text:
The Brothers' Lot
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
Akashic Books
Recommended for These Courses
—The Irish Times
Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school Catholic education, The Brothers' Lot is a comic satire that tells the story of the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means, a dilapidated Dickensian institution run by an assemblage of eccentric, insane, and often nasty celibate Brothers. The school is in decline and the Brothers hunger for a miracle to move their founder, the Venerable Saorseach O'Rahilly, along the path to Sainthood.
When a possible miracle presents itself, the Brothers fervently seize on it with the help of the ethically pliant Diocesan Investigator, himself hungry for a miracle to boost his career. The school simultaneously comes under threat from strange outside forces. The harder the Brothers try to defend the school, the worse things seem to get. It takes an outsider, Finbar Sullivan, a young student newly arrived at the school, to see that the source of the threat may in fact lie inside the school itself. As the miracle unravels, the Brothers' efforts to preserve it unleash a disastrous chain of events.
Tackling a serious subject from the oblique viewpoint of satire, The Brothers' Lot explores the culture that allowed abuses within church-run institutions in Ireland to go unchecked for decades.
About the Author
Kevin Holohan was born in Dublin. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and a veteran of a high school education at the hands of the Christian Brothers in Dublin. His short stories have been published in Cyphers, the Sunday Tribune (Dublin), and, most recently, in Whispers and Shouts. His poetry has been published in Studies, Casablanca, Envoi, and Poetry Ireland. He has reviewed fiction for the Irish Echo in New York. For two years he was reader for the literary department of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The Brothers' Lot is his first novel. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
"The mix of dire experiences that goes into the education dished out at the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means adds up to a mordantly funny debut from Dublin native Holohan."
—Publishers Weekly
"Taking dead aim at the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the atmosphere of repression that allowed abuse to flourish, this first novel uses satire to stinging effect … Terribly bleak and terribly funny, this skillful debut pays tribute to the irrepressible spirit of all the rebellious young boys who would not give in to authoritarian rule."
"[Holohan] possesses his own distinct voice. Especially useful as therapy for recovering Catholics or to tweak apologists of the church, this impressive debut is highly recommended."
—Library Journal
"A witty, brilliant, devastating expression of outrage… this novel is so subtly imagined, so elegantly structured, written in such hilarious prose but with such horrifying details, that what it offers is an overpowering, visionary judgement of a society."
—Times Literary Supplement
"The book is funny, fast-paced with one crisis after another, but always pulls at the heartstrings."
—Brooklyn Rail
Order from an online bookseller
- A1Books.com
- Amazon.com
- Barnes and Noble
- Books-A-Million
- BordersStores.com
- Buy.com
- Hastings
- IndieBound.org
- Powells
- WalMart
Find a local bookseller
- Barnes and Noble (Store Locator)
- Books-A-Million (Store Finder)
- Borders (Store Locator)
- Chapters/Coles/Indigo (Canadian Store Locator)
- Hastings (Store Locator)
- IndieBound (Independent Booksellers National Directory)
- WalMart (Store Finder)
(Check your local Yellow Pages for a bookstore near you.)
International online orders
- Amazon.ca (Canada)
- Amazon.fr (France)
- Amazon.de (Germany)
- Amazon.co.jp (Japan)
- Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom)
- Chapters.Indigo.ca (Canada)
Domestic and International offline orders
The Perseus Books Group
Customer Service Department
1094 Flex Drive
Jackson, TN 38301


