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This elegant chandelier is distinguished by a graceful balustrade silhouette, rendered in mouthblown glass with gleaming silver accents. A dramatic interpretation of classic European lighting fixtures, it provides beautiful illumination for your dining room or foyer.
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Overland Park, KS — The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree Board of Commissioners recently awarded Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., reaffirmation of accreditation of its business programs.
ACBSP accreditation certifies that the teaching and learning processes within the business school at Bluefield State College meet the rigorous educational standards established by ACBSP.
"Bluefield State College has shown their continued commitment to teaching excellence and to the process of quality improvement by participating in the accreditation process," said ACBSP Director of Accreditation Steve Parscale, who will present the Certificate of Reaffirmation of Accreditation at the ACBSP Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md., on June 17, 2012."
"This accreditation is evidence that Bluefield State College is committed to providing the highest quality business education for their students for the past 10 years and for the next 10 years," said Parscale.
"We are very excited to receive ACBSP's 10-year reaffirmation of our programs within the Cole School of Business," noted Dr. Steve Bourne, Dean of the W. Paul Cole, Jr. School of Business at BSC. "ACBSP accreditation is the gold-standard for business schools having a teaching focus. Being a nationally accredited program requires a significant commitment of time, resources, and energy on the part of all involved- students, faculty, BSC administrators, and our Advisory Board. The Cole School of Business is committed to maintaining a culture focused on continuous improvement, and has established systematic processes to identify opportunities for improvement in our teaching, curriculum and business processes."
ACBSP is a leading specialized accreditation council for business education supporting, celebrating, and rewarding teaching excellence. Established in 1988, ACBSP is the only business accrediting organization for all associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree programs. Its mission is to promote continuous improvement and recognize excellence in the accreditation of business education programs around the world.
"The reaffirmation of these School of Business programs is gratifying because it confirms the high quality and rigor of the programs, preparing students for careers in rewarding fields of endeavor," observed Dr. Thomas Blevins, BSC President. "We also look forward to offering online the entire Business Administration program, beginning in the Fall 2012 Semester."
ACBSP continues to grow, having recently added its 10th region to better serve member institutions in South Asia. ACBSP is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as a specialized accreditation agency for business education. ACBSP currently has 1,051 member campuses, 157 of which are located outside of the U.S. Of those campuses, 541 have achieved accreditation and more than 415 are in candidacy for accreditation. Individual members on these campuses now exceed 9,500.
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As Jews all over the world prepare to welcome the year 5775, at Spertus Institute we are starting a new season with some of the most innovative programming in our 90-year history.
Jewish Arts and Culture at Spertus: A Letter from the Provost
At Spertus Institute, we believe that arts and culture are essential to Jewish life and learning. Powerful first-hand encounters with original artifacts — as well as live performances and first-person presentations — offer compelling ways to both understand the Jewish past and address the pressing issues of today.
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For all of us at Spertus Institute, it's a pleasure to see Chicago architect and designer Amy Reichert profiled in The New York Times. Her work is currently on view in our lobby in an intimate one-woman exhibit titled Amy Reichert: Reinventing Judaica.
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- Exceptionally high prices are nice, but they usually worsen future low-price problems
- South America factor
- High prices for corn and soybeans may turn out to be a mixed blessing.
- The impact of high prices extends well beyond the current year.
- Current prices give Brazilian farmers every incentive to sharply increase acres.
The high prices being fetched this year for corn and soybeans may turn out to be a mixed blessing for crop farmers.
For those with a crop to sell or adequate insurance, the high prices will virtually guarantee that they make a healthy profit. For those who went light on insurance this year and have little to harvest, the high prices will bring little consolation.
But we need to remember that the impact of high prices extends well beyond the current year. High prices send a signal to the market that more production is needed in the future. When the high prices result in a sizeable shift in demand, then the signal will result in an increase in production needed to meet this new demand level.
In fact, that is exactly what we saw in 2007 as the U.S. corn market struggled to meet the rapid increase in the amount of corn going into ethanol production. The price went up in anticipation of this shift in demand and farmers responded, dramatically increasing the number of acres put into corn production.
But it is another thing altogether if the high-price spike is amplified by a one-year weather aberration. The planted corn acreage this year was large enough to send prices downward before the rains shut off at the beginning of summer, while the increase in the price of corn did nothing to increase rainfall.
However, the price increase did send a signal to farmers around the world who want to cash in on today's lucrative corn and soybean prices. To a person, they are hoping that they can get a crop in the bin while prices remain high.
And that would not be a problem if the U.S. has another drought next year, and the year after. But add a bountiful U.S. crop, like the one expected this year, to the increase in production elsewhere and it could be "Katie bar the door."
If this were only a discussion of economic theory, there would be nothing for U.S. crop farmers to worry about.


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The golf world is coming to Columbus, spending about $23 million and hopefully leaving with the impression that central Ohio is a great place to visit and do business.
The Presidents Cup pits the top U.S. golfers against their international peers from non-European countries and will be held Oct. 1-6 at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin.
"You can't place a value on the exposure we'll receive," Dublin Mayor Tim Lecklider said yesterday during a news conference at Columbus Commons. "This is a tremendous opportunity to market the central Ohio area."
The news conference was used to announce that the Presidents Cup's opening ceremony will be held on Oct. 2 at the Columbus Commons and will feature country music stars Rascal Flatts, which has Columbus ties.
"This is the first time we've held the opening ceremonies off the site of the tournament," said Dan Sullivan, director of the Presidents Cup. "The goal is to bring the community together."
Opening ceremony festivities will include an international food festival, other musical performers and appearances by the U.S. and International team members.
A total of 5,000 general admission tickets for the opening ceremony will be sold for $30 each starting on Aug. 1 at www.presidentscup.com or area Kroger grocery stores.
"Columbus Commons was built to bring everyone together, and the Presidents Cup is the culmination of that," said Guy Worley, president and CEO of Columbus Downtown Development Corp. and Capitol South, which owns and operates the park. "Having the world come together here is exactly what we had in mind."
The matches will bring a cash infusion to the region and could lead to future business opportunities, Lecklider said.
"There will be all these business executives from overseas here who will see our health sciences or our tech community, and you never know," he said. "They could be the next Cardinal Health."
Sullivan said visitors are expected to spend about $23 million, based on previous Presidents Cups. The total economic impact might reach $50 million when the trickle-down effect of the direct spending is factored in.
The Presidents Cup began in 1994 and rotates between U.S. and foreign venues. It will be held in South Korea in 2015.
"From an image standpoint, having it here will help us attract other international competitions," said Linda Logan, executive director of the Greater Columbus Sports Commission.
International hockey, rugby and soccer events are examples of events the commission could bid on, she said.
The opening ceremony will be broadcast by the Golf Channel, said Sullivan, who is also the tournament director of the annual Memorial Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus. About 35,000 fans are expected to attend each day of the Presidents Cup.
Hosting the Presidents Cup will help the city and region's image, Sullivan said.
"What I know from talking to people around the PGA is that the world out there knows about Columbus," he said. "Columbus is unique in that it's a big city but still has that close-knit community feel, and we want the entire community to be part of this event."


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And that's about as far as most people to whom I speak to get.
They desperately try and explain the plot and story twists and why their characters are so great.
And I respond with, "Then go write it. I'll read it when it's done."
And I have yet to read any of them because they never get to that stage.
