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We spend the rest of the hour with someone who has fought tirelessly for women's rights here in the United States and around the world: Eve Ensler. Her new play is called "Emotional Creature" and is now playing in New York City. Ensler is the award-winning playwright and creator of "The Vagina Monologues" and V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Her new campaign is called One Billion...November 27, 2012 | Story -
As we broadcast from St. Louis, we turn to one of this election cycle's most closely watched U.S. Senate races. Republican Rep. Todd Akin is challenging Missouri's Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in one of a handful of contests nationwide that could potentially help Republicans regain control of the Senate. Akin's campaign has been mired in controversy since his infamous claims in August that women rarely become pregnant from what he...November 01, 2012 | Story
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On the 30th anniversary of the publication of "The Color Purple," we speak with author, poet and activist Alice Walker about her groundbreaking novel and its enduring legacy. Set mainly in rural Georgia in the 1930s, the book tells the story of a young, poor African-American woman named Celie and her struggle for empowerment in a world marked by sexism, racism and patriarchy. The novel earned Walker a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, making...September 28, 2012 | Story
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GF2 with 20mm v G1X?
Re: GF2 with 20mm v G1X?
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Jan 31, 2012
If you just go by the numbers, probably not. G1X sensor is not THAT much bigger, whereas the 20mm lens is quite a bit (1.5 stops) faster, plus is a prime with many fewer layers of glass muddying things up.
That said, with the Canon you do get a nice 4:1 zoom into the bargain, and Canon JPEG quality, which I've long put right up there with Olympus (and way above Panasonic's artless attempts). I keep coming across old snaps from my Canon 1/2.5" superzoom whose overall aesthetic in terms of color quality equals or exceeds anything I've gotten out of my G3. AND it had a usable Fill Flash function! Obviously I can't print the 5 MP JPEGs at poster size or rescue blown highlights in Lightroom, but within their limits they're really nice to look at and do exactly what I wanted them to do as photographs.
I"ll probably hold onto the G3 since I'm not a camera-a-year kind of guy, but I will be pretty curious to see what sort of images the G1X can make.
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In 2008, when I began submitting to publishers my children's book on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, I got a number of rejections that basically said: We love the idea, love the writing, love the story, but we don't think there will be interest in the market as the mission will be long over by the time the book comes out. Now, rejections are never fun to get, but these made me want to scream: This story is never over! This is the on-going story of our exploration of our solar system.
One of my beefs with the way science is often taught in school and presented in textbooks and even in many trade nonfiction children's books is that science is portrayed as a category of facts that kids need to learn rather than an ongoing, ever-changing set of questions people have about the world around them.
That's why I was SO pleased when my book The Mighty Mars Rovers: The incredible adventures of Spirit and Opportunitywas published as part of Houghton Mifflin's Scientists in the Field series this June, just two months before the next Mars rover Curiosity was scheduled to land on the red planet.
There are so many connections between Spirit and Opportunity's and Curiosity's missions that it's nearly impossible to miss that Mars exploration is an on-going question, on-going story. Many of the same people have been involved in both missions, from the main subject of my book, Steve Squyres, the principal science investigator for Spirit and Opportunity who is also involved in the science of the new mission, to Pete Theisinger and Rob Manning, lead engineers on both missions, to Jennifer Trosper, a mission manager for both missions, and Joy Crisp, a project scientist for both missions. Watching mission control during the nail-biting landing of Curiosity was like re-living the landings of Spirit and Opportunity – the familiar faces, the tension, the worries, the hopes, the awe. (If you missed the landing, you've got to see this cool 3-minute video that melds footage from mission control and launch parties across the country with simulations of the landing process.)
There's something else in the news these days that drives home the point that space exploration and science is an on-going quest. Astronaut Neil Armstrong died on August 25, 2012. The connection? Chapter one of The Mighty Mars Rovers opens on July 20, 1969, as a thirteen-year-old boy named Steve Squyres watched in wonder as the Apollo mission put people on the moon. In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did something (walking on the moon) that ultimately inspired a young boy to dream of sending rolling geologists to Mars. Steve Squyres and hundreds of thousands of other scientists and engineers safely landed Spirit and Opportunity on the red planet for a mission so successful that it essentially answered the question: Was there enough water on Mars to support life? (Yes!) With that question solidly answered, and with everything else we learned from Spirit and Opportunity's mission, today, the next Mars rover Curiosity can focus on searching for other building blocks of life. THIS is science.
The Mighty Mars Rovers and many books written by my INK colleagues and others can be used to show kids that science is an on-going quest, an on-going story. With the help of the internet, readers can be guided to see the connections between a book they read on a science topic (The Mighty Mars Rovers) and what is happening in that field today. (Check NASA's website for the latest on Curiosity's explorations of Mars, including other great videos.) Readers of The Mighty Mars Rovers who follow Curiosity's current mission can't help but notice many parallels and connections. Teacher can also encourage readers to make these connections by asking:
- How are the missions the same?
- How are they different?
- How has rover design, launch, and landing changed?
- What are the biggest challenges of the missions?
- How were they overcome?
- What questions are the missions designed to answer?
- What tools do the rovers and scientists have to answers those questions?
- And maybe most importantly: What questions might come next?
Discussion questions like these help students experience the connection between science books and what is happening in the field right now – and inspire readers to imagine science they may want to do – questions they might want to try to answer—when they grow up.
Oh, and one more thing. All those editors who rejected my book because of timing were wrong. Not just in a philosophical sense but in a literal sense. The mission I wrote about in The Mighty Mars Rovers is not over. Defying all expectations, Opportunity, expected to last a bit over three months in the harsh, frigid Martian environment, is STILL roving the red planet, sending back photos and information about our neighboring planet more than eight years later. That little rover is like the Indiana Jones of space exploration. You, your students, and your kids can catch up on Opportunity's most recent discoveries and see new photos sent back from Mars anytime you want.
