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Rick Bennett, Director of Content Development for Accordance Bible Software, demonstrates the unique features of the recently released NIV 2011 with Enhanced Goodrick-Kohlenberger Key Numbers & Phrase Tagging.
This video can be best viewed full-screen.
This version adds the Goodrick-Kohlenberger Key numbers to the 2011 edition of the NIV as well as enhanced phrase tagging. This offers users the ability to amplify to Hebrew and Greek dictionaries and perform searches based on the G/K numbers.
The best-selling New International Version seeks to recreate as far as possible the experience of the original audience—blending transparency to the original text with accessibility for the millions of English speakers around the world. This 2011 revision represents the latest effort of the Committee on Bible Translation to articulate God's unchanging Word in the way the original authors might have said it had they been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today.
The new footnotes include much more extensive cross-references.
Owners of the previous 1984 edition of the NIV in Accordance can use it in parallel with the NIV11 in order to compare the translations.
We at Accordance believe that our software is so much more than just a tool to study the Bible. It's a means of community and creativity. We've created Workspace Wednesday because we want to give you a chance to show us your creative workflow in Accordance.
Watch the video to find out how you can participate:
Join us on social media to post your workspace:
Mac users: the keyboard shortcut ⌘Cmd+Shift+3 will take a screenshot of your screen and place the image file on your desktop. If done correctly, you should hear the sound of a camera taking a snapshot.
Windows users: the keyboard shortcut ⌘Win+PrntScrn will take a screenshot of your screen and automatically save it in the Screenshots folder within your pictures folder.
For more information on how to take screenshots with earlier versions of Windows, follow this link.
May the best workspace win!
In preparing for a Sunday School class, I was reading the account in Genesis 3 of God's interrogation and sentencing of Adam, Eve, and the serpent. I've read this passage many times before and am pretty familiar with it, but the English translation I was reading helped me notice something new. After Adam lays the blame for his sin on Eve ("the woman") and even on God ("You gave to be with me"), Eve likewise blames her sin on the serpent. However, most translations render Eve's confession as a simple statement of fact: "The serpent deceived me and I ate." Thus, while Adam comes across like a cornered child defensively casting about for a scapegoat, Eve seems more calm and up front about her sin. That is, until you read the HCSB's rendering: "It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate." It's not a huge difference, but by splitting Eve's statement into two sentences, the first of which simply points the finger at the serpent, the HCSB makes Eve's response sound closer in tone to that of Adam.
Because I was so used to the typical rendering of this verse, the HCSB's rendering caught me by surprise and led me to ask, "Is that really what the Hebrew says?"
By the way, this is why it is always helpful to use a variety of translations when studying a familiar passage. When a translation departs from what you're used to, it can expose you to nuances in the text you may have missed before. At the very least, it may prompt you to dig deeper.
For me, digging deeper meant opening the Hebrew text in a parallel pane and examining Eve's response. Cross-highlighting between my English Bible with Strong's Numbers and the tagged Hebrew made identifying the corresponding Hebrew words incredibly easy.
The Hebrew simply has the noun "the serpent" followed by the verb "deceived" with the direct object "me", which would seem to justify the typical translation of "The serpent deceived me." How then, I wondered, could the HCSB justify rendering this simple sentence as two sentences? Were the translators taking liberties with the text?
Then I remembered that in Hebrew, the subject typically follows the verb. In cases like this, where the subject comes before the verb, the subject is generally being emphasized in some way. So the HCSB is not taking liberties with the text, but is bringing out a subtle nuance of the Hebrew which typically gets lost in translation: Eve's emphatic pointing to the serpent as the one to blame.
Now, that naturally got me wondering where else the subject appears before the verb in the Hebrew Bible. In my next post, I'll show you how to use the Construct window to find other occurrences of that construction.
In a previous post, I introduced you to the MT-LXX Parallel, a specialized Reference tool which offers a word-by-word comparison of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint. In that post, I showed how to use the MERGE command to piggyback off a search of the tagged Hebrew Bible and tagged Greek Septuagint. This allowed us to search the Hebrew Bible for every occurrence of the lexical form tselem ("image")—no matter what its inflected form—and to see those results displayed in the MT-LXX parallel. We then searched the tagged Septuagint for every occurrence of the Greek lexical form eikon, and used the MERGE command with the MT-LXX parallel to find every place the LXX translates the Hebrew word tselem by some form of the word eikon. The result of that search looked like this:
Now, to explore each of these results in context, I can click the Mark arrows at the bottom of the MT-LXX to jump from one hit to the next. But wouldn't it be quicker if we could just scan the relevant lines of the MT-LXX without having to wade past all the other words? Of course it would! Fortunately, this can easily be done by going to the Gear menu at the top left of the pane containing the MT-LXX and choosing Add Titles from the Show Text As… submenu.
The result looks like this:
Now, to understand what just happened, let's review what the Show Text As… submenu does. When you do a search in a Tool module, Accordance defaults to showing your search results in the context of the entire tool. This is the All Text setting in the Show Text As… submenu. You can, however, choose to show only those Articles or Paragraphs which contain a hit. In the MT-LXX, each verse is an article and each line is a paragraph, so choosing Articles would show each hit verse in its entirety, while choosing Paragraphs would show only the lines containing each hit word. Because showing only the hit paragraphs in a tool is often too concise, you also have the option to Add Titles. This shows the hit paragraphs as well as the titles of the articles in which they appear. In the MT-LXX, choosing Add Titles shows the hit paragraphs together with the verse references.
This more concise view makes it easy to see that there are a couple cases where tselem in the Hebrew column does not have a corresponding eikon in the Septuagint column (or vice versa). In Genesis 1:27, the first instance of tselem is left untranslated, and in Daniel 2:31, eikon is part of a phrase used to translate an entirely different Hebrew word. Why those two "false" hits?
The reason we got those two cases where both words are not found on the same line is that Accordance defaults to looking for words within the same article rather than the same paragraph. For example, if you were to search the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary for Moses <AND> Aaron, you might find a long article where Moses is in the first paragraph and Aaron is in the fifth paragraph. In a tool like MT-LXX where each verse is an article and each line is a paragraph, Accordance's default behavior will find any verse that has tselem in the Hebrew and eikon in the Greek, even if they are on different lines and so do not exactly correspond.
To make this search more accurate, we can refine it by specifying that all words must be found within the same paragraph rather than the same article. To do that, click on the magnifying glass on the left side of the search field. At the bottom of the menu that appears, choose Paragraph.
Then hit Enter to re-run the search.
Here you can see that the false hits have been removed, and we now have only 49 hits rather than 52.
In this post, we've gone a little further in our use of the MT-LXX Parallel to see how you can tweak the display of the search results and how you can specify that the Hebrew and Greek words must appear on the same line. In my next post of this series, we'll go even further.
When you display the Hebrew Bible and Greek Septuagint in parallel panes of a Search tab, the parallel verses are displayed side-by-side, but it is not immediately apparent which Hebrew word a particular Greek word is translating. For example, in Genesis 1:1, the Greek word ouranon corresponds to the Hebrew word Shamaim. I can see that by dragging my cursor over each word in the Hebrew and Greek to find out which words mean "heaven," but other than that, there is no easy way to see the relationships between these two texts.
