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"The illustrations are rendered in ink, pastel, colored pencil, and watercolor. The water part of the watercolor was collected in a bucket during a rainstorm, so this book is partially made of clouds. Thank you, clouds."A cloud book made partially of clouds? A must read!
Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld. Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books (March 2011); ISBN 9780805087765; 40 pages
Book Source: Copy from public library
"Cloudette was a cloud. A very small cloud. Usually, Cloudette didn't mind being smaller than the average cloud. In fact, being small had lots of advantages."
Though Cloudette is content with her small size, she still wishes she could do "big and important" things like the other clouds -- cloud things like watering crops and making rivers flow. She is so small that she fits comfortably in the crook of the crescent-shaped moon and she's especially good at hide and seek, but what she wants most of all is to be able to help out in a big way. She finds out she just needs a little push!
It seems Cloudette isn't the only one that can productively brainstorm and create perfection and happiness. Clever books seem to pour of out Lichtenheld's mind, and we love each one. His books entertain both adult and child alike with witty dialog that accompanies the text, thoughtful word play and neatly drawn illustrations packed with tiny, often humorous details. After the first read, we went back just to make sure we didn't miss anything, like the cow perched on the moon or the "higher-up" that uses alliteration.
Lichtenheld's book got its start in a little way, kind of like Cloudette, with just two little scraps of paper. Cloudette provides a great example for kids and shows how something small can produce big results with the appropriate impetus.
P.S. Don't miss the UPC Code on the back and the rocket reference on the copyright page...the book is full of little surprises (Cloudette included)!
Related Links:
Tom Lichtenheld Website
Where'd That Little Cloud Come From? - MacKids blog
Happy Birthday Author - blog post
It rained here this week so we had a nice puddle on our driveway just waiting for an art project. We couldn't let that little gift from the clouds go to waste! Inspired by Lichtenheld, the kids gathered up our watercolor supplies and headed outside to paint watercolor clouds using the rainwater.
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A Mommy's Adventures hosts the "stART" meme (Story + Art) each week. Add your kids craft post to the Kid's Get Crafty linky at Red Ted Art's Blog. Join in Read Aloud Thursday at Hope is the Word. Wrote a post about play? Join the It's Playtime party! Find more great book tie-ins at JDaniel4's Mom Read, Explore, Learn link-up.
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Behind the unassuming façade of this early Renaissance church is an extraordinary trove of celebrated art and unique architectural features. The church has played a central role in Rome's history by virtue of its location just inside the principle north gate. Learn about the prominent people, like Martin Luther, who have figured in it's history, and about the art popes and cardinals commissioned to decorate their family chapels.
Virtually bursting with important architecture and art, from the first dome of the Roman Renaissance to the last Baroque tomb, there's something noteworthy at every turn!
See it all with Jane's engaging narration guiding you, step-by-step, through its layered history. Come away with a deep and lasting appreciation of the art, politics, culture, and religion that have intertwined over centuries to create the unique character of this remarkable place.
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Lillian Lopez, Lead Singer of Odyssey, Dies at 76
Her son, Steven Andre, announced her death on the band's Facebook tribute page:
It is with tremendous sadness that I announce the passing of my Mother, my mentor, and my very best friend, the founder and first voice of ODYSSEY, Lillian Lopez Collazo Jackson, who died peacefully in hospice on September 4th due to stage four cancer at the age of 76... She will live on in spirit through Annis, Anne, and me as we endeavour to carry on her legacy; to continue the musical journey that is, and always was, ODYSSEY... And of course, her magical voice can still be heard on practically any day, anywhere in the UK: When next you do, and if you can, TURN IT UP! She'd like that... Goodbye Ma, and Thank You...Also posting a tribute was former Odyssey singer William "Bill" McEachern:
To Lillian,Odyssey was the brainchild of sisters Lillian and Louise Lopez, although Louise would leave the group before it broke out. Tony Reynolds came on board for their first album, Odyssey, which produced their biggest U.S. hit, Native New Yorker (1977/#21 Pop/#6 R&B/#3 Dance/#5 U.K.) along with the single Weekend Lover (1977/#57 Pop/#37 R&B).
Rest in peace. The work you've done, speaks for you. Thank you for the opportunity to sing with you and Louise. I am grateful for all that we were able to share with the world together.
I hope to sing with you again, when I see you in heaven.
Thank God, our music still lives,
Bill McEachern
My condolences to the entire family
McEachern replaced Reynolds starting with the second album, 1978's Hollywood Party Tonight, and would stay with them through the rest of their contract with RCA. They never had another Pop or R&B hit in the U.S. but scored well in the U.K. with Use It Up and Wear It Out (1980/#1 U.K.), If You're Lookin' For a Way Out (1980/#8 U.K.), Going Back to My Roots (1981/#4 U.K.) and Inside Out (1982/#3 U.K.).
Lillian continued to tour Europe and the Middle East with Al Jackson and Steven Collazo as Odyssey until 2000 when she married Jackson and retired from the business. She went on to become an author, writing the books Bowling Green (2003) and Eight Short Stories For Children (2011).


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The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the robot pleasure planet of Shangri-linux, where the atmosphere is lethal to humans, and so Professor Farnsworth simply transfers both Fry and Leela's consciousness into robots that share their likeness. But everything starts to go awry when Bender realizes the unsuspecting and vacationing robots are being mindwiped and turned into slaves. Is it time for Bender to grow a conscience? Don't bet on it.
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NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson led the Dow Jones industrial average higher on Tuesday as stocks ended slightly higher. The health-care heavyweight rose 3 percent after reporting earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations. The company also raised its full-year earnings forecast.
Oil from massive Gulf spill reaching coast
An oil spill that threatens to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spreads out of control and starts washing ashore along the Gulf Coast.
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Stocks traded in a narrow range. Other companies reported weak results and worries lingered over a warning from Standard & Poor's about U.S. government debt.