The story continues…
Elizabeth Rusch
* A complete teachers' guide to The Mighty Mars Rovers, including discussion questions and hands-on activities, can be downloaded for free here.
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it actually would be awesome to see oro summon jiraiya and the hokages
if only he wasnt DEAD
it actually would be awesome to see oro summon jiraiya and the hokages
if only he wasnt DEAD
Terminator Pain was talking about how Kakashi warped away the nail that God Pain accelerated towards him. Plain as day. What you're suggesting is that Terminator Pain had no idea that God Pain willfully took the nail form the wood and accelerated it at Kakashi, what kind of logic is that my friend?
Even tho T Pain, lol xD, watched him do it and knows his abilities... c'mon even you can't overlook this. So you either refuse to accept the truth or you like to make up different scenarios that could totally be true, for someone who has never read Naruto before, or has no cognitive reasoning whatsoever.
I'm trying to help you lol so you don't make a fool of yourself, god forbid, making theories of things you've made up because you interpreted it in your special way.
You said something about becoming more knowledgeable, I too like people to know the truth rather than some made up fanfiction, and to help out by correcting what I can.
looking aside from you actually questioning my Logic, did you just attempt to disprove me otherwise while coming with this retarded logic and at the same time get way off topic? And then give me advise in not humiliating myself?
You take the cake...
^^ I wouldn't be the one to talk.......Have you forgotten the Fallacy arguments you made....i still haven't read how it wasn't a fallacy
Zetta Recommends: Naruto, Claymore, Death note, Elfen Lied, Berserk, Monster, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach,
Gameboy: "Its better to fight with honor than be silent and shit bricks"
let's just use a simple conversation to prove our points, shall we?!.
freakshow: Edo Tensei can summon anyone! Trapped in death god stomach or not! 100% proved!
everyone else who doesn't agree: show us a valid and empirical evidence that supports your theory!
fs: nahh!. ever heard of solid reasoning and logic?!.
eewhd: but your op has full of flaws. mind if i show you some?!.
your basic point is:
coffin 1 - shodaime
coffin 2 - nidaime
coffin 3 - yondaime [automatically because it follows a simple rule of 1, 2, 3]
but, let's look at it in a different analogy:
box 1 - apple
box 2 - banana
box 3 - cherry [automatically because it follows a simple rule of a, b, c]
now tell me, freakshow. is that what you call logic and solid reasoning?!.
i think no. for one, there is no valid proof that supports the theory. just pure speculation and assumptions based solely on your own belief and personal opinion. if it is already proven [as you claim], then what is the reason why we are still fighting. its like us arguing if there really is gravity!. lolz. we are still fighting because we think that you haven't shown a real valid proof that supports your argument. none, zilch, 0.
next time you reply, show us a real valid evidence that supports your positive claim. the burden of proof is in your hands so don't use the "prove me otherwise" thingy.
Last edited by vidzey; 11-08-2008 at 04:04 AM. Reason: bold and typos.
thank god i'm an atheist!
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
His entire argument is based off Appeal to ignorance fallacy, He can't explain why it couldn't of been anyone else beside the 4th, He completely ignored the fallacy arguments I pointed out, Its same ol Freakshow. If someone proves him wrong, he ignores it and parrots the same points that were disproven
I bet he will ignore your post as well as mine, He will either discredit us by calling us Trolls, which in itself would be an Ad Hominem or he will mention how he already has proven his points through solid reasoning w/o even answering our questions
Zetta Recommends: Naruto, Claymore, Death note, Elfen Lied, Berserk, Monster, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach,
Gameboy: "Its better to fight with honor than be silent and shit bricks"
Last edited by vidzey; 11-08-2008 at 06:03 AM. Reason: added quotes.
thank god i'm an atheist!
Oh my are you kidding me?...................... I thought I'd leave all this but It'll be disrespectful... Anywho..
The databook supported me, the Anime supported me, the logical reasonings supported me and all vidzey@ Had to come up with is that A,B,C breaking statement?
Did you pay attention to what I wrote all the time?
Basically, you also attempted to break the rule of nature and logic: Lets use you're cherry example:
If you plant a cherry tree, what do you expect? You certainly don't expect banana to grow out of it now do you?
When Orochiamru said he was going to mess up the old mans mind, he certainly didn't think, "lets bring out a fucking banana or the white fang!".... Now did he?
NO! He brought up 1st, 2nd.. Why? Because they were his fellow shinobi people whom he had close relationship with specially the first. And it would be perfectly explainable and understandable to bring out the fourth!
Now whatever you have to say, I will not agree if they go against these facts...
But I'm willing to agree to disagree.. I will not guarantee response either...
really?!. the databook and the anime confirmed that yondaime is in the third coffin?!. O_o.
and your logic is flawed by the way, so let's take that out.
there are some parts of the anime that are not shown in the manga.
for example:
so, one of your proof is not valid anymore. it contradicts each other in one way or another. a valid proof, as we all know, must be consistent.
i really lol'd at this one. nowhere in all of my replies did i mention a banana that grows from a cherry tree. trying to disprove my analogy by making it look like illogical, is not really a good tactic unless of course, you're trying to be humorous. and you accuse me of not reading your replies. lolz.
this argument is getting out of hand. maybe a mod is on the verge of getting this thread graveyarded, but still waits for a proof that can confirm the thread title [imo]. unless you can show us a valid and empirical evidence that confirms yondaime is in the third coffin, i can say that your argument is full of holes and fallacies which leads me from not believing in it.
'nyt and requiescat in pace, thread. [if ever].
please read zetta's rebuttals then answer them, if this thread is still not graveyarded, that is. thanks!.
thank god i'm an atheist!