But let's just say you're not one of those many, many procrastinators and you actually have a manuscript or a collection of poems sitting on your desktop.
What do you do now?
The new market
There's a lot of different routes you can take actually, and publishing yourself has gotten a lot easier, and cheaper, in the last few years.
The publishing market has changed drastically in just the past three years. Bookstores are closing. Publishing houses are merging or downsizing.
And it's due to the growing number of eBooks, tablets and smartphones. We now have the power to read whatever we want, whenever we want.
In the past, you would need to procure an agent just to get the big publishers to take a look at a few pages and then decide if they want to read it and then decide if they want to publish it. The process can take up to a year at the least.
The pros of the traditional route is that they pay you when they decide to print you and they handle everything from book cover design to marketing and distribution.
The cons are that you've just waited over a year to see a copy, you don't own the rights anymore, your book has a shelf life usually of only a few years before it's pulled and book advances are shrinking.
So why not do it yourself?
The process isn't new. Independent musicians have been doing it for years. Recording their own albums and selling them at shows or out of the trunks of their cars.
It's a lot of work, but if you have a product you believe in — and you should if you went through the trouble of producing it in the first place — then you have to hustle and be creative.
Self-publishing used to be frowned upon. It was as if your book wasn't good enough to get published by the New York bigwigs.
But now, the head honchos of big publishing houses are looking at self-published authors as a way to find new talent.
And it's relatively painless and most of the time for eBooks it's free to get out there on the market.
Now let's say you're ready and you can't wait to hold your novel in your hand. There are many places online that can help you out. For a price.
Most authors can't resist the urge to have physical copies of their books, and that comes at a hefty cost to the author.
Printed books
iUniverse offers a lot of packages starting at $899 upwards to $4,599. You get a lot of support and help for those prices, along with an eBook made.
Amazon's Createspace.com has various packages as well, starting at around $700. They are a print-on-demand company, so you never have to worry about having to pay for a ton of books. And if you want one, just order it yourself.
Lulu.com offers packages from $729 all the up to $4,949, but you get (most of) your money's worth.
Included in the highest package is 100 softcover and 25 hardcover copies as well as editorial services and book cover design along with an eBook conversion.
Most of these services also include distribution and are limited to the number of words your book can be before the price jumps even higher.
And it's been reported that most print-on-demand and self-published books only sell about 100 or so copies, but if you have the money and really, really want to hold your book, then go for it.
But remember, realistically, it's highly unlikely you'll ever see that money again. Selling your own books is tough and time consuming, and you'll have to pay more to get enough copies to hold book signings at your local library or high school. Or buy booth space or rent a table at literary conventions or book fairs.
And if you convince a store to sell copies on consignment, you'll need enough copies to display.
Basically, you won't become a millionaire overnight.
But that's not why you've written a book to begin with, is it?
Format, format,
I've seen quite a few self-published, printed books with mistakes all over them and incorrect formatting.
It stands out, trust me, and will likely haunt you for your entire self-publishing career.
Also, you are not the best person to edit your book.
Find someone, a friend, ex-English teacher, a girlfriend, anybody you trust that can read and ask them to read it over and mark it up.
Now, there are professional editors out there like proofreadingservices.us who charge $3.25 a page to theproofreaders.com who charge $13 per page.
It's a bit pricey, but a necessary process. So, hopefully, you have literate friends.
But for honest opinions, never trust friends or family. They won't want to hurt your feelings, so they'll say it's great and they love it, even if it's quite the opposite.
Find people online who love to read and ask them if they'd mind reading it and giving an honest opinion, especially if it's your first time publishing anything.
This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 2 will discuss eBooks and publishing online and will be featured in an upcoming edition.


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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2013, 03:56
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I don't use opendns so I can't help.
For the ip-up script, to get it to autorun, just insert the command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
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thanks james
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Hi @Ally.
There are two issues that you are hitting up against. I have had some problems in the past as well. Here's a brief description that comes into play.
The FATDOG hostname seems to have some issues with the tool that allows proper hostname setting. I say "proper" because I set each device on my LAN with a descriptive name for Identity reasons. With FATDOG, I have had several occurrences where the LAN is not receiving that name properly. This is compounded by several factors; but suffice it to say is occurs with my Live media system which I try to not boot. This becomes router related because that device name is relayed at IP personality time via DHCP protocol exchange.
OK, so advance to setting it proper on your PC and rebooting your PC. Next depending on which router you are using, the registration for local devices may or may not be managed in the router so that things can be found by their hostname(s). Some routers have a feature, manual or automatic, to control this registration for local use and some do not. Thus, depending on whether you are using automatic setting via DHCP or using a static setting, this TOO, can affect the LAN registration for finding things locally by the hostname.
In the cases of the router, those that are not set to manage the local device naming will pass the device name thru to the upstream DNSs that it knows about. In this case, it will register in the internet and local resolution will not occur as expected or will occur randomly to highlight this problem.
The solution to this is to setup a local LAN DNS server to accomplish the registration of the local devices. And tell all the PCs it is authoritative by pointing their DNS resolution to the authoritative DNS of all name resolution. This DNS would be smart enough to know that if request is unknown/not local to pass the request along to the Internet DNS for it to have a look and to resolve.
JamesBond has, I believe, included a subsystem which can do exactly that. Its
. But you'll have to look into it or contact their support team for setup instructions. Further, Microsoft has a solution, too.
Here is one things that will work using some routers. This I call automatic because for vendors sometimes employ this to automatically handle the feature which tries to screen local LAN hostnames traffic from internet traffic. Try setting the DHCP area of the router to pass along ONLY the router's LAN IP address as the DNS address. This field is usually left to 0.0.0.0 or on some routers will be filled in with the ISP's DNS. In some cases this is how some routers screen for local traffic. And, most all router still will see that internet address resolution occurs as one would expect. Should this work, there is no need for a PC running DNSMASQ locally for LAN DNS resolution.
Hope this helps
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2013, 08:13
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hey gc
thanks, I am using a BThomehub2 which doesn't seem to work well out in the world, I wasn't for example able to set up a 'local network' setting for opendns
I was however able to set permanent ip addresses for my local network which has allowed me to append my local ip addresses to the 'hosts' file which has sorted the problem, vnc now works correctly in conjustion with ip-up pointing to opendns (highly recommended everybody)
thanks to JB the ip-up script start is permanently fixed so firefox polls opendns servers which CONSIDERABLY speed up my browser page find
the only real problem now is that FF is not behaving correctly with bookmarks but it's a minor niggle
thanks once again to the fatdog team, this is blistering fast on a 1800mhz dual core lenovo t61
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Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2013, 03:14
Post subject: Why doesn't VLC work well with internet radio?
Subject description: [Solved, thanks]
I really enjoy my Killradio.ORG and have been trying tonight to listen in. The default browser (The Nightly, firefox), it brings the multimedia "web page" in fine, but no sound. So, I dnld IRON (23?) and it ask me to grant VLC rights to run this session, etc. Same result... I'll have to boot into another Puppy unless someone cool gives an answer (please). Thanks, Dennis -- I have the 610 version.
Oh, maybe I should mention it runs fine (immediately) a normal mp3 file dnld from the net.
Runs very snappy on HP dc7800 (2.66/2G Duo).
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I'll try that, thanks kirk. I've noticed in Linux & their browser's, if wishing to save, I have to kick-start the downloadable mp3 by saving the page. I mean, the default is set to start playing. As you may know
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I am unable to install bookmarks from html file (have followed html to downloads then open ff instructions)
The bookmarks file has to be owned by user spot. If the file is located in the Downloads folder and you open and close the browser it will change it's owner to spot.