Zions Bancorporation rose 6 percent, the most of any company in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The Utah bank reported a first-quarter profit after posting a loss a year ago. It also said customers were getting better at paying back loans, allowing the bank to set aside less money to cover defaults.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 65.16 points, or 0.53 percent, to 12,266.75. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 7.48, or 0.57 percent, to 1,312.62. The Nasdaq composite rose 9.59, or 0.35 percent, to 2,744.97.
Major stock indexes posted their largest one-day drop in over a month Monday after S&P said it might lower its rating on U.S. government bonds if Washington failed to tackle its mounting debts. While the ratings agency kept its U.S. debt rating at AAA, the highest possible, it warned that there was a one-in-three chance it would downgrade U.S. debt within two years.
U.S. government bonds fared well despite the S&P warning. Bond prices moved higher Monday and again on Tuesday, lowering their yields. Economists and bond traders offered a handful of explanations. If S&P's warning prods Congress and the Obama administration to cut budget deficits sooner, it would likely lead to lower economic growth, leading traders to buy bonds.
"If it serves as a catalyst (for long-term debt reduction) then that's a good thing for Treasurys," said George Goncalves, head of U.S. rates strategy at Nomura Securities.
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Goncalves said bond traders were more likely to worry about more immediate problems such as the looming fight in Congress over raising the federal debt limit, not the threat of a downgrade from S&P in 2013. "That's so far down the road," he said. "In this market, two years is an eternity."
The Commerce Department reported that builders broke ground in March on more new homes than analysts expected. Home construction rose 7.2 percent from February.
United States Steel Corp. rose 4 percent after announcing the sale of its 841-foot U.S. Steel Tower, Pittsburgh's tallest building, to a New york-based investment group.
Trucking company Paccar Inc. rose 4 percent after its income and revenues beat analysts' expectations.
Harley Davidson reported its income more than tripled, but missed Wall Street estimates. The motorcycle maker's stock fell 4 percent.
Texas Instruments Inc. fell less than 1 percent. The chip-maker said late Monday that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami set its production back, reducing first-quarter income and likely cutting into second-quarter growth.
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American University Professor Breastfeeds in Class — Did She Cross The Line?
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This is a lesson the students won't forget.
Two weeks ago Adrienne Pine, an assistant anthropology professor at American University, brought her baby to school when she was unable to find someone to take care of her sick infant. During one of Pine's lectures, she breast-fed her baby in front of 40 students. Now, the single mom is at the center of a serious debate.
Yesterday, the university released a statement that seemed to scold Pine for her actions. According to the Washington Post, university officials said they understood Pine's dilemma, but felt she should have taken take advantage of options such as, "sick leave, break times, and private areas for nursing mothers to express milk so they can maintain a focus on professional responsibilities in the classroom." The university also believes she put students, faculty, and staff at risk by bringing in a sick child.
Expecting some backlash for breastfeeding in class, Pine used the opportunity to write " Exposéing My Breasts on the Internet," an article where Pine vented her frustrations about what she feels to be a "hostile" and "anti-woman" work environment.
While many understand and empathized with Pine's decision to bring her baby to class, they believe she crossed the line when she decided to breastfeed.
Jake Carias, a sophomore and student of Pine, told the Washington Post that he "wasn't too distracted" with the presence of a baby, until the breastfeeding occurred.
"I found it unprofessional," Carias said. "I was kind of appalled." He later dropped the class.
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Yoga Holistic Health Camp
- Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center in Da Lat, Vietnam
- K'lan Resort by Tuyen Lam Lake Hoa Hong Street, ward 4 Da Lat city, Lam Dong Province
- Oct 19 - 23, 2020 (5 days)
About This Event
More than 70% of doctor visits are due to diseases or health conditions caused by stress. Stress adversely affects physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual health if untreated for long periods of time. This 5-day Camp will help you to recognize the sources of stress in your daily life and provides the Yogic tools to increase one's stress resilience and cultivate a positive outlook on life as we address our lifestyle choices and how to change them through:
Workshop Topics
Intro to the 5 Points of Yoga for Integral Health
5 Causes of Stress According to Yoga
Proper Breathing and Prana
Proper Relaxation
Positive Thinking / Thought Power
More Topics
eating a balanced, vegetarian diet
limiting caffeine and alcohol
proper sleep
regular exercise (asana)
regular meditation
creative pursuits
spiritual diary writing
conscious breathing exercises (pranayama)
recognizing factors that trigger stress response
Venue HighlightsOpen to guests year round, the Yoga Resort and Training Center welcomes people from around the world, and provides a peaceful setting in which to find a way back to a holistic lifestyle in harmony with nature. Our guests often testify to the effect of a sense of stress relief and the experience of improved physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You can join for a minimum of 3 days, for a week, or longer.
Designed by Yoga Master Swami Sivananda, the daily routine at the Yoga Resort is the core of a practice to restore good health on all levels:
6:00am Satsang – Meditation, Kirtan chanting, Lecture, or Silent Walk
8:00am Asanas and Pranayama
10:00am Vegetarian Brunch
11:00am Karma Yoga
2:00pm Yoga Vacation Workshop
4:00pm Asanas and Pranayama
6:00pm Vegetarian Dinner
7:30pm Satsang – Meditation, Kirtan chanting and Lecture
AccommodationsThe Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center is located amidst the secluded pine forests surrounding Tuyen Lam Lake, close to the hill-station town of Dalat, Vietnam, famed for its moderate climate and scenic beauty. The fresh air and silence of the forest location have moved many to remark on the healing atmosphere.
The location offers opportunities for walking, with several vantage points from which the local countryside can be admired. Regular walks up on the mountainside in the early morning, in time to watch the sunrise, or in the evening enjoy the light of the full moon or for star-gazing, are popular events in our program. On warmer evenings we often enjoy meditation outdoors in the light and warmth of a campfire. Close to our main Yoga hall a classical walking labyrinth provides a place for contemplative walks.
Guests are housed in villa-style buildings, each with 3-5 separate rooms, that are spread over the property. Accommodation is simple, providing basic comforts. Bedding and towels are provided. Please note that housekeeping services are not provided during your stay.