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World Bank opens first Public Information Centre in Algeria
The World Bank, in partnership with the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACI), will shortly open its first Public Information Centre (PIC) in Algiers. The new move is aimed at promoting the World Bank's various activities in Algeria and elsewhere in the world.
According to APS, the draft agreement regarding the establishment of this centre, was signed Monday by CACI Director General, Mohamed Chami, and the World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb, Theodore Ahers, in the presence of the trade ministry's secretary general and representatives of Algerian employer associations.
The PIC will be officially inaugurated early July in CACI's premises. (menareport.com)
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Definition of puddingstone in English:
A conglomerate rock in which dark-coloured round pebbles contrast with a paler fine-grained matrix.
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Hyannis Mets in Action
Written by Kathleen Szmit
June 22, 2007
The Hyannis Mets kicked off the 2007 season with a home game against the Y-D Red Sox. While the boys in blue managed to score three great runs, it wasn't enough to overtake the defending CCBL Champs who took the win 6-3.
On Saturday evening the Mets redeemed themselves, garnering a win against the Orleans Cardinals, again at their McKeon Field home.
With teams still adjusting to the season's start, it was no surprise that there were more than a few errors to be had. The Mets were able to capitalize on four Cardinals' errors during the second inning, earning three runs to give them the lead.
Unfortunately the Mets ran into troubles of their own during the third but staged a comeback led by Dan Brewer in the fifth. Brewer clocked a solid single that got him to first, before teammate Shane Peterson's single allowed him to make it to third.
Kiko Vazquez brought in Brewer and led Peterson, who'd made it to second on a wild pitch, to third before being brought in by Scott Elmendorf.
After the Cardinals' reliever, Sam Brown, walked Phil Bell, Bell stole second and scored on a double from Patrick Long. Long's double earned the go-ahead and game winning runs, but, just in case, Dan Brewer smacked a double down the left field line to bring in Long with the Mets final run of the game.
The Kettleers battled the Mets on Sunday night in game one of the Patriot Cup race, winning by one run in a game that came down to the final out.
For the first few innings the game remained scoreless, but Hyannis eventually snagged a 3-1 lead.
A fifth inning eight-run rally lifted the Kettleers past the Mets, 9-3, however, and although the Mets closed the gap to one run, Cotuit's Garrett Richards drew the final out and secured the 9-8 win for the Kettleers.
Monday night the Mets were back in action at McKeon Field against the Harwich Mariners, where they again proved mighty with a 6-1 win.
For this game, it was all about the third inning, when the Mets roared to life. Bell led with a single before stealing second. Next up, David Macias and Brewer each reached first, Macias hit by a pitch and Brewer a walk, to load the bases.
It was up to Mets first baseman Peterson, who singled in Bell and Macias for the first two runs of the game. Back to back throwing errors by the Mariners allowed Brewer and Peterson to cross the plate next.
In the fourth, James Darnell added some excitement to the game, and a bit of padding to the Mets lead when he slammed in a gorgeous two-run homer over the left-field wall at McKeon to bring in Peterson.
Stellar pitching from closer James Jolicouer dashed any hopes the Mariners had of rallying. In the end it was Mets 6, Mariners 1.
Darkness thwarted the Mets' efforts to break a tie with the Bourne Braves in spite of the unexpected bonus of playing an extra inning. Garrett Sherrill continued to prove his worth and vie for that full-season contract when he pitched two more innings of shutout baseball. In spite of his efforts, however, the game ended in a 2-2 tie.
The Mets were likely longing for darkness on Wednesday as they dropped a game against Brewster 4-0.
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Contrary to the score, the Mets were able to garner five hits during the game, but getting a man across the plate just didn't happen.
At press time the Mets were scheduled to face Y-D in South Yarmouth tonight, with a game against the Mariners in Harwich on Saturday.
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So before you grab the family bug tent and head to the great outdoors with your jewelry business, take a look at a few of these tips:
1. Invest in the right equipment. And, yes, this includes a pop-up tent. It was a huge investment for us at the time -- we were a young family with a five-month-old baby, and money was tight, but after that first disastrous farmer's market in a bug tent, we somehow came up with the money we needed to buy a good tent for the outdoor shows I would be doing all summer. It was a good investment, since it paid for itself pretty quickly, and there were plenty of times when covered space at a show wasn't available. Before you take your tent out for a show, practice setting it up and breaking it down by yourself in the backyard, since you may not always have a helper!
Remember when I talked about the wind gusts in that big open field? Make sure you include some weights in your setup. Large rocks can be used to weigh down revolving earring displays (just hide the in the center), alligator clips for keeping your table coverings where they belong, and a couple of empty gallon milk jugs filled with sand and tethered to your tent with bungee cords will go a long way to keeping everything where it should be.
2. A good cooler is a must. That first summer that I did outdoor shows was a scorcher, with temperatures routinely climbing into the low 90s. (That's hot for this little corner of upstate New York!) Standing outside in that heat can leave you dehydrated and feeling sick in just a few hours, so I always made sure to bring a bag of ice and at least a gallon of water with me. Even on a cooler day, you can still get dehydrated pretty quickly when you're standing outside and talking with customers for five or six hours, so make sure you drink plenty of water. It was also nice to be able to have cold sandwiches and salads on hand for the all-day shows, because I always worked up an appetite when I got busy!
3. Don't forget the sunscreen and bug repellent, too! I'm probably one of the fairest-skinned people in all of North America, so even when I'm standing under a tent, I'm going to end up getting some kind of sunburn. And the bugs? Oh, yes, I make a tasty snack for them. There's nothing more attractive to a customer than buying jewelry from someone who is red-faced and scratching a million bug bites, right? So, yes, find some good sunscreen and some good bug repellent to keep yourself comfortable while spending the day outdoors at a craft fair or festival.
