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Outer Banks Cottages | Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
The Wright Cottage Court is located in Kill Devil Hills between Kitty Hawk and Nags Head on the Outer Banks of NC. We offer 2 to 6 bedroom cottages for family fun-filled vacations! You'll find us directly north of our Days Inn Oceanfront Wright Brothers—we're always happy to host large or small family reunions!
All cottages feature fully equipped kitchens to cook up your Outer Banks fun! All kitchens contain: stove/oven, microwave, refrigerator, coffeemaker, toaster, pots, pans, dishes, & silverware. Come year-round as all cottages also have heating or air conditioning as well! We have nightly or weekly reservations available.
All cottages have cable TV -but with so much beach to enjoy you won't want to watch any TV! Guests have access to the outdoor pool next door at our Days Inn, and of course we have our own beach access. Many of our cottages also have decks on which you can kick back and relax. Many of our cottages are pre-reserved a year in advance because families love returning year-after-year, so it's always a good idea to book well in advance for the season!
All of our cottages are comfortably situated with double, queen, or king beds. Unlike many rental companies on the Outer Banks, we are happy to offer FREE linen set up for our nightly or weekly guests. It's just one less thing you have to pack for your getaway. We are centrally located to all Outer Banks attractions—we are less than a mile away from the Wright Brothers Memorial.
Since we have cottages of all sizes, you can bring your extended family for a getaway too. Or bring your youth or church group instead for a retreat—we are happy to host many group getaways throughout the year. We are a perfect place to reconnect with friends, co-workers, or loved
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Travelling with children
Travelling for families. Your children are welcome on Royal Air Maroc flights, they will be given special attention. All staff on board will ensure their well-being and comfort so that your family trip is an enjoyable one.
When flying with Royal Air Maroc your children will have a great time with Magic Universe: special attention, special children's menus and a choice of different toys.
Babies (under 2 years of age) who travel on your lap without taking up a seat have a reduced rate. For your comfort and your baby's we can provide you with a pram. For this, please indicate on the booking application, that you are travelling with a baby.
If you wish, you can also reserve a seat for your baby. The fee will be the same as the rate for children from 2 to 12 years of age. Unless contrary to pricing conditions, the rate for infants aged under 2 years, who are not occupying a seat is 10% of the accompanying adult rate. If they occupy a seat, babies are charged the same rate as children from 2 to 12 years of age.
If you are travelling with a baby, you have priority boarding. Please do not hesitate to let the staff at the airport know that you are travelling with a baby.Tips for Travelling with a baby
- A baby should always be accompanied by an able-bodied adult passenger.
- Before the trip, remember to check that your child has all the documents required for travel .
- A passenger can accompany only one infant.
- For the trip, choose comfortable and warm clothing for your baby.
- During take-off and landing, you can give your baby a pacifier or a bottle to avoid eardrum discomfort.
- During the trip, remember to give plenty to drink to your baby.
- Take enough bottles and a supply of their usual food for the trip.
- It is not recommended to travel with an infant under seven days old.
Children accompanied by an adult aged between the ages of 2 and 12 years from the start of the trip, are subject to a discount on the adult rate and are entitled to an individual seat.
This reduction depends on the destination and the applied rate. For promotional rates, this reduction is not applied.
Items to prepare before the trip :
- Your child will probably want to take with him with a small bag containing his personal belongings (favourite books, cuddly toy, etc.)
- Remember also to provide a sweet or a piece of chewing gum for take-off and landing.
- Please check that you have all the documents required by the police and customs in the country of destination.
Do you have a stroller for your children?
You can transport a stroller for your child at no extra charge.
A stroller, the dimensions of which do not exceed 15 cm x 30 cm x 100 cm, can be taken on board subject to availability in the baggage compartments.
To entertain your children :
All children travelling with Royal Air Maroc are given complimentary items (crayons, colourings, games etc.) to entertain them throughout the trip.
Royal Air Maroc has created Magical Universe especially for your children. Find out more about the Magical Universe .- Unaccompanied children
Is your child is travelling alone? Find out about all the information concerning unaccompanied children :
Children aged from 4 to 14 years from the start of trip may travel alone (with a Royal Air Maroc escort required for those under 12 years ) provided a disclaimer signed by a parent or legal guardian is supplied.Royal Air Maroc guardians
Children aged 4 to 12 years are allowed to travel only if they join the service Accompanying Royal Air Morocco (UM) .
The number of beneficiaries of this exception is limited to four children per unit. For this, they should be mandatory reporting at the time of booking.
They benefit from treatment UM (Unaccompanied Minor) which ensures a constant vigilance staff of the company since registration until receiving the child at the destination .
At the time of registration, an ID pocket is given to the child and the person accompanying performs a " route sheet UM " , which will be signed on arrival by the designated person to recover .
It must necessarily present a valid personal identity valid and sign the " record route UM ."
Payment for this service is required on international flights for unaccompanied children aged 4 to 12 years. This service is optional for children between 12 and 16 years.
The UM's ticket price corresponds to the adult fare plus a surcharge of 50 euros per trip. Moreover, this service is currently free on the domestic flight.
The acceptance of children traveling alone on RAM flights is conditioned by the introduction of the contact data of the persons accompanying the child to the airport of departure and pick it up on arrival, this data must be included in the travel file on UM passenger reservation.
If you require a guardian to escort your child or baby, the request must be made no later than four working days before the date of departure.
The ticket issued will be charged as a normal adult single fare for the trip when the child is accompanied by a guardian.
When a guardian is required for more than one child belonging to the same family under the age of 8, only the ticket for the eldest child will be charged as a normal adult single fare, the tickets for the other children, regardless of their age will be charged at the rate for children aged 2 years or more.Minor Travel to and from Italy
Minors who are not registered on the parents' residence permit must either: have their own residence permit or have a visa issued by an Italian diplomatic representation.
- Any minor registered on the residence permit of the parent, must travel accompanied by the holder of this residence permit.
- Unaccompanied minors (UMNRs), under 14 years of Italian nationality, must have a parental authorization issued either by a consulate in Italy or by the Italian Questura (Police Station in Italy).
In case of non-compliance with these conditions the minor will be refused boarding
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Drupal Events is organizing a CodeSprint about content translation management & workflows. The sprint will take place will take place from 16th to 22nd of January 2012 in the offices of MD Systems, Räffelstrasse 25, 8045 Zürich in Switzerland. We are looking forward to 20+ persons coding. (yes, one full week of geeky coding!)
We will be looking at:
- http://drupal.org/project/translation_management
- http://drupal.org/node/988154
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D7 is amazing but building up bigger multilingual sites is a pain. For every multilingual project we, as well as our customers loose time (= money) when coordinating translation processes. The codesprint should not address too much i18n and core translation/localization support. It's much more about building a D7 contrib extension to support editors/publishers/translators and project managers during their process of initially populating content translations. We should be supporting their work. Show them what to translate, show priorities, states of translation, possible changes of (source) content that need to be considered. We need queues of content and dashboards to show provide overview(s). Also using translation services (professional paid external individuals, google translate) like nativy.com or icanlocalize would be great.
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Our cushions come in either luxury faux suede or linen in either our standard 45cm/45cm or larger 60cm/60cm size. They are double side printed. Our stunning picture quality is created by dye sublimation printing technology that actually heats and dyes the image into the fabric providing a washable, colourfast and wear resistant finish. All cushions are manufactured by hand in the UK. Your choice of image fabric is printed and then sewn together with a concealed zip. Machine washable at 30 degrees C.
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text: That Bill Gates, he's such a joker. Apparently you shouldn't bother attempting to be a billionaire like him; after a million, it's pretty much the same. I think Roman Abramovich might disagree, what with his frigate-sized yachts, but we get you Bill -- a packet of Walkers is still only 50p. [GeekWire]


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Vatican City, Jan 4, 2014 / 01:02 pm ().- At a meeting with religious superiors held last November, Pope Francis urged a reform of the document regulating the relationship between bishops and religious congregations, according to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, director of La Civiltà Cattolica.
The Bishop of Rome met with a group of some 120 religious superiors in Rome on Nov. 29, 2013, during the general assembly of the Union of Superiors General. He held a three-hour question and answer session with them, touching on the prophetic vocation of religious life, the formation of religious, and the interactions between bishops and those in consecrated life, among other things.
