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WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned Friday that re-electing his Democratic opponent would threaten another government shutdown and national default as he launched into the last weekend of campaigning with a massive rally in critical Ohio.
In a closing argument speech in Wisconsin and later in front of more than 18,000 people in suburban Cincinnati, the former Massachusetts governor said only he can work with Congress to keep any of that from happening.
"He's ignored them, he's attacked them, he's blamed them," Romney said of President Barack Obama and Congress. "The debt ceiling will come up again, and shutdown and default will be threatened, chilling the economy."
Romney, who has struck an increasingly bipartisan tone in recent weeks, used Friday's events to help crystalize what he says would be the real-world impact of Obama's continued inability to break the political gridlock in Washington.
Indeed, whoever is elected will face the so-called fiscal cliff — a combination of tax increases and domestic and military spending cuts set to take effect Jan. 2 unless Congress and the White House agree on a plan to stop it.
Romney said the choice voters face Tuesday is easily boiled down. "If you're tired of being tired, then I ask you to vote for real change," he said from the stage in Ohio, dozens of his top supporters lined up in chairs behind him. The thousands in attendance had waited for hours in the freezing cold to hear him and running mate Paul Ryan.
The Republican nominee goes in to the weekend with battleground state polls showing a close race in Ohio and across the nation. His aides say they're confident — but an aggressive travel schedule shows they're trying to build a path to the 270 electoral votes even without Ohio's 18.
On Saturday, Romney will campaign in New Hampshire, Iowa and Colorado. On Sunday, he's in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia.
It's a difficult road. "Your state is the one I'm counting on, by the way," Romney said in Ohio. "This is the one we have to win."
During his Friday night speech, the thousands of people gathered broke into chants of "four more days" — the length of time to Election Day. They echoed the excited crowd that greeted Romney in Wisconsin earlier in the day.
Romney's first address followed by hours the release of the Labor Department's final jobs report before the election. It showed that U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and that hiring was stronger in September and August than first thought. The unemployment rate inched up to 7.9 percent, from 7.8 percent in September, because more people started looking for work.
The report sketched a picture of a job market that is gradually gaining momentum after nearly stalling in the spring.
In a statement issued before arriving in Wisconsin, the home state of running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, Romney said the new unemployment report was a "sad reminder that the economy is at a virtual standstill."
While polls have shown the economy is the top concern of most voters, Romney's advisers don't believe the new jobs number will have any impact on the election. Privately they said the report was likely a wash — with a slight uptick in unemployment and stronger-than-expected job growth. Publicly, they said it gave Romney a new point to hammer home in the final days.
Still, Romney struck a bipartisan tone Friday. "The president just cannot work with Congress to get the work done," he declared. "I will not represent one party. I will represent one nation."
In the Wisconsin speech, Romney asked people to vote for "real change" if they are "tired of being tired."
While Romney's team is making an aggressive play for Wisconsin, no Republican has won the state since President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

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Section in the Spotlight, June 2018: ESN Lund!
During this summer heat, which arrived earlier than usual this year, let's travel to the cold of the North where diversity truly means unity. Here comes our Section in the Spotlight for June - ESN Lund!
ESN Lund was established in 2005. Since then, they have achieved many successes, such as contracts with Akademiska Föreningen (Academic Association in Lund) and travel agency Timetravels. In addition, theirs was the first section where the position of a local Education Officer was established.
The section is led by six Board members and eighteen ambassadors, including ambassadors for trips, parties, sports, SocialErasmus coordinators, ExchangeAbility coordinators, PR managers, Media managers, Partnership managers and Education officers. Furthermore, there is an Activity Committee composed of enthusiastic members who help during the events organised by the section. They cooperate with other student organisations in Lund and share resources to organise events, as well as keep good relationships with Lund University.
If you want to become a member of this great Swedish section, you can join in their "fika", an event which takes place every semester where potential members can get information about ESN and specifically about activities held by ESN Lund. One of the specialities of the section lies in its internationality. Out of 24 members, only one is Swedish.
Regarding events they organise, they have established a strong position among other organisations in Lund. For instance, they have a cottage weekend for members to get to know each other and create long lasting bonds through some challenges and games. Also, member meetings are followed by social events like board games, movie watching or informal socialising in a pub. To reward council members, they organise events such as potluck dinner or bowling night.
On the other hand, they never forget about their international students and devote most of their time organising activities for them to make sure their stay in Lund will become an unforgettable experience. There are, for instance, canoe and hiking trips, Skane highlight trip, Helsingor day trip or cottage weekend prepared.
Members of the section also spread their knowledge of social issues through events within the scope of SocialErasmus and ExchangeAbility activities. Regarding SocialErasmus, there are events like Clothing Drive, LGBTQ awareness events or Earth Hour celebrations.
Once per semester, they organise "Internationen" - a dinner where non-students (mainly refugees) have a chance to familiarise themselves with Swedish student lifestyle. In order to raise awareness of the issues in the scope of ExchangeAbility project, they organise a 'blind' Valentine dinner in collaboration with the Lund University. They are also working on mapping the university to make it more accessible for students with disabilities. In addition, sports fans can enjoy wall-climbing, a running club or different sports tournaments. ESN Lund cares about the well-being of international students and provides them with stress relief workshops.
Flagship activity of the section is ESN Tuesdays. This weekly event consists of activities starting from the running club, sauna or yoga classes to movie and board game nights. Open mic nights are extremely popular and unite talents from all over the world.
You can meet ESN Lund members on many national events, especially their National Platforms. They regularly attend Eduk8 events, AGM, and other international events. Thanks to section cooperation between nearby sections such as ESN Malmö, ESN Copenhagen, ESN Odense etc. they organise Cooper8 - one of their training events.
"Collaboration is the key."
Despite the strong competition, ESN Lund maintains a powerful position among student associations and provides high quality and unique events for international and local students. There are definitely some points we can learn from them.
Section in the Spotlight, May 2018: ESN UCM Madrid
With summer rapidly approaching, it's only natural we move towards the warmer parts of Europe. However, the section in question isn't only in our sights because it's in Spain, but because it's the oldest section in the country! Meet our Section in the Spotlight for May: ESN UCM Madrid.
ESN UCM Madrid was founded in 1991, which makes them the section ESN Spain built its foundations on. They are constantly growing and improving, as well as adjusting their structure according to the needs of their ever-changing environment.
Currently, they work in teams. They have 12 teams - Tandem, Salsa, Cultural, ComCom, Legal, Partners, Tutor, Merchandising, Sports, Projects, IT and Parties. Each team has a Head, chosen by the team itself, who is responsible for creating the Action Plan and ensuring that the team meets its goals and objectives. They also have local coordinators of international projects such as Mov'in Europe, SocialErasmus and ExchangeAbility who cooperate with local coordinators of the other five other sections in the city.
Nowadays, they have more than 40 active members!
"The sense of belonging that unites us provides material for great teamwork."
All of their members can receive proper education and training at Local and Regional Platforms. Local Platforms are crucial for the understanding of local, national and international level for newer members, while Regional Platforms are organised in cooperation with other sections from Madrid. Team building activities are also a regular occurrence in their section! All of this is possible thanks to the funds they receive from ESNcards, as well as local, regional and national grants and partners. This year, they have sold 2000 ESNcards!
They organise, on average, around 15 trips per year, and around 5 project activities per month for their international students. When organising these activities, they often cooperate with other sections from Madrid. Monday evenings are reserved for tandems, Tuesdays for sports, Wednesdays for salsa and Thursdays for parties. Additionally, they organise two cultural events per week: a cycle of fine arts and the Royal Palace. Weekends are reserved for the exploration of the Spanish countryside!
"Today we co-exist with 5 other sections in our city and we have achieved harmony and a unique joint force throughout our country."
ESN UCM Madrid is an eco-friendly section, proven by their flagship project EcoWeekend, a two day trip to the mountains of Madrid. There they spent the weekend learning about environmental issues, having workshops, eating non-processed food, and recycling. The workshops were on the following: removal of rubbish in the mountains; a hiking tour; a soap making workshop; a t-shirt dyeing workshop; and a tour of sense, an ExchangeAbility activity. They have managed to educate and entertain their exchange students, as well as have an impact on the local community.
They are also killing it with their Buddy Programme - this academic year they have managed to pair up more than 1000 exchange students to 270 tutors! The university helps them in their approach to local students by offering them ECTS points for this activity.
Their members are active on both the national and international levels. Several of their members are on the national level, and they regularly host Spanish National Platforms as well as other national events. Their members are in the OC of KINESI, a national training event which will take place this summer.