text:
Add an event Show Calendar We found 75 events. Having trouble? Let us know! filter events
Dec 16
eXcel Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament
eXcel Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament
Dec 16
Dec 16
Kansas Division JO Qualifers - Sabre & Epee
Kansas City Fencing Center: Overland Park, KS
Kansas Division Sabre & Epee registration and payment must be made by Monday, December 10, 2012 and is REQUIRED for this event. No late registrations will be accepted under any circumstances.
Kansas Division Sabre & Epee...
Dec 16
Dec 16
Dec 16 8:00 am
Melt Away The Stress Holiday Event & Toy Drive
Join us the week of December 10th through the 15th for our Melt Away The Stress Holiday Event and Toy Drive. A chiropractic adjustment is a perfect way to keep holiday stress at bay and boost your immune system. All week new patients will receive an exam for $25 when they bring in a unwrapped...
Dec 16 8:30 am
Children's Christmas Pageant
Traditional service with Communion and a Reader's Theatre @ 8:30 a.m., Sunday School @ 9:30 a.m. and the Children's Christmas Pageant @ 10:50 a.m.
Dec 16 9:00 am
Dec 16 9:15 am
Going Pro Expo - Kansas City
Register now for the ....Kansas City Going Pro Expo Sunday, December 16, 20129:15am-3:30pm 68's Inside Sports - Fitness / Basketball Facility
11301 W. 88th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214 Featuring presenters from the industries of ....NFL cheerleadingNBA danceCollegiate performance...
Dec 16 10:00 am
Michelle Friedman, MD, Caviar Scholar's Series
Dr. Michelle Friedman will discuss "Keeping Marriage Alive" as part of the Caviar Scholars' Series.
Dec 16 11:00 amFree
Jowler Creek Winery's Muskrato de Missouri Wine Release Party
Our most popular sweet, fizzy white wine is now back just in time for the holidays! You may remember last year's vintage sold out in just three months, so you'll want to make sure you head up to stock up on this year's vintage before it sells out, too. If you like Moscato d' Asti...
Dec 16 11:00 am
Jowler Creek's Christmas Cookie and Wine Pairing
Stop by Jowler Creek Winery to pair everyones favorite Christmas cookies with our award-winning, hand-crafted Missouri wines. Take your favorite Jowler Creek wines home to enjoy with all things Christmas this year. Nothing will warm Santas heart more than finding a delectable chocolate cookie and...
Dec 16 11:00 am
Santa Claws-Pet photos with Santa
Santa Claws is coming to town!!! Second Chance Pet Adoptions will be taking Santa photos with your pet December 8th and 9th/December 15th and 16th from 11-4. It is $9.95, which includes a 4x6 photo in a holiday collector frame. $5 of the proceeds is given to Second Chance Pet Adoptions. Please...
Dec 16 11:00 am
Second Chance Pet Adoptions OPEN HOUSE
SCPAKC is hosting an open house on December 16th, 11-4pm at Too Dog Gone Cute. We will be having FREE PUPPY PEDIS! Hundreds of dollars in raffle items! We will have snacks and wine. We will also have all of the items from our donation store. Please check it out online www.2ndchancepets.net Check...
Dec 16 12:00 pm
Retired Officers Association (MOAA) Christmas Brunch
The annual Sunflower Chapter of MOAA (Military Officers Association of America) Christmas Brunch at the Gaslight Grill in Leawood, KS
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Levee Town
Open Jam 2-7 PM
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Colors & Bottles
We are THE modern art class! We host 3 hour painting classes in different locations around the city. An artist comes in and teaches you how to paint. WE encourage you to have fun!! Have a drink or two, order some food and just laugh. Everything is provided to you, all you do is sign up online,...
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Father Christmas
Performance: 1:30pm Regular Cost of Admission Jim "Two Crows" Wallen reprises his role as Father Christmas and shares stories of Christmases past!
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Feature Film Audition
Extreme Entertainment Press Release Kansas City and Los Angeles based film production company Extreme Entertainment, in connection with Los Angeles based BD Productions is holding open auditions to cast actors in a new film
Dec 16 1:00 pm
i9 Sports Basketball Leagues
Basketball registrations open for Winter season. Boys and girls ages 4-14 in Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee and Gardner Kansas. Register online at www.i9sports.com or by calling Terry Reuter (816) 589-9894.
Dec 16 1:00 pm
i9 Sports Cheerleading Sign-ups
Cheerleading registrations open for Winter season. Girls ages 4-14 in Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee and Gardner Kansas. Register online at www.i9sports.com or by calling Terry Reuter (816) 589-9894.
Dec 16 1:00 pm
i9 Sports Indoor Soccer League
Indoor Soccer registrations open for winter season. Boys and girls ages 3-6 in Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee and Gardner Kansas. Register online at www.i9sports.com or by calling Terry Reuter (816) 589-9894.
Dec 16 1:00 pm
i9 Sports Indoor T-Ball League
Indoor T-Ball Baseball registrations open for Winter season. Boys and girls ages 3-4 in Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee and Gardner Kansas. Register online at www.i9sports.com or by calling Terry Reuter (816) 589-9894.
Dec 16 1:00 pmFree
KU School of Music Community Music School Recital
Contact: 785-864-3436, email@example.com
Department: School of Music
Ticket Cost: Free
Sunday December 16, 2012
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall
Dec 16 1:00 pm
Dec 16 1:05 pm
Dec 16 1:05 pm
UMKC Kangaroos vs. Appalachian St.
NCAAB Basketball
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Dec 16 2:00 pm
A Little Princess by Jethro Compton
A Little Princess brings Frances Hodgson Burnetts classic novel to life. Join Sara Crewe as she is torn from her life in India in a journey from princess to pauper. Left without her father in a foreign land; comfort her, listen to her tales and relish in the magic and the tragic beauty of her...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Babes In Toyland
We'd like to wrap this musical in gold paper with spangles all over it and attach a card saying Merry Christmas! Remember the wonderful Victor Herbert music? Remember the lyrics? "Toyland, toyland, little girl and boy land." There are wonderful characters: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary; Tom-Tom,...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Family Day
Family day is a great day to bring in the whole family or your friends! Have a great time being creative together and making memories! 11 X 14 canvas and everything it takes to create your own masterpiece! $20.00 per person or upgrade to a 16 X 20 canvas for another $15.00.
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Junior Royalty Book Club
Make reading fun and encourage your girl to gain social skills as she becomes part of a "girls only" book club that focuses on books with topics and issues that interest them.Get your special signed copy of the Butterfly Book and come to the discussion on exercising and eating healthy.The book...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Kansas vs. Prairie View A&M
WNCAAB Basketball
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Speaks Chapels 'Day of Remembrance' Holiday Memorial Service
The services are designed to provide a way for those who have lost a loved one to remember them in a very meaningful way and to assist those individuals in the healing process.
Dec 16 2:00 pm
The Chestnut Presents 'The Cardigans'
The Cardigans , a male sequel to The Taffetas, features favorite pop music from the 50s like: Venus, Mack the Knife , Dream Lover and memorable Christmas songs too! The boys just graduated and are leaving their pals in Wooster, Ohio. This show has great music, smooth harmony, and it's lots of...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod
The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod will have a limited engagement at the Fishtank Theater (1715 Wyandotte, Kansas City, MO) December 6 through December 16, 2012. Directed by Darren Sextro and featuring Jan Rogge (Mrs. Pascal), Christina Schafer Martin (Jackie-O), J. Will Fritz (Anthony), Justin...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Under Milkwood
by Dylan Thomas - Performed by Guy Masterson Celebrating a day in the life of Llaregyb's ebullient inhabitants, all 69 characters in Dylan Thomas' timeless masterpiece are hilariously recreated in an amazing feat of memory and virtuosity. Complimented by a stunning original soundscape,...
Dec 16 2:00 pm
Women's Basketball vs. Prairie View A&M
multiple ticket options available at www.kutickets.com
Contact: 800-34-HAWKS
Department: Department of Athletics
Ticket Cost: cost
Sunday December 16, 2012
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Allen Fieldhouse
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Kantorei Christmas: Angels Did Say
This year we will presenting a very ecclectic Christmas program including three pastiches on the Christmas story. "Of Mary" will feature a scorching Renaissance Polish setting of Beata Es Virgo Maria by Zielienski as well as R. Douglas Helvering's evocative Ave Maria. "Of the Angels" will...
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Mid America Freedom Band / Visions of Sugarplums
Mid America Freedom Band presents: Leontovych: Carol of the Bells; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Moss: Night Before Christmas; Herbert: Babes in Toyland; Bobrowitz: Chanukah Celebrati...
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Paul Mesner Puppets presents, The Nativity
Come see beautiful seven-foot puppets gracefully move through the aisles of the Cathedral with musical and chorale accompaniment as live actors narrate this familiar tale. The larger than-than-life characters are brought to life by puppeteers, movement artists and volunteers who perform this...
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Skillet Tag: The Remount
Back by popular demand from it's successful debut in the 2012 KC Fringe Festival, "Skillet Tag" is now a full length, revised, wilder than ever theatrical experience. If you couldn't get enough this summer or missed it at Fringe, now is your chance to catch this wacky story about a group...
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Visions of Sugarplums
Remember opening the present that held what was to become your favorite toy? Recapture that joy and excitement as the Mid America Freedom Band presents its winter concert "Visions of Sugar Plums." Toys come alive in Herbert's "March of the Toys" from Babes in Toyland, candy dances in...
Dec 16 3:00 pm
Holiday Touchstones
Fine Arts Chorale will present "Holiday Touchstones" at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont Street, Lawrence, Kansas, on December 16, 2012 at 3:00 P.M, featuring guest organist, Geoffrey Wilcken, of Lawrence. This acclaimed program is based on ancient carols and hymns, including...
Dec 16 3:30 pm
ARI Employee - Party Time
ARI Party.Bring your drinks, snacks and all your employees. See just how creative your co-workers can be!An artist will lead you step by step through the painting.
Dec 16 3:30 pm
Outland by Dominic Allen
Outland introduces you to a host of Carroll's weird and wonderful characters, who will guide you deeper into the imagined worlds you have forgotten. Outland invites you to step into a world of childhood dreams. Inspired by the final work of author Lewis Carroll, Dominic Allen interweaves the...
Dec 16 4:00 pm
KC Girlfriends Book Club Meeting
KC Girlfriends Book Club was established in 2002. We are 20+ members strong and a very diverse group of women. We read fiction books written by African American authors, preferably new or underexposed. If you are interested in learning more about the book club and how to join please go to our...
Dec 16 5:00 pm
Dec 16 5:00 pm
The Boy James by Alexander Wright
With The Boy James, Belt Up Theatre presents a dark, beautiful tale of one boys awakening to the harsh realities of adulthood. Play with him, and take his hand as you lead him back to Neverland. A truly intimate experience that allows its visitors the password to a strictly secret world; a safe...
Dec 16 5:30 pm
Dan Bliss and Rod Fleeman
One of the best guitarists ever to come out of Kansas City, Rod Fleeman can play just about anything with anybody, locally or internationally. This acoustic setting showcases his love and mastery of 30's and 40's jazz, blues and swing. Fingerstyle guitarist and singer Dan Bliss is a long...
Dec 16 6:00 pm
'Lead Me Back to Bethlehem' Cantata
The IHUMC Church Choir will perform the musical Cantata. It will be followed by a Labyrinth Luminary Walk at 7:00 PM on the church grounds.
Dec 16 6:00 pm
Dr. Sketchy presents Mary Magdalene (and Guest)
Our lady of perpetual hauteness will be glamming up this very non traditional take on our holiday season. Mary Mary quite contrary how you do glow. Spirt and cheer filling the air with strong sounds via DJ Cyan, Heather Hands making your mouth water and holiday spirits are served. As always,...
Dec 16 6:00 pm
Drive-Through Live Nativity
NEW ANNUAL TRADITION AT THE CULTURE HOUSE Come join us as at TCH as we create a beautifully spiritual drive-through live nativity for you to experience with your entire family. Listen to the Biblical retelling of the Christmas story as you pass by live characters and animals illustrating the...
Dec 16 6:30 pm
Dec 16 6:30 pm
Dec 16 6:30 pm
Dec 16 6:30 pm
'Lights, Please!'
A Christmas Program that focuses on a generational look at the meaning of Christmas from young to senior citizens with all ages of actors and a comical flair.
Dec 16 6:30 pm
Dec 16 6:30 pm
The Night the Buzz Stole XXXmas
The Night the Buzz Stole XXXmas
with Passion Pit, Alt-J, Blondfire, Churchill, and Heroes and Villains
Dec 16 7:00 pm
Nathan Granner
Age Limit: All Ages
Nathan Granner
Dec 16 7:00 pm
Labyrinth Luminary Walk
The Labyrinth is located on the Church Grounds and will be lit with luminaries. The Church Choir will perform "Lead Me Back to Bethlehem in the Church Sanctuary beginning at 5:00 pm. The Luminary Walk will follow the Cantata.
Dec 16 7:00 pm
Nathan Granner/Ben Gulley Holiday Concert
World Class Tenors Nathan Granner and Ben Gulley from the American Tenors will perform a free holiday concert featuring beautiful hymns and Christmas classics. Both singers are from the Kansas City area. Refreshments and CD's will be available.
Dec 16 7:00 pm
Redrick Sultan
Supporting Acts: Japanese Game Show, Broken Mast, Wire and String Redrick Sultan
We originally were one person and then split apart because of our colour differences. When one of us likes orange and the other green, it's pretty hard to get along. We had some crazy times exploring...
Dec 16 7:00 pm
The Stone Foxes
Come and join The Stone Foxes
Dec 16 7:30 pm
By Jim Cartwright- With David Baxter and Julie Blunt-Directed By Matt Baker Jim Cartwright's Two is a microcosm of working-class life in a Northern pub in the 1980s. In a series of vignettes, fourteen characters are played by two actors telling the stories of the denizens in the pub. With an...
Dec 16 8:00 pm
Dec 16 8:00 pm
Dec 16 8:00 pm
Dec 16 8:00 pm
Dec 16 9:00 pm
Dec 16 9:00 pm
Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke
DOORS AT 8:00 pmSHOW AT 9:00 pm
18 & Over
Dec 16 9:00 pm
Applebee's Ugly Sweater Party!
Happy Hour Specials & Half Priced Appetizers.Event Page: http://OlatheKSCOC.weblinkconnect.com/cwt/External/WCPages/WCEvents/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=2924Organized by: Olathe Chamber of Commerce18001 W. 106th St.Suite 160P.O. Box 98Olathe, KS 66051
Dec 16 9:30 pm
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson The programme includes three of Thomas' wonderful short stories; A Visit To Grandpa's, Holiday Memory and, of course, A Christmas Story (more popularly known as A Child's Christmas In Wales), plus a selection of his greatest verse including Fern Hill, Do...
Dec 16 10:00 pm

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Noisy DVD drive: Got a surround-sound system and no neighbors? Great, maybe then you can drown out some of the roars and hisses emitted by the fan and drive motors of earlier 360 models, which were presumably fine-tuned in a vast subterranean wind tunnel by deaf engineers.
Advergaming: Disguising ads as games is a novel way for companies to get their message to customers, and if the games themselves are free (or at least really cheap) and actually fun, then we don't mind so much. But for every passable Doritos Dash of Destruction, there's an awful Burger King Big Bumpin' and a seemingly endless supply of creepy, creepy Sneak Kings.
Above: So that's where they live
It might be easy to ignore them, but the fact that crappy advergames even exist is puzzling; why would any advertiser want gamers to associate their product with a lousy game? The Yaris game, for example, probably did more damage to gamers' perception of the car than it did to raise their awareness of it. The lesson here is clear: insult our intelligence with crappy games, and the thought of whatever you're trying to sell will leave a bad taste in our mouths.
Above: PLEASE BUY OUR CAR NOW
Shitty d-pad: Tried playing Street Fighter IV lately? Yeah, so have we. Unfortunately we haven't had much success, because the default controller's mushy d-pad keeps turning our shoryukens into standing punches, our flash kicks into feeble jumps and all of our online opponents into Ken.*
*OK so maybe not that last one.
DRM for XBLA games: If you're one of the unfortunate thousands who've watched a 360 red-ring and sent it back to Microsoft for repairs, you might have noticed some problems when you tried to play the games you paid to download. Microsoft released a fix for the problem last year, but the fact that there are additional hoops to jump through even after you've gone through the trauma of a red-ring incident is more than a little infuriating.
Microsoft pays for platform exclusives: Are you wondering when the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV is going to get its own exclusive, downloadable episodes? Then you should probably pay more attention to the industry, because that's not going to happen anytime soon. In a bid to become the definitive platform on which to play GTA, Microsoft floated Rockstar Games $50 million to produce add-on content exclusively for the 360. The Lost and Damned is the first of several planned episodes to come out of that agreement.
Above: A taste of what $50 million can buy a console
It's not limited to GTA IV, either, as Microsoft established early on that it was willing to pay developers for 360-exclusive games and add-on content. How despicable is it? That depends on whether you think of it as Microsoft paying developers to create new things, or as Microsoft paying developers to not create new things for the competition. Either way, Microsoft's making an effort to keep games out of the hands of those who didn't buy its system, and that's not cool.
No Achievements in community games: There's a very good chance that some of you are completely unaware of the Xbox Live Community Games service, which enables independent developers to upload and distribute their games through Live. There are numerous catches, of course, one of which is that the developers can't add Achievement points to anything they create.
Above: It's fun, but will Achievement whores ever play it?
While it's understandable that Microsoft would think some "developers" would immediately abuse the system and go nuts inflating gamerscores, there are a lot of great Community games that are being completely ignored just because Achievement whores don't think they're worth the time or money. You'd think it'd be worth it if a modest 50 or so points could convince more people to buy games like CarneyVale Showtime, but Microsoft apparently disagrees.
aaron171 - April 25, 2011 1:38 p.m.
DARK_SIDE - January 5, 2010 5:36 p.m.
kaneman - December 2, 2009 5:41 a.m.
AuthorityFigure - November 23, 2009 10:27 a.m.
BoneyardWolf - April 19, 2009 5:03 a.m.
TheAnswer - April 5, 2009 6:33 p.m.
RedOutlive10 - April 4, 2009 11:11 p.m.
lxTylerxl - April 1, 2009 4:37 p.m.
UsernameAlreadyInUse - April 1, 2009 2:37 a.m.
villainstone - April 1, 2009 midnight
drgnrbrn316 - March 31, 2009 2 p.m.
Cernunnos - March 31, 2009 8:16 a.m.
darkside17 - March 30, 2009 9:05 p.m.
GamesRadarMikelReparaz - March 30, 2009 8:51 p.m.
Sonneilon - March 30, 2009 8:33 p.m.
Log in using Facebook to share comments, games, status update and other activity easily with your Facebook feed.