CNA reported briefly on the meeting Dec. 2, but an extensive account of Pope Francis' words there was not made available until Fr. Spadaro published a 14-page account of the encounter in the Jan. 3 issue of the Italian Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica.
According to Fr. Spadaro, Pope Francis said during the meeting that "Mutuae relationes," a 1978 document including directives for the mutual relations between bishops and religious in the Church, "was useful at the time but is now outdated."
"The charisms of the various Institutes need to be respected and fostered because they are needed in dioceses. I know by experience the problems that can arise between a bishop and religious communities," the Pope explained.
He reflected as both a bishop and religious superior, noting that when religious leave a diocese, the bishop "often finds himself suddenly left with a hot potato in his hand," but that on the other hand bishops should "not view religious simply as useful instruments," but come to know and appreciate their unique charisms.
"For this reason the Pope confided to the Congregation for Religious the task of resuming reflection on the document Mutuae relationes and to work on a revision," Fr. Spadaro wrote.
In addition, Pope Francis discussed the vocation of religious who are not priests, and " complained that an adequate awareness of this specific vocation has not yet been developed," said Fr. Spadaro, who added that "he referred to a document related to this which has never appeared, and which might be looked at again," and that he signalled to the leaders of the Congregation for Religious to consider that "it might be finished and so as to facilitate a more satisfactory reflection."
Pope Francis reflected extensively on the vocation of religious, saying they show that "it is possible to live differently in the world," and that their life has an "eschatological outlook" and that they follow Christ "in a prophetic way," calling prophecy of the Kingdom "a non-negotiable" in their life.
"It is this witness that I expect of you," the Pope told the assembled superiors. "Religious should be men and women who are able to wake the world up."
"You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life if it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin … a religious who recognizes himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious."
Pope Francis also touched on inculturation of charisms, according to Fr. Spadaro, saying, "the charism is one but, as Saint Ignatius used to say, it needs to be lived according to the places, times and persons."
He explained that inculturation of charisms is "fundamental," but that "this never means relativizing it," though charism should not be "rigid or uniform."
Also during the three-hour encounter, the Roman Pontiff discussed the formation of religious, emphasizing that it is always ordered towards the people of God, adding that "the ghost to fight against is the image of religious life understood as an escape or hiding place in face of an 'external,' difficult and complex world."
He called formation "a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps."
According to Fr. Spadaro, Pope Francis concluded the meeting by announcing that 2015 will be dedicated to consecrated life, and saying: "Thank you for what you do, for your spirit of faith and your pursuit of service."
Tags: Pope Francis, La Civilta Cattolica, Mutuae relationes
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text: There's less than a week to go before teams start drawing up plays that will actually affect their win percentages, but these pre-season games have served as a training ground to see which silhouettes will make the cut for the remainder of the season. Will Bynum is a usual suspect to rock an Air Jordan signature, relying heavily on the Air Jordan XI 'Bred' throughout these pre-season games, but instead opted to switch brands rocking the Li-Ning Way of Wades for the first time. While Will might've shifted his brand loyalty, the Pistons still are heavily into the Jumpman, as Andre Drummond continued to sport his pair of Air Jordan VII 'Raptors'. The influence of the Nike KD 6 continues to be found around the league as well as a number of IDs appeared and Luke Ridnour laced up his Nike KD 6 "Bamboo" for a third straight game. Hit the click to get the full rundown Around the League and let us know which pair was your favorite.


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Mental Health Services
Washington County endeavors to create a mental health system that incorporates our values and principles in every aspect of planning, implementation and service delivery.
Assure Services are Person Centered: Services are directed by individual and family choices and service planning is collaborative. Focus is on individuals taking personal responsibility for their services with the mental health professional sharing knowledge and resources in a supportive manner.
Assure Services are Individualized: Services offered are individualized to meet unique needs, versus providing services in predefined service packages.
Assure Services are Strengths-Based and Recovery Oriented: Individuals and families and their mental health professionals will adopt the belief that people can recover from a mental illness by building upon individual strengths. Services will focus on identifying each person's strengths and resources, and building upon these to meet the goals that the individual or family has identified.
Assure Services are High Quality: Services provided are evidence-based practices that have been empirically validated or reflect best practices in the field. Service providers continually evaluate efficacy, quality assurance and satisfaction.
Assure Services are Coordinated, Efficient and Cost-Effective: Our system of care will minimize fragmentation and meet the priority needs of low income, underinsured and uninsured Washington County residents in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
Practice Strong Community Partnership Values: We value working with other governments, businesses and community organizations to realize goals and adopt inclusive decision whenever possible.
Services are Holistic: An individual or family's mental health services are only a single component of their well-being. Emphasis is placed on identifying and addressing other needs in conjunction with their mental illness.
Services include Family/Support: There will be recognition of the supportive role family and other significant individuals play in a person's life and efforts made to include these individuals in service planning whenever possible.
Services are Accessible: Services will be readily accessible by assuring that service sites are geographically located throughout Washington County; that access is available in a timely manner; that languages other than English will not be a barrier; and that there will be "no wrong door" in that individuals may access services through multiple avenues.
Services are Culturally Competent: Culture determines our world view and provides a general design for living and patterns for interpreting reality that are reflected in our behavior. Therefore, services that are culturally competent are provided by individuals who have the skills to recognize and respect the behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies and practices characteristic of a particular group of people.
Services are Community-Based or Provided in the Least Restrictive Environment Possible: Services take place in settings that are the most natural for the individual or family. The least restrictive or intrusive interventions are utilized to meet the individual or family's needs.
Services are Collaborative: Services are not provided in isolation of other human service providers but rather in collaboration to assure the individual or family's needs are met in the most effective manner possible. Other providers may include a primary care physician, social services providers, employment specialists, substance use treatment providers, criminal justice, and any other human service provider that is involved in the client's care.
- HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (English)
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Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
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Through multimodal activities, students will explore key elements of design such as color, shape, size, texture, density, and layout to understand and appreciate how these elements combine to convey meaning in Little Blue and Little Yellow, by Leo Lionni. Using art and digital media, they will then create their own designs to express meaning for setting, character relationships, and plot. Students will realize how to use design elements to read images and how meaning in picture books is equally conveyed in both words and images.
|Doodle Splash: Students combine the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage them to make connections between their visual designs and the text.
|Action Phrases from Little Blue and Little Yellow: Teachers will print out this worksheet and cut out the phrases, one for each small group, as described in the sessions.
This lesson teaches young children to engage joyfully in the cues for reading that extend beyond the letters and words on the page, demanding interpretation and interaction with the text beyond the decoding of print (Hammerberg, 207). Hammerberg asserts that these design elements of picture books are an integral part of the meaning-making process. Similarly, this lesson builds on multimodal literacy theories. The following statements from the NCTE Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies (2005) directly apply to this lesson:
- [Literacy] is the interplay of meaning-making systems (alphabetic, oral, visual, etc.) that teachers and students should strive to study and produce. "Multiple ways of knowing" (Short & Harste) also include art, music, movement, and drama, which should not be considered curricular luxuries.
- All modes of communication are codependent. Each affects the nature of the content of the other and the overall rhetorical impact of the communication event itself.
- From an early age, students are very sophisticated readers and producers of multimodal work. They can be helped to understand how these works make meaning, how they are based on conventions, and how they are created for and respond to specific communities or audiences.
Thus, in this lesson, students will learn the conventions of design as they come to realize the codependency of multiple ways of knowing to express meaning within a learning community.
Further Reading
Hammerberg, D. (2001). Reading and writing hypertextually: Childrens literature, technology, and early writing instruction. Language Arts, 78 (3), 207-216.
NCTE Executive Committee. 2005. Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies. Web. November 2009. http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/multimodalliteracies.


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Home speakers FAQ
Answers to questions about choosing and using home speakers
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
» What does each speaker do in a home theater setup?
» What's the difference between a pre-matched surround sound system and a component speaker system?
» Can a pair of smaller speakers and a powered sub really sound as good as a pair of larger speakers?
» If I buy a set of large floor-standing speakers, will I still need a powered subwoofer?