Being the oldest section in the country, and one of the oldest ones in the whole of Europe, can't be easy. However, ESN UCM Madrid has mastered this task, and this award proves it!


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There is little or no difference in wages between male and female employees which can be attributed to prejudice or discrimination by employers. Other factors are to blame.
Two studies are mentioned in this article, one by the American Association of University Women and the other by the Department of Labor. AAUW's data show that when they controlled their samples for other factors, such as job choice, college major, time on the job, the gap between the wages of the remaining employees virtually disappeared. The DOL found that "individual choices" by male and female employees were responsible for the gaps between their wages.


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Cornish-Windsor Bridge #20May 23. 2013 3:17PM
Cornish Toll Bridge Road
Cornish, NH
The Cornish-Windsor Bridge is the longest wooden covered bridge in the United States and the longest two-span covered bridge in the world. There were three bridges previously built on the site. All three were destroyed by floods. The bridge operated as a toll bridge until 1943. The bridge was featured on the Town Bicentennial Medal struck in 1976 and is featured on many New England postcards.
Year of Construction: - 1866
Original Cost: - $9,000
West of N.H. Route 12A, five miles south of Plainfield Village on Cornish Toll Bridge Road. This bridge spans the Connecticut River connecting the towns of Cornish, New Hampshire and Windsor, Vermont.
Town lattice truss. The bridge is 449'5" long and consists of two spans of 204'0" and 203'0". It has an overall width of 24'0"., a roadway width of 19'6", and a maximum vertical clearance of 12'9". It is posted for ten tons.


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Will Smith Too Expensive for Independence Day 2
"But he'd also be too much of a marquee name," says Roland Emmerich.
With the first of two Independence Day sequels set for July 3, 2015, it's time to get real about the man who made the first movie a hit. "Will Smith can not come back because he's too expensive, but he'd also be too much of a marquee name," says director Roland Emmerich. Ah, yes, that thing where having one of the world's biggest movie stars is a detriment to your blockbuster. ID Forever Part 1 and 2 will feature characters from the original, though. Just nobody you want to see too badly.


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Oslo Anker Hostel
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Storgata 55 N-0182 Oslo
Check-in: from 3pm onwards.
Bed linen (50 NOK) and towel (20 NOK) can be rented in the reception
Breakfast cost 60,- NOK per person, per day and is served at restaurant '8K' just around the corner from the property.
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Check-in: from 3pm onwards.
Bed linen (50 NOK) and towel (20 NOK) can be rented in the reception
Breakfast cost 60,- NOK per person, per day and is served at restaurant '8K' just around the corner from the property.
Anker Property is only 10 minutes' stroll from bustling Karl Johan and the heart of the city, allowing easy access to the Central Station and Oslo's shops and restaurants. Situated just outside the property you will find bus and tram stops and a taxi rank.
Anker Property has a capacity of 150 rooms (53 during wintertime) and offers accommodation suitable for all age groups in a relaxed and international atmosphere. All rooms are equipped with private facilities. Our four-, six- and eight-bedded rooms provide single gender accommodation (as long as it's possible) on a shared basis. If you prefer your own room we have twin rooms available. Free Wi-Fi access is available in all rooms and in the public areas.
All beds are supplied with a duvet and a pillow. Bedlinen and towels are available at the reception for hire, bedlinen are obligatory. Due to hygienic reasons, the use of sleeping bags are not allowed.
The property is open all year with 24h reception service.
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The location is perfect, in the middle of the center of the city, 5-10 minutes walking distance from the station. Unfortunately, the 4 bed-room dorms are really not well furnished. There are very few plugs, no bed lights (so people turn on the big lights and wake everyone up), one can alsmost not open the window and the bathroom is entirely wet as soon as someone takes a shower. Compared to what I've seen in other hostels, this one is expesive for what it is.
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I had a nice stay in Oslo (8 nights).
After 4 days the waste-bin was lost, not replaced en was never (found back or brought back by cleaning personal??)
In the corridor where the lift is in at o-level can hang a nasty smell that can turn your stomack.
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We stayed 2 nights in August. The room was OK except a lot of noise at the back of the building. The location is great, tram and bus just accross the street.
Wifi was handy for picutre sharing
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i think there are a good place for stay in oslo in the ankerhostel,
it is so practic to be there
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The location of this hotel, being a short bus ride to central station, was it's main positive. The room we stayed in had some areas where we felt had not been cleaned properly. Our room faced the road and was extremely noisy. We expected more for the amount we paid. We would not stay here again.
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Not a very comfortable location, all the bathrooms were dirty--it seemed like the staff never cleaned anything anywhere. There were no common areas, except for tables placed along the street and an overcrowded reception area. There was no where to hang out and meet people (which is partially the point of hostels) without getting irritated by the constant mass of people pushing through, trying to get to their rooms, check-in or go outside. Plus, the apparent kitchen area, although I never managed to locate it, required that you rent pots and pans in order to cook anything. This hostel always felt like a hassle--doing anything. Yuck. No wonder it's not HI.
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Excellent stay, the room was nice and clean. The service at the reception was however very slow especially at the check-in. The breakfast at Anker Kitchen was very, very basic and the men working at the cafe were very grumpy which is not something everyone wants to see first thing in the morning!
I would stay there again if I was looking for a cheap accommodation.
Thumbs up from me.
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This is a Trusted Review. Why?
We could not enter in our room with the key we received at the reception. Even with another key it was not possible. So we slept in another room wherein our key gave entrance.
No possibility to have breakfast. We had to go next door for it.
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The Booktopia team nominates their favourite titles from a great year of books.
Caroline Baum's Picks
Elizabeth Gilbert
From Caroline's Book of the Year Review: I've said it more than once, and I will say it again, loudly. I ADORE this book. I don't think it has found the readership it deserves because some people think 'Oh, she wrote Eat Pray Love, I didn't like that or want to read that kind of thing so I won't buy this' and others think 'Oh, if it's not like Eat Pray Love I won't like it.' Put your prejudices aside, people!
Treat yourself to the most intriguing, refreshing and original female character of the year…
From Caroline's review: You only have to watch the news to see that it does not get more topical than Drive By.
This gritty, complex, multi-layered novel is based on the spate of shootings between rival drug gangs that have riddled the streets of south Sydney in the past couple of years.
Duffy, a seasoned regular observer of the courts, has created two memorable characters: Bec, a part-Aboriginal detective, who has a distinctive vocabulary that wrong-foots her colleagues: and Honest John, a keen Toyota mechanic and member of the Habib family who would really rather not have to think too hard about what his brothers have been up to and just wants to marry his Aussie girlfriend.
Beata Zatorska
From Caroline's review: Anyone who loved Rose Petal Jam is going to adore this chilly sister volume about the winter foods of Poland. Sydney GP Beata Zatorska is back with more family and carefully chosen classic recipes from around her native country, lovingly collected on journeys through snow and ice.
It takes a lot of love to publish a book that puts so much effort into photography (magical snowscapes by Beata's documentary maker husband Simon Target) and superb design, creating the effect of a cherished family album.
From Caroline's review: Why she didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize is beyond me. Malala's story, told in the same unwaveringly forthright voice we have become used to hearing her speak in at her many public appearances is a tribute not only to her personal convictions and courage but to those of her remarkable father.
It also offers an insight into what daily life under the threat of the Taliban really means and how petty their brutality can be. And still, despite the horror of it all, Malala expresses an acute homesickness for her beloved Swat Valley.
Anya Von Bremzen
From Caroline's review: You know how sometimes you feel a book is so special that it has been written with you and only you in mind?
Well, that's how I felt about this book. Having known several Soviet citizens at very close quarters, I understand how central food and the lack of it is to the national psyche. And I once celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall with a themed New Year's Eve dinner of which the centrepiece was a fiendishly difficult dish: Coulibiac, a traditional Russian fish pie with a yeast dough casing that took two days to make and which my friend and I baked in the shape of a hammer and sickle for extra effect. (It was spectacular, I have to say, but never to be repeated.)
So this book had me at hello, comrade.
Graeme Simsion
From Caroline's review: When rights to a debut novel are sold in more than thirty countries, you know a book is generating serious buzz. I am glad to say that this feel-good debut delivers what the hype promises.
It's as light as perfectly baked scone, narrowly avoiding saccharine pitfalls, achieving just the right combo of airiness and substance for the perfect rom-com recipe.
Irresistibly charming, genuinely funny and cleverly plotted this is intelligent romance for grown ups whose arteries have not hardened with cynicism.
