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Wilmington's Grace Koon and her bandmates have discovered a key way of burning off their Thanksgiving calories.
Wilmington's Grace Koon and her bandmates have discovered a key way of burning off their Thanksgiving calories.
The solution is to deliver an intense set with 20-plus outfits in the untamed Wilmo Rock Circus 2012 concert at World Café Live at the Queen on Saturday.
Presented by Gable Music Ventures — a Wilmington-based company specializing in offering local artists the chance to showcase original music — the second annual Wilmo Rock Circus has beefed up since its inaugural concert, which showcased 10 bands. This year, the event will feature 22 outfits from the Mid-Atlantic region, including local favorites New Sweden, A New Dakota and the Joe Trainor Trio across two main stages, with a third stage set up on the balcony serving as a fill-in for band changes. Each band will play a 30 minute set.
"I'm quite excited," said the 21-year-old Koon, frontwoman of the indie-rock trio A New Dakota. "I didn't go last year, so I don't know what to expect from it."
A New Dakota's off the leash
Fans of experimenting with heavy distortion, psychedelic, grunge, rock and blues elements, A New Dakota is a Newark-based outfit that was founded nearly three years ago and is captained by Koon, along with her faithful crew: Scott Mathews (bass) and Bryan Fitzgerald (drums).
A New Dakota's mission for the Rock Circus is to infiltrate it with fresh songs they've been working on for their new project (slated to be released in the spring of 2013), along with some of their more established tunes.
Two shiny tunes the band might showcase are "Baltimore" and a song that may or may not be titled "On and On," depending on how fuzzy Koon's memory is.
"They're both bright, catchy and they have that melodic kind of hook with high energy," said Koon, who pens most of A New Dakota's songs. The new songs reveal a more cheerful vibe than the band's previous works, since Koon revealed she's been "on a happy kind of kick" lately. However, the frontwoman added she hasn't gone soft, because the fresh tunes have also been injected with the special ingredient of "soul," which is prevalent in the band's prior material.
'I got a song out of it'
The song "Baltimore" was inspired by an adventurous day Koon experienced in Baltimore, Md., last April.
"I ended up kind of getting stranded in Baltimore, and this song came out of that experience," she said. "I was with a friend and ended up like… having it out [with them] and [I] got left in the city."
Despite the incident, the 21-year-old and her friend are still pals. Moreover, "I'm glad it happened, because I got a song out of it," beamed Koon.
Some of A New Dakota's staple tunes are "Powder City" and "Goldbloom," both off the trio's recent and self-titled EP, which dropped in January.
The frontwoman seemed mildly embarrassed about revealing the origins of the gritty tune "Powder City."
"I made a song that's alluding to a model city that my brother and sister built for fun on the floor one night," recalled Koon, who fought through laughter to continue the story. "It just so happened we ended up making this miniature city and we made it snow with baby powder."
Then there's the mellow song "Goldbloom," a reference to "Jurassic Park III" actor Jeff Goldblum's last name. The song was motivated by an inside joke stemming from a question Koon and her bandmates have about the movie.
"Jeff Goldblum, he has a black daughter in 'Jurassic Park III' and it's never explained," smiled the inquisitive Koon. "And you never know why."
Wilmo Rock Circus Lineup
The Bullbuckers
A New Dakota
New Sweden
John & Brittany
June Divided
Joe Trainor Trio
Me and This Army
The Keefs
The Way Home
Echo Mission
Sylvan Wolfe
Robot House
B. Lev
Tilting Windmills
Hot Breakfast!
Rivers Monroe
The Whiskeyhickon Boys
Travel Songs
Glim Dropper
WHAT Wilmo Rock Circus 2012 featuring 22 bands
WHEN 6-1 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 24
WHERE World Café Live at the Queen, 500 North Market St., Wilmington
COST $15 online; $17 door
INFO worldcafelive.com or 994-1400


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WASHINGTON – It can be tough to find the perfect present, and even more so when the recipient is dealing with a serious illness.
The best course may be to think way outside the box. Literally.
Rachel Vitagliano, manager of patient relations for Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia, asked patients, caregivers and family members to come up with a list of most-wanted holiday gifts. She noticed a trend in the results.
Most of their suggestions were personal, and some involved sharing time together. (Check out the complete list in the photo gallery.)
Vitagliano says her favorite idea is taking a cancer-fighting friend or loved one to a comedy club or a funny movie.
"They really say laughter is the best medicine," she says.
Another idea is to make a patient's life easier by helping with chores at home. Givers can also hire a house cleaning or car detailing service.
And if you really want to give a gift in a box, you can't go wrong with an e- reader or soft pajamas.
Follow @WTOPLiving on Twitter.
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Brangelina release wedding photos
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have shared some pictures from their wedding.
The photos, which are published in Hello! and People magazines, show the Oscar-winning actress looking stunning in a white antique lace and silk gown by Luigi Massi of Atelier Versace, with the veil decorated with artwork by the couple's children - 13-year-old Maddox, ten-year-old Pax, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
The pair tied the knot in a low-key ceremony - apparently attended by just 20 friends and family members - at their home in France, Chateau Miraval, on August 23.
"It was important to us that the day was relaxed and full of laughter," the couple said.
"It was such a special day to share with our children and a very happy time for our family," they added.
Each child had a role to play on their special day - e ldest sons Maddox and Pax walked their mum down the aisle, Zahara and Vivienne were the flower girls and Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers. The kids also helped write their parents' vows, and Pax baked the cake.
Luigi, the master tailor at Atelier Versace, sewed designs from the children into the dress and veil.
"Luigi is like family to me and I couldn't imagine anyone else making this dress," Angelina, 39, revealed. "He knows and cares for the children and it was great fun putting it together."
The A-listers, who met on the set of 2005 action-comedy Mr And Mrs Smith, finally tied the knot after months of rumours about their nuptials.
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Ask many actors what they are most concerned about when it comes to performing a solo show and they'll likely share their anxieties about having to "carry" the production without anyone else to play against - or joke that the cast parties tend not to be as lively as others.
Not Stephen Papps. The lanky character actor, probably best known for his film roles in Russian Snark and The End of the Golden Weather, is about to star in his new play, described as a "weird and wonderful" relationship comedy; a solo show featuring two people.
While there is a second character, a mystery woman he will reveal little about, Third Person, Tense largely depends on Papps to carry the self-referencing and somewhat existentialist story. Because his most enduring work, Blowing It, was a one-hander he's not rattled by having to go it alone.
Co-written with Stephen Sinclair, Blowing It, about an undercover cop, won Papps the Chapman Tripp Best Actor gong in 2000 before he took it on the road, performing for five years around New Zealand, Britain, Northern Ireland and Australia.
"The solo aspect doesn't scare me as much because I know what it's all about through my experiences with Blowing It," he says.
"I once performed the show in a pub in Belfast. I was asked if I minded if people smoked during the performance and I said I would prefer that they didn't; then I asked if the bar could be closed during the duration of the show - about an hour - and they said they thought that would be okay.
"The audience was deathly quiet which was unusual; I pushed on through trying not to be put off by it. Anyway, they saved it all up and went wild at the end - and made up for the bar being closed for that hour."
What Papps is more concerned about is wearing two hats; this is the first show he has written on his own.
"Words feed into a performance but what works on paper doesn't necessarily sound right when it's performed. So I'm thinking, 'how am I going to make this work? What am I trying to say and can I physicalise it or dramatise it?"'
