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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Nick and Nora
Forget those movies. They took a grimly funny novel about a group of predatory monsters and turned it into a series of light comedies. As splendid as William Powell and Myrna Loy are, they cannot hold a candle to the Nick and Nora portrayed in this novel.
Hammett did not write a novel about a sophisticated couple who genteelly solve a murder while pouring...
Published on July 7 1999 by Tom From NY
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3.0 out of 5 stars no match for Raymond Chandler, yet fun escapism..
Most folks know The Thin Man for the famous 1930s/1940s film series about detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora. The films are known for being breezy and comedic rather than for the actual plot, which typically involves a murder mystery. The original novel The Thin Man is certainly of this mold, which for some might be perfect but for others (like me) a bit...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thin man, good book,
E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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The last of Dashiell Hammett's novels was "The Thin Man," and what a last novel it is. A hard-edged whodunnit, Hammett's writing had become very polished and his characters even more intricate by the time he wrote this, and while it's not the best he had written, it's a solid example of his work.
Nick Charles was a rough'n'tough detective... until he married wealthy socialite Nora. Now he's retired early, drinks a lot, and has no apparent wish to come into contact with his messy past life. Enter Dorothy Wynant, daughter of weird (and possibly insane) inventor Clyde Wynant. As it happens, Wynant's secretary/mistress has just been murdered, and was found dying by his ex-wife Mimi.
Nick keeps insisting that he doesn't want to detect, but somehow he gets sucked into it anyway when a gangster (ex-boyfriend of the murdered woman) invades his home and nearly kills him. Dorothy keeps popping up and pleading for help and protection; Charles' old flame Mimi is acting oddly; and her husband has some secrets of his own. Despite Nick's aversion to detective work, he and Nora set out to unravel the mystery surrounding the Thin Man. (Wynant, for your information)
Hammett's cynical attitude was a huge part of his writing, but there's a new dimension to it in "Thin Man." Charles spends a lot of time trying to distance himself from his detective past, and in a way it feels like Hammett was distancing himself from his detective novels. Was Nick's dissatisfaction a sign of Hammett's? Quite possibly.
But many of the things about "Thin Man" are vintage Hammett: lying waifs, men in disguise, lots of lying and booze. Almost everyone is sociopathic, and Nick and Nora aren't exactly what one would call "heroes." However, the dialogue is sharp and witty and the action is slickly exciting. Best of all, Hammett's writing had evolved a bit from his minimalist style; here he describes things like Mimi snarling in a bit more detail.
Nick is the quintessential Hammett anti-hero (cynical, tough, and more than a little obnoxious), except here he's a bit weathered and tired out. Sam Spade and the Continental Op were on top of their games, but he's past his. Nora comes across as a little perkier but as tough in her own way. The crazy Wynant family, like manipulative mom Mimi and freaky son Gilbert, serves as a nice source of conflict.
"The Thin Man" wasn't the best thing Hammett ever wrote, but it's still a solid mystery read. Pass the martinis.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Nick and Nora,
Tom From NY "Tom From NY" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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Forget those movies. They took a grimly funny novel about a group of predatory monsters and turned it into a series of light comedies. As splendid as William Powell and Myrna Loy are, they cannot hold a candle to the Nick and Nora portrayed in this novel.
Hammett did not write a novel about a sophisticated couple who genteelly solve a murder while pouring cocktails and trading quips. He wrote a dark novel about an ex-detective who has married a wildly wealthy woman, and wants to spend the rest of his life managing her money. He is only faintly connected to the murders, having known the victim and his family briefly several years before, and wants nothing to do with the whole business. He is continually dragged in, however, and very nearly becomes a victim himself. Even a cursory reading of the novel should demonstrate that Hammett was up to much more than a series of one-liners with detective interruptions. Why else would Hammett, one of the most economical of authors, bring the novel to a halt to include a case history of Alfred Packer, the only American convicted of the crime of cannibalism?
There is much more here than Hollywood, or anyone else that I know of, has yet realized.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars no match for Raymond Chandler, yet fun escapism..,
lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
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Most folks know The Thin Man for the famous 1930s/1940s film series about detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora. The films are known for being breezy and comedic rather than for the actual plot, which typically involves a murder mystery. The original novel The Thin Man is certainly of this mold, which for some might be perfect but for others (like me) a bit disappointing.
In The Thin Man we have our handsome couple tinkling champagne glasses in 1930s Manhatten. Our reluctant detective is asked to sort out some shenanigans of a former client, and his very dysfunctional family. We are entertained by cameo appearances of thugs, crooks, and Asta (the family dog). It is all very cutsie without being too silly. However fans of other private detective novels of that genre, especially the Philip Marlowe stories by Raymond Chandler, will find The Thin Man to be too ... thin. No sparkling dialogue, no real nasty characters, ... no "oomph".
Bottom line: painless reading. But see the film, forget the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A cynical martini w/a spash of bitters, garnished w/ murder,
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This review is from: The Thin Man (Paperback)
For those of you who allow amature reviewers to guide your reading decisions, know this: Those reviews that talk about the book as being about a "destructive relationship" and the characters of Nick and Nora Charles as the user and the willing usee have made the mistake of not reading the actual text on the page, but instead have tried to apply some late-twentieth century literaty criticism, which they don't fully know how to apply, paired with the social-moral attitides toward blatant alcoholism and frivolity, to a book that is simply what it purports to be: a detective novel with imperfect characters and a perfectly logical final twist. If they find Nick Charles to be a violent womanizer, one can only imagine what they have made of Chandler's Marlowe . . . although I wouldn't be surprised to find similarly misinformed opinions of those books by the same reviewers if I could be bothered to look for them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars And get me a drink while you're up, Dear....,
By A Customer
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This may be a "detective novel," but that's the least of it. The Thin Man is a statement of the good life, and included are plenty of style and sexiness. Nick and Nora Charles are the greatest, most reasonably decadent couple and the final, best commentary on the American high life that was thrown into such relief by the foil of Prohibition. Sure, there's a murder mystery, but there's also raw roast beef and onions, plenty of onions, from an all-night deli, washed down with perpetual scotch and soda. ... Dashiell Hammett wrote Nick Charles in order to be Dashiell Hammett: drunk, yes, but so what? Once great, always great, as long as you leave a legacy that people admire.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Grand Classic Detective novel.................,
jeanne-scott (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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The Thin Man is a wonderful novel. Written in the classic Hammett style, the story is full of twists and turns of the interaction of well defined, recognizable characters.
