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Tow hitch for 2011 X3
I see you can order a hitch plug accessory for $8, but I don't see anything on the bmwusa.com configuration pages about a tow hitch itself for the new 2011 X3. If you can order a hitch cover, I suppose there must be a hitch as well. Nor do I see any info about towing capacity on the config pages.
Can anyone shed light on this? If I get any SUV during the buying cycle, it will have a tow hitch so I can take our lawn and garden equipment to the dealers for periodic maintenance.
I was told (in Canada) nothing until March.
Same question
Hi there, i wonder the same. Dealer said that a tow hitch can be installed after-market. However, I know that there is an electric hitch
option S03AC, "Trailer tow hitch with electrically operated pivot mounted tow ball"
There is no way though of ordering that... At least I don't know how... Anyone any ideas?
Here's how it looks
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Here's a picture of the electric hitch
The ultimate towing capacity will probably be limited by the hitch class and hitch capacity.
Sweet! Love the electric hitch and the picture, but still unclear how to order it?
I think the electric hitch is only available in Europe.
X3 hitch 2011
Look at execuhitch, www.execuhitch.com they price around $700.00
Execuhitch Experience?
Do you have any experience with ExecuHitch or do you know someone who has? When I went to their website, they said the model selector was offline for a "few weeks" for updating. It wasn't a huge confidence builder, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm on the wrong coast to have them use my X3 as their mule. Hopefully, someone near them on the East Coast will have the pleasure and get a hitch for free.
Execuhitch to have f25 X3 Solution in a few weeks
I called Execuhitch US to check on availablility of a hitch for the new X3. They said that the design was being tested at the South Africa headquarters, since they had earlier access to an X3 than did the US offices, and there should be news on pricing and availalbilty in the next few weeks. I gave them my email address and asked to be notified accordingly. I'll post an item when I have more news.
Thanks. I got the same info when I emailed them.
Execuhitch for BMW
I had one fitted on my X3 (previous model) and my 325I (06). I love it.
I'm also curious if whatever hitch solution comes out will fit on the X3 with M-sport. M5driver, if I recall from another thread, you have an F25 with M-sport on order, so this may be of interest to you too.
Execuhitch for X3 M Sport
Yes, I do have a x35i M Sport on order. It would be pure speculation on my part as to the compatibility of the Execuhitch with an f25 X3 M Sport. That said, I don't think the bumper and skirt changes for the M Sport would rule it out. If you study the photographis, they make it appear as thought there is more clearance for the hitch with the M Sport skirt then there is with the a base x35i skirt.
To my knowledge X3 M Sport production has not started. Speculation elsewhere on Bimmerfest and other online X3 forums is that M Sport Start of Production (SOP) is 4/11/11. If and when it does, I'm sure it will be widely reported. Although I read somewhere that the physiical build is only 2 weeks, something between 4 and 6 weeks from SOP would seem to be realistic turnaround. My dealer is convinced that we will see our X3 around mid-May. That feels aggressive to me, but I've developed lower expectations given the months and months it's taken to see my various M5s arrive from Germany. My last one, which was the first one delivered in Oregon, was ordered in early August and arrived in late November.
One other bit of news from my dealer, apparently the availability of the mechanics or the electronics for the power rear door feature have delayed other X3s they have on order. Since my wife is coming off a Lexus RX-400h and adores this feature, we'll just have to wait that one out as well. She waited two years to get her RX, so she's also not in any hurry on her X3.
Anyone have any updates on the availability of a hitch for the new X3. We'd like to get one installed so we can use our Thule hitch mounted bicycle carrier.
2011 X3 Hitch
I piciked up my new X3 in December and was told the hitch would be available shortly. The parts folks followed up and have been saying April. When April came with no hitch I called BMW and now they are saying June. It's becoming a real problem.
Huge problem as boating season is almost here...:(
2011 X3 Hitch
Our boating season is already here so I have two jet skis I can't use as well as my bicycle carrier. The amazing part is you call BMW and they act like they could care less about the proublem.
From what I can tell on the "execuhitch" site, that video that shows them removing the hitch from underneath would be ok for a boat/trailer, but not for a bike carrier...the bike carrier would have to slide in parralel to the ground which this does not...very weird. I have a bike carrier I want to use as well but my X3 was just done production yesterday and I think doing a hitch after the fact may be very disruptive to everything underneath...I'm thinking about just doing a roof system for my bikes and calling it a day
2011 X3 Hitch
Is an "Execuhitch" available for the 2011 X3? I have a call into them ... but the gal I spoke with said they do have an adapter for a bike carrier. You may have found an alternative.
I spoke with "Execuhitch" again and they are trying to get a new X3 for one day to develop the mounting. They are in Atlanta if anyone has a 2011 and is interested in a hitch phone 678 400-0121
hitch is in process with BMW - expect pull weight to be in 3500 # range.
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There's not too much more gratifying seeing a loser killed while doing a loser thing. Meet Blake Jay Anderson, a bonehead from a crew called Soldiers of the Aryan Culture (SAC), a group that caught hell from the feds back in 2003 when twelve of them were hit with multiple charges of attempted murder, extortion and racketeering. Their brainpower was not increased with Anderson considering he has spent the past few years running from the law for stuff like stealing cars, drug possession and other fun stuff. The running stopped when someone finally put him out of his misery, the reward one gets when they break into an apartment and attack everyone inside. Anderson was one of the participants in a home invasion that went, suffice to say, went really, really bad for them once one of the people they attacked wrestled a gun from one of them and blasted the scum. Anderson was killed on the spot, while his cohorts managed to get away with a few injuries. We are starting to understand why we never really talked much about SAC, and frankly we think this is going be about as good as it gets with them. We thought it would just be nice to document this for all those boneheads that are so worried about black people committing crime, that they fail to notice they are their own worst enemy. Yeah, we're talking to you, Conrad (pardon our little inside reference there).
Salt Lake Tribune
A man police say was killed by one of his intended victims during a break-in at a Midvale apartment was a 31-year-old with a criminal history including car thefts and drug and gun possession.
The letters SAC are tattooed on his face -- the same letters used by the white supremacist gang Soldiers of the Aryan Culture.
And court records show he was charged in a similar home invasion attack two years ago.
But as details about Blake Jay Anderson were emerging Wednesday, investigators said they still haven't found any connection between him and the family in the apartment ambushed by Anderson and as many as nine others.
"I don't think the intruders knew what was on the other side of the apartment door," said Midvale police Sgt. John Salazar. "Everything we've been looking at looks like it was a case of mistaken identity."
The four people who lived in the apartment did not recognize their attackers, who fled when one of the victims wrested a gun from an intruder and opened fire, killing Anderson.
"We haven't found a motive yet," Salazar said. "The only suspect we have is the one we can't interview."
Despite Anderson's tattoo, police are not investigating the invasion as a possible hate crime, Salazar said. The assailants likely did not know their victims, two of whom are white and two of whom are Latino, said Salazar.
The victims -- an uncle, his two nieces and the boyfriend of one niece -- have fled the state, Salazar said. Police do not know where the family is, but a relative has contacted investigators and is relaying messages to and from the victims until they recuperate.
"They're not going back to that place," Salazar said of the apartment. "They've been through a lot."
Police are pursuing no charges against the 23-year-old who shot Anderson, Salazar said.
Any involvement by Anderson in the Soldiers of the Aryan Culture is unclear. Metro Gang Unit investigator Jeremy Poor said he has had no contact with Anderson, and U.S. Marshall's spokesman Michael Wingert said he was not documented as an SAC member when he was in federal custody on a firearms conviction for 30 months from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2007 and 2008. Salazar said Anderson was also not previously known to Midvale police.
At the time of his death, Anderson was wanted on a $25,000 bench warrant for failing to appear at a Friday sentencing hearing in 3rd District Court.