From Caroline's review: This book stinks, in a good way. Of fish and blood and guts and unwashed bodies and earth and death.
In fact, it reeks of those things and more. This austere love letter to Iceland takes a true story of murder as its foundation. Based on records from the trial of the two women and one man convicted of killing and burning two men on a remote farm this is richly and darkly imagined in prose thick with atmospherics.
Kent is a precocious talent who understands how to animate research and transform it into compelling narrative.
Andrew Cattanach's Picks
Richard Flanagan
The book Richard Flanagan had to write. A deeply personal novel that made me drew me in and never let me go. Sure to earn a place as one of the finest Australian novels of our time.
From Caroline's review: When Richard Flanagan produces a new book, you know it will come freighted with Big Themes. As an essayist, Flanagan is political, provocative, passionate. As a novelist, he is capable of shape-shifting across genres, from high literary gothic to popular psychological thriller.
His latest novel is as eloquent and powerful an affirmation of his empathy and understanding of humanity as anything he's ever written.
George Saunders
One of my favourite short story collections of recent times, mixing the absurd with the sweet, I can't get enough of Saunders' writing. Read it story by story, or in one big gulp, it won't disappoint.
From the undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders, comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to date, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations.
Fiona McFarlane
A difficult, emotional read, but on reflection an incredible novel, a brave novel. A wonderful writer that pulls the reader's strings with extraordinary ease.
From Caroline's review: Writing a novel is like walking a highwire. So when a new artiste makes her debut, you expect a wobble or two. But not in this case. I don't know where she's been hiding up to now, but Fiona McFarlane is a bright new star in Australian fiction. She's got all the assurance and the confidence of a seasoned performer. Here she enters the ring with a story about fear, trust, ageing and death; to borrow from another profession where skill is paramount, she handles her themes with a light deft touch, like an expert pastry chef blessed with cool fingers.
Valli Little
My favourite cookbook of 2013. Simple, fun, and gorgeous to look at. Whenever a friend checks out my cookbook collection, this is the book they talk about.
Sharing good food with family and friends is one of life's great pleasures, but it's easy to become stuck in the daily routine and lose your passion.
Love To Cook is designed to help you discover (or rediscover) the joy of spending time in the kitchen and at the table. Inside, you'll find more than 140 recipes – themed by ingredient for easy reference – that will take you from quick weekday dinners with a clever twist to impressive ideas for entertaining.
John Safran
I just hope John Safran keeps writing, he's a natural. I lost myself in this amazing story and the calm, confident writing of the first time true crime writer.
When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered – and what was more, the killer was black.
Everything I hoped for and more, Morrissey's long awaited memoir is full of rich, flowery prose, the story of how a working-class kid from the North became an icon.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
John Purcell's Picks
Hubert Mingarelli
The book I wish I had written.
From John's review: A Meal in Winter is a novella. You can read it in a night. But it punches well above its weight.
I am told A Meal in Winter will be published as a gorgeous little hardcover but I read the proof, a very drab looking proof is was too, and for some reason, even before I read a page, I had the notion that this was a rediscovered work, much like the work of Irène Némirovsky. To further compound my assumption, as I read, I was reminded of Primo Levi, of Beckett, of Camus… read more
This is the book I gave to friends to read. An unexpected delight.
From John's review: A novel that celebrates the small things in life by a fresh Australian voice.
It s the summer of 1971, not far from the stone-fruit capital of New South Wales, where Mr Wigg lives on what is left of his family farm. Mrs Wigg has been gone a few years now and he thinks about her every day. He misses his daughter, too, and wonders when he'll see her again… read more
Read this in a couple of sittings. Ladd's sharp psychological insights bring a depth to her fast paced narrative. If you want a book for the beach which will give you a shock or three, Into My Arms is hard to beat.
When Skye meets Ben their attraction is instantaneous and intense. Neither of them has ever felt more in synch – or in love – with anyone in their lives. What happens next will tear them both apart.
Into My Arms is a searing love story and a gripping family drama – a shocking, haunting novel in the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Caroline Overington.
One of those books which wrap themselves around you like a warm blanket on a cold night. Deserves to be read by anyone who re-reads their Austen once a year.
One of the great untold love stories – how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales – filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Wild Girl tells the story of Dortchen Wild. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen told Wilhelm some of the most powerful and compelling stories in the famous fairytale collection.
Kenneth Mackenzie
Relive the wonder of first love. No, really.
From John's review: There is nothing so seductive and yet elusive as the memories of our first experiences in love. We can recall the actions – shared glances, a sweet paralysis, then the first touch, perhaps a chaste kiss – but this is not what we desire. We want to feel again the fear, the pleasure, the tremors and the foreign breath. But it is this that eludes us.
Unless we stumble across an artist who can recreate these feelings for us… read more
Also loved: Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A. C. Grayling, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age by David Mikics
Shoshana Booth's Picks
Alex Ferguson
Great read and the perfect gift for any soccer fan. Ferguson's sheer determination is gripping.
Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the Premier League for the 13th time, and he is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of British football.
Over the last quarter of a century there have been seismic changes at Manchester United. The only constant element has been the quality of the manager's league-winning squad and United's run of success, which included winning the Champions League for a second time in 2008. Sir Alex created a purposeful, but welcoming, and much envied culture at the club which has lasted the test of time.
This book really, really disturbed me. I had to remind myself to unclench my toes and keep breathing.
A soldier's broken promise … a mother's loss … an agonizing truth.
The Yellow Birds gives a powerful, emotional insight into the human cost of war – its impact on soldiers, their families, and most of all what it is like to return home, but never be able to leave the memories behind. Kevin Powers served two terms as a machine gunner with the US army in Iraq. On his return, he was asked one question more than any other: "What was it like over there?"
Michelle de Kretser
Such a moving novel, it reminded me of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World. A pleasure to read.
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events.
Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories – from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself in Australia.
Vikki Wakefield
This book for is fans of Melina Marchetta and John Green. It has that same touch of surrealism and an unforgettable female voice.
Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run – running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid.
Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past.
Delicious recipes in Donna Hay's simple, clean style. Do not make the mistake of reading this while you are hungry.
For Isabella Beeton in 1861 it was Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, for Stephanie Alexander in 1996 it was The Cook's Companion and for Maggie Beer in 2007 it was Maggie's Harvest. These books went onto become bestsellers, staples in every home; they were the one-stop recipe books that defined these authors' work and became essential everyday reference books for their time.
Now in 2013, Australia's leading cookbook author Donna Hay reveals her landmark book, The New Classics, a definitive collection of classic recipes for every modern cook.
Christopher Cahill's Picks
Matthew Reilly
From John's review: Bestselling author Matthew Reilly is one of Australia's most reliable writers.
Every couple of years he delivers his fans quality popular fiction and every couple of years he can be counted on to break Australian sales records. But till now, all of his successes, Ice Station, Seven Ancient Wonders, Temple, The Five Greatest Warriors, Scarecrow, to name just a few, have one thing in common, the breakneck speed of their narrative.
The Tournament is a departure for Reilly, gone is his trademark breakneck speed. Instead we find a narrative with gravitational pull. Enter The Tournament's orbit and you cannot escape, you must read on to the final page… read more
To download a FREE prequel to The Tournament, click here
GURRUMUL: His Life and Music
Robert Hillman
"… you will surrender to the greatest voice this continent has ever recorded" – Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald
On a November afternoon in 2010, Gurrumul sat in a studio in Sydney to be photographed for the cover of Rolling Stone. The studio was 3000 kilometres from where he was born on Elcho Island off the coast of East Arnhem Land.
A bare three years had passed since the release of Gurrumul, his critically acclaimed debut solo album. Those years of critical acclaim, all the years before them, and the illness that threatened to end it all, combine in one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation.
40 years of passion and experience has been poured into Lonely Planet's Beautiful World.
We witness fiery volcanic eruptions; wind-sculpted icebergs in the Antarctic; mind-blowing migrations of wildlife large and small; natural wonders from Belize's Great Blue Hole to Yellowstone in Wyoming; also the imprint that humanity has made on the planet.
Serge Dansereau
The new cookbook from Serge Dansereau of Australia's iconic Bathers' Pavilion.
Seasonal Kitchen gives you 220 new recipes that celebrate Australian produce. In this eclectic collection of recipes, which draws its inspiration from the Mediterranean, as well as India and China, Serge continues to use his chef know-how to demonstrate how to turn modern-day classics from good dishes into great ones. Capitalising on his reputation as the 'father of the fresh food movement', Serge moves us through the year, listing in-season produce and offering us recipes that will show them at their best.