That's where a specialized Reference Tool called the MT-LXX Parallel comes in. This tool, developed by renowned Hebrew and Septuagint scholars, places each word or phrase of the Masoretic Hebrew text in parallel with the corresponding Greek words from the Septuagint.
One obvious use of the MT-LXX Parallel is to place it in parallel with the text of the Hebrew Bible and Greek Septuagint. As a reference tool, the MT-LXX Parallel will automatically scroll along with the biblical text, enabling you to see word-by-word connections for each verse.
For example, if we scroll to Genesis 1:26, we can see that the Hebrew word for "image" (tselem) is translated by the Greek eikon (from which we get the word "icon").
To search the MT-LXX Parallel, we need to view it in a separate Tool tab. As with other Tools, the MT-LXX Parallel is divided into different fields of content. To search for all occurrences of the Hebrew word tselem, our natural impulse would be to set the search field to Hebrew and enter that lexical form.
Since the Hebrew text of the MT-LXX is not grammatically tagged, our search only finds the 27 instances when tselem appears in that exact form. When we search for tselem in a tagged Hebrew Bible, we get 34 hits because every inflection of tselem is found.
Fortunately, we can overcome this limitation of the MT-LXX Parallel by piggy-backing on the tagging of the Hebrew Bible. We do this through the use of an advanced search command called the MERGE command. By merging the MT-LXX Parallel with the tab containing the BHS-W4, the results of my lexical search of the Hebrew Bible are reflected in the MT/LXX. Notice that now the MT/LXX displays 36 occurrences of tselem. (The extra two occurrences are notes or reconstructions in the MT-LXX database.)
Using the MERGE command in this way makes for some very powerful searches. For example, suppose I want to find every place where the LXX translates the Hebrew word tselem by some form of the word eikon. To do this, I'll open a new Search tab containing the Septuagint, and I'll do a search for eikon. This search finds 40 hits.
To see which of these occurrences of eikon correspond to the Hebrew word tselem, I'll go back to my MT-LXX Parallel, add an AND command, and then add a second MERGE command. This time, I'll Merge with the tab containing the LXX.
This search turns up 52 hits, and I can see that both the Hebrew word tselem and the Greek word eikon are highlighted. Divide the number of hits by two, and we end up with around 26 places where tselem is translated as eikon.
I hope you can see from this brief example how powerful the MT-LXX Parallel database is. In my next post, I'll examine these results in more detail and offer a few more tips for using this powerful resource.
Not long ago I stumbled across a post on a Bible software forum that taught me a new word: "pangram." I had to Google it to find out that a pangram is a sentence that includes every letter of the alphabet. A classic example is that odd sentence used to display all the characters of a typeface: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The forum post I read cited Deuteronomy 4:34 and Zephaniah 3:8 as examples of pangrams in the Hebrew Bible, then asked how to find a pangram in the Greek New Testament or Septuagint.
Now, I have no idea why the person who wrote the post wanted to find such sentences in Greek, but I could certainly see it being useful in an introductory Greek course. As students are trying to learn the Greek alphabet, the instructor could assign a few sentences to read which would force them to deal with every letter.
Of course, regardless of whether such a search has any practical value, it is an interesting challenge, and it got me wondering how such a search could be constructed using Accordance. Here's what I came up with:
By using the asterisk wildcard on either side of each letter of the alphabet, I told Accordance to look for any word containing each letter. By joining those together with the AND command, I told Accordance it must find a verse containing at least one word with each letter of the Greek alphabet. Note also that I've enclosed each search term in quotation marks to make sure I am searching inflected forms (the words as they appear in the text) rather than lexical forms (the dictionary form of each word).
This search finds two verses in the New Testament which contain all 24 letters of the Greek alphabet: Matthew 5:30 and Revelation 2:10. However, Revelation 2:10 does not contain a true pangram, since the entire alphabet is contained in two sentences rather than just one. To make sure we find all the places where a single sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet, we simply need to click the plus icon to the right of the search field, then set the first pop-up to Scope and the second pop-up to Sentence.
When you hit return to run the search, Revelation 2:10 is eliminated, while a number of long sentences spanning more than one verse are added.
By the way, when I ran a similar search on the Hebrew Bible, Accordance found 17 verses, including Deuteronomy 4:34. However, it did not find Zephaniah 3:8, the second example given in the original post. The reason is that Zephaniah 3:8 has all the letters except sin. Since it does contain the letter shin, whether or not you consider Zephaniah 3:8 as a pangram depends on whether you treat sin and shin as one letter or two.
So there you have it. If you ever need to find sentences with every letter of the alphabet (and who doesn't?), Accordance can do it easily and accurately.
I remember diligently studying Greek paradigms one day in seminary when I asked my professor, "Is this how we're going to be studying Greek after we graduate?" He just laughed and said, "Nah, you'll be using Bible software."
How true.
In reflecting on his words, I've also noticed an interesting trend now that I've been out of seminary for a few years. Many of my friends and colleagues who bought Bible software in seminary are still using it to access the original languages today as pastors and ministry leaders. Granted, they may not be masterful scholars, but they are engaging the original languages on some level. In contrast, most of my friends who forwent Bible software in seminary haven't touched their hardbound Nestle-Aland 27 or BHS since graduating. I'm not saying this is a hard and fast rule, but I've noticed the trend among my own peers.
This begs the question...why do the Greek and Hebrew retention rates seem to be higher among those who use Bible software? There may be several factors, but I have a strong suspicion that most of it boils down to convenience. There is a direct correlation between motivation and convenience, so while highly motivated individuals will tolerate inconvenience, less motivated individuals will require greater convenience to accomplish the same task. This brings us to the crux of the problem: while it's not something we want to admit to our Greek professors, most of us experience a decline in motivation to study the original languages once we graduate. That's not to say we have zero motivation, but it does mean that most of us need something more convenient than reviewing paradigm charts, otherwise we won't bother.
I suspect this is why my friends who use Bible software continue to stay in the original languages. Programs like Accordance make studying the original languages convenient, and sometimes all but automatic. For example, it only takes a few seconds to add a parallel Greek or Hebrew text to any Accordance workspace. Even if you ignore the Greek and Hebrew panes 99% of the time, you can always leave them up, just in case. When the scholarly urge does strike, you can get a definition, parsing information, and cross-highlighting just by hovering over a Greek or Hebrew word.
Of course, there are plenty of advanced features in Accordance that take more time to learn and master, but if your primary goal is to stay connected to the original languages, it really doesn't take much. It's actually kind of ridiculous how convenient this all is when you consider what similar endeavors required just a few decades ago.
I'm curious to know what you think. Have you noticed the same trend among your friends and colleagues who did/didn't invest in Bible software? Has Accordance helped you stay connected to Greek and Hebrew after graduating seminary or Bible college? Post your thoughts in the comments.
In yesterday's post, I offered you Greek students a method for garnering extra credit from your professors: Approach them on Friday and ask for extra credit if you spend the weekend finding all the hapax legomena in the Greek New Testament. Then do a simple search in Accordance, open an Analysis tab, and print! (Be sure to look tired and disheveled when you turn it in on Monday.)
