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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very slap-dash story. Follett relies far too much on coincidence. A few problems i noticed as well. He says that Lev spent a lot of time at Crystal Beach when living in Buffalo. He also crossed over into Canada. Crystal Beach IS in Canada. The editor of the book needs to look up the meaning of "prevaricated". Last petty complaint. When the soldier is machine gunned just before the war ends, I think he would have more than just "a number of small holes in his chest". Great book. Really enjoyed it. Love this period of history. I had taken a few courses on european history in university, covering from the turn of the century through the end of second world war, so greatly looking forward to the next chapter in this trilogy. 4 stars. I have just begun to read this book. I have heard rave reviews. Loved the audiobook of Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants". The story is incredibly rich and the narration is spectacular. Yes, some of the characters were a little unbelievable--especially all of the strong women in the 1910s--but they were some of my favorites, especially Maude and Ethel, so I'm willing to overlook it. I think I actually like this better than Pillars. Started Winter of the World immediately after finishing. I was worried when I initially saw the number of negative reviews of this book on Amazon - until I realized that 95 % of the negative reviews are people complaining about the e-book pricing - and few of them have actually read the book. This is a great book. It gets a little wordy at times, but it is a wonderful tale of intrigue, romance, and political turmoil during World War I. The characters are three-dimensional, with private, public, and professional lives and personalities, and despite the large cast of characters, it's easy to keep them all organized. The dialogue is crisp, and several of the characters manage some excellent one-liners. If I had to nitpick, I would say that the character outcomes are a bit unrealistic - not one of the main characters is killed during World War I, despite several of them being part of major battles. A Welsh brother and sister, both working class miners, both manage to become MPs, and the two Russian brothers, both penniless peasants, become an American businessman and a member of the Bolshevik inner circle. It would be more realistic if at least one of them wasn't so lucky.
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Celine Dion
After five consecutive years of sold-out shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Celine embarked on a year-long worldwide tour in 2008-2009, visiting five continents, 25 countries and playing to more than 3 million fans. Following the conclusion of the tour, and after taking a year off to enjoy some valuable family time, the five-time Grammy award winner, Celine is returning to Las Vegas for another set of shows at The Colosseum.
When: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Where: The Colosseum, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas
Cost: $55 - $250
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Concert, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, The Strip, Musical, Music Concert
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Haiti: Three Months After the EarthquakeApril 12, 2010Haiti 2010 @ Michael Goldfarb/MSF The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 brought even greater uncertainty to a population that was already extremely vulnerable. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Haiti since 1991 and was therefore able to react immediately to the earthquake, working out of temporary facilities after its own structures were damaged, performing emergency triage and surgical interventions wherever possible, and bringing in hundreds of tons of supplies on an almost daily basis, including an inflatable hospital, as part of one of the largest responses in the organization's history. All of this was done with the active and tireless participation of Haitian staff members who had themselves suffered great losses in the earthquake. Now, three months later, MSF is continuing to develop strategies to respond to the evolving realities on the ground and serve both the immediate and the longer-term needs of the Haitian people. As a medical humanitarian organization, MSF has been focused on the health-care situation, which, in this case, has included consideration of current living conditions and their potential health implications. It is important to remember that despite recent improvements in Haiti's health care sector, medical services were limited and inequitably provided even before the January 12 earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands more, and left more than one million homeless. The country had the highest maternal mortality rate in the western hemisphere. Public hospitals lacked staff, drugs, and equipment, and numerous factors impeded access to services. Fees charged in health structures, for instance, rendered even basic care prohibitively expensive for the bulk of the population. The earthquake worsened the situation, reducing to rubble much of Port-au-Prince's infrastructure, damaging numerous health-care facilities—the Ministry of Health estimated that over 60 percent of the medical structures in the areas most effected by the earthquake were either damaged or destroyed—and forcing large swathes of the population into makeshift camps where food, water, hygiene, and medical care were substandard at best and, at worst, non-existent. Haiti 2010 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF At the start of this year, MSF was operating four health structures in Port-au-Prince, providing, among other things, primary and secondary care, trauma and emergency treatment, and surgical and obstetric services. After the earthquake, as MSF rushed to respond to overwhelming medical needs, that number rose to 26—a number that included hospitals, post-operative care facilities, rehabilitation centers, and general medical centers. Following the consolidation of some facilities and a shift in priorities, MSF now manages 19 health structures along with 3 mobile clinics. MSF also runs 16 operating theaters and has more than 1,200 beds available at its various locations. Overall, since the earthquake, MSF has provided medical care to more than 92,000 patients and performed nearly 5,000 surgeries. Evolving NeedsIn