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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novelby Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay, two eccentric young men, join together and start developing comic heroes and a comic world from their dreams and imagination. 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)by Michael Chabon
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon. A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America's finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly
Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clayby Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier, un joven artista judío entrenado en las artes del escapismo del maestro Houdini, acaba de conseguir su mayor proeza: ha huido de la Praga ocupada por los nazis. Su objetivo es triunfar en América, ganar dinero rápidamente, y así poder liberar a su familia de las garras del imperio nazi. Joe Kavalier se traslada hasta el barrio de Brooklyn, Nueva York, donde vive su primo Sammy Clay. Desde el primer momento, los dos chicos entablan amistad y se lanzan al mercado incipiente del cómic, creando un superhéroe judío que viajará hasta Europa para luchar contra Hitler. En la alucinante recreación del Nueva York de los años cuarenta que ilumina la historia caben el amor, los celos, la bohemia, las reflexiones sobre la creación y toda una serie de elementos que recuerdan el glamouroso mundo de Michael Chabon, un mundo que nunca deja de ser tierno y divertido. Con esta novela, el autor de Los misterios de Pittsburg, Chicos prodigiosos y Un mundo modelo, nos ofrece un estimulante triunfo del lenguaje y la inventiva. Como Pastoral americana, de Philip Roth, o Submundo, de Don DeLillo, Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay es una novela universal, maestra. «De entre los jóvenes valores de la actual literatura norteamericana, Michael Chabon es probablemente el menos abiertamente experimental y el que mejor conecta con las mejores virtudes del clasicismo de la llamada generación del New Yorker, es decir, escritores como Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger o John Cheever. Comparte con ellos una concepción de la literatura basada en la solidez narrativa, la impecable construcción de personajes y la sabia combinación de drama y humor.» Mauricio Bach
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Manby Michael Chabon Jake Parker
Awesome Man can shoot positronic rays out of his eyeballs, fly as straight as an arrow, and hug mutant Jell-O! Even villains like Professor Von Evil and the Flaming Eyeball are no match for this caped crusader. But Awesome Man also has a secret. . . . Can you guess what it is? The first picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon perfectly captures the fantasy life of young superhero fans.
Brown Sugar Kitchenby Tanya Holland Jan Newberry Jody Horton Michael Chabon
Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco.The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers congregate on long benches and sprawl in the grass, soaking up the sunshine, sipping at steaming mugs of Oakland-roasted coffee, waiting to snag one of the tables they glimpse through the swinging doors. Deals are done, friends are made; this is a community in action. In short order, they'll get their table, their pecan-studded sticky buns, their meaty hash topped with a quivering poached egg. Later in the day, the line grows, and the orders for chef-owner Tanya Holland's famous chicken and waffles or oyster po'boy fly. This is when satisfaction arrives.Brown Sugar Kitchen, the cookbook, stars 86 recipes for re-creating the restaurant's favorites at home, from a thick Shrimp Gumbo to celebrated Macaroni & Cheese to a show-stopping Caramel Layer Cake with Brown Butter-Caramel Frosting. And these aren't all stick-to-your-ribs recipes: Tanya's interpretations of soul food star locally grown, seasonal produce, too, in crisp, creative salads such as Romaine with Spring Vegetables & Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing and Summer Squash Succotash. Soul-food classics get a modern spin in the case of B-Side BBQ Braised Smoked Tofu with Roasted Eggplant and a side of Roasted Green Beans with Sesame-Seed Dressing. Straight-forward, unfussy but inspired, these are recipes you'll turn to again and again.Rich visual storytelling reveals the food and the people that made and make West Oakland what it is today. Brown Sugar Kitchen truly captures the sense--and flavor--of this richly textured and delicious place.
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Mythsby Michael Chabon Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods. Children meet Bragi, the god of poetry, and the famous Valkyrie maidens, among other gods, goddesses, heroes, and giants. Illustrations throughout depict the wondrous other world of Norse folklore and its fantastical Northern landscape.
The Final Solutionby Michael Chabon
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books -- intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
Gentlemen of the Roadby Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can-as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there-along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of-will be much more than half the fun.From the Hardcover edition.
Jóvenes hombres loboby Michael Chabon
«De todos los autores que se publican ahora, Chabon es quizá quien ha encontrado una voz propia más clara y que conecta mejor con el lector medio.» Jordi Puntí, Babelia «Apasionante.» Francisco Casavella, El Mundo «Michel Chabon es uno de los jóvenes novelistas norteamericanos con un estilo más elegante, pretendidamente sencillo y mágicamente directo. Las tramas de sus novelas y cuentos aúnan eso tan difícil de conseguir como es un argumento sugerente, con rasgos donde sedan cita el ingenio, la ternura y la comicidad.» Diego Doncel, El Cultural «Entre los jóvenes valores de la actual literatura norteamericana, Michael Chabon es probablemente el menos abiertamente experimental y el que mejor conecta con las mejores virtudes del clasicismo de la llamada generación del New Yorker, es decir, escritores como Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger o John Cheever.»Mauricio Bach, La Vanguardia
The Long Shipsby Frans G. Bengtsson Michael Meyer Michael Chabon
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm--canny, courageous, and above all lucky--is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take this place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson's book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.
Manhood for Amateursby Michael Chabon
A Best Book Of The Year Time St. Louis Post-Dispatch Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle NPR Seattle Times A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers addresses with his characteristic warmth and lyric wit the all-important question: What does it mean to be a man today?
Maps and Legendsby Michael Chabon
In these lively critical and personal essays, Chabon asserts his literary manifesto: "I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period."This collection of sixteen essays champions the cause of sci-fi and westerns, superheroes and horror shows, gumshoes and goblins--all the genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction that get pushed aside when literary discussion turns serious. For Chabon, the stories that give us great pleasure are in many ways our truest, best art--the building blocks of our shared imagination. Whether he's taking up Superman or Sherlock Holmes, Poe or Proust, Chabon's emphatic mission is to explore the reasons we tell each other tales, and to offer a glimpse of his own history as reader and writer. This ebook features a biography of the author.