Now, you Hebrew students could use extra credit too, so far be it from me to leave you out. Here's a search that is sure to impress your first semester Hebrew prof. In Hebrew, there's a class of verbs known as geminates. These are verbs in which the second and third letters of the lexical form are the same. Perhaps the most famous example would be הלל, "to praise." Why not ask your professor if you can spend the weekend putting together a list of every geminate verb in the Hebrew Bible? It sounds appropriately difficult—like the kind of thing only the most ambitious Hebrew student would attempt.
Now, to define this search, start by entering three question marks in the search entry box. The question mark, like the asterisk, is a wildcard symbol which can stand for any letter or number. Yet where the asterisk can represent any number of characters, the question mark can only represent a single character. For example, if I do an English search for love*, Accordance will find any word that begins with "love," no matter how many other letters it has: words like "loves," "loved," "lover," "lovers," "lovely," etc. If, on the other hand, I search for love?, Accordance will find only words that have a single letter after "love", such as "loves" and "lover." See the difference?
Because each question mark stands for a single character, whatever that character happens to be, entering three question marks into the search field means you want to find only three-letter words.
Now we need to specify that the third letter must be the same as the second letter. To do that, place parentheses after the third question mark. (Be sure to enter the right parenthesis followed by the left, since everything is reversed in Hebrew). Inside the parentheses, place an equals sign followed by the number 2. Your search argument should now look like this: (2=)???.
Placing parentheses after a question mark lets you specify which characters that question mark can be. For example, b?(ae)t will find "bat" and "bet," but not "bit" or "but," since we have specified that the question mark can only be an "a" or an "e." Returning to our Hebrew search, placing (2=) after the third question mark means that it can be any character, so long as it is the same character as that found by the second question mark. In other words, the second and third letters can be any letter, but they must be the same.
Now all we need to do is specify that the word we're searching for must be a verb. To do that, make sure the cursor is blinking to the right of the search argument, then choose Verb… from the Enter Command submenu of the Search menu. A dialog will appear enabling you to select specific grammatical details, but since we want to find any verbs, just click OK to dismiss the dialog. Accordance will then add the Verb tag to your search argument, and all you need to do is hit Return to perform the search.
As sophisticated as this search is, your results should be instantaneous. Now just choose Analysis from the Stats and Graphs icon to get an alphabetical list of all the geminate verbs in the Hebrew Bible, and print it out!
Just be warned: while this search may help you garner some extra credit, it may also raise your prof's expectations for you. You might find that he now treats you as a star pupil. And we all know what that means: you can probably count on getting called on more often in class!
In yesterday's post, I wrote that if you know how to search for εἰς, you're well on your way to being a searching "ace." It was an admittedly nerdy pun, since the Greek word εἰς is pronounced like the English word "ace." I'm feeling a little less nerdy today, however, since someone made the even nerdier observation that my pun only works for the artificial Erasmian pronunciation scheme as opposed to other systems!
Whether or not my joke works in your preferred system of Greek pronunciation, my point is that searching for εἰς offers a great opportunity to learn some important aspects of searching in the original languages. As I pointed out yesterday, a search for epsilon-iota-sigma actually finds both εἰς and εἷς, two words which are spelled the same but have a different breathing mark. Yet even when we included a smooth breathing mark to search specifically for εἰς, our search still gave us both εἰς and εἷς. That's because Accordance actually ignores breathing marks, accents, vowel points, and even upper or lowercase for purposes of searching.
But what if you don't want those things to be ignored? What if you really want to be able to find εἰς without also finding εἷς?
Here's the secret: whenever you want Accordance to pay attention to breathing marks, accents, vowel points, and case, simply enter an equals sign (=) before the word you're searching for, like this:
Notice that with the equals sign before εἰς, the number of hits drops from 2112 to 1767. Likewise, the Analysis shows that εἰς is the only lexical form that was found, and εἷς has been excluded.
So to become an ace at original language searching, remember the lesson of εἰς: use the equals sign to make Accordance pay attention to breathing marks, accents, vowel points, and case.
In my next post, we'll try to search for εἷς, and I'll give you a few more ace searching tips.
Εἰς in the title of this post is a Greek preposition which is pronounced like the English word ACE. It's an admittedly nerdy joke, but searching for εἰς helps to illustrate several important aspects of original language searching in Accordance. In other words, if you know how to search for εἰς, you're well on your way to being a searching "ace."
So if you have a tagged Greek New Testament text, open it up, select Words from the Words/Verses token, and type the letters "e, i, s." When you're finished, hit return to perform the search. Your search tab should then look like this:
Notice that we didn't have to enter the smooth breathing mark or any accents for this search to work. All we needed to do was enter the letters.
So far things have been pretty simple, but there's more to this search than meets the eye. To see what I'm talking about, click the Stats and Graphs icon (the one that looks like a bar chart just to the right of the number of hits) and choose Analysis.
An analysis window will open listing all the words that were found by our search:
Note that this search for words spelled epsilon-iota-sigma actually found two words: εἰς (with a smooth breathing mark and pronounced like 'ace') and εἷς (with a rough breathing mark and pronounced like 'hace'). These are two very different Greek words which, with the exception of the breathing mark, are spelled exactly the same way. Because we didn't enter the breathing mark, Accordance found both.
But what if we only want to find εἰς without also finding εἷς? Well, let's try just including the breathing mark in our search entry to distinguish the one from the other. The easiest way to do this is to copy εἰς from the Analysis window (the second word listed) and then paste that into the entry box of our Search tab. When you do that, you get the following result:
Do you see the difference? That's right, there isn't one. Even though we included the breathing mark in this second search, Accordance still found both of these homographs (a fancy term for words which are written the same way).
So here's the first thing you have to understand about Accordance original language searches: even if you enter a breathing mark, an accent, or a vowel point in Hebrew, Accordance totally ignores them. It's the same way with capital letters and apostrophes in English. Accordance ignores those details to give you the words that match the letters you entered.
Why would we ignore things like breathing marks, accents, vowel points, and case? Primarily because we don't want to require you to get that level of detail right in order to perform a successful search. A new student of Greek would be lost if a search failed because he or she entered a grave accent rather than an acute. Heck, even an expert in the languages might get annoyed if they had to show that level of care in entering a search argument. So Accordance simply ignores all those details unless you specifically tell it to take them into consideration. In tomorrow's post, I'll show you how to do just that. That way you'll know how to distinguish εἰς from εἷς, and be well on your way to becoming an Accordance searching 'ace.'


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Only criminals would object to a DNA database, wouldn't they?
Junkfood Science: Ingsoc
...While national security or science for the common good might sound like noble reasons for governments to gather genetic material of its citizens, that's not what this is really about. And the potential for abuse and financial and political gain go far beyond anything George Orwell even envisioned.....As one of the public commentators at the Times insightfully noted: "They want your DNA because of all the information it reveals about you. As the human genome is decoded, government, employers, insurance salespersons, banks, and everybody else will be able to read what diseases you are genetically predisposed to and make decisions affecting you without your control. Government et. al. will have this increased power over you, but you will not have any more power over your government. In fact, it is just one more means of rendering you helpless and vulnerable to the whims of bureaucrats who have their own interests in mind, not yours. Eventually all people will be monitored and controlled from cradle to grave - the journey of which is adjustable by those with enough power."
This is so much bigger than public health and safety.