Anderson had served a year at the Utah State Prison -- from June 2003 until June 2004 -- after failing to comply with court-ordered probation in a handful of Salt Lake County cases, which included drug possession and three stolen car cases.
He also spent more than four years in a federal prison -- beginning in July 2004 -- for being a convicted felon in possession of a pistol.
Anderson was also a suspect in another violent home-invasion attack in January 2007.
In January 2007, Anderson and Anthony James Bolton, 34, broke down the front door of a Salt Lake City apartment and started fighting with the occupants, a man and woman, according to charging documents. When the woman tried to call 911, Bolton came at her with a knife. When the male victim tried to intervene, Anderson hit him over the head with an amplifier, court documents state. When the man collapsed from the blow, the two invaders fled.
They were stopped by police in a vehicle that contained black ski masks, gloves, cutting tools and drops of blood, according to court documents.
Anderson and Bolton were charged with first-degree felony aggravated burglary, and Anderson also was charged with third-degree felony aggravated assault. The case was dismissed two months later when the victims failed to show up from a preliminary hearing.
In the Monday attack, as many as 10 people were waiting outside the apartment when a 26-year-old answered a knock on the door at about 1:30 a.m., said Salazar. Wielding guns and knives, they pushed their way into the apartment, fighting the man and stabbing him in the hand, Salazar said. The man fled the apartment, followed by several assailants.
Still inside were the man's two nieces, 14 and 22, and the 22-year-old's boyfriend. One of the intruders hit the older sister, angering her boyfriend, Salazar said.
The boyfriend, 23, fought with the man and took hold of his gun. He began shooting in the apartment, hitting another intruder. The heavily tattooed Anderson, carrying two knives and a gun, was shot three times, Salazar said. Anderson died in the apartment as the other attackers fled.

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Ottime condizioni di manutenzione - Attualmente in rimessaggio - Prezzo trattabile
The Hanse 411 is the latest model of the new line of Judel/Vrolijk designed Hanse yachts. She comes with a host of options allowing the owner to highly customise his craft. The Hanse 411 can be handled easily by a small crew thanks to her optimised deck layout and rig. A self-tacking jib along with the single line reefing system bring comfort and convenience and make sailing the 411 a real pleasure. The choice between one or two aft cabins and the option of a second, en suite head in the fore cabin gives owners a wide selection of configurations. The bright and stylish interior gives the saloon a special ambience and individual design possibilities can be requested. The headroom in the saloon at 2 metres will suit even the taller sailors among us. The Hanse 411 is altogether charming with her elegant appearance, comfort down below and excellent sailing performance.
Bulkheads are off-white semi gloss. Furniture is made of mahogany faced marine plywood, partly high gloss varnished. All doors are a foam cored sandwich construction for minimum weight to maintain the good sailing performance. Forward cabin: Separated from saloon by a door. Large double berth. Hanging locker and locker. Saloon: Large U-shaped settee with a table on starboard side and two separate upholstered seats on port side. Between the seats is a table, which can also be used as a chart table. The table has storage space for sea charts and navigational equipment. Above the table is additional space for more navigational equipment. Galley: The L-shaped galley has a top opening fridge with cooling aggregate, a 2 burner gas stove with oven, two stainless steel round sinks. Hot and cold water supply by an electrical pressure system. Spacious lockers. Approx. 220 litre water tank. Navigation area: The chart table is situated between the armchairs. Electric panel with sufficient space for navigational equipment and space for sea charts. Heads: Aft on port side with marine toilet, sink, shower. Hot and cold water supplied by an electrical pressure system. Lockers. Stainless steel holding tank. Aft cabin: With a large double berth on port side and spacious lockers. On starboard side is a large storage room with space for a workshop, sails, lines etc.
3 cabine - 2 bagni
Cabina doppia matrimoniale nel V di prua con toilette privata e doccia - Due ampie cabine doppie gemelle a poppa - Toilette con doccia
Ampia zona living con dinette pranzo e zona carteggio con due comode poltrone
Cucina a L con fuochi a gas - Forno a gas - Doppio lavello - Frigo a pozzetto
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Air Conditioning Evaporator Replacement
The air conditioning evaporator cools and dehumidifies air in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. It is located behind the dashboard.
It is difficult to detect leaks in the AC evaporator because it's located behind the vehicle's dashboard.
To replace the evaporator, refrigerant must be flushed from the system. Replacement of the evaporator usually involves major disassembly of the vehicle's dashboard, center console, and much of the interior in order to gain access to the evaporator.
The AC system should be operated at least once a month to circulate the refrigerant—even during the winter. The AC system operates at very high pressures. Special tools and knowledge are needed to work on it; this work must be carried out by competent, trained technicians.


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These four types have exceptionally showy berries:
C. lacteus (pictured). Clusters of red fruits last a long time among the dark green leaves of this evergreen shrub. Full sun. Zones 4-24.
C. dammeri, or bearberry cotoneaster, displays bright red fruits among dark evergreen leaves. It reaches only 6 to 12 inches tall but will spread 10 feet wide and cascade down a slope. Full sun or partial shade. Zones 2-24.
C. divaricatus. Bright red, egg-shaped fruits deck the branches of this deciduous shrub, whose dark green leaves turn orange red in fall. After the leaves drop, the berries last until the birds devour them. Grows 6 feet tall and wide. Full sun. Zones 1-24.
C. horizontalis. Red fruits hang on after round green leaves turn orange, then red before dropping. This deciduous shrub grows 2 to 3 feet tall and up to 15 feet wide. Full sun. Zones 2b-11, 14-24, A3.


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DiNapoli Warns Wall Street Profits May Dip
Big banks made healthy profits in the first half of this year, but pending lawsuits and the recent debt standoff in Washington will probably take a bite out of Wall Street's bottom line by the end of the year.
Those are the findings of a new report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. In the first half of this year, profits reached $10.1 billion dollars, close to last year's results. For workers on Wall Street, average salaries are holding steady at $360,700. While lower than the peak in 2007, this year's salary was the highest average in New York City.
But despite the steady profits, financial firms are reluctant to hire: less than 1 percent of all private sector jobs added in the recovery have been on Wall Street. Those who are employed in the financial sector account for 8.5 percent of the city's tax revenues, even though they represent only 5.1 percent of the city's private sector workforce.
DiNapoli said the securities industry is showing signs of change: banks are employing fewer workers and are raising base salaries and deferring bonuses to future years. Banks have also implemented "clawback" provisions that allow firms to take back an employee's bonus if previous profits turn into losses that impact the firm.


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Garrison Keillor's 'Prairie Home Companion': Gospel of the Airwaves
by Doug Thorpe
Mr. Thorpe is a doctoral candidate at the University if Washington, Seattle. This article appeared in the Christian Century July 211-28, 1982, p.793. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Well, look
who's coming through that
There is a special intimacy about radio. It is a companion for one's quietude, whether one is at home on a Saturday afternoon or alone on the freeway late at night. We are vulnerable with radio in a way that is impossible with television -- TV is somehow too public, too visual; our defenses rise too easily against it. But radio at its best comforts as well as entertains. And, like the ideal weekend guest, it makes few demands. It allows the mind to wander, explore, go for long walks alone. You can close your eyes and not miss a thing.
More than television, radio is a marker of time for us. It fixes time, and not just in the announcement of the hour or half hour, or simply in our awareness that it's 3:00 in Seattle when "Prairie Home Companion" comes on or 6:30 when "All Things Considered" is over. It fixes voices, which are our own past. I think of a broadcast by FDR on December 7, 1941, or of the crash of the Hindenburg, reported to a startled nation by an announcer who broke into tears. Similarly, Garrison Keillor ("Companion" host, writing in the liner notes to the anniversary record album) comments that his own earliest memory of radio, from his childhood in Anoka, Minnesota, is "sitting on my uncle's lap, his arm around me, my head next to his, as a tiny band played, and a man in New York said it was true, the war was over."