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Storiesby Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, and more!Margaret Atwood- Lusus NaturaeDavid Mitchell- What You Do Not Know You WantJonathan Lethem- Vivian RelfAyelet Waldman - MinnowSteve Erickson- ZerovilleStephen King- Lisey and the MadmanJason Roberts - 7CHeidi Julavits- The MiniaturistRoddy Doyle - The ChildDaniel Handler - DelmonicoCharles D'Ambrosio - The Scheme of ThingsPoppy Z. Brite - The Devil of Delery StreetChina Mieville- Reports of Certain Events in LondonJoyce Carol Oates - The Fabled Light-house at Vi-a del MarPeter Straub - Mr. Aickman's Air RifleFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Talesby Michael Chabon
A Vintage Contemporaries OriginalIncludes:Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"Dan Chaon's "The Bees"Kelly Link's "Catskin"Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"Carol Emshwiller's "The General"Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn't Come Out"Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"Chris Offutt's "Chuck's Bucket"Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Model Worldby Michael Chabon
Chabon's dazzling first story collection reveals lives anchored in fantasy but disrupted by surprising realitiesIn these eleven elegant tales, characters hold tight to private dreams even as their closest relationships crumble. Five stories follow Nathan Shapiro from the spoiled beach vacation where he learns of his parents' divorce through his anxious adolescence and a woefully misguided crush. Other stories find ex-lovers tormenting each other at an oceanside café, a has-been baseball pro at the funeral of a more successful teammate, and a Pittsburgh disc jockey still pining for a woman who married him to get her American citizenship. Graceful, witty, and moving, the stories of A Model World helped establish Chabon as one of America's most distinctive fiction writers and prose stylists. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Moonglow: A Novelby Michael Chabon
"This book is beautiful." -- A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review"An exuberant meld of fiction and family history." -- Hamilton Cain, O MagazineFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure--and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact--and the creative power--of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator's grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the "American Century," the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
Un mundo modeloby Michael Chabon
Dos ex amantes que llegaron a odiarse tanto que en la separación hasta sus tesoros más preciados sufrieron las consecuencias se reencuentran casualmente; un estudiante que debe leer su tesis sobre la formación de las nubes en ciertas condiciones meteorológicas decide no complicarse la vida y se convierte en plagiario; un jugador de béisbol en plena decadencia asiste al entierro de una joven promesa fallecida en un accidente... Estos son algunos de los personajes que habitan los relatos de la primera parte del libro: Un mundo modelo. Los de la segunda -Un mundo perdido-están todos protagonizados por el adolescente Nathan Shapiro, y en ellos se nos cuenta cómo su vida queda irremediablemente marcada por el divorcio de sus padres, cómo se enamora de una vecina casada, cómo trata de perder la virginidad con ayuda del alcohol sin demasiado éxito... Considerado como una de las grandes revelaciones de la nueva generación de escritores norteamericanos y llamado a ser el heredero de Salinger, Michael Chabon escribe con brillantez e inteligencia estas instantáneas de la Norteamérica actual, donde jóvenes y adolescentes tratan de aprender a vivir y a amar en un mundo complejo y cambiante.
The Mysteries of Pittsburghby Michael Chabon
Chabon's sensational debut novel: the coming-of-age story of Art Bechstein, a recent graduate whose life is forever changed by one sultry summerArt Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Bechstein spends the summer after his graduation from a Pittsburgh university searching for his future and finding his own sort of trouble with brilliant and seductive new friends--erudite, unscrupulous Arthur Lecomte, mercurial Phlox, and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker. Insightful and energetic, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh beautifully renders the hard edges of a blue-collar city and the charm of its local characters. This ebook features a biography of the author.
El sindicato de policía Yiddishby Michael Chabon
El sindicato de policía yiddish imagina una historia alternativa en la que, durante más de sesenta años, los judíos refugiados y sus descendientes han vivido tranquilamente en el distrito federal de Sitka, un espacio temporal dependiente de Estados Unidos, en Alaska, en el que los judíos han residido en paz. Sin embargo, el sueño de «un hogar para los judíos» parece llegar a su final, y una vez más la Historia los arrastra a un destino incierto. El asesinato de un carismático miembro de la comunidad judía servirá para poner de manifiesto las poderosas fuerzas ocultas que manejan los habitantes de Sitka, así como la capacidad analítica del fabuloso detective Meyer Landsman.Rabinos que se convierten al crimen, delincuentes que creen en Dios y el detective de homicidios Meyer Landsman, que solo cree en su botella... La nueva y original novela del Premio Pulitzer por Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Klay ha vuelto a conquistar a la crítica internacional.«Una de las mejores novelas de historia alternativa junto a El hombre en el castillo de Philip K. Dick, La conjura contra América de Philip Roth o Patria de Robert Harris.»Rodrigo Fresán, Qué leerTraducción de Javier Calvo.
La solución finalby Michael Chabon
En su largo retiro en la campiña inglesa, un anciano de ochenta y nueve años, que según rumorean los lugareños fue años atrás un famoso detective, vive apartado del mundanal ruido. Un día irrumpe en su ordenada vida Linus Steinman, un muchacho mudo que ha escapado de la Alemania nazi con un loro gris como único compañero. ¿Qué significa la misteriosa cadena de números en alemán que el loro repite incesantemente? ¿Acaso esconde un código secreto de las SS, o es un mero sinsentido? La solución de este último caso llevará al viejo sabueso más lejos de lo que jamás imaginó. La solución final, nueva novela del célebre escritor Michael Chabon, reinventa el clásico relato detectivesco decimonónico y lo convierte en una historia de suspense moderna.
Summerlandby Michael Chabon
From the Pulitzer Prize winning Michael Chabon comes this bestselling novel for readers of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball--now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author.Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: his father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen. Ethan's luck begins to change, however, when a mysterious baseball scout named Ringfinger Brown and a seven-hundred-and-sixty-five-year-old werefox enter his life, dragging Ethan into another world called the Summerlands. But this beautiful, winter-less place is facing destruction at the hands of the villainous Coyote, and it has been prophesized that only Ethan can save it. In this cherished modern classic, the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning author brings his masterful storytelling, dexterous plotting, and singularly envisioned characters to a coming-of-age novel for readers of all ages.
Telegraph Avenueby Michael Chabon
Race, corporatism, and last-stand idealism: who better to explore these themes than Pulitzer Prize winner Chabon, whose linguistic razzle-dazzle discloses acute observations about our shared culture--and its borders. Its 2004, and longtime band mates Archy and Nat (married to beloved local midwives) still preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium and de facto town center in a fictional space somewhere between Berkeley and Oakland. Alls well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime.
Werewolves in Their Youthby Michael Chabon
Chabon's second story collection, about couples and families suffused with yearning but crippled by broken loveParalysis in the face of insight afflicts many characters in this stunning volume. In the title story, a boy named Paul does nothing to protect his feral friend Timothy from the scorn of teachers and classmates alike, even though he knows the reasons for Timothy's irritating games. In other stories, a young alpha couple sees a future together in the defects of a house up for sale, a heartbroken thief finds his ex-girlfriend's grandma to be an easy mark, and a man drifts away from a wife who has experienced a terrible misfortune. At times darkly funny, and others achingly beautiful, Werewolves in Their Youth renders the sad compromises of adulthood and the vivid fantasies of childhood with clarity and warmth.This ebook features a biography of the author.
Wonder Boysby Michael Chabon
Chabon's extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative classA wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.