One of my favorite parts of doing outdoor craft shows, fairs, and festivals is the face-to-face interaction I get with customers. It's a way to let them experience my work in person, a place where they can handle and see the workmanship up close. Of course, any time you make a sale at an outdoor show, you should make sure to include a couple of business cards and contact information to turn customers into repeat customers.
Get your copy of How to Sell Jewelry Online and get the information you need to help turn your summertime jewelry business into a year-round venture!
Do you have any tips for doing outdoor craft fairs or art shows? Leave a comment here on the Beading Daily blog and share them with us!
Bead Happy,
1ST let me thank-you for teaching me so much through your e-newsletters (aboutDOTcom years ago!), and through those e-newsletters giving me the courage to turn my hobby into a small business!
I live in Scotland (UK) now and the outdoor markets I go to are usually in wind-blown and terribly dusty conditions. So my niche item - inexpensive birthstone stacker bracelets - are pinned to a fabric draped piece of cardboard by month then the board is covered with cling-wrap to protect the display from the dust. Each bracelet is identified by month on the board and prices clearly noted.
I have the actual sale bracelets already packed into grip-seal bags and filed in a lidded plastic shoe box according to month - my buyer asks for their month(s) and I can hand them the clean bracelet from the box. Judging from my sales, they love how clean things are!
I pack a home printed card in each bag - on one side is the usual business card info included the line 'I do bespoke - contact me via email', and on the other materials and care information. I've got a lot of repeat business from those cards and so far haven't needed to sell online for income during the non-show months.
Love reading your e-newsletters. I always find out useful info.
RE: weights for pop up tents, we have five cats at home, so I (with help from my daughter), bring 25 lb. boxes of unopened cat litter and place the boxes on the little metal tabs on each corner post of the tent and that keeps the tent from folding in the winds, without any problems.
I have been doing outdoor shows now for quite a few years and have found that even weighting the canopy down doesn't always help but it sure is better than chasing after things with every gust of wind. I also have used double sided tape to attach my jewelry stands to the table covers that I use. This kind of venue always presents new challenges no matter how prepared you are but I have gotten used to carrying almost everything with me including scissors, tape, bungie cords and assorted other items along with projects to do in down time. It never hurts to be able to show your customers that you do make the items yourself if possible.
I purchased a collapsible wagon that will carry my tent, tables (fold up), chair, cooler, merchandise etc. it is so easy to unfold and load and then get to my booth area then will fit under the table during the event. I purchased it at Big 5 Sporting goods, but have seen it at Academy sporting goods and Sam's club. They run about $65.00-$90.00 and are worth every penny! The wagon folds up for storage and to ride in the car! Check it out!!
I too sunburn in the shadows and act as a bug magnet. Carry a bottle of spray-on Bactine, that old childhood favorite. It will kill any itchy bite and help them heal. Use cider vinegar to kill a sunburn. It doesn't heal it but it does take the sting away.
Instead of sand, fill those jugs with water and freeze. You have the weight for the tent, very slight cooling, and then empty the jugs for less weight when packing.
Over the years of selling outdoors, I have found a way to really lighten my load and take my set-up and tear-down time down to 30 minutes to an hour....and I have hundreds of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and other hand-made items. I bought a four foot wide by five foot high display that is used for selling DVDs. It is double-sided, so there are 12 shelves. Then I bought a whole bunch of jewelry display pads and a whole bunch of Velcro. I used the Velcro to display the jewelry and put them onto the shelves, all nicely organized. I can go about 5 or 6 displays deep and the width of the shelves easily fit 3 display pads....at least 45 necklaces per shelf. I just load and unload them from a box with cardboard in between them.
For the hundred of earrings I have, I used pegboard, built a frame around it, added bolts and nuts, and painted it white. The bolts are long enough to hold several pairs of earrings that are bagged and have hang tabs on them. I also bought poster board to go over the bolt heads to hold all of the earrings in place for transport. All I have to do is take the poster board off and set it on one of the shelves and I'm done, The shelves of the DVD display lift off easily, the display folds up, and with the wheels I put on it I can roll it all right over to my vehicle.
If you know there will be water available at the show you can just pack empty gallon jugs for weights and fill them there. Cuts down on the weight you need to transport.
ALWAYS bring extra bulldog clips [or whatever you call the black metal ones with the little silver openers] - the BIGGEST ONES YOU CAN FIND. And of course DUCT TAPE. ;-)
Fantastic article, Jennifer! And great feedback, too. I am so happy to be part of this bead community. Pats on the back -- all around!
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http://www.scifireaders.net/a very good blog about Science Fictionhere is an except from the website: Aboutb&wWell, what is SciFi Readers? And who am I? I started this blog in April of 2011 because…Continue
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I am so impressed by the wonderful writings and input I've received here. Such beautiful posts.
Thank you all!
Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
It's not my best work but I do expect a pretty high grade from it. I am very out of place when writing non-fiction.
I would love to read it James. I bet it's wonderful!
Thanks, I do have it in pdf form. I'll start a discussion for it if anybody is interested in reading it.
You can make a discussion about it - Jedi did it for his papers that he posted here.
I think you can attach a file - like a word doc James.
I would be willing to post it on here but I'm not sure about length restrictions. My paper was four pages long. It really should have been longer but I had difficulty molding my thoughts around the research.
This has nothing to do with science fiction or fantasy but I finally finished writing my research paper for college. The subject was the discrimination of atheists in the south. It wasn't an easy paper to write but it opened my eyes to how much more difficult it is for us than what I previously had thought.
