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Contact Sago Mine Here: www.intlcoal.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Sooooooo.....3 years in the back pocket of a sweaty giant wasn't quite so useless afterall.
True, I was badgered.
True, I was pummelled.
True, I brought some of it on myself.
But today, what's important, is that true, I was a filter.
Like a kidney?
The damp pocket happened to be attached to the president of, among other things, a big ol' coal mining company. And I, as his closest
It's worth mentioning that if, way down at the very bottom of the page, in smallish font, "c: PRN newswire" appears, said executive will sit straight up in his chair. He might even pale a little.
The wire thing aside, which is pretty funny witnessed firsthand, please take away this bit: Once a letter makes it to a presidents' desk, it cannot be ignored, it must be acknowledged.
Other tidbits learned: certain kinds of information are legal and legitimate to share with the public. The contact information for coal mining executives that isn't published publicly?
Linking to a company's website?
That's just free advertising.
I'll bet they'd be grateful to hear from you, if, say, you are inclined to share your thoughts about their company's safety practices. Why else would they provide their email address???
I happened to write a very polite letter tonight. It's just a warm up for what I'll be composing to Mr. Hatfield in next day or two. This one's directed to the two senior vice presidents responsible for the mine conditions and employee safety.
Dear Messrs. Kitts: (they happen to have the same last name!)
The egregious negligence you repeatedly allowed at the Sago mine that lead to the deaths of your employees is morally criminal.
As senior vice presidents responsible for mining, and the state of West Virginia, respectively, your work is compensated generously because you possess superior knowledge and skills (theoretically) to:
1. Produce coal for the benefit of your customers;
2. Create profit for ICG, and;
3. Safely lead subordinate employees in dangerous work.
It is overwhelmingly and tragically obvious that, after numerous and serious MSHA citations, the safety of your employees is the least of these priorities.
Setting up a $2,000,000 fund for the 12 families is appalling. $166,000 per family? ICG should be ashamed of such an insignificant amount. I suggest that you both, along with the other executives at ICG, contribute your bonuses and profit shares to the families who must survive without their husbands and fathers. I'm quite comfortable assuming that you have an extra financial cushion; the bereaved families most certainly do not.
You may, upon reading this, resort to defensiveness and dismiss this message because I suggest something that falls completely outside your thought realm. That doesn't mean it lacks merit. Do some soul searching about the role you've played in this tragedy and what actions you will take to fix it.
Janet Sxxx
Ann Arbor, Michigan(I also included my phone number, just in case either of them would like to contact me directly to discuss my ideas in further detail)


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August 5, 2008
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What will the future of reading be like? Will reading long form narratives be imperiled by our fast-paced modern world? We are entering a future in which we are always connected, receiving feeds, emails, and phone calls. Cellphones are rapidly becoming portable, as are touchscreen computers. In ten years cell phones and small portable computers will have more memory and capabilities than the best desktops today. Everything—
Many people already live the connected lifestyle with crackberries giving them a constant feed of email and text. Journalists and bloggers stay constantly online through RSS feeds, Twitter, friendfeeds, and email alerts. Gamers and 2nd Lifers experience a large portion of their lives in simulated worlds.
Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbow's End describes the plight of the poet Robert Gu, who languishes half dead in a nursing home suffering from Alzheimer's until 2025, when the disease is suddenly cured. He is restored mentally and physically, even returning to a teenage appearance, but finds himself overwhelmed by the future. He is obsolete and without any usable skills. He despises the digital world around him: the computers embedded in clothing, the smart contact lens, and the constant stream of information. He goes to the library at the local university and visits with the other old timers who still read physical books and use old-fashioned laptops. The library is so rarely used now the university plans on turning it into a virtual reality theme park. Vinge's protagonists try to hold onto their relationship with books as one of the constants in life and connections with the past.
How will the digital world of ubiquitous computing affect our experience of reading? Will a few bibliophiles cling to the world of print like Vinge's protagonist? Conversely, does a traditional print culture offer something unique that we don't want to lose? For centuries, reading has played an important role in the development of civilization. Marshall McLuhan has argued that since Gutenberg we have been "typographic man", defined by our connection to printing technology. In a digital age, will we shift to a civilization that's more visual and oral, and less textual? Will reading become participation in holographic virtual realities like the holodeck in Star Trek?
In this essay I'm going to explore the near future of reading with a focus on science fiction, because SF fans and writers tend to be early adapters of technology; the issues I'm raising here will affect SF more rapidly than other genres.
The Cloud of Information
Let's say you browse a used bookstore and decide to buy a copy of Charles Stross's Accelerando—
One especially interesting Stross link is the Accelerando Technical Wiki. This fan created page is divided into two sections: the first part defines the novel's technical terms, and the second provides a chapter-by-chapter guide to the novel. This guide is especially useful because Accelerando is dense with technical terms relating to the singularity, and someone unfamiliar with recent memes in science fiction might feel overwhelmed. Many of the guide's terms are recent enough that they do not appear in printed reference works. The guide is only available via the web and it is unlikely a publisher would release an annotated companion, unless Accelerando is eventually taught in high schools and Cliffnotes published a guide.
William Gibson's fans have created hypertext versions of his last two novels. Two independent sites PR-Otaku and Node Magazine annotate Pattern Recognition and Spook Country. Gibson's novels, although less technical than Stross's, abound in cultural reference, and these websites trace the references and story elements through Google and Wikipedia. A reader can click on the links as he or she is reading the novels and travel to explanatory or related websites. This process makes reading the novels more like traversing living documents that interconnect with thousands of other pages. The annotating fans—
A fan with the pseudonym patternBoy created Node Magazine, which was named after the fictional magazine in Gibson's novel. After he received an early copy of Spook Country, patternBoy relied on dozens of volunteers to collate the data relating to the novel, all the information on Google and Wikipedia. Node also links to interviews and other sites connected to Gibson, and to topics that relate to the novel such as locative computing, augmented reality, and surveillance in the digital age.
William Gibson has recently pointed out that a "Google aura" or "cloud" surrounds books now, as readers increasingly search Google and Wikipedia while reading. Gibson has suggested that everyone creates his or her own novel while reading: tunneling through the text and choosing which terms, memes, and trends to search for over the Internet.
Node recently linked to a William Gibson blog in which he posted a playlist of music. This an intriguing idea because writers can post playlists that they feel would be an ideal accompaniment for their writing. These types of postings are merely one aspect of the cloud of information that surrounds books.
