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Harriet the Spy, Queer Hero
"Reading Harriet the Spy today as an adult, I find a queer subtext throughout. Not only is Harriet the quintessential baby butch, but her best friends, Sport and Janie, run exactly contrary to gender stereotypes. Sport acts as the homemaker and nurturing caretaker of his novelist father, while Janie the scientist plans to blow up the world one day. It was as if Fitzhugh was telling us kids back in the sixties that you didn't have to play by society's rules, the first lesson a queer kid has to learn in order to be happy."
"I never attacked anyone weak."
Cult writer Renata Adler, whose novel Speedboat has been reissued by NYRB Classics, sits down for an interview with The Believer. [more inside]
Amazon buys Goodreads
The social book site Goodreads has been acquired by Amazon. Many members are upset and uncertain what this means for site which has relied on members to do the work of building and maintaining their database. Amazon already owns Shelfari and has a 40% stake in LibraryThing, two competing sites.
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Cozy Classics are board book versions of classic novels, each story represented by 12 child-friendly words and 12 needle-felted illustrations, with the idea of developing "early literacy"—everything children know about reading and writing before they can actually do either. Current titles include Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Les Miserables, and War and Peace, with Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist forthcoming. [more inside]
Ask Nicola
Thirty Years Later: The last self-help book.
Percy and Sagan in the Cosmos: On the 30th anniversary of "The Last Self-Help Book." "Lost in the Cosmos is the most peculiar book of Percy's career, and in my judgment his finest achievement. I read it when it first appeared, and if you had asked me at the time whether I expected the book to be relevant in 30 years, I probably would have said no. It seemed so topical, so of its moment; and how long could that moment last? But re-reading it in preparation for this essay I saw how little it matters that many people today will know nothing or nearly nothing about Phil Donahue or Carl Sagan. Their immediate heirs are with us every day when we turn on the TV." [more inside]
On Chicago Public Schools Censoring Persepolis's Images of Torture
Suffice it to say, Persepolis is quite a work. It's a testament to the power of the graphic novel. The art's simple linework helps the story feel unpretentious and direct. Persepolis was adapted as a 2007 French animated film, written and directed by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. Among other honors, it was nominated for an Academy Award. Why would someone want to ban such a book?
The Atlantic - Benj Edwards
The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson
Famous writer Anne Carson on ice bats: "I made up ice bats, there is no such thing." (SLNYT) [more inside]
The duty of the satirist is to go one worse than reality
Five classic book reviews from the New Statesmen archive: Including V S Pritchett on Orwell's 1984, V S Naipaul on Memento Mori by Muriel Spark and Martin Amis on J G Ballard's High Rise.
"The new creativity is pointing, not making."
Proudly Fraudulent: [The Awl] An Interview With MoMA's First Poet Laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith. [Previously] [Previously]
"I'd like to thank God, who was super supportive during all this."
Thank You to the Author's Many, Many Important Friends - How the acknowledgments page became the place to drop names.
The myth of universal love
"All people are not equally entitled to my time, affection, resources or moral duties." In his book "Against Fairness," (trailer) Stephen T. Asma argues in defense of favoritism and against universal love. "Whence then do we find morality and justice in an unfair world?" [more inside]
The Mystery of the Book Sales Spike
Last August, a book titled "Leapfrogging" hit The Wall Street Journal's list of best-selling business titles upon its debut. The following week, sales of the book, written by first-time author Soren Kaplan, plunged 99% and it fell off the list. [...] But the short moment of glory doesn't always occur by luck alone. In the cases mentioned above, the authors hired a marketing firm that purchased books ahead of publication date, creating a spike in sales that landed titles on the lists.
The New Essayists
"A talented writer such as John Jeremiah Sullivan might, fifty years ago, have tried to explore his complicated feelings about the South, and about race and class in America, by writing fiction, following in the footsteps of Walker Percy and Eudora Welty. Instead he produced a book of essays, called Pulphead, on the same themes; and the book was received with the kind of serious attention and critical acclaim that were once reserved for novels. But all is not as it seems. You do not have to read very far in the work of the new essayists to realize that the resurrection of the essay is in large measure a mirage." (via) [more inside]
Not suitable for ebooks
Flooded? A hurricane hit your house? Somebody left a cake book out in the rain and you'll never see that recipe again? Courtesy of Heritage Preservation: how to save wet books.
"His writing is not about something; it is that something itself."
In theory: the unread and the unreadable - "We measure our lives with unread books – and 'difficult' works can induce the most guilt. How should we view this challenge?"
Rewarding The Poison Pen
The Omnivore's Hatchet Job of the Year rewards "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past 12 months," with the winning critic taking home a golden hatchet and a year's supply of potted shrimp. 2013's winner: Camilla Long, for her devastating review of Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir, Aftermath. Among other things, she described it as a nasty, bizarre memoir written by a "brittle little dominatrix and peerless narcissist." (Via) [more inside]
Ian McEwan's Uneasy Relationship With Fiction
Influential- though vile and ponderous
BBC Radio 4 Book Club: 179 episodes now available online
Book Club. This 30-minute programme's been on Radio 4, the BBC's premier speech radio station, since 1998. Books are announced a month in advance, giving listeners a chance to read the chosen title before the discussion. James Naughtie then interviews the book's author about it in front of an audience of his (or her) readers, who also put questions of their own. My favourites from the programme's archive include Alan Bennet (Writing Home), Clive James (Unreliable Memoirs), Douglas Adams (a 1 hour special on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Elmore Leonard (Rum Punch), James Ellroy (Black Dahlia), PJ O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell) and Stephen Fry (The Hippopotamus). No doubt you'll have your own. [more inside]
Pristine Condition! Super Fast Shipping! Five Stars!
