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Gorgeous Merritt Island Pool Home features heated pool for year-round comfort. This home sleeps 8 comfortably. After a hot day at Cocoa Beach, jump in the beautiful pool and really cool off. Experience dinner in the fabulous patio area and then take a relaxing dip in the spa. Just 1 mile west over the SR520 bridge you'll find the quaint little village of old Cocoa, where you'll find a nice mix of restaurants, bars and coffee houses. You may also take advantage of all the attractions Orlando has to offer-- only 45 minutes west on SR528. Or you might want to stay local--take a short 10 minute drive to Cocoa Beach to visit the world-famous Ron Jon Surf Shop, or spend the day at the Pier listening to Reggae music.
Or even experience the fabulous nightlife at Port Canaveral's many great bars and restaurants complete with live entertainment. The house sits on an island (2 minutes either way) between the Banana River and the Indian River with access to parks, fishing, water-skiing, kayaking, windsurfing, and many other activities. There are numerous restaurants in the immediate area, as well as a shopping mall.
We look forward to your stay with us!!
Comfortable, very clean house. The pool was so wonderfully warm we could use it on days it was 55 degrees. Living room furniture was super comfortable. Good WI-FI & TV. Very safe, quiet neighborhood close to everything fun to do. Only problem; we could never get the TVs in bedrooms to work.
We just came back from our vacation at the Merritt Island Pool Home and only have good things to say about this place. Very clean and well maintain house with all the amenities needed (even high chair, pack'n play playard and kids toys for the pool and the beach), a very beautiful and warm pool the kids enjoyed a lot. The house is also well located, close to beaches (10 min), restaurants and supermarket 2 corners away, one hour drive to Orlando and 20 min to the Kennedy space center.
Definitely one of the best house we have rented in the last years. We recommend this house without any hesitation !!!
We had a great vacation and that was really helped by where we stayed. The location was excellent, a quick drive to Kennedy (we got a year's pass), good for Brevard Zoo (when you go the direct way) and excellent for the Beach. We made lots of use of the pool and by the end our 2 and 5 year old were very confident in the water.
The facilities in the home met all our needs and we were very happy for our 2 week stay.
We had a problem with one of the showers in the property and the owners were incredibly responsive with getting it looked at.
thanks Tony & Marcia!
This house was perfect! The neighborhood was quiet and neighbors friendly. We took a walk on several occasions and were always greeted with a good morning or hello. The house was very clean and had everything that we needed for our stay. It is close to many restaurants, pharmacies, Publix and a walk in medical clinic was also near by. You can drive to Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, and the Cape Canaveral area quickly. We went to mainly fish and relax. There are plenty of places to fish close by. The pool was the best and we swam daily. There is a fenced in yard for added privacy. The owners seem kind, friendly and easy to work with. Highly recommended. We will be back! THANKS!
The Pool was fantastic. The house was very comfortable and it felt like home when you walked in. I would and have recommended this property to many people.
This home is beautiful. It was perfect for our family vacation. It sits on a quiet street while still being near anything you need. There are grocery stores, restaurants, pharmacies, all within minutes. It is about a ten minute drive to the beach. The house itself was like a home away from home. It is equipped with anything and everything you could possibly need. We all loved the pool and pool area. With in being screened in, there was not debris from trees in in like there has been in other places. We also were able enjoy meals on the screened in patio without bugs. All in all just a wonderful place to stay and I look forward to staying there again next time.
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Ruth Myles: And the winners of The Amazing Race Canada 2 are . . .Dudes! Mickey Henry and Pete Schmalz, the two totally stoked brahs from Muksoka, are the winners of the grand prize on Season 2 of The Amazing Race Canada. The "long hair, don't care" duo are taking
Ruth Myles: Big Brother Canada's Jon and Neda are dating (insert 'Squee!' here)Be still our reality-TV lovin' hearts: Jon Pardy and Neda Kalantar from Big Brother Canada are officially a couple. The pair, who lived together for 74 days in the BBCan house, are dating, a post on Slice.
Ruth Myles: Big Brother Canada is down to the final four. Who went home?So we've got our final four on Big Brother Canada: a power couple with zero interest in a showmance, a floater and a former puppetmaster who only pulls her own strings these days (sooo not a euphemism).
Ruth Myles: Run, don't walk, to apply for The Amazing Race Canada, say Vanessa and Celina"Be yourself" is always a good maxim. But if you're applying to be on a reality series, you need to take that advice and amplify it about 150 per cent. Sisters Vanessa Morgan and Celina Mziray came
Calgary chefs ready to represent the city on Canadian version of ChoppedThree Calgary chefs and one from Claresholm are going to be showing off their culinary chops on the Canadian version of a reality show that pits chefs against each other in a series of black box challenges.
Ruth Myles: Calgarians make the cut to become houseguests on Big Brother CanadaTwo Calgarians (sort of) will be among the 15 houseguests on lockdown when Big Brother Canada premieres on Feb. 27. Twenty-four-year-old Thomas Plant is a former Calgarian now living and working in Edmonton as a firefighter and bartender.


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Ansley Model: to be built new construction home site in Waterside Villages! Soundfront community only 15 miles from the Wright Memorial Bridge and the OBX. All of the pictures are of the Model Home that will be built on this lot. The Ansley Model asking price of $239,500 does not include furniture or upgrades. $239,500 price change to reflect addition of separate water meter for irrigation has been add to WSV standard features. Separate water meter connection any outside services, i.e. irrigation, pool, outside faucets. Waterside Villages includes sound access, pool and large clubhouse! Only home site packages are being sold, not vacant lots. Consistent look for this pretty community! Estimated time from contract acceptance to completion is 7 months. Taxes are for the lot only. Waterside Villages is a soundfront community with sound access, boat ramp, beautiful Club House, outdoor Tennis & Pool. Waterside Villages is the perfect community for home buyers looking for a small town waterfront lifestyle in a secure, gated community. Waterside Villages is located just minutes from the world class beaches, restaurants and shopping on the Outer Banks and all the conveniences of Elizabeth City and Hampton Roads Virginia. What really makes Waterside Villages so spectacular is the waterfront setting. Life at Waterside Villages is about enjoying the outdoors. Amenities include a pool, hot tub, tennis courts, Clubhouse with exercise equipment, grill room, sound side walking trails and gazebo with more on the way. Also enjoy The Currituck Sound with boat slips and sound front pier for fishing, boating, swimming, bird watching or simply taking in a beautiful Carolina sunrise. Waterside Villages offers single family homes and multi-family condo villas that are designed in harmony with the beautiful waterfront surroundings. Situated on over 75 acres Waterside Villages offers 2, 3, and 4 bedroom home options.
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(LUBBOCK, TX) - A Lubbock man is now in police custody after he allegedly barricaded himself inside his mother's house.
According to Lubbock police, the standoff started around 10:00 Sunday night, in the 2400 block of East 9th Street.