The hypertext, annotated versions of Stross and Gibson's work, are new, but will become increasingly common as Web 2.0 motivates readers to post blogs, reviews, and hyperlinks. Younger readers have spent their lives interacting with their media: mashing up, remixing, and creating playlists on iTunes rather than listening to the traditional album format.
Scholars have long produced annotated versions of books. Three of the best annotated books today are Harold Jenkins' Hamlet, Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost, and Stephen Booth's Shakespeare's Sonnets, each of which guides readers to a rich tradition of readings, interpretations, and scholarship about complicated literary works. The most influential line of critical books today is the Norton Critical Edition series. Norton offers editions of Paradise Lost and Hamlet with extensive annotations, though neither of those editions are as rich as Jenkins and Fowlers's, which offer 100-200 pages of excerpted critical commentary.
Annotations date back—
Fan created annotated books will have to be approached with the type of skepticism that we currently approach—
Fan and reader participation is ultimately a good thing because it causes readers to develop a deeper, more active engagement into literature. A person can understand a book in a more sophisticated way if they can add annotations that interpret and describe the text. Strong readers have a tendency to connect different books, and ideas within the same book, rather than passively absorb information.
Publishers and many readers are resistant to technological changes to books, which have been a useful technology for centuries. However, books are slowly shifting from solitary items to networks. The next major step, which is slowly occurring as Google Books and more publishers digitize their wares, is to get books online and for readers to start interacting with them. Books will resemble living webpages with links, tags, and annotations. When you read a book, you can click on a word and get a definition, or click on a term and get a Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica article. Books will be linked to hypermedia encyclopedias like an online version of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. In addition, links will exist between different digitized books. While you're reading Avram Davidson's Masters of the Maze, for example, thematic links might take you to Borges collection Labyrinths, or to Algis Budry's Rogue Moon, or to Robert Silverberg's The Man in the Maze, thus allowing a reader to follow themes and concepts across a variety of books, including obscure books.
If books evolve into a network, rather than remain isolated objects, the transition will help the discovery process for readers. Take the recent anthology The New Space Opera. Fans could do a number of things to annotate the book. They could provide hyperlinks to other books by the collection's authors. They could link to other works of space opera that may not be mentioned in the book's introduction, but could help readers gain an historical understanding of the genre. They could link to reference books discussing Space Opera, or to movies such as Serenity or Star Wars that involve space opera themes, or to critical articles discussing the genre. Networked books will help the long tail of books; obscure and forgotten books could be rediscovered when readers click on hyperlinks cultivated by ardent fans and critics.
Search and the Networked Book
The best description of the networked book I've seen is Kevin Kelly's essay in The New York Times Magazine Scan This Book. Kelly's article describes the significance of Google book search, the latest attempt to create a database of all the world's information, an ambition that dates back to the Library at Alexandria. Google is digitizing books from several major libraries, making an enormous amount of information available and searchable. Google's goal is to combine the information available in major libraries with the Internet, creating the largest database in human history.
Kelly argues that Google Book Search is as culturally significant as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. A vast indexed database searchable by keywords and structured metadata will allow writers and researchers to connect books and themes in revolutionary ways. The greatest benefit from the database of everything will not be convenience or portability, it will be the power of networking, making every book part of one vast interconnected library.
Just as Wikipedia was created by thousands of amateurs: "many nerds believe that a billion readers can reliably weave together the pages of old books, one hyperlink at a time. Those with a passion for a special subject, obscure author or favorite book will, over time, link up its important parts. Multiply that simple generous act by millions of readers, and the universal library can be integrated in full, by fans for fans."
Tags are another important innovation, allowing readers to post a metadata term to a book or document. "Because tags are user-generated, when they move to the realm of books, they will be assigned faster, range wider and serve better than out-of-date schemes like the Dewey Decimal System, particularly in frontier or fringe areas like nanotechnology or body modification." The perfect indication of the importance of reader created metadata is the annotated versions of Stross and Gibson's books. Both of those amateur created websites define terms and memes that are not available in print encyclopedias, which are always at least a few months or years out of date.
The digitization of books will allow the expansion of knowledge as books and obscure authors are made more widely available. Tagging and linking will allow erudite amateurs to connect ideas, concepts, words, and pages. In addition, clicking on a link raises its status on the search engines, which guides readers to the better documents.
If we read a hyperlinked book, we can follow the footnotes and read the other digitized documents. Citation surfing has long been part of the research process for scholars, but it will soon become both easier and more pervasive.
The ability to find significant connections and themes between different books has long been the goal of scholars, writers, and strong readers. The connection occurs in the minds of readers who mentally link the different texts in their library. The web is externalizing this inner activity: "Once text is digital, books seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together. The collective intelligence of a library allows us to see things we can't see in a single, isolated book."
Many of the changes Kelly envisions in books and reading involve Web 2.0 and social networks. Amateurs and hobbyists add value to books by researching the work and then adding metadata. Search engines will help researchers find connections through algorithms, adding value to books by showing their relationships. Kelly doesn't discuss blogs, but they, along with forums, will add to the discussion of books by general readers, not experts in newspapers and magazines. Digitized books will allow books to become a network of relationships rather than isolated, unitary objects.
Fan Projects
Fans and amateurs will do some of the work of digitizing. An excellent project for a group of nerds would be to digitize the thousand of pulp science fiction magazines moldering in basements and being auctioned off on eBay. Most science fiction before the 1970s was published initially in magazine format, and a great deal of it has never or has rarely been reprinted, including work by important writers like Robert Silverberg and the husband and wife team of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. In addition, the artwork, the cover paintings, the editorials, and the fan letters contain a lot of important information that may be lost if it is not migrated into microfilm or digital format (pulp paper is notoriously prone to falling apart).
If every pulp SF magazine could be digitized, fans and scholars could hyperlink, annotate, and attach marginalia. Links could be posted from author names to articles in Wikipedia. The new edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction will be published in an online edition soon, and links can be traced from stories, editorials, and artwork to this useful reference tool. If the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction were digitized, links could be traced from the stories to the definitions. A searchable database of science fiction magazines would allow us to finally determine which writer really coined SF terms such as "android," and facilitate attempts to trace historical changes in memes and terms. Keyword searches through the digitized stories could trace genre tropes, research that now require decades of reading and a prodigious memory.
For some types of research, it is better to have access to the original physical format, but not everyone can collect thousands of SF magazines. For most readers the ability to search through the magazines by keyword, author, and title would be liberating.