Guest accommodation is provided in villa-style buildings, each with several rooms, that are situated in the forest area. All rooms have attached bathrooms. Single occupancy is available, we also have some double rooms, other rooms have 3-4 beds.
Facilities are simple, providing basic comfort. There is no air conditioner or heater provided. Please note that we do not provide housekeeping services for your room during your stay.
- Free Wifi
- Towels
- Yoga Studio
Menu Types
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Ayurvedic
- Organic
- Gluten Free
- Dairy Free
- Nut Free
Menu/CuisineThe Yoga Resort uses mostly organic, locally produced vegetables. Meals at the ashram are freshly prepared with love and care by dedicated karma yogis. Following Yoga tradition, meals are vegetarian, including a limited amount of dairy items. Eating a plant-based diet has been conclusively shown to be good for health and well-being, it is detoxifying and nutritive at the same time.
Meals are offered at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm, with a small fruit snack served in the afternoon. Additional snacks are available in the boutique if needed.
In the case that you have special dietary restrictions please mention on your application form and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Please note that meat, fish, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, black tea, and eggs are not served in the Yoga Resort. We ask guests not to bring these items onto the Yoga Resort property.
DirectionsBy air
Dalat Lien Khuong airport, 45 minutes drive
from the Yoga Resort, is served by daily flights
from major cities in Vietnam. International
travelers are advised to fly to Ho Chi Minh
City, from where there are many connecting
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Dalat is 300 km from Ho Chi Minh, 660km
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Cancellation Policy
100% deposit refund for cancellation 30+ days before event.
50% deposit refund for cancellation 15-29 days before event.
0% deposit refund for cancellation 0-14 days before event.
The remaining balance (total price minus deposit) is due upon arrival.
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With 7,000 m² of floor space and 4,870 m² of projected area, the auditorium presents performances of music, theater and dance, serving as a space for the development of new talent and promoting the encounter between cultures and artistic expressions both nationally and internationally. In the basement of the building works at the School Auditorium - a music education center with 170 pupils, children and adolescents coming, mostly held in check municipal schools - which keeps the musical groups Furious Auditorium and Orchestra Brazilian Auditorium.
Com 7.000 m² de área construída e 4.870 m² de área projetada, O auditório apresenta espetáculos de música, teatro e dança, servindo de espaço para o desenvolvimento de novos talentos e a promoção do encontro entre culturas e expressões artísticas nos âmbitos nacional e internacional. No subsolo do prédio funciona a Escola do Auditório – um centro de ensino de música com 170 alunos, crianças e adolescentes vindos, em sua maioria, de seleção realizada na rede municipal de ensino –, que mantém os grupos musicais Furiosa do Auditório e Orquestra Brasileira do Auditório.
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Overview and HistorySao Paulo is the biggest city both in Brazil and the southern hemisphere, even bigger than Rio. It's mega-sprawling like Los Angeles. By some estimates Sao Paulo has 27 million people, surpassed only by Tokyo. If Godzilla would only win for once, Sao Paulo might become THE biggest city. Whoa!Sao Paulo is the financial center of South America, and in turn its center is the stock exchange downtown on Paulista Avenue. Here's the 1892 viaduct linking the old downtown with what later became the new downtown.Sao Paulo was founded by Jesuit missionaries in 1554. The economy here began with coffee exports from plantations worked first by slaves and then by European immigrants. The Mansion of Rosas, from 1930, is one of the last big ones built during the wealthy coffee period.Brazil is part of the "Mercosul" business community,which is the Common Market of the South. This is a trade zone roughly equivalent in purpose to the EU, African Union, Asia-Paficic Economic Cooperation, or the Security and Prosperity Partnership in North America.It snowed once, in 1918.The city government of Sao Paulo is located inside the Palace of the Bandeirantes. The Palace is named after the legendary Bandits who fought deep into the middle of South America, to expand the territory of Brazil in the eighteenth century. Here's a look at the interior, too.With all this commerce and activity flying around, it's natural that Sao Paulo is a huge center for business tourism. The city has the capacity to host hundreds of conventions PER DAY at any of the hotels, conference centers, sports arenas, etc. Here's an auto exhibition in the Anhembi Park Pavillion.But there is still a lot of history to explore here, even in the middle of the high-tech world around you. Anchieta Museum was originally a school for teaching religious subjects to native Brazillians, built 1554.The University of Sao Paulo's College of Law was founded in 1827 and is the oldest law school in Brazil. Twelve Brazillian presidents and countless other administrators have attended.Getting ThereSao Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport is a small city all by itself. It's got 53,000 employees and the only bigger cargo hub nearby is in Mexico City, man!Travel to the airport by bus takes about 45 minutes, you can rent a car there or park in the long term parking lots, as usual for any large airport city with 53,000 employees.Traffic can get gnarly so allow plenty of extra time to get to the airport when it's time to leave. Remember, 53,000 people can make a decent little rush hour all by themselves.TransportationFirst, some scenery with style: here's the Julio Prestes railway station now converted into a concert hall. The Station of Light or Estacao de Luz connecting with the metro system and also housing the Museum of the Portugese language. The Boiler House, a recovered industrial space now used for cultural events.There is a metro system here but it is not as comprehensive as in a place like Tokyo. Buses are the main way to get around, along with street taxis and radio-dispatch taxis. The latter are more reliable if you're not fluent in Portugese yet.People and CultureOverall, Sao Paulo is the most ethnically diverse city in Brazil, and it has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan (Liberdade neighborhood).And what do these diverse people do to celebrate? They have Carnaval!Brazil has the best Carnavale in the world. There's no way in hell we can come anywhere close to describing it, not even with panoramas and thousands of words plane tickets caiparinhas and a jar of tiger sweat. Preparations alone go on for weeks.It happens for 4 days before Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of Lent, when people must give up the pleasures of the flesh.There are lots of other major events happening here throughout the course of the year.The annual Sao Paulo gay parade attracts upwards of 1.5 million people, and it's not just a little afternoon thing. The events surrounding the parade take up an entire month with street fairs, film festivals and crazy parties. This is the world's largest LGBT event! WORLD's LARGEST!Sao Paulo fashion week attracts designers from all over the globe, and the Festival of Electronic Art invites digital media-makers to assemble en masse and tweak parameters together.Sports fans pay attention! The Brazillian F1 Grand Prix is on a level with the Tour de France or the Kentucky Derby in world sporting. Drivers don't love the bumpy streets but fans come out in droves to watch, and 99% of them survive.Things to do & RecommendationsWell, you've got twelve thousand restaurants, seventy museums, two hundred cinemas, and fifty theaters to choose from.The Municipal Theater has the distinction of being the place where Hamlet was first performed, bringing Shakespeare to Sao Paulo as of 1911.Shopping? Check out Oscar Friere street for Godiva, Versace, Armani and all of Louis Vuitton's other friends.After you get thirsty from carrying all those bags, dip into Campos do Jordao for a cold beer. They brew their own.A few gallery pointers -- State Art Gallery with modern exhibits from the 19th century until now, MASP Museum of Art Sao Paulo, Tomie Ohtake Institute for gooey plastic hyper-modern stuff.For Nature and wildlife... well I guess the rainforest pretty much wins in this category, but on your way into the jungle you can poke your head into the Sao Paulo Aquarium.Right within the city there's some nice green space in Ibirapuera Park. Two square kilometers and it's still only the second biggest park in the city! Get ready for this list of what it contains: a planetarium, Astrophysics School, Villa de Osos Bacalao (a building shaped like a horse!!), five convention-center pavillions, Air Force Museum, Agricultural Palace, Gymnasium, running tracks, Obelisk and fourteen million blades of grass.Cool local favorite pub: "Jazz in the Deep Ones" where you can find live music and no liquor laws.Lastly, how many times do I have to tell you? Go up to the top of the tallest thing you can find and look around. It'll be worth more than anything you can buy.Text by Steve Smith.