He is quick to say he's working with a good team, including director Mark Clare, who gives him prompt constructive feedback. Early on in the show's development, script advisory service and agents Playmarket teamed Papps with seasoned writer Michelanne Forster, who provided help with the first drafts. It was Forster's idea to bring the woman, played by Lizzie Tollmache, into the story which starts when an actor wakes to find himself on stage with an expectant audience in front of him.
"I always thought the strange thing about solo shows is the question of who the actor is talking to? We know it's the audience, so the idea is to break right through the 'fourth wall' so we cut through that illusion."
As the nameless protagonist, hungover and with a head injury, starts to ready himself for a show, chatting all the while to the audience, he eventually becomes aware there's the body of a young woman on the stage. Papps, a fan of writers Edward Albee, Will Eno and Samuel Beckett, says the character, a slightly more eccentric and exaggerated version of himself, must then work out what part he played in the girl's misfortune.


text: Professor Stuart Harrad In 'People' Academic staffHonorary staffDoctoral researchers Back to 'School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences' School of Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesProfessor of Environmental Chemistry Contact details Telephone+44 (0)121 41 47298Fax+44 (0)121 41 email@example.com View my research portal AddressSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Stuart is an environmental chemist whose research addresses all aspects of the environmental sources, fate and behaviour of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). He has particular interests in human exposure to POPs with a focus on indoor pathways. He is also active in research that explores the environmental forensics utility of chirality. Staff detailsMedia informationPolicy information Biography Professor Harrad gained his BSc in Applied Chemistry from De Montfort University in 1984. He then moved to the University of East Anglia where he completed an MSc in Analytical Chemistry in 1985, and his PhD on Levels and Sources of PCDD/Fs in UK soils in 1989. After several postdoctoral appointments in both the USA and UK, he took up his present post in September 1994. He heads a National Network on Persistent Organic Pollutants, sits on the International Advisory Board of the Annual International Symposia on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants and chaired the 28th such symposium in Birmingham, August 17-22, 2008. Teaching Stuart makes a significant contribution to the delivery of the BSc Environmental Science degree programme. He is module leader for: GGM221 Environmental Transfer Processes, and GGM341 Environmental Protection He contributes to GGM109 Environmental Chemistry and Physics He teaches on several other MSc programmes both within and external to GEES Postgraduate supervision Research Students since 2001 Dan Drage (NERC Open Competition CASE award with Corus) - Evaluating Sources of Brominated Micropollutants within the Steel-Making Process Dr Tim Evans (NERC CASE award with Corus) - investigating the utility of the enantiomeric ratios of atropisomeric PCBs in atmospheric source apportionment and other aspects of their biogeochemical cycling Dave Darlow - Source Apportionment of Atmospheric SOC Emissions from the Steel Industry (NERC Industrial CASE award with Corus) Dr Sadegh Hazrati - Investigating the Significance of Indoor Air as a Source of Human Exposure to PBDEs and PCBs (Iranian Ministry of Health) Catalina Ibarra de Moore - Investigating the origins of elevated human body burdens of PBDEs (Mexican Government) Dr Mohamed Abdallah - Investigating the Sources and Magnitude of Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardants (Egyptian government) Stuart Hunter – Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Urban Environment (NERC Quota award) Dr Arsalan Jamshidi – Chiral Signatures of Polychlorinated Biphenyls as a Tool for Understanding their Environmental Sources, Fate and Behaviour (Iranian Ministry of Health) Dr Matt Robson – Utilising Chiral Signatures of Polychlorinated Biphenyls as an Atmospheric Source Apportionment Tool (NERC Quota award) Dr Emma Goosey - Towards Understanding the Fate of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds (PFCs) within Urban Environments: Implications for Human Exposure (NERC Open Competition CASE award with Unilever) Dr. Dudsadee Muenhor - Investigating the environmental fate and behaviour of Persistent Organic Pollutants (Thai government) Jennifer Desborough - Exploring the Utility of Chiral Signatures to Further Understanding of Soil-to-Herbage Transfer of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Hexabromocyclododecanes (NERC Open Competition CASE Award with The Food Standards Agency) Lindsay Bramwell - Diet and indoor environments as predictors of human body burden of PBDE (NERC CASE award with Newcastle University and CASE partner Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA)) Iryna Labunska - Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants from E-waste Handling in Developing Countries(self-funded) Congqiao Yang – Environmental fate and behaviour of Persistent Organic Pollutants in English Lakes (University of Birmingham, China Scholarship Council and CEFAS) Sandra Brommer – Assessment of Human Exposure to Organophosphorus flame retardants (University of Birmingham and FERA) Wiiliam Stubbings – Emissions of Brominated Flame Retardants Associated with the Treatment of Waste Electronics, Furnishings and Building Materials (NERC Open Competition CASE award with AEA Technology) Cassie Rauert - Elucidating pathways via which brominated flame retardants migrate from products into indoor dust (EU-funded under the INFLAME Marie Curie Initial Training Network) Research Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), particularly polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organophosphorus flame retardants (OPFRs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), perfluorinated substances (PFSs), hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs), "novel" brominated flame retardants (NBFRs) and dioxins. Specific foci are: Assessment of human exposure; The significance of indoor contamination; The exploitation of the chiral properties of POPs to provide new insights into their sources, environmental fate and behaviour Current Research: Utilising the Chiral Properties of POPs as a Tool for Furthering Understanding of their Environmental Sources, Fate and Behaviour Assessing Human Exposure to POPs both internal (e.g. human milk, blood) and external via inhalation, dust ingestion, and diet Elucidating pathways via which brominated flame retardants migrate from products into indoor dust (part of the INFLAME project "Indoor Contamination with Flame Retardant Chemicals: Causes and Impacts" Environmental fate and behaviour of POPs in UK lakes Emissions of brominated micropollutants from steel making Emissions of Brominated Flame Retardants Associated with the Treatment of Waste Electronics, Furnishings and Building Materials Past and present funding for Dr Harrad's research programme comes from: AEA Technology, the Big Lottery Fund, the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, the Food Standards Agency, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society, Corus plc, Unilever, Defra, the Department of Health, the West Midlands Office of the National Health Service Executive, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. At any one time, Dr. Harrad's research group usually contains a number of overseas PhD students sponsored by government agencies within their own countries. Examples of such countries are: China, Egypt, Germany, Thailand, Iran, Mexico, Australia and Brunei. The Harrad group also welcomes research visitors from overseas, with previous visitors from countries such as Spain, Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico making an important contribution to our research. Publications Key publications since 2001 See a full list of publications (PDF - 158KB) J. Desborough, S. Harrad "Chiral Signatures Show Volatilization from Soil Contributes to Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Grass", Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 7354-7357 (2011) M. Abdallah, S. Harrad. "Tetrabromobisphenol-A, Hexabromocyclododecane and Its Degradation Products in UK Human Milk: Relationship to External Exposure", Environment International, 37, 443–448 (2011) S. Harrad, E. Goosey, J. Desborough, M. A-E. Abdallah, L. Roosens, A. Covaci. "Dust from UK primary school classrooms and daycare centers: The significance of dust as a pathway of exposure of young UK children to Brominated Flame Retardants and Polychlorinated Biphenyls", Environmental Science and Technology 44, 4198–4202 (2010). S. Harrad, C. A. de Wit, M. A-E. Abdallah, C. Bergh, J. A. Björklund, A. Covaci, P. O. Darnerud, J. de Boer, M. Diamond, S. Huber, P. Leonards, M. Mandalakis, C. Östman, L. Småstuen Haug, C. Thomsen, T. F. Webster "Indoor Contamination with Hexabromocyclododecanes, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Perfluoroalkyl Compounds: An Important Exposure Pathway for People?", Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 3221–3231 (2010). M. A.