The problem with this agenda is that most of the magazines are still under copyright, so if someone did digitize every issue of Galaxy Magazine, for example, and make it available online, they would be vulnerable to lawsuits. A great deal of science fiction is orphaned work, unclear if anyone still holds the copyright. More reasonable copyright laws should be passed, freeing up orphan works for digitization and annotation, and hopefully a shorter copyright period can be created, one that reflects the realities and opportunities of the digital world we live in.
The central question facing copyright is how it can be enforced in a digital age. Computers are made to copy information easily and share it. How do you then prevent people from burning their DVDs and CDs onto their hard drives and post them on the Internet for everyone to steal? The entertainment industry has addressed these concerns by placing DRM (Digital Right Management code) onto music and movies. This code is intended to make it difficult to burn a DVD onto your hard drive � even if you bought it legitimately.
One problem with DRM is that it doesn't work; you can download free software on the Internet and rip your DVDs to your hard drive, and then download another piece of free software and burn said DVD to disc and even make a copy for all your friends before posting it on the Internet. The primary "accomplishment" of DRM is to inconvenience legitimate users who are not computer savvy enough to use pirate software. When it comes to books, anyone can essentially scan a book and post it on the Internet. Copyright currently criminalizes something that can't be stopped � copying on computers.
Another troubling aspect of copyright law is orphaned works. The majority of all published work is probably orphaned: out of print, yet its copyright holder is unknown. Copyright laws need to be liberated so that orphaned works can be digitized and used rather than languishing in an oblivion that benefits no one. Copyright also needs to be revised so that it's not criminalizing ordinary, inevitable behavior. For example, if I buy a printed book I can resell the book, give it away, loan it, or scan it into my computer. If I buy an e-book, I can't print it, copy it, loan it, or resell it.
In recent years, universities have started a number of digitization projects—
The William Blake Archive is an excellent digital collection of Blake's artwork and poetry. Blake wrote poetry and illustrated it with elaborate original art. Blake designed and published his own books, hand painting the art, thus making the hundreds of copies of each edition unique. His poetry has generally been reprinted as text, or with his art reprinted alongside in black and white. Blake created the world's first graphic novels and intended the poetry and art to be viewed together. The art does not merely illustrate the text; it's an integral part of the medium and message. There have been attempts to reprint the art and poetry together in glorious color, but even that level of reproduction does not reflect the changes Blake made from edition to edition. The Blake Archive offers researchers the opportunity to compare different editions held by several university libraries.
Digital projects and archives are limited only by people's imagination. Another excellent project would be digitizing, hyperlinking, and annotating the Gold Medal paperbacks of the 50s, creating an archive of the post-war, mid-century noir and hardboiled genres; fiction that explores the nature of American masculinity and probably offers a deeper understanding of cynicism and psychology than the more celebrated, high brow existentialism produced during the same time period.
Changes in Authorship
The role of authorship is changing, with collaborative writing becoming more common. The Christian Science Monitor recently published an article on collaborative writing: The Online Book: Team Authors, and It's Never Finished. The article begins by discussing McKenzie Wark, who is composing a book on the analysis of video games. He allows readers to add comments in the margin of his ongoing book, and revises the work partly on the basis of those comments. When the book is published, he will allow anyone to alter and delete information from the online version. The article points out: "Wark may be offering a glimpse into the future, where books—
The Christian Science Monitor feels these changes are especially relevant to non-fiction. Wikipedia is a vast collaborative book created by amateurs that has arguably developed into the most useful reference work in human history. An online nonfiction book can allow readers to annotate it, to point out instances of author bias, and link to other works that might offer a different perspective.
Collaborative authorship is not limited to nonfiction writers. We've already seen that the Japanese cell phone writers alter and shift the direction of their ongoing novels based on reader suggestions.
There are a number of problems with collaborative writing. Don't books and novels require an argument and a vision, rather than a collective view? The wisdom of crowds is an important meme these days, but how well will it work for writing books rather than encyclopedia articles? It's possible � although not certain � that collaboration is an excellent way to write a Wikipedia article but not an effective way to write a full-length study of Shakespeare or Jane Austin. Consider this: although Wikipedia contains a lot of useful information, its articles are rather boring, generally involving several users debating until they reach a compromise. Books are most effective when they communicate unique visions or interpretations. If books are team written by a group of people forced to reach "objective," middle-of-the-road conclusions, we may be looking at dull, uninspired prose and ideas. I see a great future for online reading and some form of collaboration between readers and writers, but only time will tell whether books can effectively be team written or produced by the wisdom of crowds.
The science fiction genre has always seen a close interaction between fans and writers, and could be well served by social media. When SF was largely published in magazine form, fans would send letters rating and analyzing the stories, guiding writers and editors towards themes and styles of writing, much as Keitai fans and writers interact extensively. Fan produced fanzines and conventions facilitated a close relationship between fans and writers, with most of the writers starting off as fans. Like Keitai, science fiction is a culture that sponsors certain types of reading, writing, and social networking. Fanzines and conventions were the Facebook and blogs of a different age.
Online science fiction magazines can take advantage of the Web and social media by creating lively online letter columns and discussion forums. Although there are certainly discussion forums online, science fiction publishers have been slow to exploit the new social media. There has been concern recently that SF fandom is aging. One way to bring a lively youth contingent into the genre is facilitating the sorts of social media and interaction that a younger generation of fans has grown used to with their Facebook pages.
One SF publisher trying to provide more interactive, online media is Tor Books. Tor.com has a blog with its stable of writers and editors providing news and discussion about science fiction. The website allows fans to join in the discussion threads, a good function much like the letter pages of the old magazines. The discussion threads aren't as lively as the letter columns of say Startling Science Fiction in the late 40s and early 50s, but presumably could be in time. The website also provides free stories by Tor writers, and a gallery of cover art. Tor also periodically uses the site to give away free novels and desktop wallpaper.
In Print is Dead by Jeff Gomez, the Director of Internet Marketing for Holtzbrinck Publishers, urges that publishers need to more rapidly embrace the digital age. He points out that the content of a book � the emotion, the information, the story � is important, not the format. He claims that ebooks have largely failed because they try to directly copy the experience of reading a physical book instead of creating a new reading experience. Digital reading will catch on because the screen can do things a physical book can't do: allowing you to "read a passage from practically any book that exists, at any time that you want to, as well as the ability to click on hyperlinks, experience multimedia, and add notes and share passages with others. All of this will lead to a paradigm shift not seen in hundreds of years" (162).