text:
Digital Documents
The Archives uses a variety of tools and methods to capture, collect, and preserve documents. We are receptive to documents in digital form.
See the SMC Archives Digital Repository for examples of digital documents being collected in the Archives.
Maps & Directories
Mailing Address
Saint Mary's College of California
1928 Saint Mary's Road
Moraga, CA 94575
(925) 631-4000
Google Map | Campus Map | PO Boxes


text:
Photo Credit: YouTube
If you don't know what a rainbow loom is, how's life under that rock? Rainbow looms, and the colorful rubber band bracelets they create, are the latest object of kid obsession and increasingly, school bans.
If your kid is looming it up, make her day with this round-up of the best rainbow loom video tutorials on YouTube. Happy rainbow looming!
Basic Fishtail
Hexafish Fishtail
Flower Ring
Ghost Charm
Smiley Face
Barefoot Sandal
Minion Bracelet
Mom of two Sasha Emmons is a writer and editor. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.


text:
Sign up for health news and exclusive discounts!
( Your cart is empty )
Save 5% (details) with delivery every MonthsDays
Save 18% off retail
Long-Term Backorder, Will Ship when Available
Kirunal is composed of particular fish oils selected because they provide three times as much EPA and DHA.
The main fish source is Namibian Pilchards and Sardines.(African fish)
2 , 120 servings per container
Fish body oil, gelatin, glycerine, and water.
Adults take 2 caps twice daily with food.
Have you tried E-Lyte/BodyBio Kirunal 500 mg? Share your experience with others; Review this product here!


text:
digital marketing
The Fresh Egg blog
Latest digital marketing news
The Fresh Egg Christmas party (see previous post) wasn't all about gorging on Turkey and wine. It was also a chance for the company to give something back to its dedicated, passionate and loyal employees for all the graft they've put in over the past year. The Fresh Egg awards were designed to recognise and reward staff for their individual achievements and areas of expertise. Before the party, staff were asked to submit their nominations along with reasons for two candidates in each award category.
The Oscars had nothing on us as the ceremony was ably MC'd by Adam, Pip and Lee and proved to be a closely-fought and tense affair. Thankfully however, there were no Gweneth Paltrow-esque gushing speeches! Here is a run down of the nominees and winners in each category:-
Best Blog Post
Runners up: Allan Bisset, Joe Johnson
Winner: Ryan Ogilvie
Ryan smashed the established record for the highest number of comments on a post for his excellent and timely analysis of the new Xbox Kinect system
Best Team Player
Runners up: Ryan Ogilvie, Dan Wotton
Winner: Saurav Rimal
Saurav was recognised for his willingness to share useful information and his propensity to help others whenever it was necessary.
Office Clown
Runners up: Allan Bisset, Alex Murray, Tom Davis
Winner: Dan Wotton
Dan was a clear winner in this category for his observational comedy and razor sharp wit (he has asked us to write). He was also commended for his ability to put a smile on your face, whatever the situation!
Most Likely Person to Invite to Your 100th Birthday
Runners up: Chris Morphew, Dave Grace
Winner: Peter Richards
Pete received the Lion's share of the nominations for this award for being incredibly kind, a good friend to all in and out of the office, and the one person that everyone finds an absolute pleasure to work with.
Chief Tea Person
Runners up: none!
Winner: Simon Natarajan
Simon was recognised for understanding the vital role that caffeine and sugar play in the endeavors of a successful Web Design team!
Pure Class (Quality Award)
Runner up: Andrew Heasman
Winner: Ollie Battams
Ollie's friends and colleagues couldn't heap enough praise on him, he was repeatedly quoted as being able to deliver 'outstanding and inspiring work'.
Most Improved Starter
Runners up: Palashi Pandya, Joe Johnson
Winner: Alex Murray
Since joining the fold earlier this year, Alex has hatched from an SEO chick into a master of Internet Marketing and is now able to teach the rest of the team a thing or two!
Best Team Leader
Runner up: Sarah Tunstall
Winner: Tony Goldstone
The qualities that really shone through for Fresh Egg's 'silver fox of SEO' was his laid back, open attitude coupled with a wealth of knowledge and talent that makes him such a good leader and talisman for the entire SEO team.
Most Reliable
Runner up: Kat Robinson
Winners: Val and Tania
This joint award went to Val and Tania who both do an excellent job of steering the Fresh Egg ship. They are both always on time and the day-to-day running of the office would simply not happen without them!
Person with the Best Client Relationship
Runner up: Paul Chaloner
Winner: Chris Perkins
Chris is able to stay on top of the demands of a wide variety of clients and deal effectively with awkward situations, even when the pressure is on!
Most Adaptable Person
Runners up: Ben Shaw
Winner: Dara Fitzgerald
Dara has been universally praised for making such a monumental job transition from a sales role look easy. He embraced the challenge of working on the Analytics team with gusto and as learned all there is to know about the discipline incredibly quickly.
Fresh Egg Innovation Award
Runners up: none!
Winner: Nick Morley
This award comes to Nick after he joined the company and implemented a number of new and innovative processes that will undoubtedly drive the company forward in the coming months and years.
Most Dedicated
Runners up: Vaughan Luke
Winner: Sarah Tunstall
The volume and variety of positive words about Sarah's pivotal role in Fresh Egg's success was incredible. Sarah is described as the hardest worker people have ever met and her dedication is said to be unrivaled, often working into the wee small hours of the morning to tie up all the loose ends.
Fresh Egg Genius
Runners up: Tony Goldstone
Winner: Dan Ellis
Dan is described as the Terminator around these parts, and with good reason, there is nothing he cannot do. He has an exceptional ability to deliver impressive, outstanding work consistently.
Most Inspiring Person
Runners up: none!
Winner: Steve Teece
Steve is a respected leader amongst his co-workers and was singled out for being one of the most inspiring people at the company. He was noted for his calm demeanor and wealth of knowledge. Few people have such Expert-Teece in SEO as Steve!
Employee of the Year
Runner up: Jerome Degl'Innocenti
Winner: Vaughan Luke
Vaughan took the award for employee of the year, the most prestigious on the list, for being the one that keeps everything running smoothly at Fresh Egg. Vaughan is constantly toiling away behind the scenes to make sure all the equipment we use is operating correctly. He has made the big transitions that Fresh Egg has gone through this year go smoothly and painlessly; he is the real lynchpin of the company!
Suffice to say there were no Hollywood style tantrums or hard feelings from the runners up, each award was justified and well deserved. Winners received a shiny, translucent trophy while runners up we given HMV vouchers. We hope to make the Fresh Egg Awards an annual event which means all of us here will be working harder than ever in an attempt to get our hands on a trophy next year!


text:
To Whom It May Concern:
Last year I made perhaps one of the biggest mistakes of my life: I started watching your show, American Idol. Here I was, a renegade supporter of anti-reality television ideals and I fell off the proverbial television-addict wagon. I was never on the wagon to begin with so I suppose that's a bad expression. Let's just say, I was "run over" by the wagon. In fact, not only did the wagon run over me, it also dragged my body a couple miles and left me for dead. I'm not really much of a television watcher. I'm actually the nerd that watches Animal Planet, C-SPAN, and Nickelodeon (for Cosby Show re-runs of course). When the American Idol bug hit me last spring, Tuesday evenings at 8pm quickly became "very serious" to me. I found myself doing strange things like not answering my phone, cutting off communication with my friends and family, getting into perhaps one too many non-work-related debates on whether or not "Ruben will beat Clay", yelling at my television, eating dinner on the couch so I could be closer to the idol action, and running to get second servings during commercials. Don't be mistaken. I still got my dose of commercial indoctrination. Your show is a major corporation's dream. It's a beast of consumerism you've created, and it's also made one very washed up psuedo-celebrity, one British playboy, and one hokey black guy mighty rich. This third season of your show really had me hooked.
Well, I've done some flesh-searching (that'd be the even more carnal version of "soul-searching"), and it has ocurred to me that I can no longer worship at the idol (no pun intended) of Fox's Talent Trippery. Time is a rather precious thing and I once again "re-discovered" my need of every bit of it (including that 1 hour time slot on Tuesday nights). I also "re-discovered" the fact that said television show will in fact, not save my soul, increase my finances, nor help my productivity for the Kingdom of God; and unless I have high aspirations of being a female vocalist (a false dream I am certain my family and friends would plead that I not pursue), American Idol is making more money off of me than I it; and therefore I must make perhaps what has been the biggest of decision over the last two hours of my life.
It is with mixed emotions that I announce to you and my relative world, that I, Ambra (last name witheld), am kicking American Idol to the curb. I have nothing against your show personally. In fact, I quite like your show very much. It is time however, that we depart. It's been "real" and "fake" all at the same time. I shall remember you always and forever recall how you singlehandedly turned a tiny, nobody, Asian boy, UC Berkley student, named William Hung and might I add perhaps one of the worst singers I've ever heard, into a pop-culture superstar. You're brilliant you idol people. You truly are.
An Avid WatcherCoke Sucks,
Ambra Nykol
Seattle, Washington
TrackBack URL for this entry:
i think you spelled BERKELEY wrong
March 2005February 2005January 2005December 2004November 2004October 2004September 2004August 2004July 2004June 2004May 2004April 2004March 2004February 2004January 2004
Bijan Bayne
Black Informant
Booker Rising
Claudio Simpkins
Evangelical Outpost
Joanne Jacobs
In the Agora
La Shawn Barber
Oliver Willis
Matt Rosenberg
Michelle Malkin
Ramblings' Journal


text:
Javant by Vivica Fox
Javant by Vivica Fox is a long, layered, straight cut, with a lace-front cap construction, giving you amazing off-the-face styling versatility.
Length : 13-26 in.
Weight : 6.40
Head Size: : Average
Color shown: JAVA BLAST 1B/30
Place in Cart
Your Cost back to home
$ 48.51 continue shopping
List Price $ 64.68
Choose a Color first, before considering your purchase.