The central characters are Nick and Nora Charles. Nick has been a history as a successful private detective. Nora is a wealthy socialite. Together they are an intriguing and fun couple, who are forced into investigating the circumstance surrounding the mysterious death of a secretary and the unexplained disappearance of an eccentric,wealthy scientist.
The story is so well crafted that everyone becomes a serious suspect and you are left chasing after each individual motive, trying to "figure it out" before the Charles' do.
This novel is a classic from start to finish.
If you have never watched the classic Black and White movie from the 1930's, THE THIN MAN, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, you have missed out on a treasure, although the book was better and more in-depth.
The movie mirrors the book the closest of any I have seen. The reason, Dashiell Hammett was there to keep it true to the novel. Many of the delightful lines are directly out of the book!
This is a grand and classic detective tale.
4.0 out of 5 stars Heavier weight than it first appears,
Neal Reynolds (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This book actually is worth reading a couple of times. Read it the first time for fun, but then reread it to see what you missed seeing the first time around.
You probably know the basic plot. A former private eye has given up on the detective work after his wife has inherited her father's businesses, and is running her financial affairs for her. On vacation, they run into his former acquaintances and, of course, a mystery develops which he reluctantly is persuaded to investigate.
There are a lot of undertones here. The obvious fact is that both husband & wife are slipping into alcoholism, although he's ahead of her. He has lost interest in what was once his very life. He apparantly slips out on her on occasion, and she seems to tolerate it...they obviously love each other. But he's not the man he once was. He's going to avoid violent confrontations and he takes the easy way out. His drinking habit, his unwillingness to exert himself in solving a crime, the fact that the only noticeable cheating on Nora is at a party where the other woman apparantly drags him off...all this indicates a once vital person such as Sam Spade or, to compare with another author's detective, Phillip Marlowe who is losing interest in life.
I wonder if this book didn't inspire Raymond Chandler's idea for POODLE SPRINGS which opens with Phillip Marlowe's having married a wealthy woman. Chandler only wrote four chapters before his death and Robert Parker finished it, showing Marlowe as too rough hewn a character to settle into the wealthy life style.
But Nick Charles gave in to it, and maybe was worse off for doing so.
This isn't the strongest of Hammett's books, but it sure is worth reading and wondering a bit about.
4.0 out of 5 stars The Dark Underbelly of Depression-Era New York,
Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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Unlike the famous film version starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, the characters of Dashiell Hammett's THE THIN MAN range in tone from vapid to vicious, with only Nick and Nora Charles emerging as somewhat similar to their cinematic counterparts. The plot is also considerably less lean, and Hammett packs it with a number of unnecessary excursions that tend to sidetrack the flow of action. The result is less of an action-packed detective story than it is a portrait of New York in the early 1930s, where cops are brutal and stupid, society rubs shoulders with criminals in lowlife speakeasies, and every one is out for what they can get.
And what they want are sex and money and more sex, preferrably laced with bootleg liquior. Fans of the film will easily recognize the basic plot: retired detective Nick Charles is unwilling dragged into the search for a former client, inventor Clyde Wynant, who is wanted for questioning in connection with the brutal murder of his secretary-mistress. But not only the police want him: ex-wife Mimi is low on funds and would like to lay hands on his dough, his estranged children Dorothy and Gilbert have vested interests of their own, and Mimi's current husband is playing his own hand as well. The characters are considerably darker here, particularly in reference to Dorothy and Gilbert, with Dorothy a manipulative and hard-drinking little tramp and Gilbert an ineffectual weakling; mother Mimi is viciously neurotic and abusive; and the missing Clyde Wynant is so eccentric that whether or not he had a hand in the murder he clearly needs to be locked up. To further complicate matters, both Dorothy and Mimi are on the make for Nick Charles. As for Nick and wife Nora, they possess considerable sparkle--but they too are of this world, Nick clearly en route to an alcoholic hell and pulling Nora along with him.
Hammett writes with his usual strength, but as a novel THE THIN MAN lacks the focus of his more famous THE MALTESE FALCON, and his digressions and excursions hinder the book as a whole. Even so, his dark and frequently witty look at the underbelly of depression-era New York packs enough punch to bring it in at a solid four stars. Recommended for fans of the classic "hard boiled" style, but probably of more interest to hard-core completists than casual readers.
5.0 out of 5 stars I LOOOVE THIS BOOK!!!,
This review is from: The Thin Man (Paperback)
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's high-society detective novel, is most definitely NOT like the movies based on the book. While the movies are about a gay, carefree couple who solve crimes and do a lot of social drinking, the book is more about a couple in a destructive relationship. Nick only married Nora for her money, and they both know it. He's also a womanizer and an alcoholic (as is Nora). Nora is a younger woman who seems enchanted by Nick's sinful ways, and allows him to use her as he feels free to. The whodunit mystery, although discussed very much in the book, is not the most interesting part of the novel, nor did Hammett intend it to be. Read it for the satirical potrayal of bad relationships. Not just Nick and Nora's, but the dysfunctional (although dysfunctional may be an understatement) family they help to solve the murder.
The Thin Man is also notable for the use of a certain word to describe male arousal. Hammett was attempting to pave the way for other authors to discuss sexuality more openly. Unfortunately, it didn't quite catch on.
4.0 out of 5 stars Hammett's last - a good read,
By A Customer
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I believe it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who once said, "Hammett is one of those good writers ruined by Hollywood." This book shows Fitzgerald's quote in action.
Don't misunderstand me, 'The Thin Man' is an excellent story. It's amuzing, tense, and contains possibly Hammett's most memorable characters, but it's also a complete departure from his previous novels. In a way, 'The Thin Man' is a farewell. Here we have a once hard-boiled detective, Nick Charles, who has settled down with his wise-cracking wife, Nora, and doesn't want anything to do with his previous work. Instead, Nick drinks, and drinks, and drinks, and goes to parties, and hosts parties, and the like. Whenever anyone questions Nick over the case that he's rumored to be working, Nick simply claims that he doesn't want anything to do with being a detective and leaves it at that.