Amazon contemplating the used ebook market. But will they still have used book coffee rings on the pages? [more inside]
Dreams of Space
Dreams of Space. A blog featuring art from non-fiction children's space flight books 1945-1975. Lots of great graphics, from the realistic to the now fanciful. I must also point out the wonderful Czech pop-up book and A Trip to Outer Space With Santa.
The Bookstore Strikes Back
Ann Patchett opened a new independent bookstore in Nashville, despite being told that books are dead.
They do furnish a room
Bookish is a nifty new book recommendation engine.
The shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy
"Twenty five years ago I quit a job on Wall Street to write a book about Wall Street. Since then, every year or so, UPS has delivered to me a book more or less like my own, written by some Wall Street insider and promising to blow the lid off the place, and reveal its inner workings, and so on. By now, you might think, this game should be over. The reading public would know all it needed to know about Wall Street, and the publishing industry would be forced to look to some other industry for shocking confessions from insiders. Somehow this isn't the case."
An affected, narcissistic creep, but he's also a genius.
The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much
"De Villiers has spent most of his life cultivating spies and diplomats, who seem to enjoy seeing themselves and their secrets transfigured into pop fiction (with their own names carefully disguised), and his books regularly contain information about terror plots, espionage and wars that has never appeared elsewhere. Other pop novelists, like John le Carré and Tom Clancy, may flavor their work with a few real-world scenarios and some spy lingo, but de Villiers's books are ahead of the news and sometimes even ahead of events themselves." (SLNYT)
The Book of Coach
"For those who coached under Walsh, Finding the Winning Edge was a study of the genius beyond his playbook. For those who coached against him, it was a window into the mind of their nemesis." -- The Coaching Philosophy of Bill Walsh. The book is now out of print and even a used copy will cost you $1,249.99 on Amazon.
Controversial anatomy books
Anatomy is a respected medical science, aims at a better knowledgement of human body structures. there were two books in Anatomy that made a lot of controversy, the first one is Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf, and the second one is The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice by by Professors R. Frederick Becker, James S. W. Wilson, and John A. Gehweiler. [more inside]
How the Future Changed
RIP Sol Yurick
Sol Yurick, author of the book that was the basis for Metafilter favorite film The Warriors, has died at 87.
Archie's Recipes
Archie's Recipes - When my grandparents passed away my family rediscovered an old family recipe book that my great grandfather wrote by hand in an old ledger. [via mefi projects]
The more I look the more I see things that make me want to look away BUT I CAN'T.
Happy Thomas Pynchon rumor day! [LAtimes.com] "What's that, you say? America's most reclusive author, Thomas Pynchon, appeared in the news Friday -- not once but twice? Why, yes, yes, he has, surfacing in two unconnected rumours. Conspiracy? Pynchonian? Maybe we should henceforth designate Jan. 4 as Thomas Pynchon Rumor Day." [more inside]
The Old Corner Bookstore is Now a Chipotle
"'Personally, I think it's slightly sad how easy it was to get,' Jessica says, referring to the building. She brightens. 'But everyone at Chipotle was really excited to get this spot because of the history, the chance to be a part of Boston's history. This is the oldest retail location in Boston.'" (via)
Finding the "just right" book
What's the right age to introduce children to literature with challenging themes? Authors, teachers, librarians and critics weigh in. (SLNYT)
"I watched the entire street turn hot and black with smoke and then, after a few minutes, stared up at the hole in the roof and saw thousands of small gray ashes—pieces of paper, books, newspapers—floating down from the sky."
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is a project initiated by San Francisco bookseller and poet Beau Beausoleil that began as a response to the 2007 bombing [previously on MeFi] of the Baghdad bookselling center Al-Mutanabbi Street. After the attack the authorities made an effort to revive the area but recently the government has begun to make life difficult for the booksellers and intends to turn the street into an animal market. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project consists of book art created by 260 artists and authors from all over the world, but also includes essays, exhibitions and readings, some of which have been put online as videos. You can see a lot of artists' books online at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts and the Centre for Fine Print Research (1, 2, 3). The history of the project was told in a recent essay in World Literature Today by Persis M. Karim.
The Secret Lives of Readers
The Secret Lives of Readers Books reveal themselves. Whether they exist as print or pixels, they can be read and examined and made to spill their secrets. Readers are far more elusive. They leave traces—a note in the margin, a stain on the binding—but those hints of human handling tell us only so much. The experience of reading vanishes with the reader.
How do we recover the reading experiences of the past? Lately scholars have stepped up the hunt for evidence of how people over time have interacted with books, newspapers, and other printed material.
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre
"People haven't been fascinated by this book because the translation is mellifluous or beautiful," said Michael F. Suarez, a professor of English at the University of Virginia who directs the Rare Book School there. "People haven't been attracted to this book because the presswork is beautiful. It's not." Instead, the Bay Psalm Book is treasured for being the first surviving piece of printing done in the British North American colonies. Only 11 copies, many incomplete, today survive. Remarkably two of those copies belong to the same owner, Boston's Old South Church. This month, the church made the controversial decision to sell one (the first such sale in 65 years), and it could bring as much as $20 million for the church's endowment.
"There's a lack of pretentiousness to the word 'comic book' that I think suits the medium itself very, very nicely."