-E. Abdallah, S. Harrad Modification and calibration of a passive air sampler for monitoring vapor and particulate phase brominated flame retardants in indoor air: application to car interiors. Environmental Science and Technology 44, 3059–3065 (2010). H-J. Lehmler, S. J. Harrad, H. Hühnerfuss, I. Kania-Korwel, C. M. Lee, Z. Lu, C. S. Wong "Chiral Polychlorinated Biphenyl Transport, Metabolism and Distribution – A Review", Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2757–2766 (2010). S. Harrad, M. A. Abdallah, N. L. Rose, S. D. Turner, T. A. Davidson "Current-Use Brominated Flame Retardants in Water, Sediment, and Fish from English Lakes", Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 9077–9083 (2009) M. A. Abdallah, S. Harrad, A. Covaci "Isotope Dilution Method for Determination of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers using Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Negative Ionization Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Validation and Application to House Dust", Analytical Chemistry, 81, 7460–7467 (2009) L. Roosens, M. Abdallah, S. Harrad, H. Neels, A. Covaci "Exposure to Hexabromocyclododecanes via Dust Ingestion, but not Diet, Correlates with Concentrations in Human Serum", Environmental Health Perspectives, 117, 1707-1712 (2009) T. F. Webster, S. Harrad, J. R. Millette, R. D. Holbrook, J. M. Davis, H. M. Stapleton, J. G. Allen, M. D. McClean, C. Ibarra, M. A. Abdallah, A. Covaci "Identifying transfer mechanisms and sources of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) in indoor environments using environmental forensic microscopy", Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 3067-3072 (2009). This paper is subject of a news story (see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es900669w)View all publications in research portal Expertise People's exposure to persistent toxic organic chemicals e.g. via inhalation and ingestion of dust and food; measuring levels of these chemicals; sources of persistent toxic chemicals, particularly in indoor environments Expertise Exposure to persistent toxic organic chemicals, inhalation and ingestion of dust and food; measuring levels of these chemicals; sources of persistent toxic chemicals, particularly in indoor environments


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In Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It (Crossway), Greg Forster, program director at the Kern Family Foundation, helps American Christians understand the church's complex relationship to the surrounding culture. Beginning with the premise that the Christian life is grounded in divine joy, he argues that our approach to cultural engagement should flow out of that same joy.
This book is the first offering in Crossway's Cultural Renewal series. It is split into three parts, each derived from the classic Isaac Watts hymn "Joy to the World" that inspired the title. The first section, "Let Men Their Songs Employ," looks at the unique challenges facing the American church as it attempts to bring the gospel to bear in all areas of life.
Part two, "Let Earth Receive Her King," relates the dynamics of the spiritual life to Christ's three offices of prophet, priest, and king. This section offers a helpful, balanced account of the spiritual formation necessary for engaging the culture of a particular community.
Finally, in part three, "He Comes to Make His Blessings Flow," Forster turns to three particular topics—sex and family, work and the economy, and citizenship and community—and puts forth a Christian response to each.
Though all three sections are valuable in their own way, I suspect Forster's opening reflections on the fraught relationship between Christian faith and American identity will make the greatest impact. Here, he manages to distill fairly academic social critiques into an accessible package.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. - St. Norbert College closed its regular season with a deflating 31-3 loss at Lake Forest College at Farwell Field, but its season will continue for at least another week thanks to some help.
The Green Knights (8-2, 8-1 MWC) lost control of their own destiny in regard to the Midwest Conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division III Playoffs, but thanks to Illinois College's 23-21 loss to Carroll University, St. Norbert will be making its 11th appearance in the national tournament.
The 32-team field for the NCAA Playoffs will be announced at 5 p.m. CST Sunday at NCAA.com.
St. Norbert took an early 3-0 lead when it marched 51 yards on 13 plays on its second possession. After having a first-and-goal at the Lake Forest 4-yard line, the Green Knights settled for a 23-yard Randy Hill field goal.
Three plays later, Lake Forest connected on a 78-yard touchdown pass from Mike Lewis to George Vidas for a 7-3 lead.
The Green Knights fell behind 14-3 with 6:19 left in the second quarter when Pat Clark intercepted a James Tringali pass and returned it 27 yards for a touchdown. Lake Forest then took command of the game when it scored with 11 seconds remaining before halftime. The Foresters fumbled on their last two plays of a 79-yard scoring drive, but recovered both - with Mike Peters recovering his own fumble in the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown reception.
Lake Forest (8-2, 7-2) salted the game away with a 32-yard field goal by Jon Gurchak in the third quarter and a 10-yard touchdown from Lewis to Greg Alonso in the fourth quarter.
St. Norbert managed just 181 yards of total offense for the game, with 75 coming on its last possession. Brad Boockmeier had 47 yards rushing on 13 carries and caught five passes for 24 yards. Tringali finished 13-for-34 with 113 yards with one interception, and was sacked five times.
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A soon to be mother finds organizing a baby shower is a very exciting event in her life. At a shower, friends and family come together to celebrate a new baby, a welcome addition to their group that will soon be joining them. However, while this is an exciting time it can also be a bit stressful trying to pick out the perfect theme for the party. A themed baby shower does not only serve to be cute, but can also aid guests when they are trying to decide on the perfect gift for the baby.
There is an array of baby shower themes available, especially baby shower themes for boys. Gone are the days of a simple blue theme for boys, baby shower themes are becoming much more imaginative and fun.
One of the most popular baby shower themes for boys is the jungle theme. This is not only a popular theme but also one that is easy to put together. Jungle invitations, plates, and tablecloths are widely available in most party stores. Stuffed animals such as monkeys, elephants, lions, and giraffes can be used to decorate the room. An added bonus is once the party is finished the stuffed animals can be given to the baby when it is born. Foliage can be picked up at craft stores for relatively inexpensive prices. Food that is served at the party can also correspond to the jungle theme with items such as monkey bread, cookies baked in the shape of animals, Make a vanilla and chocolate swirl cake and call it zebra surprise. Of course, a tropical fruit salad is necessary at any jungle theme baby shower.
A pirate theme is another great idea for a shower. A pirate theme definitely calls for lots of gold covered chocolate coins scattered around the tables. Once again, faux jewels can found at craft stores and placed into a treasure chest. Jugs made to look like they hold rum or whiskey can be used to hold ice tea or lemonade instead. Do rags and eye patches can be made available to guests if they wish to dress up and really embrace the theme. A scavenger hunt can be set up with clues hidden around the room with either a gift certificate or a pirate DVD such as Pirates of the Caribbean.
A baby shower theme gaining popularity is the rock star theme. This is a perfect theme for mothers who will be having guests that are in the 20-30 age range or mothers who are serious music fans. Games for a rock star shower could not be simpler to organize. A karaoke or Guitar Hero competition would be both entertaining and fun for guests. Guests could also be asked to come to the party dressed as their favorite rock star, with a prize going to the best dressed. The shower invitations could be made to look like backstage passes at a concert and favors could include temporary tattoos.