This being Hammett's final novel, I believe that it an all too valid assumption that Hammett was using the character of Nick to symbolize himself and his own mentality. To connect this with Fitzgerald's comment, following the publication of 'The Thin Man', some movie studio handed Hammett a check for something like $40,000 for use of the characters, cementing his literary decrepitude, and he never worked again.
But it is a good read, very good, and while I would have liked to have given it the full five stars, i've chosen to remain with four, as 'The Thin Man' just doesn't compare with many of Hammett's other classics.
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A year into Dolan's tenure in Milwaukee, about a quarter of his priests, including Avella, signed a public letter saying celibacy should be optional for future Catholic clergy. Dolan responded by upholding the teaching of the church, but also praised the priests as good men.
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Mollie King at the polo yesterday. Copyright [WENN]However, yesterday Mollie King may have made her first fashion fail, by wrecking her heels at the polo. Oops.
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Mollie King was at the Veuve Cliquot Gold Cup Polo and looked amazing in a cream shirt dress teamed with a navy blazer.
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Mollie King's ruined heels. Eek. Copyright [Mollie King]Mollie got her pose on for photographers at the event, practicing her perfect pout.
She recently revealed that Katie Price is her inspiration when posing for photos.
The star said: "When I first joined the band I struggled with doing anything even remotely sexy. But I remember Katie Price once said: 'If you want a good pout, squint like you're looking into the sun and pretend you're blowing bubbles.'"
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LOS ANGELES, July 9 This Friday night, July 11th, Top Rank, in association with the International Brotherhood of Prizefighters, will turn up the heat on an already hot summer with a night of world-class boxing at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, designed to produce some belated 4th of July fireworks..
In the main event, scheduled for 10 rounds, lightweight contender Miguel Angel Huerta battles Juan Ramon Cruz. The co-featured bout of the evening pits Miguel Roman against Benjamin Flores in a 10 round super bantamweight battle.
Both bouts will be televised live on Telefuturas Solo Boxeo, beginning at 8pm ET.
Also in action will be some of the areas finest prospects, including Corpus Christis own Jerry Belmontes and Alfonso El Tigre Lopez.
Tickets, starting at just $15, are available at all Ticketmaster locations, or by calling 361-881-8499. Doors open at 5:30pm, and the first bell rings at 6:15pm.
Nicknamed El Anestesista for his ability to put opponents to sleep with his heavy hands, Mexico Citys Miguel Angel Huerta (26-9-1, 18 KOs)has his sights set on a world lightweight title shot after winning two of his last three bouts, including a decision win over Efren Hinojosa and a stoppage of Daniel Alicea. In San Juan, Puerto Ricos Juan Ramon Cruz (15-4-1, 11 KOs), Huerta will be facing a hard-nosed battler who is no stranger to ending his opponents night early himself, making this fight a cant miss when it comes to all-out action.
Juarez super bantamweight Miguel Roman (25-3, 17 KOs) was unbeaten in his first 22 fights, and on Friday, the Mexican super bantamweight champion will look to get back to that early form against Houston resident Benjamin Flores (18-3, 6 KOs), who is currently riding a four fight winning streak.
A highly decorated amateur star and 2006 Under-19 National Champion, Corpus Christis own Jerry Belmontes (2-0, 1 KO) threw his hat into the pro ring in January and he has earned a host of positive notices thus far with two impressive pro wins. The 19-year old will try to make it three in a row this Friday when he takes on seasoned Mexican vet Martin Armenta (12-17-3, 8 KOs).
Unbeaten in eight bouts, with six of those wins coming by knockout, light heavyweight Alfonso El Tigre Lopez has made quite a name for himself in Corpus Christi with his exciting style and concussive punching power. He will face Floridas Theo Kruger (8-6, 3 KOs).
Opening the show on July 11th will be a bantamweight bout between former amateur standout Roberto Marroquin (2-0, 2 KOs) of Dallas, and Alvaro Muro (6-7, 5 KOs).
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Graduation weekend always puts me into a rather melancholy mood. It's exciting, of course, to see young people who have been so much a part of your life for two, three or even four years, prepare to leave high school behind and begin the next phase of their lives. It is also a little sad, however, and more than a bit frustrating.The frustration comes from wanting to show each and every student I have taught how much I appreciate having had the opportunity to be a part of their lives - and every year I make plans to do something really special for each and every one of my graduating seniors. And each year graduation slips up on me. They always put the danged thing at the tail end of the school year, you see - and that's always a busy time for teachers. There are review sessions to be held and finals to be graded; grades to be entered and inventories to be tallied - all more paper work than a fellow can say grace over. Before I settle in and get around to doing something for the graduates I teach they are lined up in the commons area of the school in their caps and gowns, ready to march out onto the football field - or into the gymnasium, weather depending - for rehearsal. That's on the good years. Sometimes they are about to march out for the real deal. You'd think I'd learn to plan ahead after 36 years in the classroom, but so far I haven't. So I sadly shake my head and make a promise to myself to get a head start the next year, bemoaning the fact that I probably won't. If there were just a handful of kids who were special it would be different. I could go out and buy those kids a small present - a Starbucks gift card or a T-shirt from the college of their choice. Or at least I could write them a note or, at the very least, get them a clever card to commemorate the occasion. But each year there are at least 200 kids whose lives I have shared and each and every one of them is unique in some way - and how can a guy buy 200 gift cards on a teacher's salary, and how can he find time to write 200 letters? And so I smile and watch them walk by in line, feeling that I have let them down on their special day and hoping that I have contributed something to each of their lives that will last longer than a note card or a latte. I see the young lady who came to school every day with a smile on her face and the one who would have put her head on the desk and slept through school if I had let her. I see the young man who thought enough of me to have me wear his football jersey on game day and the one who loathed the fact that I cared enough about his future to tell the football coach on him when his work started to slip in class. I see the kid whose parents are involved in every aspect of his education and the kid whose parents don't even know when she skips school. I see the student who chose me to be her honor teacher two years in a row and the one who quit speaking to me halfway through senior year because of the grade they earned at midterm. I see them all; the ones who felt that I was their best friend and the ones who were convinced that I didn't even know their names, and part of me wished that I could keep them in high school forever because I so deeply relish the privilege of teaching them and part of me can't wait to see what they will become and what they will do with their lives. Trust me. There is still a lot of hope for this country as long as we continue to send students out into the world like the ones I teach because they are the very best our community has to offer. So if you have been one of my students and were expecting a card or a letter or a gift, this column will have to do. Please know that it is for you. If you are the person who put the gray in my beard because it was so hard to get you to fulfill your potential, this is for you. If you are the overachiever who wrote a three-page report when one would have sufficed, this is for you, too. This is for the girl on the front row who always tried to please and for the long-legged kid in the back corner who pretended he didn't care. (And I know you really did.) This is for all of you - a heartfelt thank you for being who you are, a pat on the back for making it as far as you have and a thousand wishes that your future might be as bright as the sun. Look out world. Here comes the Class of 2009 - and they really are something. Darrell Huckaby
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- Introduction
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- Natural history
- Form and function
- Evolution and paleontology
- Classification
The two African species of rhinoceroses are the black or prehensile-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and the white or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The terms black and white are misleading, since both species are grayish to brownish, but the names are well established in common usage.
