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The indie coming-of-age drama is a plague on the indie festival, and Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the cure. In place of the quirky, self-centered protagonist is a lonely, scared individual who finds the courage to greet the world with wonder rather than malaise. In place of contrived conflict designed to occupy a sad and droll life, Perks tackles serious issues that would be difficult for anyone to face, let alone teenagers. Free from a twee character and a lazy script, actor Logan Lerman delivers a wonderful, eye-opening performance in Chbosky's big-hearted and finely crafted adaptation of his 1999 novel.
Charlie (Lerman) has begun writing to an unknown recipient he calls "friend" as a way to cope with stress. He's never been popular, he's about to begin high school, he's scared of returning to an emotional "bad place". After a few rough weeks, Charile finds joyous step-siblings Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), who become his best friends and open him up to a world that appreciates his personality and sweet naivety. The eponymous "Wallflower", Charlie isn't a loner, but an observer who is still learning his way and discovering the difficulty of coping with serious problems.
It's a simple premise, and Chbosky doesn't have the luxury of the charming epistolary device of his novel (although the letters still factor in as a means of narration). But Chbosky doesn't need Charlie's letters. The filmmaker has the beating emotional heart of the characters, and there's not a single false moment in the film. Every character in Wallflower seems like a real human being rather than a jumble of neuroses and affectations. The teenagers in Wallflower were either you or someone you knew in high school. While we may cringe at the behavior of your high-school days, it doesn't mean our feelings weren't valid.
Chbosky perfectly balances the silliness of teenagers and the seriousness of their situations. His writing is never insulting. When we see Charlie, Sam, and Patrick's friend Mary Elizabeth (Mae Whitman) rambling non-stop on the phone to the point where Charlie can put down the handset, walk away for little bit, and then return without her noticing, it's not to diminish Mary Elizabeth. She's just self-involved and insecure. You know, like a teenager. Chbosky doesn't think his characters are stupid. He respects that they think they know everything, and that respect makes it possible for him to give them a problem that shows his characters how little they really know. There's nothing inflated or superficial about what Charlie, Patrick, and Sam face over the course of the story. Their problems are ones that would force an adult to struggle, and those problems are amplified when a person lacks the emotional vocabulary to fully comprehend their situation.
Chbosky has done a remarkable job streamlining his own novel, paring it down to its essential elements, and then providing a visual style that lets you know how long he's had this movie mapped out in his mind. It's not a flashy picture, but it's not stagey, and it's particularly impressive considering this is Chbosky's directorial debut. Furthermore, he has done an exemplary job casting his movie. I was left cold by Logan Lerman's performances in Percy Jackson and The Three Musketeers, but he absolutely shines in Perks. He plays Charlie with total vulnerability, which helps to put the audience in the shoes of his friends and family. We want to protect him because he's too sweet and earnest for this world, and we want to preserve his uninhibited kindness before he's devoured by cynicism. Miller may have the flashiest performance as the comic-relief who's also dealing with a closeted boyfriend, but this is Lerman's show, and it makes me excited to see what he's capable of when paired with a smart script.
Several weeks ago, I read Perks of Being a Wallflower, and I think I would have loved it if I had read it when I was fifteen. As an adult, I can pick out some of the excesses like how every single character is dealing with some kind of major abuse or trauma, but I can't dismiss the novel's loving sympathy towards its characters. Through skillful direction, casting, scaling back the number of character arcs, and understanding what wouldn't translate to the screen, Stephen Chbosky has made his film surpass his novel. He's also discovered the cure for the common, crummy coming-of-age story.
Rating: 8.7 out of 10
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I didn't post here for ages (if you want to know why, please check my own blog) so instead of one cool guitar, I propose you a whole bunch, and more, that you can discover on French e-museum Dusty Guitars. The guy who gathered these jewels has a good and personal taste, never falling for easy or glitter, and I extracted a few ones: from left to right, a 1967 Kent 820 'Lady', a 1972 Gibson SG200 (we showed one a few months ago, this one is in a much better state and had some pickup upgrade), an extremely cool 1959 Burns bass prototype and a bizarrely finished archtop acoustic Alosa (a 1950s German brand, this model I never saw before). To see more, click on the link and enjoy!
Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 9th year!

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Remove Excessive Function Calls (fcntl)¶
This feature has been deprecated in Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1.
This change removes a bottleneck at the client/server protocol level for high concurrency workloads.