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Shamrock Shuffle run/walk set for March 9 at UW-Eau ClaireFebruary 19, 2013
EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Shamrock Shuffle 5K fun run/walk will begin at 10 a.m. March 9 at the McPhee Physical Education Center on upper campus.
The registration fee is $15 in advance or $20 the day of the event. Team registration is $20 per member. The cost for those 16 and younger is $10 in advance or $15 on the day of the event.
Teams of six or greater must register by Feb. 27. Team participants will receive a long-sleeved T-shirt with their team's name on the back. Individuals who register by Feb. 27 will receive a short-sleeved T-shirt. Individuals may register until 9 a.m. the day of the race, but are not guaranteed a shirt after Feb. 27.
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University Recreation & Sport Facilities hosts the annual event, with all proceeds going to the Wisconsin Youth Success Program, a free five-week summer sports camp for youth ages 10-16. The program teaches sports skills and competition, and helps educate participants in the areas of math and science, health and nutrition, careers and the importance of education.
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It's been five years since an epic industrial disaster at a coal plant in East Tennessee.
Millions of tons of leftover ash were piled up wet inside a huge earthen wall, and on December 22, 2008, that wall broke. The massive sludge spill at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant blanketed the surrounding countryside and two nearby rivers, and cost a billion dollars to clean up.
You can see TVA's dramatic side-by-side video of the spill site then and now at this link.
The flood of gray muck flowed over acres of land, knocking one house off its foundation and ruining others. Hundreds of property claims are in mediation, and TVA will spend the next decade and hundreds of millions more to change how it stores ash left over from burning coal for energy.
TVA bought up 180 properties after the spill, from riverfront lots to houses knee-deep in sludge. Many others still say the power provider should've covered them, and didn't. Steve Scarborough says it's like TVA drew a line on a map to decide who to pay: "If you weren't inside that group, then, you know, tough luck, sue me."
In 2008, Scarborough was trying to sell some nearby riverfront property to put his boys through college. He says the force of the spill pushed ash to his property miles upstream, and ever since he's been looking at pennies on the dollar. Just last year a federal judge ruled TVA can be held liable for damages, but Scarborough says that won't get him back the last five years.
"If TVA could figure out some way for us to get our reputation back, we could take it from here, but so far, they haven't."
Scarborough does give TVA some credit. At the actual spill site, he says the cleanup has made things prettier than before.
TVA did still have to leave tons of ash in the riverbed. They said trying to dredge it all up would stir up toxic pollutants left there decades ago – the legacy of a nuclear research facility upstream.
A TVA contractor on the site also faces a lawsuit from dozens of cleanup workers, who say they got sick after they weren't allowed to wear masks or respirators.
Ash Storage
TVA has already converted the Kingston plant where the disaster happened from what it calls "wet" to "dry" storage. Spokesman Scott Brooks says that makes it more like a landfill than a lake, meaning it can be "capped."
"Capping means putting a liner so no moisture can get in, then adding topsoil and grass, so it's just like a municipal landfill – all you see is grass on top," Brooks says.
A second plant is now making the switch, which costs $50 million at the low end. TVA's Gallatin plant near Nashville is also on the list. Exactly how many sites will be converted isn't clear, since TVA is in the process of deciding which coal plants to shutter altogether over the next few years.


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Enjoy the sheer solitude and tranquility that one of our cozy 21 rooms affords. Amidst the breathtaking splendor of the Monterey Bay Peninsula, the Sunset Inn Hotel offers accommodations in perfect harmony with their beachfront surroundings.
In the manner of a contemporary yet cozy Central California coast vacation residence, all rooms are decorated with elegant furnishings, plantation shutters, hardwood floors and soothing color palettes lending a measure of rustic elegance and sophistication. Windows that open keep rooms fresh and bright, while special appointments like high thread-count linens, jetted soaking tubs and gas fireplaces set the backdrop for the most relaxing of escapes.
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Catalysis of the reaction: acyl-CoA + 2-acylglycerol = CoA + diacylglycerol.
Catalysis of the reaction: acyl-CoA + 1,2-diacylglycerol = CoA + triacylglycerol.
Interacting selectively and non-covalently with any protein or protein complex (a complex of two or more proteins that may include other nonprotein molecules).
Catalysis of the reaction: acyl-CoA + retinol = CoA + retinyl ester.
Catalysis of the transfer of an acyl group from one compound (donor) to another (acceptor).
The chemical reactions and pathways involving diacylglycerol, a glycerol molecule substituted on the 1 and 2 hydroxyl groups with long chain fatty acyl residues. DAG is a normal intermediate in the biosynthesis of phosphatidyl phospholipids and is released from them by phospholipase C activity. DAG from phosphatidyl inositol polyphosphates is important in signal transduction.
Any process involved in the maintenance of an internal steady state of fatty acid within an organism or cell.
The accumulation and maintenance in cells or tissues of lipids, compounds soluble in organic solvents but insoluble or sparingly soluble in aqueous solvents. Lipid reserves can be accumulated during early developmental stages for mobilization and utilization at later stages of development.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving long-chain fatty-acyl-CoAs, any derivative of coenzyme A in which the sulfhydryl group is in a thioester linkage with a long-chain fatty-acyl group. Long-chain fatty-acyl-CoAs have chain lengths of C13 or more.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving retinol, one of the three compounds that makes up vitamin A.
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a triglyceride, any triester of glycerol.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving triglyceride, any triester of glycerol. The three fatty acid residues may all be the same or differ in any permutation. Triglycerides are important components of plant oils, animal fats and animal plasma lipoproteins.
The aggregation and arrangement of proteins and lipids in the liver to form a very-low-density lipoprotein particle.
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Today there are online services to help you monitor and take control of the information available about you online. One such service, Reputation.com, provides free search and alerts plus fee-based services to improve or correct your online presence.
If there is anything at all in your public identity that might present a problem for your candidacy, be prepared to address this up front with a potential employer. The Execunet Career Guide entitled Dealing With Your Digital Dirt v3.0 discuses in-depth how the increased online scrutiny affects job search and how to deal with possibly detrimental information.
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Writes Jason Bennett: "Romney and McCain can rambles for five, six, seven minutes per question. Ron Paul gets stuck getting two sentences and then cut off.
"If possible, he might be getting even less time to talk than when there was 10 people on stage.
Liberal: I'm conservative!
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In perhaps the most depraved scheme of them all, The Gang rallies around Charlie's mom as she battles cancer. As Mac, Charlie, and Dee struggle with their faith, Frank loses his memory and his mind in a quest for buried treasure, and they're all rocked by a revelation that will shake Paddy's to its very foundation!
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Cushnie et Ochs's Body of Work
Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs.
"Everyone says your second season is your hardest," Ochs told me during my visit to the 36th Street design studio that she shares with Cushnie. The space is your standard Garment District starter: northern light, a dual work-show space, and a lone patternmaker diligently cutting in the background. The duo completed Parsons together two years ago and launched their first season last fall. Now the label is making a sartorial splash for its formfitting, razor-cut frocks and separates. "It's completely about the body for us, always," Ochs said.Their season began with the idea of assembly-line production and pieces that looked "machine created," but one-off. The color palette is like the inside of an engine: silver, black, copper, smoke, and dark iridescents. Notables of the 35-look collection are laser-cut furs (by Saga Furs), a second-skin trouser in marble print, and a nearly seamless copper "melting dress" that seems to both cling to the body and fall away. Not shoe shy, Cushnie et Ochs is using Alejandro Ingelmo as a ready-made catwalk cobbler: "There will be a full-fledged collab next season."