The black rhinoceros was originally widespread from the Cape to southwestern Angola and throughout eastern Africa as far as Somalia, parts of Ethiopia, and Sudan. Its range also extended westward through the northern savanna zone to Lake Chad, northern Cameroon, northern Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and possibly Guinea. The animal was extremely numerous in some parts. It now occupies a much smaller area, within which it is found in scattered pockets, many of them in parks and reserves. The species still occurs in Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, and Swaziland. South Africa and Namibia have more black rhinos than other countries, but the future of the animals outside parks and reserves is far from secure. The decline in numbers is largely the result of expanding human settlement and of poaching to obtain the horns, which fetch high prices.
The black rhinoceros occupies a variety of habitats, frequenting open plains, sparse thorn scrub, savannas, thickets, and dry forests, as well as mountain forests and moorlands at high altitudes. It is a selective browser, and grass plays a minor role in its diet. Succulent plants, such as euphorbias, assume great importance in dry habitats, and the animals appear to be able to survive without free water where these plants are abundant. Where water is available, drinking is regular and frequent; the animals also may dig for water in dry riverbeds.
The much larger white rhinoceros is a grazing species with a broad square muzzle. It prefers short grasses 7 to 10 cm (about 3 to 4 inches) high. The animal makes much use of shade trees for resting and is dependent on surface water. The range of the white rhinoceros is markedly discontinuous. South of the Zambezi River it was once extremely common over a fairly large area of bushveld. It has since become confined to the game reserves in South Africa, where the population has risen; some of the animals have been redistributed to several other parks and reserves in Southern Africa.
A northern race formerly inhabited South Sudan and adjacent areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, extending westward into the Central African Republic. It has also been much reduced and is considered probably extinct in those countries. A small number were moved to a private reserve in Kenya.
The smallest of the three Asian rhinoceroses (also the smallest living member of the family) is the Sumatran, or Asiatic, two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus (or Dicerorhinus) sumatrensis, standing 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) at the shoulder. It was originally found in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas, mainland Southeast Asia, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Small isolated populations still occur in a few widely separated localities in (Myanmar) Burma, Thailand, West (Peninsular) Malaysia, Sumatra, and East Malaysia (Sabah) and possibly in other nearby territories. The total population is thought to number between 100 and 170. Some of the survivors in Sumatra are protected in reserves.
Both the Sumatran and Javan rhinoceroses inhabit forests as well as marshy areas and regions of thick bush and bamboo, climbing actively in mountainous country. They are mainly browsers. The Javan, or lesser one-horned, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) occupied the islands of Java, Borneo, and Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and a region extending northward through Myanmar into Assam and eastern Bengal. It is now restricted to the Udjung-Kulon Reserve in western Java, where there are at least 25 and perhaps as many as 50 to 60 animals.
The great Indian, or one-horned, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is more or less equivalent in size to the square-lipped rhinoceros and is distinguishable from the smaller Javan rhinoceros by the presence of a large horn, tubercles on its skin, and a different arrangement of skin folds. It previously occupied an extensive range across northern India and Nepal from Assam in the east to the Indus valley in the west. It is found in a range of habitats—open grassland, savanna, forests, and hilly country—and appears to be mainly a grazer, raiding grain fields in some areas. Hunting and the pressure of expanding human populations have greatly reduced both the range and numbers of this animal. It is now found almost entirely in eight reserves or sanctuaries in India, notably the Kaziranga Sanctuary in Assam (estimated population 300) and in the Rapti valley region of the Nepal Tarai. The total population is estimated at about 600 animals, and the prospects for survival appear to be reasonably good.


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Sound Fields: Winter
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Do you have a good ear for music? Can you play a musical instrument?
It is not important anymore, because with this tool ANYBODY can play great music without any skills!
It is easy! Just select some background track and synth you like. And that's it. Touch the screen and feel the sound!
Code & Music by NightRadio (Alexander Zolotov).
Background tracks composed in SunVox.
Known solutions for some problems:
Tags: sound fields test, sound fields winter.
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This is more of a fun app but it allows you to jam over a set of existing structures and progressions I can see this developing into a larger system eventually as you become familiar with finger positions and can record your own tracks but for now it is a jamming fun program for adults and kids.
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By no means a complex app, but it makes me feel like a zen rock star all the same. I close my eyes and fling my finger around the screen and listen to the beautiful sounds.
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This is a music App where you chill and enjoy. It does all the chord progressions, you just play along. There's a minimalist option menu, and you tap and see what happens. You can't even adjust the volume of the song (some of the instruments get lost in the background). But you can play a little like Kitaro, Jarre, Oldfield, right out of the box, and can't hit a bad note. So if you have no mus


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Report from the KLRsys Garage
Well the latest masterpiece out of the KRLsys garage has made it back to my place in North Texas. I thought I'd post an update for those that have been following this build.
First off, I can never find the words to express my gratitude to KLRsys for the amount time, dedication, and general TLC he put into building this bike. So to Fritz (aka, KLRsys) my friend, a huge, huge Thank You! I don't know how this one ever gets repaid.
For those that have been thinking of visiting the KLRsys garage, I recommend it. You just can't appreciate the level of effort it takes to build one until you've been there and seen it yourself. The number of custom fabricated parts is significant, and each one requires care and attention to detail to get it right.