In Fatdog64-620 any file placed in the downloads folder will automatically change the owner to spot.
I really enjoy my Killradio.ORG and have been trying tonight to listen in.
Yes, apparently the vlc pluggin has problems with that stream. You can play it from vlc directly though. After you click on the link to open the stream on that site copy the URL. Open vlc and click Media - Open Network Stream and paste the URL in there. Vlc will remember it for next time. I might need to update the vlc mozilla plugin.
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Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 04:26
Post subject: Minor issues with pathing for utitities.
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Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 05:20
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hey kirk
I am running FF as root and it still failed to load, I noticed that the same thing happened in slacko 5.4 which I ran for a few days trying to generate the hanging bug
I am running slacko 5401 testing which is built with opera and the bookmarks file loaded correctly so the issue is with FF
thanks for the help though......
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Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 09:53
Post subject: Re: Minor issues with pathing for utitities.
gcmartin wrote:
Seem that the current PPM version for SAMBA has the same problem.
Which Samba version are you talking about? The built-in version or Samba 3.6.5 from the repo?
I checked 3.6.5 and testparm worked OK.
Minor issues with pathing for utitities.
Please explain.
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outstanding work on 611!
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Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 10:39
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611 sound stop working, it was working
my cables are good and connected.
alsamixer & control panel all working,
nothing muted.
# lsmod |grep snd
snd_pcm_oss 37122 0
snd_mixer_oss 14516 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 26135 0
snd_ac97_codec 108147 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1118 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401 4728 0
snd_mpu401_uart 5699 1 snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi 18178 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_pcm 72118 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 4924 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 18081 1 snd_pcm
snd 55640 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
soundcore 4994 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 6681 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
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Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 11:38
Post subject: 611 sound
on most boots VLC, flash/firefox works
but as soon as Pidgin starts (via /usr/local/bin/defaultchat)
flash/firefox dies and won't work further,
vlc sound may stop or not
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Subject description: Configuring urxvt, no .Xdefaults file.
I wanted to change the colors used by urxvt, the normal terminal emulator that comes with Fatdog64. Without .Xdefaults file in /root only the defaults are allowed. One can use .Xdefaults file to set the colors and other options as need. Fatdog64 does not have .Xdefaults file. I copied the .Xdefaults file from Slacko and made the appropriate changes. Now, urxvt looks the way I like it. I suggest that .Xdefaults be added.
Ok, smoke01. Here is the contents of .Xdeaults that I am using:
! but urxvt in quirky etc needs these...
!Rxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
!Rxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
! broomdodger reports this works in both 431 and quirky (rxvt and urxvt)...
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I have been using fatdog64 on a laptop with a touch pad. When I am typing, I touch the touch pad, which results in problems. Under the other consumer operating system that will not be named, I can use the Function (fn) key and F9 key to turn the touch pad off.
The key combination does not work with fatdog64. Is there some way that the key combination be able to turn off the touch pad in fatdog64? I know that under the apci demon some key combinations can be define to do functions, but, I am not familiar with the process. Any pointers on how or where to find the information will be appreciated. I suspect it may be a driver issue. Thank you in advance for help on this.
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Lake Wobegon is in a frenzy of preparations for the Fourth of July. This being Wobegon, lives collide and relationships develop in the oddest ways. Take Clint Bunson, the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts cars on below-zero mornings. For six years, he has run the Fourth of July parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks into an event of dazzling spectacle.
The town is dizzy with anticipation - until they hear of Clint's ambition to run for Congress. They know about his episodes with vodka sours, his rocky marriage, and his friendship with the 24-year-old who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty for the parade and may be buck naked beneath her robes.
In Keillor's words, "It is Lake Wobegon as you imagined it - good loving people who drive each other crazy."
©2008 Garrison Keillor; (P)2008 HighBridge Company
"Keillor's Lake Wobegon books have become a set of synoptic gospels, full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope." (New York Times Book Review)
"Great for a long country drive."
I have been a great fan of Garrison Keillor for over 20 years. Listening to Prairie Home Companion on relay to Australia has been part of our family Sunday evening tradition all that time. Some of the episodes in this tale were familiar from the "News From Lake Wobegone", but it was really great to have them connected in a continuous narrative. Garrison Keillor reads his tale really well. But I think that a huge part of the success of "News From Lake Wobegone" is the brilliant rapport between Garrison and his audience. The absense of this spark is the difference between four and five stars in my opinion.
I do wonder if listeners unfamilar with the folk of Lake Wobegone might miss some of the background knowledge that gives an instant picture of pesonalities when a name is first mentioned.
The quality of the reading and recording are first rate. If you are familiar with Lake Wobegone I think that you would really enjoy this audiobook, especially on a long drive to the Back of Beyond.
"A must-listen for the Prarie Home Companion fan"
If you're not a PHC fan, no promises. However, if you love the News from Lake Wobegon, you'll eat this up.
People say I resemble my dog (and vice-versa). He can hear sounds I can't hear, but I'm the one who listens to audiobooks.
"Sixty Shades of Liberty"
Clint Bunsen's midlife crisis arrives a little later than usual, the day he turns 60. His prized position as committee chair of Lake Wobegon's over-the-top Fourth of July celebration is taken away despite being so successful that it's being covered for the second straight year by CNN. His car business is withering on the vine. He has to decide whether to accept an offer to run for Congress. He may have a health issue. He has just discovered via a DNA test that he is of Spanish ancestry rather Norwegian like the other Wobegonians.
But more than anything else, his life is upended by a brief but torrid affair with the young woman who filled in last year as the Statue of Liberty in the Fourth of July parade. So much so that he regrets his long-ago decision to come home after leaving the navy and marry his high school sweetheart rather than staying in California and going to art school, and he is now considering the possibility of leaving his wife and Lake Wobegon to go to California with his new flame (a little too obviously named Angelica Pflame).
Clint Bunsen is a mainstay of Garrison Keillor's weekly NPR radio show segment, The News From Lake Wobegon. In Liberty, he gets his own novel, in which various shades of the concept of "liberty" are at the heart of his various personal crises. As usual, Clint's story is really just a fulcrum for another look at life in Lake Wobegon, filtered through the lens of its renowned multimedia chronicler, Keillor. If you're a fan of the radio show and think you would enjoy a novel-length installment about Wobegon, Liberty will work for you, especially since Keillor narrates his own book in his inimitable style.
Me, I really loved the first half of the book, when the focus was on the political machinations of the Fourth of July committee as they recap the previous Fourth and plan the next. I felt that the story lost steam when it shifted its attention to Clint's affair. I would argue that my flagging interest level was inevitable by definition once the story shifted focus because it became more about Clint than about Lake Wobegon -- fans of Lake Wobegon are fans of Keillor's satire of small-town life more than its individual inhabitants, except insofar as they interact with each other as part of the social fabric.
Nevertheless, Liberty was an enjoyable listen, wry if not laugh out loud funny, cleverly built around the concept of liberty, with the Fourth of July as an apt and grandiose metaphor as well as framing device, and, to reiterate, benefiting in the best possible way by being narrated by its golden-voiced author.
"Garrison delivers!"
Garrison and his style and message and the words he uses. It's a masterpiece.
His intonation. He is marvelous! If you do not love Mr. Keillor you are missing something.
