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Automation and Robotics
In this book we are dealing with series part production featured by a medium complexity degree and a medium number of individual components and assembly technique alternatives.
Introduction to Power Electronics
Power Electronics is the technology associated with efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electric power from its available input into the desired electrical output form.
An introduction to polymer-matrix composites
The book covers both continuous and discontinuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers in terms of various mechanical and thermal properties, processes and applications.
Sanitation & Water Supply in Low-income Countries
Water supply and sanitation are amongst the most basic requirements of life.
Introduction to Complex Numbers
This ebook makes learning "complex" numbers easy through an interactive, fun and personalized approach. Features include: live YouTube video streams and closed captions that translate to 90 languages!
Essential Engineering Mathematics
Essential Engineering Mathematics is one of the great eBooks available to download.
Electromagnetism for Electronic Engineers
This introduction to electromagnetic theory emphasises on applications in electronic engineering.
Fundamental Engineering Optimization Methods
This book is addressed to students in the fields of engineering and technology as well as practicing engineers.
Matrix Algebra for Engineers
This course is all about matrices. Topics covered include matrices and their algebra, Gaussian elimination and the LU decomposition, vector spaces, determinants, and the eigenvalue problem.
Introduction to Vectors
This book takes learning to a new level by combining written notes with online video. Each lesson is linked with a YouTube video from award-winning teacher and best-selling author Dr Chris Tisdell.
Engineering Mathematics: YouTube Workbook
The ebook "Engineering Mathematics: YouTube Workbook" takes learning to a new level by combining free written lessons with free online video tutorials.
Essential Electromagnetism: Solutions
This book contains solutions to problems at the end of each chapter of "Essential Electromagnetism" by Raymond Protheroe.
Thermal Modelling of Electric Machines
The presented work describes an electric, magnetic and thermal analysis of a synchronous motor to permanent magnet and intended axial flux to cooling.
Biological Signal Analysis
This book provides the reader with an understanding of biological signals and digital signal analysis techniques such as conditioning, filtering and statistical validation.
Control Engineering Problems with Solutions
The book contains problems with worked solutions, called examples, and some additional problems for which the answers only are given.
Engineering Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is an essential subject taught to all science and engineering students.
Building Information Modeling
BIM is often misinterpreted as REVIT as it is introduced as BIM by vendors. The e-book gives a thorough view of BIM including technology, process and people aspects through a lifecycle perspective.
Control Engineering
The book covers the basic aspects of linear single loop feedback control theory.
La logique séquentielle
Ce livre est conseillé à toute personne souhaitant enrichir ses compétences en ce qui concerne les systèmes logiques séquentiels.
Introduction to Electronic Engineering
This work introduces a reader to the basics of electronic engineering. The book is recommended for those who study electronics.
Partial Differential Equations
Partial differential equations form tools for modelling, predicting and understanding our world. Join Dr Chris Tisdell as he demystifies these equations through this eBook and YouTube videos.
Basic Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
The textbook is addressed to students of geosciences and petroleum engineering. Subject are the fundamental techniques of borehole geophysics and the interpretation of measured data.
Concepts in Electric Circuits
This book covers fundamental aspects of electric circuits that form the core of many engineering disciplines.
Boundary Element Methods for Engineers: Part II
The book is presented in two Parts. Part II is concerned with elastic stress analysis problems of the plane strain and plane stress types.
Essential Electrodynamics
"Essential Electrodynamics" builds on "Essential Electromagnetism" and provides a concise introduction to this fundamental topic.
Boundary Element Methods for Engineers: Part I
The book is presented in two Parts. Part I describes boundary element treatments of problems of the potential type, using both constant and quadratic boundary elements.
Essential Electrodynamics: Solutions
This book contains solutions to problems at the end of each chapter of "Essential Electrodynamics", also by Raymond Protheroe.
Fundamentals of Construction Management
The Fundamentals of Construction Management is an important book invaluable to those who require knowledge on managing the construction process.
Concise Hydrology
This text has been written in a concise format that is integrated with the relevant graphics, examples, questions, answers and full solutions.
PaulOS: Part I
This text book is intended for under-graduate Engineering and/or IT students studying micro-controllers and embedded systems. It covers mainly the 8051 family of micro-controllers starting with the ba
CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation with LTspice
An ideal companion for students following a first course in integrated CMOS design.
PaulOS F020: An RTOS for the C8051F020
This book covers the Silicon Labs C8051F020 MCU. It explains, with examples the PaulOS_F020 RTOS derived from the self-developed 8051 RTOS described in my 2-part Bookboon book 'PaulOS – An 8051 RTOS'.
PaulOS: Part II
This text book is intended for under-graduate Engineering and/or IT students studying micro-controllers and embedded systems. It covers mainly the 8051 family of micro-controllers starting with the ba
Introduction to Digital Signal and System Analysis
As marching into the digital era, many people in different sectors are quite keen to understand why this has happened.
CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation: Solutions
Fully worked-out solutions to end-of-chapter problems from 'CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation with LTspice'.
Three Phase Electrical Circuit Analysis
This book explains how AC sources are generated and analysed. It shows how these systems can be analysed without the use of advanced mathematics, and supplements prescribed textbooks on this subject.
Operations Strategy
This book covers all areas of Operations Strategy including formulation methods for operations strategy and improvement approaches.
Concise Hydraulics
This text has been written in a concise format that is integrated with the relevant graphics, examples, questions, answers and full solutions.
Introductory Maths for Chemists
Chemistry Maths 1 teaches Maths from a "chemical" perspective and is the first of a three part series of texts taken during a first-year university course.
Atmospheric Pollution
Atmospheric Pollution is a theme which is becoming increasingly important as the discussion on global warming becomes ever more relevant.
Understanding Computer Simulation
This book describes computer simulation concepts then provides basic details about using discrete-event computer simulation for decision making.
Transport Phenomena in a Physical World
What do mass diffusion, thermal conduction, viscosity, permeability, and electrical conductance have in common?
Chemical Engineering Vocabulary
This book was written for students and young professionals in chemistry, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and economics.
Essential Electromagnetism
Essential Electromagnetism provides a concise introduction to this fundamental topic. Starting with forces on charges, it takes a logical step-by-step progression through electrostatics and magnetost
Glossary of Combustion
Combustion is a very important process, which is used for energy generation e.g. in heat and electricity generation, propulsion, goods manufacturing and waste disposal.
OPEC: Its Role and Influence since 1960
This book describes the activity of OPEC, having regard to the enormous role in world economics played by its members corporately.
Membrane filtration processes
This book describes the various filtration processes using membranes such as microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis.
Heat Transfer: Exercises
This Heat Transfer exercise book contains examples and full solutions to go with the Heat Transfer theory book.
Fluid Bed Particle Processing
Fluid bed granulation in the form of agglomeration and coating processes are important unit operations used for many purposes in the biochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Intermediate Maths for Chemists
Chemistry Maths 2 teaches Maths from a "chemical" perspective and is the second of a three part series of texts taken during a first-year university course.
Chemical Thermodynamics
This study guide deals with the application of thermodynamics to the description of the properties of materials.
Construction Financial Management: Solutions
This book contains the answers to the Exercise Questions contained in the 3rd edition of the book "Construction Financial Management" published by Bookboon (Denmark) in 2015.
Operations Management
Whether it is tangible or intangible production items the "Operations Management" book will guide you through concepts such as Supply Chain Management to LEAN, and much more.
Electrical Power
The book defines the units of electrical quantities from first principles.
Exercises in Pressure Control During Drilling
This is the exercise book accompanying Pressure Control During Drilling Porous sedimentary formations penetrated by the rock bit contain fluids such as oil, gas or salt water.