Investigators say Darius Johns showed up at his mother's house, got into an argument with one of his brothers and allegedly threatened to kill the brother.
The mother and brother left the house and called police.
Johns barricaded himself inside.
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Single Review: 'Treasure' by Bruno Mars
"Treasure" is the third single from 'Unorthodox Jukebox.' And it continues the 80's retro-vibe from the last two previously released singles from Bruno Mars. That right there is continuity exhibited by Bruno Mars in keeping all the singles following one theme.
Bruno Mars is acknowledging artists synonymous with the 80's in the likes of The Police, New Edition, Billy Joel, Earth, Wind And Fire, and Michael Jackson. These respected and iconic artists have, in one way or another, clearly inspired and influenced greatly Bruno Mars in his latest studio-release.
When it comes to the music video for "Treasure," everything from the choreography, stage lighting, and so on, serve as a heartfelt ode to that era. Watching Bruno Mars and his crew wearing the classic shiny, red outfits dancing and synchronized to a funk-inspired beat can make anyone who lived through the 80's reminisce about those times or, at the very least, respect what he has done. Visually, the music video is tricked out with set pieces such as a disco ball and vintage stage lights. Even the manner by which the instruments were set up in the background show the attention given to even the minutest of details and the small things do matter when it comes to making a music video.
Bruno Mars, in my opinion, has become one of the current mainstream artists who can almost perfectly and seamlessly get into a character–if you will–in any music video and portray it with the utmost sincerity. I would like to believe that it is his Filipino side to him that has shown that resilience to carry out a role with purpose.
What is the subject matter of "Treasure"? It is his declaration of love for his woman and making her feel that no one and nothing is above her and that she will always be the center of his attention.
Bruno Mars is not only a resilient artist but he is also proving to be one of the most versatile artists around as he was able to capture a moment of the 80's without him looking like a parody of the said decade. Not everyone can pull this off without looking silly or appearing to be spoofing the 80's (i.e. "Last Friday Night" by Katy Perry). I hated that music video of hers! The way the music video utilized the cameo of Debbie Gibson, I found it disrespectful of everything artists like Debbie have accomplished in their careers. For the younger readers, Debbie Gibson was one of the very first American female teen pop-stars ever! Is that how you acknowledge or thank one of your predecessors who helped pave the way for pop music to become the dominant force it is now? Trust me when I say that 15 to 20 years hence, there will be a ton of things that can be spoofed about Katy Perry and that even won't include her music yet.
Anyway, back to more substantial things and that is the single of Bruno Mars.
In "Treasure," Bruno Mars doesn't repeat the mistake of Katy Perry. The single and music video gives off a feeling to the listeners and viewers of his respect and acknowledgement of that decade. If he continues to keep up this pace– with all of his creative output mostly unfiltered and his artistry seemingly isn't uncompromised or watered down–then, he might just become one of those select artists of today people would still be talking about in the future and would continue to be buying even his older albums. So, by all means, listen to this single and watch the music video.
Needless to say, Bruno Mars has delivered another solid single here! His winning streak continues and that makes him already 'three for three' in his singles that have become both a critical and commercial success from his second studio-release 'Unorthodox Jukebox.' Buy the album also!
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They made fun of one another, smiled for every photo request – and the flashes at times were an unrelenting strobe – and finished the event as the toasts of Tustin.
Then Ryan Getzlaf, being the team captain that he is, closed the occasion by delivering the night's best punch line.
"We don't have too much sushi in Saskatchewan," he said. "You can get raw beef if you want it, though."
If hockey needs anything right now, it's a good belly laugh. The start of another season arrives at a great time, too.
A summer of unsettling news, of young men dying at their own hands, of an entire team being swallowed by unthinkable horror officially ends this week. The NHL returns. The Ducks report for physicals Friday and skate as one for the first time Saturday.
Players around the league will be turning to Twitter to finally share something other than their condolences.
"It's going to be a nice welcome to flip the page," Ducks forward Bobby Ryan said. "With the number of tragedies this summer, the game has been reflected in a negative way a little bit. It's going to be nice to get some news out there that isn't tragic and isn't heartbreaking."
On Monday, Ryan, Getzlaf and newcomer Andrew Cogliano participated in a competition at RA Sushi in Tustin for charity. It was fun, silly and well received.
On Wednesday, the Ducks will play golf for charity in Irvine. Then they have one more off day before starting a season that will begin in Finland and end, they sincerely hope, in June.
Meanwhile, Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak are still dead, as the mourning for the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club continues around the globe.
"This is a time more than ever when we need to get back on the ice and show that support for each other," Getzlaf said. "I'm sure those guys would be thrilled to see us back out on the ice playing again."
Boogaard and Getzlaf grew up in the same area of Saskatchewan. Getzlaf played with Rypien's brother, Wes.
Death has a way of making a man turn inside himself and reflect. Suicide can turn that reflection into something sobering in its intensity alone.
"We're a family," Getzlaf said. "When we're in that locker room, we're in it together. We do a lot of things together. You really need to pay attention and know what's around you and what's going on with the other guys in case somebody does need something."
But can hockey, with its sanctioned violence and bloodied faces and thrown knuckles, really accept the concept of group therapy? The NHL already has support programs in place and that didn't stop these three players from succumbing.


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Fibromyalgia inflects terrible wounds that leave no scars, and it is very difficult to treat. While drugs and pain suppressants are available, healthy food alternatives, including herbs and other natural foods, also help in combating the pain and exhaustion associated with the syndrome.
The Fibromyalgia Cookbook is designed to help those who suffer from this affliction to find relief from their discomfort. Focusing on natural foods and herbs, the authors emphasize pure foods with no additives, the lowest levels of toxins, and the greatest amount of nutritional value. The rules are few and basic: No red meat. No green peppers. No eggplant. Avoid heavy, starchy foods. The diet is low in sodium and low in fat, with no processed sugars. (Natural sweeteners such as honey and fruit are used.) No white flour (spelt flour and rice pasta are good substitutes). Soy butter, virgin olive oil, and flaxseed oil are suggested for salads. Many other satisfying possibilities are provided.
An introduction by Dr. Alison Bested explains the nature of fibromyalgia and the role of diet in finding relief from its symptoms. A glossary explains the strengths and dangers of specific foods. The 124 delicious recipes are divided into Soups, Salads, Veggies, Fibro-Fish Dishes, Dressings, Sauces and Dips, Fruit, Rice and Pasta, and Bread. COOKING; HEALTH 6 X 8, 172 PAGES PAPERBACK
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Sunset Park is one of New York's hidden treasures. Tucked away in the Brooklyn neighborhood that bares its name, this park is famous for its breathtaking vista. Sunset Park offers, at sunset, and at all times, stunning views of the rugged skyline of Manhattan. From the park's highest point, you can see the Statue of Liberty, vibrant Brooklyn neighborhoods, and the green hills of Staten Island and New Jersey. Turning your gaze inward to the park, you see an equally diverse terrain: a state-of-the-art swimming pool, green fields, pedestrian walkways, a sand volleyball court, a recreation center, and a living memorial commemorating September 11th.