Elizabeth Earl's Picks
Allie Brosh
Hyperbole and A Half is a blog written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with titles like 'Why Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving' and 'The Go of Cake'. She accompanies these with naive drawings using Paint on her PC.
Brosh's website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands of per day.
Now her full-colour debut book chronicles the many "learning experiences" Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws. It includes stories about her rambunctious childhood; the highs and mostly lows of owning a mentally challenged dog; and a moving and darkly comic account of her struggles with depression.
An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
It's 19 September 2010, and 21-year-old Rachel Lee has emerged from Los Angeles Superior Court, having just been sentenced to four years behind bars.
A few months earlier, she had been running the Bling Ring: a gang of rich, beautiful, wild-living Valley teens who idolised celebrity, designer labels and luxury brands. Who, in 2009, became the most audacious thieves in recent Hollywood history.
But what made these kids–all of whom already enjoyed designer clothes, money, cars and social status–gamble with their lives at such high stakes?
Rebecca Thuss, Patrick Farrell
An inspiring book featuring 75 unique and captivating paper flowers.
Filled with beautiful photography, this book will feature simple accessible ideas, over-the-top aspirational ideas, and everything in between. The book begins with a lush gallery of images of the flowers, including a flower inspired by a Dr. Seuss book, an oversized holiday wreath, beautiful floral table decorations, and easy-to-make flowers for embellishing gift packages.
The gallery will be followed by a techniques section and thorough step-by-step instructions for all flowers and projects with accompanying templates.
Max Brooks
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse.
Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic of world government and face events that tested our sanity and our sense of reality. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the 10-year fight-back against the horde, World War Z brings the very finest traditions of American journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of civilisation.
Hayley Shephard's Picks
Robert Galbraith (a.k.a J.K. Rowling)
From Hayley's review: From the outset I want to say I'm a HUGE J.K. Rowling fan, but I've never really been a fan of crime fiction, and as I started reading The Cuckoo's Calling, I wondered if Rowling would win me over. With the words over-flowing I asked myself whether I would be able to keep track or even remember the many characters who could possibly be attached to the apparent suicide of one model named Lula Landry.
But as I kept reading I found myself more interested in the story and more eager to follow Detective Cormoran Strike in his quest to find the killer, which at first even he is sceptical exists.
Katrina Germein
Sequel to the side-splitting, bestselling My Dad Thinks He's Funny.
My dad says, 'I've told you fifty million times, don't exaggerate.'
Dad is back by popular demand with more hilarious material. And yes, my dad STILL thinks he's funny.
Enid Blyton
This classic collection of Enid Blyton's Noddy stories features the much loved original artwork. The books in this collection are perfect for young readers or young children who love story time – and are stored safely in the stunning flip-top box!
Packed in a very special flip-top slipcase, this Noddy collection is a perfect gift.
Enid Blyton's master storytelling and the adorable artwork have made the Noddy series an enduring children's classic.
Original, amusing, and brilliantly documented, Shake is a heartwarming collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake. This glorious, graphic volume will stop you dead in your tracks as you are presented with images of man's best friend caught in contortion: hair wild, eyes darting, ears and jowls flopping every which way.
The war for Scotlands freedom continues as King Robert the Bruce battles on. At his command is an elite army of trained warriors, soldiers dedicated to their king, their country and to the remarkable women they love.
Prized for his unbeatable tracking skills, Ewen "Hunter" Lamont accepts a dangerous assignment: locate a missing undercover courier. By this is no ordinary target. Ewen has met his prey before as Sister Genna, a fiery, forbidden woman forever etched in his memory after one stolen, sinful kiss.
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If standing in front of an audience and thinking of a witty response or comic antic in a split second seems daunting, 14-year-old Katie Elson and 18-year-old Spencer Shealor aren't letting on.
If standing in front of an audience and thinking of a witty response or comic antic in a split second seems daunting, 14-year-old Katie Elson and 18-year-old Spencer Shealor aren't letting on.
The teenagers, students in an acting class at That's Showbiz, will show their improvisational talents as part of two shows by high school students during this month's run of "That's Improv!"
The brainchild of That's Showbiz owners/actors/teachers Kevin and Elizabeth Costello, "That's Improv!" will feature six to eight actors each night performing a variety of improvisations in the first act and creating an improvised reality television show in the second. All skits will be audience driven, with Costello taking its input to set up the second act reality show.
"I'm actually very excited. I've never done an improv show," said Shealor, a senior at Venture Academy.
Elson, a Lincoln High freshman who has taken acting classes since she was 8, never has performed improv for an audience, either, but she's "looking forward to it."
It isn't as though it's a new skill. Improvisation is one of the first drama lessons an actor learns.
"I think back to my high school days and we'd do improv before rehearsals and we'd stay after to do more," said Elizabeth Costello, who will be among the performers. "When I studied at San Jose State, I did improvisational theater. Also in New York, there was a troupe I performed with once in a while, went to classes with. It's a lot of fun."
Her husband, who directs St. Mary's High School productions, always uses it as a teaching technique.
"Every single production I've done at St. Mary's, one of the first things we do is improv day," Kevin Costello said.
"We have so much fun with it. It loosens them up and builds teamwork. It helps build character and everything else."
It's a tool for building a strong traditional production.
This show, though, is comprised entirely of the lessons the Costellos have taught to students in both their adult and high school improv classes since opening their store/theater company last summer.
"I like how spontaneous it is," said Elson, who is simultaneously working on the play "Legally Blonde" at Lincoln. "You have an opportunity to say anything. You can really express a lot of your own views, be yourself, by saying your own words instead of words in a script. It's really fun. It's fast-paced and requires quick thinking."
The weekly lessons at That's Showbiz are an expansion of what Shealor has done in drama classes at Venture Academy, but they've helped him in other areas of performance, which in four years of high school have included hip-hop, choir, piano and acting.
"It helps me be more theatrical and more energetic with what I have to do," Shealor said. "I can see an improvement in my acting."
This show demands more than mere acting, though.
It's about coming up with something off the top of your head and reacting to words and deeds of fellow performers.
"The students in the high school class have really improved, really blossomed," Kevin Costello said. "They're funny and entertaining. We realized last fall that we could have an audience come and see these guys because it's that entertaining."
The students bonded quickly according to Shealor and Elson, neither of whom knew anyone in the class when they arrived.
"I'm kind of an outgoing person, so it wasn't hard getting used to it and getting to know everybody," Shealor said. "It's a very friendly atmosphere. We're all supporting each other to go up on stage and do your thing. We're not laughing at you."
With this show, though, they want everyone to laugh at them. It's for audience members of all ages, with Elizabeth Costello noting she'll remind the high school students to keep it clean for younger members of the crowd.
"With high schoolers, who knows?" she frets. "I know my own son. We want it to be a family show."
Improv isn't just for everyone watching, but for everyone who wants to perform it.
"Ultimately it's for people that are comfortable with themselves and are not afraid to take chances," Kevin Costello said.
"The beauty of an improv show is that it's all shapes and sizes, all colors, as opposed to the (Radio City) Rockettes who are all tall and thin. Improv is more fun if it's with mixed personality types, character types. That's what the world's like."
Contact reporter Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The pressure is about to become intense.
Limestone has made it to Monday's 7 p.m. NCAA Division II women's basketball Southeast Regional final, the Sweet 16 of the national tournament. Now all the Saints have to do to make the Elite Eight at the championship site in San Antonio is beat the best team in the country — on its home court in Morrow, Ga.
Clayton State, the biggest D-II power on the women's side, is undefeated (31-0) and ranked No. 1. The Lady Lakers have won by an average of 22 points and nobody in the past 17 games has come within 13.
So far in this national tournament, Clayton State has dismantled Mount Olive (the team that knocked off Limestone in the Conference Carolinas tournament) by 33 points and USC Aiken by 17 in the Southeast semifinals. The Lady Lakers won the national title in 2011 and are making their ninth straight appearance in the tournament.
And they do it with pressure defense, full-court, 40 minutes, from all angles, and without mercy.
"Everything feeds off their press," Limestone head coach Corey Fox said. "They press the whole game and they do it different ways. They don't do the same thing over and over."
If the Saints (27-3) can somehow handle the pressure and pull off a remarkable victory, they'll be convinced they can handle anything the rest of the way.
"We have to take care of the ball," Fox said. "We have to keep our turnovers under about 12 to give ourselves and opportunity. We only had seven in our last game (a 67-52 win against Pfeiffer). And if we can force them to take some tough shots and we can get rebounds, maybe they won't be able to set up their presses so easily. … That's a lot easier said than done."