text:
MRO PROFILE: Skycharter- Abbreviated from an article featured in Aviation International News (AIN):
Founded in 1968 by the legendary Irv Shoichet, Skycharter offered FBO services, charter, pilot training, aircraft sales and maintenance. To-day, Skycharter is headed by Irv's son, Richard who operates similar FBO services, charter, aircraft sales, management of aircraft and has a maintenance facility which includes an avionics shop, proprietary maintenance tracking system, a wide range of ground support equipment and a diverse network of associations with both AME's and regulators. Our capabilities include full avionics line service, including instrument repair. "Skycharter has the in-house capability to perform all avionics services from 24-month pitot-static calibrations, through line service defects to annual cockpit voice recorder intelligibility checks."Skycharter is experienced in a wide range of aircraft, including most corporate models from smaller turboprops to larger cabin, transcontinental aircraft. It can house aircraft up to the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 series in its heated hangar, a significant benefit considering Great Lakes winters. Personalized and excellent service was the company philosophy which made it a point of pride to provide peace of mind to every customer.
Wings Magazine - Waypoint: All in the family:
"At Toronto's Skycharter, another father/son combination have made their mark: Richard and Irving Shoichet. Richard now runs the show at this popular FBO since his father's passing a few years ago. Under his leadership, the FBO and hangars so long associated with the north end GA side of YYZ have undergone upgrades and improvements.Skycharter was founded in 1968 by Richard's father, entrepreneur and airline transport pilot Irv Shoichet. Irv was definitely a trendsetter. By employing the most experienced people, using the latest aircraft and maintaining them to top standards, the Skycharter fleet became the largest privately owned fleet in Canada at the time, numbering 11 executive jet aircraft. Irv had marketing savvy; all of the aircraft and hangars were clearly identified with clean, bright, white paint and orange banding and distinctive company logo. While this may seem common today, such was not the case when Irv was getting started."
Skycharter featured at the 2011 NBAA (National Business Aviation Association) in Las Vegas:
"First-time exhibitor Skycharter Ltd., a privately owned fixed-base operator(FBO) located at the north end of Pearson International Airport (CYYZ) in Toronto, Ont., was represented by Carla Libralato, Sales and Marketing Manager, and Karolina Baszak, Sales and Marketing/Customer Suppprt. Skycharter, which has been on the field at CYYZ for 43 years, has obviously built a solid reputation within some sectors of the industry: this full service FBO and aircraft management, maintenance and charter services' company was named the Corporate Aircraft Association's preferred Toronto FBO for the third year in a row, as voted by members of the association."
Choice of the US President's Marine One detachment during the G8 Summit:
"Thank you for all that you did to make my participation in the G8 and G20 Summits a success. Your help was instrumental to my trip and much appreciated."
President Barack Obama
Recognition for: "Your unique abilities, coupled with your superb attitude and professionalism" - Presidential Communications Officer
Elite Traveler Magazine - Cover Story PRIVATE JET ACCESS:"Use Skycharter at Pearson International Airport"
GTAA Toronto Pearson Today Magazine - LUXE LOUNGE:"Skycharter proudly unveiled its newly renovated boutique FBO Lounge at Toronto Pearson's North Field. The lounge is the most private FBO on the field and offers both crew and passengers modern yet comfortable surroundings. Crew will enjoy the second-floor, loft-style lounge that offers a fantastic view of the runway, while passengers enjoy the comfortable main floor lounge with direct ramp access. Skycharter also renovated the adjoining hangar to include new metal-clad sliding doors and repainted interior."
Wings Magazine- Optimism in Tough Times:"At YYZ, longstanding operator Skycharter has completed a multi-million dollar renovation and service improvement to its facilities. Included in this is a refreshed hangar with new doors and ground services and a completely new, multilevel FBO. This is a significant and impressive change for one of Canada's first FBO operators."


text:
Sunday Psalms 30/52
Join me each week for an encouraging look into the book of Psalms. May these words bless your heart, feed your soul, and make your day.
Psalm 36:5-9
New International Version (NIV)
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.


text:
Franz's NoSQL Database Successfully Loads 1 Trillion RDF Triples
Franz's NoSQL database, AllegroGraph has become the first NoSQL database to load over one trillion RDF Triples, a feat that is being called "a major step forward in scalability for the Semantic Web." According to the article, "A trillion RDF Statements eclipses the current state of the art for the Semantic Web data management but is a primary interest for companies like Amdocs that use triples to represent real-time knowledge about telecom customers. Per-customer, Amdocs uses about 4,000 triples, so a large telecom like China Mobile would easily need 2 trillion triples to have detailed knowledge about each single customer."
Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz stated, "Some people have asked, 'Why not do this on a distributed cloud system with Hadoop?' The quick answer: NoSQL databases like Hadoop and Cassandra fail on joins. Big Enterprise, big web companies and big government intelligence organizations are all looking into big data to work with massive amounts of semi-unstructured data. They are finding that NoSQL databases are wonderful if one needs access to a single object in an ocean of billions of objects, however, they also find that the current NoSQL databases fall short if you need to run graph database operations that require many complicated joins."
Aasman will be delivering a presentation at the upcoming SemTechBiz Conference in the UK next month entitled Intelligent Decision Automation on an Event Driven Semantic Platform.
Image: Courtesy Franz


text:
Torrington downtown: 2 steps forward, 1 back
|Alfredo Viscariello, owner of Alfredo's Deli, has opened Coliseum, a trading post in the former Tommy's Bike Shop in downtown Torrington. Kevin Litten/RA
TORRINGTON -- The city's downtown has experienced a case of two steps forward, one step back over the past month.
Two new businesses are in place: Coliseum, a "trading post" that buys and sells used electronics, gold and silver; and Seasons of Growth Horticultural Design and Events. Both are at the foot of East Main Street.
Read more of this story and more!
7-Day Subscribers have FREE access to everything on rep-am.com and our E-Edition.
CLICK HERE to register and activate your access,.
Not a subscriber?
You can purchase a single-day subscription for only $0.75 to read this and access all of our content and our E-Edition.
CLICK HERE purchase a single day subscription.
Become an electronic subscriber to the Republican-American for only $8 a month. CLICK HERE.
Follow Us
No pawnshops wrote on Apr 9, 2012 10:53 AM:
" I may be wrong, but I thought Torrington said no pawn shops downtown?!? It sounds like the Coliseum is a pawn shop to me! "
ericaugu wrote on Apr 9, 2012 1:07 PM:
" Hooray! Another place to look for stuff stolen by junkies looking for quick money after breaking into cars and houses. "
jess257 wrote on Jan 27, 2013 4:52 PM:
" Well I am not a junkie nor do I break into houses, I'm moving to south Carolina and just cannot take half of my household things with me. I refuse to GIVE them to the salvation army that is supposed to HELP ppl and charge an enormous price for the used clothing that I have DONATED in the past, and pay their workers minimum wage, do you know exactly how the salvation army works? They are supposed to be for a non-profit organization and instead they steal from the people donating and don't help.anyone in need out, you can't even get a clothing voucher for a coat or even baby clothing or things of such nature, and they claim that's what they are here for, to HELP THE POOR!!!!!! THAT'S WHY PEOPLE DONATE TO THEM, THINKING THAT THEY ARE HELPING OUT THE POOR. WELL SOME PPL THAT AREN'T "JUNKIES, OR THIEVES" just can't simply afford to get their children the simple things in life and that's what the salvation army is, WAS for!!! So I refuse to donate to them. Or goodwill for that matter. I would rather sell my things to this new place, as I am also struggling Too. And recieve the extra money to get a truck to move. There wouldn't be so many junkies and theives if TORRINGTON P.D. GOT ON THEIR JOB, AND STOPPED HARRASSING PEOPLE THAT AREN'T DOING ANYTHING WRONG, AND GOT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE BUT WOULD RATHER SIT AND ,SAY "WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THESE PPLS HOUSE FOR 3 YEARS", AND THEY ARE STILL LETTING THEM BRING IN HEROIN FROM WATERBURY 5-6X A DAY IT MAKES ME SICK, THESE 2 PPL HAVE RUINED MORE LIVES TO THIS DRUG THAN I'D LIKE TO SAY OR AT THIS POINT I'VE LOST COUNT. TORRINGTON P.D. IS GOOD FOR NOTHING!!!!!!!! And as long as they keep letting these ppl bring in the drugs from out of town torrington will always be the dump it has become until they are cought!!!!!!!! So yes I'd rather bring my good condition used goods there and revive the money and help myself out than leave it on the side of the road and let these "junkies and theives" go through it on garbage night and make their house look nice while shooting drugs in thief ARM.!!!!!!!!! "
Post a reader commentWe encourage your feedback and dialog.
Please be civil and respectful.
If you're witty, to the point and quotable, your reader comments may also be included on the Around the Towns page of The Sunday Republican.
Readers must be registered and logged in to post comments on the site. Registration is free. Click Here to register.
A Subscription is not required to post comments only a Registration.
Log In
|Register / Forgotten Password?
More stories from Local
- Former Bethlehem church pastor dies
- Naugatuck resurrects land purchase
- Golf anyone?
- Watertown zoning dispute heads back to court
- Southbury school community rallies after student's diagnosis
- Neighbors protest as Salisbury approves sign
- Plymouth burn victim released from hospital
- Kaynor Tech student heads to national cooking event
- Low-value condos, multifamily buildings 'big winners' in Waterbury revaluation
- Torrington downtown: 2 steps forward, 1 back