In the summer months, Sunset Park and its pool become home to swimmers and sun worshipers. Designed in a neoclassical/Art Deco style, the pool first opened its waters to the public in 1936. It has since then offered to the Sunset Park community and visitors from all across New York City a range of recreational activities. Programs include Learn-to-Swim classes for all ages, free After School swimming instruction, and Adult Lap times. The Brooklyn Swim Team, a competitive swim team for children and teens, also trains out of this pool. A wading pool gives even young children the chance to play and cool off in the water.
With an active recreation center and playground, Sunset Park has visitors even in the colder months of the year. The recreation center has, among other highlights, a Computer Recreation Center (CRC) with 9 computers, a library, a dance room, and a workout room with cardio equipment and free weights.
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Authorities uncover abandoned pot operation in western Wis.
Instead of indulging in the offerings, the unidentified citizen alerted the police who arrived shortly thereafter to discover a set-up apparently designed by an Apocalypse Now fan-- rinky dink booby traps surrounded the site, including rat traps and neck-level ropes evidently intended to clothesline egregiously oblvious/blind trespassers.
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AQUATablet is a robot interaction device designed to be operated by a diver tethered to, or in visual communication with, an underwater robot. First described in the paper Swimming with Robots: Human Robot Communication at Depth, by Bart Verzijlenberg and Michael Jenkin of York University. Credit: York University
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In DJ Z's exclusive interview with Royce Da 5'9" earlier this week, the Detroit emcee made a few, well, controversial comments on his Slaughterhouse brethren, notably stating that his only serious rival in the group was Crooked I. With all the competition going on among the foursome, the title of this brand new, unreleased cut (recorded Tuesday night) seems fitting. Fight Club finds Royce, Crook, Ortiz, and Budden taking the gloves off for an all-out verbal brawl, backed by a pumped-up, piano and cymbal-heavy instrumental by Rockville Centre's Frequency. With all four emcees firing off their most potent lyrical ammunition, I certainly can't pick a favorite, though Crook's contribution, which references the emcee's close call in last Friday's shooting incident, would be high on my list. As always, I'll leave it it to Booth reviewers to decide who came out on top and who got slaughtered.
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Have you ever thought about what it would be like to sell everything you have, pack up your family, and move to a 3rd world country to follow your faith? Can you imagine how different life would be from living in a small northern Indiana town compared to living among tribal people in the mountains of Papua New Guinea? In spite of the difficulties and challenges surrounding such a radical move, Drew and his family are closer to each other and to God than before and never imagined the abundant life of follo…


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Stealing the Constitution
The most important truth about the Constitution is this: it was written as a set of rules by which living people could solve their own problems, not as a "dead hand" restricting their options. Strikingly many important questions, from the nature of the Supreme Court to the composition of the cabinet, are left to Congress. There's ample evidence in the text that the framers didn't think of themselves as peering into the future and settling all questions; instead, they wrote a document that in essence says, "Work it out."
These conclusions come from a careful reading of the Constitution, not from some hazy idea of a "living Constitution." The "living Constitution" is a whipping boy of the right. Progressives supposedly believe, in Ron Paul's words, that "government may unilaterally change the terms of its contract with the American people." Right-wing historian Kevin Gutzman writes that Supreme Court justices use the "myth of a living Constitution" to "write their own views into law on some of the most contentious issues of our day."
This "debate" is a mystification. The far right views the Constitution as something like the "killing jar" scientists use to preserve butterflies, freezing the country under glass, preventing social change and stripping the democratic process of its effectiveness. The issue in constitutional interpretation is not whether the Constitution is a living document; it is whether the United States is a living nation.
That simple reality is often obscured by conservatives' claim that they, and only they, follow the framers' "original intent." Originalism, writes scholar David Forte in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, "implies that those who make, interpret, and enforce the law ought to be guided by the meaning of the United States Constitution—the supreme law of the land—as it was originally written." Who could be against that? Nobody, Forte writes, except those who believe that the Constitution has "no fixed meaning."
This notion—that there is somehow a fixed, binding, single intent hidden in a each phrase of the Constitution—confuses the Constitution with the Bible. The idea of a single, literal, intended meaning of a biblical text gained primacy during the Reformation. The religious historian Jaroslav Pelikan sees in early Protestant theology the origins of American constitutional discourse. Luther and the other Reformers believed that "Scripture had to be not interpreted but delivered from interpretations to speak for itself." What mattered to Luther was "the original intent and sensus literalis [literal meaning]" of the words of the Bible.
The general Protestant notion of "original intent" was elaborated a century ago, when a group of American evangelical Christians published a set of essays on "the fundamentals" of Christian belief. In large part, fundamentalism was a revolt against "higher criticism"—scholarship that studied the Bible like any other literary work in history. Rejecting this approach, fundamentalists believed that the Bible is the literal word of God; all parts of it are created directly by the breath of God into the human soul. The inspiration is not general but verbal—God has fixed not just the ideas in the Bible but the very words in which they were written. Thus every word has a fixed meaning, immune from question by history; and all the words fit together into one divine whole. This "true" meaning must be zealously guarded against corrupt worldly forces—the "higher critics"—seeking to contaminate it with modern, un-Christian ideas.
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So influential has biblical fundamentalism been in this country that these attitudes are now cultural rather than specifically religious values. In fact, "originalists" have an enemy just as the fundamentalists did. Like the "higher critics," the supposed advocates of the "living Constitution" are smooth-talking "elite" deceivers who want to replace the good old Constitution with their personal views.
But that's one of the right's biggest lies. "We are all federalists, we are all republicans," Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address. And we are all "originalists." But many constitutional interpreters find the "intent" of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution in, well, what the Constitution says.
If the Constitution says that Congress has the power to regulate "commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes," we look around us and see what "commerce" today consists of. If the village "barber chirurgeon" has been replaced by a nationwide for-profit hospital chain and a system of group health insurance, then the power of Congress tracks that change. That's an act of interpretation, to be sure; but it's no more of one than the Da Vinci Code–style charade engaged in by many far-right "originalists."
At their baldest and strongest, originalists claim that the nation is bound by their own opinion of what was in the minds of the framers. For all their claims of superior virtue, "originalists" agree that what the framers said governs; they just want to control what counts as what the founders said.
Recognizing the problems inherent in the quest for "original intent," a number of originalists have moved on to what they call a quest for "original public meaning," or the "original understanding." That is, they say, we should consult history to determine what ordinary people in 1787 (or 1866, or whenever a specific provision was written) would have thought the words meant. Justice Scalia, for one, considers that inquiry pretty straightforward: "Often—I dare say usually—that is easy to discern and simple to apply." But as practiced by Scalia, that tends to reduce itself to, "Trust me, I knew the framers and here's what they would have said."