The Yiddish Policemen's Unionby Michael Chabon
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder-right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.
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Over the last month, I had a couple of experiences that started me thinking about how my perspectives have changed over time. While these changes were focused primarily on physical things, there is no escaping that fact that over time we change the way we perceive and understand nearly everything.
I was born in Milwaukee and went to school there until the seventh grade. Life for children was infinitely less complicated then as we could roam and play far and wide with little fear of harm — and believe me, we roamed. We walked to and from school or took the bus pretty much at will. I still have vivid pictures in my mind of the two places where we lived, my schools and many other things.
One of my favorite haunts was the museum downtown. It had a giant squid hanging from the ceiling and every week either before or after my piano lesson I visited the museum to marvel at that creature and wonder about so many other things on display. I took my wife and granddaughter to the museum a few weeks ago and they still had the squid, but it had certainly shrunk in size from what I remember. So did the house where I lived, the playground at school and the church where I attended Mass. While the school building itself seemed to be the right size on the block, I cannot imagine how all of us played anything on that playground.
And then this past week I took a short tour of the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I was struck by several things. Again, the buildings did not appear quite as large as I remember, nor did the mall seem to be the great expanse of old. But the most disappointing aspect was the loss of the charm of the stately campus buildings now mixed with what I consider some garish modern edifices that detract rather than add to the atmosphere.
I guess it's true that you really can't ever go home again.
So, let's shift to the perspective of ideas and other related things. If you have read the editorial pages of the Brainerd Dispatch over the last few months, there has been an extensive debate over the existence of God. I have contributed my 2 cents worth on one or two occasions and that has also been the main or peripheral subject of some of my columns. This is a debate that has been going on probably since humans first roamed the earth and their brains developed to the point that reason and intellect were part of their being.
For the record, I believe in God. I cannot fathom how every physical thing from the smallest identifiable particle to the largest galaxy — and that includes you and me — that has existed, does exist or will exist can be blithely explained as a simple happy accident of nature. The explorations and ruminations of all the scientists from day one have yet to explain conclusively how we came to be, much less why. And why is extremely important because the "why" has to be connected to the "who" — yes, that means a creator.
Think about your children. They ask a seemingly infinite number of questions. But they have a favorite one that can bring you to your knees both intellectually and in the realm of patience. I had one daughter who never stopped asking it and now I have a granddaughter who has taken her place.
It is "why?"
And the answer to "why" at the adult level usually brings us to the areas of philosophy and theology. Our philosophy defines and encompasses our values, beliefs and way of life. And our theology — or lack thereof — provides context and boundaries to our philosophy. I believe the two are inexorably tied together such that the philosophy that ignores theology leads us to the very situation we have today in most modern societies — freedom of action becomes license to ignore all accepted boundaries or limits.
One of the letters published in the Dispatch totally dismissed the role of philosophy in theological discussions and debates as useless and meaningless. People who cannot win an argument in the realm of ideas are the first ones to simply dismiss the very ideas themselves ... and by extension those who propose the ideas or ask the questions. People who won't answer the "why" question either don't have a credible answer or don't care because to answer it would lead them where they don't want to go.
I know God our Creator exists, but I don't know that in the same way I know my wife, friends and family. The best explanation I ever heard came during a retreat. The retreat master put it this way, "God is so 'other' that even if you think you know what 'other' is, He's other than that."
From my perspective, our greatest fault as human beings is our pride and arrogance in believing we and our intellect are supreme and transcend all else. We believe we are so smart that we never have to ask, "Why?" And if we ask the question we don't listen to the answer.
I'm afraid many of us will learn the answer when it's too late.
Well, that's the way I see it.


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Excerpt: "Tim Tebow, as of Monday morning, is unemployed, and as we try to figure out where he'll play this season -- hint: not with the Jaguars, probably not the CFL, what about for the lingerie football league or the Omaha Beef? -- it's possible Tebow could wind up in Florida anyway.
That's apparently the thinking of agent Drew Rosenhaus, who told 560 WQAM (via Fox Sports' Alex Marvez) on Wednesday he wouldn't be shocked if the Dolphins took a chance on signing Tebow.
Um, really?
Apparently so. Rosenhaus said the Dolphins haven't publicly come out and said they didn't have interest in the controversial quarterback (neither has anybody from the NHL, but I digress) and Rosenhaus believes that's because Miami owner Stephen Ross is a fan. You'll recall the Dolphins set up a day of celebration for former University of Florida players when Miami played host to Tebow and the Broncos in 2011. Tebow led Denver to an overtime victory in that game." Read more...


text: Tiki...right to his opinion...sure, that's one thing, IT's TOTALLY another to go on National TV & throw your former coach (who straightened his fumbling problem out, by teaching him how to carry the ball correctly) & your up & coming Quarterback under the bus, lambasting BOTH of them FOR PERSONAL GAIN, to further his budding broadcasting career, who soon found out he had NBG, " Nothing But Giants" scoop. It's pretty obvious neither Eli, Coach Coughlin (taking the high road-neither responded to his comments) or the GIANTS need Mr Barber anymore, his opinions, or on the field of play. PERSONA NON GRATA.


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Well, at least we got a 12pt lead... Still, wish we scored alot more, because this one could be over....
this game looks a lot more like the first 3 games. we should be up more, a lot more, just like in the first 2 games... we got this though, stay positive. knicks are like the giants, the don't like winning easy, they love the drama lol.
Chandlers gonna get another stupid foul, i see it coming..
Beautiful. Beautiful Melo to Prigs
There ya go Felton! Now, this is the Knicks offense! Agressive, no standing around, and getting busy!


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History repeated itself and the Irish Republic was officially born!
Here are your role players:
Richard Mclcahy (vig) played by Zarovich
Richard Mulcahy (vig)
You are the Military leader of the IRA. Due to your military prowess in the art of guerrilla warfare you have the ability to kill those who try to stop the revolution. Every even night you will be given a grenade. You can choose to save your grenades, but may only have 2 at a time. If you are attacked while holding onto a grenade, you will take the one who killed you down with you. You may use 0-2 grenades any given night.
President Eamon De Valera (angel) played by nan
President Eamon De Valera (Angel)
You are the protector of your possible new realm. As such, you can protect anyone you wish, including yourself every night. You may protect the same person on consecutive nights.
Michael Collins (seer) played by relantel
Michael Collins (Seer)
You are the intelligence behind the entire revolution. As such, you can view the identity of any player each night.
From farmers to business men, you are loved. With this love comes loyalty. On or after night 3, you have the power to convince and thus recruit a citizen into the Irish Republican Army. If you recruit should fail, you DO NOT lose it. If you choose to recruit, you lose your ability to see that night since you will be too busy gaining the trust and loyalty of your fellow Irishmen. If the recruit is successful, you may communicate with your recruit.