the days immediately following the earthquake, as people with complex fractures, head injuries, crush injuries, and severe open wounds made their way to MSF facilities, emergency intervention and lifesaving surgeries were the clear priorities. Soon after, the imperative was to widen the scope of services offered and to locate and retrofit new facilities in which to work, be it under tents, inside shipping containers, in school rooms, in a tourism office, in an old bottling factory, even in an inflatable hospital that MSF shipped into Haiti and erected in a field in Port-au-Prince. The needs shifted to post-operative care—meaning MSF dramatically scaled up the provision of medical services it offered before the earthquake—along with psychological care and physiotherapy, the distribution of tents and basic relief items, and water and sanitation activities. Among the survivors are a great many people who suffered serious and complex injuries that required emergency medical intervention at the time and that necessitate long-term follow-up care. These patients must have access to quality health care. So, too, must several other groups of patients, including, but not limited to, those with chronic conditions that were being treated before the earthquake, women in need of obstetric care, children, and people who have contracted (or will contract) illnesses linked to the dire living conditions in which so many now find themselves. Access to CareHaiti 2010 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF As MSF has documented in the past, many Haitians with limited resources were forced to forego medical treatment because of the fee structure associated with basic care. Before the earthquake, some 70 percent of the population lived on less than $2 per day, and work is even scarcer now than it used to be. As the Haitian government, the international community, and donor nations and agencies continue to develop plans for relief and reconstruction in Haiti, MSF urges all involved to make a priority of using the resources that have been pledged to build the kind of sufficiently funded, supplied, and staffed medical infrastructure that can address the nation's health care needs and remain widely accessible to the Haitian population. The expressed will to do so must be maintained and transformed into concrete actions. MSF's ObjectivesHaiti 2010 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF MSF's objectives have remained consistent, combining the work it was doing in Haiti before January 12 and the work made necessary by the earthquake and its aftermath. MSF aims to provide primary and secondary health care for victims of the earthquake—including surgery, post-operative care, trauma services, pediatrics, management of chronic conditions, and general healthcare—and to support improvements in the dire living conditions of the displaced through water and sanitation services and the distribution of necessary non-food items. MSF is meeting these objectives in the following ways: Emergency Response
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MSF's Operational ExpendituresIn an extraordinary display of public support, MSF offices worldwide received private donations amounting to more than €87 million to support the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. MSF is extremely grateful for this generosity, as these funds have allowed our teams to bring medical, psychological, logistical, and water and sanitation assistance to the most affected people and help them recover from the devastation. As of April 1, MSF had spent or committed to spend approximately €40 million on its medical humanitarian work in post-earthquake Haiti. It is currently defining the shape and scope its work will take beyond the emergency phase and in the years that follow. Based on available information, MSF currently estimates that it will spend approximately €70 million in 2010. Expenditures are based on current and projected needs. MSF will continue to focus its activities within the organization's competency and capacity in order to provide medical assistance to the Haitian people as long as it is required. HOSPITALS / SURGERY
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Port-au-Prince: DISTRIBUTIONSMSF is distributing non-food items (NFI), inlcuding basic necessities and hygeine kits, in a host of locations both inside and outside of the capital. All told, MSF has distributed more than 33,000 NFI kits and nearly 22,000 tents in: Ecole Saint Louis, Delmas 33, Delmas 24, Tabarre, Sarthe, and Cite Soleil in Port-au Prince; in Carrefour including the Grace Village Camp; on the coast west of Carrefour in Petit Goave and Grand Goave; in Léogâne and in Jacmel. WATER AND SANITATIONMSF has joined other actors working in the water and sanitation sectors in several locations both inside and outside of Port-au-Prince. All told, MSF has been distributing 870 cubic meters of water per day and has built 450 latrines and 101 showers in areas where tens of thousands of people are living. MSF is also cleaning and emptying latrines in order to guarantee minimal hygiene conditions for people living in makeshift camps. MSF has started handing over some water-and-sanitation activities to other organizations. Related:Tags: Haiti Earthquake 2010, Haiti, Natural Disaster |


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Living Room Renovation Ideas – Decorating Tips
Living room is the most important part of your home as it is the first impression of your whole home. You can either convert your living room into a formal place or a place to sit with family that has a coziness. For any type of living room renovation, it is the furniture, curtains, rugs or carpet, wall color and accessories that matter the most. So while decorating it, consider all and your budget.FurnitureBefore selecting the furniture make sure what style you want. It can be Traditional, Contemporary, Victorian, European and mix of two. There is no hard and fast rule of sticking to one style as you can use your own creativity to create the style of your own. Also decide the color scheme in advance as your whole efforts will go waste at the end if there is a big mismatch. Once you have decided that shop for .. more»


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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Design Your Life: Week 5
Cathy reckons that "less is different" and that white space is "a seriously fabulous weapon in a scrapbooker's pocket of wow." Yes, really.