Engineering Thermodynamics Solutions Manual
Thermodynamics is an essential subject in the study of the behaviour of gases and vapours in real engineering applications.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been in existence for a while but recently it has become central to the strategic decision making of every organisation.
Chemistry for Chemical Engineers
Chemistry for Chemical Engineers provides background in the topics of mass and energy balances, which are distinct to chemical engineering.
Lectures on computational fluid dynamics
This book is written to introduce the basics of computational fluid dynamics including turbulence modelling.
A Wet Look At Climate Change
The term "Climate Change" has become popular but is not new to our planet. Our climate changes, sometimes dramatically, sometimes gradually, but it always changes.
Concise Environmental Engineering
The aim of this introductory book is to provide a concise and comprehensive coverage on environmental engineering.
Global Trends and Patterns in Carbon Mitigation
This book analyses, country by country and region by region, responses to the worldwide demand for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
The book is concerned with properties such as density, refractive index, acoustic impedance and electrical conductivities of hydrocarbon substances.
Wind Turbines
The book is complimented by many worked examples of the calculations, and finally presents a case study of a typical wind turbine evaluation.
Introduction to Mechanics of Materials: Part I
This book is a pilot course in the Mechanics of Materials (Elasticity and Strength) offered to engineering students throughout the bachelor study.
Fuel usage of peat in industrial times
The book describes electricity generation from peat, and peat in briquetted and in carbonised form. Further topics include gasification and, importantly, the role of peatlands in carbon sequestration.
Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises
This book addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials.
Micro- and Nano-Transport of Biomolecules
This e-book introduces the reader to biomolecules and describes the experimental and theoretical aspects of their micro- and nano-scale motion in water.
Engineering Fluid Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics is an essential subject in the study of the behaviour of fluids, equally when at rest and when in motion, whether a house hold application or industrial.
Industrial enzymes
Discusses the role of enzymes in a broad range of industries. Valuable reference for biotechnologist/enzymologist/biochemist/microbiologist/ biochemical engineer/ chemical technologist.
Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I
This book is about protecting human and environmental health through an understanding of the fate of pollutants in the environment, toxicity, risk assessment, and the scientific basis for regulations.
Worked Examples In Electromagnetism
This is a companion volume to Electromagnetism for Electronic Engineers (3rd edn.
Drilling Fluid Engineering
This book presents how to apply fluid mechanics on drilling fluid related challenges and explains the related physics involved and the different engineering approaches.
Pressure Control During Oil Well Drilling
Porous sedimentary formations penetrated by the rock bit contain fluids such as oil, gas or salt water.
Chemical Engineering Vocabulary: Bilingual
Chemical Engineering Vocabulary was written for students and young professionals in chemistry, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and economics.
Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions: Part-IV
In this book, Functions/ Procedures are written and problems solved using Mathcad and EES. Three ZIP files, with 30 'stand-alone' EES programs, for quick check of calculations, are included for free.
Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering
The fundamentals of reaction engineering book covers the basic elements of chemical reactor design.
Laccases and their applications
This book covers the occurrence, mode of action, production and cultivation techniques, immobilization and potential applications of laccases in different industries and in the nanobiotechnology area.
Biomass Properties and Fire Prediction Tools
This review presents literature involving characteristics and fire behaviour prediction models for pine species.
Membrane Bioreactor for Wastewater Treatment
This edited book aims to include the most related and practical knowledge about MBR. The book focuses on knowledge of membrane, performance of MBR and its operation.
Energy supply in the earlier industrial era
This book commences discussion at the industrial revolution and attempts to unfold the chronology of energy supply between then and the First World War.
Thermal Processing of Waste
Thermal Processing of Waste is a comprehensive overview of burning municipal solid waste. Thermal Processing of Waste is an ebook to download free of charge.
Introductory Well Testing
The objective of this book is to provide an easy to read introduction to classical well test theory. No previous knowledge in well testing is required.
CAD-CAM & Rapid prototyping Application Evaluation
CAD-CAM systems are probably the most significant development in the field of new technology related to engineering, design and drafting in all technical spheres.
Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions – Part II
Part-II contains solved problems on following topics: Zeroth Law, Heat and Work, First Law of Thermodynamics for a closed system and for flow processes.
Foundation of Physics for Scientists and Engineers
This book introduces the student seeking careers in science and engineering to a fundamental concept driven knowledge in basic physics. The first volume topics covered are mechanics, heat and sound.
Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer
This book covers the transport of momentum, heat, and mass in non-equilibrium systems.
Chemical Reaction Engineering with IPython: Part I
The textbook introduces mathematical models, numerical methods and IPython notebooks to describe and simulate various reaction and transport processes in a porous pellet.
Essential Process Control for Chemical Engineers
Almost everything you need to know about control to meet the IChemE's recommended syllabus for a general career in chemical engineering.
A First Course in Fluid Mechanics for Engineers
A good knowledge of Fluid mechanics is essential for Chemical, Mechanical and Civil engineers.
Heat Transfer
This book explains the basic modes of heat transfer namely conduction, convection and radiation.
Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering - Examples
This is the companion volume for the introductory text "Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering", which covers the basic elements of chemical reactor design.
Electrically Driven Membrane Processes
Electrically driven membrane processes, and electrodialysis in particular, are important unit operations, especially within the field of desalination - making tab water from sea water.
The 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill
The 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill is one of the great eBooks available to download from our website.
Fundamentals of Hydrogen Safety Engineering II
The first part of this book is available in "Fundamentals of Hydrogen Safety Engineering, I This is the first state-of-the-art book on hydrogen safety engineering.
Fundamentals of Hydrogen Safety Engineering I
This is the first state-of-the-art book on hydrogen safety engineering.
Productivity Improvement in Building Life Cycle
The book provides rich insights into building procurement process, new house building process and productivity measurement in construction.
Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions: Part-I
This book, viz. Cryogenic Engineering: Softwaresolutions – Part-I focuses on solving problems in cryogenic engineering using software such as Engineering Equation Solver (EES), Mathcad and EXCEL.
CMOS Analog IC Design: Problems and Solutions
This book provides fully worked-out solutions to end-of-chapter problems from 'CMOS Analog IC Design: Fundamentals'.
Cryog. Engineering: Software Solutions Part-III-A
In Part-III-B, many Functions and Procedures are written using Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and problems are solved to illustrate their use.
Pressure Driven Membrane Processes
Membrane processes are key unit operations in almost all parts of the chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical downstream processing.
Construction Financial Management
This is a textbook on financial management written in simple English for undergraduate students who study construction related programmes.
Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions Vol II B
This book, viz. Cryogenic Engineering: Software solutions – Vol II, is the second in the series on Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions, and deals with the liquefaction of gases.
Cryog. Engineering: Software Solutions Part-III-B
In Part-III-B, many Functions and Procedures are written using Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and problems are solved to illustrate their use.
Lectures on ship manoeuvrability
This book is written on the base of a lecture course taught by the author at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology at the Rostock University in Germany.
Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions Vol II A
This book, viz. Cryogenic Engineering: Software solutions – Vol II, is the second in the series on Cryogenic Engineering: Software Solutions, and deals with the liquefaction of gases.
CMOS Analog IC Design: Fundamentals
This book is intended for use as the main textbook for an introductory course in CMOS analog integrated circuit design.
Introduction to Polymer Science and Technology
This book covers polymerisation and polymers at a basic level, with emphasis on the delineation of the concepts and their relevance in practical terms.
Stability Theory of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems
This book focuses on some problems of stability theory of nonlinear large-scale systems.
Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions – Part I
This book contains Solutions to Problems in Basic Thermodynamics, as per the syllabus of B.E. courses in Visweswaraya Technological University (VTU), Karnataka, India (and other Universities as well).
Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions – Part IV
This is Part – IV of the book: "Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions". Here, Availability or 'Exergy', Irreversibility and Second Law analysis of systems are dealt with.
Electrohydraulic Control Systems
Fluid power is used in a vast range of applications and power levels. This book specifically considers the application of electrohydraulic valves in control systems.
Sub-bituminous Coals: An Overview
Sub-bituminous coals are covered in this book, with some emphasis on power generation. Technologies such as carbonisation are discussed as if liquefaction to make vehicular fuels.
Bituminous Coals: Nature and Utilisation
The book is concerned with the mining of bituminous coal in the respective parts of the world and with applications including electricity generation. Properties including calorific values and densitie
Exercises in Drilling Fluid Engineering
This is the exercise book accompanying Drilling Fluid Engineering.
Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions Part III
This is Part – III of the book: "Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions".
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
This book deals with two important chapters in Applied Thermodynamics, viz. "Cycles for Gas Turbines and Jet propulsion" and "Vapor power cycles".
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
This book contains three chapters, viz. Refrigeration cycles, Air compressors and Thermodynamic relations.
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
This book is a supplement to the Part-II of the popular, free ebook series on Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions.
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
In this book, problems on 'Gas power cycles' are solved.
Bioethanol: Science and technology of fuel alcohol
Biofuels play significant roles in decarbonisation of our future energy needs and act to mitigate deleterious impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
Essentials of Nanotechnology
Essentials of Nanotechnology provides an up-to-date overview of this fast-changing field Essentials of Nanotechnology is an ebook to download free of charge.
Anthracite Coals: An Overview
The book covers anthracite production as well as its use in power generation. Other aspects covered include carbonisation, gasification, metallurgical use, briquetting and domestic heating.
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
This book is a supplement to the Part-III of the popular, free ebook series on Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions.
Food Processing
This e-book book aimed at undergraduates and practitioners who have an interest in food process engineering.
Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions – Part V
This is Part V of the book: "Basic Thermodynamics: Software Solutions". Here, Real and Ideal gases and Gas mixtures are dealt with.
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
This book deals with two chapters: Psychrometrics and Reactive systems.
Applied Thermodynamics: Software Solutions
In this book, 'Compressible flow' is dealt with.
Learn Calculus 2 on Your Mobile Device
Learn calculus on your mobile device! This ebook integrates text with online video to enable learning anywhere, anytime on smart phones, tablets and laptops.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
This book provides the basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) appropriate to modern day undergraduate study.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
This book contains solutions to problems in the area of Heat Transfer, as per the syllabus of B.E. and M.Tech. courses in Visweswaraya Technological University, Karnataka.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
In this book, we present problems on Boiling and Condensation heat transfer, solved with Mathcad, Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and EXCEL.
Introductory Finite Volume Methods for PDEs
This book will be useful to scientists and engineers who want a simple introduction to the finite volume method.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
Present Vol. deals with the important subject of HEAT EXCHANGERS. Heat Exchanger is one of the most commonly used process equipments in industry and research.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
In this book, many Functions are written on View Factors for various geometries, Radiation exchange in 2_zone and 3-zone enclosures, Radiation shields etc. in Mathcad, EES and EXCEL-VBA.
Refrigeration: Theory And Applications
This text, which contains worked examples, is intended for use as an elective undergraduate paper for 3rd or 4th year engineering students.
A First Course on Aerodynamics
A First Course on Aerodynamics is designed to introduce the basics of aerodynamics to the unfamiliar reader.
An Introduction to Nonlinearity in Control Systems
The book is concerned with the effects of nonlinearity in feedback control systems and techniques which can be used to design feedback loops containing nonlinear elements.
Theory of waves in materials
The book unites the basic theoretical facts from two parts of solid mechanics – mechanics of materials and mechanics of wave processes.
Electric Drive Systems and Operation
This book is intended primarily for the secondary-level and university-level learners of an electromechanical profile.
Electric Drive Dimensioning and Tuning
This book is intended primarily for the university-level learners of an electromechanical profile, including the bachelor and master students majored in electrical engineering and mechatronics.
Introduction to Mechanics of Materials: Part II
This book is a pilot course in the Mechanics of Materials (Elasticity and Strength) offered to engineering students throughout the bachelor study.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
This book contains solutions to problems in the area of Heat Transfer, as per the syllabus of B.E. and M.Tech. courses in Visweswaraya Technological University, Karnataka.
Introductory Finite Difference Methods for PDEs
This book presents finite difference methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and also general concepts like stability, boundary conditions etc.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
In this book, many Functions are written on View Factors for various geometries, Radiation exchange in 2-zone and 3-zone enclosures, Radiation shields etc. in Mathcad, EES and EXCEL-VBA.
Fluid Mechanics and the Theory of Flight
The study of fluid mechanics is fundamental to modern applied mathematics, with applications to oceans, the atmosphere, flow in pipes, aircraft, blood flow and very much more.
Engineering Fluid Mechanics Solution Manual
Fluid mechanics is an essential subject taught at degree level on engineering and science courses.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
This book contains solutions to problems in the area of Heat Transfer, as per the syllabus of B.E. and M.Tech. courses in Visweswaraya Technological University, Karnataka.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
In this book, we shall study about Forced convection heat transfer.
Software Solutions to Problems on Heat Transfer
In this book on Natural (or, Free) convection, many problems of practical interest are solved using Mathcad, Engineering Equation Solver (EES) and EXCEL.
Fundamentals of refrigeration thermodynamics
The objective of the book is to serve first degree engineering students with an introduction to refrigeration systems.
Mechanics of Solids and Fracture
The level of knowledge content given in this book is designed for the students who have completed elementary mechanics of solids for stresses and strains associated with various geometries.
Radiation Heat Transfer: Mathcad Solutions
This book contains many Functions written in Mathcad for the following topics: Radiation Laws, View Factors for various geometries, Radiation heat exchange in 2-zone and 3-zone enclosures.
Aviation Safety – The Basics
"Aviation Safety; the Basics", provides a detailed introduction into the current important issues affecting aviation safety.
Basic Concepts in Turbomachinery
This book is about the fundamentals of turbomachinery, the basic operation of pumps, aircraft engines, wind turbines, turbomachinery for power generation and hydro-electric machines.
Numerical Examples in Fuels and Energy
It is expected that the numerical exercises in this book will be of value to students in subjects including chemical engineering, fuel technology, mechanical engineering and environmental science.
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
This book is a concise introduction to key philosophical questions in artificial intelligence that have long been debated by many of the great minds in the field.
Introduction to Wastewater Treatment
This book provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts and equations that underlie the engineering processes in wastewater treatment.
Advanced Granulation Theory at Particle Level
In many types of biochemical and pharmaceutical industries fluid bed granulation in the form of agglomeration and coating processes are essential unit operations in the production of solid products.
Hydrodynamic Modelling and Granular Dynamics
In the field of particle technology hydrodynamic modelling in the form of CFD or DEM is an area with increasing focus in terms of modelling approach to granulation processes.
Heating, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning
This e-book discusses Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in facilities. HVAC systems play a critical role in maintaining the indoor environment which has a direct impact on the h
Modern Facilities (Factory) Planning
The book was created as part of lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises that the author has held for years at the Technical University Wildau.