The NYT Book Review just named it one of the 5 best fiction books of the year. The AV Club helpfully posted a video to show you what happens when you open it. Actually, lots of folks posted videos to show you what happens when you open it. Other folks raved in print about the author and his career. The Comics Journal asked a dozen critics of the author's work to send in reviews; this one focuses on the role of disability in the narrative. This one notes the book "is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead, and it investigates more fully than any other comic I have ever read the way they age, fall in love, explore their sexuality, come to terms with compromises they've had to make as they've grown, accept their limitations, confront squandered ability, have children (or choose not to have children), marry (or stay single), and make sense of the world around them." You might find Chris Ware's Building Stories worth a look or two. Or fourteen. [more inside]
End-of-year lists are fingerprints
BLDGBLOG Books Received
There is always a last time for everything
Is Science Fiction promoting pseuodoscience? Is it not really better than fantasy? Is it exhausted and dying, per Paul Kincaid (part 1, part 2), a sort of genre-writing version of completing a list of The Nine Billion Names of God? Does physics-bothering unrepentant space case Alistair Reynolds have a compass pointing the way forwards?
Highlighting forgotten, neglected, abandoned, forsaken, unrecognized, unacknowledged, overshadowed, out-of-fashion, under-translated writers.
My little piece of Heaven
People posting photographs of their bookshelves:
Father in Law's Library, built by hand in about 5 years: The card file. Details & overview.
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare: Building Wall Shelving for 9000 Books.
"…first time in years I've been able to get most of my books out of cardboard boxes and onto shelves…"
My desk after four months of working in a bookstore.
Nigella Lawson's library. [more inside]
Father in Law's Library, built by hand in about 5 years: The card file. Details & overview.
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare: Building Wall Shelving for 9000 Books.
"…first time in years I've been able to get most of my books out of cardboard boxes and onto shelves…"
My desk after four months of working in a bookstore.
Nigella Lawson's library. [more inside]
The Best of Times, The Worst of TImes
Released today: the top Google searches of 2012. Also, the top Google searches in the UK.
Hungry for more "Best of 2012" collections? Curious about "best of" versus "most popular"? There's much [more inside]
Hari Krugman
"There are certain novels that can shape a teenage boy's life. For some, it's Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; for others it's Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As a widely quoted internet meme says, the unrealistic fantasy world portrayed in one of those books can warp a young man's character forever; the other book is about orcs. But for me, of course, it was neither. My Book – the one that has stayed with me for four-and-a-half decades – is Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, written when Asimov was barely out of his teens himself. I didn't grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation." [Paul Krugman: Asimov's Foundation novels grounded my economics]
"Consider hybridisation in the following way. The mixing of a unicorn with a dragon leads to a hybrid, the rhinoceros!"
Thanks, Textbooks. A Collection Of The World's Finest Academic Writing. (Updated Every Monday). *or not


text: Study: Google Market Share Up in April ,----[ Quote ] | MSN, which is owned by Microsoft Corp., lost market share, to 9 percent | from 10.1 percent. `---- http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070521/netratings_search_share.html?.v=1 At least they are consistent. ;-) Related: Google rises at Yahoo's expense ,----[ Quote ] | Google's share is rising at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft. | While Google's share rose 6.1 percentage points last year, Yahoo'sf | ell 0.6 percentage points and Microsoft's dropped 1.1 percentage | point, ComScore numbers show. `---- http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6178164.html Google draws 64 pct of US search queries-Hitwise ,----[ Quote ] | Hitwise said Yahoo search queries slipped to about 21.3 percent from | close to 21.5 percent in February and 22.3 percent in March 2006, | while MSN Search dipped to 9.2 percent from 9.3 percent in February | and 13.1 percent a year ago. `---- http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070411:MTFH18887_2007-04-11_16-33-02_N11222739&type=comktNews&rpc=44 http://tinyurl.com/3yj54k Microsoft Continues to Lose Online Popularity ,----[ Quote ] | This week's Emarketer and Comscore reports drive home Microsoft's | continuing fall from online `---- http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070326/30668_id.html?.v=1 Google extended U.S. search lead in Feb., report says ,----[ Quote ] | Google Inc. extended its leading share of the U.S. market for | Internet searches in February, posting year-over-year growth of | 40%, according to a report released Tuesday by the research | firm Nielsen/NetRatings. The company's search business grew much | faster than that of its rivals Yahoo Inc., which posted 12% | growth, and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN unit, with 9.1%. `---- http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b93DE01CF-BA45-4ED0-BEDF-CE6FC62D9CA1%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps ,----[ Quote ] | Bill's biggest regret? Not bypassing middle management that wasn't | listening to him scream about the coming threat of Google and going | right up to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. `---- http://searchengineland.com/070309-094930.php Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company ,----[ Quote ] | The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into | Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he | helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc. `---- http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo http://tinyurl.com/2jran7 Windows Live to Get First OEM Bundle ,----[ Quote ] | The initial bundling would be for the Live homepage and Windows Live | Toolbar, according to sources. Live search also is expected to be | included in the deal. Other products or services could come in the | future. `---- http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/live_side.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 http://tinyurl.com/2jjymp Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines ,----[ Quote ] | An article in Seattle-Post Intelligencer displays a graph showing the | growth and number of queries of Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo. | The most apparent conclusion that can be drawn from this picture is | that Microsoft can not start a battle with Google until it defeats | Yahoo first. Bill Gates? company trails Yahoo by nearly a billion | queries. Yahoo has also shown growth over the past couple of years, | while MSN/Live search has stagnated and floundered under 700 million | queries. | | Microsoft's inability to gain a significant market share, despite a | growth in the market of over 3 billion queries in the past two years, | just typifies how the company has shown little inability to shoo | away the gnat that has become a real nuisance in Google. `---- http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/07/microsofts_futile_attempt_at_search_engines.html?partner=rss Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign ,----[ Quote ] | Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows | Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources | close to the company. `---- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296 Friday roundup: Troubles in Microsoft Live land ,----[ Quote ] | It hasn't been such a great Friday for the Live teams over at Microsoft. `---- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=281 Software Notebook: Microsoft falls further behind in Web search ,----[ Quote ] | "If I looked at this, and I were a Microsoft executive, I would | definitely be