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Date of Stay: February, 2013
Rate reflects monthly stay. Overall I would love to really, really like this park but a few things conspire to prevent that. First the good. The park has a terrific location with beautiful views of Lake Conroe and immediate water access right behind your RV. The pool and hot tub are clean but we did not get a chance to use them. The office staff appear nice enough but not overly so. In fact, if you stay a while you will learn how little they respect their customers. There is a beautiful little "island" (really a peninsula, but they call it an island) at the back of the park with great opportunities for fishing. A fenced dog walk area and child playground are in place and appear to be well maintained. That's the good parts. The bad starts with the pot hole infested entrance that resemble roads you would find in the oil patch. The Wi-Fi works, but is easily overwhelmed and rarely has enough bandwidth to work at all. The restroom are "cleaned" daily but not very well and are very out dated. Spider webs and insects occupy every one other than the one in the office. The cleaning lady is rude. The office lady and cleaning lady went on and on about how rude their tenants are, then began gossiping about various tenants. Again, this was an overheard conversation. Someone should tell them that this behavior is extremely unprofessional. Prepare to have to wash your RV after staying here as the dirt roads will have them dust covered after a few days. which begs the eternal question, "Why, of why don't RV park owners get a clue and PAVE THEIR ROADS??" All in all, I would say we will not likely be back to this park. There are much nicer parks in the area. While a beautiful concept, this under managed park just doesn't live up to it's promise.
Date of Stay: December, 2012
We stayed at this park a few years ago and left a favorable review. Unfortunately there are new managers now and things have gone south in a hurry. I sure wish things would go back to the way they were. The skinny female manager that works the office was consistently rude to my wife and me. She acts like she doesn't have time to mess with anyone and is better than everyone else. The restrooms, while new and nice enough, are dirty. Heck! Everything in this park is dirty now. The site we stayed in is unlevel, and our dog was constantly trying to eat the horse feces that are strewn around the park now that this is more of a horse riding park than an RV park. Other favorable reviews are obviously being made by employees of the park. We would like to love this park, as we used to, but unless the current managerial situation and cleanliness issues are rectified, we will definitely NOT be returning. There are much nicer parks in the area at better prices.
Date of Stay: March, 2012
Great State Park!! Previous reviews whining about mildew in the showers and bags in trees were not evident to us. The showers and restrooms were clean and water was plenty warm for a hot shower with great water pressure. The sites are VERY spacious, and the park is, overall, very well maintained. I'd give this park better reviews if they would construct a fishing pier. As it is, there is nothing for the on-shore angler other than a rock jetty. It's pretty dangerous to climb all over those rocks to get to the water. We'll sure be back to this one though!
Date of Stay: March, 2012
What an amazing park!! This place costs the same or less than other parks in the area, but easily outclasses them all! Office personnel are friendly and helpful...genuinely NICE people! The Wi-Fi is strong and fast, cable is clear and lots of channels. We WILL be back to Coastal Oaks!
Date of Stay: February, 2012
We have camped at this park twice and loved it both times! We stayed in the wooded area the first time and the bay the second time. Both are incredible. There are low branches so be careful. The office personnel are extremely friendly and helpful. If you're staying more than a few days, buy a State Parks pass and skip the per person entrance fees, then you have the pass for a year and it's good at any Texas State Park. The other campers were mostly "winter Texans" so you run into some very rude people during the winter, but all in all, most people were very friendly.
Date of Stay: February, 2012
As many have mentioned, the park is in SERIOUS need of repair. The front office personnel are nice, but not exactly what I would call friendly or accommodating. We have been here almost a week now, and the restrooms/showers have yet to be cleaned at all. It appears they haven't been cleaned in about a year. The roads are pitiful, and the layout is squirrely to say the least. Not on my list of return spots for sure.
Date of Stay: January, 2012
We have stayed at this park twice now. Both times we had trouble leveling our coach as the spaces are like a cat's back. Office personnel are extremely nice and accommodating. The showers, restrooms and pool area are modern and very nicely done. Our last stay we had issues with their leach field making the entire place smell of sewage.


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Recipe for Change campaign targets forced labor on US tomato fields
Over the past 15 years more than 1,000 people have been freed from forced labor in Florida's tomato fields, leading Chief assistant US attorney Douglas Molloy to call the state's tomato industry "ground zero for modern-day slavery."
In response, the faith-based human rights organization International Justice Mission (IJM) launched this summer the Recipe for Change campaign to end forced labor on tomato fields in the US state of Florida.
The campaign calls on consumers to sign a petition asking the CEOs of major supermarket chains including Publix, Ahold and Kroger to endorse the Fair Food Program. Developed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community-based organization of agricultural workers, the Fair Food Program ensures humane working conditions by upholding a zero tolerance policy for slavery, child labor and serious sexual harassment on Florida's tomato farms.
Recipe for Change also asks consumers to petition local supermarkets in their communities.
The petition reads: "As a concerned consumer, I respectfully urge your company to sign a Fair Food agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. In taking this stand against abusive agricultural practices, including modern-day slavery, you will be joining major fast-food companies McDonalds, Burger King, Subway and Yum Brands, as well as foodservice providers Aramark, Sodexo, Compass Group and Bon Appetit Management Company, in addition to supermarket chains Whole Foods and Trader Joe's."
Food bloggers around the world lent their support on July 24th by posting tomato recipes and encouraging their readers to sign the Recipe for Change petition; New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman also contributed a recipe to the cause.
IJM's Justice Campaigns advocate for policies that will lead to the abolition of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The organization's president, Gary Haugen, was named a 2012 Hero on the US State Department's recent Trafficking in Person's report, for his leadership in the fight against human trafficking.

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Kate has always been a fitness enthusiast and a consistent runner since her teens but a piriformis injury after a half marathon left her hobbling. She found herself in this hot yoga studio in search of relief. That started the journey quite a few years and hundreds of classes ago. "My whole life changed," she says. "Not only did I experience all the usual benefits — better breathing, focus, discipline, less stress and more — but my perspective changed. I can find peace in the midst of a tornado now. I'm more aware of energy shifts in myself, my students and nature; which yogis refer to as being present. I'm a better, healthier person." In 2006, Kate began studying Ayurveda, literally translated "the science of life" and the sister science of yoga. Much like traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda is an ancient, holistic approach to health. Ayurveda treats dis-ease by incorporating lifestyle, food choices, and herbs to balance each unique individual. As a consultant, Kate makes these recommendations. As a yoga teacher, she infuses each class with seasonal postures to achieve balance according to Ayurvedic principles; yoga therapy. Kate's mission is to help people of all backgrounds discover their best self believing it's never too late to change or improve the course you're on. Her classes both challenge and heal nudging you to find the guru within.
Jennifer Harrington, 500 HR, 200 RYT, took her first yoga class years ago at Hot Yoga Studio. Little did she know how much yoga would change and heal her life. What began as an excellent workout became so much more. Jennifer received her 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) from Jimmy Barkan in Florida and her 500 RYT through Rolf Gates. Her classes — hot yoga and hot vinyasa — inspire and challenge her students to be the best person they can be both on and off the mat. Her love of yoga extends to teaching courses at Tidewater Community College and she is honored to be an ambassador for Manduka mats and products as well as a guest model for Yoga Bela innerwear. Jennifer is grateful everyday to be able to guide students through their practices and considers teaching yoga a privilege. "For me, the most beautiful thing about my yoga practice is that no matter what is going on in my life, externally or internally, I always feel better when I step on my mat. I always leave my mat a better person. Yoga is the best medicine".