Consider Scalia's concurrence in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that case, the conservative majority gutted federal restrictions on expenditures by corporations during elections. In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens challenged the right on "originalist" grounds. During the founding period, he noted, most political thinkers distrusted the corporate form of organization. That might be true, Scalia replied, but only because in the eighteenth century corporations were associated with monopoly privileges: "Modern corporations do not have such privileges, and would probably have been favored by most of our enterprising Founders."
This dishonest contortion exemplifies the problems with "original meaning." Scalia is essentially saying, "They didn't really know what they thought; luckily, I do." If we adopt his definition of the founders' intent, then we the people lose all right to interpret or even really read our own Constitution. At best, we must accept the dictates of historians, who often disagree.
At worst, though, we are delivered into the hands of Justice Scalia and his ilk. Judges usually know very little about history. But an "originalist" like Scalia is utterly confident about his power to pluck the "easy, simple" meaning from the air. By a bizarre coincidence, the "easy, simple" meaning usually coincides with the program of the twenty-first-century judicial right.
Serious originalist scholarship is very useful as one way of learning more about the Constitution. But in the hands of judges like Scalia or demagogues like Glenn Beck, it is really a kind of intellectual weapon designed to hide from ordinary citizens what is in plain sight—the text of the Constitution and the present circumstances to which it must be applied.
That text, and those circumstances, are the tools we the people need in order to fight back. To save our Constitution, we have to read it. What's remarkable is how few people actually do this before proclaiming their opinions. God knows lawyers don't. In most law schools, constitutional law courses don't even begin with the text. Instead, on day one, students read the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison. That's the case in which the Supreme Court for the first time announced the doctrine of "judicial review," which allows it to review state and federal laws and invalidate those that, in its judgment, don't comply with the Constitution. Marbury is a terrific case; but the doctrine it embodies isn't written in the Constitution. So at the very beginning of their study, most lawyers leave the text behind, and never return to it.
Ordinary citizens also resist reading the Constitution. They think it's dull. In 1987, the American novelist E.L. Doctorow found no poetry in it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he reported sadly. "It lacks high rhetoric and shows not a trace of wit, as you might expect, having been produced by a committee of lawyers. It uses none of the tropes of literature to create empathetic states in the mind of the reader."
Doctorow was wrong. The Constitution as a whole takes effort to read; but once one puts in the effort—several readings, all the way through, and some serious thought about what one has read—it reveals a surprising, indeed sometimes dazzling, array of meanings. By turns political, legal, epic and poetic, it shows us a number of strategies for dealing with contemporary challenges.
How do we read the Constitution then? A citizen who seeks to understand the Constitution should not assume that the answers lie in Supreme Court cases. For one thing, many important constitutional questions have never come before the Court. Some, indeed, can never be heard by any court—they constitute what judges and scholars call "political questions," which must be worked out by other branches of the government.
Second, the courts may get it wrong. In 1857, the Supreme Court announced that Americans of African descent were not and never could become citizens. A bitter political struggle, and an even more bitter Civil War, produced a national consensus that this decision was profoundly wrong even on the day it was announced. More recent decisions, from Roe v. Wade to Citizens United, have provoked profound criticism by political leaders and ordinary citizens. Citizens are not "wrong" because they disagree with the Court.
At its most basic level, reading the Constitution requires the tools that Vladimir Nabokov urged readers to bring to any text: imagination, memory, a dictionary and a willingness to use all three when the going gets tough.
Read the Constitution and measure it against the absurd claims we hear every day. This is a matter of life and death for our Republic. We won't find the Tea Party manifesto there; nor will we find the agenda of progressive advocacy groups. What we will find is a set of political tools and a language that fair-minded citizens, progressive or conservative, can use to talk through our disagreements.
Trapped in that ghastly church basement last year, I made a resolution that I would try to help rescue the Constitution from "constitutionalists." Here and now I say to Nation readers that if any group of citizens anywhere wants to meet in a church basement to discuss these issues, I will either go there to help or try to find someone who will. It's time for progressive constitutional scholars to stop mumbling about deconstruction and speak up for democracy.
Ordinary Americans love the Constitution at least as much as far-right ideologues. It's our Constitution too.
It's time to take it back.


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John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves--yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In his new book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Indeed, far from refuting Locke, they illustrate his fundamental point.
Strawson argues that the root error is to take Locke's use of the word "person" only in the ordinary way, as merely a term for a standard persisting thing, like "human being." In actuality, Locke uses "person" primarily as a forensic or legal term geared specifically to questions about praise and blame, punishment and reward. In these terms, your personal identity is roughly a matter of those of your past actions that you are still responsible for because you are still "conscious" of them in Locke's special sense of that word.
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Richard drives one of Essex's finest old girls - the legend that is the Escort Mexico MkI
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Yes, this was produced to build on the success of the RS1600 in the 16,000-mile London-Mexico World Cup Rally, and that makes it, in the cold light of day, a business product, a piece of commercial exploitation. But it came out at a time when probably no one who drove one or even saw one had ever been to Mexico or anywhere like it. They wore anoraks with stripes down them though, 'cos they looked like the ones the rally guys wore. Ford was practically unbeatable on the stages, and the Mexico celebrated Ford's rallying heroes. It didn't claim to turn you into one: it fizzed and snarled and snuffled along, carrying just manual window-winders and the optional carpets with it, and made you feel unbelievably happy and excited and glad to be alive. Still does. I miss it already.


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TW Reviews: Wilson Steam 99S, 105S, 99 and 96
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maybe he was telling you to buy the case because you were rubbish with it and he wants to win more
i agree the benefit on flat shots is definitely a pleasant surprise.
He is a heavy heavy topspin hitter with an APD frame and pushed me around and I just play defense until he goes for too much and makes a mistake. I beat him 8 out of 10 times we play with this style of play....but it is because I know him and how to play him.......he is also my doubles partner and we both know I need more aggressive and confident ground strokes to get competitive at 4.5. This set we played I was on the baseline taking balls on the rise from his topspin and giving them back with greater angles. He was usually caught wrong-footed because he is not used to them coming back quickly from my side. Normally I am 5 feet back playing retriever with minimal pace going back. When we play doubles though is where I expect to see the biggest impact for my game.....again to help me get from the back court to the net as quickly as possible with the right approach shot, especially on a second serve return. I can attack that return with spin and and angle (I play ad) then follow in behind. We played 3 sets of a league match after the set of singles and it felt great.
I will say that the one adjustment I had to make was to have confidence to hit the ball deeper. They were dropping to short in the court with my normal swing from the spin, but the adjustment was not long as the confidence was high. I have tried a dozen frames and nothing has ever removed a Yonex from my hands for a match.....but the Steam S has done that!
Oh, the other thing I hated and many of the play testers mentioned they might consider hybriding the frame......my demo was a hybrid and it was a horrible combination. After the first set of doubles the mains were not snapping back every time and needed adjustment after almost every point. I hope and expect that to be better with a full be a poly.