When choosing baby shower themes for boys it is important that they not only suit the mother, but the guests who are invited as well. If guests feel comfortable with the theme then it is more likely that they will loosen up and have fun. It is also important to choose a theme that will allow your guests to translate it easily into a gift for your baby.


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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Huck stands out among Mark Twain's boy characters, he is the central figure of these episodes, which bring out his shrewdness, his humor, and his struggling conscience.
It is a story faithful in the rendering of Southern dialects, and a good example of Twain's best work.
This edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.
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About the Author
Mark Twain was born in Florida in 1835 and died in 1910. His real name was Samuel Clemens and for some time he was a pilot on a Mississippi river boat. He became a journalist and writer, and his stories about the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are famous all round the world.
Date of Birth:November 30, 1835
Date of Death:April 21, 1910
Place of Birth:Florida, Missouri
Place of Death:Redding, Connecticut
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain
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Chapter One
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly-Tom's Aunt Polly, she is-and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece-all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round-more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them-that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.
Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry"; and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry-set up straight"; and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry-why don't you try to behave?" Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.
Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.
Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome. By and by they fetched the niggers in and had prayers, and then everybody was off to bed. I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lone-some I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. I got so downhearted and scared I did wish I had some company. Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.
I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the widow wouldn't know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom-boom-boom-twelve licks; and all still again-stiller than ever. Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees-something was a-stirring. I set still and listened. Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! me-yow!" down there. That was good! Says I, "me-yow! me-yow!" as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.
We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back toward the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says:
"Who dah?"
He listened some more; then he came tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could 'a' touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch. Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy-if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upward of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says:
"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it ag'in."
So he set down on the ground betwixt me and Tom. He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine. My nose begun to itch. It itched till the tears come into my eyes. But I dasn't scratch. Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next I got to itching underneath. I didn't know how I was going to set still. This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that. I was itching in eleven different places now. I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore-and then I was pretty soon comfortable again.
Tom he made a sign to me-kind of a little noise with his mouth-and we went creeping away on our hands and knees. When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun. But I said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come. But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. Then we got out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Jim was, on his hands and knees, and play something on him. I waited, and it seemed a good while, everything was so still and lonesome.
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't wake. Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the state, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it. And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils. Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers. Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country. Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder. Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, "Hm! What you know 'bout witches?" and that nigger was corked up and had to take a back seat. Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying something to it; but he never told what it was he said to it. Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center piece; but they wouldn't touch it, because the devil had had his hands on it. Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.
Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand. We went down the hill and found Joe Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard. So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
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Table of Contents
I. Contexts Victor Doyno, The Composition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn George E. Bates, Jr. et al., "Barges" from Historic Life Styles in the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland, From Sunup to Sundown: The Life of the Slave Rev. William Henry Milburn, from Pioneers, Preachers, and People of the Mississippi Valley Lawrence W. Levine, William Shakespeare and the American People Steven Mailloux, "The Bad-Boy Boom" from Rhetorical Power Shelley Fisher Fishkin, from Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices Victor Fischer, Huck Finn Reviewed: The Reception of Huckleberry Finn in the United States, 1885-1897 II. The Text Adventures of Huckleberry Finn III. Readings Henry Nash Smith, Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Alan Trachtenberg, The Form of Freedom in Huckleberry Finn David L. Smith, Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse Norman Mailer, Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100 Toni Morrison, Re-Marking Twain Chronology Works Cited For Further Reading
What People are Saying About This
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
...We come to see Huck... as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction; not unworthy to tak e a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet, and other great discoveries that man has made about himself.
One can read it at ten and then annually ever after, and each year find that it is as fresh as the year before...
Reading Group Guide
1. Critics have long disagreed about exactly what role Jim plays in Huckleberry Finn. Some have claimed, for example, that his purpose is solely to provide Huck with the opportunity for moral growth, while others have argued that he is a surrogate father figure to Huck. What do you think is Jim's role in the novel?
2. The ending of Huckleberry Finn has been the source of endless critical controveryse. Though no less than T. S. Eliot and Lionel Trilling defended the ending on the grounds that it is structurally coherent ("It is right, " Eliot stated, "that the mood of the book should bring us back to the beginning"), many critics feel that the return of Tom Sawyer and his elaborate scheme for Jim's escape reduces what had been a serious quest for freedom to a silly farce. Bernard de Voto wrote, "In the whole reach of the English novel there is no more aburpt or more abrupt or chilling descent." How does the ending strike you?
3. The Mississippi can be considered a character in its own right in Huckleberry Finn. Discuss the role of the river in the novel.
4. How do humor and satire function in the book?
5. Critic William Manierre argued in a 1964-65 essay that "Huck's 'moral growth' has... been vastly overestimated, " noting for example, that when his conscience begins to give him trouble, he decides he will "do whichever came handiest at the time, " and that while Huck can be seen to achieve a kind of moral grandeur when he tears up the note he's written to Miss Watson, that achievement is underminded by his easy acceptance of Tom Sawyer's scheme in the last ten chapters. Do you agree ordisagree?
6. In "The Greatness of Huckleberry Finn, " Lionel Trilling stated that the style of the book is "not less than definitive in American literature, " and Louis Budd has noted that "today it is standard academic wisdom that Twain's precedent-setting achievement is Huck's language." Discuss the effect of Twain's use of colloquial speech and dialect in the novel.
1. Critics have long disagreed about exactly what role Jim plays in Huckleberry Finn. Some have claimed, for example, that his purpose is solely to provide Huck with the opportunity for moral growth, while others have argued that he is a surrogate father figure to Huck. What do you think is Jim's role in the novel?
2. The ending of Huckleberry Finn has been the source of endless critical controveryse. Though no less than T.S. Eliot and Lionel Trilling defended the ending on the grounds that it is structurally coherent ("It is right," Eliot stated, "that the mood of the book should bring us back to the beginning"), many critics feel that the return of Tom Sawyer and his elaborate scheme for Jim's escape reduces what had been a serious quest for freedom to a silly farce. Bernard de Voto wrote, "In the whole reach of the English novel there is no more aburpt or more abrupt or chilling descent." How does the ending strike you?
3. The Mississippi can be considered a character in its own right in Huckleberry Finn. Discuss the role of the river in the novel.
4. How do humor and satire function in the book?
5. Critic William Manierre argued in a 1964-65 essay that "Huck's 'moral growth' has...been vastly overestimated," noting for example, that when his conscience begins to give him trouble, he decides he will "do whichever came handiest at the time," and that while Huck can be seen to achieve a kind of moral grandeur when he tears up the note he's written to Miss Watson, that achievement is underminded by his easy acceptance of Tom Sawyer's scheme in the last ten chapters. Do you agree ordisagree?
6. In "The Greatness of Huckleberry Finn," Lionel Trilling stated that the style of the book is "not less than definitive in American literature," and Louis Budd has noted that "today it is standard academic wisdom that Twain's precedent-setting achievement is Huck's language." Discuss the effect of Twain's use of colloquial speech and dialect in the novel.