Dee has been practicing yoga for years; long before it became mainstream. While raising two daughters and maintaining a full-time job, yoga kept her grounded and healthy. For as long as she can remember, she's been interested in natural health, staying green, and organics but the necessities of life kept her from pursuing a career or even a deeper exploration of holistic therapies or alternative medicine. Now that her girls are graduated from college and making lives of their own, Dee has recommitted herself to living the life she always envisioned. She has her 500 RYT from Master Adam and continues to train with him believing that there is always something new waiting to be uncovered through practice. In the classroom, she exudes such an abundance of joy for this art that it makes you want whatever she has to share. She brings fun, play and passion to her teaching. Her classes are a slow flow where poses are held long enough to allow a deepening of the posture, the development of strength and balance, an exploration of the body, awareness of the breath, and focus and concentration of the mind. Putting these practices together gives students an opportunity to find that point of peace and stillness in the pose. "The body will gently and slowly unravel if you give it the time and space it needs to open and heal. Just come to the mat and listen. And by finding peace, joy, and freedom in your own body, you will find it in your mind and Spirit and take it with you as you go about living your daily life."
Tiffany first experienced yoga in 2002 while a student at Virginia Wesleyan College. Six years, marriage, and a child later, she rediscovered yoga while attempting to "get in shape' and nurture herself. She fell in love with the practice. That first hot yoga class led to a daily practice and then to teacher training in 2009. As Tiffany describes it, teacher training was a challenging, intense journey that made her dive deep into many areas of her life. She blossomed, discovering the profound connection – that we all have! – of body, mind, and spirit within and with each other. As with all fabulous teachers, she continues to train, take classes, and spend as much time on the mat as possible. Tiffany's classes challenge while instilling peace in and out. In the words of one of her favorite teachers, Rolf Gates, "Our practice is a shelter we build for our spiritual selves. It is the work we do to safeguard and support the possibility of spiritual growth. The winds of life constantly wear away at this shelter, but if we stick to our tools, the shelter will hold."
Kara started the journey into the world of yoga with one mission in mind: "to get bendy again!" She walked into Hot Yoga Studio and never looked back, having found her home away from home. Kara participated in the first 200 hour teacher training program at Hot Yoga Studio and has happily stayed on as an instructor. She has experienced firsthand the benefits that a consistent yoga practice can provide enhancing other forms of physical activity. Having always been athletic, Kara's latest sports interests include running and paddle boarding. She combined her interests in yoga and running into a "Yoga for Runners" class to help runners avoid injuries.
For Kara, yoga is no longer a great workout, but has become a life-changing routine. It enables her to balance her physical and mental well-being with the patience and ease.
Alison first discovered yoga in her sophomore year of college in 2001. She enjoyed taking classes as a way of exercise and relaxation. Alison often thought about becoming a yoga instructor while in college but kept putting it off for various reasons. In 2011, after getting married and tragically losing a close friend in the span of two weeks, Alison turned to yoga as a way of coping with change and healing from loss. She began to study yoga from a philosophical standpoint and decided that she was ready to share this knowledge with others. In 2012, Alison became a 200 hour certified yoga instructor through Yax Yoga Concepts and has enjoyed teaching at various locations since then.


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Working as a Real estate agent in Spain is rewarding because you help people to buy, sell or lease houses according to their needs. Using tools available for freelance professionals is a way for you to save time while working more efficiently. This article show some tips about different freelance tools and resources can ultimately help you to find additional clients or higher-paying projects in the future
Working as a Real estate agent is related to negotiate and bring all the information to clients. Real estate agents offer the best choices and prices according to their clients' needs. Agents receive a percentage of transactions made which are their commissions. It is important that agents have satisfied clients as a result of finding the perfect home or help clients to sell a property with a good price.
Real estate school is an excellent choice for people who like to help people who need to buy, sell or lease houses, buildings and other properties. Real estate school in Spain is a good place to start a successful career. You will participate of class discussion and a quality education. During classes, you will receive lessons from experienced instructors. Also, Real estate schools offer flexible schedules and they worry about your progress. All of this training will help you to pass the state examination. Once you pass the exam, you need to obtain the license to become a Real estate agent.
Real estate agent is a rewarding career which makes passionate professionals. Real estate career could not result as a true work for you because if you like it, you will enjoy helping others. When you help people, you start to socialize with them. A great part of this work is creating relationships in order to recognize all the details and special features that clients require. Also, you will have the opportunity to work in flexible schedules. Start to seize your time and obtain your Real estate agent license.
When Real estate agents sell or buy houses, they need to calculate the value of a house. They need to look at neighborhoods and good locations. Agents need to know laws related with real estate.
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When clients and agent meet, they start to talk about types of houses. Also, they discuss about how much many they can spend. Then, the agent makes them aware of the potential homes and visits each one.
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Related: Amgen Tour of California rolls into Santa Clarita
Photo gallery: Amgen Tour of California Stage 3
VALENCIA - His triumph came a little later than was customary in the Golden State, his arms finally pumping in the air on the Amgen Tour of California's third day.
Peter Sagan, Cannondale's young star, came from behind for his ninth-ever stage victory in the Tour - an eight-day event marketed as "America's Greatest Race." The Slovak didn't clinch until the final yards, zipping through an open hole in a crowded pack.
A 110.3-miles route that began in Palmdale late Tuesday morning ended four hours later in front of the Westfield Valencia Town Center.
More than a dozen cyclists jockeyed for the lead in the final sprint, but it was Sagan who crossed the line first - finishing in four hours, 20 minutes, 31 seconds.
He beat stage runner-up Michael Matthews by about a wheel's width.
"The last three kilometers were a little bit crazy in the group," Sagan said. "It was confusing and everyone, sprinters, wanted to go on the front. ... It was difficult because it was confusion or a mess in the group."
He won't likely threaten for the overall lead because his time trailing and climbing skills still hold him back, but Sagan has another claim to fame.
Only four months past his 23rd birthday, Sagan lengthened his lead as the all-time winningest stage rider in the Tour of California's history.
He took three combined stages in 2010 and 2011 before dominating last year's race, winning the first four stages as well as the last. Sagan now has two more victories than Levi Leipheimer, a three-time general classification winner who has taken seven stages.
J.J. Haedo, who has five stage wins, is the only other rider with more than three career stage wins.
The conditions weren't as brutal as they were Monday, when riders finished on a climb into Palm Springs in 100-plus degree weather. What the Palmdale-Santa Clarita route offered instead were high winds.
"It was windy all day, which made it really hard for the breakaway," said Chad Beyer, who won the "Most Courageous Rider" jersey for leading the break. "It wasn't so much tailwind as much as all headwind on that final descent. It was not easy."
Janier Acevedo, racing for Jamis-Hagens Berman, remained in the yellow jersey as the general classification leader for the second day. He had claimed the lead Monday with a Stage 2 victory, holding off race favorite Tejay van Garderen by 12 seconds.
"I felt very tired today after yesterday," Acevedo said through a translator. "The legs never felt good today. I just tried to stay there, drink and eat, and just conserve on the energy."
As for Sagan, he spoke Tuesday with his eyes still set on the Tour de France, where he won three stages last year. While he said he was happy with a Tour of California victory, he pointed out that the field would be much more difficult a month from now.
Sagan's age also makes him one of the sport's hopes for moving past its doping-stained history.
"Hopefully we have finally hit bottom, got all the skeletons out." said 41-year-old veteran Jens Voigt in Friday's opening news conference in Escondido.


