famously prudish monarch confides that it wasn't for love of children that she had nine babies.
"I thought they were all terribly ugly when they were born. And I hated breastfeeding. I loved Albert, though," says the queen in her recorded message, voiced by British TV actress Prunella Scales.
Sing London has programmed 35 statues to tell their own tales. There are statues of statesmen, artists, engineers and even animals.
"Hello and meow. Good of you to call by," purrs Hodge, the cat that belonged to Samuel Johnson. The cat's statue sits outside the great lexicographer's former home in Gough Square off Fleet Street.
Talk isn't cheap. Each talking statue cost $15,000 in actors' and writers' fees, a sum raised partially from corporate sponsorship and partially from the British Arts Council. Hiller is now seeking funding to take her idea across the Atlantic; first to Chicago and then, she hopes, to many other U.S. cities.
"There's a whole range of American cities that are absolutely full of fantastic statues. New York, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle," she says. "And every statue is just waiting for the gift of voice."
Photos courtesy of Sing London and Stephen Beard
The magic number in fighting Ebola
"Break the chain of transmission" is the phrase mathematical epidemiologist Gerardo Chowell keeps turning over in his head—which makes sense when you consider that every person with Ebola generates as many as two new cases.
"So you can start to visualize in your mind how quickly this virus can spread in the population," he says.
Chowell, who has been tracking transmission since this summer, says in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the growth rate is exponential.
The way to get in front of that awful math, says the World Health Organization's Dan Epstein, involves a financial kind of math.
"For a United Nations-wide response, we need about $978 million," he says.
Epstein says that money would cover 3 million protective suits, 1,000 ambulances and new health centers. But to contain this outbreak, says Epstein, what is needed is courage.
"We really need more people. People to treat Ebola patients. People to bury the ones who have died safely," he says.
Epstein says at least 750 more doctors are needed. That, and the aid, are the numbers needed to make the outbreak math more manageable.
How do cemeteries make money?
At Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, a weed-whacker sends a spray of grass clippings into the air, as the ground crew weaves in between black and grey tombstones packed so tightly they almost touch.
Manager Michael Ciamaga stumbled into a summer job here in the late '90s, when plots were selling for $2,800. A few years ago, they'd climbed to $16,000.
And now?
"People come in [and say] 'I'll give you $30,000 if you give us a grave,'" he says. "You could give us $1 million, we don't have nothing to sell you."
Washington Cemetery is sold out, though not all of its plots are occupied yet. It has already squeezed out every single possible plot – shrinking the parking lot, tearing up roads, even offering up a small lawn in front of the office.
"It's an odd business setup, you know," Ciamaga shrugs, surveying a stretch of newer glossy-black graves etched with portraits of the deceased.
State laws require that many cemeteries put a certain amount of their proceeds from the sale of plots into an endowment to support it once it's sold out – much like a 401(k). But while a retirement plan has to support a person for a few decades, this money is supposed to fund the cemeteries forever.
"Forever is a pretty big promise," says John Llewellyn, the chairman of the board of the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association and author of a book called, "A Cemetery Should Be Forever."
Llewellyn worries that many cemeteries won't be able to keep that promise.
"Not all cemeteries put aside enough money," he says. "Some are not required by state law to put aside money. In other instances, the state sets certain minimums are that inadequate."
Just like people need to sock away as much as possible in their prime earning years, Llewellyn thinks cemeteries, many of which are non-profits, should be saving more. He says the best time from cemeteries is two or three generations into its life, when the high start-up costs of land, roads, and irrigation systems are behind it and revenue from sales starts really flowing.
Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx already houses 300,000 people and there's space for tens of thousands more on its rolling hills.
"We are going to cater to every case, whether it be an individual on social security or somebody that's a multi-millionaire," says Woodlawn's executive director David Ison. "We have to have pricing structures to fit all needs."
Options range from cremation to a private mausoleum available for $4.6 million.