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Martian Cloud Cover
These color and black and white pictures of Mars were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just two weeks after Earth made its closest approach to the Red Planet during the 1997 opposition. When the Hubble pictures were taken Mars was at a distance of 62 million miles (100 million kilometers) and the resolution at the center of the disk is 13.5 miles/pixel (22 kilometers/pixel). Both images were made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The color composite (left image) is constructed from three images taken in red (673 nanometers), green (502 nm) and blue (410 nm) light. The right image, in blue light only, brings out details in the cloud structure and is remarkably similar to weather satellite pictures taken of Earth. A planetary-scale wave curls around the north pole, similar in behavior to high latitude cold fronts which descend over North America and Europe during springtime.
The picture was taken when Mars was near aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun. The faint sunlight results in cold atmospheric conditions which stimulate the formation of water ice clouds. The clouds themselves further reduce atmospheric temperatures. Atmospheric heating, resulting when sunlight is absorbed by the dust, is reduced when ice forms around the dust particles and causes the dust to gravitationally settle to the ground.
These images of Mars are centered at approximately 94 degrees longitude and 23 degrees N latitude (oriented with north up). The four largest Tharsis Montes (massive extinct volcanoes) are visible as dark spots extending through the clouds. The vast canyon system, Valles Marineris, stretches across the eastern (lower right) half of the image; the Pathfinder landing site is near the eastern edge of the image.
It is early summer in the northern hemisphere, and the North polar cap has retreated to about 80 degrees N latitude; the "residual" summer cap, which is composed of water ice, is about one-third the size of the "seasonal" winter cap, which consists mostly of carbon-dioxide frost (dry ice) condensed on the surface. The polar cap is surrounded by a "sand sea" made up of dark sand dunes. A distinct belt of water-ice clouds extends over much of this hemisphere.
Phil James (Univ. Toledo), Todd Clancy (Space Science Inst., Boulder, CO), Steve Lee (Univ. Colorado), and NASA


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Spirit, Texas, is a town of secrets, and as the new owner of the local haunted movie theater, Cody Stryker is juggling more than his fair share.
When a mysterious new girl comes to town and runs afoul of the ghost that lives in his theater, Cody's caught in the middle and needs to figure out exactly who he can trust.
"Haunted Love" is a short story by New York Times Bestseller Cynthia Leitich Smith -- featuring new characters and set in the same Gothic universe as her novels Tantalize, Eternal, Blessed, and Tantalize: Kieren's Story, illustrated by Ming Doyle.
This story includes a sneak preview of Cynthia Leitich Smith's upcoming novel, Diabolical (Jan. 2012), which unites heroes from the previous three novels in the Tantalize Series along with a fascinating cast of all-new characters for a suspenseful, action-packed clash between the forces of heaven and hell.
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- LinWash said...
Woo hoo!!! I'm so thankful I brought my Kindle to work! I just downloaded this story. I CANNOT WAIT to read it! What a lovely pre-Christmas gift!
- Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:39:00 AM
- Elizabeth O. Dulemba said...
Thank you! I've downloaded it and look forward to reading! :) e
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- Alex said...
I just downloaded this and can't wait to read it. Thanks for nice Christmas present!
- Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:59:00 AM
- Cynthia Leitich Smith said...
Wow, LW, Elizabeth & Alex! Thanks so much for your enthusiasm. I hope you enjoy the story. Happy Holidays!
- Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:54:00 AM
- Victoria said...
Thank you so much! Have a Safe and Happy Holiday!
- Monday, December 19, 2011 2:14:00 AM
- Cynthia Leitich Smith said...
My pleasure, Victoria! The same to you!
- Wednesday, December 21, 2011 9:58:00 AM
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By making it to the Round of 16, the U.S. men's soccer team has defied expectations, and media coverage would have you believe the U.S. is in the grips of an indefatigable soccer mania — just watch this Budweiser commercial.
It makes soccer look about as American as the 4th of July.
But while ratings have soared, a recent poll indicates that 40% of Americans care "not at all" about the World Cup, and only 22% described the event as a "great deal."
This may come as a surprise, considering the U.S. team's match against Portugal was the most-watched soccer event in U.S. history and the highest-rated sporting event of the year so far, with a combined 24.7 million viewers between ESPN and Univision. Many media outlets have speculated about whether this is "Soccer's moment in America."
The demographics of soccer enthusiasm in the U.S. work like this, according to the Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg poll: The World Cup is most popular among the wealthy and educated.
The gulf is huge. More than half of people who make less than $25,000 a year say they have no interest in the tournament, while 71% of people who make $100,000 or more a year say they have been following it.
Meanwhile, 79% of Hispanics say they are interested in the tournament, but 25% say they are rooting for a non-U.S. team.
For those Americans who are following the Cup, there's a new tool available to help you watch clandestinely at work. It's an app called Timesify, and it will make any website you're on look like the New York Times.
Belgium defeated the U.S. in extra time on Tuesday, dashing hopes the U.S. men would advance to the quarter finals for the first time since 2002. But the hard-fought match won the Americans — and soccer — new fans, going by posts on Twitter, with even England's star striker getting in on the fun:
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Medical Lessons pointed me to an article in The Economist that discusses the "U-bend" of happiness. Apparently, once into middle age, we get happier.
Much of this, it is proposed,is because ambition dies, and acceptance is born. We realize we're never going to make it big; we accept that fact; our expectations are lowered, meaning our life is more apt to meet those expectations. Met expectations=happiness.
Reminds me of the time I got a new boss. He had no experience in Marketing and yet was temporarily managing my team...Product Management and Product Marketing. I delivered this awesome presentation on all the phases of Marketing (Inbound Product Management, Outbound Product Marketing, Marketing Communications, etc.)...and where we were performing well, and where we were unable to deliver everything we should. Of course I was trying to make him see how understaffed we were, and the impact it was having on our ability to perform. I also tried to make the point that ambitious, talented people get quite demoralized if they feel they cannot get their job done. It's not a good environment.
I'll never forget his response: Happiness is all about meeting expectations. Why don't you lower your expectations of what you need to deliver?
I responded: If you could just talk to executive management and get their agreement that we can deliver less than everything i've outlined, that would be really great. Absolutely.
Yeah, that never happened.
But I digress.
Medical lessons also reminded me that the nation of Bhutan measures something they call Gross National Happiness (GNH). That link leads to the official Bhutanese site about their GNH index. It's really kind of fascinating, outlining their methodology, among other wonky things.
Funny, I don't see anything about "lowering expectations" as the path to higher GNH. Looks like they list a whole bunch of other stuff like education, good governance, health, etc.
So which is it?
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Knox Breaks Pole Vault Record at Roseby Brent Harris • April 20, 2010 Share:
Friday evening Wabash College freshman Matt Knox sailed over the pole vault standard at the Rose-Hulman Twilight Invitational and into the Wabash track and field record book. Knox cleared 15 feet, 2-1/4 inches to break the 23-year-old school record in the pole vault of 15 feet set by Craig Lockerbie '90 in 1987.
There was no celebration because almost no one realized the record had been broken.
"I really didn't feel anything special," Knox said Monday at practice. "I knew I won the meet with that vault, so I felt great about that. I was more eager to get up to the next height. Lately we've been trying to work toward qualifying for the NCAA Division III Nationals. When I first cleared the height I wasn't thinking, 'I just broke the Wabash record.' I was thinking, 'OK, good I've got a nice height down, now let's go up to the national qualifying height.'"
His pole vault coach, Horace Turner shared those thoughts
"I really didn't realize he broke the record," Turner said. "I'm focused on getting him to break 16 feet. Matt can compete at the national level. If he doesn't make it as a freshman, I think he will definitely make it next year. He should be there, especially indoors. He needs to continue developing his strength and speed. He has the desire."