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NEW YORK, May 3 ââ¬â Bill Clinton, the chubby boy from Arkansas who grew up to be president, has done what public health experts failed to do. He pulled the plug on public school soda machines.
The former president said today that the nation's soft-drink makers have agreed to halt sales of soda and other sugared drinks to schools. In their place will be vending machines filled with water, unsweetened juice, and low-fat milk. Vending machines in high schools can still offer diet sodas.
The agreement emerged from a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, working as the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. It applied to public schools, but its terms are also expected to be extended to private and parochial schools.
Parties to the agreement include Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the American Beverage Association, a trade group representing the soft-drink industry.
Under the terms of the agreement, the beverage industry will work to meet 75% of the new soft drink standards before the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year and will have the plan fully implemented by the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year.
Robert Eckel, M.D., a Denver endocrinologist and president of the American Heart Association, said many school districts have already implemented similar guidelines, but he predicted that today's announcement will provide the needed impetus to other districts that "have not yet been able to improve the nutrition of their schools."
Childhood obesity is now a major public health problem and there is some evidence that sugared drinks play a significant part in the fattening of America. For example, in February the Journal of Pediatrics reported that among girls milk consumption declined by about 25% during adolescence, but consumption of soda increased almost threefold.
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Caterpillar has added three new models to the E Series Hammer line—H140Es, H160Es and H180Es—for use on medium and large excavators. Cat® E Series Hammers feature a rugged design for extended durability and solid reliability, and features such as automatic shut-off, silencing and vibration buffering make them easy on the operator. The E Series Hammers are designed to be field serviceable with common hand tools to keep them operating at peak performance.
Cat hammers are wholly designed, engineered and manufactured by Caterpillar and are an optimum match to Cat carriers. The three new hammers match up with Cat excavators ranging from the 324E to the 374D L. Mounting brackets are available for Cat quick couplers. The energy classes of the H140Es, H160Es and H18Es are 6,000 ft-lb (8,135 J), 8,500 ft-lb (11,525 J) and 12,000 ft-lb (16,270 J), respectively.
E Series Hammers feature a new symmetrical housing design, which allows rotating the housing 180 degrees to compensate for wear, effectively extending the life of the housing. The lower portion incorporates rock edges that add protection to the housing and enable quick positioning of boulders. An optional wear package is available to further enhance hammer durability in severe applications.
The new housing is built for strength and lowers life cycle costs. A sleek, curved front and back profile eliminates stress points and transfers forces to the bottom of the hammer. One-piece side plates eliminate points where cracks can start. The hammers are fully supported by Cat dealers so that customers can work with a single organization for machine and work tool parts and service.
The E Series Hammers build on the proven D Series Hammers, which the new hammers replace. Those features include automatic shut-off, which instantly stops the hammer when the tool breaks through material. The system increases hammer reliability and durability by eliminating the high internal stresses created by blank firing. Another feature continued in each E Series Hammer is the external pressure control valve, which reduces service time when an adjustment is necessary. Sound suppression is standard for environmental protection and enhanced operator comfort.
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The Chinese technique known as "red cooking" involves braising meat in a mixture of soy sauce, sherry, sugar, and spices until it is incredibly tender. Inspired by Daniel Boulud's famed short ribs braised in red wine, Shun Lee chef Michael Tong (author of this week's Cook the Book selection, The Shun Lee Cookbook) created this recipe for red-cooked beef short ribs. In his Eastern rendition, the ribs are simmered with ginger, cinnamon, chilies, and star anise. Once prepared, they are taken off the bone so diners can eat them with chopsticks.
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- 2 1/2 pounds beef short ribs, cut by the butcher into 8 pieces about 2 inches long
- 5 cups dry sherry or red wine
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 scallions, white and green parts, trimmed
- One 1 1/2 piece peeled fresh ginger, flattened with a cleaver
- Two 3-inch cinnamon sticks
- 3 dried hot red chilies
- 3 whole star anise
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 pound spinach
Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil over high heat. Add the short ribs and cook for one minute to remove some of the surface fat. Drain in a colander.
Combine the sherry, sugar, soy sauce, scallions, ginger, cinnamon sticks, chilies, star anise, white pepper, and 3 cups of water in a flameproof casserole. Stir to mix. Add the short ribs, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium low, cover, and simmer until the meat is fork-tender, about two and a half hours.