IRA member (recruit) played by Kraftster
IRA member (recruit)
Welcome! The fearless leader of the Irish Revolution, Michael Collins, has recruited you. You may communicate with Michael Collins, relantel, through PM s.
You have two powers that you can choose to use. You can use each power once, and may only use one power during any given phase.
Night Roleblock
Night Kill
The British
Congratulations! You have a role in the Irish Revolution. You are fighting to keep Ireland under British control. You may all talk to each other during day and night phases through PM
British General (Alpha) – Troy Loney
You are the head of the British Army stationed in Ireland. Although you look down on the barbaric tactics of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), you do your best to take them seriously. You have the final word on all actions taken by the Unionists and those still loyal to the crown. You have the ability to kill during the night phases.
As the General, you can also recruit. You have only two recruits, if your attempts to recruit should fail you DO NOT lose the recruit. If you recruit, you lose your ability to kill that night. You cannot recruit until Night 3. If you die, your recruiting ability dies with you.
Royal Irish Constabulary policemen - Gaucho
You are a Catholic policemen fighting to keep the peace and Ireland under the rule of the King of England. The British Army relies on you to be their eyes and ears. As such, during night phases you can see the identity of any player. However, if you choose to use your see, the British General cannot kill or recruit that night.
Note: between the British general and the RIC policemen, you can use only ONE ability a night. You may either kill, see, or recruit. PM must come from Alpha with the final decision.
Bishop of Kilmore (British protector) - columbia
As a Bishop you believe it is your responsibility to protect those that are doing the moral right. You don't believe your country men have a chance or hope of success, so your allegiance is with the British. You view any life taken by the rebellious is murder and not accepted by the church as just. As a protector, you can protect any of those loyal to the King, including yourself. You may protect twice during the game, either during the day or night.
Unionist (recruit) played by c2i
Unionist (recruits)
Welcome! The British Army has recruited you into their fold. You are loyal to the crown. You may talk to all of the reds still alive, troy loney, gaucho, columbia
Disgruntled farmer played by the wicked child
Disgruntled farmer
You are an Irishman through and through. The pains of British rule still fresh in your memory. However, after the IRA attacked your town and burnt down your hay shed, you cannot bring yourself to support such barbarians. What to do? Survive. Your ultimate goal is to survive. Every other night you can kill. Your first kill is on night 4.
All of the citizens were split into two groups: Republicans and Unionists. This was only for the purpose of recruiting. Republicans could be recruited by the greens and unionists could be recruited by the reds.
list from random.org
thehockeyguru - rep
mac5155 – rep
MWB - rep
Kraftster - rep
Rylan - rep
fleury495 - rep
IrishEyes – rep
Godric - un
pittsports87 -un
bhaw -un
Benny Fitz -un
the errey i breathe -un
ulf – un
count2infinity- un
Blue games:
Winners would get this PM:
Congratulations! You have won a [].
Here's the story: Your prize has a power associated with it. Please inform me and redwill if you wish to use your prize. If you choose to use your prize I will send a PM to you with power it holds. You must choose if you would like to use it before the end of this day phase.
Note: You are NOT allowed to tell people that you have won the prize. If you tell people you have won and what power you have been awarded, it will make your prize obsolete and you will be mod killed.
Labour strike - c2i
Labour Strikes –
The labour strikes were used throughout Ireland as a way of rebelling for those not in the IRA. The railroad workers and other public workers would go on strike, making it impossible for the British to move their supplies. Without supplies, the British cannot fight as effectively.
Due to lack of supplies, the labour strike causes a roleblock of the Alpha red this night, Night 2.
Dictionary - ps87
Dictionary -
Actually, a slang dictionary for the weary American tourist wantin ta know the lay of de land. For a wee bit a fun, ye must use Irish slang and/or dialect in every post. If ya do not include it in posts where ya vote, yar vote will not be counted. If ya go 2 posts without Irish slang, you will be viewed as a Brit for your lack of Irish dialect and shall be mod-killed.
Martyr – bhaw
Martyr – You are now Terence MacSwiney who was a brave man. You are on a hunger strike for your country, trying to help while you are in jail. You have a choice – stay alive or choose to die. If you choose to die for your country, something good might result from it. If you are killed by RP s or during a day phase by the Citizens, the good will not result. You must make the choice to die for there to be a possible reward. PM redwill and me, once you have made your choice.
If he choose to die, all the blue unionists turned into republicans so no more recruits for the reds.
Portrait - thg
Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist, involves a character who is filled with disdain for politics, the church, and sometimes Ireland as a whole. Due to this annoyance, you are so frustrated that you do not want to, nor can you vote or speak the next day phase, Day 6.
Prizes (randomized by random.org)
Labour strikes – roleblock of alpha
Dictionary – must post with Irish slang in each post
Martyr – can choose to die for their country, good will come of it
Portrait – Disdain for politics, cannot speak or vote that day phase
Shamrock – not actually lucky (me family's belief anyway) will take one less vote to kill you
Hurling stick – may protect yourself with this.
Bomb – day kill
Guinness – must post like you are drunk
I wanted to play more of the games, but at some point there were really no blues left.
Night 1
nan – self protect
rel – see c2i
troy – kill twc
c2i- won Labour Strike
Night 2:
nan – self protect
rel – see benny
troy – kill nan
c2i – used Labour strikes (role block alpha)
ps87 – won dictionary
Night 3:
nan – self protect
rel – recruit kraftster
troy – recruit c2i
Night 4:
nan – self protect
troy – recruit MWB (failed)
bhaw – won Martyr
Day 4:
bhaw - choose to die
columbia – self protect
Night 5:
Zaro – kill columbia
nan – self protect
rel – see thg
troy – kill nan
columbia – self protect
thg – won Portrait
Night 6:
Zaro – kill IE
nan – self protect
rel – see gaucho
troy – kill nan
Kraftster – kill troy
Night 7
nan – self protect
rel – see mac
columbia (new alpha)– kill rel
Kraftster – block columbia
Night 8
nan- self protect
rel – see godric
c2i (new alpha) – kill nan
Night 9
nan- self protect
rel - see c2i
c2i - kill rel
nan, bravo on your protects.
The reds attempted a kill on nan each time, except for twc and rel. Nan protected himself each time. The reason the first rel kill attempt failed was due to kraftster roleblocking columbia. Night 2 was interesting, because they attempted to kill nan, but due to the labour strike that c2i won, the kill was blocked. Nan would of been saved anyway by his self-protect.
I loved the Martyr idea, which was all redwill's idea.
Thanks redwill for helping this new mod out! Thanks for playing everyone!


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Pulaski Technical College participates in numerous community events throughout the year, and this week is especially notable for the flurry of activities. Pulaski Tech faculty, staff and students will have many opportunities to spread the word about the college.