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This classic of American literature is perhaps the most misunderstood and maligned book since the Bible. Nobody who has ever actually read the book could ever call it racist. True, it is filled with the 'N' word that decent people find offensive, but it was necessary in the context. This wonderful book is just as powerfully anti-slavery as 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriett Beecher Stowe, but while her book is still praised, Mark Twain's book is being banned from high school libraries. I first read this book at age 12, and have re-read it at least every two years ever since. I'm in my 40's now, but Huck and Jim take me right back to 12 every time I see them again.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain, is a book about Huckleberry Finn, the namesake of the book. Continuing the events of the last book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Huck is living with widow Douglas, who has adopted him. Huck gets bored of the widow trying to civilize him, he runs out and his abusive father finds him. His father takes him in, and Huck tries to get out. He finds an old saw and cuts his way out of the house and fakes his own death. He catches a canoe and hides out on Jackson's island, Huck finds the widow's slave, Jim, who is also hiding out. Tom and Jim build a raft, and escape down the river.
During their trip, Huck and Jim meet a few colorful characters, including two feuding families, and two cons who claim to be a king and a duke. Huck may not seem so, but he is very clever, and able to see through the king and dukes' antics, which makes him sick to his stomach. Huck is always trying to do good, and sometimes has a conflict with himself in deciding exactly what is good. One night, he even thinks about turning Jim in, because he feels bad for helping the widow's slave escape. He tells two white men in a canoe to check the raft, claiming his sick uncle to be on it. He ends up convincing them that his uncle has smallpox, so they give him 40 dollars and leave him alone.
I think that this book is great. One of the best I've ever read. This book's plot may be a little over-used, a boy helping a slave escape from his master, but you never really know what's going to happen. Mark Twain is one of the best authors from whom I've ever read. This book easily makes me want to read some other books of his. There are twists, turns, and, like a punch to the face in a dark room, you never see them coming. If your okay with a few politically incorrect words (The book was written in the 1800s, when slavery was legal) and you love adventure, I definitley recommend this book to you.
Even though I'm sure a lot of people hear this is a classic and think it's just some old book, I have to say I love The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The characters are incredible. The dialogue is often hilarious and tragic. It's just an all-around incredible novel.
I like this book very much. It does get a little boring in the middle, but the ending is my favorite! It's worth reading.
BORING. With occasional excitment. Hard to understand at times because of the old english language the characters use, but overall well written. I just wish it could have been a little more of a page turner. I prefer Tom Sawyer over Huck Finn.
The audiobook assisted with the understanding of the dialects of the characters, similar to a play but with the images in your mind.
This classic story is a marvelous example of Mark Twain's writing skills and of his prominence as a writer. This story is hilarious and heartwarming, and is sure to enchant anyone who reads it!
I loved reading this book from front to back it is on of the greaatest books ive ever read ndd ull love it too
The book is awesome but the free version has too many flaws and is not enjoyable to read. Pay the 99 cents and get to reading the actual literature. Google did a poor job on transcription!
Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huck Finn through adulthood. Beginning with a few pages he had removed from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography. Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. He appeared to have lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. After making a trip down the Mississippi, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Unlike The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn does not have the definite article "the" as a part of its proper title. Essayist and critic Spencer Neve states that this absence represents the "never fulfilled anticipations" of Huck's adventures-while Tom's adventures were completed (at least at the time) by the end of his novel, Huck's narrative ends with his stated intention to head West
Why can't the flaw be fixed? Why couldn't this be properly transcribed? How about other public domain books. Almost makes me want to return my Nook Tablet.
Huckleberry Finn is a WONDERFUL book!! It is very FUNNY!!! It sould be rated 5 out of 5 stars!!! I had the adapted version read to me .The comprehensive edition I read to myself.The story is about freedom and friendship. Mark Twain did an outstanding job of talking the way people did back then. Anyone will enjoy it. FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is great so far
I love the story but when they talk it is kinda hard to umderstand because they talk with a southern acent. If you can get past that it is a good book for 10-12 yo.
Although Huck Finn is a classic book and loved by many, I found it hard to read. It was written in many different Southern dialects, and it had sentences like, "How you gwyne git'm? You can't slip up on um en grab um; en how's a body gwyne to hit um wid a rock?" Reading conversation after conversation like this gets old fast. Overall, it was a great story, and the major theme of "looking for freedom" was pretty cool. If it was easier to read, I would have LOVED this book, and I would recommend it to anyone who can stomach weird dialects and old fashioned writing.
As you can see its title, the story is about adventures.But I think it is beyond adventures. After I read the second chapter, I couldn't understand the people who joined 'Tom Sawyer's Gang. The rule of the band doesn't make sense to me.The rule is saying that everyone wants to join the band has to write his name in blood and kill the families of the boys who told the secrets of them. I think Huckleberry Finn and I are really different people in characteristics.I don't like adventures but there would be no Huckleberry Finn without adventures. I don't like the character but it was good experience that made me to think about the people that are totally different from me.
Overall, I found this book to be great. Twain's characters were lively and energetic. His use of the southern dialect in Huck's narrative and in the dialog between characters added a certain depth to the novel. It made the characters seem more realistic because the story was set in Missouri along the Mississippi River, and for them to have been speaking proper English would have been hard to swallow. Twain's characters were interestingly crafted as well. Huck and Jim were both amusingly superstitious, the King and the Duke were brilliant and stupid at the same time, and the contrast between the Widow Douglas and her sister on their views on Christianity was very striking indeed. The only negative thing that I found in the book was the use of derogatory names for the slaves. Of course, these names are expected to appear in the novel due to its setting in time. Other than that, the book was great. It was full of adventure, cultural color, and vivid imagery. I'd recommend it to anyone.
The book was a very southern style book.I have to say Iactually did like the book pretty good.It was a very adventourous book with Huck and Jim headed north up the Mississippi River. The story gave a pretty great picture of the way the south is and that might be my favorite part about the book. It also reminded me of the kinds of books my elementary school teachers would read to my class.It is aanother good adventure book that needs to read.
I think this was an ok book. I wished it had more action in it. Huck Finn to me is a little boy that is interested in what the world has to offer and he finds out when he goes through the adventures he encounters. I would recommed this book because it makes you think alot about salvery and what it must've been like for Jim and put yourself in Jim shoes, its just something to think about.
Mark Twain has created a world of adventure and curiosity. For Huckleberry Finn his new life of wealth and civilization is more than he can stand. All he can do is wait for an adventure that will free him of his boredom. When his Pap comes back to town, Huck must go and live with him. Pap is an abusive alcoholic. Huckleberry can't wait to get away. After feigning his own death, Huck takes off down the Mississippi in a canoe. He runs across Jim, Miss Watson's runaway slave. Together they sail down the river on a raft, encountering many different people. The scheming Duke and King, the violent Grangerfords who are feuding with the Sheperdsons, and even Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally gets pulled into Huck's journey. Huck's good luck and sharp wit saves the two friends from peril on more than one occasion. Mark Twain has done a wonderful job of showing life on the Mississippi River. The language used is what one would expect to hear people from 19th century Missouri using. Twain's atmosphere absorbs the reader into Huck's world of mischief and mayhem.