Yes, it made me love life, truth and creativity.
Please write more books Mr. Keillor Sir.
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"Drive on past Lake Wobegon"
I used to enjoy Garrison Keillor Lake stories. Dry, slow but funny. Now, just slow and dry and very little humor.
"Keillor's novels"
Garrison Keillor is a great storyteller, but this skill doesn't a novel make. I thought because this novel took place in Lake Wobegon it would be as entertaining as his short stories, but this concept turned out to be simply not the case.
After awhile, Garrison's narration sounds whiny and I didn't want to hear him drone on.
I couldn't finish the book.
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"Keillor's Essays are His Strength"
I was into this story pretty well for a couple of chapters, but eventually faded out. This is my third attempt at reading Keillor's fiction, with identical reactions. It's as though his self -imposed "family-appropriate" style with essays is utterly forsaken in his fiction, and the resutlt is that the otherwise delightful story is sacrificed for the freedom of being just a little bit "naughty" with his language and characters. I can handle rough language, sex and the meandering throughts of senility-bound men as well as most readers,, but if I'm to sacrifice this much time to a novel, I feel there must be a reasonable point or artfulness to the content. It strikes me that Keillor has not yet managed to devise a reliable style of writing fiction where he can inhabit both the worlds of great story-telling and edgy content. When he does, I will be an eager reader.
"The Pursuit of Happiness succeeds with Liberty"
There is no one better to read Garrison Keillor than Garrison Keillor. This is a great book for a road trip or for stay at home entertainment. I've been a fan of A Prairie Home Companion for decades and listening to an extended adult tale about my favorite Minnesota town was a delight. This is a story I will certainly revisit.
"Liberty for Lake Wobegoen"
I have been a fan of Keillor for some time. Anyone who has a chance to see his radio show in person, should do so. I have enjoyed his books and have met him once to my delight. This is not one of his better books, but it is very entertaining nonetheless. The characters are familiar to readers who know him and his insights into human thought and behavior are stimulating as always. Anyone who has not heard of or read after Keillor would, perhaps, better start with another of his volumes. Also, if you are listening to this book in the car with others or around children, there are some mildly graphic segments which you may want to avoid. Otherwise, Keillor fans enjoy. The book is a grood driving across the country listen and, of course, Mr. Keillor's reading is wonderful.
Garrison Keillor rationalizes infidelity. Clint Buntsen is a selfish adolescent.. I much prefer his sentimental brother Clarence.
"Every bit as good as Lake Wobegon"
To begin with I didn't find this quite as easy to get into as Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' but, once I did, it was excellent. As with Lakewobegon,the story is about a town populated by likeable eccentrics and yet the characters and the story itself are entirely plausible.There's a tremondous warmth to this book and I would strongly recommend it.
"Triumphant old age"
Woebegon stories creep up on you then embrace you. Make you laugh and think: great
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I am writing because I am very concerned about what is happening with health care.
I have had many struggles with health care. I am currently uninsured even though I work in a health profession. I have two jobs to make ends meet. I have rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, which leaves me in unbearable pain sometimes. I could get treatment, but without insurance I just cant afford it. I often wonder, should I leave one of my jobs so I qualify for more health care subsidy? I dont want to do that. I could have a different job and get insurance, but the copays would be too high to afford, and Im not physically able to do that any longer anyway.
My son cant get VHAP even though he is unemployed because he lives with me and has to use my income. So what will I do? Kick him out so he can get insurance? This system just doesnt make any sense.
Under the new Vermont Health Connect Im forced to either pay for both of our insurance coverage or pay the penalty times two. I have no idea how I would make it work in either situation.
A real universal health care system based on human rights principles sounds like what we need. I am writing this letter with the hope that others will stand up and share their stories so the politicians will listen to us the people rather than just big businesses and insurance corporations.
I also would like to register my support for the right for all workers to have paid sick days to take care of themselves or a family member. With the Family and Medical Leave Act you can take off unpaid and use vacation if you have it. If you are in a job that is considered essential, they dont have to hold your job for you. No one should be punished and have to worry about losing their job because they need to stay home with a sick family member like I did when my mother was ill.
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Airbnb: How to Move from Making News to Making Profits
Image from: Airbnb / Shutterstock Over the last 60 days, Airbnb.com has had its ups – like scoring VC funding, and its downs – including a barrage of negative press about customers' bad experiences. So how does Airbnb go from making news to making profits? For starters, it should keep close tabs on its competitors. Consider Vrbo.com, another site focused on vacation rentals, albeit a bit more traditional than Airbnb.


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May 8, 2013 —
Scott Samuelson, chair of the Sullivan County Legislature, took a minute to let his colleagues know he was pleased with the way the Sullivan County Visitors Association handled the cover of the new travel guide.
At a meeting at the government center on May 2, he said, "They took a new track on it, they eliminated the ty-died animal on the cover," He said they used the art of local artist Jay Brooks.
"I think it's one of the most attractive travel guides that we've ever had in the county," he said, adding that there was good demand for it at the thruway stops where it is available to travelers.


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The 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out on the newstands and one of the locations for this year's shoot was one of my favourite spots to photograph – Banff, Alberta, Canada. The photographer for the Banff shoot was Stephan Wurth. Unlike Stephan I've never had the opportunity to photograph beautiful scantly clad super models in the National Park but I have enjoyed photographing the natural beauty of the area for many years now. The pristine beauty of the area is awe inspiring so it's not hard to see why SI chose Banff as a backdrop. The shoot happened last July and the exposure is considered to be a major tourism coup for the area. According to the Edmonton Journal, "The famed swimsuit issue annually finds its way into the hands of 60 million adults, or one in three Americans over the age of 18. It reaches more men in the 18-to-34 category than the Super Bowl."
© Sports Illustrated – Photographer Stephan Wurth
Here's a video that I'm guessing will give a nice little bump to the tourism industry in the area. I agree with model and volleyball player Kim Glass when at the end of the video she says, "It's awesome out here!". Indeed it is Kim. And I'm so thankful Banff is in the little corner of the world I call home.


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#164186 - 12/10/06 06:00 PM In Whooch The Wool is Wemooved
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The definitions with perpetrators identified by asterisks and voters in parentheses
A) one of the last mammals to be discovered by science (1900). It lives in the dense rainforests of Zaire and little is known of its behavior. themilum*
B) a coarse tightly-woven fabric, produced in the coldest northernmost parts of Great Britain. wofahulicodoc* (TEd Remington)
C) a midden or gut-pile. Elizabeth Creith* (Father Steve)
D) (obs.) a Visigoth pestle used to grind mortar. AnnaStrophic*
E) Cheap and inferior imitative products of Chinese manufacture. From English sailors' mispronunciation of the Chinese manufacturing city of Wu-Tsin (modern Changzhou). Father Steve* (Aramis11)
F) a steel alloy having a pattern of bands or sheets of micro carbides within a tempered martensite or pearlite matrix. Also known as Indian steel or Damascus steel, thought to have gained its strength from carbon nanotubes. From One Look with amplification from Nature Science Update. (wofahulicodoc, ParkinT, tsuwm)
G) n. [Colloq.] debris observed in flowing liquid; flotsam Aramis11* (musick, Elizabeth Creith)
H) Several pleasant discoveries, arriving at the recipient in a stream faster than can be processed, from the plural of "woot", a popular cultural exclamation of delight. ParkinT*
I) onomatopoetic Dutch word for a stone for sharpening skate blades, from the characteristic sound it makes as it is drawn across the blade. TEd Remington* (etaoin, AnnaStrophic)
J) (eponym, after Jean Wootz who was executed during the Reign of Terror) someone devoted to humanitarian ideals and to the liberal ideas of the Encyclopédie. tsuwm* (Alex Williams)
K) The original name for the cheerleaders from the University of Minnesota. The cheer "wootz" came after Charles "the hammer" Wootz broke the collegiate sack record in 1907 with 14 sacks in one game against rival Princeton. musick* (themilum)
Wofa, ParkinT and tsuwm got it correct. Aramis11 suckered in musick and Elizabeth Creith. TEd got etaoin and the lovely AnnaS.