As for their balance sheet, the two were recently named 2009 Ecco Domani Fashion Fund award winners (along with five others), which entitles them to $25,000 toward show production costs and a guarantee of editor attention. Their spring collection will also land on the floors of Bergdorf Goodman in the coming weeks—their only stocklist at the moment. Not a bad exclusive for a first season.
These two seem to have a great support structure, and are hopefully unfazed by The New York Times article declaring the end of the young New York designer. Look for their collection next week at the New York Public Library on that all too ironic date: Friday the 13th. Bonne chance!
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Charlottesville VA Holiday Market, Foxfield Inn
It's that time of year when the Holiday Market is open for artisans to sell their wares in downtown Charlottesville. If you are staying with us at Foxfield Inn it is an easy drive to the market where you can park and peruse what the vendors have to offer. Dan was there this last Saturday and was impressed with what the local crafters had on display.
Afterwards head one block north to Main Street and shop in the unique stores on the pedestrian mall. There are more than 120 shops with all sorts of items for sale. While downtown you can stop at one of over 30 restaurants for a quick lunch or linger over lunch with a glass of wine at Siips. Other great places for lunch are Hamilton's on First & Main, The Nook, Bizou and Petit Pois.
Barracks Road Shopping Plaza. More great stores to peruse. Check out SCOUT-Charlottesville for some unique shopping ideas. Their blog today highlights Scarpa's cowboy boots for sale. Some of them are pretty sharp.
Enjoy the day!
Dan and Kathryn Bundy, Innkeepers at Foxfield Inn, our Charlottesville VA Bed and Breakfast
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Three famous herbs from Chinese and Native American herbal lore, ginseng, eleuthero and echinacea, produce a healthful tonic tea that strengthens the vital force and harmonizes the internal with the external.
We've lost our tradition in the US for improving our health with herbal tonics, but in Europe and Asia, the daily intake of tonics is still widely practiced. Fortified with adaptogenic herbs known to enhance the immune system and help the body cope with stress, this tea will gently build your energy supply naturally.
Ginseng Peppermint is one of my favorite early morning herbal teas to help me prepare for whatever the day might bring.
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Ingredients: Eleuthero, peppermint, cinnamon, licorice, shizandra berries, sarsasparilla root, panax ginseng and echinacea purpurea root


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Its Fall....
Whats your favorite apple recipe?
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I like to just eat them. Cooked apples aren't my thing unless they are in a pie. I do love apple pie. Yum!
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I like raw apples especially this time of the year straight from the apple orchard. I am not a fan of apple pie. I do like applesauce and some apple crisps but not all.
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My girls and DH would say MIL's homemade applesauce. But the wind storm that came through in June blew all the apples off her trees. No applesauce this year.
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I do a newsletter for work every month and I just finished October's that will be sent out next week. The "wellness" portion of it was on apples!
Apples are in season from September through November. Find some interesting and nutritious facts about apples!
► Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
► 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.
► 7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
► Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
► A medium apple is about 80 calories.
► Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.
► It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.
► Don't peel your apple. Two-thirds of the fiber and lots of antioxidants are found in the peel. Antioxidants help to reduce damage to cells, which can trigger some diseases.
► Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.
► Most apples are still picked by hand in the fall.
► The apple variety 'Red Delicious' is the most widely grown in the United States with 62 million bushels harvested in 2005.
► Green apples are good for strong bones and teeth, aids in vision, and has anti-cancer properties.
► Yellow apples are good for heart and eyes, immune system, and reduce the risks of some cancers.
► Red apples are good for the heart, memory function, lower risk of some cancers and maintain urinary tract health.
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Computer Chip UpgradeTuning your car's computer for performance
In the good old days, car buffs could fiddle with their carburetors, make a few adjustments and end up with improved performance. The power increases focused on the enthusiast's particular application, ranging from outrunning the other guy's Camaro or heavy-duty hauling for a functional pick-up truck.
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Carburetors have evolved into fuel injection, and eventually everything under the hood has become computer controlled. In the evolution of "fiddling," the aftermarket industry came up with computer chip upgrades, which were originally pretty intimidating to anyone without a degree in computer science. Evolution finally produced a 21st-century version of "fiddling with the carburetor" in the form of computer modules, designed for 1996 and newer vehicles, that even the computer-phobic can install.
But, "Why bother-" you may ask. The answer depends on your driving style. Auto manufacturers basically program vehicle computers to suit who they consider "average drivers." For performance enthusiasts or light truck owners who actually use their trucks like trucks rather than station wagons, the "average driver" designation and subsequently tuned vehicle does not meet their needs.
Performance enthusiasm is not limited to sport compact speed freaks. Commuters who battle death-defying freeway on-ramps five days a week and those who maneuver up and down steep grades just to get to the grocery store can also be candidates for a little computer module fine-tuning.
How Upgrades Work
There are a number of computer upgrade companies-Hypertech, Superchips, Kenne Bell Performance Products, JET Performance, to name just a few. There are variations in product from company to company, but here's how computer upgrades generally, work: The tuner or programmer module can be connected to your 1996 and newer vehicle's ALDA connector, which is the plug that mechanics use for diagnostics. The tuner reads the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) to determine how the vehicle's computer is programmed. Tuner, or module, manufacturers have a range of options. For instance, Hypertech's Power Programmer III gives you the option of tuning for various octanes of fuel, ranging from 87 regular to 92 premium. From that point, the module takes over, recalibrating the computer's parameters, or, in the old terminology, re-tuning the vehicle.
Those parameters include elements of performance, or vehicular behavior, that most non-car buffs aren't even aware of but, nevertheless, deal with every time they put the key in the ignition. Here's a near-layman's version of just a few of those parameters and the changes an aftermarket computer module can make:
Computer Parameters
EXTENDED REV LIMITER provides an extended rpm range, or wider powerband, which comes in handy when you need a quick burst of speed to avoid an accident or enter a fast-moving, crowded freeway. Most drivers understand what the "red line" is-the maximum rpm (revolutions per minute) your engine can handle. The module moves that limit up for more emergency power, but not so much as to put your engine at risk.
COOLER FAN ON/OFF temperatures create a lower, cooler, engine operating condition. This isn't rocket science. The cooler your engine runs, the longer it lasts and the more efficiently it operates. All good things.
FIRMER SHIFT POINTS for automatic transmissions. When those shift points are optimized by speed and rpm, the end result is improved acceleration. Example: You're cruising the freeway in top gear and need immediate acceleration to pass or avoid a high-speed mishap-you need a firm, decisive shift to access your engine's power.
INCREASES TOP SPEED LIMITER to match the top speed to the speed rating of high-performance tires.
CORRECTS SPEEDOMETER/ODOMETER for non-stock tire sizes. Vehicle speedometers are calibrated to stock tire/wheel sizes. If you've opted for a larger wheel/tire package, for higher vehicle clearance or just for aesthetics, or if you've changed your 4x4's gear ratios, then your speedometer and odometer are no longer pinpoint accurate. You may not consider this a critical issue, but try explaining to a trooper that you're speedometer doesn't jive with his radar scanner because you're running oversized tires. You'll still get a speeding ticket.