¿THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN¿ The book of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the Mississippi River. Huck is a boy that likes to be traveling around the world; he doesn¿t like to stay in one single place. He started to get out of the town because he had a father (Pap). He threated him so badly that he was living with two ladies the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. They tryed to civilized him, but he didn't like that way of living that he ran away from them that was when he started his adventures. We witness the critique, presentation, themes, realistic, entertaining of Huckleberry Finn book. This all started when Huck ran away from his house, and he found a slave named Jim he was Miss Watson¿s slave. He didn¿t like to be a slave, so he ran away too. He was going to look for his family. They got into many adventures together. With these I learned that there are people who don¿t like slavery in the year that this story happened. The true thing about slavery and friendship is that when you don¿t have a true friend, but when we find one, we try to be trustful with it. It showed a good way to know about the adventures of one or more persons. It showed also good numbers of settings. Well all of these things look and tell what we can live today in these days when you run away from home to get some joy in the world with adventures. This book was really good because it had good setting . They show us the importance of friendship. In this movie, we saw child abuse and alcoholics and other things. When the main character showed what was his ideas, it got my whole attention because he was so smart to do all of those things to help Jim, his true friend. This book didn¿t affect my thinkings because it helped me to appreciate all of my friends for what they are and what they have inside, not what they can do for me or what is my convenience with them. It tells me many things about friendship of how important it is for all of us, and when to know if a person is your friend or not.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is absolutely a tremendous classic novel. The book is good and lively, all the way through. Not the least of its qualities is the fidelity with which it paints the characters and the scenes with which the story deals. Twain paints living pictures, and he makes his young rebel hero a character that the reader is bound to like, in spite of himself. The story begins as Huck Finn, a 14 year old houligan, growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River, runs away from his abusive, alcoholic father. The story progresses quite a bit from there. Huck meets up with Jim, a free slave, who also wants to get away from everything. The two venture down the Mississippi and get into all sorts of crazy predicaments. They then meet up with Tom Sawyer. His presence only adds to the duo¿s hi-jinx. The story then takes a surprising turn and ends with a - Bang. So if you can't wait any longer to find out what happens, pick up a copy now!
In the book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain, a boy and a runaway slave try to get away from life by evacuating their own town and making their way down along the Mississippi River. Huck Finn who is 14 years old is a boy whose dad is an abusive alcoholic arranges his fake death to get away. Huck is a trouble seeking young boy, but he does mean good. Huck is also the narrator in this novel. He meets up with Jim a little ways down the river. Jim a very soft hearted caring slave. They meet two men who a con artists who pretend to be the King and the Duke. They cause Huck and Jim a ton of trouble. Then they meet up with Tom Sawyer, Tom is adventure seeker and will go out of his way for a little fun. As Huck and Jim make their way down the River Huck accepts Jim as a friend not as a slave. Their struggle is trying to make their way down the Mississippi through all the mishaps that happen along the way. Huck was very confused about whether he should turn Jim in or not. For readers who like suspense and adventure I recommend The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just an awesome book. When assigned this book to read, one browses through to see how long it is. In this case, it was 42 chapters long. At first I was a little uneasy but once I got into it I couldn't get out. This book was full of adventures and eye opening moments. Reading this book, makes one wish they went out into the Mississippi and lived their life one day at a time. Whatever comes and happens just comes and happens.That's why I like it, it tells one that it is ok to be and feel free every once in awhile. A great piece of work, it has been for years and will continue to be.
It's the best book I've ever read, it caught my attention since the first time I read it. I'm a black boy and this story means a lot to me because I could see how my people were treated and I also saw that there were some white people that helped us to become free, i liked this story a lot, it was so good.


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Susan L. Lindquist, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2009 Ralph & Helen Oesper Award for her pioneering work on protein folding.
The Oesper Award, co-sponsored by the Cincinnati section of the American Chemical Society and the University of Cincinnati's department of chemistry, is given annually to a senior, well-established chemist or biochemist with a long record of outstanding scientific achievement. Lindquist received her award during a symposium at the University of Cincinnati in October.
Lindquist, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, uses biochemistry and genetics to investigate the mechanisms of protein folding and the consequences of misfolding. Her work has shown how changes in protein conformation affect processes such as stress tolerance, neurodegenerative disease and heredity. Her group has pioneered the use of yeast as a discovery platform for new chemical and genetic therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
Luke O'Neill, a Journal of Biological Chemistry associate editor and professor in the school of biochemistry and immunology at Trinity College Dublin, has won the 2009 Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence. He was given the award for "his pioneering work on the molecular basis of our innate immune system and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis," according to The Irish Times.
The Irish Times also stated that the seven people on the international judging panel invited to Dublin to adjudicate the 2009 award were unanimously in agreement that the prize should go to O'Neill. He and three other world-class scientists were shortlisted for the Boyle Medal award last May.
The medal, considered Ireland's premier award for excellence in scientific research, is presented to scientists who have made contributions of global importance to their chosen research fields. O'Neill is the 37th recipient since its inception 110 years ago.
The main focus of O'Neill's work is to provide a molecular understanding of innate immunity and inflammation. He is particularly interested in receptors involved in innate immunity, such as Toll-like receptors and Nod-like receptors, and the signals they activate, including NF-kB, IRF family transcription factors and MAP kinases.
O'Neill also co-founded Opsona Therapeutics, a drug development company.
James Shorter, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is the recipient of a 2009 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging. Awardees are nominated by U.S. medical institutions and universities for outstanding promise in aging research. The award provides up to $100,000 per year for a four-year period to a maximum of 25 scholars.
Shorter studies how yeast can be used to look at lethal nerve-degeneration disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which are associated with protein aggregation. His major focus is Hsp104, a protein-remodeling factor that disaggregates denatured proteins and returns them to normal function. Shorter is attempting to understand the mechanistic basis of how the Hsp104 structure enables these disaggregation activities and other prion-regulatory functions. He also is trying to identify proteins with similar functions to Hsp104 and is looking at how small molecules disrupt amyloid structure.
Former American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology President Susan S. Taylor has been awarded the 2009 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science. The award honors women who have "made significant advances in the biological and biomedical sciences and have contributed positively to the mentorship of other women in science." The prize carries a purse of $25,000 and a scholarship in the name of the honoree for a woman entering graduate studies at Vanderbilt University.
Taylor is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Her work focuses on cyclic adenosine monophosphate-dependent protein kinase, or protein kinase A. In 1991, Taylor and colleagues at UCSD solved the three-dimensional crystal structure of the first protein kinase – protein kinase A. The structure continues to serve as a prototype for the entire protein kinase family. In parallel, Taylor solved structures of the protein's regulatory subunits.
Taylor, who was ASBMB president in 1995, also recently received the 2010 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Excellence in Science Award.
ASBMB members G. Marius Clore of the National Institutes of Health, Shelagh Ferguson-Miller of Michigan State University and Andrew Joshua Wand of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have been named to the 2009 class of Biophysical Society fellows. The award, given to six scientists this year, is designed to recognize distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and have contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics. The fellows will be honored at a ceremony during the Biophysical Society's annual meeting in February.
According to the Biophysical Society, Clore, who works in the laboratory of chemical physics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, was selected for "pioneering contributions in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for structural characterization of biological macromolecules."
Ferguson-Miller, chairwoman and distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in East Lansing, Mich., was chosen for "contributions to understanding the structure and function of integral membrane proteins involved in respiratory electron transport, as well as detergent-based methodologies for isolation, purification and crystallization of membrane proteins."
And Wand, the Benjamin Rush professor of biochemistry and biophysics in Philadelphia, was honored "for his numerous advances in the understanding of protein structure, function and dynamics through the application of state-of-the art magnetic resonance methodologies."
In September, President Obama named nine eminent researchers, including ASBMB members JoAnne Stubbe and Elaine Fuchs, as recipients of the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists, engineers and inventors. The recipients received their awards in a White House ceremony last month.