concerned that MSN is not showing nearly the kind | of growth that Google and Yahoo are," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst | at the independent Directions on Microsoft research firm. | | The statistics demonstrate the ongoing struggle that Microsoft | faces in Web search. The situation is notable in part because of | the ad revenue that hinges on the number of people using a | particular search site. `---- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/306054_software05.html?source=rss Microsoft profit on slide ,----[ Quote ] | Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from | Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market | share in web search to Google. | | Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last | four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while | it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled | the company's web properties. `---- http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Is Windows Live dying? ,----[ Quote ] | Over the last year, Microsoft's Windows Live service lineup has | grown exponentially. At one point months ago, it seemed clear | that every service Microsoft brought online would fall under the | Live brand, but lately the trend seems to be moving slowly in | the opposite direction. What's happening to Windows Live? `---- http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/20/7154 Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain ,----[ Quote ] | From today Windows Live Shopping beta will be taken offline, with users | being sent to MSN Shopping, available at shopping.msn.com. `---- http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/02/19/windows-live-shopping-no-more-msn-shopping-to-remain.aspx http://tinyurl.com/287gy6 Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted ,----[ Quote ] | Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been | shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been | given as to the reason for its demise. `---- http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423 Office Live: Better Off Dead? ,----[ Quote ] | Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after | repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another | registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office | Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put | an end to the wanton killing. `---- http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o Connecting the dots on Windows 7 ,----[ Quote ] | I would have asked one more follow up: Was Gates hinting that | Microsoft will build more of its currently standalone Windows | Live services right into the operating system? `---- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=241 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssX4RL24HT4 Where Should Vendors Stick Their Services? ,----[ Quote ] | Wondering if you noticed the news over at Microsoft Watch this week | that Microsoft has done what many considered inevitable: Started | using Windows as a way to hawk Windows Live Services? | | It's not too surprising to me that Microsoft is splashing all over | its Welcome to Vista screen (at least in one of the latest Vista test | builds, No. 5506) promotional links, inviting users to download Windows | Live Messenger, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Mail Desktop, and more. | But I was surprised the Redmondians would be so bold as to actually | embed Windows Live Messenger into Vista. After all the antitrust | lawsuits Microsoft has been slapped with here, there and everywhere ? | many of which have focused on its "innovative integration" (a k a, | bundling) strategies, you'd think they'd be a little more cautious. | | With the actual Windows Live Messenger code (not just a download link) | being integrated right into Vista, I think Microsoft might be really | going out on a limb. When backed into a corner before about its | integration strategy, Microsoft's defense was that removing any of | the integrated components (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, | etc.) would break the OS. But if Vista test builds have been working | just fine (well, middling, maybe, based on some not-so-happy tester | comments) without Windows Live Messenger, how can Microsoft make a | case for it being part of Windows? `---- http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2005413,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 Welcome to college, here's your Windows Live account http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/23/3719 Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe ,----[ Excerpt ] | Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding, | contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe. `---- http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote Microsoft rivals file second European complaint ,----[ Quote ] | ...Microsoft was preventing access to Vista's programming interfaces | and hindering the development of compatible products, thus repeating | anti-competitive violations the commission had identified three | years ago in a previous operating system. `---- http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7bAF5B8FB2-488F-4468-80B8-21F6EEE223E3%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo http://tinyurl.com/2ybdot Microsoft Loses About 5% Search Share in 2 Years ,----[ Quote ] | Also, not helping? Their search technology pretty much sucks. While | it's nice to blame the brand change for the loss in market-share, it | really comes down to the quality of the search results. Apart from | their image search, I've never found Microsoft's search technology - | btw, even I don't know whether to call it MSN, Windows Live, | Live Search, Windows Search - to be of any great value. | | BTW, something else curious from the BW piece... | | Steve Berkowitz, who was hired last May to rev up the Web | business as senior vice-president for Microsoft's Online | Services Group, declined to comment. | | Declined to comment? Business Week runs an article on your search | efforts, and the guy in charge refuses to talk about it? Maybe they | need to keep on shuffling the executive deck of cards, until they | find someone with enough, you know what, to face the music and tell | us what's going on, and what they're doing to right the ship. `---- http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/03/23/microsoft-loses-about-5-search-share-in-2-years http://tinyurl.com/ytwd4l

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Choosing gifts for your friends out of so many kinds and varieties available in the market is a very difficult and confusing situation. You would want to buy luxury gifts when it comes to giving gifts to your close friends. There are some gifts which are considered as luxury gifts and I have mentioned them below for your convenience. Plush Robes: Plush Robes come under luxury gifts, it might be a little expensive also, but your friend will appreciate this gift. You can get different kinds of robes in stores and you can also buy them online from different websites. You will get a good deal when you buy it online. Assorted Cheese Basket: If your friend likes cheese, then there is nothing like giving a basket of cheese with assorted varieties. You can get cheese baskets which are specially packed for giving as gifts in almost all the supermarkets and you can also buy them online. Electronic Gadgets: If your friend is a tech geek then you can buy electronic gadgets like, iPod, iPod touch, iPads, digital cameras, etc. to give as a gift. You should buy them in advance when they have offers, some online deals can help you get these modern gadgets at a very cheap price. Anyone can afford these gadgets these days with so many discounts and clearance sales. Tickets to Their Favorite Shows: Some people just love to watch shows, live concerts, theater shows. If you have a friend who is also a fan, then you should buy tickets to show which is running in his or her neighborhood and surprise him with your gift. So, gifts can be anything which is given out of love and respect. You can make any gift as a luxury gift, by your way of presenting it or wrapping it. It doesn't matter what is there inside, all that matters is your love and feelings.