Radio freezes these moments better than a snapshot can: every year, 1945 gets a little further away. And that receding moment, once so vividly present and still so apparently alive (in part because of radio), is just like this moment, this Saturday afternoon, with its new show, coming to us live from Minnesota, where people right now are watching the red light in the World Theater in downtown St. Paul, waiting for the moment when it all begins again.
I have wondered at times whether it isn't this old anticipation of the Kingdom that explains Keillor's childhood fascination with radio (a subject he returns to frequently in his New Yorker stories, published recently by Atheneum under the title Happy to Be Here). Radio presents a child's-eye view of the Bridegroom's approach, and the waiting is almost as much fun as the coming itself. Keillor recalls Fibber McGee looking around his home at 79 Wistful Vista for his coat "or his ukulele or his canoe paddle," and finally saying to Molly, "Maybe it's here in the closet, kiddo," and "he opened the door and out came the avalanche." Keillor never grew tired of this routine -- he waited for it every week, knowing it would come, wanting it to come, and experiencing the fulfillment of expectation when it did. Such stellar moments from childhood were like being held in your uncle's lap while a jazz band played somewhere 1,500 miles away. It was all mysterious and marvelous, and yet as comfortable as home and family. Perfect radio casts out fear. You could always count on it, every evening, every week. Radio was the good news.
It was from such moments (specifically from thinking about the "Grand Ole Opry") that Keillor got the idea of doing a show of his own. As well as writing short fiction, he had been on the radio since 1960. The "Companion," clearly, was an ideal way of combining his two loves. He didn't have to write about radio anymore; he could be radio. So "Prairie Home Companion" was launched on Minnesota Public Radio on July 6, 1974, moving from Macalester College to successively larger theaters, finally finding a permanent home in 1978 at the 630-capacity World Theater in St. Paul.
The World Theater, as Keillor comments in his liner notes, was in 1910 a legitimate theater; it switched to movies in 1933, and in the late '70s it almost became a parking lot before it was saved by the "Companion." This outcome seems appropriate: much of Keillor's work can be seen as a rescue operation, saving memorable places from the erosion of time for as long as he can.
The "Companion" is broadcast live every Saturday, as I witnessed for myself last December. Tickets, I was surprised to learn, aren't especially expensive or hard to come by. It's rather like seeing the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field (itself a survivor from another era), where tickets for the bleachers and grandstands can always be purchased on the day of the game, even in those rare years when the Cubs are pennant- contenders. (Keillor, come to think of it, should have been born a Cubs fan, if such a person can exist in Minnesota. His heart would go out to a team that last won a pennant at the close of World War II.)
The show is broadcast at 5:00 in Minnesota. Keillor comes on stage briefly at 4:00, says hello, and the music starts informally (it's rather like watching batting practice). At 4:45 the host returns. A music stand has been placed near the front of the stage, close to Butch Thompson's piano -- and on the stand Keillor puts his notes and memos, and the messages the audience has written out before the show or has mailed in. These messages, as any listener knows, are not hip, coy or desperate; often funny and always honest, they suggest that someone out there wants to say hello to someone somewhere else by way of the airwaves. The messages are not simply time-fillers; they are, in miniature, the point of the show, rather like the opening song itself, with its hint of surprise, delight and easy familiarity: "I've missed you so since you've been gone, hello Love . . ."
Keillor reminds the audience that the broadcast is live, encourages audience reaction (laughter; no cue cards), and comments that since this is live radio with only one short intermission, musicians often have to set up while other musicians are performing. As you hear Stevie Beck, the queen of the auto-harp, the audience is watching the crew set up for a seven-piece marimba band or for Stoney Lonesome, the local Minneapolis bluegrass band.
Watching the show from a seat in the balcony, one rarely forgets that time determines it all -- it must all come home at 5:00 -- which is one reason I would just as soon be at home, hearing it on the radio. We need a few illusions. I don't know what you think the World Theater, or downtown St. Paul, looks like, but my guess is that it doesn't look anything like you think it does. Which, when it comes to radio, is just the way it should be.
At their best, the stories at the heart of the show are not sentimental -- or at least not only sentimental or nostalgic. If Keillor spends ten minutes illuminating a Dandelion Wine -- style vision of small-town Minnesota on a warm summer evening (the porches, screen doors, rocking chairs, lightning bugs and baseball games called on account of darkness when the batter gets hit in the leg with the ball or the infielders start to complain about invisible grounders), he will invariably be telling us something also about the simple and terrible passing of time, those last rare minutes of daylight early on a Saturday night.
The show is not simply on the radio, like the older shows Keillor admires so much, and upon which the "Companion" is loosely modeled; it's also about radio. And radio, for Keillor, teaches us something about the nature of time itself -- especially how quickly it all seems to go. And so the every-week celebration of birthdays is not merely a gesture; it's a key to the center of the show. With each Saturday we mark the passing of time. Recently, at the end of the show, Keillor did a tribute to all the new 40-year-olds, those people born in March 1942, sung to a rewritten Gettysburg Address with the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the background. As so often with Keillor, it was funny, well-written, well-timed (5:00 was just around the corner) and poignant.
Death comes even to Lake Wobegon. A child falls through the ice one quiet December afternoon, and years later the father still can be found late in the evening at the Side-Track Tap studying his loss. The other men just let him be, sitting there with his memory as he tries again to make it all come right, tries to be there, miraculously, at just the right instant to pull his boy from the water.
Keillor himself turns 40 this year; he has a 12-year-old son of his own. He knows well the treachery of time: what may seem comfortably solid and frozen and safe turns out to be slick and dangerously thin. It takes only a moment. But boys and girls skate anyway.
Actually, "punk rock," as it is called, has brought about some useful changes in popular music, as many respected rock critics have pointed out, and its roots can be traced back to the very origins of rock itself, and perhaps even a little bit farther: "It goes without saying," Green Phillips has written in Rip It Up: The Sound of the American Urban Experience, "that punk rock is outrageous. Outrage is its object, its raison d'être, stupid, self-destructive, and a menace to society. But that does not mean we should minimize its contribution or fail to see it for what it truly is: an attempt to reject the empty posturing of the pseudo-intellectual album-oriented Rock-as-Art consciousness cult of the Post-Pepper era and to re-create the primal persona of the Rocker as Car Thief, Dropout, and Guy Who Beats Up Creeps."
As any rock critic knows, the very notion of analyzing the stuff is a direct violation of the message of the music itself. This doesn't, of course, stop the sort of verbal posturing that Keillor so nicely captures here. Comedian Woody Allen often goes for an easy laugh by inserting various outrageous statements into a parody, such as his takeoff on Kafka's Journals: "Getting through the night is becoming harder and harder. Last evening, I had the uneasy feeling that some men were trying to break into my room to shampoo me. But why? I kept imagining I saw shadowy forms, and at 3 A.M. the underwear I had draped over a chair resembled the Kaiser on roller skates." Keillor in contrast plays it very close, getting humor not only by the shifts in diction (from "primal persona" to "Guy Who Beats Up Creeps"), but also by forcing the reader to pay attention to the small details and even to the very shape of a sentence in order to catch the put-on. "Its roots can be traced to the very origins of rock itself and perhaps even a little bit farther." That "little bit" signals the parody -- the rest of it could easily be for real. It's close enough and yet exaggerated enough to be absurd.
The setting and subjects of many of the stories are what fans of the "Companion" might expect. Except for the political satire (a side of Keillor rarely exhibited on the radio), they are generally midwestern, and celebrate baseball, small towns, "shy rights" ("why not pretty soon?") and, of course, radio. WLT, broadcasting "The Friendly Neighbor Show," features Walter "Dad" Benson:
We heard the WLT chimes strike twelve, the organ play Dad's theme ("Whispering Lilacs") and the announcer's voice say "and now we take you down the road aways to the home of Dad Benson, his daughter Jo, and her husband Franck, for a visit with the Friendly Neighbor, brought to you by Midland Fire and Casualty Insurance. As we join them, the family is sitting in the kitchen around the table where J0 is fixing lunch . . ."