Limestone is also on quite a hot streak, however. The Saints have won 21 of their past 22 games, the only loss in the semifinals of the league tournament. They earned an at-large berth and a No. 2 seed in the Southeast.
"We're pretty good, too," Fox said. "So we'll see."
Following the win against Pfeiffer, Fox stayed to watch Clayton State's semifinals game and came away believing that the Lady Lakers' ranking and record are true indications of what task lies ahead.
"They are really, really athletic," Fox said. "They are extremely fast. They are much bigger than us (with a couple of 6-footers and five players at least 5-11). They do a great job on the boards. And they have a great player in (5-foot-5) Drameka Griggs (19.6 points, 3.8 assists, 3.8 steals, 48 percent on 3-pointers)."
Limestone has been led in scoring during the Southeast Regional by Tia Williams (27 points in the first round against Barton) and Maria Young (25 points against Pfeiffer). Danielle Dixon has led the Saints in rebounding for three straight games, averaging 12.7.
Limestone women face tall order against Clayton State
The pressure is about to become intense.


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Inspired by the spirited ascent of the mythical rain dragon in Chinese mythology, Shenlong Tower not only shows what can be possible when we employ natural processes to industrial endeavours – it is also has the potential to stand as an icon of a renewed national pride. Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest cities in the east partially thanks to its status as one of the busiest ports in world, but it isn't without its problems – three of the major issues that Hong Kong faces is limited land space, heavy air pollution, and limited fresh water. Shenlong Tower is a self-sustaining visionary skyscraper that addresses these problems while improving Hong Kong's economy and raising the bar for responsible and intelligent design.
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The first issue Mikey Nitro, Josh Wong, Jon Kim, and Ini Archibong sought to address is Hong Kong's lack of fresh water – the city spends approximately three billion HKD for freshwater imports each year. To help alleviate this, Shenlong Tower utilizes super-efficient geothermal cooling to lower the temperature of the areas along the bottom surface of the three spirals to the dew point, which in turn produces large amounts of water throughout the day. The triple helix form maximizes the available surface area for the condensation and a path for the water to travel after being collected.
Aristotle said "If one way is better than another, you may be sure it is Nature's way" – following this philosophy, the team utilized the condensed water to help solve the second problem of air pollution. The condensed water will replicate the natural cleansing process of rain to catch the toxic pollutants, chemicals, other particles in the air. The contaminated rain will then hit a filter on the upper surface of the floor below, separating the pollutants and the pure water. The pollutants will be collected and deposited into a storage by a fleet of small robots who maintain the filter's surface. The purified water will be split between Shenlong Tower's usage, its green areas, and Hong Kong. The exhaust heat created from the geothermal process will be used to heat the building's water and air.
The third problem the team addressed is the limited amount of land space. Shenlong Tower works around this by floating directly on the water while generating its own energy with a multi-layered skirt that utilizes ocean current and breaks created by boats arriving at its docks. The three-island support structure will create more dock space for the heavy population of ships and private boats and it will also host the primary green spaces for the skyscraper.


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A new update to the T-Mobile SCOOP site reveals that the G2 will indeed feature an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor. Even though our original leak said the CPU would be clocked at 800 MHz, we had been reporting the speed as 1 GHz after several sites continued to leak specs which showed the faster speed.
The Qualcomm MSM7230 features a similar Scorpion CPU as the Snapdragon, but it contains the much faster Adreno 205 GPU. We knew the MSM7230 was capable of speeds of 800 MHz to 1 GHz, but we wrongly assumed T-Mobile would bump up the speed to 1 GHz.
At the end of the day the newer 800 MHz MSM7230 will likely out-perform the older 1 GHz Snapdragon, but I'm sure we will see a lot of complaints due to earlier speculation. The G2 should be out soon, so let's wait and see how it performs in our round of benchmarks.


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U.S. Neft fans ages 13 years old and up can showcase what the Nerf brand means to them by writing, directing, editing, and acting in their very own Nerf brand videos, featuring any or all Nerf products.
Hasbro, Inc's 2010 "Battle of the Ads" contest, where the Nerf brand challenged its fans to show off their creativity, teamwork, and skill in their very own Nerf commercials, has returned this year. The contest, which will run until August 22, coincides with the launch of the new N-Strike Elite blaster line.
The grand prize winner will take home $10,000. Videos may be submitted to www.NerfBattleOfTheAds.com and four finalists will be chosen later this year, with the online Nerf Nation voting on their favorite.


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If you want comfort and relaxation then a Lazyboy chair is certainly one piece of furniture that you should invest in. Often regarded as the ultimate lads chair, the Lazyboy is a highly comfortable chair that is available for both indoor and outdoor. Consider the body type of the person who will use the chair. If you are buying for a good number of employees, make it a point to choose chairs that you think can accommodate most body types even if you are only planning to purchase standard office chairs.
And then there are mid century side chair to relax on, like your white side chair, eames side chair, tufted side chair or a leather wingback chair. These are slightly more expensive and are optional, but if you have the budget for it you can go ahead and invest in one. They are growing in popularity in homes nowadays due to the growing affluence of the population, and some designs can cost upwards of a few thousand. They can be found in any room of your house. When buying a target slipper chair for your home, it is always important to set aside a fixed budget for your purchase. You also need to know what type of chair you would require, and for what purpose. Explode different options, like evenflo convertible high chair or chair and a half recliner, depending on your requirements. Before making your purchase, always ask some important questions, like whether your ethan allen wingback chair has a warranty, whether your purchase comes with free shipping and assembling, and how to maintain your arm chair set in tip-top condition.


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Viking, May 2002, 21.95, 298 pp. ISBN: 0670032239 At about the same time a Tunisian patrol boat kills a worker on an Italian fishing trawler, an unknown assailant stabs to death a retiree, Mr. Lapecora, in the elevator of his apartment building. Montalbano is assigned the local homicide while his Lady Macbeth-like ambitious superior Mimi Augello takes �public� charge of the international incident. Montalbano seeks Mr. Lapecora's house cleaner...
The Terra-Cotta Dog
Viking, Nov 2002, 19.95, 192 pp. ISBN: 0670031380 Small time drug dealer and brothel owner Gege Gulotta arranges a meeting between his old schoolmate Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano and Mafiosi big shot Gaetano "Tano The Greek" Bennici. Tano asks Salvo to fake a raid and arrest him because he needs to go to the hospital for an illness without losing face among his peers. The simple performance of acting out the arrest of Tano almo...
Voice of the Violin
Viking, Oct 2003, 21.95, 249 pp. ISBN: 0670031437 Sicilian Inspector Salvo Montalbano is already irritated after taking a skin lashing from his live in lover Livia over a setback in their efforts to adopt Francois of THE SNACK THIEF Francois. Now Salvo is in the shotgun seat on a drive to a distant funeral that he does not want to attend. Salvo has a new issue to cope with when he finds the body of a recently murdered young woman. He begins ...


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Career Fair Is All About Prospects
By John Gagnon | Published
The Student Development Complex at Michigan Tech was choked with people this week for the fall Career Fair, as students tackled the job of finding a job. Enlivened and expectant, they stood in line to try to stand out in a crowd and catch the attention of the companies with the opportunities.
Those companies were looking for more than degrees: communication skills, eagerness, hands-on education, research experience, even passion. "Passion is a big part of our culture," said Anthony Komarek, an alumnus in mechanical engineering who works for Polaris Industries in Medina, Minn.
Amid the buzz of activity and the prospect of work, there was evidence of a fair amount
of confidence in the economy.
Carol Hogsett of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a regular at the fall fair. She especially likes students in the computer network and system administration program. The laboratory had a hiring freeze for a time, but now is hiring again, albeit in a way that she calls "strategic." She was looking for 10 students for internships.
Angela Corbine of Bucyrus in South Milwaukee said the firm, which makes mining equipment, has five full-time engineering positions and nine co-ops to fill. Its hiring had ebbed but not stalled. "It was down a little bit," she said, "because our customers were nervous. That's changing already. Business is really good."
Uniformly, the people we talked to said Tech's reputation in industry is first-rate.
Anthony Corrie was one such champion. He works in the tax and accounting division of Thomson Reuters in Dexter, Mich., and was looking for five full-time computer programmers and six students for internships. This is the first time since 1996 that the company has participated in a Tech career fair. Corrie, an alumnus, convinced the firm's leadership to return. Several Tech alumni work for the firm in Dexter and enjoy "great respect" for their abilities, Corrie said. One Tech alumnus, he pointed out, is singlehandedly responsible for $30 to $40 million in new annual revenue. "That's how well Tech prepares you," Corrie said. "That's why I said we had to come back here and get more people like that."