This evening, Sept 24, the Pulaski Technical College Arkansas Culinary School will represent the college at the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's 15th annual Taste of the Town, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock. Presented in part by Pulaski Technical College, Taste of the Town is a networking event at which over 35 area restaurants and food and beverage distributors -including the PTC Arkansas Culinary School- each provide signature dishes for guests to sample. Tickets to Taste of the Town are sold out.
On Thursday Sept. 25, Pulaski Technical College will be represented at the 2008 Market Arkansas Business Round-Up. As one of the biggest business and industry trade shows in the state, Market Arkansas is a great opportunity for the college to interact with the central Arkansas business community. The event begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 4 p.m. at Alltel Arena. Admission is $3. More information is available here.
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27, the college will join the popular environmental education and cultural diversity festival WorldFest at its new location at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in downtown Little Rock. The festival is free of charge. It begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 9 p.m. on both days. WorldFest was established in the fall of 1995 to encourage friendship and reduce prejudice by coming together to learn about different cultures and ethnicities. It is presented by the Little Rock Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission. For more information, click here.
Also on Saturday, Sept 27, Pulaski Tech will participate in the Little Rock Family Education Expo from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Clear Channel Metroplex on Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock. Experts from top private and public schools in central Arkansas will discuss programs and services they have to offer. Participants can register for after-school activities and educational services. Free parenting workshops on study skills, parent/teacher conferences, and other activities will be offered while the kids enjoy free enrichment activities. For more information, click here.
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09:30 20th December 2013
Under-21s profile ahead of Toffees tie
For Wolves' Development squad, still operating in the Barclays Premier Under-21 League alongside the best young players in the country, this was always going to be a challenging season.
Not least because the success of the team in recent years has seen many among their number now heavily involved in the first team picture under Head Coach Kenny Jackett.
But amid these challenges Steve Weaver's team have so far more than held their own in a hugely competitive top division for the best young players from at home and abroad.
Monday's 2-0 defeat against Aston Villa, the result of squandering a host of good chances, left Wolves in 10th position in the 22-strong league.
And that has included some excellent wins, and indeed comebacks, not to mention despatching last year's runners-up Tottenham 3-1 at Compton earlier this month.
Another tough test lies in store tonight with the second round of the Barclays Under-21 Premier League Cup against Everton at Southport, but Weaver can see plenty of positives in the campaign thus far.
That is for a large part also because he has seen some of those who have learned their game, and indeed improved their mentality, at Under-21 level in recent years now doing the same at first team level.
"The season has gone pretty much as we expected," says the Development Coach.
"When we came into the season we saw the progression of the lads pushing into the first team squad and may have become part of that squad.
"The likes of Sam Ricketts, Carl Ikeme, Stears, Doyler and the more senior players within the group have embraced these young lads coming through in the wake of an awful lot of other players leaving the building.
"All of a sudden now there are a lot more younger players in the ranks and 50 to 60 per cent of the squad is under 22 or 21.
"It is a young squad and those lads have had to step up and become senior players.
"To be where we are in the league with that many lads finding their way in it this season is a testament to how well they have done.
"The lads have always done well at digging out results against some top clubs at Under-21 level and I think that stands them in good stead.
"You always feel that this Wolves side never know when they are beaten and will always feel they can get back into games and tough it out."
Weaver continues: "When you are at a club like ours, you know that in our league you are going to come up against the top teams like your Manchester Uniteds and your Arsenals but then underneath that other teams with really good youth policies such as Aston Villa and Fulham.
"It is a real tough section for us and the Under-21s are up against it most weeks.
"But I think it helps the lads to give them that level of challenge in terms of learning and then preparing for what happens when they get through to the senior ranks.
"The lads are learning their trade in an environment where it's not easy and the expectation on the first team this season is huge.
"To be sat here towards Christmas in the top two of the league and with them all having played a contribution is very pleasing.
"To be fair their performances have been mixed but that is what happens when you get young players.
"It's a bit like any walk of life – when you do something for the first time you can be a little bit shaky and then you do it again you get a little bit better and then again and again you get better.
"You can do all the preparation and training but you only really know fully if they are going to be players when they get their chance.
"Nothing gets you ready for that situation where you've maybe not been great in the first half and there are a few boos at half time and that's completely new to what you've been used to.
"I'm not too sure you can replicate that until it absolutely happens so you never really know whether you've got a player until they thrive on it."
In terms of the Under-21 League Weaver was anticipating something of a mixed bag of results given the transitional nature of his squad.
So he has been generally pleased with the level of the performances and, as in recent seasons, the character shown.
"We have got a younger group in the 21s now," he explains.
"It is a bit of a transitional year for us because a lot of the lads involved will still be with us next year as well.
"It is certainly a very different team to this time last year when we had the likes of McCarey, Doherty, Ebanks-Landell, Reckord, Zeli, Fordey, Pricey, Liam McAlinden and others.
"I think maybe Sam Whittall is the only one still in the team from those days and the other ten have all moved on.
"So there is a lot among the group now that will need a bit of time and in football in general now there are not that many 19 or 20 year-olds who are ripping it up.
"There was a lot written about Andros Townsend when he made his England breakthrough but he is now 23 having gone out and had a lot of loan spells.
"Daniel Sturridge is now 24 and he has only really come to the fore over the last year or two.
"In our case you look at Doc and Danny Batth and how well they have done in our first team this season and I think that is helped by how they have come through the ranks and also had some football on loan.
"I think we at Wolves have taken a long hard look not just at ourselves but also other clubs in how they do things and manage to get players to a certain level – and there is a lot of work going on here behind the scenes.
"It's about that progression, spending time with the Under-18s, then the Under-21s, and then getting through to the senior ranks whether that is with Wolves or initially elsewhere on loan before coming back.
"Throughout that time they are getting a feel for Wolves, and hopefully all the work pays off so we don't necessarily judge and maybe discard a player anymore at 20 –and we give them that extra couple of years.
"Eusebio has come in and done well for us this season but he is still only 18 with more improvement to come.
"And the likes of Tanky (Jamie Tank) and Whitts (Sam Whittall) who have been with us a couple of years also still have some physical development to go.
"On the pitch I can honestly say that we have come off in all the games we have lost and thinking we were right in the games and could have got something.
"We have had some tough games, but the experience helps, and in 12 months' time when these lads have that bit more experience then maybe they do on and get something out of these tight games."
Whilst that need to learn to win games and to pick up positive results is clearly important, there is also that underlying theme of preparing players for their senior opportunities, and continuing the supply lines which has served Wolves well so far this season.
With a Head Coach in Jackett who has shown he is open to handing young players their chance, Weaver also believes the freshness and enthusiasm coming into the squad has also been a positive.