When reading a packet from a socket, the read can be performed either in non-blocking mode or in blocking mode. The non-blocking mode was originally chosen because it avoids the cost of setting up an alarm in case of a timeout: thus the first attempt to read is done in non-blocking mode, and only if it fails, the next attempts are done in blocking mode.
However, this behavior can hurt performance as the switch from non-blocking mode to blocking mode is expensive, requiring calls to the fcntl function and calls into the kernel.
The solution is to use socket timeouts, with the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO options. This way, the timeouts are automatically handled by the operating system, which means that all reads can be done in blocking mode.
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T-SPLOST Starts in 13 Central Ga. Counties | News
2013 brings a sales tax hike for 13 Central Georgia counties.
They are all part of the three districts that approved the new Transportation-SPLOST that starts up Jan. 1.
Those districts will impose a penny sales tax for the next 10 years to fund regional transportation projects. That means people will spend an extra penny for every $1 on most purchases.
People in 12 districts statewide voted on July 31 and most of them voted against the T-SPLOST. Three Georgia districts approved the penny tax, and all three of them include Central Georgia counties.
They are:
Heart of Georgia-Altamaha Region includes Laurens, Johnson, Treutlen, Wheeler, Telfair, Dodge, Bleckley and Wilcox counties
River Valley Region includes Taylor, Macon and Dooly counties
Central Savannah River Region includes Hancock and Washington counties
Supporters said the T-SPLOST would create jobs and help improve the state's roads and bridges. Opponents attacked it as just another tax increase.
Some of the projects the three regional T--SPOSTS are expected to pay for:
Dodge County: Highway 341/Northwest Eastman bypass, Widening Highway 87;
Dooly County: Highway 41, passing lanes and traffic signals;
Hancock County: Gettis Street improvements, Highway 22 West improvement, Highway 15 Sparta bypass;
Laurens County: Hillcrest Parkway improvements, Oconee River Bridge;
Macon County, passing lanes for Highway 224, new state route bridge over Whitewater Creek; widening East Railroad Street;
Washington County, Highway 15 Sandersville bypass, resurfacing Deepstep Road.


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Working with CLR User-defined Types
You can create a database object inside SQL Server that is programmed against an assembly created in the Microsoft .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR). Database objects that can take advantage of the rich programming model provided by the CLR include triggers, stored procedures, functions, aggregate functions, and types.
You can extend the SQL type system by defining a custom data type for use in SQL Server programming. A user-defined type (UDT) may be simple or structured and of any degree of complexity. It can encapsulate complex, user-defined behaviors. A user-defined type is implemented as a managed class in any one of the CLR languages, and then registered with SQL Server. A user-defined type can be used to define the type of a column in a table, or a variable or routine parameter in the Transact-SQL language. An instance of a user-defined type can be a column in a table, a variable in a batch, function or stored procedure, or an argument of a function or stored procedure.
The following topics provide additional information about working with user-defined types.
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Lists the steps that you require to create or drop a user-defined type, with links to the topics required for completing each step.
Explains how to insert and modify column values and change the values of user-defined type variables and parameters.
Explains how to modify user-defined type variables and parameters in a SET statement or in the SELECT list of a SELECT statement.
Explains how to perform a variety of operations on instances of user-defined types.
Explains how to convert a user-defined type value from one database for use in another database.
Introduces sample applications that demonstrate how to create and use CLR-based database objects, including user-defined types, in SQL Server.
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Killing the cling wrap
This is such a small thing, but it bugs the bejeezus out of me.
Every time I approach a new bread recipe, and I see instructions to "cover with cling wrap" (aka, cling film, plastic wrap, Saran wrap, etc), I think there must be an alternative to adding a few more bits of plastic to the world.
Do any of you use alternatives to plastic film to cover your in-bowl rises?
This is such a pet peeve, I've considered buying a set of glass mixing bowls that have fitted lids, but that seems like such an unnecessary expense.
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Have you ever been in a haunted house? David Oman certainly has. In fact, it's his house that is haunted. He states that he has seen the ghosts of Sharon Tate and the others murdered by Charles Manson in the house just down the road from him and it was that it was Sharon's ghost who gave him and his writing partner Jim Vines, the inspiration to write House At The End of the Drive. "She guided us scene by scene, giving us flashes of inspiration as we wrote."