I don't know. I'm not yet converted, although I do like how this finished LO looks.
What about you? Are you a less-is-more kind of scrapper?
And I'm always open to suggestions for better ways to photograph a 12x12 LO ...
7 comments:
- cate said...
I love white space! although a little piece of me wonders if I'm finding Cathy's style a little too... austere... these days... but I think you're doing a great job with the class layouts!
- 6 April 2011 10:35
- Sian said...
I love using white space, but then I load up the bits of the page I do use!
I can't photograph layouts striaght when I hang over them, I know that. That's why mine are usually propped up - 6 April 2011 10:44
- Cheri said...
I have trouble putting the concept of white space into action. It feels odd to me. But I'm still working on it!
- 6 April 2011 14:19
- Ladkyis said...
I definitely go along with the importance of white space. I think that embellishment must be appropriate to the picture and the journalling and if I can't get it exact I will do without. I also think I am a lazy scrapper so that's why my pages have loads of white space - that and my editorial experience
- 6 April 2011 15:09
- humel said...
I do love white space :-) I also love lots and lots of detail, *sigh!!* I think some of my favourite layouts have been those with clusters of detail and still white space around the page.....
This is lovely, this works for me :-) Sometimes having Thickers or similar for the title is enough extra embellishment.
I think maybe I don't know my own mind lol! Or I don't have a definite, firm 'style'?! - 6 April 2011 19:46
- Amy said...
I am certainly a big fan of white space and all things CZ advocates regarding design. What I found really instructional with this class was how she showed to add embellishments into an area so that white space is still visible and yet the layout is not cluttered - I still struggle with embellishments and I dare say I will until the day I hang up my scrapping tools!
- 7 April 2011 11:08
- Heather said...
I love white space but occasionally a LO demands more & I can get away with loading up the embellishments.
I use a small easel to prop my LOs up or sometimes I lay them flat on the floor & shoot them from above. I always crop the photo too!! - 8 April 2011 21:22


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Both political parties are having fits trying to solve the problem of illegal immigration in a way that proves to be a vote winner. The Democrats, at least as far as the conventional wisdom goes, have a leg up on the GOP because they are much "kinder and gentler" to the American Latino community than the Republicans.
The problem really goes deeper than that. It's the inability of anyone to come up with a reasonable, workable, comprehensive program that takes into account both America's innate, natural compassion towards those less fortunate and the need to respect and enforce the rule of law. What the country needs is solutions, not just additional rhetoric.
So far, President Barack Obama has been allowed pretty much to skate on the issue of immigration reform. People are willing to overlook his promise to resolve the question in his first term as long as he continues talking about doing "something" and implying Republican opposition to reform is grounded in poorly disguised racist sentiments.
[See a collection of political cartoons on immigration.]
It is easy to forget, as many people have, that he not only failed to take up the issue during his first four years in office he failed to even propose doing anything about it — even when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and could have passed easily legislation that granted amnesty and tax-subsidies to illegal immigrants already in the United States.
The Republicans, conversely, have organized themselves into a circular firing squad. And they are losing votes because of it, and more votes, potentially, than the hard line stance the party has taken is winning for them. The GOP is so obsessed with the problem of the illegals already here that, with a few notable exceptions like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, they cannot see the forest for the trees. Even the Republican National Committee's widely discussed blueprint for the future, the report of its Growth and Opportunity Project, treats the problem as a failure in messaging rather than a lack of success in finding a proposal that the American people will embrace.
Now that Vermont Sen. Pat Leahy, the Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced his intention to ram a comprehensive immigration reform package through his committee and onto the floor, things have once again come to a head.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Congress.]