text: '11 NFL Draft: Scouting Maryland 11 Aug The Terps considered going through a head coaching change at the end of the '09 season but chose to give Ralph Friedgen one more year. Friedgen, who brought the program quickly back to prominence, may be hard pressed to get Maryland to a bowl game in 2010. Overall, there is limited upside for the NFL prospects on the Terps roster. Running back Da'Rel Scott is a strong, interior ball carrier who picks up yardage off initial contact. His game lacks quickness, speed and Scott cannot create yardage. It's interesting because Scott's official measurements read 5112/196lbs with 4.4 speed yet he plays with the style of a power back. Davin Meggett is an undersized skill player and like his dad, does a number of things well handling the football. Meggett is a terrific receiver out of the backfield, has a slippery, elusive style and fires through the small openings in the defense. He plays with good balance yet is tackled rather easily by a single opponent. Like his dad, the younger Meggett fits as a situational offensive player and return specialist. Receiver Torrey Smith shows terrific speed and quickness in his game. He has a burst and top end speed which allows him to run away from defenders. He must polish his pass catching skills as Smith is inconsistent coming away with the difficult grab and shows just average focus and concentration. He's a talented athlete who must take the next step on the football field this season. Defensively, linebacker Adrian Moten is our top prospect. A solid athlete, Moten is forceful up the field on the blitz, makes plays in every direction of the field and covers a lot of area. He shows skill in coverage and is occasionally lined up over the slot receiver. His size (6-2/225) is a limiting factor but we feel Moten is a three down defender on the weak side. Sophomore Demetrius Hartsfield is another linebacker to watch. Hartsfield remains disciplined with assignments, shows ability in space and is a good athlete that covers a lot of area on the field. His best football is ahead of him. Alex Wujciak is a tough, slug it out middle linebacker yet a two-down defender who struggles in space. He has the ability to be used as a back-up in the middle/inside and has a special teams mentality. Maryland Pro-Prospects Round Full Name Pos Number Year 4th Adrian Moten OLB 1 5Sr 4-5 Da'Rel Scott RB 23 5Sr 4-5 Demetrius Hartsfield OLB 9 3So 6th Davin Meggett RB 8 3Jr 7th Torrey Smith WR 82 4Jr FA Lamar Young G 70 4Jr FA Cameron Chism CB 22 3Jr FA Alex Wujciak ILB 33 5Sr FA Adrian Cannon WR 7 5Sr FA Derek Drummond DE 44 4Jr FA Antwine Perez S 2 5Sr FA Lansford Watson TE 80 4Jr


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Reading aloud to your child for 15 minutes each day will prepare him or her for learning, school, and the rest of his or her life.
Visit the library to learn about all the ways we can learn with books and technology during Family Reading Night.
On Thursday, November 21st from 6:30-7:30 come to the library to read, listen, make a craft, and have some snacks.
Family Reading Night consists of stations. Those that have registered and complete the stations can collect a book as a prize at the end of the night. So make sure that you and your family are registered for the program!


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Michael Crichton's State of Confusion
At the end of the book, Crichton gives us an author's message. In it, he re-iterates the main points of his thesis, that there are some who go too far to drum up support (and I have some sympathy with this), and that because we don't know everything, we actually know nothing (here, I beg to differ). He also gives us his estimate, ~0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400% in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs. This is not true. The current batch of models have a mean climate sensitivity of about 3 C to doubled CO2 (and range between 2.5 and 4.0 degrees) (Paris meeting of IPCC, July 2004) , i.e an uncertainty of about 30%. As discussed above, the biggest uncertainties about the future are the economics, technology and rate of development going forward. The main cause of the spread in the widely quoted 1.5 to 5.8 C range of temperature projections for 2100 in IPCC is actually the different scenarios used. For lack of better information, if we (incorrectly) assume all the scenarios are equally probable, the error around the mean of 3.6 degrees is about 60%, not 400%. Crichton also suggests that most of his 0.8 C warming will be due to land use changes. That is actually extremely unlikely since land use change globally is a cooling effect (as discussed above). Physically-based simulations are actually better than just guessing.
Finally, in an appendix, Crichton uses a rather curious train of logic to compare global warming to the 19th Century eugenics movement. He argues, that since eugenics was studied in prestigious universities and supported by charitable foundations, and now, so is global warming, they must somehow be related. Presumably, the author doesn't actually believe that foundation-supported academic research ipso facto is evil and mis-guided, but that is an impression that is left.
In summary, I am a little disappointed, not least because while researching this book, Crichton actually visited our lab and discussed some of these issues with me and a few of my colleagues. I guess we didn't do a very good job. Judging from his reading list, the rather dry prose of the IPCC reports did not match up to the some of the racier contrarian texts. Had RealClimate been up and running a few years back, maybe it would've all worked out differently…
Update: Due to popular demand here is an updated version of the figure that was originally made in 1998. Apologies for my lack of photoshop skills.
Update 02/16/05: Chris Mooney also does a good job at checking some of the footnotes in Crichton's book.
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Bozrah - Camp Tadma, used by many New London County scouting troops and one of the oldest Cub Scout camps in the country, may be sold.
If it is closed, Camp Webster in Ashford would be the closest in-state camp for scouts in the Mohegan district, which contains most of New London County. Camp Tadma Director Ken Warner said that, for some troops, it may be easier to cross the border and use Rhode Island campsites than to travel to Camp Webster.
The Connecticut Rivers Council, a state-level council for Boy Scouts of America, is considering closing and selling the camp because of decreased attendance. The council's website explains that it has limited resources and may use the money from the sale of Camp Tadma to support Cub Scout camping elsewhere.
Attendance at the three other Cub Scout camps under the council's jurisdiction has increased, according to the council's website.
The council is holding an executive board session Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Stanley Black & Decker Learning Center in New Britain to consider the future of Camp Tadma. Board members will listen to a presentation in favor of closure and one in favor of keeping the camp open.
The council will allow 30 minutes for adult scouting leaders to comment on the issue and will read additional comments sent to email@example.com. A final decision will be made at the regular meeting of the executive board on Sept. 24.
Warner called the camp a "national treasure" and said closing it would be a mistake.
Warner, who was hired in February, said he turned the camp around in 2013 after a "disastrous" 2012 season and believes he can make it profitable if given two or three more years.
The Connecticut Rivers Council controls off-season spending for the camps, said Warner, and consistently loses money on the off-season camp rentals. That makes it difficult for camp directors to break even, he said.
"Program-wise, (this was) probably the best year in 10 years," said Warner, who said he has been working on marketing and promotion initiatives with his staff. He said reviews of the camp from scouts and scout leaders went from 98 percent negative in 2012 to 98 percent positive in 2013.
Camp Tadma was also considered for closure in 2009, at which point the Connecticut Rivers Council leadership said they had spent almost $1 million on the site over the past five years. They said they would close the camp if attendance didn't increase in 2010.
That attempt to close the camp was unsuccessful because of the community response, said Corey Holmes, a cubmaster in Middletown and former staff member at Tadma.
Warner believes that the council is having financial issues and wants to "fill the balance sheet very, very quickly." He said donations to Boy Scouts of America are down after the publicity surround the organization's decision to admit gay Scouts but continue to ban gay troop leaders, and thinks the Connecticut Rivers is rushing to sell Camp Tadma before further improvements are made, making it more difficult to argue in favor of closure.