Density is key, says Ison. On a little less than an acre of new space, Woodlawn be able to fit 2,500 new people, a mix of burials and cremations.
By expanding, Woodlawn gives itself more inventory – more time in this middle, lucrative selling phase.
Back in Brooklyn, Washington Cemetery looks at a lot different from the Bronx. It's under a subway line in a much more urban area, but it's still popular with local residents.
"I couldn't, like, emphasize enough to you how people desperately want to be buried here," says Michael Ciamaga.
He's hoping a new section the cemetery's opening will help it emerge from its forced retirement.
"With the Staten Island section that we're opening, we'll be good for, you know, anywhere from 10 to 15 years," he explains. "After that, I have no idea."
It's relatively rare, but cemeteries can fail. On average, eight cemeteries have been abandoned in New York State each year since 2001, according to the state's Division of Cemeteries. They generally become the responsibility of the town, though they may also be taken over by another cemetery.
Ciamaga says if Washington runs out of money, they'll close the office, cut the maintenance staff, and maybe just keep on a gravedigger until all its "reservations" have been filled.
The Internet is not big enough for political ads
Whoever said "there's plenty of room for everyone on the Internet" was wrong - at least if you're looking for advertisement space for your political campaign.
"There's a finite amount of inventory on premium video sites like on YouTube or Hulu," says New York Times reporter Ashley Parker.
There are two types of online video ads, and they are priced differently. Skip-able ads give you the option to skip the ad onto the music video or clip that you went on the Internet to watch in the first place. But these are also usually… skipped.
"Those ads do not sell out, but they are sold via an auction system," says Parker. "Closer to Election Day more people are demanding them, so the price goes up."
The other type of ad is called "reserved by ads." These are normally 15 to 30 seconds long.
"Those are more expensive, often, but they can be reserved in advance which is a big advantage for campaigns that think ahead," says Parker.
The rise of Germany's 'euro-skeptics'
The IMF recently claimed that there's a 40 percent chance of a triple dip recession in the eurozone, and a 30 percent chance of deflation. This grim picture has not been improved by developments in the currency bloc's biggest economy – Germany.
There's a political tornado brewing in that country that could blow the euro off course and reignite the debt crisis. Germany's newest political party – Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) - which wants to pull out of the single currency - is on the rise.
"I think we are becoming a real force in German politics, " says party worker Friedrich Hilse. " We have broken through into the European parliament, we have won seats in three regional assemblies, and we're likely to get into the Bundestag (the German parliament) at the next election."
But the party has the support of only 7 percent of the electorate. How much of a threat to the euro does the AfD really pose?
"The rise of the AfD is unusual because it seems to break the German consensus," says Pavel Swidlicki, an analyst with the Open Europe think tank in London. "This is the consensus across all political parties – that European integration is the best way forward."
That does not mean Germany is anywhere close to ditching the euro. Far from it: The country would suffer huge political as well as financial damage if it pulled the plug on monetary union.
But the rise of a euro-skeptic party in the eurozone's most powerful economy could weaken the single currency and trigger another wave of market unrest. The German government may now be less willing to bailout heavily-indebted member states like Greece or Italy.
"Berlin could dig in its heels much more to try to appeal to those voters that it lost to its new party... and that of course would make the coordination of eurozone-wide policies even harder than it is anyway," says Dr. Moritz Kraemer of the Standard and Poor's credit rating agency in Frankfurt . Kraemer claims that the German government – goaded by the AfD – is likely to be even more critical of any special measures by the European Central Bank to stave off deflation. This could mean that if the ECB embarks on U.S. Fed- style money printing, its effectiveness would be undermined.
Can J.C. Penney's new CEO make the brand popular again?
J.C. Penney's new President and CEO, Marvin Ellison, moves to the legendary retailer from Home Depot. He'll be the third CEO in less than four years and he's got a tough job in front of him: Making J.C. Penney relevant again.
