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Smith-Magenis syndrome is characterized by particular facial features, developmental delays, mental retardation and behavioral abnormalities.
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Dear Kalamazoo,
I can't thank you enough for selecting The Submission for your Reading Together program, and even more, for the hospitality you showed me. It was wonderful to spend a couple days in a city that combines the warmth of a small town with the vibrancy of a cultural center.
And what readers! I almost fell over when I met a book club who had spent four hours discussing my novel, give or take a little time spent on the carrot cake. And who caught a tiny change I had made between the hardcover and paperback versions. When I spoke, the audience's energy was palpable and their questions stimulating. And seeing the student art inspired by The Submission and displayed at the library was among the most inspiring experiences I've had since publishing my book.
Both the community and the library staff have my admiration and gratitude for doing so much to support readers and writers. The ideas for programming for Reading Together were brilliant, and I wish I could have attended.
I'm working hard on my next book so I can get back to Kalamazoo...
All best
Amy Waldman
Last fall, Amy Waldman won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction. Those of you who were able to take part in Waldman's visits to Kalamazoo last week will certainly understand how she became the winner of this prize sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute that promotes promising new authors. As the winner of this prize, Waldman joins quite a prominent collection of previous winners including Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Toni Morrison. So if you haven't read The Submission, I encourage you to do so and discover a promising, new author who just might become a favorite.
~Judith J. Bosshart, Library Director T. F. Reed Memorial LibraryDavenport University
I hope you had a chance to hear Amy Waldman this week, either at her thought-provoking talk on Tuesday evening about writing The Submission, or perhaps at Kalamazoo College on Wednesday when she dug a little deeper into the topic of writing fiction versus writing as a journalist. Maybe you even had the opportunity to ask her questions during the live web chat she graciously agreed to do at MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette. Whether or not you were fortunate enough to hear her speak, I'm happy to report that Kalamazoo is the richer for having had Amy in our midst.
Her authenticity, her sense of humor, her vulnerability, and her honest approach to writing fiction and continually learning something new in the process, all affirm what the selection committee has always known to be true: that our community conversation about a specific book, the hallmark of Reading Together, can only be heightened by having the opportunity to meet the author and learn more about her motivation and life experiences. Amy Waldman is no exception.
Amy's visit is the springboard for many more events coming up in the next month. Please keep the momentum going and join us!
Amy Waldman will be arriving in Kalamazoo today and speaking tonight at 7pm in Kalamazoo Central High School Auditorium. Hopefully that's not the first you're hearing of her visit, unlikely if you are reading this blog, but if it is, what great timing!
The Reading Together author event kicks of a month of great programming and has always deepened my understanding of the selected book and how and why it came to be. I'm sure this year's event will not disappoint. Each year I look forward to learning more about the authors writing process and hearing how they talk about and present the book and how their perspective tweaks my own. I also look forward to hearing unexpected details from the author. There is usually some hidden aspect of the publishing process or unforeseen literary challenge that is brought up during the talk that surprises me. These unexpected moments are often elicited by great questions from the audience at the end of the prepared talk and that spontaneity is part of what makes the Q&A one of my favorite parts of each year's program.
One area of publishing that you don't often hear authors talk about is book jacket design. But like it or not, the wrong jacket can doom a great book from the beginning, and so jackets matter. As a teaser in anticipation of tonight's unexpected moments you can read Amy Waldman and designer Rodrigo Corral comment on The Submission's cover. See you all tonight!
We are excited to launch the 2013 Reading Together website where you can learn everything you'll need to know about the events coming up in March and April around the themes of The Submission by Amy Waldman. On this site, you'll find details about each event, online resources, suggestions for further reading and viewing, and informational blog posts from members of our steering committee. In addition, we'll maintain an up-to-the-minute calendar of book discussions for anyone looking to participate in one.
We look forward to bringing our community together once again to discuss some important issues including: public art and how it impacts communities; trust and identity; and the influence of media on our perceptions.
Amy Waldman was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years. She spent three years as co-chief of the South Asia bureau after covering Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11. She was also a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where her stories included this look at Islam in the courts.