Again, for someone raised on Ozzie and Harriet and the Beaver, this sounds pretty authentic, even while it pushes the type to its extreme. But Keillor's affection here, and in other stories on the subject of radio, is clear. In "WLT (The Edgar Era)" he writes: "Oh the days when radio was strange and dazzling! Even the WLT performers could not quite believe it. To think that their voices flew out as far as Anoka, Still-water and Hastings!" This is not far from the voice Keillor uses in the liner notes to his record, A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album, where he compares his show to his memory:
On the living room floor of my boyhood, I stretched out and heard those old shows for all they were worth. It's seldom I feel that ours matches up, though perhaps if I were eight and listened to this show with by brothers and sisters stretched out beside me, knowing that I had to go to bed 'when it was over, I'd like it more.
This may be why my favorite stories in Happy to Be Here, and the two that seem closest to the spirit of certain features of Lake Wobegon -- "Powder Milk Biscuits," "The Chatterbox Cafe," and "Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility" -- have little to do with radio. They are the last two stories in the book. The first, the title story, was originally published in the New Yorker as "Found Paradise." The story is about writing, about the yearning for the quiet country life, and, of course, about our problems in locating paradise and describing it once we've been there. It is also, along the way, a fine parody of various latter-day Thoreaus. Out on the farm, the storyteller keeps a journal ("forty-eight animals seen today before lunch, of which all but six were birds, most small and brownish"), and begins to "experience
What I was beginning to experience, I later learned, was "the being of being" that J. W. Spagnum, the prairie transcendentalist, describes as "the profound fullness of spirit that renders the heart immovable." In The Wisdom of the Plains, he writes, "The first and highest paradise is our heavenly home and the second is the Garden of Eden, shown on the Chart of Time (inside front cover) as a sunny sky and a grove of trees. . ."
What he finds (not to spoil the surprise) is what one usually does find if one spends some time on a Minnesota farm during the winter. His "stories" (one paragraph each) begin to sound like Reader's Digest condensed versions of E. B. White's essays. And his experiences become equally simple: that hunger for myth and symbol evaporates.
In the old days of novel writing, my son's birthday, on May 1st, would have made me think of the coincidence of revolution and spring, and the death-rebirth motif. This year it didn't, and we had a good time. He received a sandbox, a tricycle, a toy farm, and a fifty-dollar savings bond. At end of day, I did not find myself brooding about my own sandbox experiences. I went to bed early.
To talk about it at all, as in rock criticism, is inherently paradoxical, as the flat, simple statements attempt to suggest: "Found Paradise. I said I would and by God I have. Here it is and it is just what I knew was here all along."
The other story, the last in the book, is called Drowning 1954. It is, again, in part about time, about making one fatal slip and envisioning all of your life suddenly lost: "One misstep! A lie, perhaps, or disobedience to your mother. There were countless men . . . who stumbled and fell from the path -- one misstep! -- and were dragged down like drowning men into debauchery, unbelief, and utter damnation."
His lie had to do with swimming; the protagonist hated his swim instructor and skipped classes, going instead to the WCCO radio studio in Minneapolis to watch "Good Neighbor Time." Then years later, as the story ends, the narrator watches his own seven-year-old son learning to swim:
Every time I see him standing in the shallows, working up nerve to put his head under, I love him more. His eyes are closed tight, and his pale slender body is tense as a drawn bow, ready to spring up instantly should he start to drown. Then I feel it all over again, the way I used to feel. I also feel it when I see people like the imperial swimming instructor at the YMCA -- powerful people who delight in towering over some little twerp who is struggling and scared, and casting the terrible shadow of their just and perfect selves.
Are the stories as good as the show? If you don't like the show, will you like the stories anyway? Probably. Like the show, the stories are hit or miss, and if you like Keillor, or the man Keillor is in many of his stories (whether in print or on the air), you'll appreciate even the misses, because even when the right word doesn't quite come, or when the timing is just a shade off, the tone usually survives -- something lingers in the air, making us feel at home, comfortable, happy to be here. Found Paradise. And with bedtime always approaching, you may find one Saturday a story or message you need to pass along (listeners of the show make great evangelists). But I'll let Garrison Keillor have the last word, and let his own review of the show stand for the book as well:
Occasionally it's very good. And it's the only show I hear that reminds me of the old Zenith. We are in the position of a man who lives in a town with no Chinese restaurants and has to make his own Moo Goo Gai Ding. It's almost impossible to make it right, he doesn't have a recipe, and Super Valu doesn't stock the right herbs and spices, but every so often he pulls off a Ding that brings back memories of the Dings he used to know. For a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, that's as good as it gets.


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I wonder if it was intended to have the port fall back on 1337. That's so Elite... In the Cloud!
@SyntaxC4 I can't take credit for the joke. That's the port you'll find in the code on http://nodejs.org.
Express isn't an MVC, it's really just a simple web framework. There's no models, views (well, maybe...), or controllers.
@Andrew: You're right and what I see is that Express is mostly for creating controllers (with different middlewares) and for view you have to use modules like Jade (I think it's included in Express already), and for models it could be Mongoose (for MongoDB schemas). But nobody is forcing us to keep MVC pattern.
"Seek MVC patterns in NodeJS web frameworks, do not."
Cool! What Snap-ins are needed for Powershell or what is the easiest way to install them?
Why don't you guys get a real video host? It's really annoying that this video stops for buffering every second so I put it on pause for 20min expecting it to finish loading the video but no, a few seconds of play and it's back to buffering every second and it's not my connection either! VERY ANNOYING!!! Fix please?
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How did you get a cmdlet for Sublime Text? I have searched the web but found no answer.
Microsoft will (finally) begin eating their own dog food now that the company has launched Azure Media Services
He didn't. He just opened Sublime Text. The Node power shell must do something to ensure it's in his path.
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Lasky delivers a well-researched and uncompromising standalone novel focusing on the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti peoples. … Lasky's novel is thorough in its attention to detail, mixing facts like Riefenstahl's awful behavior toward her charges with the horrific lives of the fictional characters. … [B]etween the constant, appalling brutality of the camps and Lilo's growth over the years, Lasky draws remarkable depth, realism, and even charm out of a bleak story.
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Elephant Revival comes to Stage Stop
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Elephant Revival will play at the Stage Stop, 60 Main Street in Rollinsville, at
8 p.m., Sunday, October 21. The cost is $20 plus fees.
That simple line atop Elephant Revival's Facebook page contains only five words, but reveals volumes about the band's reason for being. Music unites us in ways that no other medium can. Even when we don't understand one another's languages, we can be moved by a rhythm or soothed by a song. Brought together by a unified sense of purpose, the spirit of five souls working as one, in harmony, creating sounds they could never produce alone.
The five souls in Elephant Revival are Sage Cook (banjo, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, bass and fiddle); Bridget Law (fiddle, octave fiddle); Bonnie Paine (washboard, djembe, musical saw, stompbox); Daniel Rodriguez (guitar, banjo, bass); and Dango Rose (double-bass, mandolin, banjo). All share vocals and write songs. Paine delivers additional beats via footstomps on plywood, her stockinged feet doing near jigs as her hands, encased in antique leather gloves, rub silver nickel against corrugated metal.
This Nederland quintet is, needless to say, quite a sight to experience, especially when they fall into the pocket of a groove containing elements of gypsy, rock, Celtic, alt-country and folk.