But before we get into J.C. Penney's future, it's worth remembering its past. Once upon a time, department stores were where you went for a bargain, says Ira Kalb, a marketing professor at UCS's business school.
"I know that when I was in high school, my friends went there to buy underwear," Kalb says. "So they went to J.C. Penney to buy things [that] were not fashionable items but items where they could save money."
J.C. Penney still fills that niche and still has a loyal following of mostly older, female bargain hunters, Kalb says. So what's the problem? Well, the world of bargain retailing has radically changed since Penney's heyday.
"Now there's a lot of competition at that low-end," Kalb says.
He says JC Penney needs to re-brand itself because Wal-Mart and Target now dominate that market.
Finding a niche to attract new low-to-middle-income consumers is difficult, says Richard Church, of Discern Investment Analytics.
"The obvious challenge is how do you retain a customer in a slower growth economic world," he says.
Consumers are buying more online and they're shifting their spending to gadgets from clothes. While Church admires the new CEO, he's skeptical about whether Ellison can bring sexy back to Penney's.
"Anybody who says that Penney needs to be sexy, I believe is not looking at the picture correctly," says Gilford Securities retail analyst Bernie Sosnick. Penney's went searching for sexy and it nearly destroyed the company, he says. Now, after a rough couple of years, it's rediscovering its identity and getting its footing again.
Your boss doesn't care about Columbus Day
The bond market closes for Columbus Day, and so does the federal government.
But a study by the Society for Human Resources Management says 14 percent of organizations and businesses close for the federal holiday.
On top of that, Seattle and Minneapolis have opted to ignore Columbus altogether, replacing the second Monday in October with with Indigenous People's Day.
As it turns out, no one really cares about Columbus Day.
A conversation with Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize winner
If you are a researcher in economics and you miss a call from Sweden on your cell phone, you might have missed something significant. That was the case for Jean Tirole, a French economist and professor, and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
"I missed the call and then I noticed that my phone was vibrating and I went to see and it was a call from Sweden. So I was a bit surprised, but then I learned the great news," he said to Marketplace host David Gura.
Tirole's research deals with market power and regulation, an area of study that first interested him as a student at MIT, where he received a doctorate of economics before returning to France.
There's already been an outpouring of national pride in response to Tirole's win — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls tweeted that the victory was a "thumb in the eye for French bashing." Tirole is one of only three French citizens to have won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
For his part, Tirole doesn't see being based in France as having a huge impact on his work, as he feels that aside from having to understand individual country's economic structures, a lot of his research applies globally.
"In the end, it's really an international field nowadays," he says. "I probably would have put less emphasis on debt crisis or labor market reforms if I had stayed in the U.S., but most of my work is completely independent of that."
While his research has directly influenced the formation of policy, Tirole says he prefers to focus on his work as a researcher and professor, instead watching his recommendations be implemented from afar.
"My main role is to be a researcher and to be with colleagues and students. I'm very happy when, of course, recommendations are adopted. That goes without saying," he says. "But there's only 24 hours a day."
Check back later for the full audio interview with Jean Tirole or listen to it tomorrow as part of our Marketplace Morning Report.
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Sentencing is underway for Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted last month of culpable homicide — equivalent to manslaughter — in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius' defense team asked for leniency, the New York Times reported, citing the athlete's anguish over the killing. One witness suggested house arrest and community service, which prosecutors rejected.
Pistorius could face up to 15 years in prison and the trial will resume Tuesday morning. In the mean time, here are the stories we're reading — and other numbers we're watching — Monday.200,000
That's how many sensitive photo and video messages — some of minors — that were stolen in the latest hack into the self-destructing message app Snapchat. The images began appearing on 4chan over the weekend, Business Insider reported, and users set up a system to search for specific usernames. The unofficial app SnapSaved has taken responsibility for being hacked, but experts say the blame could be on Snapchat's own security, which is open to third-parties like SnapSaved.29
The list of globally, systematically important banks maintained by the international Financial Stability Board. U.S. and U.K. regulators will simulate the failure of two big lenders and their impact on the global economy as part of a "war game" Monday, Bloomberg reported.$29.31 billion
The National Institutes of Health's budget for fiscal year 2013, which has been on a steady decline for a decade, when adjusted for inflation. NIH head Francis Collins told the Huffington Post a lack of funding has inhibited the organization's research on an Ebola vaccine.