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the ribs to a chopping board. Cut the meat from the bones, transfer the meat to a bowl, and discard the bones. Remove the scallions, ginger, and whole spices from the sauce. Boil the sauce, uncovered, until it is syrupy, glossy, and reduced to 3/4 cup, about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the spinach and cook until tender, about one and half minutes. Drain in a colander. Place the spinach on a platter.
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John Brady, co-head of MF Global Inc.'s Chicago office, was having a vodka cocktail at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, on the day his company reported its largest-ever quarterly loss.
"Wow, the sun just set," Brady said to his wife and two colleagues attending a conference with him, he recalled in an interview. "I hope it doesn't set on MF Global."
A week later, on Oct. 31, the firm led by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Jon Corzine collapsed. Brady and 1,065 colleagues joined a wave of firings that has washed away more than 200,000 jobs in the global financial-services industry this year, eclipsing 174,000 in 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show. BNP Paribas SA and UniCredit SpA announced cuts last week, and the carnage likely will worsen as Europe's sovereign-debt crisis roils markets.
"This is something very different," said Huw Jenkins, a former head of investment banking at UBS AG who's now a London- based managing partner at Brazil's Banco BTG Pactual SA. "This is a structural change. The industry is shrinking."
Now, faced with higher capital requirements, the failure of exotic financial products and diminished proprietary trading, the industry is undergoing what Steven Eckhaus, chairman of the executive-employment practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, called "a paradigm shift." The New York attorney, whose clients have included former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Financial Officer Erin Callan, said he has stopped giving his "spiel" about inherent talent leading to new work.
In interviews, a dozen people who have lost jobs at firms including Societe Generale SA, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Jefferies Group Inc. described a grim banking landscape that also includes Occupy Wall Street protests against unemployment stuck above 9% and income inequality.
"These are by far my darkest days," said Scott Schubert, 49, who was dismissed in late 2008 as a mergers-and-acquisitions banker at Jefferies, a New York-based securities firm, and has been unemployed since. "It's harder and harder to look for a job and feel that there's nothing there."
Banks, insurers and asset managers in Western Europe have been hardest hit, announcing about 105,000 dismissals this year, 66% more than the region's losses in 2008 at the depths of the financial crisis, Bloomberg data show. The 50,000 job cuts in North America this year are more than twice last year's and fewer than the 175,000 in 2008.
Almost every week since August has brought news of firings by the world's biggest banks. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest lender, announced that month it would slash 30,000 jobs by the end of 2013. In September, Bank of America Corp., the second-largest U.S. lender, said it would cut the same number of jobs. Both banks are trimming about 10% of their employees. Last week, BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, said it will cut about 1,400 jobs at its corporate and investment- banking unit, and UniCredit, Italy's biggest, said it plans to eliminate 6,150 positions by 2015.
"It's a once-in-a-generation challenge," said John Purcell, founder of London-based executive search firm Purcell & Co. "Everyone who has worked in the City since 1985 will have no idea of how to cope with this level of dislocation."
Neil Brener, a psychiatrist whose patients work in London's City and Canary Wharf financial districts said the stress is contributing to panic attacks, binge drinking and chest pains.
"Because there are fewer jobs, people are unhappy about being stuck," Brener said. "They don't have options about moving, and there is a sense of feeling trapped."
London hiring could be frozen next year, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd. Headcount in the City and Canary Wharf may fall to 288,225 by the end of the year, 27,000 fewer than in 2010 and the lowest since at least 1998, when there were 289,666 jobs, according to the London-based research firm.
Wall Street won't regain its lost jobs "until about 2023," Marisa Di Natale, an economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in an email.
That's not encouraging for Michael Reiner, 44, who lost his job in June as a credit strategist in New York for Societe Generale, France's second-largest bank, whose shares are down 60% this year. When he called his wife to tell her the news, she was home watching "The Company Men," a film about corporate downsizing, he said.
It wasn't the first time Reiner had lost a job on Wall Street. He worked at Bear Stearns Cos. for 14 years until the firm collapsed in March 2008 and was taken over in a fire sale by JPMorgan Chase & Co. He said he was happy to have some time off with his family and go to Little League baseball games.
When he began looking for a job, he "wanted to find a place for the next 14 years," he said. A recruiter brought him to Paris-based Societe Generale. It didn't last that long.
It's harder to talk about losing a job the second time, Reiner said. "There are a lot of people I haven't told."
Opportunities for employment "evaporated" as the European debt crisis escalated, he said. Now he spends his time going to his daughter's field hockey games and managing his investments. He's planning to make maple syrup from the trees in the backyard of his home in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
For Schubert, the former Jefferies banker in his third year looking for work, the longer he's out of a job, the harder it is for him to tell his 10-year-old son to do his homework, he said.
"It might seem outwardly to him that I've given up," he said in an interview this month from his four-bedroom home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. "I can't come to the table and say, 'Well, when you were five, I worked nonstop.'"
Schubert, who received a master's degree in business administration from New York University in 1989 and was a managing director specializing in middle-market M&A deals at Jefferies, said he wasn't surprised when he lost his job in 2008 during the financial crisis. He thought unemployment would last 12 months at most.
"The first year out was fruitless," he said. "There wasn't much hiring going on at all."
By the middle of 2010, more potential employers seemed interested, and he felt "something was imminent," he said. Nothing happened.
This year, he has become increasingly disheartened by bad news on Wall Street, and it's more difficult to stay in touch with former colleagues as time goes by, he said.
On the August weekend of Hurricane Irene, training to coach his son's soccer team alongside younger fathers, being "overly competitive for a man of my age," Schubert twisted his right knee, he said. He aggravated the injury doing yard work and worries how much his health insurance will help, he said.
While his investment choices haven't been "too terrible," he will consider selling his house if he doesn't find a job. "God, I hope it's in the next six months," he said.
Hetal Patel, 44, a foreign-exchange trader who worked at London-based Lloyds Banking Group Plc for more than 20 years until last month, said he doesn't plan to look for work until early next year, "when budgets become clearer and perhaps conditions improve."