» What surround speakers should I get for my home theater system?
» What if I want to play my music in multiple rooms around my home?
» Can I use regular speakers to get sound outdoors?
Speaker terms and technology
» What is the difference between a 2-way and a 3-way speaker?
» How do the materials that a speaker's drivers are made from affect its sound quality?
» Does "bass reflex" mean a speaker puts out a lot of bass?
» My receiver puts out 100 watts per channel — should I get a speaker with the same power rating?
» What should I know about my speakers' impedance?
» What does a speaker's sensitivity rating tell me, and why is it important?
» I've heard that to get the best sound from my speakers, they need to be "in phase" when I hook them up. What does that mean?
» How do I know if my speakers are "voice-matched"?
» Is it true that speakers need a "break in" period to sound their best?
Setup and placement
» Does it matter where I put my speakers in my room?
» Where in the room should I put my subwoofer?
» How do I connect my speakers to my receiver? What kind of speaker wire do I need?
» Can I use my TV's speakers for the center channel in my home theater?
» Can I use my receiver's "B" speaker connections for surround speakers?
» Can I hook up a powered subwoofer if my receiver doesn't have a subwoofer output?
» My receiver has an adjustable crossover. What frequency should I choose?
» How do I know if I should use speaker stands? If so, which size? What will spikes do for me?
» How do I install in-wall speakers?
Q: What does each speaker do in a home theater setup?
A: The standard home theater setup consists of five to seven speakers and a subwoofer. The center channel speaker anchors the sound to the picture, and provides most of the dialogue and much of the special effects. The front left and right speakers deliver a wide soundstage, and work with your center channel speaker to reproduce on-screen action that moves to the left and the right, giving you a more realistic and exciting movie experience. The front speakers also act as the left and right stereo speakers when you listen to music.
The surround speakers, usually mounted or placed behind your viewing position, help create an enveloping, three-dimensional soundfield by reproducing the surround effects in videos, games, and some music recordings. Some home theater setups use an extra surround or two. These back surround speakers give you even more convincing wraparound sound. The latest surround sound systems with Dolby Atmos® also provide extra "overhead" channels using two or more in-ceiling or special, Dolby Atmos enabled speakers, to create a layer of sound above the listener.
And lastly, the subwoofer reproduces the very low frequencies in the video soundtrack, from the low-rumbling of an explosion to the strum of a bass guitar in your music videos. Some audio enthusiasts like to add an extra sub for more bass — it's really all up to your preference.
For more info, check out our article on choosing speakers for home theater.
Q: What's the difference between a pre-matched surround sound system and a component speaker system?
A: A pre-matched surround sound system is a room-friendly, space-efficient alternative to a conventional component speaker system. Pre-matched systems tend to have smaller front, center, and surround speakers, in addition to a small non-powered subwoofer. Many pre-matched systems also come with a Blu-ray or DVD player built right into the receiver.
Component speaker systems give you the ultimate flexibility, because you choose how many and what size speakers to get. Although you won't get the "all-in-one" benefit that pre-matched systems can offer, you'll be able to choose from more types of speakers, from high-end floor-standing models to sleek in-wall speakers. Speakers in a component system often boast better build quality, too, and higher performance to go with the receiver and home theater components of your choice. You can learn more about these and other options in our article on four ways to add sound to your TV.
Q: Can a pair of smaller speakers and a powered sub really sound as good as a pair of larger speakers?
A: Definitely. In fact, there are some folks who prefer a bookshelf/sub system to tower speakers. You must be sure to choose bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer that blend well together, and you may need to tweak the crossover to get the ideal sound. But a bookshelf/sub system can deliver impressive, full-range sound without taking up too much space in your home.
Q: If I buy a set of large floor-standing speakers, will I still need a powered subwoofer?
A: It really depends on individual taste. It's difficult to achieve the body-slamming bass that you experience in a movie theater without a sub. So if your main interest is home theater, you'll want to add a powered subwoofer. On the other hand, if you'll mostly be doing a lot of music listening, then the woofers built into most floor-standing speakers should be able to handle the bass just fine. Check the speakers' frequency response before you buy, and if you get them in your home and aren't satisfied with the bass, then it's easy enough to add a powered subwoofer later.
Q: What surround speakers should I get for my home theater system? Do I need "dipole/bipole" speakers?
A: The short answer is "no." Most people use normal bookshelf or satellite speakers as their surrounds, and they do a fine job. But if you really want the best home theater sound, then there are speakers designed specifically for surround sound known as dipole/bipole or solid/diffuse. Each of these speakers has two sets of drivers, with a switch that lets you select dipole mode (out of phase) or bipole mode (in phase). If you're mounting the speakers on the side walls in line with your listening position, the dipole mode will create a diffuse, ambient soundfield. If you're placing them behind your position, the bipole mode fires the drivers in phase to flood your room with surround sound.
|Dipole mode creates a diffuse, ambient soundfield when the speakers are placed on the side walls.
|Bipole mode fills your room with surround sound when the speakers are placed on the rear wall.
And remember, it's vital that your speakers work well together in a home theater setup. If all your speakers are voice-matched, you will experience a seamless surround sound effect. Sounds will move smoothly around your living room just like they do in a movie theater.
Q: What if I want to play my music in multiple rooms around my home?
A: You'll need to set up a multi-room music system. There are two main ways to get one: installing an integrated system with in-wall wire and controls, or setting up a wireless system. In either case, you'll have to consider how many rooms you want to get sound in, and what kind of control you want over your system. No matter what you choose, there are options to fit every home. Check out our article on wireless and wired multi-room music systems to get an idea of how to get a multi-room music system in your home.
Q: Can I use regular speakers to get sound outdoors?
A: If you want to get sound outdoors, then you'll need to go with outdoor speakers. They're specially designed to deliver great sound in the open space of your yard or deck, and to withstand the heat, the cold, moisture, and any critters that might want to eat them. Check out our article on choosing and installing outdoor speakers for more information.
Speaker terms and technology
Q: What is the difference between a 2-way and a 3-way speaker?
A: A 2-way speaker's crossover splits the frequency band into two ranges: bass frequencies go to the woofer, and treble frequencies go to the tweeter. In a 3-way system, the frequency band is divided into three ranges. The middle frequencies are sent to a third driver commonly referred to as the midrange. Because 3-way speakers require more room for the drivers, they're usually only seen in floor-standing models.
Q: How do the materials that a speaker's drivers are made from affect its sound quality?
A: Tweeters made from hard materials like metals and ceramic have a very crisp, clear, and accurate sound, but some people find them too "bright" and a bit harsh. Soft dome tweeters, such as those made from silk, sacrifice some accuracy, but deliver sound that's smoother and warmer.
Woofers made from paper tend to be very light and can provide the kind of fast response necessary for accurate sound. However, paper doesn't age or wear very well. That's why most higher-end speakers use woofers made from some combination of harder materials like metals and ceramics, and light materials like paper and textiles. These "poly" blends give a woofer the strength it needs to hold up to room-filling guitar riffs, as well as the lightness it needs to keep up with a racing piano solo.
Q: Does "bass reflex" mean a speaker puts out a lot of bass?
A: Not exactly. Unlike an acoustic suspension speaker that uses a completely sealed, airtight enclosure, a bass reflex speaker includes a tuned port hole in the cabinet to produce more bass in a specific frequency range.
Bass reflex speakers are highly efficient, and will usually play louder than acoustic suspension speakers when driven with the same amount of amplifier power. However, they may sacrifice some bass accuracy in exchange for the added bass.
Q: My receiver puts out 100 watts per channel — should I get a speaker with the same power rating?
A: Unless you plan to run your speakers at extremely high volume levels, there is no need to worry if they're rated to handle less power than your receiver delivers. The power rating most manufacturers assign to a speaker is the amount of continuous (RMS) power the speaker can absorb without damage.
Receivers and amplifiers are also usually rated for continuous power, so as long as the ratings are fairly close, you shouldn't encounter any power-handling problems. Actually, an amp or receiver with a high power rating is often safer for speakers than one with a low power rating. A low-powered model may "clip" and produce distortion at high volume levels, which is a common cause of tweeter damage.
Q: What should I know about my speakers' impedance?