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Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced the filing of an agreement with a former Lake Oswego man putting him permanently out of business in the State of Oregon and preventing him from borrowing money or taking investments from any Oregon consumer. Named in an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) filed in Marion County Circuit Court is Thomas O. Regan of Meridian, Idaho. The agreement admits no law violation.
"Regan has a long history with the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) and other law enforcement agencies concerning numerous shady dealings that appear to target the elderly," Myers said. "It's important that residents of our state know that he can no longer operate here in any possible manner and if approached by him, they should report the activity immediately by calling our consumer hotline."
The Financial Fraud/Consumer Protection section of DOJ first investigated Regan in 1990 for selling living trusts. In 1996, DOJ sued Regan and others in Wasco County Circuit Court in a prosecution of a trust mill, North American Senior Association. Regan signed an AVC in 1997 resolving his part in the operation.
DOJ again investigated Regan in 2000 following allegations of elder abuse of a retired Salem doctor. That investigation was followed by a 2002 investigation also involving a senior, resulting in a 2006 state administrative order from the Division of Finance and Corporate Securities for $20,000 in civil penalties against Regan for selling unregistered securities.
In DOJ's most recent investigation of Regan's activities, investigators were approached by an elderly woman's son who alleged that Regan, after selling his mother a living trust, had taken thousands of dollars from his mother over an extended period of time.
Under today's AVC, Regan has 120 days to refund the complainant's elderly mother $20,000. If Regan fails to meet the deadline, DOJ will file for a default judgment of $40,000 plus an additional $5,000 in attorney fees and investigative costs for DOJ. Regan also agreed to not violate the Unlawful Trade Practices Act and the Elderly Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act.
Myers explained, "Seniors need to be wary of friendships based almost entirely on providing financial support to someone else."
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Google Search/Now gets a new voice action, location-based offers, and more
Given that Google is secondarily a search company (and primarily and advertising company), it shouldn't be a surprise that one of (if not the) most often updated app in Google's arsenal is the Google Search app (which includes Google Now for those on Android 4.1+). Today brings another update to Google Search, which adds a new voice action and more.
There are all new voice action tips in the update, but the new voice action isn't wholly new; rather, it's an improvement of a current voice action. The change log says it will allow you to "play music from your phone or the Play Store". The thing is that there was already an option to use a voice command to play music that's on your device through various music apps on your device. So, the new feature is that this update will also return results from the Play Store, if what you ask for isn't in your library.
On the advertising side of things, the update adds a feature that we've expected for a while, which will surface saved Offers for you when you're near a location where you could use said offer. Luckily, it specifically says "saved offers" meaning you won't get offers you didn't ask for.
The last update is one that not everyone will be able to use. If you have an internet connected TV that's on the same network as your Android device, Google Now will offer up information on the TV show that you're watching. There's no word on if this works with Google TV or not, but we kind of doubt it (we will test it out though, because we've got a Hisense Pulse on the way).
The update is rolling out in stages, so you'll get it when you do, but you can always try the push from the Play Store trick if you want.
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1. Zeus.k (unregistered)
Nice. It keeps on getting better and better. I use Google now regularly and now my nexus recognizes my voice even in noisy environments. On top of that users here in India getting most of the features Google provides in the States. Good job done Google.
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2. Zeus.k (unregistered)
P. S. - Are you still using a nexus Michael?
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3. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Yep, still a Nexus 4 and 7. Looking forward to the Nexus 7 refresh whenever that happens. I'm hoping next month.
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The Turkish government is expecting an invitation to next week's meeting in Annapolis to discuss the Middle East, with particular attention to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. A top Turkish diplomat noted, "We have made it clear to the U.S. and other concerned parties that broader participation in the conference is essential if they want more legitimate ground for future talks." Last week, Turkey hosted a meeting between President Peres of Israel and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. Turkey has extremely close working relations with Israel and is probably the major Muslim nation with whom the Israel government feels confident it can secure honest cooperation. As a diplomat noted, "Both of us should see the fact that Turkey and Israel need each other for regional stability."
An interesting follow up from the Annapolis conference might be to ask Turkey to serve as the host center for future Israel and Palestinian discussions. The Muslim Justice and Development Party of Turkey is anxious to foster stability in the Middle East and the Turkish army has close working relations with its Israel counterparts. If a future agreement necessitates placing foreign troops in certain areas to secure peace, the Turkish army would be the logical choice since it is trusted by Israel military leaders. Perhaps, it is time for the United States to step away from serving as a mediator between Israel and Palestine and allow the Turkish Muslim leadership to assume that role.


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It was merely a matter of time before megalomaniac Robert Mugabe blurted out his true feelings about a nation which has witnessed three million of its inhabitants flee to South Africa in search of jobs, over 1000 die due to cholera and an inflation rate which has reached 212,000,000%. "I will never, never , never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine. I am a Zimbabwean, Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British. Briatin for the British. He ranted on and on to members of his party, Zanu-PF. "I won't be intimidated. Evern if i am threatened with beheading. I believe this and nothing will ever move me from it. Zimbabwe belongs to us, not the British." He insisted his nation which has economically collapsed would never collapse.
The man is irrational and increasing displays signs of serious mental problems. He undoubtedly believes Zimbabwe belongs to him and there is no way he will give his toy or piece of property to anyone, let alone the people of Zimbabwe. The only solution is some sort of military intervention by neighboring African countries. This man is like Hitler–ready to destroy his own people in a mad dash to martyrdom.


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Submitted to: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Proceedings
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Publication Acceptance Date: 3/29/2004
Publication Date: 5/28/2004
Citation: Thomson, S.J., Hanks, J.E. 2004. Thermal imaging, soil characterization, and yield response for site-specific crop management. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Proceedings. Applications Showcase Session 1, p. 32. Interpretive Summary: Not required for abstract only.
Technical Abstract: Highly variable soils in the Mississippi Delta present challenges for successful site-specific crop management. We have been investigating the use of thermal imagery for determining the onset of crop water stress and characterizing crop vigor in specific field areas. Soil mapping has been an invaluable tool for defining management zones, and thermal imagery is being used to complement those efforts.


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being tired when i feel so good and relaxed...
I hate paying tax for stuff I buy over the internet.
(I just had to complain since woot just started charging Missouri orders with tax)
I hate when students in a class think they are currently in a rock band and playing the drums with pencils as sticks.
I hate when you call customer service and enter your customer number...then when a person picks up they ask for you customer number. I feel like telling them, you go find it!
9 Things I Hate About Everyone
People who point at their wrist while asking for the time........ I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.
When people say 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too'. Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?
When people say 'it's always the last place you look'. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!
When people say while watching a film 'did you see that?'. No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.
People who ask 'Can I ask you a question?'.... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?
When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.
When people say 'life is short'. What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks 'Has the bus come yet?'. If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?
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tennisplayer121 wrote:I hate when students in a class think they are currently in a rock band and playing the drums with pencils as sticks.
I hate when tennisplayer comes back after a long absence and DOESN'T SAY HI! Unless you did, in which case you can ignore this.
pooflady wrote:9 Things I Hate About Everyone
Poof, you are my freaking hero.
mwiseman wrote:Poof, you are my freaking hero.
waking up to pee at 4 am and not being able to fall back to sleep...
sisterC wrote:waking up to pee at 4 am and not being able to fall back to sleep...
Waking up to pee at 11, 12, 1, 3, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 7:45....
thank God giving birth cures that
Keyboards with the little square backspace that I always miss, hitting \ instead
Stairs like this
Booperelli wrote:Waking up to pee at 11, 12, 1, 3, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 7:45....
thank God giving birth cures that
Well, it does until you hit a later age.
pooflady wrote:Well, it does until you hit a later age.
please no
Booperelli wrote:I WILL NEVER GROW OLD
please no
It's better than the alternative.
pooflady wrote:It's better than the alternative.
I suppose.
I've got awhile, though.
My current fear is turning 25.