What the Republicans do in response may be make or break for them. They should proceed with caution, fully cognizant that the Leahy gambit is more about winning votes in 2014 than it is about winning passage for any single piece of legislation.
In formulating their response, members of the GOP would be wise to consult the latest installment of Resurgent Republic's ballot research series, which looks at the views of GOP primary voters as represented by focus groups conducted in Des Moines, Iowa and Greenville,S.C.
"Majorities of Latino voters in swing states believe the Republican Party does not respect their values and concerns," the group — which was co-founded by former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie — said in a release. "This opinion results from rhetoric from a small, but vocal, number of Republicans that has characterized past immigration debates."
[Read the U.S. News Debate: Is the GOP's Problem in its Strategies or its Policies?]
Seeking to qualitatively measure the sentiments of GOP primary voters on what is admittedly a volatile issue, the results from the focus groups indicated clearly that party leaders would be mistaken if they chose to believe immigration reform was a "one-step panacea guaranteeing Republican inroads among Hispanic voters."
The key highlights from Resurgent Republic's latest research include:
- These Republican base voters strongly support legal immigration. Regardless of their individual positions on immigration reform, Republicans should open any discussion on this issue highlighting the benefits legal immigration brings to America.
- Immigration reform is not on the radar of the Republican base. They are following this issue from a distance, so Republicans seeking to pass broad based immigration policies need to make the case as to why this is necessary.
- Participants agree that mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would create more problems than it solves and they cite logistical, economic, moral and social concerns with doing so.
- Securing the border is foundational before implementing an earned citizenship process.
- In order to be acceptable for Republican primary voters, any potential pathway to citizenship should be defined as a lengthy, rigid and workable process that results in an earned status. It does not absolve wrongdoing.
- Solutions addressing undocumented immigrants should be presented in the context of alternatives. There are no easy fixes and Republican voters oppose giving President Obama carte blanche authority on this issue.
[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
It is not enough for the Republicans to point out the failings of the Obama administration, as the focus groups suggested, to solve the problems of America's Hispanic community. Immigration reform is one essential part of the discussion but so is the lack of jobs, the stagnant economy, oppressive and counter-productive government regulation and the failure of the public schools to meet the needs of the nation's children in ever increasing numbers. While crafting a proposal for immigration reform that is real and meaningful, as Rubio and others are trying to do, they must also make a renewed effort to offer policies that, in a tangible way, can be shown to promote growth and opportunity. At the bottom line, that is what Hispanics — and everyone else for that matter — really want.
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After three weeks of trial in a closely watched patent case involving genetically modified soybeans, a federal jury in St. Louis, Mo., took one hour to return a $1 billion verdict against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
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Posted March 24th, 2011 by Jennifer AllenOur Rating: :: FUN BUT LIMITED
The annual Christmas sale is on -- expect hundreds of iPhone and iPad games and apps to go on sale. We've got the big list of the best of the best right here.
A decent budget set of Bluetooth headphones with an innovative feature that allows two pairs to listen to the same source. The build quality, comfort, and sound quality are just not quite there though.


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Developing resources for social enterprise
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Recently there has been growing interest in an alternate business model, social enterprise. This is a different way of doing business that trades for a social purpose whereby the social or environmental aims of the business are of equal importance to its commercial activities. Consequently the skills required for running a successful social enterprise combine those typical of enterprise activities generally with a strong motivation and passion for social improvement. We have found that this aspect is useful in engaging researchers because at the heart of social enterprise is a strong commitment to achieving a better society, a motivation that resonates with that which typically drives the research agenda and researchers themselves. This collaborative project with Vitae has been successful in developing written and associated video materials to explore enterprise skills with early career researchers. There are plans to disseminate the resources via Vitae as part of the ongoing move to produce development resources that are freely available to HEIs as part of the research skills development agenda, this is likely to be in January 2011. -
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Ketso is an interactive, hands-on toolkit for bringing meetings and workshops to life. It is compact and portable, simple to use and accessible to everyone. Ketso extends people's ability to run effective and enjoyable workshops - virtually anywhere and in any setting. It encourages people to be creative and share in productive dialogue, while also generating real results that can be put into action. Ketso provides a set of tabletop tools that can be used to capture and display people's ideas. It consists of colourful 'branches', 'leaves' and other materials, which can be placed on a felt workspace and easily moved around in response to changing discussion. Ketso is robust and portable, and comes in a handy carrying bag, making it easy to transport to and from events. Ketso provides a series of free resources to help you run effective workshops and engagement processes - such as workshop plans and training videos in planning and running a workshop. -
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Existential crisis Zombie is concerned about his future. He is also concerned about his next meal, and about the nutritional content of brains. This signed print is based on an original painting by New York City artist and comedian, Christopher Rozzi. His Tiny Confessions series captures the innermost thoughts of our loyal companions…and even a few monsters.