She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review and The Atlantic, and was anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. (From the author's website.)


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Secret Quarter-Billion-Dollar Koch Brothers Political Operation Revealed
The top 1 percent has an investment in destroying middle-class America.
By Steven Rosenfeld
September 12, 2013
Politico.com, the Washington insider website, has the money-in-politics scoop of the year: It has unmasked a previously unknown political money laundering operation, set up by the energy billionaires and libertarian Koch brothers, that raised $256 million and secretly spent almost all of it last year against Democrats.
The Koch brothers secret bank, which is what the website calls the Virginia-based group, whose formal name is Freedom Partners, is the glue that has been holding together the right-wing pantheon of pro-corporate, anti-regulatory, anti-Obama, anti-labor front groups that are against everything from healthcare reform to labor unions to financial market reform to progressive taxation.
The group has about 200 donors, each paying at least $100,000 in annual dues, Politico reported, saying Freedom Partners would soon be filing papers with the IRS disclosing its existence. It raised $256 million in the year after its creation in November 2011, the [IRS] document shows. And it made grants of $236 millionmeaning a totally unknown group was the largest sugar daddy for conservative groups in the last election, second in total spending only to Karl Roves American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which together spent about $300 million.
The fact that secretive right-wingers could amass and spend a quarter-billion dollars in a presidential election cycle and go undetected under federal campaign finance law is an astounding indictment of the American electoral system, revealing that all the laws intending to inform the public about who is slinging political mud are meaningless. The mockery goes even further when considering the section of the federal tax code the group is operating under: 501(c)6. That designation is for trade associations, which lets the group conceal its donors.
Trade asociations, like trade unions, were created to represent single industries or crafts. Freedom Partners "trade" is the business of political assassination. What follows is Politicos list of the groups, causes and amounts received from the Kochs cartel. The groups members are drawn from the energy barons semiannual political conferences, which feature speeches by Congress Republican leadership.
The filing offers a rare tour of the conservative movement and how it gets its funds, Politico said:
Center to Protect Patient Rights, a group that vehemently opposes Obamacare: a total of $115 million, from three grants.
Americans for Prosperity, an organizing and advocacy group that is courted by Republican presidential candidates: $32.3 million.
The 60 Plus Association, a free-market seniors group that also opposes Obamacare: $15.7 million.
American Future Fund, an Iowa group that spent a lot of money on ads in 2012, many for Mitt Romney: $13.6 million.
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, which gets involved in a number of social policy debates: $8.2 million.
Themis Trust, a Koch-based voter database that is made available to other conservative organizations: $5.8 million.
Public Notice, a fiscal policy think tank: $5.5 million.
Generation Opportunity, a group for liberty-loving young people: $5 million.
The LIBRE Initiative, which targets a free-market message to Hispanic immigrants: $3.1 million.
The National Rifle Association: $3.5 million.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: $2 million.
American Energy Alliance: $1.5 million.
And several groups including the State Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots and Heritage Action for America got less than $1 million each.
Marc Short, the groups president (who was previously chief of staff for former Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and also for then-Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana), told Politico the group was primarily a bunch of wealthy self-made businesspeople who were not seeking publicity but felt their prosperity was under attack in America.
Short said his members are concerned that the nation that they had grown up in and that their businesses have flourished in will not be there for their children and grandchildren and are committed to trying to restore what they view are free markets in a free society in America, Politico reported. Many, he said, are Horatio Alger-type stories, and most of them not household names, who got rich after starting small businesses, from service to manufacturing to information technology.
America loves underdogs, but contrary to Shorts spin, his members are capitalist overlords who are firmly entrenched in the top 1 percent of Americans who are only getting richer. As reported this week, the top 1 percent in America earned more money in 2012one-fifth of Americas household incomethan any year since 1928. In other words, Freedom Partners agenda is all about protecting private gain, greed and obstructing or dismantling government regulation of business, fairer taxation or investments in socially beneficial programs from healthcare to retirement security.