Successful authors in the future will make use of the paradigm shift Gomez discusses. Cory Doctorow, as Gomez points out, is an excellent example of an author who promotes himself in the new media. Doctorow gives away most of his work for free online, making the counter intuitive argument that free downloads cause him to sell more of his work. Publishers are reluctant to give work away because they fear the piracy that has devastated the music industry, but there's little evidence that piracy has hurt publishing. Doctorow feels people use the free copy to preview and sample his work, and then buy the print version if they like it.
Doctorow is also one of founders of Boing Boing and uses the blog as a way to reach millions of readers, a superb method of self-promotion. Many of the ways Doctorow, as well as my previous examples of Gibson and Stross, advertise themselves is becoming standard in the digital age; publishers expect writers to maintain a promotional web presence, at least a webpage and a blog.
Medium and Message
When books are read on computer screens and digital readers, their message, genre, and meaning can change dramatically. The New York Times and the Associated Press recently ran articles about Keitai, the burgeoning genre of cell phone fiction: five of the ten best selling novels in Japan last year were cell-phone novels republished in book form.
Japan is a technology-obsessed nation where the primary way people access the Internet is through their phones. For the young, cellphones are a bigger part of their life than computers, so they are willing to read novels on the small screen. Japanese cell phones have advanced features and fast data speeds. The new iPhone was a hit in America partially because of its 3G data speed � a speed which has been standard in Japan for some time.
Japanese cell phone novels deliver a new reading experience. Readers go to websites where they download classics or recent novels, and can store entire libraries on their phones. Most screens only show a few lines at a time, but with a high quality display the text is clear and crisp.
Cell phone novels tend to be written in the first person, like a diary. Most of the writers are young women writing about romance and emotions for a predominately female readership. The sentences and paragraphs are brief and simple, the characters one-dimensional, and the plots predictable. The novels are dialogue heavy, and reminiscent of comic books.
Keitai alters the traditional role of the author. Writers post their novels on blogs, in small chunks, and allow readers to comment on them. The experience of reading and writing the novels is interactive: readers offer suggestions and the writers often incorporate them. The gap between amateur and expert is nonexistent: the most successful Keitai novelists are fans whose novels have caught on with the readership.
When she was a senior in high school, Rin wrote the novel If You in 6 months while commuting to her part-time job. She has since seen it republished as the fifth best selling novel in Japan with 400,000 copies sold (Onishi, NY Times).
Yoshi wrote Deep Love in four volumes; it sold 2.7 million copies in the book format. Yoshi sees his readers as a community and collaborates with them, rather than retreating to an isolated garret. He gets dozens of emails a day from his fans and uses their suggestions in composing his books, altering the course of his novels when interest is flagging (Associated Press).
The medium and message are deeply intertwined in these novels. Since only a few lines appear on the screen at a time, long paragraphs and sentences do not adjust well to the reading experiences. Most of the writers compose rapidly on their phones with their thumbs, prompting them to favor concise prose.
According to the Times article, some readers think that cellphone novels must be composed on the device: without that the lines, paragraphs, and rhythm of the novel are wrong (Onishi). When the novelist Chaco found that her nail cut into her thumb from writing on her phone, she adjusted to writing on a computer. Her publisher feels her sentences have become more complex, and her vocabulary more sophisticated (Onishi, NY Times). The novelist Mika Naito wrote the novel Love Sky, which had 10 million hits online. She composes her novels on her computer then sends them to her cellphone where she rearranges them. Although she writes her novels on the computer, she edits and rearranges them to make the prose work on the small screen.
Barry Yourgrau is the first Westerner to have success in Japan writing Keitai. He writes flash fiction, and his aesthetic concerns have translated well into the genre. He describes his experiences in the essay, "An American Writing Keitai Lit: One Author's Experience". He made the stories more concise than his flash fiction, limiting them to 350 words and less. He researched websites for themes and ideas that might attract a Japanese audience. He experimented with stories in dialogue form and generally wrote in the 2nd person to create greater immediacy. He produced a total of 78 pieces, which were published for cell phones and then in a book I-mode (Keitai) Stories. So far the book has only been published in Japan.
Technology continues to offer new ways of composing and reading fiction. Matt Ritchtel, a reporter for The New York Times and a published novelist, has started writing a novel on Twitter, the microblogging service. Twitter allows its users to post blogs of 140 words or less, so Ritchel is composing his novel in short online bursts and creating a real time thriller. The website ReadWriteWeb has recently posted a list of some microblogged novels, demonstrating that the genre is still small but might eventually attract more readers and writers.
Cell phone and microblogging novels have not caught on in the U.S. yet, but the hardware and software for that shift is developing. I've recently started using my iPhone as a reading platform. Whenever I'm bored for a few minutes, I can read books that I've downloaded. I can browse and scan news articles, the NY Times, or RSS feeds. The app Instapaper allows me to download webpages to my phone to read later, when I'm waiting in line at the grocery store for example. I find the screen remarkably good for reading although a smidgen too small.
The iPhone is not the ideal reading platform—
However, the iPhone has a store where independent programmers can develop new applications for the phone, so we can expect more reading interfaces in the future. The best app for reading on the iPhone right now is Stanza. Stanza is free and allows you to download a large library on your phone, which it will list by title, author, and subject. It keeps track of your latest reads and shared books. It has thousands of books available for free download. The free books are provided by feedbooks; the online catalog has a large helping of classics and out-of-copyright material, with a smattering of recent books provided by authors who release open source versions of their works.
The best digital Reader for buying and downloading books right now is Amazon's device, the Kindle. The Kindle has an online store that allows you to buy and instantly download books through its WiFi service.
The Kindle provides a number of good features. It uses e-ink, which approaches the resolution of the printed page, and can change font size. It can sustain 30 hours of reading and takes 2 hours to recharge. It holds 200 books on the device, hundreds on the memory card, and a limitless library on Amazon's virtual stacks. You can subscribe to newspapers, magazines, and blogs. In addition, you can surf the web, listen to MP3s, look up Wikipedia articles, and search with Google. You can write marginalia on books, and highlight with an electronic pen. You can send an email to a private Kindle email address and it will show up as part of your Kindle library, which allows you to look at PDF documents and Word documents. The device used to cost $399, but the price recently dropped to $349.
The Kindle is the first book connected 24/7 and as it becomes more widely used it can provide many of the advantages of the networked book. The Kindle has been an enormous success for Amazon. More people may read than Steve Jobs realizes.