A: A speaker's impedance rating refers to the amount of electrical resistance it presents against current flowing from your amplifier or receiver's powered outputs. Though impedance actually fluctuates as the speaker reproduces different frequencies, manufacturers usually publish a single, average figure, known as nominal impedance.
Most home speakers have a nominal impedance rating of 8 ohms; likewise, practically all home A/V receivers are designed to be stable when pushing an 8-ohm load. There are a number of higher-end receivers that are capable of handling a 4-ohm load (if you're not sure about your receiver, check the specs in your owner's manual). Speakers with significantly lower impedance (4 ohms or less) may cause problems with 8-ohm receivers by asking them to deliver more current than they are capable of producing.
When you drop from an 8-ohm to a 4-ohm load, you cut the electrical resistance in half, which usually causes your receiver to increase its total power output. Some people are tempted to mate their 8-ohm receivers with 4-ohm speakers, in order to get more wattage. It's wise to avoid this temptation, since it can lead to greater distortion, and cause the receiver to run hot or activate its protection circuitry and shut down.
Q: What does a speaker's sensitivity rating tell me, and why is it important?
A: A speaker's sensitivity rating (sometimes called efficiency) tells you how effectively the speaker converts power into sound. The higher the number, the more efficient the speaker, and the louder the sound it creates with a given input signal.
An efficient speaker helps you maximize your available wattage. Believe it or not, a 3 dB increase in speaker sensitivity produces the same audible increase in volume as doubling your amplifier power. So when you're shopping for speakers, it always pays to check the sensitivity spec — especially if you have a lower-powered receiver or amp.
It's a common myth that larger speakers require tons of power and smaller speakers can get by with minimal wattage. In fact, the reverse may be true — some of the smallest speakers are actually more power hungry than some larger speakers.
Q: I've heard that to get the best sound from my speakers, they need to be "in phase" when I hook them up. What does that mean?
A: When your speakers are connected in phase, the drivers in each speaker move in and out at the same time. When they're out of phase, one or more of the drivers move in, while the others move out. If your speakers have removable grilles, you can pop them off and actually see this. Your speakers should always be connected in phase. Out-of-phase speakers sound "not quite right" — imaging is vague and there isn't as much bass.
To hook up your speakers in phase, just make sure that your positive receiver (or amplifier) terminals are connected to the positive speaker terminals, and your negative receiver terminals are connected to your negative speaker terminals.
It helps to pay attention to the markings on the wire — look for print, a stripe, or a rib that may be molded into the wire's jacket. If you find that your speakers are out of phase, then don't worry. It's easy to fix. Just switch the positive and negative leads at one of your speakers (not both). If you have a receiver with automatic calibration, then it'll tell you if your speakers are out of phase.
Q: How do I know if my speakers are "voice-matched?
A: If your speakers all belong to the same "family," meaning that they're made by the same manufacturer and belong to the same speaker line, then you should be covered. Voice-matching simply means that the separate speakers you choose have the same timbre or tonal quality. This is essential if you want seamless, convincing sound. For example, you wouldn't want a car to sound different in your surround speakers than in your front speakers — it would be distracting. Voice-matched speakers ensure that what you hear sounds the same in your front speakers as it does in your back, giving you the most engaging, movie theater-like experience possible.
Q: Is it true that speakers need a "break in" period to sound their best?
A: Different manufacturers have different ideas about break in, though most do recommend that you give your speakers some time to break in before doing any real critical listening. We simply recommend that you give your speakers a good audition over 3-4 weeks, listening to the same material that you'd usually listen to. That will give you ample time to make any fine adjustments you'd like and also cover most manufacturer's break in recommendations.
Setup and Placement
Q: Does it matter where I put my speakers in my room?
A: Yes. Without proper placement you could be missing out on a lot of what you should be hearing. You can watch our video on speaker placement for more tips on how it's done. You'll find more in-depth tips in our articles on speaker placement for home theater or stereo listening.
Q: Where in the room should I put my subwoofer?
A: The best answer is to experiment. You can start by placing your subwoofer near a wall or in a corner reasonably close to either your listening/viewing position or the front speakers — the surrounding walls will automatically boost low-frequency output. Keep in mind that even though this will increase the bass, the quality may be slightly "boomier" and less controlled. You can move it further away from your walls to get tighter, more precise bass.
Another technique is to temporarily place the subwoofer in your listening spot, play some music, walk around the room, and listen. The spot that sounds best is where you should put the subwoofer. Watch our video on speaker placement for great sound, or check out our article on speaker placement for home theater for more tips.
Q: How do I connect my speakers to my receiver? What kind of speaker wire do I need?
A: To carry an amplified signal from your receiver's output terminals to your speaker's input terminals, you'll need some speaker wire. Speaker wire consists of two leads, one for the positive signal and one for the negative signal, encased in plastic insulation. For a good, solid connection, a lot of folks opt for speaker wire that terminates with connectors instead of bare wire. You can choose from pin connectors, banana plugs, spade connectors, and dual banana plugs. And yes, quality wire and connectors do matter — old or cheap wire can actually degrade the quality of your sound. For more information, check out our article on choosing and installing speaker wire.
Q: Can I use my TV's speakers for the center channel in my home theater?
A: Well, yes, as long as your TV has separate audio/video inputs, and your receiver has a preamp-level center channel output. However, we don't recommend this approach.
In DTS and Dolby Digital soundtracks, nearly all the dialogue and on-screen sound effects come through the center channel. So you want an accurate speaker that's capable of reproducing a full range of frequencies.
You'll add to the realism of your system if you choose a speaker that matches well with your left and right speakers. Otherwise, you may hear a distractingly audible "hand off" as the sound moves between your front three speakers. Most speaker companies offer center speakers that are voice-matched to blend in well with their other models.
Q: Can I use my receiver's "B" speaker connections for surround speakers?
A: Definitely not. Your receiver's "B" speaker outputs provide the exact same stereo signal as its "A" speaker outputs. (The "B" speaker outputs are useful for connecting a second pair of stereo speakers for some other area in or around the house.)
Surround sound, on the other hand, consists of multiple audio channels which carry different portions of a soundtrack. These channels must be decoded by a multichannel surround sound processor.
Q: Can I hook up a powered subwoofer if my receiver doesn't have a subwoofer output?
A: Most newer home theater receivers and high-end stereo receivers already have subwoofer outputs — it's just older receivers and some stereo receivers where this may be an issue. However, most powered subwoofers have speaker-level connections for use with virtually any receiver. Just run one set of speaker cables from your receiver's main left and right speaker outputs to the subwoofer, then another from the subwoofer to your main left and right speakers (you'll need an extra pair of speaker cables).
Q: My receiver has an adjustable crossover. What frequency should I choose?
A: Choose a frequency that your front speakers can reasonably play down to and your subwoofer up to. For example, some floor-standing speakers can cover frequencies down to 100 Hz or even lower, but some smaller satellites can only reasonably reproduce sounds down to 150 Hz. At the opposite end, a high-end sub can cover up to 160 Hz.
The goal is to make sure that whatever frequency you choose won't over-work your speakers, or leave a gap in the frequency response covered by your sub and front/surround speakers. You should always check your owner's manual for recommendations tailored to the make of your particular speakers.
Also keep in mind that if your receiver has an automatic calibration feature, then it will choose the crossover for you. Still, you might want to make sure that you're happy with the chosen settings — sometimes your speakers may be able to cover a wider range than the one chosen, or you might want to eliminate any gaps between what your front/surround speakers play and what your subwoofer plays.
Q: How do I know if I should use speaker stands? If so, which size? And what exactly will spikes do for me?
A: Because midrange and treble frequencies are very directional, your speakers will sound their best when your ears are at the same height as the tweeter. Floor-standing speakers are designed to be used without speaker stands, but small- to medium-sized speakers will most likely need stands to raise the tweeters to ear level.
|You'll experience better directional accuracy and hear more treble when your speakers' tweeters are at ear-level. Small- or medium-sized speakers may require stands to raise the tweeters to the optimum height.
It's worth taking the time to measure to determine what size stand will work best with your speakers. Check out our articles on speaker placement for home theater and speaker placement for stereo listening for more info.