Part of the reason he argues so vehemently for keeping Camp Tadma open, explained Warner, is that Cub Scouts is the time boys learn to enjoy camping.
"If the kids do not have a place to come to camp as Tigers, Wolves, Bears and Webelos, the chances are good that they will not cross over to Boy Scouts," said Warner.
The Connecticut Rivers Council's website calls the decision that will be made next week "emotional and difficult" and says the decision must be made with interests of future Cub Scout campers in mind.
Council leadership could not be reached for comment.
The camp has been in operation since 1978 and has been nominated for inclusion in the National Historic Register, said Holmes, who camped at the Bozrah site when he was a Cub Scout in the 1980s. The register's board won't meet to consider the nomination, however, until after Camp Tadma's fate is determined.
Camp Tadma is only one of five original Cub Scouts camps, said Warner, and "once it's sold, it's gone."
Parts of Bozrah Cub Scout camp to be sold; others to remain open
After doctors saved his father, Groton senior plans to study medicine
At Conn College, Green Dot program changing culture around sexual violence
Jay Leno loves vintage cars, and now he's selling products to make them shine
Connecticut Audubon's Chaney preserve looking to attract shrubland species
R.J. Evans goes to Louisville and Roger Bidwell goes to the Hall of Fame
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Yesterday we did a city guided tour with an English speaking guide which was very interesting - saw where the city was founded, old mint, main square etc. Most interesting things about here are:
- Is the border between Europe and Asia (see photo of where we went today)
- Is where Boris Yeltsin came from and started his political career
- Is where the Romanovs (Russian monarchy/tsars) were in exile and later killed during the revolution in 1918. Most things here have some Romanovian significance which is actually quite fascinating (for me anyway!) Went yesterday to a new cathedral which was built on the site they were living in when in exile and they were later all killed (11 of them including 4 servants) in the cellar
It was also really good to be able to pick someones brains about Russian life now compared to the Soviet days e.g. average pension, wage....
Went shopping in the centre which again was not what I was expecting. There is a Mango here (women's clothes shop) which really shocked me - not what I thought would be in Siberia! However, we then went into a couple of department stores which were literally like Grace Brothers in 'Are you Being Served?'
Last night we continued with our hardcore image and went to the ballet again. Dave is still in shock - he had never been before in his life and has now been twice in a week. I suspect it wont happen again for another 30 years. We went to see Romeo and Juliet which was a lot more expensive 400 R (4 quid each) it was excellent.
We are now looking forward to getting the train at 3am tomorrow morning for the next 2.5 days to Irkutsk. Don't expect any updates for a while (although there was a tv and video on our last train so who knows??


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filed by the Attorney General or St. Charles County prosecuting
attorney. The trial court granted the motion to dismiss. Lake Saint
Louis appealed, arguing that only individuals must rely on the quo
warranto action in disputes against cities, school districts or other
public corporations, but municipalities have the right to seek
declaratory judgment on a dispute of property against another city or
public corporation. The Court agreed and stated that "while individuals
are not authorized to bring a declaratory judgment action to determine a
boundary dispute as to a municipality, this limitation does not apply
to a suit brought by the affected municipality, school district or
other public corporation itself."Held: Reversed. Trial court judgment is reversed and the case is remanded.
Scope of entry based on implied consent to trespass is limited; erection of a fence held to exceed scope of implied consent. Grossman, et ux. v. St. John, et ux., No. 71882 (Mo. App. W.D., November 2, 2010), Ellis, J.
Jerald and Jilana Grossman (the "Grossmans") were the owners of
residential property that backed to Steve and Vicki St. John (the "St.
Johns"). The Grossmans had a fence on their property. There was
approximately 9 feet of land between the Grossmans' fence and the
property line between the Grossmans and the St. Johns. Beginning in
2004, the St. Johns began to treat the 9 foot strip of land as their own
without permission or objection from the Grossmans. The St. Johns
eventually erected a fence on the 9 foot strip owned by the Grossmans.
The Grossmans sued for trespass. The trial court entered judgment for
the St. Johns and the Grossmans appealed. The St. Johns argued that
they had the implied consent to enter the 9 foot strip since the
Grossmans knew of their entry and never requested them to not enter.
The court agreed, but then stated that implied consent also contains
within it a scope of entry and the erection of a fence exceeds the
scope of the implied consent.Held: Reversed and remanded.
The Missouri Bar Courts Bulletin, 11-Apr
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Lesson 1: Identifying the Theme of a Fable
Lesson Plan
Aesop's Fables | 760L
- Learning Goal
- Use the plot and main idea of a fable to identify the theme.
- Duration
- Approximately 50 minutes
- Necessary Materials
- Provided: Direct Teaching for Lesson 1: Theme Graphic Organizer A, Guided Practice for Lesson 1: Theme Graphic Organizer B, Guided Practice for Lesson 1: Theme Graphic Organizer B Answer Key, Independent Practice Worksheet
Not Provided: Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney, chart paper, markers
Teacher Modeling
will explain that the "theme" is the underlying meaning or lesson of a story that the author is trying to convey to the reader. I will also explain that good readers think about the events that happen in the story (plot) and what the story is mostly about (main idea) to figure out the lesson we can learn (theme). I will read "The Boasting Traveler" (p. 76) from Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney aloud. I will use a graphic organizer to chart the the events from the story and think aloud about what the story is mostly about to identify the theme of the story. (Direct Teaching Teacher Example Graphic Organizer is provided below in Teacher and Student Materials.) I will explain that I think the author is trying to tell me that actions speak louder than words.
Think Check
Ask: How did I identify the theme of the story? Students should respond that you read the story and identified the events in the story and thought about what the story was mostly about. Then you used this information to figure out the lesson or theme of the story.
Guided Practice
will read "The Travelers and the Gold Coins" (p. 75) from Aesop's Fables. We chart what happened in the story and what the story is mostly about on our graphic organizer, in order to identify the theme of the story. We will conclude that one theme is, "If you don't share your good luck, don't expect to share your bad luck. (Guided Practice Student Worksheet and Teacher Answer Key are provided below.)
Independent Practice
will read "The Fox and the Crow" (p. 68) from Aesop's Fables. You will use a graphic organizer to chart the the events from the story and think aloud about what the story is mostly about, in order to identify the theme of the story. (Student Independent Practice is provided below.) Note: You will need to provide your students with a copy of the story for Independent Practice.
TIP: Students may word the themes differently. As long as the theme is supported by the plot and the main idea, it is correct. Provide struggling students with two or three options for the theme so that they can choose the best theme based on the plot and main idea.
Build Student Vocabulary boasting
|Tier 2 Word: boasting
|Contextualize the word as it is used in the story
|"He stood in the marketplace, boasting of his adventure: he had climbed the highest mountains, sailed the deepest seas, and visited the most magnificent cities."
|Explain the meaning student-friendly definition)
|To boast is to show off the things you own or have done. The traveler was boasting about the things he did, the places he visited, and about the long jump he made.
|Students repeat the word
|Say the word with me: boasting.
|Teacher gives examples of the word in other contexts
|I didn't like it when my friend was boasting about how much money he has. When I told my cousin that I bought a new dress, she boasted that she had seven new dresses.
|Students provide examples
|Tell me about a time you heard someone boast. What were they boasting about? Say "I heard someone boast about _____________."
|Students repeat the word again.
|What word are we talking about? boasting
|Additional Vocabulary Words
|spectacular, magnificent
Build Student Background Knowledge
After reading the fable "The Travelers and the Gold Coins", explain that people have been using gold to make jewelry for thousands of years (since the Stone Age). One early source of gold was found in Ethiopia, in East Africa. There were many gold mines in Ethiopia, and many African countries traded their salts and goods for gold.