Shares of his former company, controlled by the British government since a bailout in 2008, have fallen 64% this year, and the bank has posted a pretax loss of 3.86 billion pounds (US$6-billion) in the first nine months. It announced 15,000 job cuts in June.
Another lender backed by the U.K., Edinburgh-based RBS, has announced about 30,000 job cuts, including 2,000 this year, since receiving the world's biggest government bailout in 2008. Its shares are down 50% in 2011, and CEO Stephen Hester said Nov. 4 the investment bank "will have to shrink further."
Tim Leary, 29, a director in high-yield and distressed trading, lost his job there on Nov. 7. After he got the news, he called his wife to say he'd see her and their 4-month-old son for breakfast.
He drove back to Manhattan from his office in Stamford, Connecticut, and put together a resume for the first time in years. He said he plans to spend "a fair amount of time figuring out what the landscape is" before starting his search.
"Unfortunately, the industry always seems to get it wrong and they over-hire," said Philip Keevil, 65, a former head of investment banking at S.G. Warburg & Co. and now a partner at New York-based advisory firm Compass Advisers LLP. "They are over-optimistic and then periodically throw large numbers out."
Morale on Wall Street and London is "probably as bad, if not worse" than it has been in decades, said Keevil.
Wall Street bonuses are expected to fall in 2011 from the US$128,530 average last year, DiNapoli, the state comptroller, said in October. Even so, when Goldman Sachs set aside 24% less to pay employees in the first nine months than in the same period last year, the amount, US$10-billion, was equal to US$292,836 for each of its 34,200 workers as of Sept. 30. That's nearly six times the median household income in the U.S., where 49.1 million live in poverty, according to Census Bureau data.
Wyatt Laikind, 26, made three times as much in his first year out of college working at Citigroup Inc. as his single mother earned when he was growing up in western Massachusetts.
"It was like winning the lottery to get that job," said Laikind, who worked as an associate on the New York-based bank's high-yield credit-trading desk.
He got a job on Wall Street because he "was under the impression that it was a more meritocratic environment," and "my hard work and intelligence would be paid off," he said.
At first, he liked the excitement, he said. Then, after financial regulations curtailed proprietary trading, the job became "less appealing." He said he didn't like smiling at clients while having to figure out how to profit from them.
In July, after a vacation, he called his boss to quit, he said in an interview from Quito, Ecuador, where he is now working for Equitable Origin LLC, a start-up that offers a certification system for oil exploration. His salary is less than 5% of what he made at Citigroup, he lives with intermittent hot water, and he was robbed at knifepoint last month, he said.
"I feel happier on a daily basis," Laikind said.
Sagging Mattress
His tone was different in a later email.
"I wasn't brought up in luxury, so I like to think I can tough it out," he wrote, describing the sagging mattress he slept on in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt to stay warm. "But I may have to give it up and try going back to finance soon."
If he does, it won't be easy.
"Until now, at many firms, a lot of investment bankers have been convinced that we are living now in a limited period where things are a bit more difficult and afterwards the old world will come back," Kaspar Villiger, 70, chairman of Zurich- based UBS said in an interview this month. "This illusion has now vanished."
Increased capital requirements agreed to by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will limit banks' use of borrowed funds to boost profit, lower their return on equity and likely reduce executive compensation, analysts say. High leverage "was the juice in the system," said Ilana Weinstein, CEO of New York-based search firm IDW Group LLC. "It's gone."
For Brady, 42, the vanishing point at MF Global arrived after he returned to Chicago from Florida. He thought the New York-based futures brokerage would "weather the storm," even as Moody's Investors Service cut its rating and shares plunged, he said. He got word that another company would buy the firm while at a Talking Heads cover-band concert and celebrated with a friend by drinking Anchor Steam beer and shots of Jameson.
He woke on Oct. 31 at 4:40 a.m. and searched for deal reports on his phone while standing in his boxer shorts with an electric toothbrush in the other hand. He didn't find any.
The acquiring firm, Interactive Brokers Group Inc., pulled out of the deal after a discrepancy in client accounts surfaced, and MF Global filed for bankruptcy later that day.
At first, Brady thought his company would survive, he said. His wife thought he was in denial. His mood changed when he was sitting in the home office adjoining his bedroom, looking at the value of his holdings.
"My Fidelity account looks like my bar tab from just a week ago," Brady said.
On Nov. 11, a human resources executive asked colleagues on Brady's floor to gather by his desk, which looks out on the Willis Tower, the tallest building in the U.S. They were all fired. She told them to show receipts for large personal belongings to the plainclothes security guards by the elevators, and that checks would be sent in the mail, Brady said. Someone asked if the checks would bounce. She said she didn't know.
Brady, who said he wasn't aware of the size of the bets MF Global made on European sovereign debt, wrote to clients this month saying he's looking to join a firm that believes "integrity and honesty are the single most important ingredients to success." He said last week he is optimistic.


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The dates for CFP are from October 11th to until January 15th. Some speaker selections may be made before the end of CFP.
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Justin Bieber, if you have the hair for it… just do it!
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Joaquin Phoenix, if you are going for weird.
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Takeya Mizugaki (13-5-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will get a chance to fight after all.
The UFC has found a replacement opponent for the bantamweight standout three days after an undisclosed injury forced Francisco Rivera to withdraw from a bout with Mizugaki at UFC on Versus 3, which takes place March 3 at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.
Sources close to the event told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) overnight that newcomer Reuben Duran (7-2-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will step in on short notice to meet the one-time WEC contender.
Duran's management at Iridium Sports Agency subsequently announced the fight via its official Facebook page. Duran has signed a five-fight deal with the UFC.
Duran vs. Mizugaki is expected to be part of the preliminary card of the event, which is headlined by a welterweight scrap between perennial contenders Martin Kampmann and Diego Sanchez. The main card airs live on Versus.
Duran steps up on short notice on the heels of a four-fight win streak in regional promotions. All but one of his professional victories come by way of stoppage due to strikes or submission.