Stubbe, the Novartis professor of chemistry and a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was honored "for her groundbreaking experiments establishing the mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductases, polyester synthases and natural product DNA cleavers — compelling demonstrations of the power of chemical investigations to solve problems in biology," according to the National Science Foundation.
Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield professor and head of the laboratory of mammalian cell biology and development at Rockefeller University, was honored "for her pioneering use of cell biology and molecular genetics in mice to understand the basis of inherited diseases in humans and her outstanding contributions to our understanding of the biology of skin and its disorders, including her notable investigations of adult skin stem cells, cancers and genetic syndromes."
The National Medal of Science was created in 1959 and is administered by the NSF. Awarded annually, the medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. Nominees are selected, by a committee of presidential appointees, based on their advanced knowledge in, and contributions to, the biological, behavioral/social and physical sciences, as well as chemistry, engineering, computing and mathematics.
Zofia Borowska-Rzucidlo, professor emeritus at Rockefeller University and discoverer of edeine, died in June in San Francisco.
Borowska-Rzucidlo was born in Lublin, Poland, on May 13, 1927. She received her master's degree in chemistry in 1950 and her doctoral degree in biochemistry in 1958, both from the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. She then became an assistant professor at the Institute of Marine and Tropical Medicine in Gdańsk. In 1961, Borowska-Rzucidlo was awarded a research fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and emigrated to the U.S., where she became a guest investigator at the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University. A year later, she became a research associate at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. In 1962, Borowska-Rzucidlo moved again, this time joining the faculty of Rockefeller University, where she remained for the rest of her career, eventually becoming a senior research associate.
Borowska-Rzucidlo's early research in Poland focused on basic peptide antibiotics. After coming to the United States, she continued to work on edeine and amino acids but also expanded the scope of her research to hepatitis C, other viruses as well as the photochemical origins of life. After retiring, Borowska-Rzucidlo spent her time drawing and writing poems in Polish and English under the pen name Sota Kurylo. She eventually published three volumes of poems: "Wyspa Wspomnień" ("The Island of Memories") in 1997, "The Play of Time" in 2001 and "Jeszcze siç wznoszç" ("I Am Still Ascending") in 2004. She also published numerous poems in journals and anthologies.
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All classes and specs in game have always had a stat they had to stack to achieve their maximum dps. For most classes it now is their primary stat above all, being hit-capped and then usually there is one rating sticking out above the others. For retribution paladins it's strength and then mastery, for enhancement shamans it's agility and then mastery and the same holds true for many other classes. But what about tanks? Do they have a priority like that as well?
I'd actually say we do, but with a few annotations. Whereas our primary stat, stamina, is really solid, we don't "have" to reach specific caps. Stamina is, just like for a dps classes our main stat. That is, until we reach a critical point where healers have enough time to keep us alive. After that, things become interesting. When you don't need more life to stay alive, you focus on taking less damage. But how to do this. One way to do this is making sure you avoid hits completely, which can be achieved by both dodging and parrying. The other way for both shield wearing classes is to get more mastery, which only reduce the damage taken by a set amount when they block.
Now you might be thinking that taking no damage is better than taking less damage. Whereas I normally would agree, this isn't the case with taking. The thing with mastery is that it reduces the damage you take more often than the amount of times you completely avoid an attack. For protection warriors, their mastery increases the chance for them to block 30% of an incoming melee attack and gives them a chance to critical block for double of that. With paladins, their mastery does also provide block, but whereas they can't critical block, they gain it at a much faster rate.
The goal for tanks in the current content, and has been in previous content as well, is to take as little damage as possible AND make the damage you do take predictable. Being predictable makes it easier for your healers to keep you alive, and saves their mana, because you make sure there is less chance of a couple of big hits in a row.
So, as stated before, our goal is a predictable damage income and the best way to do that is to make sure all damage you take is the same. We do this by gearing to be "unhittable". Unhittable is basically making sure there is never a full hit going through: everything is either parried, dodge, blocked or missed. By doing this you never take the big hits, but multiple smaller ones. And this is where mastery comes in play. While dodge and parry are affected by diminishing returns, mastery is not and it quickly allows us to get to that unhittable cap. And then, when you are at that unhittable cap, you basically reduce every melee swing with 30%. How awesome is that? Wouldn't you just love to have the certainty that you always take 30% less damage than what the boss was planning to hit you for?


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New research into joint health compounds has finally paid off. On November 15th, Dr. David Katz presented results from a new Clinical study on CBS's "The Doctors". The Clinical study at the North Carolina Research campus shows that one joint compound in particular can deliver significant, effective joint relief.
In the double-blind University clinical study, Instaflex, a specialty joint supplement resoundingly beat the control group. Researchers at the North Carolina Research Campus concluded that Instaflex can deliver significant joint relief.
The study also concluded that Instaflex is safe to use, with no adverse symptomology or negative effects on general metabolism. And Instaflex caused significant reductions in general discomfort (especially when walking or sleeping) and difficulties performing daily activities (in particular, while doing heavy household chores.)
The proprietary Instaflex compound includes proven joint ingredients such as Glucosamine, but it's the fast-acting White Willow Bark Extract, Turmeric, Hyaluronic Acid, and Boswellia Serrata Extract that provide the biggest kick.
The single once-daily dosage helps:
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Investor Demand for Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosures
Implications for Professional Accountants in Business
This report from the Professional Accountants in Business Committee considers trends in investor demand for and use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information, and recommends how professional accountants can better support their organizations in responding to these demands, and ultimately improve the management and reporting of ESG performance.
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I'm not sure if you've yet noticed, but I've been very into making browser games recently. I think the web is an exciting platform with a lot of cool things you can do. From Binaural Audio to doing things with sensors like Gyroscope and Accelerometer and other cool things, as well as the fact that they run virtually everywhere a modern web browser does, the web has it all and I thought it was time we started experimenting with this.
I already wrote a couple of games using these web technologies, the most known is probably Cyclepath. It uses sensors to help with turning on mobile, snappy Keyboard Input, as well as binaural Audio with environmental effects, basically everything an audio game would need.
I wanted to give to the community, so I've spent the last few days decoupling all these snippets of code and making them completely reusable by anyone. Furthermore, they're all on GitHub, so anyone with the knowledge of JavaScript can help me improve them and end up in the published module on NPM. I'd be very happy.
For those of you that already know how to develop using modern ES6 JavaScript and don't want to read about how to set up a testing and development environment because you already know how, all these modules are on GitHub and NPM.
My GitHub profile: https://www.github.com/ghorthalon/
My NPM profile: https://www.npmjs.com/~ghorthalon
The libraries you will find there:
AGK-Input: Helps with Keyboard Input, and let's you use the Keyboard somewhat like you were used to from BGT in the browser.
AGK-SoundObject: An easy way to load, preload and play sounds.
AGK-SoundSource: Quick wrapper around AGK-SoundObject, which is a wrapper itself so this is a total WrapperCeption, to quickly create 3D sound sources.
AGK-TTS: Quick way to speak in the browser
AGK-UI: Build simple user interfaces like Menu's and scrolling text
AGK-Utils: Random stuff like distance, collision, random numbers, stuff that hasn't yet made it into it's own module but will at some point.
Examples and usage is on the respective GitHub or NPM pages.
If you don't know how to set any of this up then don't worry. I'll work on sharing my development template or boilerplate code including all my scripts to build and test games and quickly get to production. This is going to take me some time though, so please be patient with me.