The Kindle also has a number of competitors. The Sony Reader has lagged behind the Kindle in sales despite using the same high resolution electronic ink. The Kindle's competitive advantage is its WiFi store, which allows readers to instantly buy and download books. Sony will be releasing a new version soon, so it is not giving up the market to Kindle—
Another intriguing device is Plastic Logic's electronic newspaper. The device mimics the look of a newspaper page. With twice the screen size of the Kindle or Sony Reader, it boasts an 8.5 by 11-inch flexible, plastic touchscreen. Its Wi-Fi connection allows its pages to be constantly refreshed—
I think in the future there will be an all-in-one device, probably something like the iPhone that will be a phone, reader, camera, video camera, and pocket organizer, something with the functionality of the Kindle, a phone, and a laptop. Right now it's possible for someone to carry around 3-5 different digital devices—
Dystopian Fears
Most of this essay has focused on the creative possibilities unleashed by technological change, however, as a science fiction reader, I also recognize the dystopian possibilities of dramatic change. Now, to give the other side of the story, I'm going to explore some of the fears and anxieties about reading in our technological age.
Neal Stephenson, the author of several lengthy and sophisticated SF novels, fears that our fast paced society of never-ending sensation is making us incapable of extended rational thought. He pointed out in a recent interview: "People who write books, people who work in universities, who work on big projects for a long time, are on a diverging course from the rest of society. Slowly, the two cultures just get further and further apart." In order to get things done, Stephenson does not respond to emails from his readers. He does not involve himself in social networking or marketing himself on the Internet. He focuses his energy on writing lengthy, complicated books, apparently needing to cut himself off from the world of crackberries and the constant feed of information to think deeply about subjects. Despite writing long books himself, he says the digital age has made it harder for him to read a long book than it was even a few years ago.
Stephenson is not alone in his fears. In "Is Google making us Stupid," Nicholas Carr claims that he is losing the ability to concentrate on extended narratives and arguments. Constant Internet surfing and research has made it difficult for him to settle into a book or a long article; his mind starts wandering after a few pages. He cites anecdotes and research studies that suggest when people are online they are not actually reading, they are skimming and jumping from one short snatch of information to another. Carr believes that the Internet is changing how we think and how we read. Just as the printing press made long narrative works widely available and prompted us to concentrate on them, the Internet is reshaping our thinking around short, ever-changing bursts of information.
Carr quotes one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin, who asserted in a 2004 interview with Newsweek that we would be better off if we had all the world's information attached to our brain. But do we know that for sure? Having good information, or wisdom, might be better than just having more information. It is possible for massive quantities of information to be shallow and misunderstood. Carr suggests:
"The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas."
According to technophiles like Kelly, we should be entering a Renaissance age for reading—
The situation may not be as dire as Carr and the NEA suggest. Reading has a long, complicated history and different forms of reading have always existed alongside one another. Bacon famously pointed out that reading strategy depends on the type of book you are reading:
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
In other words, texts require diverse reading strategies. Perhaps a blog will merely be tasted, an encyclopedia read in parts, a best seller swallowed whole, or a Shakespearean play chewed and digested, slowly considered, and read repeatedly. As long as reading is taught effectively enough, and remains a part of people's lives, these different reading strategies can deepen cultural literacy.
For books to stay relevant publishers need to attract younger readers, the teenagers whose pleasure reading is in decline, according to the NEA report. One of the interesting things about Keitai novels, despite their limited literary merit, is that they attract new readers. Many cell phone readers are not regular novel readers. Most of the novelists would not write if the medium did not exist. In Jeff Gomez's book Print is Dead, he urges publishers to make use of the new digital mediums to attract readers, something they have largely failed to do so far.
That does not mean the traditional literati does not have some valid points. Many of the new genres of writing I've been discussing in this essay are shorter and less traditionally literary. An 800 page Neal Stephenson novel might not read well on a cellphone. Are we becoming a culture that's losing its ability to read a long book or follow a complex argument? Reading a webpage is a type of literacy and certainly better than reading nothing, but is it as sophisticated a form of reading as sitting down with War and Peace? Will the digital generation of the future retain the ability to read and contemplate long, complicated works, as well as powerbrowse? Only time will tell. At times, like Carr, I sometimes find it more difficult to read a book. A lot of my reading time is now taken up with blogs and skimming through articles in RSS readers.
One writer Carr mentions is Scott Karp, who blogged a response to "Is Google Making Us Stupid." Karp asserts that books are not necessary and that the web provides content more effectively. "Maybe I don't need 250 page books anymore because the web enables me to connect ideas and create narratives that I used to depend on book authors to do for me, because I wasn't able to access all the information and connect all the dots myself.
Karp claims Nicholas Carr "romanticizes the contemplation that comes with reading a book. . . ; it's possible that the output of our old contemplation can now be had in larger measure through a new entirely non-linear process."
Karp offers the interesting argument that the Web may make books unnecessary. The reverence for books is deep in this culture—
Final Thoughts
I suspect that we will see losses and gains in the reading of the future. One possibility is that we will enter a post-literate age, one in which written text ceases to be a mass medium; people may grow too passive to engage in the cognitive work of reading. I can envision a future of relatively brainless dolts drooling over video and VR inputs.
That type of dark future seems unlikely. There will always be a sizeable portion of civilization that remains ardent readers; there are some types of communication that can be accomplished most effectively with text. In the future, people may read books online, or with rich metadata, video, podcasts, conversations, and hyperlinks embedded. Some forms of popular writing or genres may become videogames, but the more intelligent or active people in society will continue to read.
Some forms of communication will be accomplished more effectively with video and podcasts than with print. Perhaps videogames will impart certain skills and knowledge. Pilots already train on flight simulators and elaborate VR games will be used to train soldiers before sending them to a complicated environment like Iraq, or allow students to practice skills rather than just theorize about business or law. Furthermore, it is possible that the new technology will allow readers to interact more deeply with their reading, thus creating a more mentally active future.
I'm moderately optimistic that the profusion of new media will allow us to communicate ideas and concepts more—


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As much as 50mm of rain could fall in three hours in some areas, which could cause flash floods on hard-baked ground.
Lightning strikes behind the London Eye in central London which is coloured red, white and blue to mark the birth of a baby boy to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (PA)
A Met Office spokesman said the next few days have the "ingredients for more widespread and energetic storms", adding that it will feel "muggy and humid" for the rest of the week as sunny spells are interspersed with torrential downpours.
They added: "The prolonged dry period that we have been enjoying has currently come to an end. We are in for a period of unsettled and changeable weather over the next few days."
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Lightning strikes and flooding also caused havoc on mainline rail services this morning.