text:
|7 Comments
Recent Comments:
All hail [Magic of Cinnamon Transcendence]! {WoW}
Aug 23rd 2007 4:33PM These would make some killer band names too.
All hail [Magic of Cinnamon Transcendence]! {WoW}
Aug 23rd 2007 2:48PM Ancients of Dog Stink
The Mega Awesome Cavalry
The Dpsgrandmaclowns
Lollipop Druids (Too bad gnomes can't be druids... that would be too classic)
The Reported Ignored Clan
Free Meow
Around Azeroth: Return to sender {WoW}
Aug 15th 2007 10:57AM Wish I could do that to my mailman sometimes...
The biggest bargain in the AH {WoW}
Aug 14th 2007 1:58PM Yeah save gold or lose gold....
First lesson in economics: For every winner of a transaction, there is also a loser.
Profession costs {WoW}
Aug 2nd 2007 3:39PM I wonder if this is taking into account inflation? I doubt it since it would be so hard to track across multiple servers over the course of the life of the program, but it should be taken into account.
Leveling up a profession cost a lot more initially in 2004 G than it does in 2007 G... so I would assume that these figures are in today's Present Value. However, a true calculation of cost needs to take into the average time it takes to go from 1 to 375, and the average daily inflation from start to finish.
There's simply too many variables to effectively look at cost from here to there unless you scale it by server, time started, and average time spent leveling the profession.
Neat idea overall, but impractical on any meaningful scale.
Going really, really hardcore with WoW {WoW}
Jul 3rd 2007 3:31PM Anyone read "Lord of the Flies"?
It'd be like that. Only worse.
What mob do you love to hate? {WoW}
Jun 26th 2007 6:30PM I hate the harpies in Stonetalon, perhaps moreso than the murlocs. You have to kill them quick, or else they'll run away and gather 6+ friends. And that's never a good thing.
I'm also not a very big fan of spiders either. They're not so bad on their own, except for the fact that they have twelve friends six feet away. You focus on one, but agg two or three (and possibly a bear or two) and all of a sudden you're up the creek without a paddle.


text:
Translate this page
eGov Services • 1300 Perdido St, New Orleans, LA 70112 • (504) 658-4000
Home » Neighborhood Engagement » Neighborhood Organizations » Lake Barrington Homeowners' Association
Wright Rd; Morrison Rd; Berg Canal; I-10 Service Rd
To enhance the overall lifestyle, safety, and beautification of the Lake Barrington Subdivision.
Provide a safe and comfortable environment.
Annual Night Against, Crime Christmas Decoration Contest, and Quarterly HOA meetings
Since 1974.
Last updated: 12/3/2014 3:40:39 PM


text:
Bayreuther Arbeitspapiere zur Wirtschaftsinformatik
| Informationen zum Herausgeber
|LS Wirtschaftsinformatik
|Email an den Herausgeber
Year of publication
- 2006 (3) (remove)
Document Type
- Report (2)
- Working Paper (1)
- 21
- A Theoretical and Computational Basis for CATNETS (2006)
- The main content of this report is the identification and definition of market mechanisms for Application Layer Networks (ALNs). On basis of the structured Market Engineering process, the work comprises the identification of requirements which adequate market mechanisms for ALNs have to fulfill. Subsequently, two mechanisms for each, the centralized and the decentralized case are described in this document. These build the theoretical foundation for the work within the following two years of the CATNETS project.
- 14
- Performance Evaluation - Annual Report Year 2 (2006)
- In this paper a performance measuring infrastructure,developed for the prototype and simulator, concering the experiment configuration, data measurement, and data collection, is presented. A corresponding performance evaluation framework is defined to obtain the metrics from the measured data. Initial experiments were carried out to test the developed prototype, simulator and the performance measuring infrastructure.


text:
Category: future
Yet another #hcod blog post
Like many librarians this week, my thoughts have been dominated by the recent Harper Collins decision to change the way they distribute their eBooks to libraries. I am unhappy about this decision. There have been many blog posts and tweets about this and as much as I'd like to add my voice to the mix I really don't have anything new to offer. I'm not as eloquent, fierce, or energetic as the people leading the charge. I'm grateful to these and many other people for their vocal and thoughtful comments about the situation. They have kept me informed and helped me think through this issue. I've been working in libraries for over a dozen years and I've never seen the majority of the profession this focused on one issue. It's amazing! (Of course, it would be nice to have some sort of statement from THE national library organization…but I digress)
I do have one idea though. I'd like to see librarians get to know their local publishers. Most localities have small publishers we could get to know. Why? One reason is to learn more about the publishing industry. How can we negotiate with publishers if we don't understand what they are going through? We see our side of this situation and understand it very well. Having a better understanding of the publisher's side can only help us.
By establishing relationships with local publishers this may give us the opportunity to experiment with new methods of digital distribution. This will take some time and we will really need to establish a great relationship with them. The benefits could be great. We could work with them to create a method of distribution that could benefit libraries and publishers. If we find something that works on a local level it may work on a national level. It's an idea. Maybe someone can run with it. I'm hoping to contact some of the local publishers soon.
Here's to a great opportunity to create something new!
The links I'm highlighting this week are my favorites. There are many other great posts about this topic. If I included all of them none would get read. The list is that long. Bobbi Newman has done a great job of keeping a list of the posts. I've created a short list of more of my favorites.
- A great discussion of (what I feel) is the real issue with eBooks and libraries: attempting to make digital distribution of content mimic the physical distribution of content. Nicholas Schiller understands this and explains it much better than I possibly could.
- Sarah Glassmeyer gives us some economics concerning eBooks and libraries. Bad news, if the public buys just one book that would have been a check out then the publishers will be ok. She's not an accountant but her point is well made. The publishers will be just fine not doing business with libraries.
- Eric Hellman challenges the 'Pretend it's Print' mindset of many publishers (and librarians) have with digital content. He mentions a tiered pricing structure as a possible alternative. Although he doesn't really go into this idea it's one that I'm open to learning more about. Others have mentioned it also so maybe I'll get my chance to learn.
- Bill Rosenblatt reviews the technical and legal backdrop to what Harper Collins is doing and offers opinions on different possibilities. Very informative and level-headed. Good to have a legal perspective.
- Chad Marin argues for a one book/many readers model of eBook distribution. I like this idea very much. How to get it done? Who negotiates with the publishers? How will it work? How is copyright protected? Many questions but they can be answered.
Why I'm Optimistic
A few weeks ago I was asked by my boss to prepare a short presentation on change and libraries for the library's staff development days in December. It's been a great reason to read and really think about what I think libraries may be like in the not-too-distant-future.
At first I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the changes that are happening so quickly.Was it really just 2007 that the first Kindle came out? Now eBooks are about to really take off and librarians are trying to figure out this new format. The mobile web is still very young and we're figuring it out too. Our budgets are flat, or shrinking. Library staff is working hard to serve the needs of more visitors while having less support. It could get very depressing very quickly. Really.
What does our future hold? I can only say 'I don't know.' Luckily, I've been talking to some smart, creative people who have helped me make some sense of what is going on. I've come to a conclusion. I really do think libraries are going to be ok. It's not going to be easy but I do think we will survive into the future.
I have two reasons to be optimistic:
- We're smart
- There are some very smart people in library land who are working hard to figure this stuff out and they are sharing their knowledge
- We adapt
- We've been adapting for centuries.
- From clay tablets to scrolls to books we've seen them all
- The shift from paper to digital is another format change we will manage
- We've been adapting for centuries.
Just because we are living through a very disruptive and fast changing time doesn't mean we can't handle it. Of course we can handle it. How? By focusing on what we do best: helping people with their information needs. Helping people connect with the information they need when they need it and providing a space for people to meet to connect with each other. As long as we remember that it is people who make the library I think we will be ok.
Will libraries look the same in 20 years? No. Will a lot of people be upset by the transformations we may undergo? Probably. Change is inevitable. We can either manage the change ourselves or wait and let someone else tell us how we will change. I don't think we will like option number 2. So, I'm going to stay positive and work on helping my library manage change as smoothly as possible.
Pessimism doesn't help either.
My new toys are here!
I've gotten all of my new toys! I received the iPad, Nook and Sony Reader today. I must say that I'm pretty giddy! It's kinda like Christmas in October. My plans for a "Technology Petting Zoo" are taking shape. All I need to do now is get to know the devices better and schedule a time to visit the branches.
I'm writing this post via the iPad to see how easy it us to type. I think I may a get used to it but right now it's a bit odd. I do like the iPad. Very slick. I think after a week I'm going to want my own. For now I'm more than happy to be using this one.
I've been fiddling with the Nook and Sony Reader for about an hour and think they will be useful. I've had the Kindle for over a week. I'm going to reserve judgement until I play with all of them for a few weeks.
It's days like this when I really love my job! I'm a very lucky guy.
eBook Idea Update
I've been thinking about and discussing my eBook idea with just about anyone who would listen over the past few weeks. I believe it's a good idea but I don't think we will be seeing it anytime soon.
There is good news though! I was able to speak with two different people at Amazon. Two weeks ago I filled out this form contacting Amazon's Corporate Gift Card division. I started there because I think their system of Gift Codes on Demand could play a role in implementing my idea. I didn't expect to hear from them. So, I was more than surprised when, a few days later, I got a call from one of their representatives. He seemed like a nice guy and we discussed the problem libraries are facing with eBooks (especially Kindles) and how I was interested in seeing if there was any possibility of working with Amazon to try something new. He was receptive but thought I would be better served by talking with someone in the Kindle group. He promised to forward my information and idea to someone in that division. I hung up the phone and thought that I'd be lucky to get an email from them saying "Thanks, but we're busy and don't have time for you." I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email from someone in the Kindle division wanting to schedule a time to talk to me. Wow!
Tuesday September 14th I spoke with a representative from the Kindle division. He was receptive to my idea but was pretty clear that they would not be pursuing it. It was clear to me that they are not in a position with the publishers/authors to negotiate a completely different kind of model of use. They are still working on the basic – customer purchases one copy of a book – model and have not really thought of a library type of lending model. I was assured that if they got to the point where they were interested in courting libraries he would let me know. During our conversation I mentioned that if Amazon decided to move into the library market they could dominate it in a few years. They have the largest eBook selection (over 700,000) and a pretty good eAudiobook selection. They have a good user experience and, if they could get the publishers on board, they would really make life difficult for Overdrive and NetLibrary. It was a good conversation and I didn't feel like I was completely blown off. However, I do feel that I missed an opportunity to explain my idea better. I'm just not that good of a salesman.
This is a market in its infancy. Publishers and distributors have only been working on this for a few years. Many people are interested in how this new market will develop and have a stake in the outcome. Publishers, authors and distributors all want (and deserve) to get paid to produce and distribute digital content. I just wish that libraries had a more influential role in the discussions. It's going to take someone with way more connections and clout than me to get libraries to the table.
eBook Idea
Imagine you were looking to buy an eBook in Amazon (or B&N or Borders whatever), found the book you were looking for and had two choices at checkout. You could: a) Buy the book or b) check the book out with your library card for a week or so. Which would you choose?
I recently read this post and the report produced by COSLA it mentions. It's very interesting stuff and it made me think about eBooks and Libraries. I've got an idea. I don't know how to implement it but I (at least) think it's interesting. So here goes…
- A Library (or consortium of some sort) pays a yearly fee to Amazon (or B&N etc. I'll just use Amazon for this example) that opens up their eBook library to the Library's members
- Library members have a choice of checking out books for a few weeks or purchasing them immediately
- The Library would pay a small per-checkout fee
- The books would return to Amazon after a few weeks – OR – could be purchased at any point during the loan period
- If a book is purchased during the loan period the Library would get a percentage of the sale
This is a very rough idea and I would love to discuss it with anyone to see if it something that could work.
I see some benefits:
- Large selection of current and older books without the need for the Library to choose which ones to buy
- The Library will be at the point of sale
- One search covers Amazon and the Library
- The book could be loaned within the device – no computers needed
- Everyone gets paid
- Amazon
- Publisher
- Author
- Library
Some drawbacks:
- That yearly fee could be hefty
- Price per checkout could be hefty
- Library collections may suffer as the bulk of their collection money is shifted from physical to digital
- The Library is really left with nothing to show for it's money (other than happy members)
This is just an idea. I've not come close to thinking this through completely. I'd love to see if it could work. What do you think?
Update 9/1 – I'm trying to contact someone at Amazon to see what can be done. It's worth a shot…
Update 9/8 – Just got off the phone with an Amazon rep in the Corporate Gift Card division and my idea will be transferred over to the Kindle group. I went with the CGC because it seemed like a good idea at the time. And they have this which looks like something that may be able to play a part in my idea.