Speaking of getting it right. Here's the most impressive thing. I went to test ride the bike for the first time. ... and when I say "first time" I mean the very first time. No one had ridden the bike at all. It fired right up, then ran and rode perfectly. On this first ride I just wanted to stay close to the garage so I rode a few miles within the confines of the neighborhood. If something were to go wrong, I didn't want to have to push it too far to get it home. ... but nothing went wrong. Nothing! Zilch! Nada! No problems at all! No clacks, clinks or grinds. No wobbles or weird feelings. No electrical issues. No leaks. It worked perfectly right out of the box! I rode back to the garage and WE ADJUSTED NOTHING!!! It was perfect the way it was.
... again, I was mighty impressed!
After the test ride KLRsys and I went back to work finishing up the last few items on the list. Adding new grips, taller windshield, mounting the cruise control panel, and the most difficult... fabricating a skid plate.
It was working with KLRsys on the skid plate that I started to fully understand and appreciate the amount of time and attention to detail that goes into the custom fabrication on this bike. ... and there is a lot of it (did I say that already?). We finished up working on it just after midnight on Saturday morning. 42 days from start to finish.
Now I've got to get the bike packed up, prepped and ready for what is the shake down trip of a lifetime. The Barely Alaska Ride. I was really hoping to have more time in the saddle before we left on this trip, but as it stands, I've only put about 8 miles on the bike since build completion.
You know, I was just goofin when I said the shake down cruise would be the 350 mile section of the Barely Alaska Ride from my house to Amarillo, but it's looking like that may be the case.
... One last note, and surely the most important!
I want to extent a very special thank you to Mrs. KLRsys. Without her support and encouragement none of this would have been possible. I want to thank her for all the evenings she gave up with her husband while he worked on a bike for me. I want to thank her for the times she was running errands for KLRsys while he worked on a bike for me. Mrs KLRsys your sacrifice is recognized and deeply appreciated.
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- GAAP Net Income of $1.2 million or $0.03 Per Diluted Share
- Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income of $11.2 million, or $0.29 Per Diluted Share
WATERTOWN, Mass., Oct. 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN) ("athenahealth" or "we"), a leading provider of cloud-based electronic health record ( EHR), practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups and health systems, today announced financial and operational results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013. We will conduct a conference call tomorrow October 18, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss these results and management's outlook for future financial and operational performance.
- Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2013, was $151.5 million, compared to $105.9 million in the same period last year, an increase of 43%. ◦ Excluding the Epocrates revenue of $13.4 million and other revenue consisting of third-party tenant revenue of $3.8 million, core athenahealth revenue was $134.3 million, an increase of 27% over Q3 2012.
"This past quarter we added a record number of physicians onto our cloud-based services; we doubled the number of clients who partnered with us for population health management since acquiring Healthcare Data Services; and with the momentum of athenaCoordinator, we're actually getting information to flow in health care," said Jonathan Bush, athenahealth's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Over the years, we proved ourselves with athenaCollector, and as recognized by clients and by industry research firm, KLAS, we're proving ourselves time and again with our other services. We have the most usable EHR in the industry, the highest rated patient portal, the most loved mobile app among caregivers, and most importantly a vision to build a national health information backbone to make health care work as it should. Our progress is unrelenting and we see the future of health care, enabled by a cloud-based platform, as one of openness, change, and innovation."
- For the three months ended September 30, 2013, Non-GAAP Adjusted Gross Margin was 61.9%, down from 62.7% in the same period last year, as we continue to invest in our service offerings.
- For the three months ended September 30, 2013, Non-GAAP Adjusted Operating Income of $19.3 million, or 12.7% of total revenue, compared to Non-GAAP Adjusted Operating Income of $19.4 million, or 18.3% of total revenue, in the same period last year. ◦ Non-GAAP Adjusted Operating Income excludes $0.5 million of integration costs relating to the acquisition of Epocrates which closed on March 12, 2013.
- For the three months ended September 30, 2013, GAAP Net Income was $1.2 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to $6.2 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, in the same period last year.
- For the three months ended September 30, 2013, Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income was $11.2 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, compared to $11.2 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, in the same period last year.
- As of September 30, 2013, we had cash and cash equivalents of $62.3 million and outstanding indebtedness of $242.5 million.


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Potatoes With Crabmeat
23 Sep 2009
Potatoes With Crabmeat has a very nourshing taste. The best part it is easy to make, and the mix of lemon juice, with sour cream and crab makes the Potatoes With Crabmeat very refreshing and filling.
|Waxy potatoes
|1 3⁄4 Pound, sliced
|To Taste
|1⁄4 Pound
|Lemon juice
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Sour cream
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs) (Creme Fraiche)
|Chopped dill
|2 Tablespoon
Pour 1 cup (250 ml/8 fl oz) of water into the lower compartment of a microwave steamer and heat on HIGH for 2 minutes.
Put the potatoes in the upper compartment of the steamer and add salt.
Put the steamer into the oven, cover and micro wave on HIGH for 17 minutes.
Put the crabmeat in a bowl and pour the lemon juice over.
Season with salt and pepper.
Add the sour cream (creme fraiche) and stir well.
Heat for 1 minute on HIGH.
Drain the potatoes and transfer to a vegetable dish.
Add pepper.
Pour the crab sauce over and stir carefully.