Knox has been at this height before Friday's accomplishment. A graduate of Franklin Central High School in Indianapolis, he cleared 15 feet, 1 inch as a senior to finish second at the Boy's Track and Field Regional last year while qualifying for the state championship meet. Now Knox is ready to move on and compete against the best pole vaulters at the NCAA Division III level.
"I've always wanted to jump in nationals," Knox said. "In high school you're competing against the best vaulters in Indiana. Now I get to compete against the best vaulters in the country. I can go online and see how I'm doing compared to everyone else in the nation. It's quite an accomplishment to get on the national qualifying list."
While Knox showed great success in high school, he came to Wabash in the fall and immediately started training to prepare for the indoor track season.
"We were encouraged in September to begin lifting and running on our own or in a group," Knox said. "Starting that early was a big change. In high school we didn't start track until February. Another difference is the facilities. I've never had access to an indoor track facility to practice in the winter. Having indoor meets in January helped me get ready for the outdoor season. I was in wrestling in high school and never participated in indoor track. All of that has changed my entire high school-to-college vaulting experience."
Turner credits that off-season work and the leadership shown by sophomore vaulter Sam Glowinski in getting the group prepared for this spring.
"Matt had knee surgery in high school, so to rebound and be able to reach 15 feet your first year vaulting in college is quite an accomplishment," Turner said. "I think he'll be able to go much higher as he continues to strengthen that knee. He's a powerful young man who shows a lot of desire.
"Sam Glowinski is the glue of the vaulters' group. Sam's energy and commitment and his willingness to work with the freshmen has been key to our success as a group. Even though Sam has become sort of second fiddle to Matt, it's quite an accomplishment to get someone who's not your superstar but who's willing to take on the challenge and work with the group. They work out and lift together, do the different vaulting drills together, use the high bar and our training rings together. Through that process they learn to correct one another, which is fantastic. I really have to do very little other than motivate them."
Knox would disagree about Turner having little to do with his success this year.
"HT (Horace Turner) can spend practice time watching you personally to check what you're doing wrong and can also help you correct that," Knox said. "He knows what you need to do right. That's been a great help this season. HT is always watching us and giving us encouragement."
Knox will get a few more opportunities to reach the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying mark of 15 feet, 5 inches. He'll compete this weekend at Purdue University and will enter the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet at the end of the month as the favorite to win the event after taking first place at the Indoor Championship meet earlier this year.
If he qualifies for nationals, Knox will join a group of Wabash runners that have already posted impressive performances this season. Freshman Jake Waterman earned All-America honors at the NCAA Division III 2010 Indoor Championships in the 800-meter run. Sophomore Kevin McCarthy also earned All-America honors in the 800 and was nearly an All-American in cross country in the fall. Senior Emmanuel Aouad gave the Little Giants three All-Americans at the nationals when he finished third in the 55-meter hurdles.
Knox attributes the team's success as much to the fun they have being around each other as to their hard work and abilities.
"I think a lot of accomplishments have come from how we work together as a team and have fun during track practice," Knox said. "Just a few weeks ago we had a challenge between two track athletes to see who was the best in five events. It was between a thrower and a sprinter, so they did some throwing events and some sprinting events. (Head Track and Field) Coach (Clyde) Morgan stopped practice and we cheered those guys on as they competed. Things like that bring this team together as a whole. We just have fun. Coach Morgan encourages having fun as a team, to make the season fun. He knows that people work better when the pressure is off and people are having fun."


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Sharon Fitness explores the concept of 'jewelleryness' through moving image. Finding Jewelleryness includes instructional videos that share her love of wearing readymades alongside a selection of wearable screens. Sharon Fitness explores the concept of 'jewelleryness' through moving image.
The arts and crafts movement in the early twentieth century was a vital moment in the education and uptake of ceramics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Though most histories of New Zealand studio pottery begin with the Anglo-Oriental movement in the mid-twentieth century — which features the emergence of key ceramic figures — the earlier arts and crafts movement holds many examples of sophisticated and serious pottery, often made by women.
Louise Menzies, an Auckland-based artist, offers us objects, images and situations that explore the past and present through attention to the way they are already represented. For this exhibition, Menzies delves into feminist histories, via the Germaine Greer Archive held at the University of Melbourne.
This collection presents Wallace Crossman's work from the One Tree Hill College art collection alongside distinctive examples from Sandy Adsett, Robin White and Haare Williams, four artists significant for their contributions to both art and education in Aotearoa.
The terms outsider, insider and mainstream art are not in the vocabulary of the group of art makers with intellectual disabilities from A Supported Life's 'two4nine' creative space in West Auckland. Their art is direct, delightful and provocative visual expression in paint, thread and clay of their unique view of the world they inhabitant.
As an annual update on the state of ceramic practices in Aotearoa, the Portage Ceramic Awards provides insights on current directions and future possibilities. Established in 2001, the awards are a hallmark event for the New Zealand ceramics community, showcasing some of the best contemporary work, and serving as a platform for dialogue about developments in the ceramics field.
The Burning Hours focuses on works made between 2014-2016, showing audiences what happens when Bush pushes her compositional limits and uses the entire surface of the paper. This recent body of work is rich with detail – each surface, of gouache and gold, is filled with references to illuminated manuscripts, Persian miniatures, European art history and modern life.
Ornamental Residue originates from a study into the typology of brooches. For this series, Melbourne-based jeweller Manon van Kouswijk creates and extends iconic brooch forms and motifs from the history of jewellery.
Using only wood and paint, artist Glen Hayward constructs a wall of concrete blocks to sit a series of pre-existing objects for Te Uru's front Window Space. These recognisable builder's objects – including a beer bottle, lunchbox, cigarettes and hard hat – point to the mode of their own construction and labour intensive origins.
In this exhibition Fickling presents a display of carefully sculpted paper creatures - part animal, part machine - of a fictional era inspired by industrial design. The still and stark white paper gives way to imagined colours, movements and interactions between the underwater beings swimming through the exhibition space.


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Saturday, April 04, 2009
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- magnusmog said...
My suggestion? Have a great time!
- April 04, 2009 4:05 PM
- jenniferlang said...
no suggestions ~ but have a lovely time, and I love your luggage!
- April 04, 2009 11:22 PM
- craftivore said...
oooh, lucky you, it's cherry blossom time. A small but nice museum is the Textile Museum http://www.textilemuseum.org/fsg/, it looks like Ottoman textiles are there now.
- April 05, 2009 12:33 PM
- craftivore said...
oops, I guess that was an old link, it's not Ottoman textiles now. http://www.textilemuseum.org/
The trip out to Mt. Vernon is worth it if you have the time.
- April 05, 2009 12:36 PM
- craftivore said...
last one I swear! Eastern Market is great on the weekends.
- April 05, 2009 12:39 PM
- Prunila said...
enjoy! yes my suggestion is to enjoy spring :)
- April 05, 2009 7:31 PM
- Unionpearl said...
The gardens at Dumbarton Oaks will be spectacular now; also check out the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria and the Renwick after you've been to the Textile Museum. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, so you really won't go wrong. Have a great time!
- April 06, 2009 7:14 AM
- hartgirl said...
Check out Stitch DC. I went there a few years ago and it was delightful...
- April 06, 2009 5:43 PM
- Marseille said...
I think the Smithsonian's American History museum has reopened after its remodel....they had a few nice textiles when last I visited (pre-remodel.....).