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Matriarch of fine literature Kate Chopin unfailingly delivers psychologically complex characters and stunningly visceral environments. Set in an upper-crust section of Louisiana towards the end of the 19th Century, The Awakening is meant to be performed. Award-winning actress Kim Basinger employs a crystalline tone when narrating this insightful and irony-rich work of fiction. Her voice is nimble enough to allow for dead-on mimicry of characters ranging from parrot to Frenchmen. Protagonist Edna Pontellier struggles to overcome feminine stereotype in a society that is determined to thwart her freedom. Rebelling against her cruel husband, Edna dallies with a young man of rakish character. Basinger's taut voice enables listeners to hover with Edna between want and denial. Basinger's cerebral yet poignant performance illuminates this profound novel.
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The tension in the story along with the description make this a book that is best as an audiobook.
Her performance in The Awakening proves that Basinger can bring that taught tension we have come to recognise in her movie performances to audio books.
I couldn't wait to have the time to complete this book. It felt like Basinger was in the room telling me the story, and it was a rare treat to be able to picture her as the narrator of the story.
Published in 1899, The Awakening is a much over-looked novel by Kate Chopin, panned in her life time an dubbed "vulgar" undoubtedly because it was a novel ahead of its time. The story of a married woman opening up to life in spite of her husband's neglect and verbal abuse, The Awakening explores the murky space between loyalty and infidelity as the protagonist enjoys the company of a flirty, questionable young man who makes a habit of sweeping married women off their feet. Kim Basinger delivers a riveting performance, interpreting each character's voice with careful consideration. She captures the sultry mood of this rare story that juxtaposes snippets of beautiful description with mouth-clenching tension. Basinger captures the author's sympathy with Edna Pellier and the playfulness of Robert, who speaks in French. She delivers an impeccable performance even capturing the squawking parrot and the French-speaking characters with grace and dignity. The Awakening, narrated by Kim Basinger is a bargain and a treasure.
"Better to sleep in peace than awake to nightmare?"
A question to ponder. The better question is how does one live with joy and gratitude after being awakened to new emotions, feelings and passions after years of commitment, loyalty and love to another? An awakening at some time in life (if even for fleeting moments) is a likelihood. The questions of 'what-if..." and 'why now....' will probably follow. A person's reaction will define his/her character as will his/her course after a weakness is revealed.
Edna Pontellier was a selfish woman from her awakening forward. I detested her, thought she was a blubbering baby much of the time and I found it hard to feel sorry for her because of how immature she acted. Had she been more sympathetic I might have felt more pity for her situation of being stuck with a man she did not love.
Published 43 years after "Madame Bovary" (1856) "Awakening" (1899) is a lesser version but very similar. The Awakening is, of course, set in the US, specifically in south Louisiana. The French names are similar. The affairs are similar, but the later novel is not so much steamy and seems more aimed at the female's point of view in the late 1800s toward sexual repression in a place that was undoubtedly more chauvinistic and backwards than France in the mid-1800s.
I enjoyed the book for a view of life during that period and the raw emotions exposed to the salty air. I know this is frequently used (or always) in feminist studies in academia, so I've always wanted to read this, if for nothing else, to broaden my horizons.
Kim Basinger as narrator did an absolutely impeccable job with the tone, accent and acting the part of Edna Pontellier. I wish she'd do more narrating work on classic novels; she has such a melodic, soft Southern voice.
"Great story but a terrible reading"
I've never written a review before, but I just had to say that this reading by Kim Basinger is really disappointing. She has a tin ear for Chopin's prose with all its suble ironic subordination. Ms. Basinger can't seem to read more than three or four words..at a time..and...by the end of the novel...her halting reading style...drove me nuts. But even her quasi-literate reading couldn't quite kill Chopin's strong writing. Buy this novel, but not this version.
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Probably if Kim Basinger wasn't narrating. Listening to her was like sticking a rusty fork in my eye!
No, it just continues to turn me off from Hollywood "actors" thinking that their skill set makes them into good book narrators.
As I've said a kazillion times before, I don't know why Audible thinks having actors narrate books will make the listening experience better. IT DOES NOT!!! I've wasted money listening to Elliott Gould ruin a Raymond Chandler classic and Samuel L. Jackson fumble a book written by a black author about black people in Harlem. The only A-List actor who has ever really impressed me as a narrator is Don Cheadle. Everyone else should just stay in Malibu or Manhattan or wherever their movie money allows them to live and leave audiobooks to the professional narrators. Kim Basinger reads this already boring story as if she reading a bedtime story to a 2 year-old. I fell asleep about 30 minutes in and I suffer from chronic insomnia! On top of that, I bought the book because it's supposed to be about Louisiana Créoles. Yet, Basinger can't speak French properly nor does she give the characters any depth because she doesn't know the Louisiana dialect or customs. She can barely get through the ENGLISH parts, stumbling and bumbling through sentences as if English is her second language. I'm glad I only paid about $1.99 for this mess in the Daily Deal. But I still may return it for my $2.00. At least I can buy a beignet on Canal Street with the money! Don't waste your time or your money on this one!
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"Is it over yet?"
What did I just listen to? I quit caring at all what happened about halfway through, not for me at all.
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"Just couldn't finish listening"
I could only get through a portion of this book because the narrator drove me crazy. She spoke to slowly and nearly whispered through the lines. I will never buy another audio book with Kim Basinger as the narrator.
"I can not go any farther"
I have tried to listen to this good but it is soooo boring. I have listened for about 2 hours and it has not said anything yet or come up with a story line. I am done with it. can not listen any longer.
"I returned this audio."
I have no idea as I couldn't listen to the recording. Awful narration.
Can't have a spoiler alert. Suffice it to say I could listen to this book over and over again. Sheer poetry...I wish I could speak as Edna did...velvet words...