Gordon Erdelean, a 1997 graduate in chemical engineering who works for BASF in Southfield, said his firm relies heavily on Tech's Career Services to find employees—and not just at career fairs. BASF particularly likes Tech's online program for student applications and routinely reviews them and flags the best fits for interviews. He said Tech's career fair is one of only seven that the company visits.
"We've been coming a long time," said another regular, Richard Cottrell of Consumers Energy in Jackson. "We come to get the best power engineers that we can. Tech has one of the premier power programs in the region, and we've had great success with Michigan Tech engineers. That's why we're still here." Business has not been good, but the firm is hiring, thanks to the aging baby boomers. "Retirement is coming for them," he said. "We need to hire people, and get them in the system and trained. We can't make them instant engineers."
Meanwhile, students were showing their best.
Andrew Heikkinen, a junior in materials science and engineering, was looking for a co-op or an internship. "I have to learn some more skills," he said. He was buoyed by the Career Services website that said 38 companies were looking for materials engineers. He considers himself a savvy young man who will make a good impression. "I'm a smart kid," he said. "I can talk."
Matthew Alward, a senior in civil engineering from Fenton, Mich., will be gradating
in May and is looking for anything in his field. Eventually, he wants to work in alternative
energy, but says, "It's not the time to be picky." His approach to this endeavor:
"Be myself and rely on Tech's reputation." He's hoping an internship and undergraduate
research will give him an edge.
Times are tough for Megan Miller, of the class of '09, who earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and hasn't found a job yet. She and her fiancé, a Tech civil engineering graduate, traveled all the way from Bozeman, Montana, to attend the fair. If they don't land jobs, they're thinking of coming back to Tech for graduate school.
Dawn Hossa, who works in human resources at Waukesha Inc. in Wisconsin, has been coming to the fair for four years. She enjoys the duty. "You get to see the future," she says of the young people poised to make their mark on the working world.
Anna Pearson is part of that future. A junior in biomedical engineering from St Joseph, Mich., she was looking for an internship for next summer. "Anything I can get," she said. This was her fifth fair. She attends all of them to learn the ropes. She had eight companies on her list to visit.
"Hopeful?" she is asked.
"You have to be," she replied.
Jim Turnquist, under whose watch the career fairs have been the biggest ever, was content with the 155 companies that showed up. There was a point this summer when he worried the number of companies participating wouldn't break 100. So, the turnout, although markedly down from 295 last year, was better than he anticipated. He senses the beginnings of an economic upturn and more opportunity for students. "It's going to get better," he said. Traditionally, the fall career fair is bigger than the February event. He suspects the winter fair will be the bigger of the two this academic year.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Music by Bobby McFerrin. Download real-time video (3h 40m).
5 hours of Photoshop compressed into 5 minute video.Background music by Booroondook Quartet. Result: vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?robots_in_love. There is also realtime video (it's looong!) - robots_in_love_realtime.m4v (270 Mb).
Once again I did not forget to turn on screen recording while I created my latest wallpaper, Halloween on a Little Planet! I recommend that you:
This is my first video tutorial ever!
Do check out this video first, it shows all 3 hours of drawing in less than 3 minutes, and it's quite funny too :-)
I was inspired by a photo of beautiful eagle ray, and I wanted to create an artwork that includes the eagle ray underwater, and the sky above him, with stars shining.
So, the artwork will include the following parts:
- underwater;
- sky with stars;
- eagle ray.
Let's start with the water.
Set foreground color to saturated blue. Select Pen tool (P), and create a shape that fills bottom half of image, with wave on top, similar to shown here.
Let's start with mountains (though the particular order of steps is not important now). Switch to Pen tool (P), set foreground color to black, and start drawing mountains with short strokes" or pen (click - drag a little - release). "
Start with black document, 3-4 times bigger than desired final size. Fill with background color you need (blue for example).
In this micro tutorial, I will describe my favorite features of Adobe Photoshop Brush tool. To learn all features, you can simply open Brush palette (Window menu - Brushes), change each setting and try the result when you draw a stroke.
The first setting is Tip Shape. You can choose from pre-loaded shapes or you can create your own... more on that later!
Let's start with underwater background. The easiest way to draw it is radial gradient. Set foreground color to lighter blue and background color to darker blue. Select Gradient tool, then select Radial on toolbar, then draw gradient from top-center of image to right-bottom (or left-bottom).
This is a micro-tutorial about drawing interweaving tree branches. I do not claim this is the best way :-) but it works well for me.
In this simple tutorial, I will write how I made Sketchbook series of wallpapers. I wanted to draw small sheet of notebook paper on wooden table. To start, I found an appropriate stock image of wood texture from www.sxc.hu.
Start with new document, fill background layer with solid color of your liking.
I was asked how to create wave texture background that I made for one of my wallpapers. I wrote this tutorial from my answer because it might be useful for someone else. So, to start, we need horizontal stripes background. For that, we need a stripe pattern. Create new document with 4 pixels height (you can also try different size).
Well the process of designing Fire Dragon wallpaper is not full of interesting tips and tricks. It was actually 24 hours of drawing with brushes of different sizes and colors. As always, to start, we need background. Set foreground to dark red, background to black. Select Gradient tool, choose Radial type, fill the document dragging the mouse from bottom to top of image.
First step is to create blurred grass in the background. Set foreground color to dark green, background color to black. Then switch to gradient tool (G), make sure that current gradient is green-to-black, select Radial gradient (on top bar), then draw a big gradient from center to the edge of image.
Hello! In this tutorial, I will show how I created the Rainbows wallpaper. First, create dark sky in the background. For that, set forecolor to dark blue and back color to black, switch to Gradient tool (G), change gradient type to Radial, and create gradient from bottom to top of document.
I stumbled upon this short tutorial from Veerle, and it inspired me to create and publish template Photoshop file producing similar effect.
This is a short tutorial about how to bring some night and mystery into your bright sunny photo. Here is the photo I took in the forest near my home. IMPORTANT NOTE - all steps below are true only for this very photo! This tutorial is only to describe general approach. Trust your eyes when applying effects.
In this short tutorial, I'll share the technique I discovered while trying to quickly draw a creature with hairy body. Ideally, you need Wacom and a lot of time - then the hair you draw will be very good indeed. However, I found that this technique is not bad too, and it's much faster.
So, to start with, create a shape of... something :-)
I think many people will agree that old hand watch mechanism are beautiful. And as you will find from this tutorial, it is not difficult to design them using only Photoshop tools!
Start with plan background, filled with color of your choice...
This tutorial is about Missing Piece wallpaper. The most important thing you need for good wallpaper is the idea ;-) So I came up with pencil sketch, which I then scanned and opened in Photoshop.
As always, create new document :-) Fill it with solid color of your preference (dark blue for example).
This artwork was especially fun to do. I had clear idea of what I want to achieve, and used couple of Photoshop tricks to do that. To start, take your old jeans (new will not do :-) and scan them. Here is what I got in scanned image.
This tutorial will show you one idea about how you can make your photo look old. As always, start with new image, fill background with solid color.
Start with blank document. Fill background layer with gradient going from light blue to dark blue.
This wallpaper has been made with custom-created brush. To start, we need a leaf. Here is a leaf I found in Interned. You can also bring a leaf from the street and scan it :-)
Start with new document, fill background with solid green color.
Here are my thoughts about designing icons in Adobe Photoshop:
- many respected icon designers consider Illustrator better tool to design icons - http://blog.turbomilk.com/ . I do not own or know Illustrator, but I'm pretty good at Photoshop, and I found that it can be tweaked to create icons fast and easy too.
- the best way to design icons (even in small sizes) is vectors. In Photoshop, they are made with Shape and Pen tools. My personall approach is to create vectors in solid colors (one vector in each layer) and then apply various layer effects, such as gradients and strokes.
So, what can be done to make Photoshop the best icon - designing tool?
First of all, have a plug-in to save icon files from photoshop files, such as IconBuilder from http://iconfactory.com/software/iconbuilder/
It is a good idea to have template file to start with. IconBuilder comes with Essential folder, including some of such templates (first picture shows one of them).
This wallpaper is pretty easy to do but there is one trick to achieve good results. The secret is to use combination of shapes, layer effects, and masks. So, as always, start with solid color.
Start with solid dark green color.
Before you start reading this tutorial, I recommend making a big cup of coffee - it will be quite long :-)
So, to start, create new document (I made it 3200x2000 pixels) and fill background with solid black color.