The primary focus of all the available computer upgrade modules is engine efficiency-the optimum air/fuel mixture. This can (but not necessarily WILL) result in improved fuel economy. Here's one example of some of the parameter changes on a Dodge Cummings Turbo Diesel: an increase of 65 horsepower and an additional 185 lb.-ft. of torque. That's a significant improvement from not doing much more than punching a few computer keys!
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BOSTON (AP) - The anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings promises to be a day of tributes to the three people who died, the more than 260 people who were injured, and the first responders, doctors and nurses who helped them.
Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Deval Patrick and former Mayor Tom Menino will be among the dignitaries expected to honor the victims Tuesday during a program at the Hynes Convention Center. Speakers also will include survivors of the bombing.
Between 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., a flag-raising ceremony and moment of silence will be held at the marathon finish line, to mark the time and place where two bombs exploded on April 15, 2013.
Authorities say two brothers planned and orchestrated the attack and later shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer during an attempt to steal his gun. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died following a shootout with police several days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges and is awaiting trial. He faces the possibility of the death penalty.
The Tsarnaevs, ethnic Chechens who lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the Dagestan region of Russia, settled in Cambridge, outside Boston, more than a decade ago after moving to the U.S. as children with their family.
Prosecutors have said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a hand-scrawled confession condemning U.S. actions in Muslim countries on the inside wall of a boat he was found hiding in following the police shootout.
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I just finished a segment on Good Day Austin about my new book, Topsight. Thanks to Keri and everyone else at Fox 7!
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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My second book, Network, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.My third book, Topsight, was published in print and Kindle editions via Amazon in 2013.


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Noble Beasley says he was the victim of snitches.
Fred Richardson says John Leflore and his Non-Partisan Voters' League worked behind closed doors with establishment politicians before issuing his "pink sheet" or "pink list", which influenced the African-American vote in Mobile.
Beasley and Richardson sat down for an extended interview with FOX10 News anchor Bob Grip to talk about the history of the Voters' League and its rival, the Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW) and why Noble Beasley believes he was eventually sent to prison.
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Sometimes opening something has such a velvety quality, the unknownness of it so black, the mystery so tangible you can almost feel it; like rubbing paper between your fingers. Opening The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures is like that. And the adventure unfolds from there. The biggest discovery being how Brian Selznick has almost single handedly reinvented the form of the novel and what a book can be. The story is told in pictures and then in words, back and forth, never repeating scenes. Words and pictures move the story along sequentially; they are not meant to expand on one another nor elaborate. Yet enhance each other they do. Different in this way from a graphic novel, the pictures take up the whole page adding unimaginable layers of depth. Each speaks 1000 words or more, describing both setting and scene with lush pencil strokes, sturdy in execution yet exquisite in detail. It just makes me want to run my fingers over the page, flip them back and forth, back and forth... The quality of the paper is rich as well, reminding me of the the lushness of Vida Simone's art and the memory I have of a personal performance with miniature puppets she performed for me in my apartment (among others) as part of her show at The New Gallery years ago. Telling stories in her own personal way. Hugo Cabret does the same thing.
So flip through the pages I did! And discovered, much to my delight, that the individual sequences of images throughout the book act like mini flip books, animating individual scenes, imitating the earliest animations and stop motion film sequences of silent movies. This adds a physically tangible metaphor to the history of cinema that the book probes to a certain depth; satisfying in metaphor of not breadth. To this add steampunkish elements tying clockwork magicians to the mysteries of the human heart and human bonds. It's no wonder it won the Caldecott Medal in 2008.
Et tu parle Francais? Since the book does take place in Paris.. get the the French version here. The book has so many layers. Its very form is half of it! This leaves me wondering if a film on the book can truly do it justice. Yet the story is so strong in and of itself, and.. it does deal with the invention of cinema, so a film MUST have something to add to the discussion of itself... "Hugo" In theatres TODAY (November 23rd) you can watch the trailer here. One thing I don't doubt= I am excited to see it!
I'm even more excited to read and experience Selznick's next adventure in the re-invention of the novel = Wonderstruck. Here he talks about how he wanted to tell 2 stories. One about Rose, set in the past, told in pictures and one about Ben, set in the present, told in words. At some point the stories meet in the middle and either a puzzle is solved and/or a new mystery evolves. See the website here.
Let the mysteries begin. Perhaps all is not lost to e-books and cyberspace. Selznick has given us something in these books akin to the realization that the specialness of a handwritten letter or home made card can never equal an email or Facebook Message. So go ahead - use you pencil!
This Saturday get ready for a special Second Saturday Slam. This month One Book One Calgary teams up with the Calgary Spoken Word Festival 's crew to deliver a slam with a twist. Come enjoy, compete and/or listen and judge. Bring some of your poems that explore some of the rich themes in Canadian author Steven Galloway's novel "The Cellist of Sarajevo". This could be something related to music or art, the enduring power of the human spirit, diversity, or war and peace. Contestants will be chosen on a first come first serve basis. AND CSWF always offers really valuable and encouraging feedback. I've learned a lot as a poet in the ones I've attended (yes I DID dare to read some of my poems in public - therefore... I dare you!). Thanks to Sheri - D Wilson, Andre Prefotaine, Jen Kunlire and others!!!
And by the way if you haven't checked out the poetry of these guys and gals - they are fantastic!
The OBOC website also has some great books on it as well as book lists. My favourite being the ones that relate to the Human Spirit and Art and Music. Additional suggestions for great verse novels would be Orchards by Holly Thompson and Roses and Bones which includes Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block.
And as a side note - For the whole month of November we have a cool painted piano that you can see inside of downstairs on the main floor of the library! Come play a tune on your way up or down to the John Dutton Theatre.
So it's a well known fact that I DON'T do horror! No books, no movies, no tapes (especially NOT of The Ring..), no campfires ghost stories, no nothing, - etc, etc. add into infinitum. It's not so much what the actual books and movies do themselves to creep me out.. but what my imagination does to itself afterwards... for like 6 months, or a year, or however long it takes to make me sleep NOT at night & behave like jitter bug all day. Call me a wimp. I Don't care. I know there are others out there like me. As they say "You are Not Alone..." . So... If you are looking for someone to recommend you the most gruesome, fearsome, awesomest scares... that would NOT be me. Hence the title "Halloween for Scaredy Cats"
I DO however love weird, strange and slightly scary things, like pet vampires, spider fairies, and Harry Potter. The Wikkeling by Steve Arnston falls into this category. Scary - but not, the illustrations however are cool and strange enough for all. A mix of twisted B/W silhouettes ala Arthur Rackham and detailed pencil/watercolour collages in the vien of Tony Diterlizzi (Spiderwick), illustrator Daniela Jaqlenka Terrazinni does a good job of making the book absolutely intriguing.
Speaking on DiTerlizzi his black line ink drawing in Mary Botham-Howitt's 1829 poem "The Spider and the Fly" are definitely shall we say... juicy.