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It is now two years since I moved to Calabasas to become the rabbi of a new Orthodox congregation. And there is no time like the eve of the Jewish New Year to take stock.
People said it couldn't be done. Some believed there was not much hope for an Orthodox synagogue in this community bordering the San Fernando and Conejo valleys, where expensive homes pepper the steep hills, because members would have to walk to services, and outsiders would be deterred from moving here because of the high price of housing.


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Sodic revenue soars to $47mSodic, one of the region's leading real estate development companies, has reported net consolidated revenues of EGP327 million ($47 million), thus posting an increase of 152 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Sodic concluded an op More… |
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Sodic appoints new financial officerLeading Egyptian real estate developer Sodic that Salah Shafei has resigned from his position as chief financial officer, to be succeeded by Omar El-Hamawy, effective May 31. El-Hamawy succeeds Shafei after almost six years with S More… |
Sodic eyes stable sales, ups investmentsSodic, one of Egypt's largest real estate developers, hopes to maintain last year's sales momentum as demand for upmarket residential units remains strong despite a weak economy, its managing director said. "We are ho More… |
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HC Brokerage cuts price target on SodicEgyptian luxury real estate developer Sodic's profit is likely to be hurt by the cancellation of a land deal by a government authority, HC Brokerage said, cutting its price target on the stock by 6 per cent. Sodic said in April that th More… |
Sodic swings to 2011 net lossEgyptian real estate developer Sodic said on Tuesday it fell to a net loss last year, when the industry was thrown into turmoil by challenges to state land sales and a mass uprising. Sodic, the country's third-biggest listed developer, rep More… |


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American Idol and The X Factor share a lot of similarities. Both are on Fox, both showcase untapped musical talent, and both have judges—some of the same judges, in fact.
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The Hollywood Reporter recently went inside the trailer that Cowell uses on the set of Fox's The X Factor, and it features more technology than most homes that we've seen.
The uber-mogul made a major upgrade from what he was using before. "It's like Pimp My Trailer," Cowell told THR. He's not kidding, either. Custom-built by Anderson Mobile Estates, the 1,100-square-foot mobile office features AMX touchscreens, 26 speakers, and three giant 3D TVs.
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Tom Stienstra - SF Chronicle [2006-04-25]
In the next few miles, we saw deer sipping water along the bank, a cottontail freeze at our surprising presence and then flash into the brush, and a dozen wild turkeys poking along a bluff. I told the story about my first fishing trip here, when I caught salmon on back-to-back casts that looked like whales and weighed 32 and 28 pounds. This was on the Sacramento River near Red Bluff on the first day of a 400-mile canoe expedition from Redding to San Francisco. As we paddled, we noted that we felt like Jedediah Smith, back in the mid-1820s, exploring the area for the first time - and how much of the river here is still in its wild state. To read the entire article visit the SF Chronicle website.
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It's hard to compare him to anyone, because his talents are so broad and his sound so distinctive. (The Amazon review of this disc invokes Eric Clapton, but that comparison does a disservice to Thompson -- Clapton, as we all know, is a fine guitarist, but he isn't in the same league as Thompson as a singer or songwriter, and he lacks the originality, wit, fire, darkness, richness, complexity and depth that are hallmarks of the Thompson sound.) Thompson is also unlike his peers in that, at the age of 50+, he continues to crank out records that sound fresh and bold, most recently the wonderful "Mock Tudor."
He has been around for a long time -- in the 60s he was a young guitar prodigy with the legendary Fairport Convention, before embarking on a brilliant solo career that included session work for the late, great Nick Drake and a series of magical albums with his ex-wife Linda culminating in the magnificent "Shoot Out the Lights". (The recent "Best of Richard and Linda Thompson" is a decent introduction to this period.) His extraordinarily fertile Capitol period began with 1989's "Amnesia" and concluded with his most recent release, "Mock Tudor." The enduring mystery is how a talent like this can have eluded the ears of so many over the years.
What makes the guy so great?