text:
Droll Yankees® Adjustable Deck Clamp and Hanger
Item # WX2-163498
- Google+
This item is shipped directly from the factory. To see the expected shipping date, please add to your Shopping Cart. Sorry, no express shipping available. We are unable to ship factory direct items to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or APO or FPO addresses.
This item cannot ship to Canada.
This item cannot ship internationally.
- Details & Specs
Droll Yankees® Adjustable Deck Clamp and Hanger fits any size flat deck rail! SAVE BIG!
Hang your bird feeder with durable, long-lasting Droll Yankees® Hangers and save!
- 46" pole section is adjustable within 40"
- 16" Hanger arm designed especially for use with Droll Yankee feeders (may work with other brands)
- Patented locking hook keeps feeder secure
- 360° rotational positioning on the hanger arm
- Powder-coated steel construction.
- Reviews
<!--BVSEO|dz:Main_Site-en_US|sdk:v184.108.40.206-n|msg:Error: Request errored out - The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. -->
You May Also Like
Guide Gear® 9x12' Reversible Lodge Patio Mat, Khaki / Hunter GreenBuyer's Club $53.99 Non-Members $59.99
10-Pk. Wood Patio PaversBuyer's Club $53.99 Non-Members $59.99
CASTLECREEK® Big Game Fire PitBuyer's Club $80.99 Non-Members $89.99


text:
Your basket is empty
Scottish Bakers commissioned Improve to develop a profile of the Bakery industry in Scotland.
The report includes a detailed breakdown of the workforce, skills and business performance data, detailed export information, new forecasting data produced with the input from global information services company Experian and trend analysis data spanning a number of years. In addition, a supplementary report featuring the key technological applications and advancements in bakery was also produced.


text:
Internet Sales 877-272-9023
For assitance with your online shopping please call
Known for their traditional yet dramatic curves, sleigh beds are an exceptional choice for those looking to make the most of their bedroom decor. This upholstered sleigh bed takes its flair for the dramatic to the next level with the addition of a headboard and footboard upholstered in an elegant eggshell hue. Nail head trim on both pieces anchor the chic upholstery and add depth and a hint of masculinity to this otherwise romantic sleigh bed set. Sweeping lines and carved side panels are continued in the rest of the bedroom collection and are further enhanced by the soft Linen finish. Pair with the coordinating five drawer chest, wardrobe, triple dresser and drawer night stand for a classic, cohesive look. This bed is available in Queen, King, and California King sizes.
The Provenance California King-Size Upholstered Sleigh Bed with Nail Head Trim by A.R.T. Furniture Inc in the Baltimore, Towson, Pasadena, Bel Air, Westminster, Catonsville, Maryland area from Gardiners Furniture. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
A sunlit country chateau. A colorful farmers market on a lazy Sunday afternoon. A tranquil river winding its way past cobblestone streets. Inspired by provincial regions found throughout France and England, the Provenance collection captures the essence of these romantic lands and transports them to the comfort of your home. This inviting assortment of bedroom, dining and living room furnishings bears conventional touches that blend in with traditional decor, while at the same time maintaining a look and feel that is casual enough for everyday use. Exquisite design elements repeated throughout come together for a cohesive, well-designed look, and the warm Linen finish makes for a seamless transition when added to existing decor. Tapered legs with fluted detail, whimsical scalloped edges, wrought iron accents and nail head trim add depth and lend a custom feel to the entire collection. Usher the beauty and culture of Provincial France into your home and ensure a lasting impression for years to come with the Provenance collection.
The Provenance collection is a great option if you are looking for Traditional furniture in the Baltimore, Towson, Pasadena, Bel Air, Westminster, Catonsville, Maryland area.
View other items in the Provenance collection available from Gardiners Furniture in the Baltimore, Towson, Pasadena, Bel Air, Westminster, Catonsville, Maryland area.
This item has been tagged as:Bed, Bedroom Furniture, Twin Size Bed, Full Size Bed, Queen Size Bed, King Size Bed, California King Size Bed, Bookcase Bed, Book Case Bed, Canopy Bed, Bed with Canopy, Captain's Bed, Daybed, Headboard and Footboard Bed, Headboard, Footboard, Headboard & Footboard, Pier Bed, Poster Bed, Sleigh Bed, Upholstered Bed, Wall Unit Bed, Double Bed, Day Bed, Storage Bed, Home Furnishings, Furniture, Bed frame, Furnishing For Bedroom, Bedroom Furniture Set
Pricing Accuracy - At Gardiners Furniture we're committed to giving you the best pricing possible so please stop in or give us a call for the most current price, promotional offer or to get the compare at price. We are currently displaying online prices that we have already applied all discounts and promotions to, including our "We Pay the Sale Tax" offer. We are not able to offer you financing with the online price. In the event of a pricing error or discrepancy on our website, the store price will take precedence. Gardiners does not, in the normal course of business, sell merchandise at the Compare At price. Our Compare At price is used to provide a realistic guide for comparing furniture of similar style and quality based on major retailers' non-sale prices.
Information Accuracy - We have taken great care to provide you with information that is accurate and useful. Please notify us if you find an error and we will do our best to correct it. We ask that you contact us directly and visit our stores to confirm information about pricing, color, features, dimensions, availability, and special order lead times.
To start a new blank room plan, enter the desired room dimensions below and click Create Room.
To request a new password, enter your username or e-mail address and click submit. A new password will automatically be emailed to you.
If you are still having trouble logging on after receiving your new password, please email email@example.com,email@example.com


text:
We offer courses you won't be able to get in most other psychology programs.
Here's a sampling of courses you will be able to take at APU in our Counseling Psychology major.
PY 22100 Ecopsychology
Studying how humans and the larger environment interact with each other with an emphasis on the interplay of psychology and environment in Alaska.
PY 2600 Intimacy, Relationships, and Sexuality
Exploring the psychology of love, sex, and interpersonal relationships. Issues of current interest include sexual orientation and gender identification, the abortion debate, reproductive technologies, safe sex practices, and gender similarities and differences.
PY 31500 Psychology of Women for Mystery Lovers
Investigating women's experiences and issues through contemporary fiction by and about women.
PY 32800 Therapeutic Mindfulness
Exploring the value of mindfulness exercises as an adjunct to more mainstream therapies, culminating in a weekend mindfulness retreat at the Kellogg Campus.
PY 33500 Creativity, Madness, and Self Expression
Experiencing the triumph of the human spirit expressed through individuality and creativity is explored through experiential activities and case studies of some of the world's greatest "mad" scientists and "crazy" artists.
PY 35000 Psychotherapeutic Uses of the Wilderness
Critically evaluating ways in which humans and the non-human natural world interweave in order to improve mental health. Involves travel, such as to Utah working with troubled youth in the wilderness.


text:
Spring vegetable soup with basil pesto
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking timePrep: 10 mins Cook: 15 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 2
A former magazine cover star, this satisfying soup is special enough for entertaining and easy enough to size down
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 594
- protein
- 27g
- carbs
- 56g
- fat
- 31g
- saturates
- 6g
- fibre
- 16g
- sugar
- 19g
- salt
- 2.35g
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 leeks, washed and chopped
- 100g green beans, cut into lengths
- 1 large courgette, diced
- 1.2l hot vegetable stock
- 3 vine-ripe tomatoes, deseeded and chopped
- 400g can cannellini beans
- 1 nest vermicelli (about 35g)
For the pesto
- 25g pack basil
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 25g pistachios nuts
- 25g vegetarian parmesan -style cheese, (we used Twyneham Grange, available from Sainsbury's)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Buy Ingredients
Buy the ingredients for this recipe now via:
Want to know how this works? Read all about it here.
- Heat the oil, then fry the leek until softened. Add the green beans and courgette, then pour in the stock and season to taste. Cover and simmer for 5 mins.
- Meanwhile, make the pesto: put the basil, garlic, nuts, Parmesan, oil and ½ tsp salt in a food processor, then blitz until smooth.
- Stir the tomatoes, cannellini beans and vermicelli into the soup pan, then simmer for 5 mins more until the veg are just tender. The soup and pesto can now be chilled for up to a day.
- Reheat the soup, if necessary, then stir in half the pesto. Ladle into bowls and serve with the rest of the pesto spooned on top. Eat with chunks of crusty bread.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2007
Ads by Google
Comments, questions and tips
Sign in or create your My Good Food account to join the discussion.
Show comments