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Press Playby Eric DevineInside the gym, Kyle and Stephen are lying facedown on the ground. An upperclassman sits on top of each one. Gilbey stands before them holding a bag with a spoon... There's something brown inside... "You are a part of this team, aren't you?... Of course you are a part of this team, because we will never let you go," Alva says. "Gilbey? The spoon?" I had to reread Press Play this week after hearing about the hazing in Sayreville, NJ, on the news. When I first read the book, it seemed like an over-the-top story of team hazing and bullying, designed to get people talking. After watching the Sayreville superintendent's press conference on his decision to completely cancel their football team's entire season, I realized that there is much more reality to this than I ever wanted to believe. This is longer than my usual - but I think it's important.Greg Dunsmore, aka "Dun the Ton", is an overweight outcast at his high school. His interests lie in video and filmmaking, and his goal is to get into a top film school when he graduates and escapes high school. To do that, he will have to create and submit a film project - and it will have to be incredibly good. His initial idea is to create a documentary of his own weight-loss journey, from his workouts with his friend Quinn as his coach to his experiences being bullied and humiliated about his weight in the hallways, and his home life where Mom's answer to any painful experience is food. He connects with fellow film student Ella, who's dealing with her own bullying issues, and fellow overweight loner Ollie. While he's creating the workout videos in the school weight room with Quinn and Ollie, they overhear the lacrosse team in the gym, and it doesn't sound like practice. Hidden beneath the bleachers, they discover the lacrosse upperclassmen verbally and physically abusing the younger players. Greg decides to film those incidents of hazing - after all, these are the same players who have been tormenting him for years. Upon his attempt to make the superintendent aware of the issues, he realizes that the principal and other adults have been in on everything, and if he's going to make it out of this, he's going to have to do something different... something that scares him to death. He's going to have to join the team for Hell Week training and convince them that he's making a positive film about the winning team that everyone loves. Getting the story told truthfully on film in a challenge, but getting the truth to the people who will actually do something about it is the real challenge. Greg doesn't make the right decisions at every turn, which makes this even more realistic. This is well-written, gripping, and I recommend this for 8th grade and up.I really want my EMS graduates in high school to read this. But I also want my 8th graders to read this. There is a lot of swearing, and the bullying scenes should literally make your blood run cold. The reason I want my 8th graders to read this is that I want them to think carefully about what kind of person they want to be when they get to the high school. What do you want yourself to do when the lights go out and you hear the wolf howl signal? Will you step up and say something, and will you keep saying something until someone listens? Will you hide in the back and say nothing while you watch? Or will you be laughing and egging someone on? What kind of character does it take to do the right thing in the face of certain ostracism, and possible violence? My point of view in recommending books like Press Play to my students is that if they take a walk in these shoes, through these fictional events, then they have the chance to consider what they would WANT themselves to do if they are ever confronted with a situation like this. We don't throw our soldiers into battle without training, nor do we allow doctors to operate without training. Giving students books like this one arms them with scenarios and possible choices to think through when they are not facing them under pressure. That may possibly be the best training we can give them.
A Strong Right ArmThe Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnsonby Michelle Y. Green**Official Greenwich Reads Together Selection**"Excuse me, sir, but what are you going to tell the boys?" He laughed out loud. "We don't have to tell them one blessed thing, Mamie," he said, calling me by my name for the first time. "How 'bout we let that strong right arm of yours do all the talking?" I loved this! It's short, easy to read, and Mamie "Peanut" Johnson's voice shines. One of only three women who ever played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950's, she is a delightful character. Her story begins in South Carolina, where she grew up on her grandmother's farm, playing baseball with all of the boys using rocks wrapped in tape because no one had a real ball. When her grandmother passed away, Mamie's mother moved her to Long Branch, NJ to live with her aunt and uncle. There, she discovered that girls were only allowed to play softball, and she didn't like it. After she showed her pitching skills to the officer coach of the local Police Athletic League, she joined the all-white team of boys and proceeded to pitch them to consecutive championship seasons. Mamie kept playing, even though she was rejected without a tryout for the All-American Girls Baseball League because they refused to accept black players. Eventually, scouts from the all-male Negro Leagues discovered her, and she tried out for the Indianapolis Clowns team. In an era of racism and prejudice, Mamie faced many difficulties and unfair situations. Her gender often made things worse, but her indomitable spirit and amazing talent made her dreams a reality. Pair this with Mo'Ne Davis pitching in this summer's Little League World series, and it's a grand slam all around! Easy enough for 4th grade readers, but a wonderful story for all of middle school as well.
War in the Middle East: A Reporter's StoryBlack September and the Yom Kippur War by Wilborn HamptonBut even the most bitter of wars end, and people who were once enemies can, in time, become friends. Only in the Middle East does it seem as though there is no end in sight.
Wilborn Hampton was a United Press International journalist in 1970, and was sent to Amman, Jordan to cover a story of terrorists who had hijacked five commercial airplanes, capturing three and landing them at a remote airstip in Jordan. The hijackings sparked the Black September civil war, during which Hampton was trapped with many other reporters in Jordan. His experiences, taken from his memories and from his diaries during the time, give a realistic experience of war from the perspective of someone affected directly, yet not fighting. Eventually, he and many others were evacuated on a Red Cross flight to Beirut, where he stayed to cover the end of the war. Things festered for many, many months, until October 6, 1973 - Yom Kippur. On the traditional Day of Atonement for those of the Jewish faith, Syrian planes and tanks attacked Israel's northern border, and Egyptian forces dropped bombs along the Sinai side of the Suez Canal. The battles through the short war were intense, and the politics and maneuvering behind the scenes were just as intense. Some of the most interesting chunks of text deal with the realities of wartime censorship for a journalist, the propaganda of the time, and the ability to get coded messages with correct information through. Even though these events took place more than 40 years ago, the history and reality of the stories rings true today - when we are again experiencing major conflicts in the Middle East. Peace will require great work, understanding, compromise and acceptance... and once again, tragically, those things seem awfully far out of reach. 7th grade and up.
The Reluctant Assassinby Eoin ColferChevie wondered if she should call someone, and if she did call someone, what would she tell them? The FBI has a secret set of time machines that we use to hide witnesses in the past. Or, A death-dealing magician has come from the nineteenth century to kill an urchin. Or, The world's greatest scientist has been turned into a dead monkey by a wormhole. It sounded pretty insane, whatever way you presented it.
Teenage FBI almost-agent and orphan Chevron Savano has been assigned to London after her part in a disastrous public embarrassment to the Bureau in Los Angeles. Her new job? Babysitting a decades-old, 10-foot-tall metal pod in a basement with instructions to keep whoever comes out of it alive. Nine months of nothing happening... and then suddenly she has to deal with a teenage boy who crawls out of it babbling about someone named Garrick coming after him, her supervising agent's murder, escaping from Garrick multiple times in harrowing and occasionally disgusting places as well as going back in time, discovering the inventor's secret love interest, all the while trying to keep Riley from giving them away with his utter lack of 21st century knowledge in the present and her lack of 19th century awareness when they time-travel. A rip-roaring and sometimes murderously bloody action adventure mystery mashup -- this series is going to be a LOT of fun! 6th grade and up.