Rush-hour passengers in Scotland, the North of England, the West Midlands, East Anglia and southern England were all affected by the stormy weather.
To add to travellers' problems, there were severe delays on London Underground's District line due to a signal failure
There were also hold-ups to freight services passing through the Channel Tunnel.
The worst of the lightning incidents was in the Manchester area, where signals were damaged by a strike. This meant trains were unable to move in or out of Manchester Piccadilly station, with journey times being extended by up to 90 minutes.
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Britain has also experienced its longest stretch of hot weather since 19 days in the summer of 1997, with 17 consecutive days of temperatures of 28C.
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~ About the colors ~
Indeed, colors do have symbolic meanings when it comes to the subject tarot.
The combination of white and red, particularly in flowers and clothing, is one often seen in the Rider-Waite decks, as well as many other decks . This combination of white and red can be viewed at a couple of different levels. First, white represents the passive principal and purity or innocence, while red represents the active principal and passions or lusts. This can be a bit confusing, because in the black/white pairing above, white represents the masculine, while in the white/red pairing, white is normally associated with the feminine principal. The white/black appears on only a few cards white/red is everywhere you look and is often used in cards where duality is part of the theme . The Magician shows his ability to use both of these opposite energies by wearing red robes over a white robe, and is surrounded by red roses and white lilies.
At a more esoteric level, red and white are key colors in alchemy, and this is one of the reasons for their use in the post-RW versions of the tarot, as well as some earlier versions. In alchemy, red is again associated with the masculine elements and white with the feminine. In the course of the Great Work (transforming lead to gold), the masculine and feminine elements are first separated and purified from baser materials and then "married" together in the final step the red (mercury) with the white (silver) to make gold. Red also represents blood and white represents mother's milk, and in some versions of the Temperance card, you can see the two streams of blood and milk intermingling (Wheel of Change Temperance). There are strong undercurrents of sexuality that run through the alchemical symbols, although this is largely subdued in the Rider-Waite deck.
~ about the numbers ~
Numbers in the tarot are represented and used in many different ways. Iwill focus mainly on the major arcana, because in the minor arcana the use of numbers is fairly obvious. Each number is usually represented by that number of the suit symbols somewhere in the card (there are occasional additions to this, such as the infinity symbol in the Two of Pentacles card). In contrast, numbers are used in the major arcana to symbolize various esoteric concepts, and are usually worked into the drawing more subtly.
. Please note, many of these are religious and metaphysical symbols, and this words describes these symbols without endorsing or ascribing to these specific faiths or beliefs.
As for your question about the number zero (you have asked about this number specifically). Only the Fool is numbered zero, and it is important to realize that in early tarot decks, trumps were not numbered at all. These 22 cards were usually referred to as 21 Trumps plus the Fool, which stood outside the series of trumps, neither at the bottom or the top, or anywhere in between. It had its own special scoring rules in the game of Triumphs as well. In fact there is still disagreement about whether the Fool belongs at the beginning or the end, and perhaps the correct answer is both. As a Zero, the Fool represents a direct incarnation of the Universal nothingness true consciousness does not arise until the 1, or the Magician. The circular aspect of zero can be found in two other cards 10 The Wheel of Fortune, and 21 The World. These three cards represent the beginning, middle, and end of the series of Trumps and the Fool's journey, and as such encompass more of the Whole than the other Trumps. They form a never-ending cycle, circle, or spiral within which the dance of incarnation takes place. The circular nature of these cards suggests that one should not view the trumps as a linear progression, but rather a repeating cycle.
~ About Towers ~
Many towers appear...
. Most notable are the twin towers depicted in Death and the Moon. These are both gateways and these twin towers have the same symbolism as the twin mountains on other cards. In Death, the towers are far in the background, but as you look through them, the sun is rising and it appears to actually be a different world. When you step through these towers, you will never be the same and there is no returning whence you came. Also, a stream flows to the towers and fills the space between them the only path to these towers is to lose your ego in the subconscious and follow the collective stream where it takes you. The Towers of the Moon are somewhat different there are not so far off and there is a path that leads to them, however, the path is very long and winding, and leads into a dark land that is more shadowed than the foreground. There are tiny windows in the tower and you wonder if someone may be watching. These are almost like the eyes of the conscious mind, walled off and we are walking in the subconscious, well below the towers and the thoughts going on above. Lastly, of course, there is the single tower depicted in the Tower card. This tower represents our ego, our material and intellectual constructs, our protective devices, and our arrogance note its similarity to the Tower of Babel. It has a large golden crown on top, which is the first to be blasted away, symbolizing the loss of our pride and the humility that comes with this card.
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That would be adorable,lol!
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I bet your 8 yr old and my 7yr old could trade facts all day long! My boy is fixated on collecting as many facts as possible.
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JAKARTA, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Indonesia is encouraging the United States to invest in shale gas exploration in the Southeastern Asian country.
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik said the government hopes the United States will transfer technology to develop shale gas, following on the success of the U.S. natural gas boom, The Jakarta Post reports.
"The U.S. government has successfully developed shale gas. Indonesia also possesses potential reserves of shale gas; thus, we are asking them to launch shale gas exploration in our country," Jero said in a statement Friday.
Indonesia has estimated shale gas resources of 574 trillion cubic feet in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Papua and Java, the ministry says.
State-owned oil firm Pertamina in May was awarded the country's first shale gas project, the Sumbagut block in North Sumatra, estimated to contain 18.56 trillion cubic feet of shale gas.
The company has committed to spend $7.8 billion for exploration of the block. Pertamina President Director Karen Agustiawan, in signing the contract, said shale could support the government's efforts for energy diversification by reducing the country's dependence on oil.
Jero's statement encouraging U.S. investment in Indonesian shale comes ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's expected visit to the country for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders meeting, which takes place Oct. 7-8 in Bali.
Yet experts say Indonesia faces some drawbacks for shale gas investors. Formerly a net oil exporter in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Indonesia has struggled to attract enough investment to meet growing domestic energy consumption because of inadequate infrastructure and a complex regulatory environment.
The Indonesian government does not have a favorable financing scheme for shale gas development, Widhyawan Prawiraatmadja, a deputy at oil and gas regulator SKKMigas and a seasoned petroleum engineer, told the Jakarta Globe.
"[Companies] demand the government to put an incentive up front," he said.
Ignatius Tenny Wibowo, president director of Pertamina Hulu Energi, a subsidiary of Pertamina specializing in developing shale gas, cited Indonesia's lack of infrastructure as a major obstacle.