Read more ›Thompson's Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years (which follows in the footsteps of last year's well assembled The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Years) samples all five of his Capitol albums from 1988's Amnesia through 1999's excellent Mock Tudor.
I bought this CD for two reasons. One, I already own everything Thompson has ever released, including his live recordings only available through the Richard Thompson newsletter Flypaper. But most of my purchases prior to 1996 were either vinyl or cassette. It's nice to have these recordings on CD. Two, you get one new track, "Persuasion," which features his son Teddy on guitar and shares lead vocals. [Based on this song alone, I'd like to see them do an entire album together.] In addition, you get two tracks, "Mr. Rebound" and "Fully Qualified To Be Your Man," which were both previously available only on the vinyl release of Mock Tudor. And with concert favorites like "Turning of the Tide," "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" and "Beeswing," you get a generous 19-track sampling of Thompson's music of the past thirteen years. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I really must take issue with the track selection, though. For instance, it includes only 2 tracks from "Amnesia"... sure, "turning of the tide" and "waltzing's for dreamers" are great, but almost any other song on the original album is better (that's how good it is). I certainly would have liked more tracks from "You? Me? Us?", and less tracks from "Mock Tudor". It's not that I don't like "Mock Tudor", but (a) It's very recent and maybe doesn't need such heavy representation in a retrospective yet, and (b) is a semi-"concept" album that works much better as a whole.
The sound is audibly and obviously improved on tracks from "Amnesia" through "Mirror Blue" which is remarkable proof how much more engineers have been able to eek out of the old' 16-bit redbook CD format in recent years. On later tracks, the difference is either subtle or non-existent.
Maybe it seems that I'm being a bit hard on this CD, but, as the man said, you have to be cruel to be kind. I think RT is one of the great musical talents of the past 50 years, and he deserves better. Much better. Also, remember, Capitol dropped him from the label after "Mock Tudor", so "Action Packed" is a last-ditch, crass cash-in on the part of his old label. Of course, Capitol has let most of these albums go out of print, so newcomers may have no other recourse but to buy this set.
Another suggestion? RT sells wonderful "live" discs on his own label. Find these and buy them. "2 letter words", "Live at Crawley" and "Celtshmerz" will all give you a more complete picture of this brilliant guitarist.


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A Taste of One's Quality: 3 Rules for Good Temperament (Part 2) |
Friday Dec 18 2009
Continuing on from yesterday's post....
2. Be patient
the Biblical injunction provides, all things good come to those who
wait. This precondition for good temperament has two elements to it:
time and wisdom. Part of wisdom is the understanding that
active listening is a form of generosity, a key element in a mature
temperament. Waiting for the other point of view, the various possible
perspectives, or even the depletion of emotion, takes discipline.
to the other also allows the settlement of what one might call the
heart's intuitions. As Pascal said: "The heart has its reasons that
reason does not know." This is behind the ancient nursery rhyme:
There was an old owl that lived in an oakThe other aspect of patience has to do with one's use of time. I remember reading in school that Marcus Aurelius, the brilliant Roman general of the second century, would take along a separate tent, candles and writing materials on his campaigns. Each night, no matter how difficult or bloody the day had been, he would retire to this private place and think, collecting his thoughts and writing them down. Some of his brilliant insights appear in his Meditations. In other words, creating the time and space to think things through is essential to understanding, and bespeaks the necessary patience to acquire it.
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Oh if only more folks were like that wise old bird…
3. Be respectful.
The third canon involves taking responsibility, deference, tolerance and good manners. The latter is a visible signal that respect is operating as a channel for all else. There's a wonderful insight from Shaw in Pygmalion that better expresses the point:
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad mannersThere is a difference between deference and servility. There are many instances in which it is both fair and appropriate to defer to the views of another, without the question of who is right being necessarily decided. This routinely occurs in politics, friendships, marriages and other relationships, in which the damage done by intransigence is far worse than that which may occur by deference. Sometimes it is not always enough—or even important—to be right on an issue.
or good manners, but having the same manner
for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were
in heaven, where there are no third-class carriages,
and one soul is as good as another.
Beware the person with an infantile sense of justice. The maturity to take responsibility for what is essentially a moral duty to defer in some circumstances is, in many respects, the hardest thing for children to learn, as it engages their sense of fairness. Pasternak (To Friends East and West) captures the lesson:
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence,In my next post, I'll formulate three rules for good thinking.
and knows that what matters is not how much
he inherits, but how he behaves at the feast,
and what people remember and love him for.