Sure Signs of Crazyby Karen HarringtonThere are two weeks of school left. As soon as the final bell rings, I'll have two giant problems. Problem 1: I'll have a boring summer and be forced to stay at my grandparents' boring house. Problem 2: I'll have to go to seventh grade in three months and be forced to do that horrible Family Tree Project that Lisa's sister had to do this year. Everyone at school will know about my mother.
Sarah Nelson is hoping that, for the first time, her college professor father will find some way for her to stay home for the summer, and that he will decide to pick up and move away from Garland, Texas before she has to do the family tree project. That has been their strategy every time that people find out about her mother -- usually through news stories that bring up the events that Sarah can't remember but have have defined her life. Her mother tried to drown Sarah and her twin brother Simon when they were only two. Their mother was declared insane and put in a mental hospital in Wichita, from which she sends two greeting cards each year to her daughter. Sarah is a tough, delightfully funny and inventive character who loves words, asking questions, her "best friend" Plant (yes, a houseplant), and her kind but alcoholic father most of all. This is the summer she will find role models and friends. When her father agrees to allow their home-from-college neighbor Charlotte to supervise Sarah for the summer, things do start to look up, especially since Charlotte knows about romance and boyfriends. The summer writing assignment was to write "real" letters to someone -- and Sarah chooses Atticus Finch, because she thinks he was a very good father and role model in To Kill a Mockingbird. Because her father has such difficulty talking about their family's past, and her grandparents aren't much better, Sarah's letters to Atticus are full of all the questions she would love to ask her own family - including her mother - as she watches herself for "sure signs of crazy." 6th grade and up.
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacificby Mary Cronk Farrell, foreward by First Lieutenant Diane Carlson Evans
During World War II, many women enlisted in the Army and Navy as nurses. Armed forces policies dictated that women could only be stationed in support roles, and never near combat areas. That all changed the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. The following day, the Japanese navy bagan bombing the Allied bases in the Philippine Islands. There were 101 Army and Navy nurses at the hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and nearby Corregidor Island. While some were evacuated as the official policy dictated, 67 nurses stayed to care for the sick and injured, because there were not enough male medical staff to handle the hundreds and hundreds of soldiers who needed them. The nurses who stayed treated all of the patients in makeshift jungle hospitals and in the giant reinforced underground tunnels on Corregidor, until they were captured and became prisoners of war. They suffered from malnutrition, starvation, and a host of tropical diseases, yet they cared for each other and continued to serve as nurses for anyone in need. They were finally liberated from the prison camps in 1945. All of the nurses came home alive, yet none were recognized for their service or combat status until 1983 -- because they were women. The personal accounts and photographs bring their courage and determination to life. Farrell's detailed research leads to a powerful and emotional story that will keep you thinking about these brave women for a long time. 8th grade and up.
West of the Moonby Margi PreusIt makes me dizzy to consider it, but I feel suddenly how all things are woven together, all things seen and unseen, all things alive and that once were, for generations back and generations to come, woven of a kind of golden thread that links me to Greta, and both of us to this man, to everyone and everything forever right now... Astri and her little sister Greta live with their aunt, uncle and cousins on a struggling Norwegian farm. The girls' father left for America after their mother's death, and they haven't heard from him. Astri's aunt sells her to a hunchbacked, nasty goat farmer, who treats Astri about as well as he treats his goats. Armed with her courage and as many stories, legends and fairytales as she can remember, Astri steals what she believes to be troll treasure and a magic book from the goat farmer, then escapes and heads off to rescue Greta and find their father in America. Add in a mysterious weaver, a magic hairbrush (or maybe not), kindly souls who assist them and others who inspire some rather dodgy behavior in the girls, and you have a rollicking adventure as they head east of the sun and west of the moon! Based on a passage from Margi Preus' great-great-grandmother's diary from her own voyage to America from Norway, this is a delightfully original mix of fantasy and reality. 6th grade and up.
Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt
"If Jeremy didn't have a computer or the internet, he wouldn't have met BubbleYum. If I didn't have this cell phone, people couldn't text me threats. Technology is the reason my life is falling apart... If I go back to when people actually talked in person, to when things were real, then maybe it will be real. That's what I need. Some good old-fashioned reality... And I'm going vintage until I accomplish every task on Grandma's list."
Mallory's boyfriend cheated on her with an online gaming girlfriend, and there are plenty of people taking sides, posting and texting all sorts of things. Mallory decides to ditch the technology for some peace while helping her father go through her grandmother's eclectic house, after Grandma has moved to a retirement community. When Mallory discovers an old notebook with a list of personal resolutions from when Grandma was 16, she decides that list from 1962 will be her guide. Lots of snarky commentary from her sister Ginnie, plenty of back to school drama around Jeremy and his cousin Oliver, and a jawdropping secret from Grandma's past make this a great book about relationships, dealing with mistakes, kindness and lots of forgiveness. Great for 7th grade and up!
Seeing Redby Kathryn Erskine I didn't know if it made me feel better or worse that the rest of the country was in an uproar like my life seemed to be ever since Daddy died. On one hand it meant that I was like everyone else in the country. On the other hand, if grownups couldn't even make sense of everything that was happening, how the heck was I supposed to?
In Rocky Gap, Virginia in the early 1970's, Red Porter's life has just fallen apart. His father had a heart attack and died suddenly, leaving Red and his mother with the family business: a combination gas station/convenience store and auto repair shop to run. Red's mother is overwhelmed and is considering selling their home and the business, and taking Red to Ohio to live with her relatives. Red cannot imagine living without all the places that hold his beloved memories of his father - especially the repair shop where he has learned to do so many things. While Red tries to prevent his mother from following through with selling out and leaving, he also begins to realize that there are a lot of other unjust and unfair things going on in his town. His longtime friendship with Thomas is desperately tested when Red makes a very bad choice. His mother is told repeatedly that she shouldn't go to work simply because she is female - and Red sees her very angry reactions to those conversations. With a school assignment, Red discovers that the town - and his own family - have been part of long-ago injustices, and he must decide what kind of person he is, and whether he is willing to stand up and do the right thing. A very powerful story about life in the South at that controversial time, focused on family and friendships and truth. 6th grade and up.