And Vampires? Well if you like Vampires you might actually hate this book. but if you can twist your head around a Vampire being CUTE, yes as in cuddly, then Hipira - a collaboration of Katsuhiro Otomo & Shinji Kimura (who collaborated on Steamboy) is for you. Funny and visually delightful especially if you like square spirals, square spirals, square spirals, square...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! * this blog is dedicated to all my fellow scardy cats out there - I know you're there ;)-
Fall is a Beautiful, Bleak, Bizarre and Bountiful season. Things start falling apart and looking strange, half eaten, fiery and orange. You can smell the death and decay, feel the sting of the wind, and the wind of things slowly but surely changing into the mood for Halloween. Crisp fall leaves fall down making us cold and wanting to snuggle up with a good cozy book. It is a suitable time to explore the bizarre. We have some amazing YA Graphic Novels (aka comic books) that have beautiful art and strange stories. So much so they are more like ART novels. The black ink drawing's in Salem Brownstone could be compared to Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations of Salome by Oscar Wilde. An unusual story involving an unexpected inheritance, a contortionist, the circus and Salem's mission to battle out evil using his amoeba like familiar and a crystal ball to restore the balance of good in the world. The black and white graphic detail is stunning. More like Art Nouveau gone comic book.
For Bizarre/Strange Steampunk is the New Black with Tim Burton's new Alice in Wonderland movie being exemplary of this style. We have a new cool graphic novel inspired by the movie, the dvd, blu-ray, 2 movie book (s), and the CD. Avril Lavigne who composed the title track Alice on this album: Almost Alice is playing in Calgary at the Saddledome tonight! (October 11th). Rounding this out are 3 YA Graphic Novels that are definetly NOT childish: Alice in Wonderland (based on the new film), Wonderland (a fun re-imagining) and Hatter M, vol.1: The Looking Glass Wars (a little bit like Mad Hatter Karate!).
Alice is considered to be the first book that was written not as a moral tale for children but with the specific enjoyment of it's audience in mind. Technically classified as Non-sense Literature and having never lost it's grip on our imaginations, these books do much more than entertain. When our lives are turned upside down,
when we fall through the rabbit hole, when we enter the matrix: they are tales of survival in strange and bizarre circumstances. They stretch our minds and imaginations, enabling us to conjure solutions to the strange sudden bizarre and REAL events of our lives - like your grandfather dying, suddenly growing pubic hair (how weird was that!), moving to a new house, having sex for the first time, finding out you have an unknown sibling, accidentally being pregnant, being kicked out of your house, etc. etc., etc. At the library we have 11 illustrated versions of Wonderland, two of my favourite being Ralph Steadman's which isalso very Art nouveau/Aubrey Beardsley-ish and Robert Ingpen's 2009 edition illustrated with finely detailed pencil/watercolour illustrations from unusual perspectives. This is my favourite Alice to date.
Paul Stewart's Edge Chronicle's illustrated by Christopher Riddell are also fantastically strang. Riddell's The Emporer of Absurdia definitely falls into Dr. Suess territory both in terms of graphic illustration and imagination. There are even echos of Dali. Fine line work and stunning hat collections!
Shaun Tan has written some great books for down days. These include The Red Tree, The Arrival (a YA graphic novel) and The Lost Thing expanded as Lost & Found and recently made into a short animated film. Watch the Trailer here! The Lost Thing reflects on the doldrums of conformity and things that just don't quite fit in - highlighting the importance and value of the weird and the wonderful. Happy Fall!
..... to be contiued (we have such a beautiful, bleak & bizarre collection you can look forward to more!)
Going on a school trip? Bored? Get sick reading on the bus? Many of your favourite books are now being produced as Audio Books & Book CD's. Play them in the car while going to Vegas with friends or family. Down load one of our E-Books sound recordings from Overdrive on our e-library and listen on your i-pod while biking around the river or play a book cd on a cd-walkman while on the bus to school. In fact sitting outside sun-tanning while sipping virgin margaritas listening to an Audio Book might just have become one of my favourite weekend pastimes. Especially if they could get Leonard Cohen to do the voice... One of my favourites recently has been Wildwood Dancing by Juliette Marillier narrated by Kim Mai Guest. Kim's soft voice is intruiguing and one of the great things about listening to her describe all the beautiful Romanian worlds like "Piscu Dracuili", from Transalvania, is that I didn't have to guess at the correct pronounciation everytime. On CPL's Overdrive you can listen to an audio sample - giving you a chance to decide whether not the book interests you. You can also search for other audio books narrated by the same narrator (from other authors). Sometimes the author narrates their own book - most times not. Cybele's Secret - a companion novel to Wildwood Dancing is also available on Audio Book - I read this one just to compare - and I admit you can probably read faster than most people can speak... however can you read while baking, knitting, cycling, driving or drawing?
And there's some of your favourite titles! Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld won an award (Read by Alan Cumming). As did Will Grayson, Will Grayson which you'll like if you like Glee! (by John Green and David Leviathan) narrated by Macleod Andrews and Nick Podehl (both Odyssey Honor Audiobooks Award).
And of course there's the Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Colins- all three books are available on Audio and Book CD.
Others that have won awards include Alchmey and Meggy Swan (Karen Cushman, narrated by Katherine Kellgren), The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness, Mp3 narrated by Nick Podehl), and Revolution (Jennifer Donnelly, narrated by Emily Janice Card and Emma Bering). (Also Odyssey Honor Audies)
Mirror Mask - by Neil Gaiman Narrated by Stephanie Leonidas was quite enchanting and highlights the complexities of fighting with your mom...
I asked Alex what her Audiobook picks would be. She said, "If you'd rather listen to a book than read one, I highly recommend the mp3 copy of "An Abundance of Katherines" -- John Green's words hardly need someone to read them since they leap right off the page, but the narrator of this one does a great job anyways!
If you've never treated your ear canals to the audioCD of HARRY POTTER, you're in for a real surprise! Jim Dale has won TWO grammies and TEN Audies (Audio Awards) for his readings -- he has a different voice for every character and they're all phenomenal. I fall asleep to one of these books almost every night. I bet I could recite Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princeby heart!!! There are also loads of audio books that are read by celebrities! Check out titles like "InkHeart", performed by Brendan Fraser and "Series of Unfortunate Events" read by the amazing Tim Curry!"
Personally though I think listening to Harry Potter before bed might explain some of the horrifically fantastic dreams Alex has reported having! Just saying... Those ones might be better for those long rides on the bus ;0)
It's that time again! That time of year where we Calgarians count ourselves lucky if we can milk a solid 8 weeks of sunshine out of our summer. That time where we laze around Prince's Island Park trying not to get eaten alive by mosquitoes and geese. That time where we revel in the glory of reading books about… well… ANYTHING … as long as it's not Polynomial Equations, Chemical Nomenclature, or (horror of horrors) Short Historical Fiction from the Canadian Prairies… Unless, you know, you're into that sort of thing.
Whatever sort of thing you ARE into, Calgary Public Library is where it's at. So... Gear up for this summer's YOUTH READ program! Full of challenges created by YOU, we have amped up all our Grand prizes, added new Weekly prizes, as well as ways to intereact with other teens, share your ideas, art, poetry writing and smarts! All this on top of your favourite activity - reading!
We're running our YOUTH READ program from June 16th until August 31st, with contests, events, and some pretty sick prizes to be won all summer long!