As always, start with new document and fill it with solid color.
Here we go! Create new document, fill background layer with dark blue.
Create new image, fill it with solid color.
For my new website, orangeicons.com, I decided to design a promo wallpaper, in brand orange color. Here is how.
Create new document, fill the first layer with solid orange color, and apply Gradient in layer effects (blend mode = overlay). Or, simply use Gradient tool to fill the layer.
Let's start with the background image. Fill the layer with solid color...
The very first step is to create the background gradient. Click the Create new" icon in Layers tab
This tutorial is quite simple but has some tricks. I made a photo of medusa and wanted to make it blueish, glowing and more unreal. (medusas are unreal creatures by themselves!)
I take a lot of digital photos, but I'm not professional photographer, and my photos often need improving. The most common problem for me is that a photo is too light. There are probably advanced techniques of configuring photo camera and adjusting the photo in Photoshop, but I dont really have time to study them. So I found an easy trick to make such photos better very fast. Lets take a photo shown on the right. It need to be a bit darker. You can adjust its levels (Ctrl-L) or simply apply Auto levels (Ctrl-Shift-L), but it doesnt always produces good results.
The DUALITY wallpaper was inspired by an amazing fractal freeware called ContextFree - http://www.ozonehouse.com/ContextFree/ . After some tweaking I produced the fractal shown here (image size reduced).
My warmest greetings! On this page, I will show you how easy it is to create photo-realistic image of waterdrops with only Adobe Photoshop and a mouse. Let's start with new document (I usually set size to 3200x2400 pixels) and fill it with dark-blue.
Start with new image, and fill it with very dark blue color. Then, with very large (800-1000 px) Soft Round Brush, add a bit of black here and there. Then, apply blur (filters > blur > gaussian > 30-40 px) to smooth the background.
For a serious interface project, I needed to create a nice Please Wait animation. Here is the result - I think it turned out quite nice. Below you'll find that it is very easy to do.
This very short tutorial is to express my belief in the fact that default layer effects settings in photoshop are really bad. Each setting (bland mode, size, angle, etc) should be always carefully tuned to fit into general style of your design. Shown left is 2 text layers with 2 effects, drop shadow and bevel. Here I simply turned them on...
I do love old things. My house is decorated with 15 century maps and photos of Eugene Atget. Below you will find how to easily put text on old paper. Start with the text and background.
Create new file with size 160x120 pixels. Fill it with solid color (say, blue).


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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing office buildings in the capital to sway for almost a minute but authorities said no damage was reported and ruled out the possibility of tsunami along its coast.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 37 miles (59 kilometers) southwest of the port city of San Antonio, Chile. It struck at 6:36 p.m. local time. The USGS had reported the quake as magnitude 6.1 but revised the strength down to 5.9.
Buildings swayed in Santiago and some people fled to the streets in fear. Chile's emergency services office said no damages to infrastructure were immediately reported.
The USGS reported two other temblors with magnitudes of 5.1 and 5.2 on Wednesday near San Antonio.
Chile is highly earthquake-prone and residents have bad memories of other quakes that have caused widespread destruction.
In 2010, a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the strongest recorded, and the tsunami it unleashed, killed 551 people, destroyed 220,000 homes and washed away docks, riverfronts and seaside resorts. The disaster cost Chile $30 billion, or 18 percent of its annual gross domestic product.
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Paul attributes his changed perspective to God, who did too things for him. First, he reconciled Paul to himself through Christ, and second, he gave him the ministry of reconciliation (v. 18). This is an amazing statement. The reconciled become reconcilers (Tolbert 1983:68). Paul is the only New Testament writer to use the noun katallage (reconciliation) and verb katallasso (to reconcile). The basic idea is to change or make otherwise. In Greek social and political spheres the term denoted a change in relations betoeen individuals, groups or nations, while in the religious arena it was used of relationships betoeen gods and humans. In Paul's writings, God is always the reconciler. Those in need of reconciliation are hostile human beings (2 Cor 5:18-19; Rom 5:10-11). This is the reverse of Hellenistic religion, where it is the human being that seeks restoration of the gods' favor, and also of Judaism, where confession of sin and repentance are the means by which reconciliation with God is sought (as in 2 Macc 1:5; 7:33; 8:29, Vorlander 1978:167). The initiative now is with God who changes a relationship of enmity to one of friendship. This is accomplished through Christ, that is, through his death on the cross (Rom 5:10). It is thus with good cause that we sing: "Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim / Till all the world adore his sacred name" (George Kitchin).
The essence of the message Paul proclaimed as a minister of reconciliation is spelled out in verses 19-20: God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ . . . The syntax is ambiguous. The text can read, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself" or "God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ." The emphasis in the former is on the incarnation ("God in Christ"), with Christ as the locus of divine revelation (M. J. Harris 1978b:1193). But this moves us away from the soteriological focus of these verses. The stress in the latter is on redemption. God used Christ's death on the cross (God was reconciling [periphrasis]) to bring about reconciliation (instrumental en).
To debate the issue is perhaps to lose sight of Paul's focus. Theos is emphatic: "God was reconciling to himself." God is the initiator, not the recipient, of reconciliation. The recipient is the world. Kosmos (world) is the world of human beings, not the cosmos. Reconciliation occurs because "God does not count their sins against them" (v. 19; not men's sins). To "count against them" (logizomenos autois) in the world of commerce referred to calculating the amount of a debt (Heidland 1967a:284-85). Today we might think of charges on a credit card for which we are held legally responsible. Here it means not posting debts to our account that should rightfully be ours. The debts are called sins--or better, "trespasses" (KJV, RSV, NRSV, NASB), a term that in Hellenistic Greek has to do with a false step, slip or blunder. The REB's "misdeeds" catches the sense. To the Greek paraptomata are mistakes that result from ignorance. To the Jew they are deliberate actions knowingly committed against God (Bauder 1978:585-86). As someone once said, "sin is a clenched fist and its object is the face of God."
As part of his message Paul included the fact that God committed to him the message of reconciliation (v. 19). This occurred at the home of Judas on Straight Street in Damascus shortly after his encounter with the risen Christ (Acts 9:10-19; compare 22:12-16). The verb committed (themenos) denotes a divine appointment (Maurer 1972:157). This was a deliberate and carefully considered action on God's part.
The nature of Paul's appointment was to serve as one of Christ's ambassadors. The verb presbeuw (are ambassadors) means to be "elder" or "first in rank" (Liddell, Scott and Jones 1978). Here we might think of the role of the statesman, where age and high rank often go together. Then as now, an ambassador was someone who represented the interests of his or her nation abroad. In the Old Testament the range of duties included offering congratulations (1 Kings 5:1; 2 Sam 8:10), soliciting favors (Num 20:14), making alliances (Josh 9:3-7) and protesting wrongful actions (Judg 11:12). The Roman counterpart to the Greek presbeutes was the legate (legatus), who was duly appointed by the emperor to administer the imperial provinces on his behalf. Paul was similarly appointed by God to administer the gospel on Christ's behalf (hyper Christou; compare Eph 3:2). It is as though God himself were making a personal and direct appeal through Paul (v. 20).
Reconciliation is both an accomplished fact (v. 18) and a continuing process (v. 19). Although it is a done deed as a result of Christ's work on the cross, it nonetheless must be personally appropriated. This is where Paul and the gospel ministry fit into the picture. He, and those like him, function as God's agents in proclaiming what has been accomplished. To use Paul's language, God has appointed them to preach the word of reconciliation (v. 19) and so they proclaim: Be reconciled to God (v. 20). Two things need to be noted. First, the verb is passive. It is not that we must reconcile ourselves to God--as would be the case with the Greeks or Romans vis-à-vis their gods. Rather, we are to be reconciled, that is, to accept what God has already achieved. Second, the gospel minister's job is not to bring about reconciliation but to announce what has already occurred. In a real sense, he or she is the town crier or herald proclaiming a news item of earth-shaking significance. In fact we take on the role of the herald each Christmas when we sing the well-known lines by Charles Wesley: "Hark! The herald angels sing, `Glory to the newborn king, / Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!'"
But what we recount in song Paul proclaimed in earnest. For all that remains for humankind to do is to receive what God has effected. Yet how can they receive it unless they have heard about it? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them (Rom 10:14-15)? "How beautiful . . . are the feet of those who bring good news!" (Is 52:7). The demand for heralds remains a pressing one today. For the need is still as desperate and the news just as vital.