And to get there I have to turn 24
Booperelli wrote:I suppose.
I've got awhile, though.
My current fear is turning 25.
And to get there I have to turn 24
For heaven's sake, why would you be afraid of turning 25?
pooflady wrote:For heaven's sake, why would you be afraid of turning 25?
Heh, next year I enter another decade of life myself...
SkekTek wrote:Heh, next year I enter another decade of life myself...
Ah, yes, the dreaded 40. 40 only bothered me for one day. 30 and 50 didn't bother me at all. 60, on the other hand, still bothers me and that was a year and a half ago. I DON'T LIKE IT.
Because it's halfway to 50.. and a quarter of 100.. and then I'm closer to 30 than I am to 20. Because after 30 comes 40, etc. etc. etc.
I am very young. I'd rather keep it that way.
Although I wouldn't mind retiring.
Except I don't have a job
trying to feed a sleepy baby
committing crimes as a masked criminal
rain in any form
you should see what is headed this way!
A velcro loin cloth.
Being nominated for a committee or counsel.
mwiseman wrote:A velcro loin cloth.
Booperelli wrote:Stairs like this
Me, too...aren't they called "breakfast stairs?"
killingtime wrote:*drool*
Umm ... doubles as a bib?
Three weeks before my impending doom, Skek.. gads!
testing... testing...
yep. I still hate my job. :P
that i spent so much time taking care of others that i never thought about what would happen to me when i needed help. it sux to get old!
anthropomorphic vegetables
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llo, i always feel guilty cooking taters that look like something human
peeling potatoes
peeling anything...especially sunburn
pooflady wrote:peeling anything...especially sunburn
i peel fruit for mrs. 1.
nose pickers!!!
sisterC wrote:nose pickers!!!
bipartisan bailout bills.


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Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2006
Library Lionby Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)
Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting. His big feet are quiet on the library floor. He makes a comfy backrest for the children at story hour. And he never roars in the library, at least not anymore. But when something terrible happens, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how. Michelle Knudsen's disarming story, illustrated by the matchless Kevin Hawkes in an expressive timeless style, will win over even the most ardent of rule keepers.
An affectionate storybook tribute to that truly wonderful place: the library.
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Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2006
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- Publisher:
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- Publication date:
- 02/28/2007
- Edition description:
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- Product dimensions:
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- Age Range:
- 4 - 7 Years
Meet the Author
Michelle Knudsen has worked in libraries in New York City and Ithaca, New York. She is the author of more than forty books, among them Marilyn's Monster, illustrated by Matt Phelan; Big Mean Mike, illustrated by Scott Magoon; and Argus, illustrated by Andréa Wesson. Michelle Knudsen lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kevin Hawkes is the illustrator of more than forty books for children, including The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum by Nancy Willard; Weslandia and Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman; and Handel, Who Knew What He Liked and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World by M. T. Anderson. Kevin Hawkes lives in southern Maine.
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Recently my granddaughters visited, and when they saw that I had a copy of Library Lion, they were positively ecstatic. They were quite familiar with the book since it is one they have checked out repeatedly from their local library in Virginia. Needless-to-say, it was read several times during their visit with Grandmama. What is the draw of this book? What is its charm? Why is it a winner of a plethora of awards? The library is a very special place and has rules. Miss Merriweather is the librarian and she makes certain that folks obey the rules. One day a lion walks into the library. No rule against a lion in the library. The lion goes to story time. No rule against that. As time goes by, the lion visits earlier and earlier and becomes Miss Merriweather's library helper. And one day she falls off her stepladder. Oh my! Now a rule must be broken. This gentle story about the lovely library and the gentle giant of a lion is sweet and endearing. It gently teaches that rules are important. Yet it also teaches that there are circumstances where we must make a decision to break a rule. Beautifully drawn illustrations capture the essence of the story. Together the words and pictures create a story that a child wants to hear again and again. DISCLOSURE: I received a complimentary copy from Candlewick Press to facilitate this review. Opinions expressed are solely my own. I received no compensation for this review.
I love libraries and books. Rules are different. I love situations in which rules are shown NOT to be absolute. There can be no justice or good when rules are absolute. This is a wonderful book with a great story in it.
We all really enjoy reading this book - my son (2 1/2 yrs old) especially likes acting out the roaring :). The lion, the librarian, and the illustrations are all deliciously charming...and I think the message is fabulous: rules are important but sometimes it's okay to break them when it counts. We've already gotten this book as a gift for friends who also praised it highly!
The library is a birth place for imagination. It is a glorious retreat for action, adventure, silliness, any emotional excitement that exists. Knudson displays the comforting, homey feeling of a library through her Children's book, Library Lion. The librarian, Miss Merriweather, is apprehensive at first to the lion's presence, unsure if he can follow the rules of the library but soon she finds him to be delightful. Mr McBee, the library assistant is not so keen on the lion and does his best to act on his jealousy by ignoring the lion. The lion does his best to be helpful and kind to all while following all the rules. However, when an incident arises, the lion will have to decide whether or not to break a library rule. This story is heartwarming while teaching children about rules, jealousy, and what to do when a true emergency occurs. Knudson really knows how to write simply so all ages can enjoy and comprehend the story all the while creating and maintaining character development. One of the best things about this book, besides the story itself, is the classical feel that the illustrations lend to the story. I love how they make you feel like the book itself has been passed down from generation to generation. It adds that warm, comforting feeling to the audience. Knudson's Library Lion will always have a home on my bookshelf.
This is one of my and my daughter's favorite books. She has been requesting it at bedtime since she was one. It is a sweet story of freindship and great for encouraging your children's love of books and storytime. We just bought a copy for my nephew.
This is a favourite book, which has been reread many times. Illustrations are great too.
This was one of the random books my 2 1/2 year old pulled off the shelf at the library. We both love it and added it to our home library. The illustrations are wonderful, the story is sweet and teaches a little lesson about rules and why sometimes it is ok to break them. The style reminds me of books from 30-40 years ago.
this is a rare book that young toddlers can enjoy without having everything pictured for them--a great first introduction to being read aloud to without pictures. don't get me wrong, the pictures are beautiful, evocative (wonderful depiction of emotion), with a touch of magical realism as with a real-looking lion is accepted as part of a library scene. but the storytelling and dialogue are first-rate. not to mention, of course, that gently underscoring the whole story is a quiet emphasis on the love and importance of books and reading. we've loved reading this book to our two boys since the older one was 2, and when i was asked to buy a book to donate to a ronald mcdonald house fundraiser, library lion was my first choice.
My son actually recommended this to buy for his younger sister. I thought it was creative and had wonderful lessons. A classic for young readers!
It is a cute story about a lion that comes to the library and how much he enjoys being there with the children. There are rules to follow while in the library and what happens when you don't follow rules. The art work is beautiful.
My husband and I are avid readers and it seems our three year old son is just as interested. Library Lion is a favorite in our son's vast collection. Not only does he like it read to him but we love reading it. The story is so sweet, the message clear and the illustrations are lovely. Out of the blue my son said 'the lion in the library is helpful' Yes he is Sam, yes he is. This book is a must!
A pure pleasure to read - an endearing story and lovely illustrations. The Library Lion is an excellent choice for any reader, young or old, who loves the library.
An immediate classic and must have for any private or public library!


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The weather in Scotland can be vile at any time of the year, or it can be more beautiful than you had thought possible. You must be prepared for anything. I write as one who has made annual visits, each lasting two or three weeks, for nearly 40 years.
This year, it was in October and I was particularly lucky. But one always needs to go prepared. Your own transport allows greatest freedom of movement. Take playing cards (I forgot them), whisky or whatever your tipple is; perhaps nibbles to go with it - my weakness is for olives. Take reading material (I read more than half of Pride And Prejudice aloud to my young driving companion, and this is easy on smooth trunk roads), writing material (unless you hate writing), and an address book (I forgot that also). And you should have a lively, flexible and observant companion, who will see things that you would otherwise have missed - like a buzzard sitting on a fence post by the roadside.