According to Politico, the group, which has 48 employees, is filled with a whos who of corporate defenders and GOP ideologues. Its executive director is Richard Ribbentrop, a former head of the New York Stock Exchanges Washington office, which, in addition to lobbying for Wall St. bailouts in 2008s market collapse and then against new regulation of market excesses, also opposes financial transaction taxesa huge potential revenue source. The groups board includes longtime Koch employees, state and national GOP party officials, and Washington lobbyists.
Politico asked Short how his members felt about spending a quarter of a billion dollars in 2012 and losing the presidency, not retaking the Senate and alienating most Hispanic and Asian voters. Our members are committed to the long term, Short replied, not to one individual cycle.
In other words, a new era of class warfare in America is only just beginning.
Steven Rosenfeld covers democracy issues for AlterNet and is the author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting" (AlterNet Books, 2008).


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(2) Construction.— Nothing in paragraph (1) may be construed (A) to interfere with the integration of administrative resources between public diplomacy and other functions of the Department of State or to prevent the occasional performance of functions other than public diplomacy by officials or employees of the Department of State who are primarily assigned to public diplomacy, provided there is no substantial resulting diminution in the amount of resources devoted to public diplomacy below the amounts described in paragraph (1), or (B) to supersede reprogramming procedures.
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The report submitted pursuant to section 6601 (f) of this title shall include a detailed statement of the manner in which the special mission of public diplomacy carried out by USIA prior to the transfer of functions under this chapter shall be preserved within the Department of State, including the planned duties and responsibilities of any new bureaus that will perform such public diplomacy functions. Such report shall also include the best available estimates of—
(1) the amounts expended by the Department of State for public affairs programs during fiscal year 1998, and on the personnel and support costs for such programs;
(2) the amounts expended by USIA for its public diplomacy programs during fiscal year 1998, and on the personnel and support costs for such programs; and
(e) Congressional Presentation Document
The Department of State's Congressional Presentation Document for fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal year thereafter shall include—
(1) the aggregated amounts that the Department will spend on such public diplomacy programs and on costs of personnel for such programs, and a detailed description of the goals and purposes for which such funds shall be expended; and
Source(Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, § 1333,Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–785; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title III, § 304], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–434.)
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HR created the job advert and don't know what is required so tack on everything they have ever seen. It is generally a reason for me to ignore the advert.
Probably because they laid off 4 people and want to replace them with 1 to save money. I've seen it happen lots of times where a corporation will cut too many people during layoffs and then realize that they have to hire someone to do a WHOLE bunch of things.
Personally I think it's likely to mean one of two things:
Either way I think it's a bad idea to do this from the perspective of the employer - and I have no idea why this is so common...
Because it chases away the inexperienced candidates who don't know that they'll accept someone with just half of the requirements, minimum 5 years experience can be had in 3, and Computer Science Degree or related field means any degree at all.
They may want one person who can do everything, and be a team of one, or they may want you to join a team of ten. Either way, you might use different skills on different days. I once stepped into the office of one of my staff and told him we'd had an emergency call from a client about something being broken on a live site and could he please take a look at it. He asked me a few questions and then said "I'll do it, but I just need to go on the record that this will be my fourth language today. And it's not lunch yet."
There most certainly are jobs where you are asked to support a range of products written in assorted languages. If you know only one you probably wouldn't enjoy the job even if you convinced them you were a fast learner. But if you love roller coasters, a job description like that is fun - and you know you won't have to compete with as many people!
This is also a sign that the inmates may be running the asylum. That is, there is probably weak or no management of the programming team and everyone is using their pet language instead of standardizing one or a few complementary technologies.