Farm girl, voracious reader, lover of wine & whiskey.
"Passionless narration a real buzz kill"
Is Kim Basinger hadn't read it. She has a soothing voice, but she's so fridges and bland and timeless I felt like I was instantly going to fall asleep whenever she spoke. Also, I never read this as a young woman in my teens or early twenties and I really think that's when this book would be most relevant. For a book hailed as a classic and a key piece of feminist literature, I felt the characters were boring and underdeveloped. It was difficult for me to relate to or care about any of them.
Listening to A Christmas Carol now.
Anyone but. It seems terribly ironic that a book that's called the Awakening and is about female passion, sexuality and desire could be narrated in such a dreary, monotone fashion.
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Random QuoteFizpon: I'm sorry Rhogar, I couldn't save her. Rhogar: Who are you? Fizpon: I was Ostran ... I think. (EDIT) Session DiaryChapter One : Setting SailSessionOne : 13/01/2009 : Escaping the destruction of Bangeers the characters defeat a sea monster only to end up shipwrecked on an unknown island. SessionTwo : 20/01/2009 : The party discover and infiltrate a tower full of goblin wreckers. SessionThree : 27/01/2009 : A room full of treasure and an office full of goblins. SessionFour : 03/02/2009 : Finally a ship and a way off the island. Unfortunately a black dragon as well. Chapter Two : Purity or ProfitSessionFive : 24/03/2009 : Two whole pints? That's nearly an armful! SessionSix : 31/03/2009 : Caveat emptor! SessionSeven : 21/04/2009 : Onwards to Tradetown and Copperbottom. SessionEight : 28/04/2009 : Fighting tooth and nail for our own ship. Chapter Three : Old Friends, New EnemiesSessionNine : 26/05/2009 : Zombies! Attack! SessionTen : 02/06/2009 : Return to Castle Medrash SessionEleven : 09/06/2009 : The Hunt for Kriv SessionTwelve : 30/06/2009 : Morningfall Summit SessionThirteen : 07/07/2009 : Ghost Fight! SessionFourteen : 14/07/2009 : Blood is thicker than water. Chapter Four : Absence Makes the Heart Grow FonderSessionFifteen : 21/07/2009 : Who's gonna cook now? SessionSixteen : 28/07/2009 : To Drumkeld! History of our GroupFor a quick history of our roleplaying group see HistoryOfOurGroup. Comments |
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Most Creative People The 10 Most Creative Women in Business From sustainable software design to the future of the Internet to a biodegradable shoe campaign, the women from last year's 100 Most Creative People in Business have spent 2010 innovating. Of the women who graced the 2009 list, some have changed markets, others have celebrated anniversaries with their current companies, and all of them have kept our attention. This year's 100 Most Creative People in Business launches later this month, but before we show you who's next, here are the top ladies from 2009. Read More » By Suzy Evans
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Space is the fickle frontier for design engineer
WARREN, Mich. -- Chris Shinouskis has spent the last 12 years trying to perfect the use of storage space inside your car.
An engineer at General Motors for 30 years, Shinouskis designs everything from cupholders and glove compartments to pockets for your iPod.
"We bring all our stuff with us. We live in our vehicles," said Shinouskis, who works out of GM's Technical Center in Warren, Mich.
As engineering specialist for storage, Shinouskis said her best work goes unnoticed by GM customers every day, since drivers don't think about storage bins until something doesn't fit. If that happens often enough, inadequate storage can become a major source of frustration.
"What we're learning with storage is that what customers are looking for is just something that's functional so it doesn't have to be fancy." she said. "You just want it to work."
Cupholders became a permanent feature in vehicles in the 1980s, along with the proliferation of fast-food restaurants and urban sprawl, said Shinouskis.
And the most significant change has been their size, she added. "Cupholders have increased in size over the last 10 years because the drink containers that we are buying have got larger," she said. "The cupholder diameter has increased five to 10 mm."
While beverage containers were a top priority for designers five to 10 years ago, these days they are focusing on storage space for electronic devices, such as iPods, cellphones and even laptops, said Shinouskis.
"Now communications is the big thing; making sure that a vehicle has a place for all of our technology," she said. "Bluetooth has changed how we need to use our cellphone in that you don't have to pick it up to talk. But you still need a place for it in the vehicle."
Two GM vehicles -- the Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain -- offer "ultimate storage features," she said. "They're like a closet on wheels. They have a lot of storage features, including a centre console that can accommodate a laptop."
The broader challenge faced by designers is overcrowding, said Shinouskis.
"The difficulty everybody is facing is so much more is being packaged into our vehicles, whether it's features, like charging locations." she said. "We're trying to make sure things aren't crowding, so there's this real fight for space right now."
Another challenge is preventing driver distraction she added.
"Any bin should be within a safe and easy reach," she said. "It has to be intuitive.
We have to make sure a driver keeps his eye on the road while reaching for a beverage or iPod."
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With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. –Terry Pratchett The Science of Discworld
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Speaking about Pratchett (and don't forget Cohen and Stewart, who co-author this series with him), anyone read the third Science of Discworld book, "Darwin's Watch"? It's quite good.
Eh, I wasn't as impressed; the wizards were too organized in the novel section, and I knew all the science already. It does impress me that Pratchett is so avidly pro-science, however; I was also heartened a few years ago to read that when asked to list his favorite 10 books of all time, Douglas Adams including Darwin's "Origin of Species."
There's a third one? I'm of to the bookstore right now. BTW has anyone here read the lost continent with the god of evolution.
God of evolution: "…Organic wheels are very difficult you know, diversify and fill all niches that's the ticket" Ponder Stibbons: "but is lying on your side in a bog with all four wheels spinning an important niche?"