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With the Christmas holiday rapidly approaching, Bylos took some time to tease what Funcom has planned this yearÂs holiday event. Bylos refused to delve into spoiler bits but he does urge players to keep an eye open for Krampus. And while this yearÂs event will be new, Funcom will also be re-enabling a slightly tweaked version of last yearÂs event as well.
Lastly, Bylos offered up a few details about the upcoming Issue #9 update and the opening of Tokyo. Bylos apologized for the Tokyo regionÂs delay, which is expected to release in early 2014. One of the big changes coming with the update is the new AEGIS system and how it will factor into combat within Tokyo. Bylos did offer a few tidbits of information on what players can expect.
ÂAs a mechanic, it means that creatures in Tokyo have begun to develop different types of defensive shielding: initially three types which - based on the host creature archetype - will provide complete protection from regular damage. These shields differ in type and effect, however and this is where the AEGIS system differs to a resistance system. They react in different ways to different abilities, they charge/reform/recast/splinter/reflect and they encourage you to take an active interest in the strengths and weaknesses of different shield types and how to overcome them.Â
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Judy Jones was a typical fourteen-year-old teenager growing up in Streatham, England in the 1980's, when a brick wall fell down on her, trapping her in a phone booth. Against all odds she survives. Distraught over the realization that his daughter may never be the same again, her father turns to the church to save his little girl while her mother focuses on the pragmatic details of nursing her broken daughter back to health. Before the Jones family has time to heal from the trauma of the accident Judy and her father leap into the open arms of the Catholic Church while, her mother battles with the reality that her role in the house has changed.
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1986 1988–1989 1990-1993 1994 1995–1998 1999–2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008–2011 | UCLA (GA) UCLA (QB) UCLA (WR) Colorado (OC) Colorado Washington Rainier Beach HS (WA) (vol) Baltimore Ravens (QB) Baltimore Ravens (OC) UCLA |
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Overall | 87–59 |
Bowls | 5–3 |
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships 1 Pac-10 (2000) | |
Awards Rose Bowl MVP (1984) |
Rick Neuheisel | |
Neuheisel at the UCLA spring scrimmage in April 2011 | |
Sport(s) | Football |
Biographical details | |
Born | Madison, Wisconsin | February 7, 1961
Playing career | |
1980–1983 1984–1985 1987 1987 | UCLA San Antonio Gunslingers San Diego Chargers Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1986 1988–1989 1990-1993 1994 1995–1998 1999–2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008–2011 | UCLA (GA) UCLA (QB) UCLA (WR) Colorado (OC) Colorado Washington Rainier Beach HS (WA) (vol) Baltimore Ravens (QB) Baltimore Ravens (OC) UCLA |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 87–59 |
Bowls | 5–3 |
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships 1 Pac-10 (2000) | |
Awards Rose Bowl MVP (1984) |
Richard Gerald "Rick" Neuheisel, Jr. (/ˈnuːhaɪzəl/; German: [ˈnɔʏhaɪzəl]; born February 7, 1961), is a TV football analyst, former American football coach, former player, and attorney. He was most recently the head coach at UCLA, his alma mater, from 2008 to 2011.[1] Prior to UCLA, Neuheisel was the head coach at Colorado from 1995 to 1998 and Washington from 1999 to 2002. From 2005 to 2007, he was an assistant coach with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, as quarterbacks coach for two seasons and offensive coordinator for one.
Before coaching, Neuheisel played quarterback at UCLA from 1980 to 1983, then spent two seasons with the San Antonio Gunslingers of the United States Football League before splitting the 1987 NFL season between the San Diego Chargers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Neuheisel was born in Madison, Wisconsin, one of four children and the only son of Dick and Jane (Jackson) Neuheisel, with sisters Nancy, Katie, and Deborah. Dick is an attorney and Rick grew up in Tempe, Arizona, and graduated from McClintock High School in 1979. He lettered in three sports (football, basketball, baseball) and was named its outstanding athlete during his senior year.
Neuheisel played his college football at UCLA, beginning his career as a walk-on and holding placekicks for John Lee. He was the starting quarterback in his senior year in the 1983 season. UCLA opened with a loss at Georgia, a tie with Arizona State and then a 42–10 loss at #1-ranked Nebraska. Neuheisel was benched after the Nebraska loss in favor of Steve Bono. On October 1, the Bruins lost to BYU to start the season 0–3–1. Bono was injured during the Stanford game, and Neuheisel came back to finish the season.[2] Neuheisel led the Bruins to an eventual 6–4–1 record, culminating with a win over arch-rival USC that, combined with Washington State's upset of Washington, gave UCLA the Pac-10 championship in 1983 and sent them to the Rose Bowl on January 2, 1984.