For much of the time on this year's visit, the weather was magical. There was rain, of course, but it often fell when we wanted to be in, anyway. When it was fine, one could sit out in the sunshine and bask. The wonderful thing about this season in the west of Scotland is that there are no midges to plague you. Normally, it's either wind and no midges or calm with insufferable midge onslaughts.
Shadows are long in this season. Houses on north slopes will often lose the sun altogether for weeks in midwinter, but that stage has not yet been reached. The glowing light pervades your life. There is no brilliant colour from native trees (which were still, in the main, leafy), but a kind of contented luminosity.
One is strongly aware of reflections in smooth or only slightly ruffled water, and of tide movements in inland estuaries. Woodland is full of good autumn smells. There are clusters of apricot-coloured chanterelles, a fungus generally disregarded by the locals - very different from the continent, where their popularity has led to laws governing their collection (they're so good in casseroles, or as the principal ingredient in a sauce).
Most garden flowers have finished, but two still dominate. The scarlet Schizostylis coccinea (which we call kaffir lilies but no one in its native South Africa would dream of so naming it) grows in drifts, flowering more abundantly than is often seen in the south. The other South African that seems totally at home is the amaryllis-like bulb, Nerine bowdenii, with heads of brightest pink flowers. It is thoroughly obliging, but one generally gives it a place in the sun, perhaps near a wall on which Cotoneaster horizontali s, thick with red berries at the same season, could also be grown.
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Arlington Cemetery Duplicated At High School
POCATELLO, Idaho - As Memorial Day approaches, folks in Pocatello are preparing the annual Field of Heroes.
Volunteers are spending days creating a scaled-down version of Arlington National Cemetery outside Century High School. Each of the crosses represents an American soldier whose life was lost in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Each cross is placed with precision to create row upon row of straight lines. The volunteers even bring in surveyors to make sure everything lines up.
Those in charge of the Field of Heroes say all this effort is just a way for the local community to show its gratitude.
"We come together with one simple cause, and that is to remember our casualties and their families and to let them know that we don't forget, we remember,? said Field of Heroes coordinator Melissa Hartman. ?And as long as we're here, we'll remember."


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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Head coach Chris Mooney announced the signing of Josh Jones, ShawnDre' Jones and Tim Singleton to National Letters Of Intent.
Josh Jones (Memphis, Tenn.), ShawnDre' Jones (Houston, Texas) and Singleton (Dallas, Texas) will enroll at Richmond for the 2013-14 school year.
"We feel very confident in our young frontcourt, so we thought that we really wanted to get good guards," Mooney said. "We are very excited about this class and feel they can come in an contribute and have great careers."
Josh Jones is a 6-foot-4 combo guard who plays for former Colorado coach Ricardo Patton at Central High in Memphis. He is in his fourth season on the varsity, including third season as a starter, and has helped Central to a State Championship in his freshman year and a runner-up finish last year as a junior.
"Richmond just seemed like the right fit," Jones said. "I got along with the players and coaches and like the way they play."
Jones was named to the State All-Tournament Team, All-City, All-Region and All-District after averaging 16.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
"Josh is a tremendous quality young man, he has a great work ethic and he really wants to get better," Patton said. "Because of that I think he will continue to get better and better."
"Josh is very versatile, he runs well, moves, he's a good athlete and he shoots the ball well," Mooney said.
ShawnDre' Jones is a 5-foot-10 guard for coach Ronnie Courtney at Bush High in Houston, Texas. Jones averaged 12.5 points per game, 7.0 assists per game, 4.3 rebounds per game and 3.1 steals per game as a junior last season.
"The academic aspect played a big role, and the great people at the University of Richmond, especially the coaches and players," Jones said. "And add that to great basketball and a way of playing that really fits my game."
ShawnDre' grew up in Richmond before moving to Memphis in the eighth grade.
"He is the most intelligent point guard I have coached since T.J. Ford," Courtney said, comparing Jones to the former Texas standout. "He has the ability to run the offense, understand the game, score and defend. He is a complete player."
"ShawnDre' is just an all-around player," Mooney said. "He has good court presence and a great feel for the game. He is a natural leader and it shows up on the court."
Tim Singleton is a 6-foot-2 guard for coach Von Harris at Hillcrest High in Dallas, Texas. He averaged 18.0 points per game, 3.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists as a junior last season.
"I loved everything about it, just the place to be," Singleton said. "The players made me feel like a family and I liked their games."
Singleton's father, Tim Singleton Sr., was a star point guard at Notre Dame under coach Digger Phelps."He brings it on both ends of the floor," Harris said. "He is a good team player, has a great attitude and is very coachable. He can shoot the ball."
"Tim is a very good player and he is an excellent shooter," Mooney said. "He also is very athletic, has good quickness and a real sense for the game."


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I have a 31 chevy coupe that is basically bare. I plan to make a rat rod because I do not have fenders for it. I seem to have the body work figured out but I have no idea what do to the interior. If anyone has any idea what I need to find for seats or how to make door panels or dash ideas let me know.
Look at my photo album of my sedan.:welcome: also do a search here on the interior forum and get some ideas. I did mine myself and never done it before.
Love the car bob. Seeing what I've done has given me some ideas. I am wondering about the vinyl top. How did u frame that in and cover it?
good choice of cars, I have a 5window coupe and to make it easier to work on the interior I replaced all the wood. I wanted to keep the original look. But it makes it easy to attach wood panels to the doors and roof area. I'm still figuring out the best way to cover the firewall area and all the wire harness. good luck
Then I used dynamat like material to hold everything on place.
Next I followed a coupe headliner thread to get the headliner in.
It was a lot of work but came out preety good for me.:welcome:
Look here for tutorials. :welcome:http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/arch...ls-209127.html
headliner how to
Just one of many ways to do a headliner. This is a how to by "Skipstitch:. Go to this thread and scroll down to his posts . That is how I did mine.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...t=headlinerme:
Bob: I edited your post so that the link you posted works now. The tutorial starts at post #18.
Thanks for all the help guys. Now I at least have a idea of where to start. I'll try to post some pictures for u guys
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Customers expect the same experience every time they interact with a company — whether it be when researching a product, completing a sales transaction, or getting customer service — over all the communication channels that a company offers. They also expect companies to have an understanding of their past purchase history and prior interactions. Finally, customers further expect that each interaction with a company adds value to their prior interactions so that, for example, they do not have to repeat themselves to a customer service agent when being transferred or when migrating from one communication channel to another during a multistep interaction.
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Why can't I sell my parking space?
10/07/2014 , 3:11 PM by Jamie Burnett
Do you have a car spot in the inner city that you don't use and rent out to somebody else?
Or maybe you drive into work and lease a private bay from somebody that doesn't use it?
Well if that's you- be warned.
The City of Perth says residents could be prosecuted if they're caught renting out private parking bays and passes to others.
But a Melbourne based company, that lists available car bays for rent across Australia's capitals, says there's nothing wrong with it and the demand for bays is spiking.
Geoff Hutchison spoke to City of Perth deputy Lord Mayor, Rob Butler about his concerns over the practice.
He later spoke to the co-founder of Parkhound, Rob Crocitti - an online site where people list their parking spaces for rent.
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Man Stabbed 6 Times, Two Charged
Police say Victor Talerico underwent surgery for a punctured lung following the Saturday morning incident.
Miki Mertens, 22, and 63-year-old Joe Vitale, both of Utica, have been arrested.
Mertens is accused of attempted murder and robbery. Vitale faces a single charge of robbery.
Police say the victim was robbed of money and believe he was acquainted with his attackers.