I remember a comment from The Art of Discworld, where he says that he doesn't use a lot of magic in Discworld because magic itself isn't all that amazing; a wizard snapping his fingers to make light is nowhere near as interesting as a bunch of apes discovering how to take the universe apart and put it back as a light bulb.
The God of Evolution appears in The Last Continent. And he absolutely loves beetles…
Actually, the God of Evolution makes a comeback in Darwin's Watch, and the wizards actually arrange a meeting between him and Darwin so Darwin could see how would evolution look if a god took care of it… (as opposed to how it really looks)
I really need to buy this book. And the others. But I don't think the first two are published in the United States, sadly.


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Phase II | Treatment | Completed | Not specified | NCI, Other | RTOG-9904 CDR0000067026, RTOG-DEV-1046, NCT00003862 |
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in treating patients who have stomach cancer.
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- Determine the feasibility of preoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with potentially resectable adenocarcinoma of the stomach.
- Determine the pathologic response rate, curative resection rate, and survival in patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the tolerability of this regimen in these patients.
OUTLINE: Patients receive fluorouracil IV over 24 hours on days 1-21, cisplatin IV over 1 hour on days 1-5, and leucovorin calcium IV over 15 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. A second course is administered beginning on day 29.
Chemoradiotherapy begins at the end of the second course of chemotherapy and 1 week of rest (day 57). Patients receive fluorouracil IV over 24 hours 5 days a week concurrently with radiotherapy for 5 weeks and paclitaxel IV over 3 hours once weekly during these 5 weeks on days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
Approximately 4-5 weeks after chemoradiotherapy, patients with no evidence of metastatic disease undergo surgical resection.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 5 years, then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 21-49 patients will be accrued for this study within 2.5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the stomach
- Stage IB, II, IIIA, IIIB, and IV (T2-3, any N, M0)
- No lymph node metastases outside the field of resection (e.g., supraclavicular, mediastinal, or paraaortic nodes)
- Potentially resectable
- May involve the gastroesophageal junction, but bulk of tumor must be in the stomach
- No distant metastases
- No pleural or pericardial effusion
- No peritoneal disease diagnosed by laparoscopy
- Not specified
Performance status:
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- Absolute granulocyte count greater than 2,000/mm^3
- Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
- Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL
- No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease
- No hypertension
- No cerebrovascular disease
- No diabetic neuropathy
- No mental status abnormalities
- No uncontrolled diabetes
- No infection
- No other malignancies within past 5 years except resected squamous cell or basal cell skin cancer
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy:
- No prior immunotherapy
- No prior chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
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- No prior radiotherapy to stomach
- No prior surgery to stomach
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'I'm a Celeb' has been broadcast almost every evening for the past three weeks and in Saturday's final, Poynter beat 'The Only Way is Essex' star Mark Wright to be crowned king of the jungle.
According to unofficial overnight figures, the 'I'm a Celeb' audience peaked at 10.23 million viewers across ITV1 and ITV1 HD at 9.55pm on Saturday.
Over the course of the show, 'I'm a Celeb' had an average audience of 9.33 million on ITV1 and ITV1 HD between 9.30pm and 10.30pm, a 39.7% share. An additional 231,800 viewers watched on ITV1 +1.
Before 'I'm a Celeb' on Saturday night, ITV1's flagship singing competition, 'The X Factor,' had a peak audience of 11.33 million across the standard and high-definition channels at 9.20pm.
Judge Tulisa Contostavlos did her trademark signature horizontal salute, displaying her tattoo which reads "The Female Boss", despite broadcasting regulator Ofcom's ongoing investigation into whether it amounts to promotion of her perfume of the same name.
The Saturday instalment of 'The X Factor' had an average audience of 10.26 million viewers, a 39.9% share, between 8pm and 9.30pm on ITV1 and ITV1 HD. An additional 356,900 watched the show on ITV1 +1.
The peak audience of BBC One's 'Strictly Come Dancing' surpassed that of 'The X Factor' for the third week running, with a peak audience of 11.49 million across the standard and HD channel at 7.50pm.
'Strictly Come Dancing' had an average audience of 10.33 million viewers, a 41.7% share, across BBC One and BBC One HD between 7pm and 8pm.
This week's Saturday audience for 'The X Factor' was up from 10 million the previous week, whereas the 'Strictly Come Dancing' audience was down from 10.6 million one week ago.
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So...dress up, party, eat, and rest. And then fold it up and put it away!
Monday, April 12, 2010
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So...dress up, party, eat, and rest. And then fold it up and put it away!
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hey callsmalls, that's a great piece showing the history of dollshouses! have a look at this dollshouse, I found it while searching on ebay. it easy to carry too and I love the shape. it just came to my mind when I saw the last picture "...ready to play".
perhaps you'll like it too. or do you know it allready?What a find! It is really lovely - so sweet with the combination of the really cool dancers and the soda bar, and then Puss in Boots on the tv, and the sweet faun above the dressing table! It has a really happy feel to it. Thanks for sharing it with us. Do you have any dolls who will live in it?
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This reminds me of the dollhouse my mother made with my six year old niece. They first made the house from old cardboard boxes that they painted and papered over with images from magazines.