Railroads profit from energy boom
The railroad business has been heating up, thanks in part to the energy boom underway in parts of the United States. Now there's word that Canadian Pacific Railway approached U.S. rail company CSX Corporation about a merger. CSX reportedly declined.
Together the two companies would have a market value of about $62 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the proposed merger. Combined they have more than 35,000 miles of track across much of Canada and the U.S.
The offer comes as the railroad business is experiencing a resurgence, fueled partly by an increase in crude oil production in states like North Dakota and Texas. Major railroads operating in the U.S. made more than $2 billion hauling crude last year, according to the Journal. Meanwhile, bumper crops of grain in the Midwest and Canada and an improving economy have increased other kinds of rail traffic.
"The railroads are suffering right now from basically too much traffic that they're having a little difficulty handling," says Steve Ditmeyer, who teaches railway management at Michigan State University. "It's a problem, but it's a good problem that they have."
All the extra traffic has caused delays for Amtrak, the passenger rail service, and for farmers trying to get their products to market.
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A new financial innovation in the housing market
Financial innovation in the housing market is back.
The last year saw the creation of something called "REO-to-rental securities" or "rental-backed securities." It's enough to give you subprime crisis flashbacks. But in fact, it's a very different species of financial instrument.
It does start with a house, much like that of Jess Joslin. "It's a two-story brick house with a two garage," she says.
Joslin rents from American Homes 4 Rent, one of the largest players in the emerging market of single family rentals owned by big investors. "From what I understand, almost all their houses look like this," Joslin says. "They're really nice."
The largest investors have purchased nearly 200,000 houses in the last several years. The purchasing peaked in 2012, and has focused on places where the subprime mortgage crisis hit hardest.
"You're seeing it in Phoenix, in Las Vegas, in Atlanta," says Laurie Goodman, director of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
In many of these markets, housing prices fell by more than a third, and the plan was to buy low with cash from investors, and then reap the profits from high rents. But in many of these markets, housing prices have appreciated, while rents have remained more stagnant. "Rents haven't gone up all that much," says Goodman. "And they haven't gone up nearly as much as home prices."
This change has meant that the buy-to-rent strategy generates less return for every dollar. To make up for it, in the last year, these investors have looked for ways to put other people's dollars to work.
Enter securitization.
Do we call them rental-backed securities?
"They're viewed as a hybrid," says Doug Bendt, director of research for mortgage-backed securities at Deutsche Bank.
His bank pioneered this new financial instrument as a way of giving investors more leverage. "'Necessity is the mother of invention,' as the saying goes," he says.
Think of it as a really big loan to a really big landlord, chopped into little pieces and sold to bondholders. The landlord—like American Homes 4 Rent—gets some cash for the rising home prices, and lower borrowing costs going forward. "Just kinda like a homeowner refinancing," says Bendt.
The bondholders get a check every month, thanks to thousands of rental payments from people like Jess Joslin.
And if some of the thousands of Joslins stop paying their rent? The landlord can kick them out of their homes and find new tenants, or sell the whole house. That, and a much smaller scale and more conservative approach, are why analysts like Goodman and Bendt see the rental-backed security as far more benign than the infamous toxic assets that led to the last housing crisis.
"I think people think, 'Oh this is a repeat of the excesses of the past!' But in reality, it's very, very different than the past," says Goodman. "It's sort of a begin to creep back to normalcy."
A normalcy where more people are renting, and more of their landlords are multi-billion-dollar companies.


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Thursday injury update
Pitt coach Paul Chryst met with the media for the final time today before the Panthers' matchup against Gardner-Webb on Saturday. The topic was mostly the injury status of a couple of players for this week's game.