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
Tagged with: intuition justice listening pascal responsibility time wisdom


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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Rob with fans on the set of Water For Elephants
fan pictures,
movie: water for elephants
3 comments:
- kassiecullen said...
Lucky, lucky ladies. Oh how I wish he would film a movie near me!
- June 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- RpatzLover84 said...
my poor baby needs some serious sleep...Please Love get some rest lol..I love you... Lucky girls by the way...
- June 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- katy said...
Poor Baby, he looks so tired :(
He so sweet...even if he was tired he took the time to take pics with them. - June 13, 2010 at 6:06 PM
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"Go; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. |
"Carry no money belt, no fnbag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way. |
"Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' |
"If a fnman of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. |
"Whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you; |
and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.' |
"But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, |
'Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet fnbe sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near.' |
"I say to you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. |
"But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. |
"And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades! |
"The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me." |
The fnseventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." |
And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. |
"Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. |
"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven." |
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." |
Turning to the disciples, He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, |
for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them." |
And a fnlawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" |
And He said to him, "What is written in the Law? fnHow does it read to you?" |
And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." |
And He said to him, "You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE." |
But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" |
Jesus replied and said, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and fnbeat him, and went away leaving him half dead. |
"And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. |
"Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. |
"But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, |
and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. |
"On the next day he took out two fndenarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.' |
"Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?" |
And he said, "The one who showed mercy toward him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do fnthe same." |
Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. |
She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord's feet, listening to His word. |
But Martha was distracted with fnall her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me." |
But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; |
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"Vicki Huddleston said France paid $17m (£10.75m) to free hostages seized from a uranium mine in Niger in 2010. She said other European countries, including Germany, had also paid ransoms amounting to nearly $90m." And by doing so, they were paying for the jihad that the French are now trying to quell. This ridiculous and self-defeating policy is a result of their willful blindness regarding Islamic teachings on hostage-taking, jihad, and a host of other matters.
Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or killing them -- whichever is more advantageous for the Muslims -- is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: "As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, 'When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks' (Qur'an sura 47, verse 4)" — Abu'l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.
"Mali conflict: French ransom cash 'funded militants,'" from the BBC, February 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A former US ambassador to Mali has told the BBC that France paid ransom money to free hostages and the funds ended up bolstering Islamist groups it is now fighting.Vicki Huddleston said France paid $17m (£10.75m) to free hostages seized from a uranium mine in Niger in 2010.
She said other European countries, including Germany, had also paid ransoms amounting to nearly $90m.
France has always denied that it pays ransoms for the release of hostages.
It is struggling to maintain order two weeks after French-led troops began an assault on Islamist militants who took over large parts of northern Mali.
On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of soldiers in the northern town of Gao, injuring one of them, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda offshoot.
Meanwhile, army infighting in the capital left one person dead and five injured when heavily-armed regular soldiers clashed with elite "Red Beret" paratroopers at their base in the capital Bamako.
Trainers arrive
Ms Huddleston said the hostages kidnapped at the Niger mine in 2010 were only released because money had changed hands.
"All the European countries who paid ransoms have denied that they paid ransoms and you know perhaps they can deny it because it's gone indirectly through various channels in the Malian government," she told the BBC's Newshour programme.
"When I was in Mali I actually knew, he was the Governor of Gao, who's now deceased, and he was one of the negotiators with the AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)."
Al-Qaeda branches, she added, are "not releasing the Western hostages out of the goodness of their hearts"....
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SPRINGFIELD, MO. (AP) -- UPDATE: Baby Harmony Blue is now safe and back with her family after a nine hour search. (KSPR)
Amber Alert has been issued for a 1-year-old child who was in a car that was apparently stolen from a Springfield parking lot.
The Springfield News-Leader reports (http://sgfnow.co/YKuSlW ) that the child, Harmony Blue, was in the car with another older child when the car was stolen from the parking lot Saturday afternoon. Police say the children's father left the children and the keys in the car while he was in a store.
The older child was dropped off nearby and recovered by police and has been reunited with his father.
Springfield police Lt. Brian Phillips says police are searching for a 2002 gray Nissan Maxima with Missouri license plate YG6-K5R.
The missing girl is described as mixed race with black hair and brown eyes, wearing a blue one-piece sleeper.