Most hiring managers are uncertain about future of a project. He/She will always think, if this project doesn't work out, can my "resources" be useful in other projects? Typically during such interviews, the main focus will be on the immediately required technologies/skills, but the doubtful manager will always check if he/she can get more mileage.
one more thing to note is the flood of off-shore and Indian developers in the market place. I have run many teams and have hired such a person to take care of some legwork that no one wants to do since the price is right.
in looking at such candidate's resume you will find one of two things. either a resume of a 6th grader you can use as scratch paper or an essay of over 6 pages filled with everything they did in their entire career. in such a resume you will likely find a section listing technology in an excel-like table. I have seen this section alone take half a page and list everything from JAVA, to DotNet and Ruby... with every database known to man - i think you get the point.
on top of everything these candidates are very willing to take half the salary of other workers and will without shame express this on an interview.
this is a dangerous mixture when you figure in HR because they will set expectations and salary caps based on these types of experience.
then the cycle goes... 2 month pass and the guy can not finish a single project or unit of work and is let go. then HR goes into a mad dash trying to replace the person and then we are back at square one except the pay for the job has dropped by 20% this time around.


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The Former East African Community Secretary General, Ambassador Juma Mwapachu, has urged local manufactures and producers to stick to quality production principles that will help them produce super brands.
Speaking at the Tanzanian Marketing Communication Conference (TMCC) in Dar es Salaam that brought together various corporate entities, he emphasized that the building of superbrands will allow local producers to capture more foreign markets.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden has identified the digitization and online public display of the Engelmann Herbarium of plant specimens as a priority collection stewardship activity. The approximately 8,000 specimens gathered during pioneering expeditions into the native American West following those of Lewis and Clark are the first scientific record of the plants growing in the vast wilderness west of the Mississippi River. As such, they form the earliest verifiable documentation of species occurrences before the rapid migration west permanently altered that pristine landscape through human alterations and the introduction of invasive species. These specimens will provide an historic complement to the 3.6 million specimens already databased and accessible through Tropicos, MBG's botanical information system.
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As they mark Pioneer Day this weekend, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--better known to most Americans asMormons
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At Smith's centennial 100 years ago, "The Latter-day Saints were so feared and hated that their missionaries were still being tied to trees and horsewhipped in the American South, and some were being shot," said Kathleen Flake, a professor at Vanderbilt University and author of "The Politics of Religious Identity: the Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle."
What a difference a century makes.
Today, the leader of Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, is a Mormon. So are Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts. And Mormons--along with plenty of non-Mormons--are abuzz about the possibility of the ultimate political prize: Romney is widely expected to run for president in 2008.
Joseph Smith's bicentennial is being marked in places like the Library of Congress, which co-sponsored with Brigham Young University a symposium on Smith's life and teachings. Several new academic biographies are being published, and the first volume of the Joseph Smith papers--a complete compilation of his writings--will be issued next year.
And with 5.5 million members in the United States, the LDS church has become the fourth-largest denomination in the country (up from fifth a year ago, having passed the Church of God in Christ), according to the National Council of Churches. Outside the U.S. and Canada, the church has grown more than fivefold to 6.3 million members since 1980--with nearly 10 percent of that in the past five years, according to figures provided by Mormon officials.
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I don't know about you, but I am loving this week of perfect golf weather in the Columbia River Gorge! I only hope it continues through the rest of this month and into September. Of course, the more I play, the more I visit the Greenside Grill, which is open from 10am to 2 pm, with some extended hours for those nice sunny days like today. For those who haven't tried them yet, the breakfast sandwiches and wraps are delicious. Probably my favorite thing on the menu! Recently, the Grille has added a selection of ice cream sandwiches and other frozen desserts, just in time for all this sunny weather.
Speaking of sunny weather, this awesome golf weather is a great time to bring the kids and play Skamania Lodge's PGA Family Golf Course! Each hole is now equipped with 2 sets of family tees, navy and gold, on our back nine holes. Every day at 4pm, we open the course to all families and offer tee times of 4-5:30pm. However, sometimes we do have tournaments and large golf groups that extend into the family golf times, so please call ahead to make sure the course if free for your family. Don't feel like playing the full 9 holes? That's totally ok! You can choose to play 3, 6, or 9 holes; it's up to you and your family. And because we know how expensive it can be to play golf these days, we have designed this program to be free for children 18 and under, as long as they are accompanied by one playing adult with some golf experience paying only $25, including cart rental.
So what are you waiting for? Come see us at Skamania Lodge Golf Course for some good eatin' and family fun!