Neuheisel led the Bruins to a 45–9 victory over 4th-ranked and heavily favored Illinois in the 1984 Rose Bowl, in which he was named the MVP; two of his four touchdown passes were caught by a sophomore wide receiver from San Diego named Karl Dorrell, a future Neuheisel assistant coach and later his predecessor as the UCLA head coach.[3] The victory vaulted the Bruins, unranked through most of the season, into the top 25 in wire service polls. Much like his rise to stardom at UCLA, the road to the victory was a bumpy one. Neuheisel and two other players on the defensive side of the ball suffered from food poisoning hours before the Rose Bowl and it was unsure that Neuheisel would start. Neuheisel would end up starting the game. He also set an NCAA record that year for single game pass completion percentage (since broken) by completing 25 of 27 passes (92.6%) in a Pac-10 win over Washington. In 1998, Neuheisel was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
Neuheisel was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic team and graduated from UCLA in May 1984 with a B.A. in political science and a 3.4 GPA. Neuheisel still holds the UCLA single season record for completion percentage, completed 185 of 267 passes (69.3%) for 2,245 yards in the 1983 season. He was also a member of Sigma Nu fraternity while a student.
Neuheisel's professional career included two seasons with the San Antonio Gunslingers (1984–1985) of the USFL and three games with the San Diego Chargers of the NFL in the strike season of 1987. He closed out the season's final two games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but did not receive any playing time. He was the last player to score a one-point conversion on a run in the NFL; the conversion was changed to two points in 1994.
While attending USC Law School on an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, Neuheisel served as a graduate assistant with UCLA, where he tutored Troy Aikman. He graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from USC in 1988[4] and passed the Arizona State Bar in May 1991 and the Washington, D.C. Bar in March 1993.
He later became a full-time assistant coach in 1988, and stayed at UCLA through the 1993 season. In 1994, he moved to Colorado as an assistant to Bill McCartney.
McCartney retired following the 1994 season and Neuheisel, age 34, was named the head coach. He stayed for four seasons (1995–1998) in Boulder as the Buffs coach. His best season was his first, in which the Buffs tied for second in the final season of Big Eight Conference play and won the Cotton Bowl. His only losing season at Colorado was 1997; the Buffs were expected to be national title contenders, but never recovered from a blowout loss to Michigan on national television. After the season, the Buffs were forced to forfeit their five wins due to an ineligible player, though Neuheisel was subsequently ruled to not be affected.
Neuheisel was welcomed into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame before the 1999 Rose Bowl.[5] University of Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges took the opportunity to meet with him. She fired coach Jim Lambright and named Neuheisel as his replacement.[6] Neuheisel left for Seattle in January 1999 to coach at the University of Washington for four seasons (1999–2002). His starting salary was $1,000,000 annually, at the time one of the five highest in the nation.[6] One of Neuheisel's first acts was to restore the Huskies' traditional gold helmets; they had worn purple helmets for the previous four seasons.
In the 2000 season, the Huskies won the Pac-10 title and the Rose Bowl over Big Ten champ Purdue, led by quarterback Drew Brees. Their only loss was to the rival Oregon Ducks. Washington, led by senior quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo, the Rose Bowl MVP, finished the season at 11–1 and was ranked third in the final national polls. Neuheisel became the first and only former Rose Bowl MVP to coach a winning Rose Bowl team.
In 2008, The Seattle Times ran a series of articles which accused Neuheisel and athletic director Barbara Hedges of overlooking numerous discipline problems—including outright criminal behavior—during the 2000 season.[7] During that year, UW safety Curtis Williams was allowed to play despite being issued an outstanding arrest warrant for assaulting his wife, Michelle.[7] Linebacker Jeremiah Pharms was under investigation for robbing and shooting a drug dealer after police found his fingerprints at the scene, but was not charged until the season was over.[7] Jerramy Stevens, the Huskies star tight end, was under investigation of raping a UW freshman on sorority row.[7] When Stevens later crashed his truck into a retirement home, Neuheisel suspended him for half a game.[7]
In February 2003, Neuheisel secretly interviewed for the San Francisco 49ers coaching job without telling anyone at UW about it. The 49ers' general manager at the time, Terry Donahue, had been Neuheisel's head coach as a player and assistant coach at UCLA. A day after his interview, he issued a statement through UW's athletic department saying he wasn't interested in the job. However, a few days later, a Seattle newspaper reporter wrote that he'd seen Neuheisel discussing the 49ers job on his cell phone while the two were waiting for a flight at San Francisco International Airport. When Hedges found out about it, she and school president Lee Huntsman warned him that further lies would not be tolerated.[8]
Before Neuheisel coached his first game for the Huskies, he had already violated NCAA recruiting rules by visiting high school players before the NCAA approved date to do so.[9] In the summer of 2003, Neuheisel came under fire for taking part in a neighborhood pool for the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and lies he told about his actions. He first denied the accusation to investigators before admitting to it after consultation with school officials. The gambling case became a local sensation when it was revealed that he had received an internal UW memo which authorized gambling in off-campus tournament basketball pools. Hedges learned that the NCAA was considering giving Neuheisel a two-year show-cause order, which would have effectively blacklisted him from the coaching ranks for two years. She then gave Neuheisel an ultimatum—resign or be fired for cause. He refused, and was fired on June 11.[10]
That fall, the NCAA infractions committee found Neuheisel violated NCAA rules against gambling but didn't sanction him, citing the memo by Washington's then compliance officer, Dana Richardson, that mistakenly identified this type of action as a permissible exception to NCAA gambling sanctions.[11] It also became apparent that the NCAA violated its own rules when questioning Neuheisel about the gambling. UW had its probation extended for failing to monitor its football program.[12][13]
Neuheisel sued both the NCAA and the University of Washington concerning the termination of his employment contract. Toward the end of trial, it was revealed that the NCAA had failed to turn over certain crucial evidence to Neuheisel's attorneys. The new evidence (updated NCAA bylaws pertaining to rules investigations) bolstered Neuheisel's claim that the NCAA acted improperly during its investigation that eventually led to his firing. With the new evidence revealed, the NCAA and University of Washington requested to settle before the case went to the jury. The settlement awarded Neuheisel $4.5 million, consisting of cash payments and some loan forgiveness. He served as a volunteer coach for Rainier Beach High School in Seattle for two seasons (2003–2004).