text: NSA Collected U.S. Email Records In Bulk For More Than Two Years Under Obama Share Tweet Pin-it Bookmark Comment AP Photo / Alan Brandt ByIgor BobicPublishedJune 27, 2013, 3:17 PM EDT 2074 views Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman | The Guardian The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian.The documents indicate that under the program, launched in 2001, a federal judge sitting on the secret surveillance panel called the Fisa court would approve a bulk collection order for internet metadata "every 90 days". A senior administration official confirmed the program, stating that it ended in 2011.The collection of these records began under the Bush administration's wide-ranging warrantless surveillance program, collectively known by the NSA codename Stellar Wind.According to a top-secret draft report by the NSA's inspector general - published for the first time today by the Guardian - the agency began "collection of bulk internet metadata" involving "communications with at least one communicant outside the United States or for which no communicant was known to be a citizen of the United States".Eventually, the NSA gained authority to "analyze communications metadata associated with United States persons and persons believed to be in the United States", according to a 2007 Justice Department memo, which is marked secret.The Guardian revealed earlier this month that the NSA was collecting the call records of millions of US Verizon customers under a Fisa court order that, it later emerged, is renewed every 90 days. Similar orders are in place for other phone carriers.The internet metadata of the sort NSA collected for at least a decade details the accounts to which Americans sent emails and from which they received emails. It also details the internet protocol addresses (IP) used by people inside the United States when sending emails - information which can reflect their physical location. It did not include the content of emails."The internet metadata collection program authorized by the Fisa court was discontinued in 2011 for operational and resource reasons and has not been restarted," Shawn Turner, the Obama administration's director of communications for National Intelligence, said in a statement to the Guardian."The program was discontinued by the executive branch as the result of an interagency review," Turner continued. He would not elaborate further.But while that specific program has ended, additional secret NSA documents seen by the Guardian show that some collection of Americans' online records continues today. In December 2012, for example, the NSA launched one new program allowing it to analyze communications with one end inside the US, leading to a doubling of the amount of data passing through its filters.What your email metadata revealsThe Obama administration argues that its internal checks on NSA surveillance programs, as well as review by the Fisa court, protect Americans' privacy. Deputy attorney general James Cole defended the bulk collection of Americans' phone records as outside the scope of the fourth amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures."Toll records, phone records like this, that don't include any content, are not covered by the fourth amendment because people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in who they called and when they called," Cole testified to the House intelligence committee on June 18. "That's something you show to the phone company. That's something you show to many, many people within the phone company on a regular basis."But email metadata is different. Customers' data bills do not itemize online activity by detailing the addresses a customer emailed or the IP addresses from which customer devices accessed the internet.Internal government documents describe how revealing these email records are. One 2008 document, signed by the US defense secretary and attorney general, states that the collection and subsequent analysis included "the information appearing on the 'to,' 'from' or 'bcc' lines of a standard email or other electronic communication" from Americans.In reality, it is hard to distinguish email metadata from email content. Distinctions that might make sense for telephone conversations and data about those conversations do not always hold for online communications."The calls you make can reveal a lot, but now that so much of our lives are mediated by the internet, your IP [internet protocol] logs are really a real-time map of your brain: what are you reading about, what are you curious about, what personal ad are you responding to (with a dedicated email linked to that specific ad), what online discussions are you participating in, and how often?" said Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute."Seeing your IP logs - and especially feeding them through sophisticated analytic tools - is a way of getting inside your head that's in many ways on par with reading your diary," Sanchez added.The purpose of this internet metadata collection program is detailed in the full classified March 2009 draft report prepared by the NSA's inspector general (IG).One function of this internet record collection is what is commonly referred to as "data mining", and which the NSA calls "contact chaining". The agency "analyzed networks with two degrees of separation (two hops) from the target", the report says. In other words, the NSA studied the online records of people who communicated with people who communicated with targeted individuals.Contact chaining was considered off-limits inside the NSA before 9/11. In the 1990s, according to the draft IG report, the idea was nixed when the Justice Department "told NSA that the proposal fell within one of the Fisa definitions of electronic surveillance and, therefore, was not permissible when applied to metadata associated with presumed US persons".How the US government came to collect Americans' email recordsThe collection of email metadata on Americans began in late 2001, under a top-secret NSA program started shortly after 9/11, according to the documents. Known as Stellar Wind, the program initially did not rely on the authority of any court - and initially restricted the NSA from analyzing records of emails between communicants wholly inside the US."NSA was authorized to acquire telephony and internet metadata for communications with at least one communicant outside the United States or for which no communicant was known to be a citizen of the United States," the draft report states.George W Bush briefly "discontinued" that bulk internet metadata collection, involving Americans, after a dramatic rebellion in March 2004 by senior figures at the Justice Department and FBI, as the Washington Post first reported. One of the leaders of that rebellion was deputy attorney general James Comey, whom Barack Obama nominated last week to run the FBI.But Comey's act of defiance did not end the IP metadata collection, the documents reveal. It simply brought it under a newly created legal framework.As soon as the NSA lost the blessing under the president's directive for collecting bulk internet metadata, the NSA IG report reads, "DoJ [the Department of Justice] and NSA immediately began efforts to recreate this authority."The DoJ quickly convinced the Fisa court to authorize ongoing bulk collection of email metadata records. On 14 July 2004, barely two months after Bush stopped the collection, Fisa court chief judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly legally blessed it under a new order - the first time the surveillance court exercised its authority over a two-and-a-half-year-old surveillance program.Kollar-Kotelly's order "essentially gave NSA the same authority to collect bulk internet metadata that it had under the PSP [Bush's program], except that it specified the datalinks from which NSA could collect, and it limited the number of people that could access the data".How NSA gained more power to study Americans' online habitsThe Bush email metadata program had restrictions on the scope of the bulk email records the NSA could analyze. Those restrictions are detailed in a legal memorandum written in a 27 November 2007, by assistant attorney general Kenneth Weinstein to his new boss, attorney general Michael Mukasey, who had taken office just a few weeks earlier.The purpose of that memorandum was to advise Mukasey of the Pentagon's view that these restrictions were excessive, and to obtain permission for the NSA to expand its "contact chains" deeper into Americans' email records. The agency, the memo noted, already had "in its databases a large amount of communications metadata associated with persons in the United States".But, Wainstein continued, "NSA's present practice is to 'stop' when a chain hits a telephone number or [internet] address believed to be used by a United States person."Wainstein told Mukasey that giving NSA broader leeway to study Americans' online habits would give the surveillance agency, ironically, greater visibility into the online habits of foreigners - NSA's original mandate."NSA believes that it is over-identifying numbers and addresses that belong to United States persons and that modifying its practice to chain through all telephone numbers and addresses, including those reasonably believed to be used by a United States person," Weinstein wrote, "will yield valuable foreign intelligence information primarily concerning non-United States persons outside the United States."The procedures "would clarify that the National Security Agency (NSA) may analyze communications metadata associated with United States persons and persons believed to be in the United States", Wainstein wrote.In October 2007, Robert Gates, the secretary of defense, signed a set of "Supplemental Procedures" on internet metadata, including what it could do with Americans' data linked in its contact chains. Mukasey affixed his signature to the document in January 2008."NSA will continue to disseminate the results of its contact chaining and other analysis of communications metadata in accordance with current procedures governing the dissemination of information concerning US persons," the document states, without detailing the "current procedures".It was this program that continued for more than two years into the Obama administration.Turner, the director of national intelligence spokesman, did not respond to the Guardian's request for additional details of the metadata program or the reasons why it was stopped. A senior administration official queried by the Washington Post denied that the Obama administration was "using this program" to "collect internet metadata in bulk", but added: "I'm not going to say we're not collecting any internet metadata."guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds The Guardian is an independent, global news organisation that invests in original journalism and in-depth analysis. For more from the Guardian, visit http://www.guardiannews.com. © 2011 Guardian News And Media Limited. TPMLivewire Report: New Congress Dumping CBO Chief To Clear Way For Special GOP Budget Math December 22, 2014, 5:45 PM EST The incoming leaders of the new Republican-controlled Congress have opted against reappointing Doug Elmendorf as head of the Congressional Budget… Read More → Hannity Flies Into All-Caps Rage After Being Named 'Worst Of Fox News' December 22, 2014, 5:01 PM EST Television host Sean Hannity took to Twitter with a liberal use of caps lock on Monday to blast the news… Read More → Texas Cop In Uniform Allegedly Forced Woman To Perform Sex Act December 22, 2014, 4:17 PM EST A veteran Dallas police officer allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, forcing her to perform sex acts while he was driving… Read More → Baltimore Fox Affiliate Edits Protest Footage To Sound Like 'Kill A Cop' December 22, 2014, 3:34 PM EST A Fox affiliate in Baltimore aired a segment on Sunday showing footage from a "Justice For All" demonstration in Washington,… Read More → NYC Mayor Calls For Halt To Protests Until After Officer Funerals December 22, 2014, 3:10 PM EST New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers on Monday to "step back" and "put aside" protests and… Read More →


text:
The event is free.
Members of the ensemble will play pieces that feature the marimba in a variety of settings, both as a solo instrument and in ensemble situations. The concert is guaranteed to be completed in less than an hour.
Reynolds Recital Hall is in Howard Hall, which is located across the street from the MSU Duck Pond.
Stephen Versaevel (406) 994-5757, firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Madonna Concerts 2015
Madonna Past Tour Dates
Madonna Tour Dates
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American actress, author, director, entrepreneur, philanthropist and singer-songwriter. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance and performed in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy. In 1982, Madonna signed to Sire Records and released her self-titled debut album the following year. She has since released a series of successful albums, including the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light and Confessions on a Dance Floor. Many of her songs peaked atop record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Into the Groove", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes". Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Critics have praised her diverse musical productions which have also been known to induce controversy.