"There have been wholesale changes here at senior level and it is pretty much a completely different first team," he says.
"A lot of the lads have been at the club but haven't played, but all credit to Kenny and Joe (Gallen) who have found a good balance in giving young players opportunities and also getting results.
"There is a spirit and resilience, and that can then lead to free-flowing football.
"It wasn't a great 18 months for us at first team level but I think we've got rid of that stigma and the one thing the kids have always had here is a really good team spirit.
"There were times in our league last season when we were maybe one or even two goals down and they came back to pick up results or also did so in games we really needed to win.
"And those results came against some of the top teams – Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham.
"I think they have brought that attitude to the first team environment and kept it and the senior pros have taken that on.
"There's that feeling that whatever happens they can get something out of a game and with that sort of foundation you can usually go a long way."
*Tonight's game against Everton takes place at Southport's Merseyrail Community Stadium with a 7pm kick off. Admission is £5 for adults and £3 concessions.
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Quilt show Oct. 3-4 in Walker
Northwoods Quilt Guild hosts their 2013 quilt show, "Every Quilt Tells a Story," on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 3-4 at the Northern Lights Casino Hotel and Event Center in Walker. Hours for the show are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Admission is $3.
The show includes a quilt display, vendors, old fashioned bed turning, demonstrations, door prizes, raffle and a chance to vote for your favorite quilt. Kandi and Kim of Cottonfans Quilting will present a trunk show at 1 p.m. on Thursday.


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"It is essential that our parents understand that they're the child's most important teacher, and that the message of our parents must be unequivocal: don't use drugs."
President George W. Bush
Research shows that recent trends in youth drug use have stabilized; however, the rates of use remain at high levels. It has been shown that the earlier drug use is initiated, the more likely a person is to develop drug problems later in life. Youth substance abuse may lead to many other problems that affect not only the child, but also the child's family and community.
Parents are the most important role models in their children's lives. What you say and do about drugs matters a lot when it comes to the choices your children make. You can:
- set a positive example and get involved in your children's lives;
- get involved in their activities, know their friends and know where they're going and what they're doing;
- create clear, consistent expectations and enforce them;
- talk early and often about drugs;
- discuss the consequences of drug use; and
- show you care enormously about what choices your children make about drugs.
Children learn by example. They adopt the values you demonstrate through your actions. The tips contained within this booklet will help you to lead by example and provide you with tips for keeping your child drug free. This booklet covers such important topics as:
- How to help your preschool children make good decisions as they form attitudes about drug use;
- What your children should know about drugs by the time they reach the third grade;
- Ways to help your child stay drug free in the middle and junior high school years; and
- How to ensure your child's school is keeping students drug free.


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Demandware Powers Compact Appliance and Living Direct eCommerce Sites
July 8, 2008
Leading Retail Equity Firm and Online Retailer of Distinct Home Living Products Launches Multiple Web Storefronts on Demandware eCommerce Platform
WOBURN, Mass.-- Demandware, developer of the only enterprise-class on-demand ecommerce platform, today announced that Richlund Ventures has selected the Demandware eCommerce Platform to power all of its home living destination ecommerce sites. The multi-brand retail equity firm recently launched two Web storefronts on Demandware – www.compactappliance.com and www.livingdirect.com – with plans to roll out additional sites in the coming months.
Compact Appliance provides small-format home appliances, while Living Direct provides a broader spectrum of home living products, including appliances, outdoor furniture and housewares. The combined annual revenue of the two brands is approximately $37 million.
Founded in 1999, Richlund Ventures is a privately-owned company that specializes in identifying niche and emerging markets and meeting the needs and challenges those opportunities present through multiple retail websites. The company's direct retail brands include Compact Appliance, Living Direct, EdgeStar, Portable Airshop, Hot Water Source and Richlund Supply. Richlund Ventures wanted an ecommerce solution that was easily customizable, included rich merchandising capabilities, allowed them to launch multiple sites quickly and didn't require a significant investment in IT infrastructure.
"Everything is better with Demandware," said Jason Roussos, president of Richlund Ventures. "It has been a fundamental change in how we do business. We are projecting significant growth for our online channel and with Demandware we have an ecommerce platform that can take us to the next level."
Richlund Ventures selected Demandware because of the following differentiators:
- Full in-house control: Richlund Ventures needed to be able to easily customize their sites and make changes quickly. Demandware provides full control over merchandising promotions, search, catalog, pricing and all other aspects of the online shopping experience.
- Continuous innovation through the on-demand model: Demandware's automatic upgrades allows Richlund Ventures to constantly innovate their sites, while eliminating the burden of maintaining costly IT infrastructure.
- Ability to launch multiple sites quickly, without costly services: Demandware's architecture makes it possible to quickly roll out multiple sites from within one environment. The second site, compactappliance.com, was launched with no assistance from Demandware and in less than 45 days.
"We are a retailer, not a technology company. We don't want to own the technology or the infrastructure, but we are fast-moving and it's important that we stay ahead of the innovation curve," said Roussos. "With Demandware, we can take advantage of the constant stream of new features that they provide, while we focus on our core competency of marketing and merchandising our product offerings."
"Richlund Ventures is an incredibly astute retail equity firm that understands the potential of the online channel and we're delighted to welcome them to the Demandware family. Along with Demandware's other multi-site clients, Richlund Ventures recognizes the unique operational advantages of our on-demand model for serving multi-brand businesses," said Stephan Schambach, chairman and founder of Demandware.
About Living Direct (previously known as Richlund Ventures)
Founded in 1999 with the launch of the Compact Appliance.com website, Richlund Ventures is a privately owned company that specializes in identifying niche and emerging markets and meeting the needs and challenges those opportunities present through multiple retail websites. Richlund Ventures' flagship website continues to be Compact Appliance.com which was created to provide an online destination for people in search of distinctive home appliances that offer superior style and maximum functionality. In addition to its online marketing and retail division, Richlund Ventures is the direct importer for the EdgeStar line of appliances.
Richlund Ventures' sustained level of success is attributable to a consistent focus on innovation, evolving marketing techniques and a continual emphasis on offering the best service and sales support possible. Since inception, the company has always understood that in order to maintain viability in today's marketplace, it must provide first-class service and sales support and measures success by how well it is able to execute that directive. Richlund Ventures is uniquely positioned through the Compact Appliance.com website to take advantage of emerging growth trends such as retiring baby boomers downsizing their living spaces and the worldwide move towards more environmentally conscious "green" appliances. The company is located in Austin, Texas.
About Demandware, Inc.