If you have a carpeted floor, and your speakers or speaker stands accept spikes on the bottom, installing them may improve your sound. Spikes often "tighten up" bass response by reducing sound-muddying vibrations. Spikes also provide greater stability on carpeted floors.
Q: How do I install in-wall speakers?
A: They're a little trickier than simply placing floorstanding or bookshelf speaker in your room. In-wall speakers mount flush with your drywall, and you should be able to install them yourself if you're comfortable cutting drywall and have the right tools. Otherwise, you should be able to find a certified professional installer in your area. To see what exactly this project entails, check out our article or video on installing in-wall speakers.
Keep in mind that you'll also need to run speaker wire to power your speakers, if it's not already installed. See our guide to in-wall wiring to find out how it's done.
Q: How can I safely dust my speakers and cables?
A: Keeping your speakers and wires clean will give you a good-looking setup, and it'll prevent dust and dirt from damaging your equipment's internal circuitry. But be conscientious when you choose products and methods for cleaning your components. It's always a good idea to check your owner's manual for suggestions.
Here are some general tips:
- Make sure that your speakers are turned off before cleaning.
- Be careful to protect the finish on your speakers, particularly if it's wood. Pledge and other wood cleaners that contain silicone can leave residue in the wood grain. A dry cloth will usually do for simple cleaning, although you can dampen it with water if the job calls for it.
- Spray a small amount of water on a rag and then wipe your speakers, instead of spraying water directly on the speakers.
- For speaker grilles, a can of compressed air or even the upholstery brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner will do. It's usually a good idea to remove the grilles first, if you can, so that you can easily and safely clean both sides of them.
- Every few years, you should unplug and replug the cables that connect your speaker system. This will help keep the connections clean.
- If you notice any build-up on your cables, use a good contact cleaner like DeoxIT®.
For more tips, see our article on keeping your A/V gear clean.
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- 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 bacon slice, chopped
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (preferably extra-virgin)
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup thinly sliced celery
- 2 cups (packed) baby spinach leaves (about 2 1/2 ounces)
- Steam potatoes just until tender, about 7 minutes. Transfer potatoes to large bowl. Char bell pepper over flame or in broiler until blackened on all sides. Enclose in paper bag; let stand 10 minutes. Peel, seed and chop pepper. Transfer to bowl with potatoes.
- Sauté bacon in small skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 3 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towel and drain. Whisk vinegar, oil and garlic in small saucepan. Stir over low heat just until warm, about 1 minute. Stir in bacon. Add warm vinaigrette to potato mixture. Mix in celery and spinach. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.
Per serving: calories, 164; total fat, 8 g; saturated fat, 1 g; cholesterol, 1 mg.


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While new technologies have made games an ever more prevalent and talked-about part of everyday life, the creation, development, and study of these forms of games, especially in learning, is really nothing new. Some of the best and brightest minds in engineering, education, sociology, and computer science have been analyzing how to build, improve, and understand games for several decades. Their research has helped to yield games that are more effective (not to mention fun) than ever and that reflect our changing relationship with technology. If you're interested in delving into some of the scholarship that continues to shape gaming today, these gaming scholars' work is an excellent place to start. Here are 18 gaming greats (in no particular order) whose research has been critical in building and understanding games.
Note: Due to popular demand, we've added Ian Bogost as No. 19 on this list. Sorry for the oversight!
Kurt Squire:
Kurt Squire is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Curriculum and Instruction and is the co-founder of the Games, Learning & Society Initiative, an on-campus group of faculty and students studying game-based learning. He has written over 75 scholarly publications on gaming in education, often addressing the sociocultural aspects of gaming and the impact of gaming practices on learning, schooling, and society. Squire has also helped to head up numerous high-profile research projects on gaming, including the Augmented Reality Gaming Project and the Education Arcade, and is one of the biggest voices in gaming research today.
Sara de Frietas:
When it comes to serious games, Sara de Frietas is one of the leading scholars on the topic. She helped to found and now directs the Serious Games Institute, one of the driving forces behind the development of games focusing on simulation and education and a place where the next generation of scholars and developers in the field can get training. Her research has focused on topics like pedagogy and e-learning, serious games for training and learning, and virtual worlds. She has published a number of books on e-learning including The e-Learning Reader and Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age, and was named the most influential woman in technology by Fast Company in both 2009 and 2010.
James Paul Gee:
James Paul Gee is a professor in literacy studies at Arizona State University and also a faculty affiliate of the Games, Learning, and Society group at UW-Madison. While a good deal of Gee's early scholarship delves into the discourse of traditional, language-focused communication, in recent years he has changed his focus to new literacies, more specifically, to addressing the ways that technologies like video games in education alter social practices, old-fashioned definitions of literacy, and communication. His most recent work focuses on video-game learning in the K-12 classroom and figuring out what principles go into creating a successful game that's both entertaining and educational. Gee has published numerous articles on gaming as well as a recent book titled Language and Learning in the Digital Age.
Marc Prensky:
Author of five books and more than 60 essays on digital learning, Marc Prensky is one of the defining voices in educational gaming today. While Prensky has done a large amount of research on learning in the digital age (he coined the term "digital native"), he's also a gaming designer and innovator, helping to create more than 50 software games for learning. Those interested in Prensky's scholarship can learn more about it in his books Digital Game-Based Learning and Teaching Digital Natives.
Eric Zimmerman:
While more of a game designer than a scholar, Zimmerman has nonetheless contributed greatly to the development of educational gaming. He has worked at universities like MIT, RISD and currently works at NYU's Game Center where he teaches game design. Zimmerman is also the co-founder and CEO of Gamelab, a computer game development company. Gamelab was responsible for launching the Institute of Play, a nonprofit that studies game-based learning and has helped launch two schools based on games in New York and Chicago. He has written and published a number of works on educational gaming, including The Game Design Reader and The Rules of Play, both in collaboration with Katie Salen.
Katie Salen:
Like Eric Zimmerman, Katie Salen is more of a game designer and animator than a scholar. Yet her publications on game design buy her a lot of cred in academia, as does her work with the Institute of Play and, in turn, the Quest to Learn schools run by the organization. In addition to being the executive director at the Institute of Play, Salen is a professor of design and technology and the director of the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School for Design. She is currently developing a number of math-, science-, and wellness-based games in collaboration with scholars at ASU and was the lead designer on one of the coolest educational games in recent history, Gamestar Mechanic, which teaches students how to design their own games.
D.W. Shaffer:
D.W. Shaffer is another gaming scholar working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he currently teaches Educational Psychology and Curriculum Instruction. Shaffer is also a gaming scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and a principal at EFGames, a company that has produced a number of educational games. Shaffer's research focuses on epistemic issues, a branch of philosophy focused on the nature of knowledge. Shaffer is working to understand how engineers can create games that develop particular frames of knowledge, often through simulation games in STEM fields. He has published a number of excellent articles on the topic of educational gaming, including a book in 2007 titled How Computer Games Help Children Learn.
Pamela M. Kato:
Health games are the scholarly focus of Dr. Pamela Kato, a psychology professor who believes that games can not only help people to learn but also to live longer, healthier lives. Kato served as the first President and cEO of HopeLab, a nonprofit organization she helped establish in 2001 that has developed a number of health-focused games that have improved outcomes for patients. She also collaborates with scholars at the Serious Games Institute, and her research has made her one of the leading experts in health psychology and video games today.
Ken Perlin:
Ken Perlin is a rockstar in the computer science world. He's won numerous awards (including an Academy Award) for his work, has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art, and his invention of Pelin noise is now a standard in computer graphics and movement. Luckily for gaming research, he's also very interested the development of games for learning. Perlin is currently a professor of computer science at NYU's Media Research Lab and the director of the Games for Learning Institute. Much of Perlin's academic research involves graphics, animation, augmented reality, and user interfaces, but he has also delved into issues related to the development of multimedia experiences and games to teach science.
Constance Steinkhuler:
While usually an assistant professor of digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Steinkhuler is currently on leave to act as a senior policy analyst for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. There, she's responsible for advising the president about policies related to games and learning, a subject she knows quite a lot about. Her academic research has focused on cognition and learning in online games (she's focused a great deal of attention on World of Warcraft), including the science, literacy, and social skills students take away from online play. She has published extensively, contributing to books, essay collections, and journals.