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From the Publisher"[Frances E. Dolan] steeped herself in the history [of marriage], brought along a philosopher's antennae for blunt contradiction, and produced Marriage and Violence. Oh, how the quality of debate on same-sex marriage would improve if activists on the subject, candidates, and officials sat down to read it! Maybe it can be tossed out, like a bouquet, anywhere such players meet."—Chronicle Review
"A sophisticated, erudite discussion of the tensions between egalitarian and hierarchical principles in the Anglo-American ideal of marriage. Dolan provocatively argues that these tensions illustrate important continuities between seventeenth- and twenty-first-century marital models and have created recurring dilemmas in our theory and practice of marriage."—Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
"Why does marriage so often lead to violence? In her timely and important new book, Frances Dolan identifies the culprit: an 'economy of scarcity' that modern marriage inherits from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Powerfully argued and wonderfully well documented, Marriage and Violence provides a rare example of how historical scholarship can illuminate the present."—Richard Helgerson
"Marriage and Violence is an original, timely, and compelling study of the impact of early modern English discourses about marriage on contemporary understandings of marital violence. Arguing that when marriage explodes into violence we can see the past haunting the present, Dolan both presents a radically new history of marriage and provides us with some new conceptual tools for rethinking present marital ideologies."—Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
"In this brilliant analysis of the contradictory but persistent model of marriage that continues to haunt modern versions of the institution . . . Dolan supports her wide-ranging and provocative claims with scholarship that is impressively comprehensive and meticulously detailed. . . . A book of value not only to historians but also to twenty-first-century individuals interested in rethinking the institution of marriage and the gender dynamics within it."—Citation for Honorable Mention in the 2009 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award competition
"Frances Dolan's marvellously polemical book explores the conceptual underpinnings of marriage. . . . Her bracing attack on the structure of marriage is intended to provoke debate in order to find new ways of thinking about the marital relationship. It will surely do that and, in a world which sees the persistence of marital violence every day in its most brutal form, such questioning is to be applauded."—English Historical Review
"Well researched and based on a rigorous, prolonged comparison between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature and late twentieth-century American evangelical books of marital counsel. . . . The book is a splendid read."—Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality


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Rockwell Powers & DJ Phinisey - TWO SIDES
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It's cliché, but true: there are TWO (or more) SIDES to every story. Take Rockwell Powers and DJ Phinisey's latest single, for example. In addition to being a collaboration between two talents from opposite sides of the boards, the cut is, lyrically, all about ambivalence. Over his partner's pensive keyboard chords and subtly driving rhythm section, Powers explores the blurry distinctions between cop and criminal, teacher and student, community and commodity. Phinisey adds yet another facet to the record, lending his soulful vocals to the chorus. Fans will be able to find TWO SIDES on the Pacific Northwesterners' Build EP, scheduled for release in October. In the meantime, of course, we'll keep you supplied with the latest news and tunes.
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Fatality Lives! The deadliest tournament is back with all the kombatants and their unique fatalaties.
• Tag Team Mode: Swap in a second character mid-battle, plus you and a friend can team up for online battles!
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"It will strengthen academia-industry linkage"
An Indian Act (under the consideration of the Government of India) on the lines of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act will propel the linkage between academia and industry, said G. Ranganath, Principal, Adhyamaan Engineering College here recently.
The Bayh-Dole Act allows for the transfer of exclusive control over many government-funded inventions to universities and businesses operating with federal contracts for the purpose of further development and commercialisation. The contracting universities and businesses are then permitted to exclusively license the inventions to other parties.
The federal government, however, retains 'march-in' rights to license the invention to a third party, without the consent of the patent holder or original licensee, where it determines the invention is not being made available to the public on a reasonable basis.
In his welcome address at the first International Conference on "Infrastructure Development on Expansive Soils – INDEX – 09'' Dr. Ranganath said this was a prerequisite for a harmonious relationship between industry and academia, a clear, cogent and transparent framework for ownership of the new knowledge and for fair sharing of the benefits resulting from the commercial success of joint efforts. This would stimulate innovation and lead to increased private investment in research and development activities, he said.
Dr. S.H. Kuswaha, Director, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai inaugurated the conference. Dr. M.R. Madhav, Vice President, Asia International Society of Soil Mechanics presided.
As many as 75 delegates including 8 from abroad participated. A 709-page volume of research papers and a souvenir was released.
The conference was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Department of Space, DRDO and AICTE and organised by the Department of Civil Engineering, Adhyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur.
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With a long and distinguished career in public service, Congressman Leonard Lance is currently serving in his 4th term representing New Jersey's 7th Congressional District. Congressman Lance serves on the Energy & Commerce Committee, where he is Vice Chair of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee. He also sits on the Communications and Technology subcommittee; and the Health subcommittee. Previously, the congressman was a member of the Financial Services Committee.
Prior to coming to Washington, Congressman Lance was the Minority Leader in the New Jersey State Senate. Before that, he served in the General Assembly, where he chaired the Budget Committee.
Congressman Lance recently made his first DDF visit, engaging DDF members in an interactive dialogue and seeking industry input and insights.
Freshman Congressman Don Beyer may be a new face on Capitol Hill but he is well-known in Northern Virginia as he has spent four decades building his local family business, Don Beyer Volvo.
Prior to his election to Congress in 2014 to replace retiring Rep. Jim Moran, Rep. Beyer had a distinguished career in public service including eight 8 years as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and four years as United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
The congressman serves on the Joint Economic Committee, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where he is Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Oversight. Congressman Beyer also serves as the new DCCC Finance Chairman and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
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In Oakland, in Oakland
from Childish Gambino (Ft. Lloyd) – III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd) Lyrics on Genius
Oakland, like anything else in life, has many sides to it. Despite recent facelifts by ex-mayor Jerry Brown, Oakland still carries a reputation for being the crime ridden, industrial, working class, sister to The City across the Bay, San Francisco.
Labels and perceptions vary in truth, and as of late things are looking up for the resilient City of Oakland.
This is what the novelist Michael Chabon, who lives in neighboring Berkeley, and wrote a novel that shares a title with this song, has to say about [the complicated beauty] of Oakland.(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/oakland-soul-pleasure/).
Like Oakland, it's hard to put labels on Gambino's "old flame." She's much too complicated a person to do that. You can't pass judgement on Oakland without living in her and experiencing her way of life. The only way to truly know her is to be with her, and the same holds true for Donald's girl.
Bino explained it in an interview that this could also be in contrast among Bino's and his girl's lifestyle. Childish lives in Los Angeles, which is completely different to Oakland. The relationship between LA and Oakland kinda represents his relationship with the girl.
Maybe she just lives in Oakland.
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I have a problem, though. The name on her birth certificate, Iuseppina, differs from the name she used throughout her life (Josephine). I don't believe that she ever legally Anglicized her name...just went about doing it informally, I guess.
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David Ignatius: The AWOL debate
It's embarrassing when President Obama's risk-averse refusal to engage foreign-policy issues becomes so obvious that it's a laugh line for the president of Iran.
"I do believe that some conversations and key issues must be talked about again once we come out of the other end of the political election atmosphere in the United States," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said cheekily in an interview Sept. 23. I hate to say it, but on this matter the often-annoying Iranian leader is right.
Less than six weeks before the election, the Obama campaign's theme song might as well be the old country music favorite "Make the World Go Away." This may be smart politics, but it's not good governing: The way this campaign is going, the president will have a foreign affairs mandate for ... nothing.