I also love the National Gallery of Art, myself....I'm an hour away in Annapolis
- April 07, 2009 4:55 PM


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Ernst Lubitsch, (born January 29, 1892, Berlin, Germany—died November 30, 1947, Hollywood, California, U.S.), German-born American motion-picture director who was best known for sophisticated comedies of manners and romantic comedies. Lubitsch was an anomaly as an active director who also served as the head of production at a major studio, as he did briefly at Paramount. While the lion's share of his career occurred during the silent era—when he made more than 40 German silents before moving to United States—the influence of his sound pictures far exceeds their number.
Early life and work
Lubitsch was born into a Jewish family; while some sources give his birth date as January 28, 1892, others—notably his daughter—state that he was born a day later. He worked in his father's Berlin clothing store while acting at night. In 1911, at age 19, he joined the company of stage director Max Reinhardt. Lubitsch played minor stage roles until shortly before World War I, when he began performing in one-reel silent film comedies in the ethnically stereotyped but sympathetic role of Meyer, a well-meaning Jewish bungler. In the process, he became one of the most popular comic actors in Germany and began writing and directing the Meyer films.
By 1915 Lubitsch had begun directing feature-length comedies, and he soon left Reinhardt to devote himself to movies full-time. In 1918 he directed Die Augen der Mummie Ma (The Eyes of the Mummy), his first film with Pola Negri and Emil Jannings, both of whom he would work with regularly, as all three became audience favourites in Germany. Lubitsch's elaborate costume dramas in the early post-World War I period were among the first German productions to be shown abroad. Some of the more-notable of those films were Madame Du Barry (1919; also released as Passion), Anna Boleyn (1920; also released as Deception), Sumurun (1920; One Arabian Night), and Das Weib des Pharao (1922; The Loves of Pharaoh).
Arrival in Hollywood
In 1923 actress Mary Pickford persuaded Lubitsch to come to Hollywood to direct her in Rosita (1923), a grand-scale costume drama. He was the first important German director to emigrate to the United States, and his success attracted many others—especially later, as the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism drove many German (and especially Jewish German) artists into exile. During the next five years he developed a readily identifiable style that became known as the "Lubitsch Touch." It was a combination of understatement, allusion, and graceful wit that resulted in sophisticated comedy with implied sexual overtones. Among his early American efforts were the silent comedies Forbidden Paradise (1924), The Marriage Circle (1924), Lady Windermere's Fan (1925), Kiss Me Again (1925), and So This Is Paris (1926).
After directing Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), Lubitsch signed a production deal with Paramount, for which his first film was The Patriot (1928), with Jannings as the mad tsar of Russia, Paul I, and with Lewis Stone as the count who intrigues against him. Eternal Love (1929), starring John Barrymore, followed.
Transition to sound
Lubitsch's transition from silent to sound films was among the most assured of any director. His first sound effort was the inventive 1929 musical The Love Parade, in which Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (in her film debut) find romance in the mythical land of Sylvania. With songs composed by Victor Schertzinger, this pleasant operetta was nominated for an Academy Award as best picture, and Lubitsch was nominated for best director. In that film and Monte Carlo (1930), Lubitsch freed the camera from the soundproof box and static position used by most directors at the beginning of the sound era. Instead, he filmed sequences without dialogue and dubbed the sound in later.
During the 1930s Paramount produced some of the motion-picture industry's most lavish and sophisticated films. Lubitsch was arguably the studio's most-respected director. His films were considered prestige projects that were not always big successes commercially but lent the studio cachet. As a result, he was also given a free hand creatively, often produced his own films, and had the privilege of final cut. With the advent of sound, Lubitsch's affinity for theatrical traditions became even clearer, not just in his borrowing of wit, urbanity, and elegance from the comedies of manners of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Molière but also in his debt to "well-made" bourgeois farces by playwrights such Victorien Sardou, Eugène-Marin Labiche, and Georges Feydeau. In his Chevalier-MacDonald musicals, Lubitsch also was the first director to introduce songs as a natural part of the plot.
One Lubitsch film that was a box-office success was The Smiling Lieutenant (1931). Nominated for an Academy Award as best picture, this musical, set in 19th-century Vienna, starred Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, and Miriam Hopkins. Among the contributors to the screenplay was Samson Raphaelson, who would collaborate frequently with Lubitsch throughout the director's career. Lubitsch's follow-up to The Smiling Lieutenant, the sombre antiwar drama Broken Lullaby (1932; also released as The Man I Killed), with Lionel Barrymore, was praised for its brilliant camera work, but with his next effort the director returned to his tried-and-true operetta format, reuniting Chevalier and MacDonald in One Hour with You (1932). Thereafter he would never stray from the staple of his success—romantic comedies. A remake of The Marriage Circle, the effervescent One Hour with You was originally to be directed by George Cukor, who was unceremoniously shunted aside when Lubitsch, the film's producer, could not keep his hands off the camera. Before long, Lubitsch was directing. When he assigned himself sole credit, Cukor contested the action in arbitration. Ultimately, Cukor waived his claim in exchange for being freed from his Paramount contract.
Lubitsch's next project, Trouble in Paradise (1932), is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Hopkins and Herbert Marshall played romantically involved French jewel thieves who gain employment with a wealthy woman (Kay Francis) so that they can bilk her out of her fortune. As in many of Lubitsch's films, a love triangle develops, complications multiply with breathtaking invention, and an undercurrent of sexual naughtiness is conveyed through suggestion and clever association.
Lubitsch was one of the seven credited directors who handled segments of the 1932 film If I Had a Million before turning his attention to Design for Living (1933), another sophisticated masterpiece with an erotic tinge. A somewhat expurgated version of Noël Coward's play of the same name, it starred Gary Cooper and Fredric March as an artist and a playwright, respectively, who live in Paris in a ménage à trois with a fellow American expatriate (Hopkins). She disturbs their unusual arrangement by marrying a square businessman (Edward Everett Horton) but returns when she realizes what she gave up. The Merry Widow (1934) brought Chevalier and MacDonald together again under the auspices of producer Irving Thalberg and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in a sparkling version of the Franz Lehár operetta, with new lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, among others.
Films of the mid- and late 1930s
Perhaps fearful that its star producer-director would permanently jump to MGM, Paramount formalized Lubitsch's title as head of production in 1935, an unprecedented position of power for a director. That arrangement lasted only about one year, however, and Lubitsch returned to focusing on his own work. He made Angel with Marshall, Marlene Dietrich, and Melvyn Douglas in 1937, but that depiction of yet another romantic triangle proved to be one of his most-maligned commercial failures. Cooper and Colbert were paired in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), but, despite a Charles Brackett–Billy Wilder script, it also failed at the box office, and Paramount finally let Lubitsch go to MGM.
His first film after leaving Paramount was Ninotchka (1939). Positioning the famously solemn Greta Garbo as a comedienne for the first time (the poster for the film's tagline was "Garbo Laughs!"), Lubitsch—with the help of screenwriters Brackett, Wilder, and Walter Reisch—concocted one of her most-enduring films. Garbo played the title character, an icy Soviet Communist official dispatched to Paris to retrieve the Russian imperial jewels after a trio of her emissaries have not only failed to sell the jewels but are in danger of losing them to an exiled grand duchess who claims to be their rightful owner. In Paris Ninotchka meets an urbane count (Douglas), and, like her subordinates, she is soon seduced by the pleasures of Western decadence. Garbo, the film, the screenplay, and the original story by Melchior Lengyel were all nominated for Academy Awards.
Films of the 1940s
Lubitsch followed Ninotchka with yet another classic romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner (1940), starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as coworkers in a notions shop in Budapest. (Lubitsch often set his films in Europe, believing that American audiences would be more tolerant of racy behaviour from European characters.) The two detest each other, little knowing that they have already fallen in love through their anonymous correspondence. Perhaps Lubitsch's warmest film, The Shop Around the Corner boasted a charming screenplay by Raphaelson.