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Wells Funeral Homes and Cremation Services will be expanding its business by constructing an events and reception center in downtown Waynesville.
Owner J. Wells Greeley made the announcement to the community Wednesday that the former Mountaineer Publishing pressroom would be renovated into the events center. Greeley purchased the building from The Mountaineer in 2012. It is located adjacent to the funeral home and behind The Mountaineer office.
With the evolving nature of funeral homes, Greeley said it was important for his family business to be able to meet the needs of each and every family that uses their services. He said many families are looking for more personalized funerals, memorials and other gatherings.
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Greeley said the center would be made available to Wells Greeley clients as well as the public for family reunions, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions. While it may seem odd to have a wedding in a funeral home, Greeley said the building would have its own entrance separate from the funeral home and would look more like a hotel reception hall that a funeral parlor.
Demolition on the interior of the building began Monday. Randy Cunningham is the architect for the project, while Clark & Leatherwood is the contractor. Greeley said the center would also have garage space for the funeral home and his wife Kathy Greeley, an interior designer, would have office space in the building.
Buffy Phillips, executive director of the Downtown Waynesville association, said she appreciated Greeley revamping the building in downtown Waynesville.
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This new construction will coincide with the 125th anniversary of the founding of Wells Greeley Funeral Home. It is one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Haywood County. Now with Greeley's daughter Jennifer Greeley Jacobson and son-in-law Ryan Jacobson working in the family business — the business has been in the family for five generations.


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E-Book Boom Changes Book Selling And Publishing
Lynn Neary, NPR correspondent covering books and publishing
Peter Osnos, founder, Public Affairs Books
Paul Chan, publisher, Badlands Unlimited
The popularity of e-books and e-readers has soared since the release of the Amazon Kindle three years ago. Now the digital devices continue to drive readers to electronic books. It's changing how books are read, sold and published.
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington.
A year ago, at the end of a panel on the future of reading at Duke University, our own Lynn Neary stood up to say that printed books will always be around because parents will introduce their children to reading with richly illustrated, physical books. In a moment, she'll explain why she wouldn't say the same thing today. We'll also talk with Peter Osnos, founder of Public Affairs Books, about how e-books have changed publishing.
How have e-books changed what you read? Our phone number, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program, a participant at last week's Tribal Nations Conference on what the Obama administration says on Native-American issues, and what it actually does.
But first, Lynn Neary covers books and publishing for NPR. Her series on the future of books and bookstores ran last week on MORNING EDITION - and joins us now here in Studio 3A. Lynn, thanks very much for coming in.
LYNN NEARY: It's great to be here.
CONAN: So what's changed? Why wouldn't you say that same thing today?
NEARY: Well, so it's funny that you bring that up because - well, what's changed is that in a year, we are now seeing that with the advent of the iPad and other kind of tablet devices, you can have what they call now enhanced e-books. And that is, you can have e-books that can embed pictures, can embed video.
Barnes & Noble, which has the NOOK e-reader, has come out with the NOOKColor, which also you are able to do that with. And so you can have children's books with pictures. And people are beginning, in fact, to introduce their children to books via digital devices.
CONAN: So in the world of retronyms, we now talk about physical books or traditional objects. Now, you have to talk about traditional e-books?
NEARY: That's right. As I was reporting that series that you were talking about, I was talking with a woman about cookbooks, and I was asking her, you know, what's available out there in cookbooks?
And she said: Well, you can start with the traditional e-book. And I thought: We've come to that? Within less than three years, it's the traditional e-book, which means an e-book that just pretty much takes the print and transposes it to a digital device, and so you just are reading the print.
Now we have, in addition to the traditional e-book, as I said, we have the enhanced e-books and, of course, apps for books as well.
CONAN: And later, we're going to be talking about a realm in which people thought printed books would always rule supreme, and that is the art book. Maybe not. Hang on for that.
But joining us now is Peter Osnos, the founder of Public Affairs Books, former vice president of Random House, with us from the studios at our bureau in New York City. Peter, nice to have you on the program with us today.
Mr. PETER OSNOS (Founder, Public Affairs Books): Hello again, Neal.
CONAN: And you tell a story in a piece that you wrote for The Atlantic about on a rainy Sunday afternoon, you decided to read Antonia Fraser's "Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter," and that, a few years ago, you would have either had to go down to the bookstore to see if it was still there or, you know, order a copy on Amazon and wait a week.
Mr. OSNOS: I think the psychology of how we access books has changed profoundly in the last -particularly in the last two years, but especially in the last year.
The notion that you can have the book instantly in front of you in a device and read it, is a really big change. I think that one of the things about books has always been that for a lot of people, there was an obstacle to be overcome. You had to go to the store. You had to ask for the book. And if the book wasn't there, you had to wait for the book.
No longer is that the case. You think you want to read it. If you have a device, you can be reading it within a minute. And that's what I did, in this particular case. I must say, I spent a very pleasant afternoon and evening reading a book that, had I had to go out on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I might not have done it - and moved on to something else.
CONAN: Did you feel like a traitor to your cause? You've been a publisher...
Mr. OSNOS: Oh, no, no, no, absolutely. I'm a big fan, as a publisher, a big fan of the e-book. I think the e-books are in the process of transforming the way we do what we do.
I think the thing to remember, and I'm sitting here talking to you on the radio, let's face it: If, you know, 35, 40 years ago, I told you that radio was going to be one of the country's most popular, most influential sources of information, you'd have said I was nuts.
CONAN: No I wouldn't, but I'm in radio.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. OSNOS: But then, Neal, you and I were in radio 35 years ago.
CONAN: That's right.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. OSNOS: But the point is - that what's happened is that we now know that you can get a book; read it when, where and how you want. And I use a phrase, which is: Good books any way you want them, now. That's the essence of it.
The essence is that the reader gets to choose the means by which they will access the book. That doesn't mean there won't be printed books. Printed books will, I think, be around forever because they're wonderful to have. They become part of your life.
But I've noticed, for example, my wife, who is an inveterate reader - and we have, as you can imagine - as a publisher and readers - we have a house full books. Four out of five, five out of six - these are books she wants to read but not necessarily own.
And the Kindle allows her to do that. I don't use the Kindle because she uses the Kindle. I have the iPad. Both of us have made a choice that on certain kinds of books, we will download it. It sure makes it easier to travel.
Now, you say: Well, is this a serious problem for the bookseller? It was. But it's beginning to change because the booksellers are beginning to join, basically, the parade. They understand the need to serve the customer in all the ways the customer wants to be served.
If somebody comes in and asks for a book, the last thing they want to be told is: You can't have it. So what I think is developing is a sense that every transaction that takes place in a bookstore or online can be closed - that if you think you want to read a book, the odds are, overwhelmingly, you'll be able to do it, sometimes, usually in under a minute.
CONAN: And Lynn, in your series, yes, they may be a threat to booksellers but to different booksellers. It's now the behemoths of the industry, the Barnes & Nobles and Borders, who seem to be in trouble, not the independent booksellers, who - those who survived the decimation of the past decade.
NEARY: Right. I mean, there are still independent bookstores that are in trouble as well. But one of the points that some of the independent booksellers that I spoke with made, was that there is a role for the small bookstore now because there's a kind of buy-local kind of movement that began with food stores, but it's moving to all kinds of stores, including bookstores - a real emphasis on support the stores in your community, support the local bookstore.