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Has it come to this? Our friend Faldage reduced to plagiarizing our good friend Wofahulicodoc for the faint prestige of conducting a hot game of Hogwash.
No wonder I can't score; I am a honest person.
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A little more charity, Sir. There's nothing about Damascus steel or carbon nanotubules in the old post.
Indeed you should . Be not so huffy; it ill becomes you.
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Shirley Abe need not huff, especially in the absence of gloating.
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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
three things about this:
1. in NI2 (Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition) oolly appears after the word oological and before oologist, not quite in alphabetical order
b. the word was dropped from W3 (as pointed out by wofa in the oolly thread), thereby alleviating this problem
Þ. WNTC (the poor-man's unabridged) defined oolly (properly collocated with oolitic and oological) thusly: a small mass of steel just taken from the crucible: applied especially to wootz steel [Ind.]
so, oolly is a subset, or precursor, of wootz?
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Good question. OED (B&M) lists it only as a variant of uly(e) which it lists as a Scottish variant of oil.
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Originally Posted By: FaldageGood question. OED (B&M) lists it only as a variant of uly(e) which it lists as a Scottish variant of oil.
er... but isn't that, actually, ooly?
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This could end up really long and I might be sobbing when I'm done, but ever since we moved my son (10 weeks now) barely latches at all. I'm so sorry. We couldn't afford to rent the van for another day or stay in a hotel, so I could not nurse him on the trip. I tried to nurse when I could while we settled in. I've been here alone for three weeks and things are NOT getting any better. He only nurses in the tub, and even then it is very weak.
I pump 8-10 times a day and get about 6 oz so 1.5 bottles. I try to get him on other times, but he just gets so mad at me, and I get so sad. I'm severely depressed because of this.
I'm leaving a ton of stuff out, but I need to post something. I'm so frustrated. I feel terrible because I feel like I'm not trying hard enough. I would never act on it, but I get secretly angry when he rejects me.
Connor's dad was not very nice to me. Part of me feels this would help me not be so sad. Part of me feels I need to do everything I can to make up for him not having a dad. I'm worried my reasons are selfish. I of course want the benefits, but I know he would be fine no matter what. I wonder if I need it more than he does.
I saw an LC and she was fantastic, but I spent all my personal money on the one visit so cant afford for her to come again. I go to the LLL meetings biweekly.
I'm away from everyone I know, and going to school at a top ten university. I need something to go right.
I'm sorry I always seem to be whining or have some sob story, especially since there's so many others with other things, but I'm running out of ideas. I want to nurse my baby. Even if its just a couple times a day.
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Legislative Solutions to the Infiltration of The Muslim Brotherhood – Part 3 of 9 – YouTube.
We didn't have time to watch the full video in 9 parts on Youtube but skimming through, it looks like parts 3 and 4 start to discuss the legal issues.
If anyone has time to watch through it and comment or link to the remaining parts that are relevant that would be greatly appreciated.
Parts 7 – 9 here.
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An independent panel's report on the Benghazi consulate attacks cites management failures at senior levels in Washington that resulted in "grossly inadequate" security. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
Updated at 10:50 p.m. ET: An independent panel's sharply critical report on the Sept. 11 attacks on the Benghazi consulate blames "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies within two bureaus of the State Department" for the post's inability to defend itself.
The report details the events that unfolded on Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, when the Special Mission post was overrun by militants who used rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine-gun fire, according to the 39-page report. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
The report's findings fall largely into two categories: staffing and the physical security of the Benghazi post. Staff was, according to the report, talented but relatively inexperienced. Personnel there spent about 40 days on assignment, resulting in "diminished institutional knowledge."
In a statement Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she accepts the report's recommendations. The independent review board was formed at her request and was chaired by former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen and former Ambassador Tom Pickering.
In addition to staffing issues, the report says that Ambassador Stevens "made the decision to travel to Benghazi independently of Washington, per standard practice."
The independent report commissioned by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton investigating the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi faulted the State Department for "systematic failures" and "grossly inadequate" security to deal with the attack. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
Further, the report says, Embassy's country team was not fully aware of Stevens' movements off the compound.
Stevens' "status as the leading U.S. government advocate on Libya policy, and his expertise on Benghazi in particular, caused Washington to give unusual deference to his judgments."
Stevens arrived in Benghazi on a Greek cargo ship on April 5, 2011, according to the report. American embassy personnel had been evacuated months before, in February. At the time, Stevens was a special envoy to the Libyan Transitional National Council.
Stevens was the report says, "extremely effective" and admired by Libyans. He "personified the U.S. government commitment to a free and democratic Libya."
Against a backdrop of mounting political violence, Benghazi became less secure, the report points out in the form of a timeline. The timeline begins with an armed robbery that took place at the British School on March 18 and ends with a small bomb thrown at an Egyptian diplomat's car on Aug. 20.
Stevens arrived in Benghazi on Sept. 10, accompanied by two temporary duty officers. Security staffing at the post on the day of the attack was inadequate and did not meet security standards, according to the report.
The report states strongly that Congress must meet budgetary challenges to "provide necessary resources to the State Department." Specifically, Congress should restore a security program to $2.2 billion by 2012.
Managers, the report says, have become conditioned to tightening the purse strings.
That said, the report continues, the Embassy in Tripoli did not advocate enough for increased security at the Benghazi post. Some security upgrades had been made, although they were not sufficient, including safety grills on windows, concrete jersey barriers and some locally-manufactured steel doors.
As a result, the report says on its first page, "systemic failures and management deficiencies" rendered the Special Mission post in Benghazi "grossly inadequate to deal with the attack."
And although it found that "certain senior State Department officials within two bureaus demonstrated a lack of proactive leadership" when Benghazi asked for more protection, the report said that no employees breached their duty.
The report, although critical, addresses the difficulties faced. Terrorist and hostile actors posing threats to American security are "growing" and "diffuse," it says. Resorting to a "total fortress and stay-at-home approach to U.S. diplomacy" would be unacceptable.
The report recommends that the U.S. should strengthen security in high-risk posts beyond what is provided by host governments and lean on outside experts to regularly assess security at the posts. The State Department should also reorganize its Bureau of Diplomatic Security and appoint an official charged with overseeing high threat posts.
The State Department should also boost Marine security and hire more diplomatic security personnel at high-risk posts, the report said.
The State Department should also improve language abilities, particularly Arabic, among employees, the report says.
Mullen and Pickering are scheduled to brief congressional committees on the classified version of the report on Wednesday. Hearings on the report are scheduled in the Senate and the House on Thursday.
Clinton was supposed to testify in hearings on the report on Thursday but she remains at home recovering from a bout with the flu that resulted in her fainting and suffering a concussion.