Demandware drives the success of high-growth brands with the only enterprise-class On-Demand eCommerce Platform that empowers merchandising and marketing talent with total control over the shopping experience and continuous competitive differentiation. Leading brands such as Bare Escentuals, House of Fraser, Playmobil, Sally Beauty Supply and Timberland leverage Demandware's enterprise class eCommerce functionality and automatic upgrades to help achieve higher conversion rates, increase average order size, and improve customer retention. Demandware is the only on-demand eCommerce solution that enables the rapid rollout of new sites, provides ubiquitous access to business and technical users, and is backed by a patented grid computing architecture that delivers capacity as needed for performance and reliability that exceeds industry standards. For more information about Demandware, visit www.demandware.com, call 888-553-9216 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Spacious Apartment with Terrace
Спальные места6
Ванные комнаты2
Площадь95 м²
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In the apartment there is a living room with sofa bed and tv , a well equipped kitchen , 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms; one with bathtub and the other with a shower.
The apartment has the typical rustic styile of the city with ceiling beams well decorated , old and luxury forniture.
Правила ПроживанияServices not included in the price:
Wi Fi - 5 euro per 24 hours;
Parking - 20 euro per night.
The city tourist tax - 2.5 euro per person, per night(except children under 12 years old).
Please communicate your arrival time.
Check in time: 2 pm;
Check out time: 11 am.
Front desk scedule is:
Monday - Friday from 9 am till 9:30 pm,
Saturday from 9 am till 9 pm
Sunday from 2 pm till 7 pm.
Additional fee for late check in is 40 euro at arrival.
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Very clean, nice, spacious. Friendly service people working there. I would recommend this to anyone.
Great location in wonderful firenze.
My Family and I enjoyed our stay very much.
Thanks a lot.
We hope to come back!
Fantastic apartment! This is truly spacious and beautiful. We had only a one night stay here, but when our group of 7 people entered the apartment we all wished we could stay for one week! High ceilings and beautiful furniture gives this apartment charm. The staff at the front desk was very helpful with contacting our rental car company and making us feel very welcome.
Good location, but the apartment, while clean, was not comfortable - beds were hard and there was not good seating. Furnishings were sparse. Some of the folks who manned the desk were not only not helpful, but rude as well. Would not recommend this apartment
We are a big family (6 persons) with "older" children (age 10 years and up). The flat we stayed in was palatial and really good situated with a big supermarket, bakeries and restaurants nearby. Many people pass by day and night, but there are very good noise-reducing double-windows, so you only see them, you don't hear anything inside the appartment.
Only live music at weekend nights could probably disturb little children.
The appartment was clean and the staff very friendly.
The apartment was clean and nice. Checkin has to be till 21 hrs; a late check-in has to be before 23.30 hrs and normally costs eur 40.- (although it's not written in the brochure). We could achieve agreement on eur 20 instead. We look forward to turning back again!
Great location, spacious and clean apartment. Very friendly and helpful service. Totally recommandable!!
Excellent apartment in extremely convenient location, and with parking: a bonus for Florence. Property was clean and spacious, well equipped and exceeded all expectations. Owners were very quick to respond to emails. Helpful member of staff on check in and plenty of information given. Only downside was the woman who checked us out: tried to charge us more than the quoted price for parking and wanted cash only, claiming they did not take credit cards (despite sitting next to a large Visa sign).
It was a lovely apartment that was fully equipped. It was close to the city centre and all the sightseeing spots.
We had a great view over the church from our window and many nice cafes and restaurants just outside the apartment. Florens is a lovely city so don't hesitate to go there!
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The University of San Diego School of Law is pleased to offer a variety of continuing legal education opportunities each year.
As a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider, the School of Law provides numerous programs throughout the year that qualify for MCLE credit, such as our annual Procopio International Tax Institute and Nathanson Lecture. In addition to these yearly programs, we offer various symposia and lectures discussing issues currently facing the legal community, which provide practitioners with valuable learning tools to enhance their practice. Please visit the MCLE Event Calendar for more information on upcoming opportunities to earn MCLE credit.
In addition, the School of Law offers the option of auditing courses. Auditing a course is an excellent choice for busy attorneys who may be interested in brushing up on a particular legal topic, or who are trying to gain expertise in an area of law new to them, but who do not have time to enroll as a degree-seeking student. The opportunity to audit courses allows individuals to take advantage of the available School of Law curriculum, which includes a wide variety of contemporary and dynamic courses. Please review our Auditor Information for more details.


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Paul Ryan to Glenn Beck and Hot Air: I'm not a conservative progressive
posted at 4:14 pm on April 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via the Right Scoop, the exciting conclusion to Thursday's cliffhanger in which Beck cited CK MacLeod's post at HA as evidence that Ryan might just be sweet on Woodrow Wilson and the gang. Not so, says Ryan, phoning in for the first time; CK just completely missed the point. Which is unfair, I think: CK's point was that conservatives should champion the best ideas of early progressives, like popular referenda and government transparency. Ryan's point in his Oklahoma City speech was that today's progressives have completely betrayed those original good-government impulses — a descriptive observation, not a prescriptive one like CK's, but similar insofar as both see some virtue in some elements of old-school progressivism. The confusion, I think, stemmed from CK straining to apply the "progressive" label to Ryan and Beck mistakenly assuming that that meant Ryan was on board with most/all of the Wilsonian program. Not by a long shot, as you're about to see. In fact, with just this one phone call, it seems like Beck's found himself a new favorite Republican. Watch your back, Sarah!
Exit question: Isn't this basically the blog equivalent of that Marshall McLuhan scene in "Annie Hall"? Ryan taps CK on the shoulder and says, "You know nothing of my work."
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CK did make a reasoned argument.
Allahpundit on April 12, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Um, actually no, it wasn't very 'reasoned' at all. In fact it was more of an emotional rant, and yesterday's article was as well, the one in which CK went totally off the charts in a rant about DocZero's and Mark Steyn's articles in which they offered a different perspective on who pays income taxes and should non-income-tax payers even be permitted to vote.
There is a huge difference between rambling emotional rants and reasoned arguments, and just by comparing CK's rant from yesterday to the well thought out and reasoned arguments by Doc and Mark is a prime example of that very obvious difference.
Plus, I'm afraid that CK also suffers from what many potentially good writers suffer from these days: Diarrhea of the keyboard. Word processing with automatic spell check has made it possible for writers to sail along as they hammer out their thoughts, while forgetting one of the most fundamental rules of good writing: Tight writing. Tight writing is essential in that if a thought can be formulated effectively in 10 words or less, editing that original 20 to 50 word sentence becomes mandatory unless the writer wants to risk readers getting bored or losing interest due to book-length essays.