That Uncertain Feeling (1941) was something of a disappointment after Lubitsch's two previous triumphs. A remake of his 1925 silent comedy Kiss Me Again, it starred Douglas and Merle Oberon as an unhappily married couple who consider divorce but finally learn to appreciate each other.
The daring political comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942), from a story by Lubitsch and Lengyel, was another high-water mark for Lubitsch. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard played a married couple who are the stars of a Polish theatrical troupe in 1939 Warsaw that, even before the country's occupation by the Germans, is prohibited from staging an anti-Nazi play and instead continues to perform William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Life becomes more complicated and harrowing for them during the German occupation, when they risk their lives to collaborate with the Polish Resistance. Unappreciated in its day for seeming to deal lightly with the Nazis—who are portrayed here as buffoons—To Be or Not to Be is more easily appreciated today as a razor-edged satire.
Heaven Can Wait (1943), Lubitsch's first film under a new producer-director contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, was a bittersweet period comedy in which a ladies' man (Don Ameche) reviews a lifetime of romantic malfeasance for a skeptical Satan (Laird Cregar) as he awaits admittance to hell. This charming but rueful fantasy, with a clever screenplay by Raphaelson, earned Lubitsch another Academy Award nomination as best director. Lubitsch became ill while working on A Royal Scandal (1945) and handed over the reins to Otto Preminger but recovered to direct Cluny Brown (1946), a charming period romance set on the eve of World War II. Lubitsch was awarded a special Academy Award for his lifetime achievements in 1946, then commenced work on That Lady in Ermine (1948), a musical scripted by Raphaelson. However, after directing the earliest stages of the film, Lubitsch died of a heart attack.


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Nunavut[7] is an extensive territory in the far North of Canada, located east of the Northwest Territories (of which it used to be part), north of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, and west of the Danish territory of Greenland. Nunavut comprises a large portion of the northern tip of the North American continent and a large number of islands on Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean. Alert on Ellesmere Island is the northernmost settlement in the world. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world although it does have a cemetery...the world's northernmost.
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Until the end of World War II The Canadian far north was seen as a barren and desolate place, inhabited by indigenous peoples and containing vast mineral resources that have yet to be exploited. At the end the Canadian government began to realize its strategic importance. In 1982, after much debate and arguement it was decided to divide the Northwest territories into Nunavut and the former. On April 1, 1999 Nunavut came into existence.
It is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the world - fewer than 30,000 people in an area the size of Western Europe. The immense territory includes most of Canada's Arctic Islands, from Baffin Island in the territory's southeast, where the capital Iqaluit is located, to Ellesmere Island a few hundred kilometers from the North Pole. The territory also includes all of the islands in Hudson Bay.
Around 65% of people living in Nunavut speak Inuktitut as a first language. Inuktitut is the traditional language spoken by the Inuit people, and is closely related to Greenlandic. It is a somewhat hard language to learn for the english speaker, and most English speaking people won't even be able to read it because it is written in its own unique script. Though most Inuit probably speak English it would be a good idea to learn a few key phrases or bring a Inuktitut phrase book along. Learning the script in any case is actually relatively easy to do. French may also be useful though not necessary. In the more remote places Inuktitut may be necessary.
Get in
Access is only by air - there is no road or rail from the south, and consequently prices are rather expensive owing to the difficulty of shipping goods in.
Get around
In the smaller communities (less than 3000), ATVs and trucks are used during the short summer (when there is no snow). In the Winter, Snowmobiles are the main way of getting around. Dog sleds are also used but owning and maintaining a dog team can be a very costly endeavor. Getting to and from the different communities can only be done by air as there are very few roads the further North you get.
There is a KFC express in Iqaluit. Some towns may offer small restaurants, or coffee shops. Try some traditional Inuit such as raw seal meat. For many Inuits, hunting is still the primary way of acquiring food, so many northern foods such as Arctic Char and Caribou meat can be bought from local hunters, and cooked. The main grocers are Co-Op, and Northern, a common grocery for Northern Territories. Because all food must be shipped in from planes, be prepared to pay unusually high prices for perishables, such as milk and fruit/vegetables.
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The group looks to raise funds in order to build a new building for the learning center on the property, next to Kroger, they purchased in 2011. Jackson County Learning Center executive director, Glenda Rutledge-May, says the group borrowed the idea from the Special Olympics. "There are a lot of organizations that do this, particularly the Special Olympics and of course Special Olympics is for the type of individuals we serve and they're very successful doing this type of fundraiser." She continues, "so I thought we would try it. One of my board member suggested it so were going to try it." According to May, the learning center currently has about 15 different local companies or groups that are going to be represented. "We have probably 30 to 40 individuals that are going to participate," said May. "Almost everyone of our companies that are going to participate have at least two to three people." Local groups and businesses participating include: The Jackson County Learning Center, Old Treasures, More Treasures, Arkansas Steel Associates, Lindley Health and Rehab, St. Michael's Place, M&P Insurance and Investment Services, M&P Bank, Gold Star Club, Harris Hospital, Newport High School Cheerleaders, U.S. Pizza, Newport Kiwanis Club, Newport Lion's Club, Modern Woodman of America, Bratcher Real Estate and Walmart. Here's how the event will work. Each individual who enters the event will receive a pledge form. They will then collect pledges from anyone willing to donate and take their names and information down on the pledge form. The person taking the pledges will not need to collect any money because the money pledged will be tax deductible. "We will send out a donation letter to each person that makes a pledge basically saying 'thank you for your donation and here's your tax receipt. Please send in the bottom portion with your pledge amount,'" said May. "This makes it easier for the people participating because they don't' have to collect the money and everybody (who pledges) gets a tax receipt that they can use on their taxes next year." Finally, on March 9, those taking part will meet at Jacksonport State Park and take the plunge into the White River. The learning center is asking participants to raise $100 each, but encourage them to raise as much as possible because there will be a prize for the one who raises the most. "The goal is to raise as much money as you can. Each participant that raises at least $100 will receive a free t-shirt," explained May. "The participant that raises the most money will receive a $50 Visa gift card and the group (who raises the most money) will get a trophy that they can display." May says their goal is to raise $10,000 towards their building fund with this event. "We raised $34,000 last year and our goal for this fundraiser is $10,000," May says. "We've already got the floor plan drawn up (for the new learning center building) we just need to raise the money. The estimated cost to build right now is 1.3 million." May notes that the learning center is also looking at grants to help with the build but it's difficult to find capital grants that will allow you to use the money for building. "A lot of those grants require matching funds," she explains. "Whether it be money we have already raised or pledges that we have gotten. So were trying to build our building fund up." JCLC is a private non-profit agency providing supports and services for adults who have significant developmental and intellectual disabilities. For further information, please call 870-523-1017 or 870-523-8488.


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I was thinking about this last night some more. His whole book shows HOW the ancients could have been frauds, but does not provide a motive nor proof that the methods he described were real, nor proof that the events weren't real. He says "this is how they could have faked it, so it must be fake." What kind of spurious logic is that?! LOL
So, you have you read the whole book? That wasn't my impression of what it was about. It seemed to me that some of the articles on the web site had theories on the motivation for the fraud -- eg: power, control, money.
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|View Poll Results: Vote for your favourite Toradora! character(s) - Final Take!
|Takasu Ryuuji
|Aisaka Taiga
|Kushieda Minori
|Kawashima Ami
|Kitamura Yuusuke
|Kanou Sumire
|Kihara Maya
|Kashii Nanako
|Haruta Kouji
|Noto Hisamitsu
|Kogaikubo Yuri
|Takasu Yasuko
|Others (specify)
|Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 304. You may not vote on this poll
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|2009-04-11, 03:34
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Toradora! - Favourite Character(s) Poll - Final Take!