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Contract Missouri Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapist Requirements: Drug Screens
Last month, a therapist called the MetroHSN office and asked why she was "required to submit to these silly drug screens every single year". This wasn't the first therapist to express their frustration with the MetroHSN drug screening policy. The reasoning for our policy is very simple and straightforward, but perhaps we haven't communicated it to our contract therapists in a clear and concise manner…and no, the answer isn't that the office staff likes to run you around and take up your already scarce free time.Yearly screenings are for protection – yours as a therapist, MetroHSN's as a contract service, the client agency's for liability and vetting purposes and, most importantly, that of the patients and clients, who should always be our ultimate concern.
Your protection as a therapist is tops on our list of priorities. MetroHSN asks you to carry liability and auto insurance to protect your livelihood and your ability to travel. While a drug screen cannot provide you insurance, it can help provide you with assurance. Should one of your patients lose or misplace his prescription medication, you have the assurance that we have thoroughly checked out your background and have a clean drug screen on file for you. That isn't to say that you can't contract through MetroHSN if you screen positive for one of the prescription drugs on our list (of which there are many), but we do require that our contract physician review any positive results and consult you about any positive findings. MetroHSN does not require anything from the physician other than a "go" or "no go".
If a therapist screens positive for illegal substances or does not have a prescription for a drug for which he or she has screened positive, MetroHSN cannot take on the potential liability of having said therapist contract through our service, nor can we reasonably expect the client sites to take on that liability themselves. Client sites that hire their own therapists usually conduct a drug screen upon hire, and as-needed thereafter; these drug screens cover the clients' own particular regulatory obligations. However, the purpose of supplemental staffing for most clients varies and can be sporadic. Sometimes a client will need supplemental therapy staff for a day, a week, a month, or a year and then not again for a very long time. Clients need their regulatory and human resource requirements to be met no matter how long the gap between assignments. The client sites usually cannot, or will not, accept drug screens that are more than a year old. In many cases, the need is immediate and the client cannot wait 24 to 72 hours for a therapist to have a specimen collected and screened. Therefore, having a drug screen run on each therapist at least once a year helps MetroHSN provide relief/supplemental therapy staff to clients as quickly as possible.
Patients and families should be concerned first and foremost with actual therapy sessions and completing any independent exercises for the patient's continued health and improvement. Clear-headed and competent professional care should be a given for patients and families. Annual drug screens are another way to give the people who matter most the peace of mind that comes with knowing they are being cared for by therapy professionals who are not working under the influence of illegal or recreational drugs.
In short, illegal substance abuse becomes a liability for the therapy professional, for MetroHSN, for any client, and ultimately for the patients who trust therapy professionals to help them. Annual drug screens give a measure of assurance for therapists by establishing a record of negative screens, which also provide vital pieces of vetting requirements for client site usage. In addition, patients and their families can be at ease regarding therapy professional drug use. While the drug screen takes a little bit of time out of a therapist's busy schedule to complete, the benefits of having that clean screen on file far outweigh the temporary inconvenience.
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Some travelers' idea of the perfect vacation involves complete and total rest, others find that it only takes them a day or two to recuperate from the daily work routine and they'd really like to expand their horizons while on vacation. For those of you who fall into the latter group but don't have a ton of time to research your options and plan a trip Fairmont Hotel Group has come up with a solution.
The new Apprentice Trips program recently launched by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts are targeted at those who'd like to learn something new or delve deeper into an activity that is already a hobby while getting away from it all. With twenty different packages to choose from there should be a package that suits almost everybody. Here is a sampling:
- French Immersion Package: At the Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City guests will spend 3 hours a day in private French lessons, go on escorted tours of the city and chateau conducted in French, receive a souvenir French book as well as complementary buffet breakfast and a fruit basket upon arrival.
- Behind the Brewery Package: This Boston based trip includes a private tour and tasting at the Sam Adams Brewery, a special beer pairing dinner in the hotel's dining room with a beer expert and an in-room Samuel Adams "Bucket of Cheer".
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- Magic of Aromachology Package: based a the Fairmont Monte Carlo a master perfumer will lead guests to Galimard perfumery of Eze for a workshop, receive a 60 minute aromatherapy massage for two and buffet breakfast.
Some of the packages are week long excursions and others only require commitments of a day or two. There are packages that target athletes with hiking, surfing, skiing and golfing given the group's many hotels in more remote locations. There are other companies that offer more in depth learning trips but for those that find themselves heading to one of the Fairmont group hotels these activities might just add needed extra depth to your vacation.


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