The combined length of the pipeline network under the direction of Pertamina and Perusahaan Gas Negara, a state-controlled gas distributor, is about 3,100 miles. That compares with the approximate 2.5 million miles of gas pipes spanning the United States.
"Indonesia does have the potential, but I think it would take years before we could see its impact," Victor Shum, managing director at IHS Consulting, told the Globe.
The cost of drilling each shale gas well in Indonesia is an estimated $8 million, compared with the average drilling cost of $2 million to $3 million per well in North America, the Globe reports.


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The July 2013 installment of SOCHE TALKS features Wittenberg University's Tammy Proctor on the myth of the female spy.
The SOCHE Talks are a collaboration with the Southwest Ohio Council for Higher Education. In this monthly series we'll hear from faculty and staff from areas colleges and universities on a wide variety of subjects. It's an effort to bring Miami Valley research and thinking into the public arena – a way to enlighten the world with local knowledge.
A southwest Ohio man who unfurled a Confederate battle flag at a school board meeting says he was trying to make a point about history. Others say his move was offensive.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Sonny Thomas says his message was misinterpreted. He showed the flag at a recent Springboro board of education meeting in response to it backing off an earlier plan to offer a constitutional class with a religious theme. He says the flag means heritage to many people in the South and that he meant to educate and inform.
Ohio's Former Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents is taking a new job. Eric Fingerhut has been named the President and CEO of the Hillel Foundation, an organization that helps Jewish college aged students. Fingerhut says he's excited about this new possibility.
"I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to bring together the two passions of my life – education and my connection to the Jewish world," says Fingerhut. Nothing would make me happier than for this to be the job that spend the rest of my professional career in and make a difference everyday."
A state lawmaker in Ohio wants to provide a tax break to property owners who home-school their children.
The proposal comes from state Sen. Kris Jordan of Ostrander in central Ohio.
His bill would reduce property taxes for parents who home-school their children by an amount equal to what they pay for school levies in their local districts.
According to The Plain Dealer, Jordan says the legislation will help those who sacrifice to home-school a child.
The state budget Governor Kasich signed last week puts more than 19 billion dollars of state funding into Ohio schools. State GOP leaders are calling it a historic investment in education.
Overall, most schools will see more money from the state than they did last year, nearly $1 billion more. But not every district will get more money—about a third of districts won't see any increase. And even this new money will not make up for the deep cuts in state funding for schools in 2009.
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Talks for single LGBT sports event collapse
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Recent negotiations between the Federation of Gay Games and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association aimed at initiating the creation of a joint international LGBT sporting event in 2018 ended in disagreement and suspension by both groups this month.
Informal talks between both organizations about holding a single quadrennial event in lieu of two competing events began in late 2009 at the Copenhagen World Outgames. The FGG has been holding the Gay Games since the event's founding in San Francisco 30 years ago while GLISA has been holding the World Outgames since 2003.
"A letter was delivered at an open meeting in Copenhagen by the Berlin team signed by all their members asking the organizations to come together and talk to produce joint games," GLISA representative Julia Applegate said in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter . "They made it very clear that this was something they wanted to see happen and that there were many other teams that wanted the same thing."
FGG board member Roger Brigham also remembers the request for a joint event. He said the small number of registrants at the Copenhagen Outgames prompted the call. An estimated 8,000 participants were expected but only around half that number showed.
"Some of the organizations in Europe started calling for just one quadrennial event," said Brigham, who is the sport columnist for the B.A.R. "Well, for 20-something years there was just one quadrennial event which was the Gay Games. Essentially, they were saying that they did not want the World Outgames to continue. It was a redundancy that could not be afforded."
A year later, the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne drew 10,000 participants.
To address the issue of a joint event, a formalized working group comprised of four representatives from both FGG and GLISA was created earlier this month. Over the weekend of May 5, the group met in Montreal on behalf of their respective boards to produce a memorandum of understanding that would serve as the first step toward a joint event to be held in 2018.
Sticking points
According to FGG's press release, the two organizations found common ground on issues like "the division of voting rights, governance for site selection and host relations, the time and location of the joint site selection meeting and the name of the joint event" but two major points of contention stalled the negotiations.
"A major sticking point was the revenue structure for the host city," Applegate said. "There was a sense that because [FGG has] been around longer, their brand is stronger and so they should take a larger percent of the revenue."
The initial revenue structure proposal outlined that the first $400,000 made by the host city would be split evenly by FGG and GLISA and the next $100,000 would go to FGG. Any additional revenue would be allocated based on a third-party assessment and evaluation of the two organizations.
"[GLISA] did not agree to an external evaluation and assessment until late and said the assessment would only kick in after there had been a distribution of $500,000 between the two organizations," Brigham said. "They were talking about revenues that had never been produced by any such event so that would render an evaluation meaningless."
The FGG team proposed another offer. The first $200,000 in revenue received from the host would be split and additional revenue would be shared based on an assessment and evaluation of both organizations. GLISA declined the proposal.
"It was not a financial arrangement that would have been viable for GLISA," Applegate said. "The concept of equity was a driving force behind GLISA's approach to these talks. We needed to come to that table as equals and the revenue split offered was so unbalanced that we felt it was not going to be a good foundation for doing joint games together."
Former FGG president and current board member Gene Dermody argues that the organizations are fundamentally different and therefore cannot be seen as equals.
"GLISA is not at the level of the federation in terms of business," Dermody said. "The FGG has been around for a long time, is a nonprofit sponsored by the state government and has a huge amount of intellectual property. GLISA has just a dozen people with no I.D. and no databases. They just get together in a room and have a site selection whereas we have a whole event like the Olympics."
Outgames experiences
Ken Craig, an eighth-degree black belt tae kwon do instructor, has participated in both the Gay Games and World Outgames. While Craig maintains respect for GLISA, he remembers that his experience at the 2009 Copenhagen World Outgames was disappointing. GLISA contacted him two years prior, asking him to oversee the martial arts section of the event.
"I figured it would be worth trying to support the event basically so that there would be an event for anybody that had already signed up," Craig said.
But from the beginning, he said, GLISA was less than forthcoming about the number of participants registered.
"When I finally got the numbers, I think it was 25 participants. I was pretty disappointed by the lack of communication and openness. I'd indicated that at Gay Games they get 100 to 150 participants. I thought that to be the minimum needed to make it a successful, useful event and they ensured that they would get that number."
After his experience, Craig decided that he and his martial arts club would not support future World Outgames.