For more information about our PGA Family Course, please call us at 800.293.0418, or visit us at www.skamania.com.


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This season, NBC's The Voice has averaged nearly 11 million viewers per episode. Each episode of ABC's Dancing With The Stars brings in over 12 million viewers. They're among the highest-rated programs on Primetime TV for the season, a pattern that's held for over a decade, since the first episode of American Idol took hold of American television and never let go.
Reality Television, right?
Nope – Election Television.
So when we see that 59.2 million people watched the third Presidential debate, this is really an extension of a well-established dynamic. It may have taken over 200 years, but television has done its part to get people interested in the democratic process. Finally, it's hip to vote.
Sure, Presidential debates have had their share of impact upon the country. Nixon/Kennedy, Reagan/Carter, Lincoln/Douglas – each debate was a very public example of the direct influence a debate at the highest level of our electoral process has on our government. But as an agent of social change, Aiken/Studdard had an impact in its own way.
The fact is that the casting of a ballot is one of the most sacrosanct responsibilities each citizen holds within a free democracy. Each and every one of us should consider it duty, honor, and privilege to vote in every election held. Could it be that it took a television show to get many people comfortable with participating in the democratic process? That is, since many avoided voting under the mistaken belief that it would lead to them being called for jury duty.
Who didn't watch American Idol? Who wouldn't want to make sure that their favorite stayed out of the "bottom three" each week? TV made voting popular again (said with absolutely no hyperbole, of course)!
We still watch "voting shows" such as The Voice, X-Factor, Dancing With The Stars, Survivor,American Idol, et al. Along with NFL Football, they're always among the highest rated programs on television – necessitating the term "scripted television" for what used to be just "television," for the most part.
But over 59 million people tuned in to watch two men debate foreign policy. The same night that "America's Pastime" delivered 8.1 million viewers for a MLB Game 7, do-or-die, win or go home National League Championship. The NFL, all but crowned America's new pastime by now, brought in 10.7 million viewers for a Monday Night Football game opposite them both.
In all, the three Presidential Debates brought in 67 million viewers for the first debate and 65.6 million for the second. 59 million was the smallest audience of the three.
American politics have become American sport. And Americans love their sports. But even more so, Americans love their country.
We've invested our time as the audience. Now it's our duty, our honor, and our privilege to participate by voting on November 6th. There's no debating how important each of us is to this process.
That night, those same broadcasters who made it possible for you to vote during those shows that you love will be there to tell you who won the election to lead the country that you love.


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- "Travel back to a time when sawing a women in half was still considered entertainment at this popular Russian Cabaret club."
- ―GTA IV Manual Description
Perestroika is a Sprunk owned cabaret club in the Hove Beach district of Broker, Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV, once owned by the late Mikhail Faustin. The comedy acts there are much poorer in humor than those of Split Sides, though there are some interesting acts. Like the Split Sides, Niko Bellic can watch shows in club on his own, on a date or as an activity with a friend.
"Perestroika" ("Перестройка") means "restructuring" when translated to Russian. Perestroika is also a term commonly used internationally when referring to political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union during the1980s that resulted in its collapse.
The club's interior includes various rooms that serve several purposes in-game. The main feature of the club is its dining area, bar and open space (presumably used as a dance floor) fronted by a stage, where the club's acts are performed. The backstage of the club is accessible from a door to the left of the stage, connecting to the perfomer's dressing room, a QUB3D video arcade game, and a backlot of the club which leads up to the club's roof, where a pistol can be found. A cloakroom is also included between the main entrance and the main room of the club.
Perestroika's shows are triggered from within the club itself; the player must first enter the club and locate the marked checkpoint to the right, where the player is intended to be seated.The club's exterior design is largely based on the Millenium Atlantic Oceana in Brooklyn. (see below).
At night, the club is guarded by a bunch of Russian mafia members who will attack if provoked, in and outside the club, if you pull out a gun after you have made the gang members attack you, they will pull out their guns and start shooting at you. The club is also guarded by two gangsters who search guests before they enter (except the player). Depending on how far in the game the player has got the guards will react in one of two ways. If the player hasn't completed The Master and the Molotov mission, the guards will welcome them. However after this mission is completed, the guards will warn you to stay away and then attack the player.