And those small stores do a lot of curating. They understand their customers. They know what they want to do. They know what they want more than the big stores. So they feel they can sell that point, as well as now with Google Books, they can also get into selling e-books from their websites, via this new Google Books. So they've got the two things now.
What I thought was interesting - I did speak to Len Riggio, the chair of Barnes & Noble. And he said that what they want to do is to get into selling devices more and more - and not just their own NOOK devices, but other digital readers and other devices as well, and that that - the sale of those kinds of things - will support the sale of books.
CONAN: And we should again note: Physical books still make up 91 percent of the market - though the numbers for e-books, Peter Osnos, are staggering.
Mr. OSNOS: Well, they've doubled or tripled. They were - I think it's up to about 10 percent. I recently moderated a panel with the heads of some of the largest publishers, and they were predicting 20 percent in the next year or two.
The truth of the matter is, it's an exploding market. And the reason is that people are finding that it is so convenient. And the range of devices has increased.
One thing about Barnes & Noble: Barnes & Noble - actually, I think probably uniquely, certainly among the big book chains - they are both a brick-and-mortar store; they have an active B&N dot-com; they have a device, called the NOOK, in various versions. So they are beginning to encompass all the ways in which the consumer might want to read a book. And that's an impressive thing.
I mean, there was a reason why Publishers Weekly chose Len Riggio as its person of the year. It wasn't just that they thought he was a swell fellow - it's that he has, I think, more than any other of the big moguls in the book world, he has figured out how to integrate all the different ways in which people now choose to read, and provide them through his many stores, his online bookseller and his devices.
CONAN: Let's get some callers in on the conversation. We're talking about e-books. How have they changed the way you read; 800-989-8255. Email email@example.com. Kathy's(ph) on the line, calling us from Binghamton in New York.
KATHY (Caller): Hi, good afternoon.
CONAN: Hi.
KATHY: So far, they haven't changed the way I read, but that doesn't mean anything. Last night, I was reading a 1966 classic children's book to my daughter, who just turned 13, called "Mouskin's Christmas Eve," and it was a book I picked up at a, you know, a junk store some years ago. And we look at it every year.
And she was turning the pages in a way that, you know, by the light of the Christmas tree and the little light on the mouse, it was just - there was no way you could replicate that with an e-book - which, you know, doesn't mean that the e-books aren't going to revolutionize things. But it's nice to just remember that books have done for humanity something important in the physical form.
CONAN: I don't think anybody denies that. But Peter, as I understand it, the iPad, the turning-the-page thing is quite similar.
Mr. OSNOS: It is very similar. There - the quality of the reading experience on the iPad is very high. It's quite different - I mean, think of it. The Kindle is a - really, very essentially - static device, but it works. You read it. You can carry it with you. It's small enough and comfortable enough so that you can put it, you know, in your briefcase, in your pocket. The iPad is a larger device.
But I would say to the caller that I have grandchildren, and let me tell you, I am so pleased to be able to read them the same "Ferdinand" that I read to my kids, and that hasn't changed.
I mean, the experience of reading certain kinds of books to your children, to have them nestle in your lap - or your grandchildren - that's a wonderful thing that can't be changed.
But, you know, we've been through technology as it - you know, to many kids today, the screen, whether it's the television or the computer or the iPad, is a - it's a device, it's a spectrum. And they don't make distinctions in any of those things. What they do know is the difference between sitting in the lap of grandpa and having him read you "Ferdinand."
NEARY: You know, let me just point out, too, going back to the idea that you said earlier, who would have predicted that radio would survive television. I was reading an article in the New York Review of Books by Robert Darnton of the Harvard Library, and he said: Remember that manuscript publishing continued to thrive for three centuries after Gutenberg, and that's because it was often cheaper to produce a small edition by hiring scribes than by printing it. So...
CONAN: Well, the scribes union put an end to that.
(Soundbite of laughter)
CONAN: Thanks very much for the call, Kathy, and it sounds like you're already having a wonderful holiday.
KATHY: Thank you. You, too.
CONAN: We're talking about the future of e-books, and how they're changing the reading experience, with Peter Osnos, founder of Public Affairs Books; and Lynn Neary, NPR correspondent who covers books and publishing; 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
This year, many of you may find an e-book in your stocking: Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's NOOK, or an iPad - or an iPhone with an app to download and read what used to be paper and print.
These e-books are changing not only how we read but also what's available to us. Our guests are NPR correspondent Lynn Neary, who covers books and publishing. Her series on the future of books ran last week on MORNING EDITION. Also with us, Peter Osnos, who founded Public Affairs Books, and previously served as vice president at Random House.
How have e-books changed what you read; 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Email from Lisa(ph) in Kansas: I love my Kindle. I would not part with it. But I also would not part with my ink-and-paper books. The book-buying change that my Kindle has made in my life is for the secondhand bookstore. I don't buy or sell books there anymore. Those are the kind of books I buy for my Kindle.
And Lynn, there's any number of people I talked to who said: You know, those page-turners I used to buy at the airport and read in the waiting room on the way to get onto the plane? I download those now, and they don't clutter up my library.
NEARY: That's right because a lot of people would buy those books - as you said - as you were traveling, read them, and throw them away. And - I don't know, Peter might be able to get in on this, but this is a big problem for the publishing industry, this whole idea of what do you do with books that don't sell, and the fact that they have these return policies where if the stores can't sell them, they send them back to the publisher. And then the books basically get destroyed.
And this has been a problem that's been sort of haunting the publishing business for a while, and I think Peter probably knows more about it than I do. But this will help deal with that problem, would it not, Peter?
Mr. OSNOS: Oh, absolutely. Remember, you know, unlike so much else in the media, you know, we never had advertising. So that wasn't a problem. We didn't have subscribers or members. That was not a problem.
Our biggest problem is managing inventory, putting the books in the places where people want them, in the numbers that are likely to sell. Really, the important innovation that the e-book provides is an ability to make the books available on demand.
And I think that, in a sense, is the most positive aspect from the point of view of the publisher - that for the first time, we're not going to have, if this process continues and people really do integrate e-books into their lives in the ways that we think they will - we won't be printing books. Print 10, sell six; you know, as Lynn says, get rid of four.
That's a huge plus. It's a huge plus for the publisher. It's a huge plus, I think ultimately, for the author. And I think, you know, readers like to choose what they want, and whether they keep it or leave it behind is a choice they make.
Remember, this is all about choice. This is all about the capacity of the consumer to decide where, when and how they're going to read a book. And that is, in fact, an enormous plus, I think, long term for the reading public and for publishers - and eventually for booksellers as well.
CONAN: Let's get John(ph) on the line, John with us from Portland.
JOHN (Caller): Hi. Yeah, I'm an author-educator. My area is in the expertise of edible wild plants. And I've written a book that is laid out in a certain way so that when you look at the spread - which is, for those that don't know, it's the two pages that you look at when you open a book - when you look at the spread, the pictures are set in different parts of the spread, and there are captions under those pictures. And then I've got sidebars that explain details that don't belong in the text.
Well, when my book became an e-book, too, they got rid of all of that. Everything is put into one column, and so everything is out of context. All of the captions and the sidebars are part of the text, and there's nowhere that it shows that it's a caption or a sidebar. It just sort of - you get this irrelevant text within the content.
So everything's in a column. So for a book like mine, if somebody buys that book, they're getting a totally different experience, and they may not know it.
CONAN: Well, Lynn, it seems to me this is a problem of old technology that may soon be overtaken.