text:
Dream Forever Gel Candle
Dream Forever Glass Gel Candle
Choose Your Gel Color!
Our Dream Forever Gel Candle makes a stunning personalized favor or a fabulous centerpiece. The custom candle is 3 3/4 inches high and holds of your choice of gel color. (Shown with clear gel). Choose your own imprint to appear on this personalized candle.
Price shown is the base price only. Candling and other options are an additional cost.
Detailed shipping information
Reviewed by 2 customers
Sort by
- Attractive Design
- Colorful
- Durable
- Easy To Use
- Fun
- Pretty In Pink
- Print Is A Little Small
Best Uses
- Celebration
- Teens
- Themed Parties
I'm impressed.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
- Attractive Design
- Colorful
- Durable
- Easy To Use
- Fun
- Good Value
Best Uses
I was hesitant about the size of the writing and graphic. They are a bit smaller than I would prefer but still very nice. These were giveaways for my Dad's 60th and everyone loved them!
- Was this a gift?:
- Yes
Do you have questions about this product?(earn points for answers!)
get answers from real customers and in-house experts with AnswerBox.
Q:Does this gel have a fragrance?Asked on 3/18/2011 by Anonymous
1 answer
A:No, I'm sorry but our gel does not come fragranced.Answered on 3/21/2011 by csr


text:
STARmeterTop 500
Down 162 this week
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder was born and raised in the small southern town of Covington, Louisiana. His mother, Edna (née Israel), is a massage therapist, and his father, Robert Somerhalder, is a building contractor. His family has deep roots in the American South. Boating, swimming, fishing and training horses filled much of his recreational time growing up,... See full bio »
More at IMDbPro » Contact Info: View agent, manager, publicist and legal


text:
iOS 6
iOS 6 is the sixth major update for Apple's iOS mobile operating system that powers portable Apple devices like the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Apple iOS 6 debuted in September 2012 in conjunction with the release of the iPhone 5.
Apple iOS6 features a completely redesigned Maps app with turn-by-turn navigation, a new Passbook location-aware digital wallet app for storing information (such as tickets, gift cards, boarding passes, etc.), the ability to use FaceTime on cellular connections (as well as Wi-Fi connections), greatly improved Facebook integration, enhanced iCloud integration, more sophisticated Siri capabilities, AirPlay for wireless streaming of content to an HDTV via Apple TV, Do Not Disturb call management tools and more.
Tape clearly is on the decline. But remember, legacy systems can hang for a shockingly long time. Read More »Apple Pay Promises to Strengthen Payment Security
Experts believe that Apple Pay and other competitive payment systems will be far more secure than cards, even cards equipped with EMV chips. Read More »Internet of Things Shaping IT's Future
To make the IoT both work and pay off, IT is juggling upgrading and building app-centric networks, mapping out new data center architectures and... Read More »
The trend for the past two years has been for shoppers to spend more online during the holiday season. How do you typically shop for holiday... Read More »How to Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Website
This Webopedia guide will show you how to create a desktop shortcut to a website using Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer (IE). Read More »Flash Data Storage Vendor Trends
Although it is almost impossible to keep up with the pace of ongoing product releases, here are three recent highlights in the flash data storage... Read More »
Stay up to date on the latest developments in Internet terminology with a free weekly newsletter from Webopedia. Join to subscribe now.
We Recommend
Datamation Hangouts with Tech ExpertsWatch Datamation's editor James Maguire moderate roundtable discussions with tech experts from companies such as Accenture, Dell, Blue Jeans Network, Microsoft and more »


text:
Items where Author is Findlay, Jeanette
Group by: Date | Item Type | Creators | No Grouping
Jump to: More, A
Number of items: 1.
More, A
More, Alison and Findlay, Jeanette and Gibb, Kenneth and Kasparova, Diana and Mills, Carl (2003) Determined differences: rent structures in Scottish social housing. Scottish Executive, Social Research, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 0755935209


text:
Q: My visitor application was denied, what can I do?
A: An application may be denied because the applicant:
- Failed to provide all required information or documents.
- Had an outstanding "want" or warrant.
- Provided false information.
- Has been convicted of a felony.
- Is a former resident of the Special Commitment Center (SCC).
- Is a current or former employee of the SCC.
- Has a restraining order which, if the visitor were approved, might cause violation of the order.
- Is a minor and not an immediate family member, adopted child or ward of the resident.
- Is listed as a visitor for another resident.
- Has a communicable disease or other health risk.
- Has been determined to be a risk to the resident's effective treatment.
- Was a victim of the resident.
- Other reasons which represent a risk to the SCC, its residents and staff.
You may appeal a denial by:
- Providing complete, correct information.
- Requesting a waiver. The request should be addressed to the Superintendent, Special Commitment Center. Exceptions may only be granted by the Superintendent or designee. Waivers to allow a person to switch from visiting one resident to another are not routinely approved.
Q: I want to give some money to the resident I visit, what can I do?
A: Residents may not have money in their possession.
- Each resident has a personal account. You may give money to the resident for his or her personal use by sending a money order or check (personal, cashier's, or travel check) through the U.S. mail to:
Business Office
Special Commitment Center
PO Box 88450
Steilacoom, WA 98399


text:
List of 17 rules for success from Alfredo J. Molina, the Newport Beach jeweler who set an auction record last month by selling the Archduke Joseph diamond for $21.5 million.
Comments are encouraged, but you must follow our User Agreement
Keep it civil and stay on topic. No profanity, vulgarity, racial slurs or personal attacks. People who harass others or joke about tragedies will be blocked. By posting your comment, you agree to allow Orange County Register Communications, Inc. the right to republish your name and comment in additional Register publications without any notification or payment.


text:
Our Featured Kenyon, MN Partner:
One Of A Kind Pet Rescue
Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life! Contact us, or contact another local humane society, animal shelter or SPCA.
Kenyon, MN 55946
Pets at Our Rescue Group:
Cities, Towns, and/or Counties We Serve:Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Western Wisconsin
About Our Rescue Group:Hello!
We were founded in 2012. We are a foster-based , No-Kill, non-profit rescue. We are centrally located between Minneapolis, MN, and Rochester, MN.
It is our goal to save pets and companion animals that are in danger of being killed in animal control facilities and impounds. All of our animals are fully vetted, spayed/neutered, and micro-chipped before being placed into their forever homes.
We are always in need of foster homes so that we can save more pets from being killed!
If you are unable to adopt or foster, and you see an animal on our site you can always sponsor them financially.
Donate to Our Rescue Group...Credit and debit cards are accepted via a donate button on the website. Cash, check, money orders, please email for more information.
Come Meet our Pets:We are foster-based and animals can be seen by appointment only, as we do not have a physical location. We will post when we have upcoming adoption events.
Our Adoption Process:Adoption fees are based on the individual animal, and are stated in the description. If you would like to meet one of our available pets, please apply at www.ooakpr.org
If the pet has a "pending adoption" we are NO LONGER accepting/processing applications for that pet.
Please do not email about an animal unless you have first filled out an application on our site.


text:
The Lions faithful were far rowdier than the crowd for Super Bowl XL when Steelers fans took over the building, grossly outnumbering Seahawks supporters. That will happen when a team is playing on "Monday Night Football" for the first time since 2001. Simply put, it was the biggest game the franchise has had in the dome that opened in 2002.
The Bears had serious initial problems with crowd noise that led to nine false-start penalties (eight by the offense) and made it nearly impossible to hear. It didn't improve in the second half. Much will be made about the line, which had its fourth starting combination in five games. The unit, missing rookie right tackle Gabe Carimi, must improve. But the undoing of the Bears since a season-opening victory over the Falcons has been on defense. Big plays continue to sink them, and the Lions found the right combination getting a 73-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Calvin Johnson and later running back Jahvid Best went untouched 88 yards for a score that put the Lions up 21-10 in the third quarter.
"We're playing like (crap), that's what's going on," middle linebacker Brian Urlacher said. "We're not disciplined, we're not running to our gaps, we're not physical. I don't know what is going on with the big plays this year. That's just not us."
Asked to describe the touchdown run by Best, who had 163 yards on 12 carries, Urlacher's frustration was evident.
"The quarterback took the snap and he handed it off to the guy and he ran 88 yards without getting touched," he said. "That's what I saw. Did you see the same thing? I don't know why it happened."
Lovie Smith's defense, which is designed to rush the passer with the front four and prevent the big play, has allowed three touchdowns of more than 70 yards this season. Again, the pass rush was suspect and it didn't help that defensive end Julius Peppers had to leave in the first quarter to have his left knee worked on. He returned but was clearly hampered.
The Bears' success has been built on playing tight defense, running the football and winning on special teams, a phase the Lions negated. They hoped the 543 yards allowed the week before to the Panthers was an aberration, but chinks in the armor remained and the safeties hold responsibility for being out of position on all three Lions scores, including Brandon Pettigrew's 18-yard reception. Interestingly, general manager Jerry Angelo said before the game that the key to success in the NFL has shifted.
"That old adage doesn't apply anymore," he said. "Defense keeps you in games, offenses have to win games for you and you've got to help the defense."
Why the Bears haven't done more to outfit the offense is a good question. Forte rushed for 116 yards on 22 carries, but Jay Cutler and his cast of targets couldn't match firepower, especially after the Bears fell behind. Cutler was sacked three times and completed 28 of 38 passes for 248 yards with a 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Davis that staked the team to a 10-7 halftime lead.
The Bears were OK protecting Cutler until the Lions' lead reached double digits. Then, it was a predictable nightmare, and in the fourth quarter right tackle Frank Omiyale was benched again with right guard Lance Louis taking his spot and Edwin Williams playing right guard.
The Lions jumped ahead 7-0 at the start of the second quarter when cornerback Charles Tillman failed to get a jam on Johnson, who ran past Chris Harris for a 73-yard score.
But the Bears responded with a strong drive and on fourth-and-1 Smith elected to have Robbie Gould kick a 44-yard field goal. Cutler directed an 88-yard drive on the next possession. A 49-yard field goal by Gould with 4:07 remaining brought the Bears within 21-13.
Twitter @BradBiggs
Fan Shop: Get your Bears hats, jerseys and more


text: Five Horse Johnson & Dixie Witch Recording News... - Small Stone Recordings Small Stone Recordings Bands Tours Press Online Store News Releases Contact Myspace Tune Sampler Space EchoBlue Amp Five Horse Johnson & Dixie Witch Recording News... Saturday, February 12, 2005 We just got the call from Mr. Oblander a few minutes ago. FHJ will be heading into the studio to record their follow up to 'The Last Men On Earth' with Mr. Jean-Paul Gaster of Clutch fame on the cans next month. The band is very jacked about their new material, and so are we. If this one stays on schedule, we will be bringing it to the masses by this coming Summers' end. \r\n\r\nAs for Dixie Witch, Austin's favorite sons will be touring their way to NYC in late May. After a pit stop @ the Emissions Festival, the band will be making a 'B-line' for Brooklyn to record with the one and only Joel Hamilton during the first week of June. We hope to have this one ready to go by early Fall, and as always, the band plans on hitting the road rather hard to support their yet to be titled new release. << Return to News Archives Latest Releases... Up and Coming... Abrahma Reflections in the Bowels of a Bird 2015 Freedom Hawk TBD 2015 Gozu TBD 2015 House Of Broken Promises TBD 2014 La Chinga TBD 2014 Lord Fowl TBD 2015 Neon Warship TBD 2014 Roadsaw TBD 2014 Snail Feral 2014 Supermachine TBD 2015 Throttlerod TBD 2014 Copyright© Small Stone Recordings