If, however, accompanied by a friend (whilst the player is doing an activity for his friend), the guard will let them in, despite the mission completion of The Master And The Molotov. If you take Roman there after the mission Crime & Punishment, he may occasionally feel uncomfortable and says it must be where Faustin hangs out when he isn't holding hostages in his basement and shooting them. After completing The Master and the Molotov, he tells Niko it's a shame Faustin is dead because the place is going to pot.
After Faustin's death, it's assumed that Kenny Petrovic took over the club, because it continues to be frequented and guarded by the Russian Mafia when all known leaders are dead.
Perestroika hosts a total of four different acts, of which two will be feature each time a player comes to watch its show. The sequence of acts are repeated after six visits.
- Perestroika is the venue of the "Porn Idol" auditions that Guy wanted to attend.
- The dialogue of the woman at the coat check counter is recycled from Alex Chilton's.
- Perestroika was a reform introduced by the Soviet Union premier Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s which gave more power to Managers in industry, hence taking power from Soviet central command. The naming of the club could be derived from this reform since the clubs owner, Mikhail Faustin, is killed by Niko after being ordered to by Dimitri, who was subordinate to Faustin. It is widely believed that perestroika destroyed Communism in the Soviet Union, ultimately leading to it's collapse.
- In Grand Theft Auto IV's first trailer, Niko is seen entering Perestroika the opening cutscene of Final Destination wearing a suit from Perseus, despite the shop not being available until much later in the game. Either Perseus was available in the beta version of the game earlier on, Faustin's missions were placed later in the game, or most likely the suit was just added while programming the game to make it look classier.


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We launched Reading Together on March 4 with a screening of 12 outstanding videos by the talented students in Education for the Arts Advanced Multimedia Class. The works — all inspired by All Over But the Shoutin' — ranged from animation to live action. We'll be adding these videos to KPL's collection soon, and I encourage you to check them out. Our next program is Addiction and the Family. Alcoholism is a major theme of Rick Bragg's three memoirs. So much of the pain and suffering and death are the result of alcohol addiction. On March 10, we will explore the disease of alcoholism, its effects on families, and ways to stop the cycle of abuse. Our featured guest is Debra Jay, author and professional interventionist, who'll give a free talk at First Baptist Church beginning at 7 p.m.Debra Jay is the author of No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, published by Bantam in 2006. She has also co-authored two Hazelden Guidebooks: Love First: A New Approach to Intervention and Aging and Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence. She is in private practice with her husband Jeff, providing intervention training and consultation services and has an additional specialty in older adult intervention. She previously worked as an addiction specialist for the Hazelden Foundation. Ms. Jay has regularly appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Since 2003, we've used good books and thoughtful programs to explore important topics of the day — intellectual freedom, poverty, war, autism, community service. We've gathered individuals and organizations into what has become a county-wide book club. Along the way, many hundreds of you have joined as avid Reading Together fans. We appreciate your participation and your excitement upon learning each year's selected title.
We are equally excited to introduce you to the 2009 selections, three memoirs by Rick Bragg — All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man, and The Prince of Frogtown. They're about his childhood in northeastern Alabama, about events and circumstances that shaped the writer and the man. And they're about people and families, something all of us can relate to.
If there's a theme to this year's books, it's a celebration of beautiful words by an author who writes like he's telling you a story at the dinner table. The kind of story that makes you forget dessert because you're still sitting there, listening hard. As one reviewer said, Rick Bragg's talent is so fine, other writers are paralyzed with envy.
Our Steering Committee and partners have packaged six weeks of programs to help you enjoy the books even more. Visit the calendar of events to learn more. And do mark your calendar now for Rick Bragg's visit to Kalamazoo on April 14.
Find the books and their audio versions at your library or bookstore. Read and share them with friends. I look forward to seeing you at book discussions and other events this spring. Enjoy!