Giant George: Life With the World's Biggest Dogby Dave Nasser, with Lynne Barrett-Lee
Wonderful, fun nonfiction for the dog-lovers! This is the story of George, the runt of his litter who grew up to be not just the tallest dog in the world, but the tallest recorded dog EVER. George is a Great Dane, owned by Dave and Christie Nasser of Arizona. This is their story as well. After they were married and Dave talked Christie into moving from California to Arizona, they decided to get a puppy. After researching good calm family breeds, they settled on a Great Dane puppy, and located a reputable breeder, who agreed to ship them their new puppy. George arrived in a crate at the airport, bewildered and shaking from the travel ordeal of being in the darkened hold of the airplane all alone. He was little, but he had enormous feet, as many large breed dogs do when they are young. Christie held him in her lap all the way home, and everyone fell in love with little George. George didn't stay little long, though. Even the experienced vet was astonished at his growth rate --eventually getting to five feet tall, seven feet long, and 245 pounds. That is a LOT of dog! Eventually friends started to joke about George going for a Guinness Book record, which led to his eventual title, Facebook page, website, appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show and other national shows! George's family experienced some serious sadness along the way, when Christie lost two babies before they were born, but after baby Annabel was born healthy and happy, life took a much happier (and more chaotic) turn. 7th grade and up, recommended as great chapter nonfiction.
The World Series: Baseball's Biggest Stageby Matt DoedenWhen it comes to history and tradition, nothing can match the World Series. Since it started in 1903, it has provided baseball fans with measures of drama, scandal, inspiration, triumph, and heartbreak.
This is one for the serious baseball fans among us! After a fast-moving history of the World Series, the chapters are organized into greatest games, best performers, memorable moments, and what the future of the game will hold. As an accomplished sportswriter, Doeden knows how to describe the games and plays and keep the excitement up. There are lots of mentions of statistics, but they don't overwhelm the individual stories of the players and the games. I especially liked how he compared legendary players to more modern players, like putting Babe Ruth next to Pablo Sandoval in the best performers section. I also liked his explanation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, and its consequences for the players and the game. Full of archival photos and incredible game photos, this was one delight for the sports fan! Excellent design and interesting organization of the information. 6th grade and up.
Heroby Alethea Kontis "Me?" asked Saturday. "But I don't have any magic. You must have me confused with another sibling. It's a common occurrence..." "You were not born with magic, but you can channel it, contain it, control it. You must use that power to defeat the lorelei... If you don't kill her, she will destroy the world," said Cwyn. "And if she does kill the lorelei, the dragon will wake and the mountain will fall," argued Betwixt. "Save a few, or save the world." Cwyn kissed Saturday's hands and released them. "The choice is yours."
Sequel to Enchanted, but reading the first one isn't necessary to enjoy this one on its own. Saturday Woodcutter is the only one of her siblings without any magical powers -- she's strong, athletic, tall... and nothing like her lovely magical sisters. When her cousin/brother Trix runs off after hearing news of his biological mother and Saturday accidentally unleashes an ocean in the backyard, things start to take an epic turn. Saturday and her mother board her pirate sister's Thursday's ship to try to find Trix. Add a giant kidnapping bird, a blind witch bent on finding a way to destroy the world, a mountain prison, a sleeping dragon, a cursed young man who has to pretend he's the witch's daughter to survive, and a snarky chimera named Betwixt. A fractured fairy tale full of action, humor, magic, and just a little romance! 6th grade and up.
Messenger of Fear by Michael Grant*advanced reader copy from Book Expo 2014* "What. Of. The. Wrong?" "I guess," I said, "they should pay something. Be made to... They should..." I could go no further. The Messenger turned away from me to face the two... "This wrong demands punishment," he said. "I offer you a game. If you win, you will go free, unbothered by me or by my apprentice... If you lose, then you will face the thing you fear most."
What form does justice take? Some people believe that human law is enough, other believe in religious vengeance or karma. Michael Grant gives us the Messenger of Fear, and his new apprentice, Mara. They move through time and space, calling upon the Game Master to cause the most horrific and heartwrenching choices and games imaginable as punishment and payment for crimes of wickedness, bullying, and teenage thoughtless cruelty. If the players win the game, they go free -- though they are all changed from the experience of the game. If they lose, they must face their greatest fear. The idea of justice ought to involve some satisfaction, or feeling of triumph of good over evil, but as Mara discovers, justice takes from those who deliver it just as it does from those who receive it. Good and evil, choices and consequences... and there is no black and white, unless you're looking at how The Messenger is dressed. Horror that will make you think -- for 8th grade and up. Publication date 9/23/2014.
Curiosity's Mission On Mars: Exploring the Red Planetby Ron Miller The Mars Science Laboratory mission has one overarching objective: to determine if Mars is habitable.
On August 5, 2012, the spacecraft carrying the Curiosity rover arrived in the atmosphere of Mars, and deployed for landing on the surface. Curiosity is the most recent of the almost 40 attempts to reach Mars, including the Viking and Mariner spacecrafts, and the much smaller rovers Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity. NASA and the other world space agencies are working hard to get information about Mars, in order to plan for manned missions to the red planet. NASA has set a date of 2030 for the first manned mission, which seems very far away, until you look at all of the problems they have to solve in order to send astronauts that far from Earth and successfully bring them home at the end of the mission. How long will it take to get there? What dangers will the astronauts face on the way there and on the return trip home? How will they bring, grow, or create enough food and water to survive and be healthy? How long will they stay on Mars, and how will they survive the conditions on the planet? These are just a few of the questions that scientists are working on, and the information on climate, soil, geography, and history of the planet that Curiosity and the other missions have given us will be part of the solutions. Interplanetary travel takes a lot of planning! Excellent nonfiction with plenty of amazing images for anyone interested in space -- when the 8th grade went to DC, we had the chance to see an exhibit of Curiosity's photos from the surface of Mars, and they were fascinating. Strong 6th grade readers and up.
Bombs Over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disasterby Connie Goldsmith The atomic bomb was a completely new weapon at the time, and scientists wanted to learn more about the bomb's capacity... U.S. President Harry Truman ordered military officials to select a place to carry out nuclear testing. Admiral Blandy... named the atomic bomb testing program Operation Crossroads. "Sea power, air power, and perhaps humanity itself are at the crossroads."
After World War II ended in August 1945 with the dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two superpowers emerged: the Soviet Union and the United States. Both nations were working to develop atomic weapons, and this new Cold War led to the atomic testing program which would be located in the Marshall Islands, specifically Bikini Atoll. Far from any large cities, with predictable winds and few islanders who would have to be moved, the remote location seemed ideal. The first atomic bomb was detonated in the air above Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946. The second was detonated underwater only a few weeks later on July 25, with far more devastating consequences. The islanders of Bikini had been moved to Rongerik Atoll, about 125 miles from Bikini, but near Rongerak Atoll, where other islanders lived. Between 1946 and 1958, the US detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the area. The 12th bomb, Bravo, was the worst. Unlike all previous fission bombs, this one was a fusion bomb. Far more powerful and deadly, it was placed on Nam island at the edge of Bikini Atoll. On March1, 1954, its detonation left a mile-wide crater in the ocean floor, vaporized part of Nam, and sent a 25-mile-high mushroom cloud of radioactive steam and dust into the atmosphere. The islanders nearest had not been evacuated, and suffered radiation poisoning and longterm health problems for years. Many of the soldiers and sailors ordered to be part of the program also became seriously ill, some suffering for years. Was the scientific knowledge gained from all that testing worth the cost in lives, damaged health and damaged environment? Solid research, lots of historic photos, and excellent design. 7th grade and up.