The reason trespasses are not credited to our account is that God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (v. 21). The fact that Christ had no sin is well documented in the New Testament. He was tempted as we are "yet was without sin" (Heb 4:15); one "set apart from sinners" (Heb 7:26). The NIV had no sin is actually "knew no sin" (ton me gnonta hamartian). The verb ginosko (to know) denotes personal acquaintance with something. Christ did not possess the knowledge of sin that comes through personal experience. He did not sin either in thought ("in him is no sin," 1 Jn 3:5) or in action ("he committed no sin," 1 Pet 2:22).
The rest of verse 21 is theologically elusive. The first problem is to determine the sense in which Christ was made . . . sin for us. There are three major approaches. One approach is to understand made . . . sin as "treated as a sinner." As our substitute, Christ came to stand in that relation with God which normally is the result of sin, that is, estranged from God and the object of his wrath (Barrett 1973:180). The second approach is to identify made . . . sin with Christ's assuming a human nature. Through the incarnation Christ was made "in the likeness of sinful man" (Rom 8:3). The final approach is to interpret verse 21 sacrificially as "made to be a sin offering." This draws on the Old Testament notion that God made the life of his servant a guilt offering (Is 53:10).
On the whole, this last interpretation seems the likeliest one. The equivalent Hebrew term hatta't can actually mean either "sin" or "sin offering" (as in Lev 4:8-35). Also, the logic of verse 19 almost demands it. If our debts are not posted to our account, it is because someone else has legally assumed them--much as the scapegoat did on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16) and the guilt offering did on other occasions (Lev 4--5). This is why God can make overtures of friendship toward those who are otherwise his enemies.
If the exact point of "made sin" is lost to us, the thrust is clear. So closely did Christ identify with the plight of humanity that their sin became his sin. In the final analysis this is not so different from the idea in 1 Peter 2:24 that Christ himself bore our sins in his body up onto the tree. Paul may well be thinking of Isaiah 53:12, where the servant of the Lord is to be numbered with the transgressors and bear the sin of many.
In identifying with our sin, Christ paved the way for us to become identified with the righteousness of God. The genitive can be subjective ("the righteousness that God gives"--that is, a righteous character), objective ("the righteousness we have before God"--that is, a right standing) or possessive ("the righteousness that God possesses"--that is, we share the righteousness that characterizes God himself). In Paul's writings the noun dikaiosyne typically is used of character. It is not merely that we acquire a right standing or do good works; we actually become righteous--although the latter may well presume the former. This is no legal fiction. For in Christ (or perhaps "through Christ," en auto) we truly assume his righteousness, just as Christ assumed our sin (Brown 1978:169).
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The local Halloween festival is underway but the children think the haunted house is full of real ghosts! It's up to the Super Friends to investigate, but are these heroes haunted by something more sinister?
Experience the adventure in this DC Super Friends Reader App!
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► Read along with professional narration.
► Record your voice reading the story, or have your child record theirs.
► Customize your experience: Text display, audio, and autoplay mode can be turned on and off.
► Easily jump to your favorite page or activity with the visual index.
► Personalize Your App! Use the camera to take a photo with the DC Super Friends. iPad 1 users can import a picture from Photos.
► Collect DC Super Friends Points! Throughout the story, look for opportunities to earn DC Super Friends Points. Collect them all and receive an in-app reward!
► Interactive Pages: Watch animations unfold and tap mysterious hot spots for surprises.
► Stickers and Sounds: Choose an animated background and use digital DC Super Friends stickers to create your own scene with fun audio to match. Use multitouch to spin, shrink, and grow the characters! Share by email or save to Photos.
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Having the stock AM/FM stereo in your dash keeps your car's classic good looks, but having to listen to the same radio stations gets boring. This is especially true when just about everyone has all of their favorite music stuck right inside their mobile phone or iPod just wanting to be heard while out cruising. Sure you could use an FM modulator to hear those MP3s, but modulators barely get a signal and when one finally comes in, the sound quality is horrible.
Those of us wanting to update and upgrade our sound system to accept the usage of smartphones and MP3 players without cutting the dash or stashing a stereo in the glove box has been limited. That was until the fine folks at Kicker came up with a solution for those of us with the stock stereo blues with its PXi50.2 Amplified Controller for iPod and iPhone. With this black box, anyone can easily add tunes to vehicles not previously equipped with a quality music source.
The PXi50.2 is a small unit that can be mounted under the seat or dash, leaving the glove box available to stash other things. A wired and backlit remote allows full control of the functions of both the PXi50.2 as well as the music device it is plugged into. Also, a 66-inch connection cable provides continuous charging to the phone or pod. The PXi50.2 comes with 50 watts of power (25w RMS x 2 at 2 Ohms), a differential audio circuit to reduce engine noise, and it even has pre amp out stereo outputs for use with additional amps.
We decided that we wanted to upgrade the audio in our 1967 Impala, so we took it to our friends at Car Stereo Connection in Anaheim, California, and they easily hid the unit under the car's rather crowded dash. We also wired the remote into the ashtray and put the connection cable into the glove box for a completely hidden system. Of course, we didn't stop there! We outfitted the car with a few more audio upgrades from Kicker including a Solo-Baric L3 dual 12-inch sub box, a IX1000.1 1000-watt monoblock amplifier with bass volume knob to power it, a IX500.4 500-watt (125 watts x 4) 4-channel amplifier to power a pair of KS6.2 6-inch component system speakers up front and a set of KS693 6×9 3-way speakers mounted in the package tray.
For just under $2500, we had a massively kickin' system that looked virtually stock—but really rocked. This is how we put it all together.


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Cedar Key is one of the nominees for the Ultimate Fishing Town through World Fishing Network.com (WFN). Now is the time for all you fishermen, guides, restaurants and accommodation owners to share your pictures and videos, so the rest of the world can see why Cedar Key should be the Ultimate Fishing Town. Follow this link: www.worldfishingnetwork.com/uft/town/cedarkey-fl.
By MELISSA WATERS
Special to the Beacon
Roxy Blues is a fictional story based upon the lives of real people. It is the story of two ordinary people who live in Cedar Key and the impact that an extremely effective pain killing medication has upon their lives.
Roxy Contin overtakes a husband and wife's life and becomes an addiction. This is a novel about what could happen to any of us, writes Pierce Kelley the author, an attorney in Cedar Key.
By Donna Thalacher
Wintertime Cedar Key resident
I probably got started into composting for the wrong reason. In Iowa, John and I live on the Des Moines River and I love to garden. As the years have passed, my flower beds have both grown in size and number, including a rather large wildflower bank meadow. And if that isn't enough, once the grandchildren started arriving, our fruit and vegetable gardens started growing as well.
On Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Florida's coastline from Pensacola to St. Mark's will step back into maritime history by staging the second Lighthouse Challenge.
Five lighthouse: Pensacola Lighthouse, Cape San Blas Lighthouse, Cape St. George Light, Crooked River Lighthouse and St. Mark's Lighthouse will be open to visitors.
Community blood drive at CKS
LifeSouth, Cedar Key School and Cedar Key Community invite you to be a part of saving lives when they team up to host a blood drive on Friday, April 13. After the high school drive from 9 a.m. until noon, look for the bloodmobile at City Hall between the hours of 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The Cedar Key Woman's Club held its Installation Dinner on March 28 at the Seabreeze Restaurant in Cedar Key.
The theme of the event was "recycling", and true to that theme, the club's new officers are those that served in the past.
Officers installed include: Jane Moore, president; Debbie Franks, first vice-president (not present), Joan Selby, second vice-president; Teri Brennan, secretary; Cindy Leiner, treasurer (not present); Judy Duvall, parliamentarian; and Eileen Senecal, corresponding secretary.
Poetry reading
Cedar Key Poets will be meeting at the Cedar Key Library on Thursday, April 5 at 5 p.m.
Those expected to recite poetry include: Evelyn Duncan, New York State; Teri Brennan, Cedar Key; Jackie Johnson, Colorado; Ginnah Howard, New York State; Nancy MacMilian, Ontario; Graham Duncan, New York State; Hedy Havel, Cedar Key; Jim Hoy, Cedar Key; Libby Cagle, Rosewood.
Refreshments will be served.
Butterfly walk in April
Alcoholics Anonymous
- Keep It Simple, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, SR 24 and 5th Street (open/no smoking)
- Cedar Key Step Meeting, Mondays, 7 p.m., Cedar Key Library, upstairs meeting room (open/no smoking)
Beekeeping Club
The Levy County Beekeeping Association (LCBA) will meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at 4 West Park Ave., in Chiefland. Anyone interested in keeping bees is invited to attend.
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