Jane McGonigal:
Jane McGonigal doesn't just want to use games to help others learn, but hopes to actually use them to change the world. She's helped to develop games that tackle health challenges like depression and chronic pain, as well as those which ask players to consider solutions to real life problems like hunger and pollution. McGonigal is Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future and the founder of Gameful, a consortium of game developers interested in creating world-changing games. McGonigal's research has focused largely on using games to transform the way people live their everyday lives, with the goal of discovering ways to help people feel better both mentally and physically through gaming.
Sivasailam Thiagarajan:
Sivasailam Thiagarajan, also known as Thiagi, believes games can play a key role in helping people improve their performance at work. He's one of the world's leading experts on interactive learning and has run a consulting business related to gaming for more than 30 years. Over his career, Thiagi has written 40 books, designed 120 games and simulations, and written more than 200 articles. His research and scholarship has helped to shape the ways companies use simulations and games to train and educate employees.
Jesper Juul:
Gaming theory, or ludology, has been greatly influenced over the past decade by the work of this professor of comparative media at MIT. Much of Juul's early research focused on the use of narrative as a means for understanding video games, but in recent years he has turned to examining the bizarre half-real/half-fictional space that games occupy. His most recent publication, Half-Real: Video Games Between Rules and Fictional Worlds addresses just that issue. His work doesn't necessarily address how games can be used to learn, but instead focuses on the ways they affect us psychologically and socially.
Sasha Barab:
Even if you haven't heard of Barab himself you've undoubtedly read about or used the educational game he created, Quest Atlantis. Barab is currently a Professor in Educational Leadership and Innovation ASU, where he plans to continue his research into the social, material, and cultural complexities that shape how we build knowledge and learn, especially with regard to gaming. His current focus is on the development of rich learning environments that can help children develop a sense of purpose individually and in their communities through the use of play.
Janet Murray:
An early developer of humanities-related computing applications and theorist of digital media, Janet Murray has long been an internationally acclaimed designer and scholar of interactive programs and media. Over the course of her career, she's done significant research into the sociological implications of gaming and notably published a book in 1997 called Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace that examined whether or not computers can add to expressive forms of narrative. Murray's research has done a great deal to expand how we understand the role of computers in our lives, especially with regard to games and artificial intelligence.
Henry Jenkins:
Today, Henry Jenkins teaches Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, but he was a seminal figure in starting gaming research at MIT and worked there for over a decade. He has written 12 books on media and popular culture, including a number on gaming, such asBarbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games and Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He also has been a key figure in research and development at the Project New Media Literacies group, which is working on the development of tests and educational materials steeped in new media. In addition to his research, Jenkins has been an outspoken advocate for games in Washington, advising against censorship and promoting the educational use of video games.
Brenda Laurel:
A pioneering researcher and designer in the field of human-computer interaction and interactive narrative, Brenda Laurel's research is a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the performative and sociological aspects of gaming. A big part of her research has also been dedicated to gender and gaming, and she spent four years working with the Interval Research Corporation to understand how boys and girls interact differently with games. Those interested in learning more about her work can gain access through her readily available books Utopian Entrepreneur and Computers as Theatre.
Espen Aarseth:
Professor Espen Aarseth currently teaches and researches at the Center for Computer Game Research at the IT University of Copenhagen. Aarseth is known for his investigations into computer game theory, digital culture, humanities computing, and digital literature, and in 1997 published a book called Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, a theoretical comparison of games with other aesthetic forms. At the crux of his research is a desire to understand games themselves and to gain a better understanding of using them to tell stories, learn, define space, and even the addictive effect they can have on us.
Ian Bogost:
Currently serving as the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ian Bogost knows gaming inside and out. The many books he's authored or co-authored include How to Do Things With Videogames and Newsgames: Journalism at Play, and speak to his expertise of covering important social and political issues through the expressive medium of videogames. Bogost's games — including the viral Facebook game, Cow Clicker, originally intended to be a satire of Facebook games — have been played by millions, and he is routinely considered one of the top scholars in this field.


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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer comes a story like no other. The Confessions of Max Tivoli is an ambitious and imaginative novel that leaves an indelible impression on readers.
Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man, and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, the woman who captures his heart. Because he appears to be a different person each time they meet, Max has three chances for true love.
A story of self-discovery and sacrifice, set against momentous historical events, including the Great San Francisco Earthquake and World War I, The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a spellbinding masterpiece.
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"Greer's second novel plumbs the agonies of misdirected love and the pleasures of nostalgia with gratifying richness....Greer writes marvelously nuanced prose; with its turn-of-the-century lilt and poetic flashes, it is the perfect medium for this weird, mesmerizing and heartbreaking tale." (Publishers Weekly)
Greer pinpoints the 'tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial." (The New Yorker)
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- John Fladd
- 2004-04-27
Possibly the saddest book ever written
This book was so sad that it really challenged me to finish it. It was too well-written not to continue with, however. I ended up listening to it in ten minute snatches, so that it took me well over a month to listen to.
What sounds like whinyness on the part of the main character turns out to be something far different - guilt that is only fully understood in the last chapter or so. I could not possibly imagine myself reading this book, but having stumbled onto it, I feel changed for having read it.
Sad, but changed.
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- Tom
- 2005-07-31
Preposterous Premise, Captivating Tale
I am absolutely captivated by "The Confessions of Max Tivoli." Its premise is preposterous, but after one employs willing suspension of disbelief, it makes for a great story. Max Tivoli is born with a 70-year old body which, as he gets older, gets younger. His "confession" is made when he's 60, but his body appears to be that of an 11-year-old. In it he reveals that he had encounters with the same woman--with whom he is madly in love--three different times in his life. She thought he was three different people. It says much about the underrated thing that is the love a man can have for a woman, and its steadfastness. It has its flaws--too many coincidences, and I typically guessed every surprise before it was revealed--but I still am enjoying it greatly. And nobody could say that this isn't a highly original plot line.
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- Sean Dunnahoo
- 2004-03-03
odd premise, but it works!
I usually have a hard time with premises that are unbelievable. But the combination of a great story and wonderful narration make this a must-hear book. Greer covers love, aging, relationships, and more in a unique turn-of-the-century story. The narrator's style definitely added to the emotion of the experience.
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- Melisa
- 2004-03-25
More Drama/Tragedy than Sci-Fi
This book was not at all what I was expecting, having ordered it from the Sci-Fi category. It was depressing from beginning to end, and more than a little bit ridiculous. I don't mean to say that it was a bad book. It was well written and well narrated and the story line was an interesting concept, though I didn't care for the way it was handled. I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for Sci-Fi, but if you enjoy drama and tragedy and don't mind if the main character gets more pathetic with each chapter, you may enjoy it.
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- Tech Nut
- 2008-04-23
Intriguing, but Sad.
There are numerous morals to this story. Don't judge a book by its cover. We always want what we can't have. If I knew then what I know now. ... I could go on.
Max is largely sympathetic, particularly in his youth (looking like an old man). He becomes less so as his lifelong obsession with Alice, or rather with possessing Alice, morphs into a crazed self-centeredness. While he starts out looking like a "monster," as he puts it, Max nearly becomes one by the end.
I am not sure I enjoyed this book save the passage where Max meets his son Sammy, age 12. There I laughed out loud. However, the book was intriguing if not incredibly heart-breaking. In the end, this is a love story, but not simply the one that's advertised.
I liked the treatment -- present day mixed with flashbacks. And, the narrator was quite good at the most of the voices (especially the young boys) though I could hear him swallow at times, which drives me crazy. It's not enough to ruin the experience, but I sometimes wish the producers would take care to edit that out.