Neuheisel became an assistant coach (quarterbacks) with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens in January 2005. In 2006, the Ravens acquired quarterback Steve McNair and won the AFC North division with a 13–3 record. After the season, Neuheisel was promoted to offensive coordinator.
Neuheisel was invited to two interviews regarding the head coaching position at his alma mater UCLA, following the firing of his former UCLA teammate, Karl Dorrell.[14] Ravens head coach Brian Billick assured that he would allow Neuheisel to leave the team before the completion of the 2007 NFL season.[15] Other candidates in which UCLA showed interest and interviewed included: Oregon Ducks Coach Mike Bellotti, Temple Owls Coach Al Golden, Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow, UCLA's defensive coordinator and interim coach DeWayne Walker, and then-Philadelphia Eagles assistant John Harbaugh.[16]
On December 29, 2007, Neuheisel was introduced as the head coach of the UCLA Bruins in a five-year contract that paid him $1.25 million per season and included incentives that could add $500,000 a year.[17] He immediately began to consolidate his coaching staff by retaining DeWayne Walker, Karl Dorrell's defensive coordinator and interim coach for the Bruins 2007 bowl game.[18] He made a major move by hiring Norm Chow, offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans and previously the offensive coordinator of crosstown rival USC's 2003 and 2004 national championship seasons.[19] He also began to make himself highly visible to the media, including appearing at the 2008 Rose Bowl[20] and coining the phrase "Passion Bucket" during an interview on The Dan Patrick Show by saying, "When you're at UCLA, you have to have your passion bucket full when you play the Trojans." He also appeared in an ad created by the UCLA athletics marketing department that declared, "The Football Monopoly in L.A. Is Officially Over"[21] and engineered an agreement with Pete Carroll that allows both UCLA and USC to wear their home jerseys during the annual game.[22] This home jersey arrangement begat a rule change for the 2009 football season.[23]
Neuheisel had his first win on September 1 with the Bruins as they defeated #18 Tennessee, 27–24. The win came in overtime as Tennessee's field goal try sailed wide left.[24] However, the team's momentum came to a halt in successive weeks. A brutal 59–0 defeat on the road at the hands of #15 BYU was followed by a disappointing 31–10 loss at home to unranked Arizona in the Bruins' Pac-10 opener. The UCLA offense failed to score a touchdown in either contest. The team finished the season 4–8 overall and 3–6 in conference.
Despite this record, Neuheisel was still able secure the fifth-best recruiting class in the nation in 2009 as rated by Scout.com. The class was headlined by two former USC commits, Morrell Presley and Randall Carroll, offensive linemen Xavier Sua-Filo and Stan Hasiak, and running back Damien Thigpen. Nevertheless, the Bruins fell to 4–8 in 2010, losing six of their last seven games and failing to receive a bowl berth. Player injuries and other attrition depleted UCLA of its roster depth, while true freshmen were forced into action and seniors who were previously reserves became starters; a quarterback who had attempted only 17 passes in his career became the starter.[25] At the end of the season Neuheisel fired two assistant coaches, including Chow, and said he would "be crushed ... if we're not going to a bowl game a year from now." [26]
The 2011 season brought about continued mediocre performance, although the team's record improved to 6-6 in regular season play. Despite the lackluster overall record, the Bruins won the first Pac-12 South Division title, as crosstown rival USC was ineligible due to NCAA sanctions. A 50-0 shutout loss to USC to end the regular season—UCLA's fifth consecutive loss to the Trojans—prompted speculation that Neuheisel would be fired.