KendraWilder on April 12, 2010 at 8:30 PM


text: I have a question to the experts. This is my first year and started with two packages installed in early May. One of the hives I checked a week ago, I notice that the brood that had emerged had not been replaced and did not notice any eggs. I also found two uncapped queen cells in the middle of one frame and also one on the very bottom. I decided to give them a week alone and see what happens during the next inspection. I checked on them yesterday and they swarmed on me, I could not see through my veil within 5 mins. Smoke was useless. Had to close up the hive and walk away after checking the first two frames on the bottom broodbox. I am guessing queenless. Any thoughts?


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Near-Olympians stop in La Crosse
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - Some of the best skiers not in Sochi were in La Crosse this weekend for the Dan Nagy Memorial Tournament.
Minneapolis native Michael Ankeny began skiing at age nine. He won a junior race at age 10 and earned a spot on the US Development team. Now, he's a US Championships medalist and World Cup starter. After battling some injuries, however, Ankeny narrowly missed qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
He's not the first skier to hope a trip to Mt. La Crosse helps lead to a trip to the next Olympics.
"This hill is one of the best in the Central Region, for sure," he said. "Whenever I bring my teammates back, they come here and they're like, oh, this is legit, for sure. Nolan Kasper was here two years ago and then [Saturday], in the slalom in the Olympics, he was 13th. So it's cool to see the amount of talent that comes back through this hill."


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Classes at Little Rock-South will be canceled Monday, Nov. 21, until further notice. The access road to Little Rock-South and both the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 30 at the 128 mile marker (Exit 128) have been reopened. However, traffic is very heavy and slow.
When leaving the campus, we ask that everyone - students, faculty and staff - vacate in an orderly fashion and drive safely. Please follow instructions provided by the safety officers, as well as local and state officers.
For Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department road conditions, visit http://www.arkansashighways.com/Road/map.htm.
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Love is Love
Original post made by Ms. Jenson, Rex Manor, on Apr 5, 2013
Love is Love, by Stephanie T.
I wish I had a magic wand, because there are so many things that I want to change in this world. One of the biggest, and most important, is people's perspective on same-sex marriage. Many people do not accept it, and I don't understand why. Partners in same-sex couples breathe, eat, work, and talk. They're just like me and you. If you take away the exteriors what's left? The same skeleton under everyone - no errors, no mistakes, we are all built the same way. The only difference is the gender that they love, and that's not a reason to dislike them, or treat them like they're different. They only want to live their lives without being harassed.
Groups of people pushed down have always had to fight for their rights. Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Just like those people fought for the basic human right to be treated equally, gay and lesbian people need to fight for their own equality. My sister is a lesbian, and I support her. She's not different from anyone else, in fact she might be better. I can always go to my sister for help and support. I love my sister just the way she is, and I wouldn't trade her for anything.
I can't just wave a wand and make people change their beliefs, but I can ask that they stop hating on people for something that doesn't affect them. No one deserves to be treated unfairly. My sister deserves the same rights as everybody else, and should be allowed to marry if she chooses. Maybe, if people stop being mean, and think about being kind before they speak, someday same sex marriage will be legal in California.
Panther Pen -- The Panther Pen is a collaboration between the students, staff, and parents of Crittenden Middle School.The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Crittenden Middle School or Mountain View Whisman School District.
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a resident of Sylvan Park
on Apr 11, 2013 at 11:31 pm
.Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It is a relationship rooted in human nature and thus governed by natural law.
Natural law's most elementary precept is that "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided." By his natural reason, man can perceive what is morally good or bad for him. Thus, he can know the end or purpose of each of his acts and how it is morally wrong to transform the means that help him accomplish an act into the act's purpose.
Any situation which institutionalizes the circumvention of the purpose of the sexual act violates natural law and the objective norm of morality.
Being rooted in human nature, natural law is universal and immutable. It applies to the entire human race, equally. It commands and forbids consistently, everywhere and always.
a resident of another community
on Apr 14, 2013 at 10:55 am
Wo\'O Ideafarm is a registered user.
Stephanie T., thank you for writing your beautiful letter. I am a civic activist in Mountain View who speaks in opposition to the queer viewpoint. What unites us is more important than what divides us. If you CARE, then you and I are on the same side. If you and I both want to see a world of real liberty, real justice, and real economic empowerment for every human being on the planet, and you and I are both willing to lift a finger to make it happen, then we are on the same side.
I would be pleased to discuss this with you or Ms. Jensen here. The most troubling aspect of this issue is that no meaningful civic conversation is taking place. People with opposing views, such as you and me, are not listening to each other, not considering each other's ideas, not respecting each other, and are not willing to learn from each other.
I will now state my opinion briefly. If you want to converse with me, you can either post a clarifying question or any other response. Otherwise, please remember that everyone who cares and who is willing to work for progress is on the same side, especially if we have the same core values (liberty and justice) and only disagree about how best to achieve them.
Opinion: I support the entire "queer agenda" as I understand it, with the sole exception that I oppose the redefinition of the word "marriage". This is because redefining that word would silence important ideas, and I oppose silencing. The queer community should attempt to prevail in debate by presenting a winning argument, not by silencing the opposing view. Redefining "marriage" would silence that view. This whole fight is really an attempt by the queer community to silence the marriage norm, which they, not surprisingly, find to be inconvenient.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Apr 16, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Ms. Jenson is a registered user.
Thank you both very much for your respectful comments. It means a lot that you took the time to respond in such a thoughtful manner. Stephanie and I read the comments together and discussed them. We talked about equality and how we both believe that all people should be treated the same, including the rights that they are given. I look forward to conversing with you both on future Penther Pen postings.
a resident of another community
on Apr 16, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Wo\'O Ideafarm is a registered user.
Ms. Jenson, I assume that you are Stephanie T.'s teacher. Thank you for doing your job. As a libertarian, I also envision a future in which all people are treated the same with respect to government and to the economic part of life, such as employment and business.
The real issue isn't civil rights; it's speech. As long as people have the freedom to speak and to hear what anyone would speak, there will be division regarding sexuality, gender roles, and sexual mores. There will be people who promote "the marriage norm", and there will be people who live contrary to that norm. To the extent that those who promote "the marriage norm" win over the opinion of the general public, those who live contrary to that norm will feel under attack, tolerated, perhaps, but never fully accepted.
IOW, as long as there is the freedom to speak, there will be norms of behavior, and people who live contrary to those norms will suffer whatever penalty society imposes upon those who do not conform.
Life is hard. Everyone suffers. Let us respond with compassion while remaining committed to Truth.
a resident of Castro City
on May 3, 2013 at 5:24 pm
Thank you all for your respectful comments! Ms. Jenson, you are an amazing, compassionate teacher who is teaching her students truth and being free to speak ones mind in a respectful manner!! Thank you, too, Stephanie!! You wrote so openly and obviously love your sister and have been raised well!!! Go Panthers!!!!!
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Don't forget to cast your ballot online. Voting ends May 29th. Stay tuned for the results in the July 21st issue of the Mountain View Voice.