Her two deputies, William Burns and Thomas Nides, will testify in her place.
Debate over the attacks polarized Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as Republicans questioned whether the consulate had adequate security and whether the State Department had responded to requests for more protection.
At the same time, U.S. spy agencies produced conflicting reports on who was behind them, U.S. officials have said. Most said extremists with possible al-Qaida ties were involved. But a few reports, which the Obama administration emphasized in early public statements, said the attacks could have been spontaneous protests against an anti-Muslim video made in the U.S.
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice faced intense criticism from Republican lawmakers when she made comments indicating that the attacks were a spontaneous response to a low-budget movie made in the U.S. that maligned the Islamic Prophet Mohammed. She later said she had not meant to be misleading but was relaying intelligence that she had been provided.
Rice dropped out of the running for secretary of state, citing the "very politicized confirmation process."
NBC's Catherine Chomiak and Reuters contributed reporting.
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Dave Black, Ed Bolian and Dan Huang pose in front of the car they used to break the record. Bolian was the leader and main driver, Black acted as the co-driver and Huang was the team's spotter -- keeping an eye on the car's considerable technology while looking out for obstacles.
Bolian chose a Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG for the dash. It offered a combination of gas mileage and performance the team needed to break the record.
The Mercedes also offered an active suspension system, which was needed to handle the weight of two additional fuel tanks in the trunk. The extra fuel allowed the team to stop less and increase their average speed.
The cockpit of the car was equipped with a slew of countermeasures to prevent getting caught speeding, including laser jammers, radar detectors and a switch to kill the rear lights -- making the car less noticeable at night. They also used GPS systems with traffic alerts and smartphone applications to track traffic and speed traps.
All of those devices need power, so Bolian had extra power ports installed in the car.
Drivers need energy, too. The team stocked the car with coffee, energy drinks and snacks.
On some of the more barren stretches, the team reached speeds of up to 158 mph.
The team completed the run in just under 29 hours.
The team poses at the Portofino Hotel and Marina in Redondo Beach, Calif., after shattering the record.
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The Color Purple is a story of survival, spirituality, and the strength of the bond between two sisters, spanning two continents and nearly three decades. To hear Alice Walker read her own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is an absolute treasure. Walker's voice is clear, strong, and true a testament to the courage and hope that carries the main character Celie through the story.
Celie's circumstances are unimaginable poor, female, uneducated, motherless, and African American in the Deep South she is without anyone to protect her, except her God. It is her communication with God and her other savior, her sister Nettie that sustains her and supplies the narrative of The Color Purple. At the beginning of the novel, Celie's communication with both God and Nettie is one-way, however, as Nettie has been swept away from her, all the way to Africa, and God sends her few signs he is watching over her.
As Celie survives sexual abuse from her stepfather, the death of her mother, the violent loss of her two children, and marriage to the monstrous and cruel "Mister", she remains kind and loving through it all. When the beautiful and liberated singer Shug Avery comes into her life, Celie is opened up. Shug tells Celie, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Someone other than Nettie finally loves Celie, and she begins to truly see the beauty around her and believe her life is worth something.
In the preface, Walker says The Color Purple is the story of Celie's journey from her place as "a spiritual captive" to "the realization that she…is a radiant expression…of the Divine". Throughout the novel, Walker's voice audibly breaks free of the bonds of abuse and cruelty into the freedom of spirituality and peace. It is almost as if Walker's voice contains within each note the whole of the African American experience encapsulated in the courage and triumph of Celie's story. Sarah Evans Hogeboom
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 - when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate - and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister", a brutal man who terrorizes her.
Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her, and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend, Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.
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"What a story!"
I bought this book entirely on a whim when it was on sale as Audible's daily deal. I just wanted to read something different from the types of books I usually buy.
I was blown away by how great this story is. It's really touching, with great insights into the human condition. The characters are very endearing. I normally don't care for feminist-oriented books (although it may not be accurate for me to call it that) but I've addded this book to my list of favourite fiction without reservation.
It's worth mentioning that I found the description of god (given by the character "Shug") in this book to be probably the most compelling I've ever read.
"Good Listen"
I enjoyed this audio book and did not find the author was slow reading it. I think she was staying in character and that speaking faster would have sounded strange. I loved the way she read the book.
"Beautiful Story"
I saw the movie before I listened to the book and thought I might be disappointed in the book. I was not. The book was beautiful and the performance was great.
Enjoyed the book, enjoyed the movie, and enjoyed this narrative version. The author is as wonderful a narrator as she is a writer!
"I loved it."
I have only ever heard the story, but I can't imagine it being better than the author reading it.
I like the fact that the author read the book. It was read as she envisioned it.
Dear God...
"Absolutely Wonderful"
This is possibly the best audio book I have ever listened to (and I have listened to quite a few).
Despite the controversy that has surrounded this book regarding Walker's representation of men, to me the book is, at its core, about faith and spirituality. Walker's preface says it all: "Whatever else The Color Purple has been taken for during the years since its publication, it remains for me the theological work examining the journey from the religious back to the spiritual that I spent much of my adult life, prior to writing it, seeking to avoid." The story of Celie's brokeness and the courage to believe in life's beauty she finds through her relationship with Shug Avery is one of the most inspiring and uplifitng tales I have ever read. At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, I can honestly say that, in a small way, this book changed my life.
Alice Walker's performance exemplifies, for me, what an audio book is at its best. Her cadence, emphasis, and emotion are all perfectly measured and timed. Her voice breathes life into the characters. In rereading the novel, I find myself hearing Walker's voice in my mind. I can remember the exact way she phrased particular sentences, so much so that the words seem to leave the page and enter my imagination as spoken voices.
I cannot say enough good things about this book, and particularly the audio book version narrated by Walker. It's beautiful, life-changing, worth listening to and re-listening, reading and re-reading.
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"Alice Walker Narrates her Classic"
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back," Alice Walker. One of my favorite quotes of all time.
If you haven't read this book or watched the movie, you must do so. Even if you've done both, you need to listen to it again with Alice Walker narrating. She's an emotive, intelligent, confident and as talented an orator as a writer.
The tragic struggle of Miss Celie to survive, find love and inner strength is relatable to both genders and all races.
Love to read, and Audible has made the two-hour daily commute enjoyable!
"Alice Walker bring Celie to life"
The story starts with Celie's letters to God. She is poor, and abused. Life is bleak, but eventually gives way to love and happiness.
Watching Celie's journey, and her sister Nettie was moving. Feminist/black literature, the book doesn't flinch as it examines abuse, incest, lesbianism, Jim Crow, religion, and the Olinka tribe in Africa.
The author was the narrator, and it was wonderful.
"A beautiful story, read by the author."
Yes, since the true voice of the author (literally) can be heard.
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy, for all the main character's suffering and personal growth.
Celie was my favorite. Her voice alone created a true, believable character.
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Because of several negative comments about Alice Walker as the narrator of her book The Color Purple I almost did not download it. I am glad I ignored those comments. The book was well worth the time and Alice Walker did a fine job with the narration, reading her book in a way I thought fitting to the characters and content of the book. Dear God, Thank you for Alice Walker and her book The Color Purple.
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I feel so behind with Baby no. 2. I only give her cereal with bm at bedtime. I feel like she is so full, I can't offer her anything else. When should I start giving her some lunch. I was thinking of offering veg and fruit at lunch.