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I am fairly new to this forum but not to forums in general and there is usually a photoshop section but I don't see one here. So my question is this does anyone have the ability to do some photoshop work? I was looking at my truck today and was wondering what it would look like with the all black grill, black rims, black side markers and black taillights. Oh yeah I am getting 20% tint next week. Thanks for any help
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Will send you the Photoshop bill shortly. :yikes:
Thanks a lot, I can't tell is you truck Black or Green?
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Community" has sometimes seemed like a live-action cartoon, so maybe the show's creator/executive producer isn't making such a big leap with his new show. The animated "Rick and Morty" premieres Monday at 11:30 p.m. on Cartoon Network.
And Dan Harmon discovered that things aren't so different working with actual animation.
"The funny thing to me is where the similarities are — where it actually is just as inconvenient," Harmon said.
Like blowing something up "because explosions, if you want to make them look good, they need more frames drawn."
And filling the room with extras is "just as inconvenient ... because some artist has to character design each extra."


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Board of Trustees
Ronald W. Leftwich '64, Chairman
Houston, Texas
Larry W. Gorrell '69, Vice Chairman
Quincy, Ill.
H.B. Turner '79, Treasurer
Parkville, Mo.
Jason R. Stratton '96, Secretary
Quincy, Ill.
Class of 2017
R. Kent Clow '78, Olathe, Kan.
Anthony E. Crane '74, Quincy, Ill.
Timothy L. Fischer '89, Alpharetta, Ga.
Jack V. Kanne '71, Franklin, Tenn.
David L. McClintock '71, New Lenox, Ill.
Paul Reitz, Quincy, Ill.
Charles W. Scholz, Quincy, Ill.
Robert F. Stone '71, Hoffman Estates, Ill.
C. Clark Todd, Hannibal, Mo.
Terry Traeder, Quincy, Ill.
Class of 2018
Larry Askew, '94, Overland Park, Kan.
Caly Cramsey, '08, MBA '14, Quincy, Ill.
Susan E. Goderstad '81, Apple Valley, Minn.
Robin A. Greger '78, Hannibal, Mo.
Scott A. Johnson '71, New Albany, Ohio
Michael G. McCay '68, Bentonville, Ark.
David C. Mobley '83, New London, Mo.
Kathy Turpin, Weatherby Lake, Mo.
Class of 2019
Donald M. Claycomb, Linn, Mo.
Sallie Jo Cunningham '95, Madison, Wis.
Jenkins Davis '70, Barrington, Ill.
Leslie V. Kelsay '73, Santa Clara, Calif.
Tory L. Lucas '92, Lynchburg, Va.
Nathan Zelinske '99, St. Louis, Mo.
Stacy Raith '83, Shawnee, Kan.
Designated Trustees
Steven Stock, Quincy, Ill., Student Representative
Timothy M. James '74, Fishers, Ind., Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of MidAmerica Representative
David Yonker '00, Burlington, Iowa – Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of the Upper Midwest
Dr. Scott Giltner, Quincy, Ill., Faculty Representative
Mathew Holt '08, Canton, Mo., Alumni Association President
Trustees Emeriti
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Joseph T. Charles '60, Jupiter, Fla.
Elaine E. English '67, South Padre, Texas
Donald K. Gnuse '56, Quincy, Ill., Madison, Wis.
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The Chihuahuas spent nearly all of April on the road before finally opening their new ballpark in El Paso for the last three days of the month.
It would have been pretty easy for Kyle Blanks to go into the tank after being sent down to Triple-A at the end of spring training. Instead he led the organization in home runs with eight in addition to posting the highest OPS 1.040. He saw time at both first base and in the outfield and it's hard to envision him not being back in San Diego sooner rather than later.
Top prospect RHP Burch Smith struggled in his two starts before going on the disabled list. A really interesting story for El Paso has been the performance of LHP Jason Lane, 37, who played six years in the major leagues as an outfielder before reinventing himself as a pitcher. In five starts, a pair of which came in some of the Pacific Coast League's most notorious hitter's parks Albuquerque and Las Vegas, Lane posted a 2.32 ERA and averaged a little over six innings a start.
Also, he can still hit. In 17 plate appearances he posted a slash line .500/.529/.813 as a pitcher/pinch-hitter and late-inning outfield replacement.
AAA/El Paso Player of the Month: Kyle Blanks
San Antonio Missions 10-15
At one point this month the Missions' offense didn't score a run in 40 straight innings, so the offense was not on prominent display for April. As has been his case throughout his career with the Padres, a very bright spot was the performance of RHP Matt Wisler, MadFriars' top prospect coming into the 2014 campaign.
In five starts he posted a 2.10 ERA and struck out 35 batters in 30 innings against only six walks. He was promoted to AAA El Paso on May 2 and it's doubtful he will spend much time there either before making his way to San Diego.
RHP Josh Geer, 30, who missed most of 2012 recovering from melanoma, had a nice month with a 2.40 ERA in 30 innings. If Geer is called up to the big leagues it will probably be as a long man out of the pen as opposed to the starting role he is occupying now. The bullpen in San Antonio was also strong with solid performances by Johnny Barbato and Jerry Sullivan. Offensively SS Jace Peterson was by far the best with a .311/.386/.392 slash line before being sent to San Diego with Chase Headley going on the disabled list.
AA/San Antonio Player of the Month: Matt Wisler
Lake Elsinore Storm 16-11,p> Last season in Fort Wayne Alberth Martinez put together a very good second half which carried over to the first month of the season in the Cal League hitting .306/.365/.468 and was one of the leaders in the league in doubles with nine. Martinez is a good defensive centerfielder and if he can start to run a little more could be the whole package.
RF Hunter Renfroe was the Padres' top draft pick in 2013 and on one hand was very good with 27 hits in 26 games but also was among the league leaders in strikeouts with 41.
Although he doesn't get the publicity of some of the other arms in the organization, RHP Zach Eflin who led the organization in wins with four and had an ERA of 2.80 in six starts. RHP Joe Ross, the younger brother of Tyson Ross, is considered to be one of the more talented arms in the system and this month he showed it with a 1.95 ERA and a 31 to 7 strikeout-to-base-on-balls ratio.
Finally, keep an eye on RHP Colin Rea, another pitching talent who seems to be figuring it out with three very strong starts at the end of the month.
High-A/Lake Elsinore Player of the Month: Joe Ross
Fort Wayne TinCaps 11-15
One of the younger teams that the Padres have ever sent to Fort Wayne with five of the eight regulars starting the season under twenty; and it showed. The TinCaps made 55 errors in 25 games with SS Franchy Cordero and 3B Dustin Peterson accountable for 18 and 12 of them.
Still for the most part the team was able to tread water with a very good performance by Chula Vista's Fernando Perez, who saw time at first, second and third base while hitting .326/.351/.489. RF Franmil Reyes at six-foot-five and 240 lbs. is a physical specimen and won't turn twenty until July; hit .300/.351/.522 with 11 extra-base hits. CF Mallex Smith returned to the Summit City with a full outfield above him in Lake Elsinore and stole 16 bases in 22 games but needs to improve upon a .221 batting average.
C/DH Dane Phillips is another returnee to Fort Wayne also put up some solid numbers at .328/.380/.516 in 16 games with the TinCaps.
Because he had a volcanic infield on the left side RHP Pete Kelich had a 4.88 ERA and a 0-3 record but his peripheral statistics of 26 strikeouts against three walks in 24 innings indicate a pitcher that was better than his defense.
Low-A/Fort Wayne Player of the Month: Fernando Perez
April MadFriars' Player of the Month: Matt Wisler
Matt Wisler led the organization in strikeouts, had less hits than innings pitched and lived up to his billing as the Padres' pre-season top prospect. His velocity sits in the low 90's and he can dial it up to 95 to 96 mph if he needs too with his four-seam fastball.
You can follow all of the action in the Padres' minor league system @madfriars on Twitter