The "come back after Nov. 6" sign is most obvious with Iran. The other members of the P5+1 negotiating group understand that the U.S. doesn't want serious bargaining until after the election, lest Obama have to consider compromises that might make him look weak. So the talks with Iran that began last May dither along in technical discussions.
Ahmadinejad and some of his aides let slip during their visit to New York that they may be willing to offer a deal that would halt enrichment of uranium above 5 percent. Is this a good deal or not, in terms of U.S. and Israeli security? Sorry, come back later.
Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keep his gun in the holster until after the polls close? The White House certainly hopes so. But someone should check the odds with Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who is one of Mitt Romney's biggest financial backers.
The Obama arm's-length approach is evident with Egypt and the other nations that are convulsed by the Arab uprising. The U.S. is launching an innovative economic-assistance program to help President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government. But you don't hear much about it this election season. Nor is there much public discussion of the covert U.S. effort to aid the Syrian rebels, or the war in Yemen, or the god-awful mess in Iraq.
And though Obama was eloquent in his speech to the United Nations Tuesday in eulogizing Christopher Stevens, America's brave ambassador to Libya, the administration has been reluctant to talk about resurgent al-Qaeda operations in that country. One senses a desire to keep the lid on this explosive subject in the State Department's effort to suppress CNN's reporting of Stevens' private diary, along with a commendable effort to protect the family's privacy.
I'm told that the talk in the Libyan underground is about a "global intifada" like what the new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been preaching for the last five years. But ask U.S. officials about that subject and you get a "no comment."
To be blunt: The administration has a lot invested in the public impression that al-Qaeda was vanquished when Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. Obama would lose some of that luster if the public examined whether al-Qaeda is adopting a new, Zawahiri-led strategy of interweaving its operations with the unrest sweeping the Arab world. But this discussion is needed, and a responsible president should lead it, even during a presidential campaign.


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Zink, a family physician who practices in rural Minnesota, shares the stories of Minnesota medical students as they reflect on their experiences in the anatomy lab and library, on the hospital wards, and in clinic exam rooms as they learn to negotiate the path of becoming a physician in Becoming a Doctor: Reflections. Zink examines the limits and uncertainties of her treatments for healing, and the reality that some of her actions cause pain in Confessions of a Sin Eater.
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Novell Plans Open Source Apps Warehouse
Even though software installation under Linux has been among the best of things, Windows folks have had a hard time with it. Novell's new Apps Store should provide some long needed help.
As PC Pro reports, Novell has been mulling over a one-click warehouse solution à la iPhone and Android as part of their netbook initiative. The openSUSE Build Service has already been offering such one-click packages, although few have known about this opportunity or made use of it.
In response, Novell's VP of business development Holger Dyroff plans a netbook version of an open source Apps Store that distinguishes itself from existing ones by providing only free software. How far the Novell Apps Store has progressed for the Moblin version of openSUSE hasn't been revealed.
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Lead developer quells rumors that the Debian version is slated for center stage.
Microsoft Frees Code for .NET Build Engine
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May 29, 2010 — Naoki Ueno (Professor, Department of Environmental and Information Studies at Tokyo City University):
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What do they think Cluetrain got right, and what did it miss? Has blogging been hopelessly co-opted by exactly the forces of marketing against which the "people of earth" were said to be uniting? If the rest of the world is finally catching up to Cluetrain, what will the next steps in the evolution of commerce and conversation look like?"
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I can appreciate the point about new Catalina''s but have to say I frankly very surprised. Let me preface this by saying I am not a C dealer or employee. As I am lookign at larger Catalina''s, I would appreciate differing opinions.
I have owned a C 30 in the past and found it quite sea worthy. I have recently been able to go through a 1989 Catalina 36 very very thoroughly over the course of several hours and found it to be well built. The hull is solid glass (which I personally prefer, others may not), hull to deck joint very well built: shoebox construction screwed and glued, chainplates bolted to major structural members, cabin joinery tabbed to the cabin overhead, no voids or cracks, VERY easy access to all systems including the fuel tank and holding tank, easy to see if there was any rust on the fuel tank (none) and that it was well above the bilge, easy access to all sea cocks and .. they were sea cocks. Running rigging was fine for the size of the boat (in any case easy to upgrade). Cleats properly backed etc etc. Good fit and finish.
I just don''t see it. And I do not consider myself an amateur. I have been sailing for over 30 yrs haved owned several boats both sail and power, am getting a capt lic and a master diver cert, and have spent a few months aboard big pointy gray ships with guns on them (a great way to cruise).
I have not seen a new Catalina, but I think that are many popular boats out there that are much more expensive and not built as well. Good to have divergent opinions though.
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Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus
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Prolific Songwriter Rose Marie McCoy Was Largely Unknown
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Unearthing Lost Mandela Audio, Giving Voice To Lost Stories
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Shaping 'Teenage Diaries': Intimacies, Difficulties, Life
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Re-Visiting the Radio Diaries
Monday, May 06, 2013
Radio Diaries is revisiting some of their original teenage diarists. Joe Richman, founder and executive producer of the show, discusses the project and plays some tape. Plus, two of the diarists discuss their pieces: Amanda Brand, who reported on coming out to her conservative Catholic parents; and Juan, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who now has a family and full-time job in Denver, CO.
Teen Diaries and the Power of Being Your Own Storyteller
Monday, May 06, 2013
Sixteen years ago, producer Joe Richman gave group of teenagers tape recorders and asked them to report on their own lives. Armed with recording equipment, they told their stories, and "Teenage Diaries" -- compelling radio that gave listeners an unexpected lens into the lives of ordinary teens -- was born.
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New York, NY —Once upon a time in New York City, the seltzer man with his horse drawn wagon was a familiar sight...delivering bottles of fizzy water to the city's tenement dwellers. One of them was Jacob Rosenbloom who began his career on the Lower East Aide in ...


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Using a heavy dose of spreadsheets and formulas I'm going to be reviewing the top prospects for the Mets. You do need to understand that I am not going to be placing a players peak on the moon, but rather using their draft position and age to show the window of how successful they might be at the next level. So a player in Savannah is unlikely to have a peak in the 90s with their peak projecting them into Port St. Lucie. I wrote an article to explain what it is I'm doing in this series on 1-21-13 and I encourage you to look back if this exercise is a bit confusing. Zack Wheeler – OVR: 76 PEAK: 98 (Age 23) What This Means: It means that Wheeler is both likely to grow into a front-of-the-rotation pitcher, and that he's already ready to pitch in the big leagues. Both things you've heard from scouts and baseball experts all through the offseason. Many people may want to see his ratings higher, but if you look at the grading system I think people will understand that it makes sense....