I feel like she should have tasted everything by now?! With my son I felt so hurried to introduce solids because I got pregnant when he was 8 mo. old. So , I think I'm going slower this time. She also was not eating cereal 'till she was 7 mo., 'cause she wasn't ready.
I'm not into the baby led thing, so as far as puree goes when should I start finger foods?
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Hi all,
I don't want to fork out loads of money for a garmin...Does anyone know of any good free phone apps that track distance? I have a sony satio which has gps enabled.
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Posted over 5 years ago
I have found one called "Runmeter" not free though ...not put into practice yet as just got it ...but looks good .
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to gymrunner
Adidas MiCoach does all of that you need, i know works with the Iphone, not sure about a Sony
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to Dan
A friend uses Endomondo with her Nokia, seems to work well for her
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to Shea
I have Adidas MiCoach on my Blackberry which seems to work well.
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to Ade_Dennis
Ive got runtastic, its a free app with blackberry not sure if it is available to sony but its worth checking it out x
I'm very new to running but use one called cardiotrainer. If you have a gps receiver it maps as you go, you set reminders, it then tells you how far you've gone & in what time. it was free. As a beginner runner I find it useful as you can add a playlist of music to run to. You set a diary & it then naggs you if you miss a run, which I find good. It also saves all your runs away.
e.g. it will say 04/02 3.4 miles 40 mins 450 calaries burned.
It may be a gimmick for you serious runners although I find it useful.
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to ianb
Thanks Sophia, I had endomondo, but stopped working and havent been able to get it working since, now found one called smartrunner, going to try it out when its not as windy :-) treadmill until then!
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to lucylu1987
I use Runkeeper which is free and tracks distance, time, overall avg pace and/or m/kph but I really like it because you can create your own workouts and it will tell you when each interval has ended and the workout overall has ended. The workouts can mix time and pace so you could have a '1km fast' interval followed by a '5 mins slow' interval. A great app for beginners and once the activity has started, it won't lose GPS unless you pause it en-route. Where it's limited is that I can't set a pace I want to go at (eg 8 minute mile for say 10 mins of a 30 min workout) and have it beep at me when I fall under that pace. If anyone knows of an android application that will do this (eg Endomondo?), I would probably switch to that. Also can't get altitude on Runkeeper (though might with the i-phone version of the app).
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to Red Cat
Hey i went for my first run with runkeeper yesterday. When i check on the runkeeper website it plots elevation against distance and pace. Dont know if thats what your looking for Red Cat?
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to Danny91
Danny - thanks for that. Found, as you said, the elevation and mile splits data. Just looking for an application where I can set the pace I want to go at (though not for whole run, just for parts of it) and the application will beep at me if I fall lower than that pace. Runkeeper does what I want in all other respects but for tempo runs, I can see how useful it would be to have a beeping function.
Hey red cat, i am new to running still on week 1 run 1! But i am quite tech savy so i generally get used to applications and phones quick quickly. Was just looking at run keeper and if i have read you correctly it can do what you want it to do.
When you open it up when you are selecting your activity ext click on coaching and add a new one. You can include your warm up and down 5 mins and then set your own intervals. Slow Steady and fast for a set ammount of time or distance. Run keeper will then shout at you i think using gps tracking to see if you are going the correct speed. (I may be wrong but thats what i understand from looking through the settings here.)
You can also set a target pace for the whole run i think.
Do the coaching stuff quite regularly but it's never shouted at me, yet - other than to tell me the pace I'm currently doing each minute. I can live with that but it would be nicer if I could just have it so it would only interrupt me when I'm going below my desired pace. Maybe a Runkeeper Pro/Elite thing which I haven't got.
Runkeeper, Nike+ GPS (small charge - about £1.49) or MapMyRun, maybe? I used the Nike one which suits my needs.
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Bret Bielema has been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team since 2006, and for most of those years, he was the most eligible bachelor in Madison.
But seven weeks ago, the 42-year-old coach and his 27-year-old bride got married after a four-year courtship.
Bielema met his wife, Jen, when they were both attending an event in Las Vegas. She is originally from Florida but spent her summers in Oshkosh, where her father lives.
WISC-TV anchor Susan Siman spent time with Jen Bielema at the spring game last weekend at Camp Randall and sat down for a conversation at the couple's Fitchburg home.
Susan Siman: Congratulations. How does it feel to be married?
Jen Bielema: It's amazing. The wedding was spectacular. It was everything I could have ever imagined. It's kind of, everything is just so surreal right now.
Susan: How did you meet Bret?
Jen: We met in Las Vegas at the Wynn Casino. I was with my best friend and her boyfriend at the time. He came up and we had small talk and conversation: 'Where are you from? What brings you to Vegas?' And when he said he was from Wisconsin, that perked my interest.
Susan: Why was that?
Jen: My family is from Oshkosh. Growing up, we actually spent a lot of time in the Oshkosh, Wis., area.
Susan: But you grew up most of the time in Florida?
Jen: Yes, I was born and raised in Tampa, Fla., so summertime, our getaway was in Oshkosh.
Susan: Did you know who he was?
Jen: No, I didn't. I didn't even know he played football or coached or anything until about four months after we met.
Susan: Really? He didn't tell you right away?
Jen: No, we just hit it off, and he never really expressed what he did as a profession.
Susan: How did he propose?
Jen: We decided for spring break we would go away together on a trip. He gave it to me. He said, 'You plan this trip,' and we decided to go on a cruise. It was the first night at dinner. We were waiting for our table, and he started talking about us and our past and that he didn't want to be without me in the future, and he got teary-eyed and got down on his knee and proposed.
Susan: Were you surprised?
Jen: I had no idea.
Susan: Is he a romantic guy?
Jen: He is; he's so romantic. Everything is so genuine with him and he's such a sensitive, emotional guy that a lot of people don't see.
Susan: He was a bachelor for a long time. Did you ever wonder about that or think about that?
Jen: You know, in the back of my mind I did, and I always convinced myself that it was because of his profession, because it's such a demanding job.


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I've been so focused on the preparations for the 2009 Compassion Sunday campaign that I had NEXT YEAR'S goal in my head when I was reading a recent child sponsorship progress report. It dawned on me just this week that we actually SURPASSED the 2008 Goal of impacting the lives of 22,000 children through Compassion Sunday activities in calendar year 2008.
We are 3,000 sponsorships ahead of where we were at this point in the 2007 campaign! I know that this has been a monumental effort on your part. Your prayers have been heard and answered, and your faithfulness, as sponsors, continues to change lives around the world as well as right here at Compassion! You inspire us! It is such a privilege to serve you!
I firmly believe that the 2009 Compassion Sunday campaign holds great hope for substantial growth in order to confront the challenges of our current global economic climate. I look forward to coming together with you in 2009, to make a greater impact for children in poverty than we have ever done before.
With gratitude and continuing hope,
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Hello All,
We started our baby on solids (oat meal) when he was 5 months old. We mixed it with breast milk and he ate fine. He is now 9 months old and we've started baby led solids (I know a little late, thought we got started on the wrong foot) . But now he hardly eats. He eats a few pieces of food and then he is done. Earlier he would eat almost a half a cup of pureed veggies and fruits each meal.
I'm wondering if that's ok. Will his growth suffer?


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Is a city manager best for us?
Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell, in his city charter-stipulated last term in office, has suggested city government change to a council-manager form, instead of its current strong mayor-council form.
According to Reference.com, "a city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government. Called the chief administrative officer in some municipalities.