NEARY: Well, I was just wondering what kind of e-book it is because it seems to me if it's one of these new, enhanced e-books - and I don't know what the criteria is for deciding to publish a book as an enhanced e-book - but enhanced e-books can do quite amazing things, actually, with visuals.
I did a story on textbooks. And enhanced textbooks can give you 3-D visuals, for instance, of a cell, that kind of thing. It can give you really - it can embed a video. It can embed a video of a lecture, for instance, in a textbook.
So it would seem yes, that possibly your book in a more advanced e-book could - would look good.
JOHN: Well, and the problem is that I think - well, mine was put into the Kindle format, for sure.
NEARY: Which probably didn't work so well for what you're...
JOHN: Yeah because, you know, again, it's all in one column. Now - and also the size of the device makes a difference because I think this e-whatever-system that they have, they want that to work in every single device - from a tiny phone all the way to an iPad.
And so if they're going to do that, it has to be the same format. But this enhanced thing you're talking about, I don't know about this and, you know, I'd like to contact my publisher about it.
CONAN: An angry note, perhaps.
JOHN: Well, yeah.
Mr. OSNOS: Or an angry email.
JOHN: You know, I mean, I'm sure they have to do certain things just to be in the market.
NEARY: I was going to say: Don't get too angry because it's moving so fast, really the enhanced e-books started coming in with the iPad. Now there are some other enhanced e-book readers available. But that was last April. Just think about that, OK?
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JOHN: Yeah, yeah, things are moving very rapidly.
Mr. OSNOS: I would say that...
JOHN: But it really did take everything out of context now.
CONAN: We understand that, John.
Mr. OSNOS: I would say that part of what's striking to me is the speed with which things are happening. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, the Kindle was released sometime in late 2007. I mean, it's really very new.
If you go back and, you know, think about the first time you had a Walkman, I mean, I remember that experience. To me, I was listening to music unlike music I'd ever heard before.
Well, a Walkman of 1982 or '84 really seems like an old Model-T. The machinery that we're looking at today is the first, maybe the second generation. It'll be a matter of a year or two.
We are in a universe dominated by engineers and salesmen. And the engineers are brilliant. And the salesmen and marketers, the Jobses and Bezoses - Steve Jobs of Apple and Jeff Bezos of Amazon - have done really, quite a remarkable job of making us feel like we need to have the latest devices.
And it has moved, I have to say, at a much, much more - quicker speed than anybody could have possibly predicted. I think, as I said before, the e-book sales a couple years ago were like, .3 percent. Then it was 3 to 5 percent. Now it's 8 to 10 percent. Next year, it's 20 percent.
There are days - I saw a Random House statistic yesterday that said that a number of their best-sellers sold more e-books in the first week than they sold printed books. This is particularly true of certain kinds of thrillers. People want them instantly. They want them - you know, they want to hold them and get them done in the next day or two - and so that we're really seeing - there's no question we're seeing a fundamental shift.
And again, it's in the psychology of the consumer, which is that if I have the instinct to read a book, I can get it immediately - or as fast as I want it. And that is a profound change from the days in which you thought getting a book was something - there was obstacles to be overcome: going to the store, buying - for it, waiting for it, all those things. That's changing, and that is a profound transformation in the way the book world functions.
CONAN: Lynn was mentioning enhanced e-books. Well, Paul Chan is the publisher of Badlands Unlimited, a press that specializes in art books, both in paper and e-book form. And he joins us on the line from New York. Nice to have you with us today.
Mr. PAUL CHAN (Publisher, Badlands Unlimited): Thanks. Thanks for having me.
CONAN: And you would think the art book would be one realm that would be - well, left to paper.
Mr. CHAN: Yeah, you would think that. And it will always be left to paper and physical forms. But I think what your other guest echoed, which I agree with, is that the real excitement about e-books is that you can really expand your audience.
And as a small publisher and an artist myself, I think one of the things I saw, was difficult, was that you would make - let's say, 500 or 1,000 beautiful catalogs, and there only existed 500 or 1,000 of them because we didn't have money to publish any more.
Well, with the advent of publishing e-books, we can not only make a paper version of it but - as well as an e-book version of it. So it drastically expands the potential of people experiencing your artwork in a book form, whether it's paper book or an e-book.
CONAN: Can you explain a little bit about your business model? How, exactly, do you make money? It's hard enough when you're just selling 500 or a thousand...
Mr. CHAN: Oh, it's a good question. I think we started, basically, in June. We launched in November. And I think our model is to waste as much time and lose as much money as possible.
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CONAN: Oh, that's traditional in publishing, yes.
Mr. CHAN: Yeah, I think so. And I think it's been a real pleasure because in losing as much money as we have and wasting as much time, we've really explored the possibilities of what an e-book can do.
I think for us, we're not as invested in the term enhanced e-books. What we're interested in is publishing what we call books in an expanded field. And what that means is that not only does it expand the field of readership - like your other guests have talked about, how you can instantly download an e-book onto your Kindle or onto your iPad - but it also - this e-book format expands the potential of us as designers and artists, in terms of composing books that are interactive, that are connected to video and audio content, and to provide a different kind of reading experience.
I think reading is a very specific kind of experience. And the pleasure of reading, I think, for me, it may - perhaps for other people - is the kind of unique focus it gives you.
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
Mr. CHAN: And so we don't want to get rid of that, in fact, but we just want to change that just a bit so that in - so that through video, through composition, through audio, through images, you can have that same focused experience, but with an e-book format.
CONAN: Well, given that - all those expanded things you could do with an e-book that maybe you can't do with the printed book, do you see a future for books?
Mr. CHAN: Oh, yeah. I think I agree with the other guest that books will never go away. I mean, books have been with us since - well, I mean, since I've been alive. And so I think we'll always learn from and cherish books.
And in fact, in my press, we have to make paper books, because as an art book publisher, people really want the physical object of books. We still learn - in a strange way, we learn by touching things as well. And by touching and reading a book through touch, you get something out of it. You get something else out of it.
But with the advent of e-books, here's another chance of reaching new audiences, and here's another chance of creating another kind of reading experience that may not be the same as paper books - different but hopefully, complementary.
CONAN: Complementary in which way?
Mr. CHAN: Well, you know, we're about to find out, I guess. We just started the press, we just launched in November. We're getting some feedback about our first offerings on iPad and the Amazon Kindle.
One of our books, for instance, has video content embedded in it, while the paper version, the soft-cover version, doesn't have video but only has stills from the video. And so we're trying to get a sense of how they'll work with and against each other. And we've also noticed that people who buy the paper version also will buy the e-book version to see how the e-book version looks, and how it functions differently from the soft-cover version. So I think in many ways, this is a new avenue that we're looking into. I mean, I'm not a publisher, I'm an artist who wanted to explore the potentials of e-books as a art form, and as a publishing venture - to sort of expand the readership of art and art history and art criticism. And so I'm learning about it as much as anyone else.
Mr. OSNOS: You know, Neal, I think what's going to happen is that probably there'll be what we call bundling. You may buy the book as a printed book, and in it will be a URL that will enable you to access the book online and some of the enhanced material that's available - that can be accessed either on the Web or through the iPad or an app.
In other words, there are ways in which the expansion of the experience -which includes print; which kind of include video; which, in some cases, can include audio - this is all now very much on the horizon. You know, this is not some science fiction fantasy that we're going to see in five or 10 years. The truth of the matter is, it's all going to happen in the next couple of three years.