Welcome to the Toradora! - Favourite Character(s) Poll - Final Take! , the place when you can adorn you favourite characters and support them expressing all of your love!
This is your second and last chance to vote Toradora characters, to see if you've changed your mind since when the first character poll was launched. Speaking of which, the first poll has now been closed, it's not possible to vote there anymore.
Spoiler for First Poll (203 voters) Final Results - Top 5:
You can vote for multiple characters all at once in this poll. Your vote is final once you click on the "vote now" tab. You won't be able to comeback and vote a second time for another character. Choose wisely!
The poll is public which means the votes will be visible to everyone!
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|2009-04-11, 04:03
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 30
I voted for my 3 favorite characters.
1. Aisaka Taiga
She has developed from the palmtop tiger to a really likable girl in my opinion.
In the beginning I did like her, but I didn't expect her to get so much development to be honest. So I was pleasantly surprised
When she started getting closer to Ryuuji and her friends, she began showing her real personality, the one that was hidden behind her tiger-personality, more and more. Even though it would make herself unhappy, she'd do anything for her friends (especially Minorin and Ryuuji). You can see this very clearly during the christmas arc.
She is very clumsy when it comes to love though, but I'm happy that everything worked out for her in the end.
2. Takasu Ryuuji
A great lead in my opinion. He's a bit dumb when it comes to love, but otherwise he is a smart and caring boy. He'd do anything to help another.
Even though Taiga was very mean to him in the beginning, he still stayed by her side because he knew that she needed him. Even though he could get a date with his 'love' during christmas, he chose to be with Taiga instead. And in the end he realized that she was the person he'd been searching for.
3. Takasu Yasuko
She's a great mother who did everything she could in order to raise her son. She might get a bit airheaded at times, but when she needs to be she can be very reliable. When she saw that Taiga started 'living' with them, she didn't mind at all. She even wanted Taiga to marry Ryuuji, so that they could become a 3 person family.
|2009-04-11, 07:23
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: USA
I liked the whole cast, but I picked Ryuuji, Ami, and Minori. The first two have been my favorites since the start but Minori really grew on me as time went on, the sacrifices she was willing to make for her friends struck me as very noble. I like Taiga also, but I felt it was better to leave one out since it'd be weird to vote for the entire main cast sans Kitamura.
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|2009-04-11, 10:03
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Fortaleza-CE, Brazil
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For me, it's always been Ryuji, Taiga and Ami's show. Too bad Ami wasn't as developed as I wanted her to be, but... I still loved her character progression, as well as that of the two protagonists. Near the end, I was quite swayed towards Minorin, but I don't know if that's actually elevated her to their pantheon, myself.
|2009-04-11, 11:40
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@ Deathscyther - that is a kick ass signature. Did someone on AS make it for you?
So far it seems like no matter what group of people you like the common denominator is Ryuji. For a lead protagonist in a Romance anime he is really a step above the usual generic characters.
|2009-04-11, 17:24
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I really liked Ryuuji and Taiga in the beginning
but later I liked Ami more, because she was more like the sad character of the anime
like the scene when they were preparing the christmas festival at their school and ami sad to ryuuji (whispering) that he should give her one more chance
and I hate the art taiga and ryuuji ended up together -.-'
|2009-04-12, 07:37
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Area 11
Age: 36
I only voted for Ami.
I usually don't vote for more than one character in votes such as this unless there are two (or more) characters that really stand out from the rest. I loved how Ami managed to come off as stronger and more mature than the rest of the cast while being vulnerable and in the need of love and acceptance at the same time. She struck me as the girl who was forced to grow up too fast for her own good, and when she returned to a normal life she realized that no one understood her true self. I loved how perceptive she was and the way she, despite her own problems and needs, tried to help the one she had feelings for make the right decision, even though it meant pushing him into the arms of another woman.
I also liked Ryuuji since he didn't manage to piss me off the way male leads usually do in romance anime. Sure, I often wanted to whack some sense into him, but Ami was already there doing it for me. I liked Taiga for who she was but even more for who she became. She went through a lot of development (more than any other character in the show in my opinion) and I truly think that she deserved the happy ending she got. I liked Minori for her positive energy and the way she (just like Taiga) sacrifices her own needs and feelings for her best friend. The budding friendship between "the two rejects", Ami and Minori, brought a smile to my face. These characters turned out to be Toradora!'s most powerful weapon. If I would have voted for more than one character it would have been for these four together.
|2009-04-13, 12:26
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Rabid Fangirl
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Canada
i voted ami, taiga, and ryuuji
ami was my favourite character due to her character development. when she first came in, i hated her and wanted to rip her head off. she was a trainwreck. but she grew up and became a complex character that i could admire.
taiga was also one i hated at first. i dont normally like tsunderes, so i already wasnt on good terms with her character. but i could really see her growing up, being more mature (and more deredere!) and saw her quickly becoming one of my favourite characters.
ryuuji i never had a problem with. he was a pretty good male lead. he never did any stupid perverted things or felt all the girls should be hanging off him. sometimes he was a little TOO oblivious for me but i can see where hes coming from.
|2009-04-14, 12:21
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I enjoyed ALL the characters and found them each interesting... so my votes are simply for the ones who bubbled up slightly higher. (Ryuuji, Taiga, Ami, Sumire). For me, this is one of the few series where the *ensemble* cast complemented each other to the extent that I find it misleading to single out particular characters.
|2009-04-14, 21:34
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|2009-04-15, 12:19
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Kashii, Kihara, Noto, and Haruta -- could easily have entire series or OVAs constructed around them (as well as any other second tier character). That's one of the plus points of the series - that feeling of immersion into the lives of a bunch of somewhat realistic people. They continue their own plots off-stage...
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Michael Allen Wonderly
Michael Allen Wonderly, 58, died on Feb. 23, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. following a brief illness. He was born May 25, 1952 in Ridgway, the son of Neil and Marcella Stegar Wonderly. He was the fifth of seven children, the only son, and man of the house from age 17. He was doted on in a house of seven women. Through high school, he worked for Charlie Steger Senior as a mason. He served in the U.S. Army in Okinawa, Japan from 1972 to 1974. He enjoyed renovating his Laurel Mill Road home, hunting, camping, canoeing, jeep rides and "supervising" in general, and quite often doing all of these things in the same weekend. For 10 years, Mike had his own excavating company. He had currently worked for Chris "Fuzzy" Amacher and even on his days off could be found helping friends with his backhoe. Through his life, Mike collected many friends across the country, but he was biggest buddy to his five "favorite" children. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Susan; three daughters, Jennifer, Amy Aharrah (Steve), and Rebecca; two sons, Neil (Ashley) and Timothy (Jessica); seven grandsons, Brandon, Justin, Xavier, Zane, Logan, Cole, and Eli; a granddaughter, Mackenzie; his mother, Marcella; and by six sisters, Peggy Nearing (Francis), Marion Nelson (Bill), Sharon Arch (Tom), Pat Fest, Beth Constable (Neal) and Lois Acosta (Ben). He was predeceased by his father and a daughter, Sherry. A funeral service for Michael Allen Wonderly will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 11 a.m. in the Chrisitan and Missionary Alliance Church on Bootjack Road. Officiating will be the Rev. Ronald Burkett, pastor of the Hallton Church. Friends will be received at the Meehan-Shilk Funeral Home on Friday morning from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Hallton Church, 233 Spruce St., Ridgway.
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