"Originating in Staunton, Va., in 1908 during the Progressive Era, the city manager form of government was created to remove city government from the power of the political parties, and place management of the city into the hands of an outside expert who was usually a business manager or engineer, with the hope that the city manager would remain neutral to city politics.
"Typical roles and responsibilities of a city manager include: supervising day-to-day operations of all city departments, supervising the department heads; preparing a draft city budget each year with options the council votes on; researching and making recommendations about topics of interest to the council; meeting with citizens and citizen groups to understand their needs better; providing executive leadership that encourages good performance by city workers; operating the city with a professional understanding of how all city functions operate together to their best effect.
"In rare cases, city managers have hire-fire authority over all city employees, though these decisions may be required to be approved by the council, and must comply with locally applicable civil service laws.
"A city manager, appointed by the council, ensures the mechanics and logistics of the councils decisions are coordinated and implemented, and the position is considered similar to that of a board-appointed CEO in a corporation.
"Three characteristics are unique to council-manager governments. The first is that all governmental authority rests with the city council. Second, the manager's duties are codified and any authority possessed by the manager is officially endorsed. Third, no one member of the city council can dismiss the manager; rather, a vote of the entire council is required for dismissal. Under this government system, the position of mayor is either selected or elected by the city's council, and has no executive authority."
OK, with all the above stated, let's talk about how a city manager form of government actually works.
Two of the towns in which I have been editor of the local newspaper have had city manager governments. Theoretically, having a professional city manager takes the petty politics out of operating government and allows for a well-qualified person in the job.
The issue, though, arises when members of city council won't let a city manager run the city and attempt to intercede in the day-to-day operations of the city instead of acting as the city's "board of directors." The conflicts begin after a short honeymoon as council members begin to think they are mayors and begin trying to tell city employees what to do, when and how to do it, and, in general, usurp the city manager's authority and responsibility.
If there is a strong city manager, the usurping council members and council butt heads and eventually the manager is dismissed, making it more difficult to hire the next city manager.
If the manager is a weak one, council members walk all over him/her and the overall good of the city fails due to council members attempting to care only for their represented parts of the city.
It should also be noted, unlike a mayor, the public has no authority over the city manager since he/she is not voted into office by the public. If the public does not like the job the city manager is doing, the public has no say in the matter and can only take their complaints to council members, a majority of which is needed to dismiss a city manager.
A city manager-council form of government, in my opinion, only works with a strong, professional manager, and a city council that knows its place as a legislative, not administrative, part of government, which from my observance is difficult for most councils to understand.
Contact Jim Smith at email@example.com


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More than 80 percent of new buildings in the U.S. are less than 25,000 square feet and almost all buildings are less than 200,000 square feet. This broadcast identifies challenges and opportunities for chilled-water systems in these buildings from 20 to 500 tons.
In addition, many low-rise buildings seeking LEED certification have traditionally not been strong candidates for chilled-water systems. If they are 150,000 square feet or less, their baseline for achieving LEED points under EAc1 will not be a chilled-water system. However, these applications may find it easier to beat their baseline and earn more points if they consider a chilled-water system.


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Jill Pankey paints that well.
Pankey worked from 2002-2012 at Texas State University where she was a faculty member in the Art Department before giving it all up to paint full-time.
She's had gallery showings in New Zealand, New Mexico, Colorado as well as in San Antonio and Austin.
The paintings she has now on display show an impeccable eye for the human form.
"I used to own a fitness business, and I had no idea I was aging," Pankey said.
"So it's about body image and women and aging and color and pattern and movement.
"I've always been drawn to the figure. Mostly women, because I know my gender," she laughed.
Her paintings are also extremely colorful and bright and nearly jump off the canvases on which they're painted.
Pankey herself is a wonderfully open and hilarious person.
She welcomed students' questions and critiques with honest, open arms.
She spoke of the hardships of being an artist and the artist's greatest fear.
"The blank canvas."
And though she's a smart and funny woman, her artwork clearly speaks for itself. Or rather shouts at you to come closer and soak it all in.
She's an outstanding artist and brought a refreshing exhibit to the CBC gallery.
You can see Pankey's work from now until Feb. 14 at the Simon Michael Art Gallery in the Frank Jostes Visual Arts Building at Coastal Bend College in Beeville or visit www.jillpankey.com.
Paul Gonzales is the entertainment writer at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 116, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Relaxation Techniques
When you find yourself overwhelmed with stress (as many of us do at times), there are a number of techniques you can use to help you relax and reduce your mind and body's negative responses that may hinder your ability to enjoy a better quality of life.
According to health specialists at the Mayo Clinic, relaxation isn't just about peace of mind or enjoying a hobby. It's a process that can help lighten the load of life's challenges on your mind and body. Some of the health benefits of practicing these techniques include:
Many health professionals, from traditional and alternative medicine practitioners to physicians and psychotherapists, can teach you the basics of common relaxation techniques, but you can also learn some on your own. These techniques usually involve focusing your attention on something calming and becoming more aware of your body.
There are three basic relaxation techniques to choose from. They include:
There are other relaxation techniques that you may be more familiar with, such as yoga, tai chi, guided meditation, hypnosis, and massage, to name a few. No matter which technique you choose, however, relaxation techniques are skills that will improve with practice. Use your chosen technique regularly and often to reduce the negative impact of stress on your mind and body.


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The analyst who last week said that Advanced Micro Devices' next-generation mobile platform may face problems with the launch retracted his comments, but said that notebook makers still remain cautious about the forthcoming launch due to track-record of AMD's execution in the most recent quarters.
"[AMD] is not having technical issues with Puma, [but] thesis of cautious OEM behavior with respect to AMD's road-map appears well founded," Doug Friedman of American Technology Research wrote in another note to clients of the analyst firm, reports Barron's.
Last week the observer of "AmTech" wrote that AMD code-named Puma mobile platform had technical problems based on "channel checks", but the fix was in the works. Mr. Freedman did not specify what kind of problems AMD's code-named mobile platform Puma may or may not have, whereas officials from AMD were quick to deny any issues with the forthcoming platform for laptops.
Nevertheless, the analyst still does not believe into successful and faultless launch of AMD's Puma platform. He now claims that due to the lack of technical flaws the demand may exceed the supplies of AMD's chips.
"[The laptop makers have contingency plans] in case they run into issues releasing new Puma-based products," said Mr. Friedman about the scenario when AMD cannot meet demand towards its new products.
AMD's Puma mobile platform will be based on AMD's code-named Griffin processor, AMD M780 or AMD M780G mobile chipsets, which support PCI Express 2.0 bus, HyperTransport 3.0 bus, flash-cache for boosting hard drive performance and comes with or without built-in DirectX 10-compliant ATI Radeon graphics core that also features hardware-assisted decoding of high-definition content from Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. Besides, notebooks based on the Puma platform may be equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000-series discrete graphics processors as well as 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network controller as well as 3G option.
It is necessary to note that AMD's code-named Griffin microprocessor is immune to the notorious TLB-bug with AMD Phenom chips due to the fact that Griffin central processing unit is based on the K8/K9 micro-architecture with many tweaks made to HyperTransport controller, DDR2 memory controller as well as with aggressive tuning to save as much energy as possible. The chip will be made using proven 65nm process technology.


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The National Weather Service has posted a flash flood watch for the island of Kauai until 6 a.m. Tuesday.
A flood advisory for the island was cancelled at 10 p.m. Monday.
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