Outcasts Unitedby Warren St. John**Official Greenwich Reads Together Selection**
"No one person can do everything... But we can all do something." Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian immigrant to the United States, was living in Atlanta when she discovered a Middle Eastern grocery store that carried many of her favorite foods in nearby Clarkston. As she made more trips to Clarkston, she noticed many groups of children playing soccer in parking lots. She was coaching soccer for the YMCA at the time, and had played for years herself. It turned out that the kids playing soccer (barefoot, often with only a raggedy ball) were refugees who had been moved into Clarkston with their families from all over the world. Soccer was what they had in common, but none of them could afford the fees to play for organized school or community teams. Luma decided to start her own team, which came to be known as the Fugees. The boys who joined the team needed everything, so Luma had to find ways to get them equipment, jerseys, and often food. Coming from more than a dozen nations shredded by war, many of the boys had seen horrific violence and death, and most had lost family members to the wars. They needed help with learning English, catching up from being years without formal schooling, and learning to get along in a team of many different cultures. This is an inspiring story of one person who has chosen to make a difference for others by investing her time and her talents in the children of her community. Perfect for the World Cup fans this summer!
The Raftby S.A. BodeenShudders and squeaks and an anguished mechanical groan... Max barrelled down the aisle toward me and with a loud grunt, ripped the exit window open... The wind and rain burst in... Putting up my hands to protect myself, I shouted, "My life vest!" He just tightened his grip on me and screamed back, "Hold your breath and kick for the surface! The raft will be there!" And then he threw me out the window.
Robie has grown up on Midway Atoll, where her scientist parents have been working at a research station. Her aunt lives in Hawaii, where the supply planes come from, so Robie's been able to take the supply flights back and forth for visits. This time, though, she decides last minute to return home to Midway, and her name is mistakenly left off the flight manifest -- the record of who and what is on the plane. When it crashes into the Pacific during a violent storm, no one knows she's on the plane. With the injured co-pilot Max on the yellow inflatable raft, Robie must conquer her fears and use everything she knows about the ocean and survival in hopes that someone will find them and rescue them. I don't know if I could have done some of the things that Robie has to choose to do in order to survive, and I probably would have lost my mind when the sharks showed up! Courage isn't about not being afraid -- it's about doing what you have to do even though you ARE afraid. Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Libraryby Chris Grabenstein"Today I am pleased to announce the most marvelously stupendous game ever created: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library! The entire library will be the game board. Your children will be the game pieces. The winner will be famous all over the world. The first to use what they find in the library to find their way out of the library will be crowned the winner. They can only use their wits, cunning and intelligence to decipher clues and solve riddles that will eventually lead them to the location of the library's super-secret alternate exit. Participation, of course, will be purely voluntary. Should anything go wrong, we have paramedics, firefighters, and a team of former Navy SEALs - each with the heart of a samurai - waiting to swoop in and rescue your children. It'll be like The Hunger Games, but with lots of food and no bows and arrows."
Shades of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Mr. Lemoncello, world famous billionaire toy and gamemaker has returned to his Ohio hometown to open the world's most amazing public library, designed and built under the utmost secrecy and security. Twelve 12-year-olds have won the chance to spend the night in the library, and play his best game ever, with all sorts of prizes at stake -- including a job in advertising for the Lemoncello company. This is one of the most fun books I've read in quite some time -- full of humor, action, puzzles, clues, and characters you'll love (and love to detest!). Highly recommended for everyone.
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This is a simple game you can play with your friends to try and beat your personal high score. How many guesses will it take you to guess a random number by playing Hot Or Cold? The closer you get to the number, the warmer you get and the farther away, the colder you get. Lots of fun for those simple car rides!
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MSNBC.com has a "This Week in Pictures" feature. Today one of the pictures is of Chris Dickinson stealing.
MSNBC.com has a "This Week in Pictures" feature. Today one of the pictures is of Chris Dickinson stealing.
"Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell!"
-Bruce Dickinson, late 1976.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
or Chris Dickerson... who is relevant
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More stories on: Dontnod
Life is Strange is out now, which is strange
The first part of DONTNOD's Square Enix-published episodic adventure, Life is Strange, is apparently out now.
Third Life is Strange vid explains sights and sounds
The third dev diary for Life is Strange has been released, focusing on the soundtrack, the voice actors, and the art of DONTNOD's episodic adventure.
Vampyr sweeps back its cape, revealing a DONTNOD RPG
Publisher Focus Home Interactive held a trade event for its games in France today (or, yesterday now, probably,) which included the reveal of a new DONTNOD-developed action RPG called Vampyr.
Life is Strange, says this first trailer
This is the part of the news story where I invite readers to recall that Dontnod's last game was called Remember Me and then … well you can all finish this joke.
Square Enix delving into episodic adventuring with Life is Strange
Square Enix have announced Life is Strange, a digitally-distributed narrative-driven episodic adventure.
Remember Me's new trailer orders a combo to go [Video]
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Dr. Goodwin quite literally wrote the book on several U.S. presidents.
She's written bestsellers about Lyndon Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Kennedys, and more recently, Abraham Lincoln.
"When you write about him, you're glad to be writing about him," Dr. Goodwin said. "I knew from friends who have written about Lincoln that they think it was the best experience of their lives. And weirdly enough, it turned out that way. Lincoln's character traits seem to seep out onto the biographers."
Those at Missouri Western say they were very excited to bring her to their Convocation on Critical Issues.
"Doris Kearns Goodwin has a reputation as being a historian who presents terrific information, solid information, in a very engaging way," said Kent Heier, the assistant director of communication for the university.
During her speech at Missouri Western, Dr. Goodwin focused mostly on lessons learned by the leadership of Lincoln and FDR.
In her book about Lincoln, Team of Rivals, she talks about the former President filling his cabinet with political rivals; it's a strategy she says might not work today.
"The thing that made it possible in Lincoln's time is that it wasn't just that they were from opposing factions. When they argued it wasn't public," Dr Goodwin said, noting the flaws in the 24-hour news cycle. "When you hear today what was happening in Lincoln's cabinet - that some of them are calling each other traitors or some leave the room when another guy comes in. If that were ever on public display today, it would make it impossible."
Team of Rivals is the book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Lincoln, 2012, a film Dr. Goodwin says she enjoyed.
"What mattered to me was did the film bring the Lincoln I knew back to life," she said, smiling. "And even though it was just a small story from my big fat book, I had worked with Tony Kushner the scriptwriter, and I had worked with Spielberg throughout it. They found a story that exemplified the Lincoln I thought I knew, who told stories, who was funny, who was politically smart, whose face lit up when one of those stories came, and who understood how to get something done."
Dr. Goodwin speaks about Presidents like they're her friends, and it's a style that seems to resonate with everyone in the packed hall.


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