Dermody also attended the 2009 Copenhagen World Outgames and thinks that the problem with the GLISA model is that after leasing the license to the host city to hold the event, GLISA takes the registration fee money and neglects to involve itself further.
"They run it like it's a rock concert; you buy tickets to but there's no delivery on the back end, no information," he said.
GLISA and FGG also could not agree on the method through which voting on the host city would occur. The FGG insisted that a selection meeting be held where delegates from both organizations attend and vote in person. However, GLISA favored electronic voting.
"We see ourselves as a global organization," Applegate said, "and given people's finances, distance and time, travel, and the technology that's available right now, we're confident a host city can produce and conduct a presentation of what they have to offer electronically so that our voting members can see that wherever they are in the world."
Both organizations have suspended future negotiations regarding a joint event in 2018, citing the need to focus on their own upcoming 2013 World Outgames in Antwerp and 2014 Gay Games in Cleveland.
The FGG officially opened the bidding process to prospective Gay Games X host cities on May 15. Serious bidding plans are expected from London, Orlando, Paris, and Sao Paulo.
Craig is among many who have expressed their support for San Francisco to be a host city in the future.
"A lot of people think it would be a reasonable idea," he said. "I'm not sure we could do it in time for Gay Games X, which is in 2018. I think it's more likely we could look at Gay Games XI in 2022."
Conflict between GLISA and FGG dates back to 2003 during the site selection process for Gay Games VII. After Montreal was selected, a licensing agreement could not be reached and prompted the city's representatives to walk out on negotiations. Subsequently, GLISA was founded and planning for the first World Outgames began.


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Stephen: …which takes us to tonight's Word: Caveat Emptor. Which is Latin for tough titties. I say buyers are responsible when somebody cheats them, especially when it comes to something as ephemeral as a book ("Ephemeral" word of day on Stephen's calendar) Folks, look, you can't return information once it's in your head. Trust me, they won't take it back. ("My Humps" in there forever) But the reading is fundamental-istas are going to say: People bought that book under false pretenses. Well it serves the right for buying a book in the first place, especially one whose plot you can get free at any AA meeting. (Boy meets drink, boy loses drink) Look, I'm afraid this refund madness is not going to stay contained at Barnes & Nobles, even though there is a Starbucks there and a really clean bathroom, if you're homeless you could do worse. Are movie studios going to have to refund twelve bucks if their trailer tricks you into paying to seeing a horrible movie? (Looking at you Beerfest) No, the movie studios earned that money! Do you have any idea how often they had to watch that crap before they found a part where someone got hit in the balls!? Once! James Frey earned his money! It's hard enough to write a book, but he had to write a fiction book and then act like it was all true. (Portrait of the artists as a con man) They shouldn't make him give back the money, they should give him an Oscar. (Or Barry Manilow's Emmy)
No, folks we have become a nation of victims and last time I checked this is America. (Checks often) And folks this is a capitalist society, if you bought something it is worth buying, ipso facto. (Also presto change-o) Now maybe the book was false, but you did learn a valuable truth: (Oprah's got bad taste in literature) you learned that you are a sucker. But you are not alone. I believe it was our 23rd President P.T. Barnum who said "There's a sucker born every minute." (A million little suckers) And folks, that still holds true today. I bet if somebody took a poll they'd find suckers all over the place. (See: 32% approval rating) So if you're one of the suckers who bought A Million Little Pieces, don't act like a victim, victimize someone else. (Suck it forward) For instance I am reselling my copy of the book as A Million Little Pieces the Diet. It's a great diet, you can eat all the candy sprinkles you can stick to your hand.
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Another enthralling encounter between these teams left Chelsea FC celebrating a fifth UEFA Champions League semi-final appearance in the last six seasons. But what a fright Liverpool FC gave them after they first established a 2-0 lead inside the first 30 minutes and then scored twice again late on.
Goals galore
The 3-1 first-leg deficit was a formidable barrier for the Anfield club to overcome but they set about it with gusto and Fábio Aurélio's free-kick and Xabi Alonso's penalty had the scores level. However, Chelsea roared back with second-half goals from Didier Drogba, Alex and Frank Lampard. Lucas, with a deflected shot, and a Dirk Kuyt header left the home supporters fearing the worst but Lampard scored again with a minute remaining to ensure Chelsea a semi-final meeting with FC Barcelona.
Gerrard out
With Steven Gerrard ruled out with a groin injury, Liverpool's task looked even more onerous. While their desire was all too apparent, the early passing lacked sufficient sharpness, even if they created a good chance in the 13th minute that Fernando Torres would normally have put away. It was skilfully created by Kuyt and Yossi Benayoun but having sidestepped Alex's challenge, Torres was unable to keep his shot down.
Clever goal
Lampard sent a free-kick fizzing wide as Chelsea threatened for the first time. Yet within five minutes their night began to take a turn for the worst as Liverpool were awarded a free-kick out on the right following a push by Lampard on Torres. Aurélio stood over the ball as players on both teams jostled for position. The Brazilian then deceived everyone by arrowing his delivery inside Petr Čech's left-hand post, leaving the Chelsea goalkeeper embarrassed.
Liverpool closer
It was game on once more and Branislav Ivanović was forced to intervene when Torres almost freed Benayoun. Liverpool had their tails up and they soon scored again. Another Aurélio free-kick was vigorously contested with the referee spotting a tug by Ivanović on Alonso, who calmly slotted home the spot-kick. Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink was seething on the touchline and in a bid to put new life in his team he replaced Salomon Kalou with Nicolas Anelka.
Drogba strike
Liverpool resumed their attack after the restart and Čech was left exposed as he was beaten by Lucas to a through ball to the left of goal. The Argentinian laid the ball off to Aurélio but this time he could not produce a quality delivery. Anelka had shown little so far but a positive raid down the right led to Chelsea regaining the aggregate lead. A dangerous ball played under pressure was helped on by Drogba close to the byline and Pepe Reina was unable to keep it out at his near post.
Incredible finish
Six minutes later Liverpool's lead on the night was wiped out as Alex fired in a free-kick with immense power, and Chelsea seemed to have put the issue beyond doubt in the 76th minute when Drogba surged away and Reina could not do enough to keep out Lampard's side-footed shot. Eleven minutes from time Lucas's drive diverted in off Michael Essien and then Kuyt was allowed room to head in Albert Riera's cross. One more goal and Liverpool would be through but instead that went to Chelsea and the inspirational Lampard, the home side's joy tempered only by a second-half booking for Ashley Cole, meaning he will be suspended for the first leg at Barcelona on 28 April.
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