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- Everett
- 2004-08-16
Memorable character, moving story
This story, told in the first person, is of a character (Max Tivoli) who ages in reverse. As a baby he looks like a withered old man. He progressively grows younger looking, passing (in appearance) through adulthood, until finally he begins to look like a child. Despite the progression of his appearance from old to young, he matures mentally and emotionally in the normal sequence. The admonition given by his mother early in life is always to act the way he appears. Thus, as a child, Max has to feign the behaviors of an adult. In middle age, his apparent and real ages more or less coincide. In old age, he appears like a pre-adolescent and, tragically, must try to fit into the life of a pre-adolescent, despite having had a lifetime of experience. At first, as I started to listen to this book, I had some qualms about the premise of this book: aging in reverse. It simply seemed to contrived. Once into the story, I began to realize that this plot device served to develop a character who had to behave and live out an identity, not as he wanted, but as others expected. We all have the experience, at one point or another in our lives, of acting as others would have us act, rather than the way we trully feel. What if we had to live an entire life like that? That is the tragedy of Max's life, and the way that Greer brings it to light is palpable and moving. The narration by Brian Keeler is entertaining. Highly recommended.
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- Diana
- 2004-05-10
I was captured by the premise of this book as I thought it might be similar to The Time Traveler's Wife. It definitely was not! The annoying omnisience of describing in details one's own conception as well as the writer's self pitying whining instead of getting on with the story reminded me of Middlesex. The reader's voice irritated me with a subtle smacking and a know-it-all intonation that was just unbearable to me. I didn't finish this one.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2004-03-06
Highly Recommended
Superb narration! The story is tightly written and never slows down, maintaining its many layered suspense with well-timed rewards.
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- James
- 2006-08-28
This is a great book, some of the best story-telling I've ever read. I'm not going to say as good as John Irving, but very worth the time.
The premise, which at first take seems a bit awkward, is handled very well and in a very engaging way.
The narration was flawless. What can I say...one of the best selections of fiction I've downloaded from Audible, a grand journey.
There's really nothing bad to say, except that perhaps that the take-away message is not exceptionally deep and profound.
Highly recommended!
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- Ross
- 2005-06-30
Original and entertaining love story
Don't let the unlikely premise of this story put you off. It's a very original and entertaining love story. The writing is fresh and the naration deserves five stars.
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text: We're riding down from Greenbelt to BikeDC on Sunday morning. Planning to leave Greenbelt (New Deal Cafe) at 6:20am, and to go through Wells Ice Rink parking lot at 6:45. Hope to arrive at the start at about 7:30. Planning to wait in front of the Newseum (Penn Ave at 6th street -- lots of nice newspapers to read on display out front) from 7:30am to 7:45am in case some friends make it down to join from different directions. Anybody else want to meet up for the ride? We'll be riding the longer course. We're pretty easy to spot -- I have a yellow helmet which will probably have a GoPro on it since my handlebar mount broke on the potholes of Baltimore last Saturday (thankfully the camera survived its crash to the street). Laurie has a blinged out cross bike. -Jeff and Laurie.


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Model: Aermacchi 350 TV
Year: 1972
Category: Classic
Rating: 67.5 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
Engine and transmission
Displacement: 344.00 ccm (20.99 cubic inches)
Engine type: Single cylinder, four-stroke
Power: 27.00 HP (19.7 kW)) @ 7200 RPM
Top speed: 140.0 km/h (87.0 mph)
Compression: 9.0:1
Bore x stroke: 74.0 x 80.0 mm (2.9 x 3.1 inches)
Valves per cylinder: 2
Fuel control: OHV
Cooling system: Air
Gearbox: 5-speed
Transmission type,
final drive: Chain
Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
Front tyre dimensions: 3.00-19
Rear tyre dimensions: 3.50-18
Front brakes: Expanding brake
Rear brakes: Expanding brake
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Weight incl. oil, gas, etc: 151.0 kg (332.9 pounds)
Fuel capacity: 15.00 litres (3.96 gallons)
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Would you know what I mean if I describe whistling without whistling? Barely pursing the lips, making little quasi-audible windy sounds while inhaling and exhaling, in tune yet nearly silent? Unless there's music playing, that's what I do when I operate. And for reasons about which I have absolutely no clue, I nearly always "whistle" The Caisson Song. I've always wondered if anyone in the room noticed. Joanie? I suppose if anyone did, they'd eventually recognize it as a sign of contentment. "Over hill, over dale, looks like things are going well...."
So it's "hi hi hee" to cut the colon free. I grasp the sigmoid again, and pull it upward then downward, looking to see where the bottoms of the loop fall, determining how much looser I need to make it before removing the damaged portion. Having mobility not unlike that of the sigmoid, the rectum can be made to stand up and out of the pelvis with a few judicious snips of its surrounding peritoneum. No matter how extensive the diverticula, they always spare the rectum. (The anatomic definition of the rectum is a little loose, not unlike the actual organ. I consider it to be the part of the colon that starts below the pelvic brim, and continues to the anus.) And since I'm doing the writing, in our patient the diverticula trail off markedly at the upper end of the sigmoid, as is typical, so the resection is less extensive. I unzip the white line a little higher, maybe up to above the left kidney, and achieve enough mobility to get point A to point B after the sigmoid is in a pan. And now, what used to be the most annoying part of the operation: clearing the chosen spots for division, and making them ready for the placing of clamps.
The blood supply to the colon comes, more or less, from the center of the abdomen and radiates out like the hands on a clock. Taking the clock analogy beyond its limits, if you want to remove -- as in this case -- a section of colon from three to five o'clock, to get to the blood supply you make a pie-shaped pair of cuts from those numbers to the center of the dial. The difficulty is in direct relation to the amount of fat within the mesentery. Once in a while -- rare enough that it makes you want to be able to record it in your brain and replay it in your dreams -- you can hold the bowel up and see right through the mesentery. It takes a very skinny person. More beautiful than the wings of a mayfly, it's spectacular calligraphy on wetted rice paper, the vessels visible in their spidery and laddered connections; clamping them off -- individually, precisely -- is exhilarating and easy, as if there were no choice but to do it. Most often, though, it's hardly that beautiful. In my early years of training, the process frustrated me.
Turns out, there's a trick: the fat in the mesentery nearly always thins out right at its border with the colon. Grasping the colon over the top, I can usually feel the lower edge of the bowel; pushing toward myself from the opposite side, feeling my way to that edge with my middle finger, I come at it from my side with the tip of a curved clamp. Judging the resistance to be sure I'm not punching through bowel, looking over to the other side to confirm, I push the tip onto my middle finger, and wiggle it through. "Two-oh tie." (It's a thread without a needle on it.). I push the clamp further through, spreading my fingers to let it pass between them on the other side, and then I open the clamp. Joanie directs the end of the tie between the jaws of the clamp, and I pull it back through, bringing my end to the top so it's around the bowel, and I click it into the clamp. Point A.
To make ready for clamps, I punch through the mesentery above and below each vessel that I see. And here's a situation that distinguishes elegant surgery from the brutal: it takes only a moment to clear each vessel separately. Some surgeons do, some don't. Having gotten to the base of the mesentery, you can just "walk" back up to the edge of the bowel with a series of clamps, not really seeing any of the vessels you're dividing, grabbing them by inference, along with globs of fat. It works, as long as you don't take an enormous bite (if you do, when you release the clamp as you tie a tie, the glob may fall away and bleed.) But in my view, it means choking off a wad of fat which will die and inflame and generally add to the work of healing. Plus, it looks bad. And when you see each vessel, you can save some time by applying clips instead of clamps and ties. Which is what I do.
It's like jazz (the Caisonnity-sonitty song?): winging it with regard to when I squeeze on a clip, and when I feel like using clamps and ties. (I never leave a clip near the bowel surface: it'd be in the way of the anastomosis.) Given the same curtain of blood vessels on two different days, the music might sound different, who knows? "Clip... Clip... 'Nother one... Clamp... Clip... Clamp." Get a feel. Go with the flow, the size and the nearness of the vessels. And, after all the upstream ends of the vessels have been controlled, I may or may not clamp the back-leak ends before I divide them. Depends on the size of the resection, how much I can control with my left hand. Sometimes I click a clamp ex post facto. If so, I never waste time tying them off, since it's all coming out -- unless the resection is so big that we've run out of clamps.
So now we're ready for the coup de grace. The sigmoid colon is free of its attachments. Holding it up, the mesentery hangs off it like a bib, maybe dangling a clamp or two. "Couple'a betadine laps." For beauty, and for infection protection, I drape the field around and under the bowel with lap pads soaked in povidone/iodine: luscious chocolate brown drapery covering the entire field, with only the bowel loop visible above it. A presentation fit for royalty. Museum quality, it ought to be in a lighted display case. With two OR lights aimed right at it, it is.