Neuheisel was fired as head coach of UCLA on November 28, 2011. He was allowed to coach his final game at the December 2 Pac-12 Conference football Championship game, where the team lost 31–49 to the Oregon Ducks.[27]
In December 2011, Neuheisel joined CBS Sports Network as a guest analyst for their "Inside College Football" show.[28] In May 2012, the Pac-12 Network announced that he would be joining their networks as a studio analyst and a football game analyst starting with the 2012 football season.[29]
Neuheisel and his wife, Susan (née Wilkinson), have three sons: Jerry (b. April 1992), Jack (b. August 1994), and Joe (b. January 1997). Jerry is a quarterback at UCLA[30] and Jack is a wide receiver at Southern Methodist University.[31] Both graduated from Loyola High School in Los Angeles. His father, Richard "Dick" Gerald Neuheisel, Sr., is an attorney and past president of Sister Cities International.[32][33]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
Colorado Buffaloes (Big Eight/Big 12 Conference) (1995–1998) | |||||||||
1995 | Colorado | 10–2 | 5–2 | T–2nd | W Cotton | 4 | 5 | ||
1996 | Colorado | 10–2 | 7–1 | 2nd | W Holiday | 8 | 8 | ||
1997 | Colorado | 5–6[n 1] | 3–5 | T–4th | |||||
1998 | Colorado | 8–4 | 4–4 | 4th | W Aloha | ||||
Colorado: | 33–14 | 19–12 | |||||||
Washington Huskies (Pacific-10 Conference) (1999–2002) | |||||||||
1999 | Washington | 7–5 | 6–2 | 2nd | L Holiday | ||||
2000 | Washington | 11–1 | 7–1 | T–1st | W Rose† | 3 | 3 | ||
2001 | Washington | 8–4 | 6–2 | T–2nd | L Holiday | 19 | 19 | ||
2002 | Washington | 7–6 | 4–4 | T–4th | L Sun | ||||
Washington: | 33–16 | 23–9 | |||||||
UCLA Bruins (Pacific-10/Pacific-12 Conference) (2008–2011) | |||||||||
2008 | UCLA | 4–8 | 3–6 | 8th | |||||
2009 | UCLA | 7–6 | 3–6 | 8th | W EagleBank | ||||
2010 | UCLA | 4–8 | 2–7 | 9th | |||||
2011 | UCLA | 6–7[n 2] | 5–4 | 1st (South)[34][n 3] | Kraft Fight Hunger[n 2] | ||||
Total: | 87–59 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
†Indicates Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl, or College Football Playoff (CFP) game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll. |
Sporting positions | ||
Preceded by Jim Fassel | Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator 2007 | Succeeded by Cam Cameron |


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ST. LOUIS -- 'This isn't just about our future,' Bob Huss, vice president of the St. Louis Communications Workers of America retirees council, told the World as nearly 200 AT&T employees rallied outside the downtown AT&T tower here July 14. 'This is about the future of all working people.'
The CWA represents over 3,000 AT&T employees in the St. Louis area and about 1,500 retirees. Nationwide, CWA represents about 100,000 AT&T employees. Their contract with AT&T expired on April 4.
Huss, who retired from AT&T after 39 years of service, is mad as hell. 'They made almost $13 billion in profits last year and they want us to give back,' he said. 'All they care about is making more money.'
Nellie Girouard, who retired from AT&T after 43 years of service, told the World, 'If AT&T gets its way, retirees will have to choose between medicine and groceries.'
John Ebeling, vice president of the CWA print and media sector and vice president of the Greater St. Louis Central Labor Council, said, 'It should be against the law to go after retirees' benefits. It's their money, not the company's.'
Ebeling, like other CWA members, is also concerned about outsourcing, something Earlene Jones knows about first hand. Jones, president of CWA Local 6377, lost over 800 members last year due to outsourcing at Western Union. 'They shipped our jobs to India, Canada, Costa Rica and
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'This is not a new story,' she added. 'This is happening everywhere. AT&T, Western Union, the St. Louis Post Dispatch. We have to deal with
outsourcing on a national level. This is not just a CWA issue. It's a national issue.'
Lew Moye couldn't agree more. Moye, president of the St. Louis chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), recently retired from Chrysler after 44 years. However, retirement for him is bittersweet. His plant and his job have been shipped overseas. In fact, both St. Louis Chrysler plants now sit empty and lifeless -- like
the Ford and GM plants just miles away.
'This outsourcing has got to stop,' he told the World. 'We struggle every day to make ends meet, to pay the bills, to pay for health care and to put a little away for a rainy day, while they ship our jobs
Jim Kolve, vice president of CWA Local 6300, said, 'AT&T should not take advantage of the American worker because of the bad economy.'
Kolve, who also serves as president of the Greater St. Louis CWA City Council, added, 'This rally is to let the company know that we don't like their 'last, best and final' offer. And we're not going to take
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Imagine a world with no milk, yogurt, or butter. No cheese? No chance. Without pollinators, the dairy aisle would be a lot less plentiful. That's why the Whole Foods Market Lynnfield store in Massachusetts demonstrated to shoppers how many of their dairy department favorites would cease to exist without bees.
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- Without pollinators, most fruit-flavored yogurts would be gone.
- Pollinators are responsible for the chocolate in chocolate milk.
- Without bee-pollinated clover and alfalfa we might see up to a 50 percent reduction in milk products.
- Pollinators directly sustain the plant communities where animals graze for cheese production.
- Many of the other perishables in the dairy aisle, from almond milk to fruit juices, are only made possible because of bees.
Last year, the company executed a similar experiment in the produce department and found that 52 percent of the normal product mix in the department is dependent on pollinators. The latest science suggests that around 85 percent of plant species on Earth either requires or strongly benefits from insect pollination.
To help raise awareness about the importance of supporting honey bee populations, Whole Foods Market stores will host "Human Bee-In" events on Saturday, June 21 with family friendly activities, sampling and food demonstrations. Contact individual stores to learn about local events.
Additionally, from June 18-July 1, Whole Foods Market and The Xerces Society continue their ongoing partnership to " share the buzz," raising awareness for the critical role bees play in our food supply and educating consumers on how they can help. "Despite the critical role they play in sustaining our world, the situation for pollinators continues to be difficult," said Eric Mader of The Xerces Society's Pollinator Conservation Program. "Whether we are looking at honey bee declines, the massive downturn in monarch butterfly populations, or the risk of extinction now facing many bumble bee species, this is an incredibly tough time for pollinators. The stand that Whole Foods Market is taking to bring more attention to our pollinators should inspire all of us to speak out for these creatures, and to take action."Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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