CONAN: Paul Chan, good luck with your project.
Mr. CHAN: Thank you very much.
CONAN: Paul Chan, an artist, the founder of the publishing company Badlands Unlimited. His artwork can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. And he joined us by phone from New York. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And I wanted to go to some of the emails that we've gotten. And this from Steve: E-books have changed me both as a reader and as an author. As a reader, I now can carry a classic library and best-sellers along with me on my Kindle. As an author, I'm making sure my stories and books are available in e-format, largely by converting and posting them myself for Kindle and other formats.
This from Carol: I'm both an author - five books - and a Kindle enthusiast. I love my Kindle because I can carry research, trash, academic articles and other stuff in one place at one time, any time. I buy far more books than I was buying before.
This from Lynn in Grand Rapids, Michigan: Do you foresee a time when I can get an e-book from my local library? What will the move to electronic books do to our libraries?
And Lynn, we've had a lot of inquires about those who, well, can't afford a Kindle or a Nook or an iPad.
NEARY: Well, that's an interesting question, and to be honest, I don't know the answer - that libraries would start lending them out. I think you can download books from libraries but - not on a Kindle, but on some of the other devices, you can. But as far as lending out an e-reader, that I don't know about.
Mr. OSNOS: Well, I can answer the question as far as my local library in Connecticut. You can easily access e-books. Now, you won't get them for the Kindle because that's a proprietary system. But now that there's a...
CONAN: That's if you have your own reader, though.
NEARY: Yeah, he...
Mr. OSNOS: Yeah, you can read it as a PDF on a reader, or you can put it - actually convert it into - and use it on your iPad or on your Sony Reader. There are - the range of choices is expanding enormously.
CONAN: Joining us now is Abigail, Abigail calling from Wilmington, North Carolina.
ABIGAIL (Caller): Hello. I had a comment that I kind of wanted to bring to the table. I'm a blind individual, and I am a big reader. And I love the progress that the iPad and the Kindle and the Nook have made for technology. But currently, the Nook and the Kindle, as I am aware of at the moment, is they are not accessible for blind individuals.
But the - I'm a more recent Apple user before I was solely a computer person. But one thing I love about Apple products is that they're accessible for blind individuals out of the box. They have a program called VoiceOver, which is a screen reader. With most computer or PC-based programs you have to buy up to $200 worth of software to navigate electronic text. So Apple is kind of being an innovator in this.
But I'm excited to see things like the Kindle and the Nook and the iPad, and all the software that's involved, because they are furthering the way for electronic text and getting them easily. E-books can sometimes be a pain for blind individuals because a lot of e-books have images and these videos and things that are embedded, which are great for visual audiences, but for someone who is using a screen reader, that program is navigating text ...
CONAN: Abigail, thanks very much for the point. It's an interesting one. Our thanks to Lynn Neary and to Peter Osnos, too.
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A BBC presenter has hailed a South Lakeland village as a 'thimbleful of diamonds'.
Radio Two Breakfast Show host Chris Evans was said to have caught 'Cartmel fever' as news broke that L'Enclume had been voted Britain's best restaurant.
The DJ 'raved' about the cluster of food-and-drink-oriented businesses in the pretty Lakes village, inc-luding Cartmel Village Shop – home of Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding.
Shop owner Jean Johns said: "It's wonderful to hear Chris champion Cartmel and all its great businesses and produce.
"We sent him a hamper full of goodies and we'll always make sure there's a hot pork pie and Sticky Toffee Pudding ready for him when he next visits"
The hot topic continued on Thursday when the hamper of pork pies, sticky toffee pudding, sticky toffee sauce, ginger pudding and sticky toffee chocolates was delivered to the team live on air.
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"We had people coming in to the shop saying they had been listening to the radio and could they try one of our hot pies," said Jean.
Renowned chef Simon Rogan's Michelin-starred L'Enclume was ranked as the country's best restaurant for a second year in the Good Food Guide, scoring a faultless ten out of ten score along with Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck Restaurant.
Cartmel is also home to Mr Rogan's second restau-rant Rogan & Co, his pub The Pig and Whistle and his nearby farm.
In the village there is also Martin Gott's Cartmel Cheeses and Unsworth's Yard Brewery.
Simon Johns, general manager at Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding, said: "Cartmel is doing very well. I think it all started with Sticky Toffee Pudding and then a few years ago Simon Rogan came, and he's been a great asset "There's now quite a bit of momentum for 'foodie' businesses."
Mr Johns, who also owns the Los Angeles-based The English Pudding Comp-any selling sticky toffee puddings across the USA, said it was only 20 years ago that shops were closing in Cart-mel – but that had all changed.
"People come from far afield now, some even by helicopter!" he told the Gazette.


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April 11, 2010
PITTSBURGH - Pitt's baseball team had already earned the series win over No. 7-ranked Louisville including wins on Friday and Saturday, but were looking for a three-game sweep of the Cardinals on Sunday. The Panthers' quest came up just short, falling 9-7 in a hard-fought loss at Trees Field.
Pitt (22-8 overall, 6-3 Big East) led the majority of the game and held the 7-5 advantage heading into the ninth inning, but Louisville (25-7, 6-3 Big East) put together a four-run ninth to take the two-run victory over the Panthers and avoid the sweep.
Catcher Cory Brownsten (Lockport, N.Y./Monroe CC) led the Panthers offensively hitting 3-for-4 on the day with three runs batted in and a run scored. Pitcher Nate Hood (Cleburne, Texas/North Texas Central CC) contributed 7.0 strong innings, giving up four runs on six hits, but it would not be enough to hold off the Cardinals. Ray Black (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Coughlin) came on in relief, giving up five runs on five hits in 2.0 innings of work in the loss.
No hits were recorded for either team in the first inning of play despite Pitt leaving one base runner on. In the bottom of the second, the Panthers took the 1-0 lead on an RBI single from Brownsten, driving home Kevan Smith from second.
Louisville remained scoreless through three innings, but the Panthers added another in the bottom of the third to take a 2-0 lead. Smith (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) singled through the left side to bring home John Schultz (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson) from third.
In the top of the fourth, Louisville cut the Pitt lead with an RBI single to bring the score to 2-1. Pitt responded with three hits, resulting in two runs for the Panthers. Danny Lopez (Queens, N.Y./Monsignor McClancy) tripled to drive in the first and Schultz singled through the right side to bring in Lopez for the 4-1 Pitt lead.
Pitt increased its lead to 6-1 in the bottom of the fifth on a Brownsten double down the left field line that scored Phil Konieczny and Travis Whitmore.
In the sixth, Louisville's bats came alive with a three-run outing, which cut the Panther lead to 6-4. David Chester (Collinsville, Okla./Seminole CC) doubled to center field for the Panthers, scoring Joe Leonard from first giving Pitt the 7-4 lead.
Louisville added a run in the top of the eighth on an RBI groundout. With a runner on third, Black forced another groundout to end the half inning.
Pitt could not add to its run total in the eighth and the Cardinals took advantage of the opportunity in front of them. In the top of the ninth, Louisville took its first lead of the day scoring four runs off four hits. The two scoring hits were both two-run homers, one to right center and one to left center. Louisville to the 9-7 lead.
Chester led off the bottom half of the inning with a single through the left side. He got no help, however, as the next three batters were retired, giving the Cardinals the 9-7 win.
Pitt will travel to Penn State Tuesday for a midweek contest at 6:05 p.m. The last meeting between the teams resulted in a 7-4 Pitt victory on March 24 of this season.
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