Mizugaki recently closed out his WEC career with a 2-3 record, which included a recent submission loss to Urijah Faber in the headliner of November's WEC 52 event. The former Japanese fight-circuit competitor opened his WEC career win a title loss to then-champ Miguel Torres but then won two of his next three, including decision wins over Jeff Curran and Rani Yahya.
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"This site is now dedicated to any vocal or instrumental music written in the 20th & 21st centuries which includes lute in a prominent role. The basic philosophy and guidelines for submission have remained the same:
its purpose is to create a platform for composers, publishers & performers to share information about lute music written in the 20th & 21st centuries. There is no intention, however, for this site to be a database of all existing material. A main priority is to provide easier access to audio samples and scores of the material. On this site, therefore, you will not only find brief biographies of the composers, descriptions of the musical works and links to relevant homepages and scores, but also mp3s and links to audio samples of the compositions. Despite the wealth of available material, contemporary lute music is rarely heard at recitals. It is my belief that many lutenists would be interested in new lute music, but are inhibited by 'fear of the unknown'. It is my hope that this site will encourage lutenists and singers to consider adding modern lute music to their repertoire, and perhaps also compose their own music! .."
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"I am a swedish composer and I´m living in Tyresö, which is about 20 km southeast of Stockholm, Sweden.
I compose in different early music styles (before 1800). In 2003 I established an assemblage of music in different ancient styles, all composed by contemporary composers. I´ve named it Scharffeneck Collection Of Contemporary Early Music, after the area where I´m working as a church music director, Skarpnäck. Scharffeneck is the 17th century spelling of the name Skarpnäck. The collection includes music of 22 composers from different parts of the world, and at the moment there is some 800 works registred. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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Site listing composers of early music written in the traditional early music styles. Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Glen Shannon Music was founded in 1998 when the Prelude & Fugue in D Minor for SSATB recorders (now published as SMM100) won first prize in 1997 in the biennial composition contest sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society. The main focus is publishing music for recorder ensembles, but that could change at any moment. One of the basic rules of my music is that all parts are interesting - after spending years in high school and college concert bands, I learned that it's boring playing all whole-notes on the contrabass clarinet, or in the third clarinet section. So I like to keep everyone interested. The Prelude & Fugue is an excellent example of that philosophy."
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Here you can find the recorder music by Victor Eijkhout, written to sound appealing, and suitable for solid intermediate level players. All music is downloadable free of charge, but Victor appreciates a copy of a concert program if you ever perform it.
Highlights: Passamezzo and La Folia variations for large ensemble, the Courtly Suite for one recorder and keyboard (with occasional exceptions), and a developing cycle of Canonical Hours for recorder sextet.
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"What you are listening now are a few compositions I've written over the course of 20 years. I make my living as a musician, playing mandolin in a duo called The Kombis and writing/producing for an original project with Michele Rene. If you want to check those out, they should be in my top 8. Meanwhile, my passion has always been classical music, mostly 17th-18th century music. I've written some books for Mel Bay, but only other people's music transposed for modern-day instrumentation. Lately, I've been back to writing some original compositions and wanted to post them up for others to hear. Maybe I can get them played in a movie or something. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"As a composer, Roman Turovsky-Savchuk largely limited himself to the instrumental idiom of the Baroque lute and the torban, eventually producing numerous instrumental and vocal compositions, some of which were premiered by Luca Pianca at several international festivals (Salamanca, Lisbon, Schwetzingen, Vilnius, Vicenza, Urbino, Metz and Paris), Roland Ferrandi in Corte, Simon Paulus at Wolfenbüttel and Jindřich Macek in Přibyslav. He also collaborated with Paulo Galvão and Hans Kockelmans in a series of experimental works composed jointly. His works have been recorded by Robert MacKillop, and Christopher Wilke on lute, as well as Angelo Barricelli on guitar, and Ernst Stolz on viola da gamba.
As a performer he appeared as a lute soloist and continuo player in the Early Music line-up of Julian Kytasty's "New York Bandura Ensemble"[9]. Roman Turovsky is a recipient of the 2008 NYSCA grant for the purpose of study of kobzar art with Julian Kytasty.
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a founding member of Vox Saeculorum and The Delian Society, two international groups devoted to preservation and perpetuation of tonal music.
Since 1996 he has signed his musical works as "Sautscheck", a German transliteration of the second part of his surname, with various first names such as Joachim Peter, Johann Joachim, and Konradin Aemilius. His musical works achieved wide circulation under this allonym. This also caused irritation for a few musicologists who perceived his works as a malicious hoax because of their ostensibly baroque style, and led to a coinage of a new German word, "Sautscheckerei", which denotes a musical or literary hoax.
"Cantiones sarmaticae et ruthenicae", a collection of nearly 300 pieces based on Ukrainian folk melodies by Turovsky, was published under the allonym "Ioannes Leopolita. .." (Wikipedia)
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"Welcome to The New Renaissance & Baroque Music Website. This site features original music written in authentic renaissance and baroque styles by composer and harpsichordist Grant Colburn. The music is available in complete editions available for purchase and performance.
The composer Grant Colburn was born in Wisconsin in 1966. Always one to search for the obscure and out of the ordinary in music, the late 70's found him taking an interest in the harpsichord after hearing a recording by Igor Kipnis. Shortly after he attended two summers of harpsichord workshop studying with Igor Kipnis at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. During this time he began writing his earliest compositions in a period style.
Since this time Grant Colburn has written and self published four books of period music. The first called A First Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Organ contains his earliest pieces in the baroque style. The second completed book, Six Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord along with the third book recently completed titled Six Easy Lessons for the Harpsichord are both highly influenced by the keyboard music of Handel's English Contempories. A fourth book is also in print called A Renaissance Miscellany, which in addition to keyboard music also has instrumental music, songs, and rounds ranging in stylistically in time from the early to later 16th century. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Vox Sæculorum is an organisation devoted to the custodianship of the Baroque Revival in contemporary art music.
Taking inspiration from the Accademia dell'Arcadia, a 17th century Italian scholarly society that counted Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Georg Friedrich Händel as some of its more notable members, Vox Sæculorum offers composers of the contemporary Baroque Revival a forum to showcase their work and offer criticism to other like-minded artists. It is intended as a guild to maintain the integrity of a unique, living tradition ensuring its development and sustenance.