Chryst said that Aaron Donald (knee), Hubie Graham (clavicle), Jack Lippert and Todd Thomas (knee) were all questionable for the game against the Runnin' Bulldogs. For three of those, that isn't a good sign. For one, it is. Let's talk about the first three...
- Donald is dealing with a knee issue, and while Chryst didn't totally rule him out of Saturday's game, he did say he didn't "feel great about it." Chryst did say that it really shouldn't be a problem beyond this week. Pitt has a bye week after Gardner-Webb, and Chryst was pretty certain Donald would be good to go against Syracuse. He's a big guy for Pitt to have as the enter Big East play. The Panthers aren't deep along the defensive line, and Donald is the biggest difference-maker of the group. Even if he isn't being as disruptive as he was against Virginia Tech, he can (at least in theory) free up other guys to make plays.
Freshman Darryl Redner will presumably slide up into Donald's spot if he isn't a go Saturday. I wrote yesterday about how Render impressed defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable with his growth and work ethic since he arrived in camp, and I think the staff feels pretty confident about what he'll be able to do with more playing time. If Donald does indeed return 100 percent against Syracuse and Render gains some game experience and confidence against Gardner-Webb, that's a win-win.
- Graham got injured against Cincinnati, but re-entered that game after he came out. He sat out the Virginia Tech game and, according to Chryst, has been very limited in practice this week. That'll mean another chance for freshman J.P. Holtz to show what he can do. Holtz impressed the coaches against Virginia Tech, even though he didn't finish with any catches, and Drew Carswell also showed some more blocking ability than may have been expected. Offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph spoke glowingly of both during his time with the media Tuesday. Chryst didn't offer a long-term prognosis on Graham, but I suspect he's another guy that should be back after the bye week.
- Lippert also didn't play against Virginia Tech, and Chryst sounded more down on his chances this Saturday than the other two. Devin Cook looked good in his first career start at defensive end against the Hokies, and even though Bryan Murphy is still listed as the starter at defensive end on the depth chart, we'll probably see a good deal of both.
- Now, the one guy for whom being "questionable" is a step forward. Thomas returned to practice last week after being sidelined since the early portion of training camp. He'll work back in a little bit at the strongside linebacker spot, currently occupied by Eric Williams. Chryst said that, especially early, it'll be more about how Thomas feels rather than working out a rotation between the two players.
"I don't think we're to the point yet where, 'How we're going to make this work?'" Chryst said. "It's more, getting the guy back and seeing the way it goes. We've got an opportunity to get him some snaps."
- I asked Chryst if, with Jahmahl Pardner out for the year, there was a chance that the redshirt could come off freshman Ryan Lewis. Lewis was on the team's travel roster to Cincinnati, which is usually a sign that coaches think a guy is ready to play, even if only in an emergency situation. Chryst said they hadn't gotten to the point of making a decision with Lewis, though.
"We'll kind of see," Chryst said. "Certainly talked about that. Hopefully we don't lose anymore corners. ... Ryan is continuing to get better and you appreciate that from him. I don't know if we're that definitive yet."
- Chryst admitted that, heading into Saturday, he wasn't sure how much he would get from Ray Graham. Obviously, Graham ended up playing and playing quite well. Chryst said that game-time approach was also a strategy he would likely take with the questionable guys this week.
"That's where you're kind of cautious in trying not to overstate something one way or the other," Chryst said. "You just try to pay attention to the guys and we just need to make sure that we're smart. I think a player will always err on the side of, 'Hey, I can go coach.' We need to make sure we listen to them, respect them, but also trust [head trainer] Rob [Blanc] and the doctors and make sure we're doing the right thing."
Chryst also agreed with Graham's assertion that he would like to lose the knee brace at some point this season, though Chryst said it certainly wasn't up to him.