Then they made all kinds of tiny doll furniture from cardboard and other items. They really used their imaginations, and it had a very nifty vibe to it when they finished. - AnonymousApril 13, 2010 at 5:34 PM
hi, I am looking for a first time modern dollhouse whats great to start out with? Thanks
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 13, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Hi CallSmall, Do you have any floorplans of the Citdeal, I am building my own. Thanks Bailey
ReplyDelete Hi other Anonymous! Well, that's a big question. What scale? 1:12? Price range? Style (other than modern)? Lots of windows? One floor? Two? A good starting point is a POD or two by Paris Renfroe. They are manageable, industrial, very cool, and you can really decorate it as little or as much as it will hold. In 1:16, there's the new Emerson House and the Lundby Stockholm, both of which are lovely and fun. And then there's room boxes, also manageable, don't take up a lot of space and you can practice with furniture. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Bailey! Unfortunately, I do not have floor plans of the Citadel. As you may know it was created from a kit by Lolly's a doll house store in the Chicago suburbs. I bought mine built, so I do not have plans. You can try contacting Lolly herself...she still runs the store her parents founded years ago. She is at: firstname.lastname@example.com and their website is: http://users.ameritech.net/jbayer/LollysHomepage.htm. Let me know if you get them!
ReplyDeleteNo, of course you don't! I knew that ... I guess I was curious, as even when there are no dolls at home in your scenes, there's often a really strong sense of their personalities - and I can't quite picture who would live here. A couple with a young child, perhaps - hence Puss in Boots? A single mum with a young child, who loves to go out dancing? Or maybe a girl who's halfway between childhood and adulthood, and has her own apartment under/behind her parents' house? Actually, not knowing kind of adds a bit of mystery to it :-)
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The Israeli government indeed owed someone the apology it made recently for the incident of the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship intercepted in May 2010 on its way to blockaded Gaza, but it wasn't the ship's passengers or the government of Turkey. It was, first and foremost, the naval commandoes who boarded the Mavi Marmara in a foolishly conceived way and at a grave risk to themselves. And it was also the people of Israel, whose country was unfairly pilloried by the world for what happened. To the Turks themselves, there was nothing to apologize for.
The Mavi Marmara incident was a deliberate provocation that a coalition of European "peace activists" and Muslim organizations staged with the full knowledge and connivance of the Turkish government. Its aim was not to bring humanitarian supplies, of which there were none aboard the ship, to Gaza; it was to embarrass Israel by making it either back down and let the ship through, or use ugly force to stop it — and in this it succeeded brilliantly. Nine of the Mavi Marmara's passengers were killed, and although they pretty much deserved what they got, Israel certainly didn't.
Anyone who has looked at the few seconds of film footage showing the lead Israeli commando descending a rope from a helicopter all by himself onto the Mavi Marmara's deck, where he was immediately set upon by a waiting horde and clubbed with iron rods, knows two things. One is that the ship's supposedly nonviolent passengers, or at least those of them wielding the rods, were out for blood — and far more vicious than anything recorded on film was the brutality with which they treated two of the commandoes captured and dragged by them beneath the deck.
The second thing is that the Israeli plan for taking command of the ship by landing a small number of elite soldiers armed with paintball guns and sensitivity training was hopelessly naive. It was the product of an erroneous assessment by Israeli intelligence, based on an acceptance of the blockade runners' assertions that they were nothing more than a group of peaceful, well-intentioned human rights workers. The better-armed reinforcements that quickly arrived had no choice but to open fire to keep their comrades from being lynched. As put to me by someone knowledgeable: "The surprising thing in all that chaos was that there were only nine deaths. Less disciplined or cool-headed troops would have killed many times that number. How long do you think you have to squeeze the trigger of an automatic weapon pointed at a frenzied mob in order to do that?"
Had the Israeli navy possessed the wisdom to allow reporters on the scene, its version of events would have been authenticated. As it was, the blockade runners and the Turkish government, by lying loudly and shamelessly, did a better job of influencing the media (including, I'm sorry to say, one article on the subject that appeared in the Forward). Israel emerged from the incident with mud all over its face, some of it self-splattered.
Perhaps a totally different plan for intercepting the Mavi Marmara at sea might have worked better, although naval maneuvering at close quarters is never without its dangers. But the lesson — and it's an old one — taught by the whole episode is not just that brute force is generally less preferable than its alternatives; it's also that if reasonable alternatives can't be found, force must be brute enough to do the job. Concerned about world public opinion, Israel tried to seize the Mavi Marmara as "nicely" as possible. Fewer scruples at the outset might have saved some or all of the nine blockade runners' lives and spared two Israelis frightful injury.
Now that the wrong apology has been made, apparently at President Obama's behest, there's nothing to be done about it. Israel will forever have to bear official responsibility for the Mavi Marmara incident and pay millions of dollars in reparations to families that should not be getting them. Nor is it likely to receive much in return. Don't hold your breath waiting for an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made no secret of despising Israel long before the Mavi Marmara sailed from Istanbul, used the incident as a pretext for flaunting his feelings more dramatically, and presumably he hasn't had a change of heart. Even if he were to have one, Israel will never again trust a politically Islamic Turkey to be a dependable friend, much less a military ally.
The irony of it all is that if an apology could have patched up things, there would have been no need for one in the first place.
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In life, I'd advise against being the type of person who *only* thinks about negative aspects but on the other hand, not being realistic can have repercussions which can be just as severe. As someone who earns a living online, you're constantly bombarded by the two extremes and that's dangerous to say the least.
Both extremes cloud your judgement.
By being a self-proclaimed pessimist who worries all day, you might miss out on the calculated risks which can improve your life dramatically.
On the other hand, if you're way too optimistic, the opposite might happen and you might lose way more than you should due to the fact that you haven't calculated the risks involved in one decision or another in a realistic manner.
Personally, I choose to be an optimistic realist.
On the one hand, I'm not afraid to try new things and whenever a risk-reward ratio seems attractive, I go for it.
On the other hand though, I don't put all of my eggs in the same basket and apply what I consider a very well put together money management strategy when it comes to my businesses as well as investments.
We're dealing with unprecedented economic conditions and since you invested a minute of your time to read this post, it might be a good idea to grab a pen + piece of paper and invest a bit more time in order to clearly define the way you see things and the approach you deem appropriate.
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