It takes four long intestinal clamps: two delicate ones that stay (for now) with the patient, and two who-cares ones that go away with the specimen. The former I place with the handles aiming at my assistant, the latter toward me. Picking the first pair, she holds hers, I hold mine and I slice between them with a #10 scalpel, the one I used for the initial incision. I wipe the cut end of the bowel with a betadine-soaked sponge. Ditto for the second pair. Then I hand off the bowel, hanging like an abandoned hammock between the two clamps, drop it into a pan, along with the now-contaminated knife. I like the heft of it in my hands, the rattle and clang of the clamps and knife in the metal pan. With a total colectomy, the weight of the specimen is such that the receptacle dips in the outstretched hands of the nurse. Now that's surgery! "What should I call it?" the circulator asks. (She wants to know what to write for the pathologist.) "How about 'Dave?' " I say, as usual...
Squawk... "Dr. Schwab?"
"Whaawttt?" (Said in the way of a fishwife -- I think they know it's a joke. On the other hand, it's not always Dee on the intercom...)
"I have Carol from 6-A on the line."
"OK, transfer her in..."
".... Dr. Schwab, this is Carol from 6-A. I'm calling about Mr. Jones. He has a temp of 102..."
"Who's Mr. Jones?"
"He's a patient of Dr. Smith."
"....Have you called Dr. Smith?"
"The answering service says you're on call."
".... (cleansing breath)...I am. But, uh, we take call on our own patients during the day... (Unsaid: as we have for the last fifteen frickin' years. Frickin' answering service drives me crazy.)"
"OK, I'll call him."
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As we sniffle, suffer, and stress about lurking germs, researchers across the Boston area are developing new ways of fighting the flu.
A start-up in Cambridge is making a drug — so far, effective in mice — intended to treat most forms of the flu and prevent its spread. Scientists in Boston are creating vaccines that would fight a variety of strains, so people wouldn't need to get an annual shot. And researchers in Worcester are trying to predict how the flu virus is evolving so that the shots are better matched to each year's strains.
"I wouldn't be working on this kind of stuff if I weren't excited about it and believe that research in these directions will lead to much improved vaccines and therapeutics," said Stephen Harrison, a professor at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who is researching ways to improve flu vaccines.
The first set of improvements is likely to come from tinkering with existing vaccines.
Novartis, whose global vaccine development program is based in Cambridge, is developing additives that will boost the effectiveness of current vaccines. It is also working on a new way to make flu vaccines, without relying on eggs.
Current vaccines aren't as effective for children under 6, or for the elderly — groups generally at the highest risk of dying from the flu. Novartis is now testing a vaccine in children that has an additive that amps up the medicine. The same vaccine has been used safely in Europe for 15 years on elderly patients, said Dr. Vas Narasimhan, global head of development for Novartis's vaccine unit.
The long lead time needed to culture vaccines in eggs can create shortages when, such as this year, demand for the flu vaccine is higher than projected, said Narasimhan, whose company will begin transitioning away from egg-based manufacturing this year.
Every February, infectious disease experts make an educated guess about which strains of flu will hit the United States the following winter, and then design a vaccine against it. So far, the vaccine developed for this year is a good match against the strains of flu circulating in the United States. But it doesn't always work out that way, leaving people vulnerable even if they are vaccinated.
So, Dr. Robert W. Finberg, a professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School, is trying to improve the match between vaccine and strain. He is using gene sequencing to analyze changes in strains as they evolve, and hopes that in another two more years he will have developed an algorithm that will anticipate their evolution.
"The goal will be to predict next year's virus," Finberg said.
Finberg is also getting ready to test a new antiviral treatment called Favipiravir in a trial that will soon open to the public.
Right now, only two antiviral medicines are used against the flu, Tamiflu and Relenza. Some flu strains — though not this year's — are resistant to both drugs, so more options are needed, Finberg said.
Meanwhile, Visterra Inc. of Cambridge is using a method of network analysis developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to identify key proteins on the surface of the flu virus that are common to influenza A strains, the form that usually causes human misery, said Dr. Donna Ambrosino, the company's chief medical officer. Once the protein is identified, Visterra designs a drug — a so-called monoclonal antibody — to target that protein, blocking the virus from infecting the human cell.
So far, the company has reported positive results in test tubes and mice against a wide range of flu strains and plans to begin human testing in 2014. If shown to work against all A strains, the drug, VIS410, could be used as a treatment for people with the flu as well to prevent infections in the short term, such as during a flu outbreak, Ambrosino said.
In November, Visterra announced that it had received $26 million in backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle, Polaris Venture Partners of Waltham, Flagship Ventures of Cambridge, Omega Funds of Boston, and Lux Capital of New York.
Researchers would also like to develop a vaccine that prevents all types of flu, or that works for multiple years and eliminates the need for annual shots.
Vaccines now target the rounded head of proteins on the virus, which evolve rapidly, leading to the need for ever-new vaccines. About four years ago, Dr. Wayne A. Marasco, a flu researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, found that the stalks of the proteins don't seem to undergo such fast evolution, suggesting they would make a good target for universal vaccines.
All of these advances will almost certainly drive up the cost of a flu shot, though developers promise that the higher costs will be justified by the added medical benefits.
There is one more area of local research that might someday improve flu vaccines: Robert S. Langer, a professor at MIT, is developing several different ways of delivering vaccinations without the dreaded shot.
He is experimenting with using ultrasound to temporarily open tiny pores in the skin, controlled releases that avoid the need for boosters, and patches with needles too small to be felt.
"We hope that children and other people who want to avoid needles at any cost will someday be able to escape the flu," he said.
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Product safety attorney John Gehlhausen represents victims of defective products with an emphasis on lawn, farm and construction equipment accidents, especially tractor rollovers and other tractor related injuries. Mr. Gehlhausen is located in Colorado, but he has represented families all across America who have had loved ones injured, or even killed, in lawn, farm and/or construction equipment accidents caused by defectively designed or manufactured machinery.
Agriculture is among the most dangerous occupations in the nation. Each day about 500 agricultural workers suffer lost-work-time injuries, 5 percent of which result in permanent impairment (National Center for Farmworker Health Inc.). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, agriculture held the third highest death rate among major U.S. industries in 2002 with 789 fatalities. That equates to a fatality rate of 22.7 per 100,000 employed!
Mr. Gehlhausen has earned a national reputation handling cases of persons who have been injured by farm, construction and lawn mower equipment accidents. Mr. Gehlhausen believes in protecting the rights of individuals and holding the negligent party responsible for the wrongs they have committed.
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Mr. Gehlhausen is or has been a member of numerous law associations, including the American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow), Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (Past President), Colorado Trial Lawyers Political Action Committee (Organizer and Past President), American Association for Justice, American Association for Justice CRPS Litigation Group (President 2012), Public Justice Foundation, American Board of Trial Advocates, The Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys, AAJ Leaders Forum, The American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Million Dollar Advocates. Mr. Gehlhausen received the Norman Kripke Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Gehlhausen was the 7th recipient in the history of the organization.
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> The arrival of an unexpected cold bottle of champagne, and the way so many people said, taking a glass to share a small sip, "I never turn down champagne."
> The way one of the shorter Supperians reached for the bite-sized muffins labeled "Carroty Apply Goodness" and said to me, "I love these."
> Seeing newcomers each week, and seeing others who come often; enjoying new connections and reconnections.
Foods we enjoyed:
- Carroty Apply Goodness (of course)
- Watermelon Soup with garnishes (goat cheese, fresh mint)
- (The famous) Beets, Apples, Celery, Red Onion, Marinated in Garlic & Ginger w/dusting of curry
- Roasted Pork Loin
- Pesto Cilantro & Noodles (No Nuts)
- Whole-wheat pasta with tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, etc.
- Beans w/vinaigrette
- Bread Salad - Italian
- Blue Moon Cornbread w/Stone Cross Bacon; garlic, shallots, leeks, and Kenny's Swiss & Cheddar
- Blue Moon Cornbread vegetarian: garlic, shallots, leeks, and Kenny's Swiss & Cheddar
- Lemon Cornmeal Poundcake, from Cornbread Gospels