That's all for now, folks. If you missed my Pitt football chat earlier today, here's a link to the transcript. We'll be back tomorrow with a look at Gardner-Webb, plus some other assorted news and notes.


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"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" - Ecclesiastes 3:1
I believe it is to this verse that the title to this novel, To Everything a Season by Lauraine Snelling derived from. I love everything about this verse, and Ms. Snelling does a great job in giving us a story that relates to it. She showed us life and what life entails. I love how the stories played out throughout this book. The relationships between every character, as well as the relationship between each of them and God. Having a strong character to pull everyone together is key, and we find that in Ingeborg Strand, the matriarch of the Bjorklund clan. Who is Ingeborg, especially when there's no mentioned of her in the synopsis on the back cover? Well, you'll have to read to find out. And trust me, you won't be disappointed in this character.
However, you might be if you purchase this book solely based on the back description. Why? Well, we'll have to see what is written.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
To Everything a Season continues...
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Friday, October 3, 2014
A Match of Wits, but falls short
A Match of Wits by Jen Turano is the 5th book of the Ladies of Distinction series that revolve around the same group of characters since Ms. Turano's first book, Gentleman of Her Dreams, a novella (short novel available only as an e-book). Gentleman of Her a Dreams is more of a companion book to her first full novel (2nd book of the series), A Change of Fortune. I loved A Change of Fortune. It was a great first novel that had me searching for more of her work, only to find out that she doesn't have any other books yet. It was a long 7 months before I get to read her 3rd book, Most Peculiar Circumstances. If you're already confused with all the titles of the series, scroll to the bottom of this post for a look of the full series' (to date) covers. Now, it's been awhile since I read the previous books of the series, so let's get back to A Match of Wits.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
A Fine First Lady
After reading about George Washington, our first president of the United States of America, I was quite interested in the personal connections he has; and who better than his wife of nearly 40 years. Martha Washington, born Martha Dandridge and became Martha Custis after her early marriage to Daniel Parke Custis (died 7 years afterwards) was the epitome of a gentle-woman and the first of all First Ladies.
In this biography, titled Martha Washington: An American Life, by Patricia Brady gave us readers a young, vibrant, strong-willed and independent woman in Martha Washington that we hardly hear about. We, at least I, since young always associated the First Lady as an old, grandma figure. I think
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
George Washington: The Crossing Marries Art & History
George Washington: The Crossing by Jack E. Levin is a wonderful account of the Battle of Trenton, an important event and a turning point during the American Revolution.
A portion of "Washington Crossing the Delaware River", an oil painting by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze aptly used and spanned as the book's front and back cover (jacket). This painting evokes a patriotic sense in viewers and illustrates the strength, as well as the struggle of the soldiers as they crossed the Delaware River. If you know the painting, without reading the book, you can probably guess some of the issues and the thoughts in the subjects' mind.
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A portion of "Washington Crossing the Delaware River", an oil painting by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze aptly used and spanned as the book's front and back cover (jacket). This painting evokes a patriotic sense in viewers and illustrates the strength, as well as the struggle of the soldiers as they crossed the Delaware River. If you know the painting, without reading the book, you can probably guess some of the issues and the thoughts in the subjects' mind.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014
search for the perfect running bra II
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As the title suggest, and as mentioned in my earlier post here, I am in search of a good running sports bra. I bought 3 sports bra (for C/D cups) from Lady Foot Locker, and after several wears of each, here're my two cents:
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
National Book Festival at the Washington Convention Center
It was an awesome experience. It was nice to finally be able to check this festival out. I only wish that I get to experience this at the National Mall where it was previously held since its inception.
It was a crowded event and the schedule was jammed pack. I think it needs to be two days instead of the one. There were so many sessions I wanted to attend around the same time. And if you want to get books signed by authors, you'll need to be on line hours before, which means you'll have to skip other presentations. The booths around provided great information from the Library of Congress. The Pavilion of the States were also a hit and great opportunity for
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
So glad "Gone Girl" is gone...
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