Vox Sæculorum is a natural outgrowth of an informal association between founding members Mark Moya, Giorgio Pacchioni, Michael Starke, and Roman Turovsky dating back to the early 1990s. As leading composers of the contemporary Baroque Revival, these four often shared musical knowledge, engaged in collaborative efforts, and offered constructive criticism of each other's work.
Unlike similar organisations that have been formed in the past, there is no ideological or philosophical slant to our activities. Our members share a common passion for writing music according to the æsthetic precepts of the Baroque era. As an organisational entity, Vox Sæculorum maintains its neutrality in the ongoing conflicts between the various currents of contemporary Western art music and does not assert the superiority of one type of music over another. There is plenty of room in the air for musical variety and it is hoped that, through the establishment of this society, the Baroque Revival takes its rightful place as a legitimate artistic movement. "
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Events Calendar
First Friday Lecture Series: Estate Planning 101 with Martin Palumbos '69
Learn more about financial planning for your future, and tips on how to secure the best income through your retirement.
Date: November 1, 2019 - November 1, 2019
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Skalny Welcome Center Board Room
Office of Institutional Advancement
*Format change this year*
10:30-11:30 a.m.: First Friday Lectures will be held in the Welcome Center second floor board room with a continental breakfast.
12:30 p.m.: Mass with the campus community in the Hermance Family Chapel of St. Basil the Great.
Registration not required.
The 2019-2020 series lineup:
Fall 2019:
- October 4: Pharmacy Medication Disposal with Drs. Kelly Conn and Matthew Zak (Wegmans School of Pharmacy)
- November 1: Estate Planning 101 with Martin Palumbos '69
- December 6: Mindfulness with Dr. Melissa Goodwin (Psychology Department)
Spring 2020:
- April 3: Technology Workshop hosted by Arien Rozelle and the PRIMA student group (Department of Media and Communication)
- May 1: The Longevity Games and Interventions - A closer look with Dr. Jonathan Millen (Biology Department)
- June 5: Super Tuesday Retrospective with Dr. Kathleen Donovan (Political Science Department)


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Smart home devices are considered as the most evolutionary technological innovation for the residential and commercial places owing to their convenient, secure and sustainable features. The rapid technological environment has inclined the global population towards the smart door locks as compared to the mechanical door. With the continuous advancement in technology, smart door locks enable the users to wirelessly control deadbolts as well as program up to nineteen separate security codes that can be used to unlock the door.
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Book – This Pulitzer prize-winning story has been likened to a number of classic coming-of-age tales from Charles Dickens. The central character in this novel, Theodore Decker, loses his mother during a tragedy that he himself survives at a New York art museum. The traumatic event, told from Theodore's perspective, provides a compelling start for the book.
The audiobook for this title is narrated by David Pittu. His narration is exceptional as his voice conveys the pathos of young Theo and the psychic burden that overlays his life. Theo and his mother had been estranged from his father, and after the events in the museum Theo is housed for a time in a beautiful Manhattan apartment with the wealthy family of a socially-inept schoolmate. His appreciation for the art and antiques in the apartment touches upon on-going themes in the book: the immortality of masterpieces, the messages they convey through the ages, and the profound attachments individuals form with these pieces.
I was especially glad to be listening to the audiobook version of this story when Theo, as a teenager, develops a friendship with Boris, a boy from Ukraine. Both author and narrator played delightfully with the Slavic dialect. Boris is a wonderful character because he brought levity and perspective to the story, and David Pittu's Boris was very likable.


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This dimmer is specifically designed to work with many dimmable LED and CFL bulbs. See bulb compatibility list at Documentation tab.
Low and high-end trim on these Maestro CFL/LED dimmers is accomplished digitally (see instructions). Simple button presses allow the user to digitally adjust and set the low or high-end trim. This allows you to remove any undesirable dimmer behavior at the low end, such as flicker, pop-on or drop-out. We typically do not see flicker at the high-end, but occasionally we do notice dead travel, which can be eliminated with the high-end trim. This behavior depends on bulb construction and what load is on the dimmer. By trimming the dimmer, you can tune it for your installation exactly the way you want it.
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02 Jun, 2014
The History of the Current X-Men Universe
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By Raph Soohoo
Midtownians! Raph here, with some X-Men comic recommendations! With the release of Days of Future Past, we've decided to provide you with a primer to the multitude of current X-Books, so that you can jump on board and enjoy Marvel's Merry Mutants!


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Public Water Access, Mille Lacs Lake / North Garrison Bay, Aitkin County
Author(s): K. Skaar
Year: 1999
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Public Water Access, Mille Lacs Lake / North Garrison Bay, Aitkin County. K. Skaar. 1999 ( tDAR id: 277907)
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Reconnaissance / Survey
Geographic Keywords
27001 (Fips Code) • Aitkin (County) • Minnesota (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.812; min lat: 46.154 ; max long: -93.054; max lat: 47.03 ;
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Sponsor(s): Department of Natural Resources [MN]
Prepared By(s): Minnesota Historical Society - Trails & Wilderness (DNR)
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NADB document id number(s): 3100041
NADB citation id number(s): 000000264969
General Note: Submitted to: Department of Natural Resources [MN]
General Note: Sent from: Minnesota Historical Society - Trails & Wilderness (DNR)


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Tracy Morgan name checking Cate Blanchett made my life. He should hire himself out for speech acceptances. On the internets this morning there are some MiniVan huffy puffies who actually didn't get it.
Like please.
How can you not laugh at Tracy Morgan? Poor quality video below.
And of course…who else but Tina Fey. The lady boss of a show that loses out in ratings to Dancing With the Sh-ts. Because women are supposed to support quality women, right? Suck it is right.
We will forgive her then for wearing something that Duana quite rightly assessed was acquired from the Dress Barn. Because with Tina it's really never about what she puts on.
Tracy Morgan Golden Globes acceptance speech
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