*Go to the About This Contest page to learn how Youth Read works and be sure to check out our prizes. If your stymied about what to read, find out what others are reading. Challenges include: Cook/Invent a fabulous recipe, photograph it and submit it. Pick a celebrity & recommend a book they should read. Make a comic strip of a scene from your favourite book. Write a haiku book review of your favourite book and more!
So kick back, relax, and crack the spine of a new favourite, it's time to YOUTH READ 2011!
DISCLAIMER: The creators of this site do not, in any way, recommend the cracking of book spines that have been borrowed from the Calgary Public Library. We also don't recommend you crack the sides of your iPad or your e-Reader either. Or your own spine for that matter -- we can't afford to pay your chiropractic bills… In fact, let's just not crack any spines whatsoever. Instead, let's kick back, relax, and gently-open-the-covers-of-a-well-loved-book or serenely-upload-the-WMA-files-of-an-e-book… it's time to YOUTH READ 2011! (Yay.)
So you've read and own the entire Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins? The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld? And you're hungry for more? (Pardon my pun).
I am really excited by the buzz around a new series called Divergent by Veronica Roth - apparently worked on during college when she should have been doing her creative writing homework at Northwestern University, a choice, which has transformed her into a graduate and full time writer. I, for one, am really excited because everyone is abuzz about a new series called Divergent by Veronica Roth - apparently worked on during college when she should have been doing her creative writing homework @ Northwestern University - a choice - which has now transformed Veronica into a graduate and full time writer.
A Dystopian novel at it's best, the heroine Beatrice, lives in a society where ONE choice made at the age of 16 determines - your friends - your beliefs - and your loyalties FOREVER. The choice - which of the 5 factions: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent)- to belong to, can seperate or unite you with you family, previous friends, schoolmates and former interests. One is not supposed to be "Divergent" (gifted in more than one faction). If one is - as Beatirce discovers, it can mean death. She makes a choice and renames herself Tris, joining her faction hiding a pretty big secret. Tris then discovers a growing conflict threatening to unravel her seemingly perfect society. Her secret may destroy her or help her save those she loves most...
The first book has just come out and hit CPL's library stacks. There will be two sequels books to follow.
I'm all in!
If you liked the Hunger games you might also check out Graceling by Kirstin Cashore and the companion novel Fire - both gripping all night reads. In Graceling if a person is born with 2 different coloured eyes they are "graced" with a special gift or ability that becomes aparrent as they mature. When Katsa discovers that she is graced with killing she becomes a pawn used by her uncle, the king. Katsa, however, has other ideas about how she wants to live her life and a gripping suspense/romance novel ensues.
And if you like Graceling you will also enjoy The Healer's Keep a companion novel to Vicoria Hanley's The Seer and the Sword
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry will also interest those who like Divergent as well as 1984 (George Orwell) and Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)(both found in our adult fiction collection)
NOT interested in dating? Ever wonder how to be alone? Into Spoken Word? Poetry Slammin? The Jams going on @ CPL every 2nd Saturday of the month. The next one is Saturday May 14th 2011. Wonder how all this could be related?
Tanya Davis' video "How to be Alone" went viral on the internet in 2010 watch it here check out her website here. She did an outstanding performance at Extra-Sensory In-vox-ication- Poetry and Music Event #3 on Wednesday March 30th at the Calgary Spoken Word Festival.
Also performing that night were Ian Ferrier, Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer, Tyler Perry and Robert Priest.
Robert Priest performed a VERY uh - short- poem - uh hum which surmised all of the word - "Brevity". Start. Finish. That's all folks. He is one on the writers in the FREE Online Words Aloud Study Guide for High School Drama, LA and Media Arts. Check it out and brush up on your slamin' skills!
The Golden Beret Award was given to Ian Ferrier from Montreal by last year's winner, Calgary's own Sarah Murphy.
The Spoken Word Festival continues in Banff this week if you want to go to the mountains and check out some rockin' poetry! - April 15th Student Speak check it out here.
April is National Poetry Month in Canada! Upcoming Poetry events in Calgary include:
April 11th 8pm - Salon: A Gathering of Word Artists - Cafe Koi 1011 1st SW - Come perform on the open mic!
It's also time for Flywheel!
April 14th 7:30pm Pages Books on Kensington - 1135 Kensington Road NW
Join host Meghan Doraty for the April Flywheel Reading Series with readings from local poets Beth Langford, Stuart McKay and Juliet Burgess. Gayleen Froese will be launching her new book, Grayling Cross (NeWestPress).
April 20th 7-9pm - City of Poets: New Poetry Celebration in the John Dutton Theatre @ Central - Celebrate the launch of new books by Calgary poets Rosemary Griebel and Kirk Ramdath. Listen to readings from Calgary favourites Weyman Chan, Richard Harrison, Jen Kunlire, and Bob Stallworthy. Kirk Ramdath has been doing a lot to promote the spoken word scene in Calgary with his blog Passion Pitch and the FREE magazine WAX check it out here.


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Student World Faird Extended For 2012
The largest showcase for international universities in the UK is being extended this year to meet the continued demand for information about studying abroad.
The Student World Fair will be held for the first time in Leeds as well as making a return to Manchester and twice to London during the spring and autumn.
Exhibiting universities from all over the world will also be touring more schools and colleges in the regions following the success of last year's inaugural roadshow, which ran alongside the main events in London and Manchester.
The announcement by The Student World, which is now in its third year of organising the events, comes as the main UCAS deadline for this year's applications to UK universities approaches on Tuesday, January 15.
Latest figures for applications to UK universities in 2013 show a six per cent fall, following a record decline of students taking up places in 2012 when tuition fees were trebled to up to £9,000 a year in England.
Jemma Davies, from The Student World, said: "We have seen an increase of up to 25 per cent in both the attendance of students and overseas universities since the first Student World Fair was held in 2011.
"The events in Manchester and London last autumn were the largest to date with 80 international universities from 22 countries all over the world exhibiting.
"The demand from both students and overseas universities has resulted in the Student World Fair being taken to Leeds for the first time and the regional roadshows being doubled with tours in both the spring and autumn.
"We are expecting to attract around 1,500 visitors to each of the main events in London, Leeds and Manchester."
The Student World Fair is the only event of its kind dedicated to providing a platform for international universities to showcase their degree courses to under-graduates and post-graduates in the UK.
Students, parents and teachers have the chance to meet world-ranked institutions, new universities and agent representatives to find out about opportunities to study in Europe, Asia, North America and beyond.
Jemma added: "With tuition fees of up to £9,000 in the UK, an increasing number of students are becoming aware that it can pay to shop around with more affordable and sometimes free degree courses available overseas.
"Even where fees are similar or higher to those in the UK, they realise that they can get more for their money by gaining a global awareness which can make them stand out to employers in today's highly-competitive job market."
The Student World Fair, which is free to attend by registering at www.thestudentworld.com, will be held at the Emirates Stadium, London, on Saturday, March 16, and at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, on Sunday, March 17.
It will be staged at Event City, Manchester, on Saturday, October 12, and at the Emirates Stadium, London, on Sunday, October 13
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The Pick Pay Taste of Durban is back from 25 – 27 July Suncoast. 9 of Durban's best restaurants will fashion special menus of starter sized dishes for the occasion, including signature dishes created by our featured chefs designed to reflect their philosophy and showcase seasonal and premium ingredients in an unbeatable alfresco gourmet setting.
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