I'll also be working on an example game that utilizes all of these libraries and is easy to understand.
But a quick introduction
I use the parcel bundlers to bundle my code. This is more or less necessary to make use of modern ES6 modules properly. If you want to quickly set up an environment:
Install Node.JS. You can get Node.JS from www.nodejs.org.
Create a directory for your game.
Open a terminal and enter your game directory.
Type npm init
Fill out the fields to your liking.
Once it has written the package.json file, install the modules.
The ones you'll need globally are:
npm install parcel-bundler -g
npm install http-server -g
The -g tells it to install these modules globally. That means they'll run everywhere in your terminal as well as be globally available in your JavaScripts.
Time to install the modules for the game.
Make sure you're still in the directory of your game. For now, we're going to only write a quick script that uses AGK-SoundObject to play a sound. Then:
npm install agk-soundsource --save
The --save tells NPM to update the dependencies in your package.json. This is useful for when you share your code. If a package.json is present in the current directory, simply typing npm install will install all the dependencies present in your package.json file.
OK, we have the module. I usually set up a client directory for all my HTML, sounds and javaScript.
mkdir client
Cool. Go into that directory and create an index.html, a js folder and a sounds folder.
Drop any wave file you want in that sounds folder. It doesn't need to be just wave files, you'll have to look at your browser and what codecs it supports.
Sweet. In the js folder, create a file called main.js.
Populate the file with this contents:
import SoundObject from "agk-soundobject";
SoundObject.directory = "./sounds/";
SoundObject.extension = ".wav";
const sound = SoundObject.create("meow");
This will load the meow.wav from the sounds folder in your client folder and play it.
Right. Next open index.html outside of the JS folder and populate it with this:
<title>My game yay!</title>
<script src="./main.js"></script>
The main.js file will be created by parcel in the next step in the client folder, not inside the js folder. The JS folder contains your written code, the main.js file outside of the JS folder will be the compiled JavaScript.
Open a terminal and make sure you're inside the client directory of your game.
Then run this:
parcel watch ./js/main.js -d ./ --target=browser
Next, open a new terminal and get back into your game directory. Then simply run:
http-server ./client
This will open an HTTP-Server to your client folder.
Now you can open your browser and go to http://localhost:8080 and if everything goes as planned you should hear meow.wav!
If you didn't understand any of this, then that means you've not messed much with modern JavaScript. That's OK. There are so many resources to learn javaScript development out there it's unreal. Just go wild and don't be afraid to mess around.
If this seems counter productive and like a lot of work, yeah you'd be right. It used to be much more convoluted when we didn't have Parcel and had to configure webpack by hand to build the files, luckily parcel exists now and that step falls away.
That said, I'll soon upload my development template, so you will just be able to clone it with git, npm install and start coding right away.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
I hope I didn't miss anything and I hope this is of use to someone. Have fun! <3


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New Moraga School District board member sought
The district is seeking applications to appoint a new governing board member to fill a vacancy left by former board President Dexter Louie who resigned in November.
Applications are available on the Moraga school district website at www.moraga.k12.ca.us and at the district office, 1540 School St. from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. The deadline to apply is noon, Dec. 19.
The board will interview applicants at a public meeting Dec. 20 and hopes to make the appointment that evening. They may call an additional meeting and request a finalist forum. Trustees could also call for an election if the majority of the board fails to vote in favor of an applicant.
Trustees report on litigation; reiterate apology
Moraga School District trustees reiterated this week earlier apologies for the sexual abuse of students by former teachers after giving an update of ongoing litigation between the district and victims.
Newly elected board President Charles MacNulty said at a meeting this week the district is keeping the cases and issue on their governing board meeting agendas to provide an opportunity for the public to comment on the issues. He reported that since the November board meeting, officials have received a new claim alleging sexual abuse by former teacher Dan Witters in the late 1990s. That claim, like three others, maintains that the abuse could have been prevented by the district, MacNulty said.
The president said the claimant's attorney has agreed to join mediation scheduled in late January for three other claims, including one filed by Walnut Creek resident Kristen Cunnane. "We are pleased that these cases will be the subject of a collaborative attempt to find a resolution," MacNulty said.
The board then restated their apology for the abuse Cunnane and the other former students suffered in the 1990s. "This will always be a source of sorrow and regret," MacNulty said.
'A Road to Kindergarten'
The Lafayette School District will hold an informational session on transitional kindergarten for preschool parents Dec. 18, at Springhill Elementary.
The program is titled "A Road to Kindergarten." It begins at 6 p.m. in the multipurpose room, 3301 Springhill Road.
For information, call 925-927-3500.
High school students can 'Direct Change'
Student filmmakers throughout California are invited to "Direct Change" by submitting videos for a statewide contest to prevent suicide and change minds about mental illness.
The contest is part of statewide efforts to prevent suicide, reduce stigma and discrimination related to mental illness, and to promote the mental health and wellness of students.
The initiatives are funded by the Mental Health Services Act (Prop. 63) and administered by the California Mental Health Services Authority, an organization of county governments working to improve mental health outcomes for individuals, families and communities.
Contest requirements:
Students can download an entry form at www.DirectingChange.org before submitting their PSA. For each Intent to Direct form that is submitted, the student's school is entered for a chance to win a suicide prevention program.
Entry deadline is midnight March 1.
For information or questions, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Transitional kindergarten sign-ups
Kindergarten and transitional kindergarten registrations for the 2013-14 school year will be held Jan. 22-23 at elementary schools in Lafayette.
Sign-ups will be offered both days at the following times and locations: 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Burton Valley Elementary, 561 Merriewood Drive; 8:30-11:30 a.m. Happy Valley Elementary, 3855 Happy Valley Road; 9 a.m.-noon Lafayette Elementary, 950 Moraga Road; 9-11 a.m. Springhill Elementary, 3301 Springhill Road.
Registration packets can be obtained from schools beginning Jan. 7, but will not be accepted until Jan. 22, during registration times.
Kindergarten is open to children born on or before Oct. 1, 2008. Transitional kindergarten is an optional program open to children born between Oct. 2, 2008 and Dec. 2, 2008.
For information, visit www.lafsd.k12.ca.us.
DVC looks for hosts for international students
The International Education Center at Diablo Valley is looking for families to host international students on a temporary basis while they improve their English skills (all students already speak basic English).
Long-or short-term placements are available.
Host families are paid a monthly stipend of $825 per student.
Requirements include providing two meals per day (three meals on weekends) and a private bedroom for the student; being involved in the student's life and treating them as a family member.
For information, contact Fia Parker at 925-876-0080, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Send school news to Jennifer Modenessi at email@example.com.
Families sought to host exchange students
Host families are needed for incoming foreign exchange high school students. Students are 15-18 years old, are English-speaking, have their own spending money and carry health insurance.
Families can consist of a single parent, a childless couple or a retired couple.
Host families are eligible to claim a monthly charitable contribution deduction on their itemized tax returns for each month they host a sponsored student.
Families interested in learning more about the program or to arrange for a meeting with a community representative, can call Pacific Intercultural Exchange at 866-546-1402.


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Hello Rose,according to the book,1972,Yellow Rose pattern,you probably figured that one out ,not seen to often here as it was made for export,not rare I'm afraid
Are you sure you aren't confusing it with Mermaid Rose Sue? That has fewer petals and no white background.
One is an example, two is a mistake, three is a collection Rose. You need another bit!
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