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As is clear from my earlier reviews, I've thoroughly enjoyed the previous five Cork O'Connor novels. In this one, Krueger takes a turn toward the darker side. A new character is introduced and she obviously poses possibilities for Cork that have nothing to do with the mystery they're trying to resolve. Some readers probably won't like the suspenseful end--about which I can't say any more. I enjoyed the book, but some of the character description is a bit problematic; the picture painted of the Jacobys bothered a friend of mine and I think I understand why. One thing for sure; I quickly bought the next one.
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Smosh Super Head Esploder X
An 8-bit arcade game featuring your favorite SMOSH music, voices, and characters from YouTube like Billy, Teleporting Fat Guy, Charlie, Boxman, and of course SMOSH creators Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla.
Billy, our hero, falls asleep watching SMOSH videos and becomes a super hero in his 8-bit dreams. Now he must use his propeller hat, weapons skills and agility to esplode evil flying heads and SMOSH enemies to escape from this horrifying nightmare.
The game's best feature allows you to use the camera to capture friends' or even your own head and join in the head esplodin' fun!
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Version 6 (Oct 09, 2013)
We've put in all sorts of bumpers and padding to protect against crashes.
We've fed the app some ginkgo biloba for added memory optimization.
We've called the exterminator and squashed a bunch of bugs.
Version 5 (Jul 19, 2013)
For this release we've gone BIG!!!
Super Head Esploder-X has gone social:
- Import heads from Facebook! That's right, esplodin' your friends could not be easier now. No excuse not to blow up your BFF, teacher, parent, or creepy stalker FB friends.
- Share Postcards! Don't just esplode your friends. Create a unqiue postcard, tag your friends and show everyone how much fun you are having with Smosh!
but holy sh*tsnacks, there's more. We have included a motherload of gameplay updates:
- 4 NEW LEVELS! Take Billy back in time to the land of dinos, blast him into space, visit gotham, and even a junkyard! OMG, that's FAPing huge.
- BUBBLE STRENGTH! Improve your bubble's power on the fly and protect yourself when the going gets tough. Great to get through intense skirmishes!
- FAST PASS! One-time purchase to skip to any level. Jump-cut to tons of firetruckin' fun!
BONUS: ****SOUNDBOARD**** You asked for it, you got it. Play all the game voice overs for one cheap price. FAN FAVORITE!
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Esploded mo' bugzzzz.
Version 4 (May 23, 2013)
And we're back people! This release features tons of ridiculoid stuff:
Track your enemy kills and coin progress against a gazillion other SMOSH fans at every level transition!
Achievements - show off your head esplodin' skills against these sick challenges!
This version releases *FREE* goodies from time to time - who doesn't like firetruckin' gifts?!?!
Keep the party going and buy more coins at the Gameover and Pause screens. How far can you go? Infinity and beyond!
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-- Better performance. Strong like bull!
-- Difficulty tweaks. You may still suck!
Version 3 (Feb 27, 2013)
Faster! Stronger! Smaller!
- Fixes in-gameplay lag/crashes for all 3rd & 4th Gen iPhone and iPod Touch devices (load times will still be high for these devices).
- The gameplay is smoother with reduced memory load on all iPod, iPhone and iPad devices.
- We've drastically reduced the size of download allowing OTA (over-the-air) downloading. Score!
You asked for this update, you got it! Keep the firetruckin' feedback and ratings coming.
Tell your friends.
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Esploded some bugs, but we still have more to squash.
If on iPhone 4 or 4th Gen iPod Touch, you must:
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There are no chipset drivers to my knowledge beyond windows XP.
It's an Asus M3A78 (
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My BIOS is pretty current, but after just checking Asus there is a new one that "Fix Windows7 WHQL bug" whatever that is. I'll give that a try. The explorer lockup thing is probably caused by some incompatible software, like the SPTD thing Alcohol 120 installs to control a virtual drive. The random shutdown part will take some time to see if a new bios helps.
I reloaded my image backup that was made before anything is installed (not even sound video drivers). Going to go bare minimum with no Alcohol 120 or other "risky" software for a while and see what I come up with.
Edit: The explorer hang/crash seems to have stopped. The spontaneous crash/shutdow did not. Made it almost one day than BAM! I don't know if I should blame Windows 7 or my power supply. I'm buying that Antec Truepower New 750 in a few days...we'll see.
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IT IS time for another edition of the Education UK exhibition in the city. This time, the fair will be held on February 15 and 16 at the Taj Residency from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Students can meet U.K. representatives from more than 60 institutions at the exhibition.
Students can attend seminars on various topics that will help them understand the admission procedure and requirements for studying in the U.K. Over 23,000 Indian students are pursuing various courses in the U.K., and this number is growing at the rate of 18 per cent a year. The fair will feature seminars on postgraduate courses, biotechnology, alumni interaction, student visas and Working- in-Scotland-Fresh Talent Scheme. Among the participating institutions will be the Universities of Abertay Dundee, Aston, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Conventry, De Montford, East Anglia, Essex, Glasgow, Greenwich, Hertfordshire, Kent, Kingston, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumbria, Nottingham Trent, Stirling, Southampton, Strathclyde, Sunderland, Surrey, Teesside, Ulster, Wales, Warwick, Westminster and Worcester. Students visa information can be obtained from the websites (www.ukvisas.gov.uk) or (www.ukinindia.com) . For more on education fair and the participating institutions, call 044-42050600 or log on to (www.educationuk-in.org) .
The Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Management Studies has announced admissions to the Punjab Technical University MBA and MCA programmes for the academic year starting from March 2007. The programme is offered to working executives. Candidates with a degree from a recognised university can apply. The duly filled application form should reach the institute office on or before February 15. Call 25274994 for details.
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The city's Mount Carmel College is all set to host its annual inter-college cultural fest "Cul-Ah! 2007: All Aboard" from February 8 to 10. The fest will close on February 11 with a run for a cause "Rise Above the Streets" to raise funds for BOSCO.