In fact, when I visited him on the anniversary of the deaths I could swear I felt someone looking over my shoulder, but no one was there. Statues fell, as if the spirits wanted to be acknowledged and photographs taken by psychic mediums, Mark Christopher Nelson and Stefan Brigati, host of the radio show "My Darkest Hour" showed shadowy figures! Yikes!
What is scarier the past or the present? Sometimes, there is no difference.
The movie, itself, is a replay of history mixed with a twist.
The story centers around David's experience of the supernatural in his home. Trying to ignore it, he invites his friends for dinner. The chatter of the quiet dinner party in this posh Oxford Canyon is rudely interrupted as real truths come to light as the foursome decided to explore further. Skeptic Robert has the most to learn and fact and fiction combine as the 36 year old mass-murder haunts the diners enough to rip open a doorway to the past.
Shot on location on the infamous Cielo Drive, just down the street from the actual Manson/Tate murders, the film realistically portrays some of the events of the night as supernatural forces from the past cause the four friends to relive that frightful night. They are catapulted back into the night of the brutal slayings. In a cruel twist, they materialize as the soon-to-be victims of the massacre they had discussed only moments before. Can knowledge of the future enough to shield them from the helter-skelter mayhem of the past? Together, the four of them must find out if they can stop history from repeating.
Created and produced by David Oman, he wrote the script along with Jim Vines and they were assisted by the executive producer/writer Paul Mason (most well known for his series McMillian and Wife and It Takes A Thief as well as his work on Ironside and executive producer of Amytiville Horror. The cast includes James Oliver (David), Jonathan Mangum (Robert), Alison Raimond (Jennifer), Angela Jones (Felicia), Lance Henriksen (Skip Johansen), John Dylan Howard (Henry), Marc Greco (Rich), Ellen Geer (Eunice Sequoia), Gizelle D'Cole (Bianca), Yusuf Gatewood (Clarence Greene), Paydin LoPachin (Rachel), Lisa Diane Morgan (Tanya), Via Osgood (Shawna) and Jessica Szohr (Krista.) We can't forget Sebastian, the dog, who was a wonderful performer. "He's just a natural ham," said David, who denied that he had trained the dog for his role.
The spooky music composed by Alan Howarth & Dylan Berry fit the mood entirely.
The film event was sponsored also by Beverly Hills Small Animal Hospital, JMAAS (Joey Maas Pop Art), AB Weddings and Special Events and Antonio's Catering.
The movie is currently seeking distribution and will be featured in numerous festivals so keep an eye out on the web site for current showings. No doubt the distribution will be quickly forthcoming as the movie mesmerized with the story of the murders. Check out House At The End of the Drive or the DeWitt Murders for more information.


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Hubble catches stars on the move
There are surprising signs of unrest in a massive cluster of stars. By comparing observations made ten years apart of the nebula NGC 3603, astronomers have for the first time measured the tiny motions of several hundred young stars.
The stars are moving in ways that are at odds with our understanding of how such clusters evolve, showing that the stars in the cluster have not 'settled down' as expected.
With a mass of more than 10 000 Suns packed into a volume a mere three light-years across, the dense young cluster is one of the most compact in the Milky Way and an ideal place to test theories of their formation.
The cluster, formally known as the NGC 3603 Young Cluster, is some 20 000 light-years from the Sun, which makes these measurements extraordinarily difficult. It is necessary to compare images taken years apart. The telescope and camera must give very sharp images and be extremely stable over long periods.
A team of astronomers from the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the University of Cologne, led by Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA), realised that the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope made it perfect for the job.
They found good data in the archives from a July 1997 observing run with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, and then made their own follow-up observations in September 2007, using the same camera and the same set of filters.
It then took the team two years to extract reliable estimates for the motions of stars. "This is the first time we have been able to measure precise motions in such a compact young star cluster," says Dr Brandner.
They measured the precise speeds of more than 700 cluster stars of different masses and surface temperatures. "Our measurements have a precision of 27 millionths of an arcsecond per year. This tiny angle corresponds to the apparent thickness of a human hair seen from a distance of 800 km," says Boyke Rochau, MPIA, the paper's lead author, who performed this analysis as part of his PhD work.
The results were surprising: this massive star cluster has not yet settled down. The stars' velocities are independent of their mass and thus still reflect the conditions from when the cluster formed, about a million years ago.
Stars are born when a gigantic cloud of gas and dust collapses. In cases such as the star-forming region NGC 3603, where the cloud is unusually massive and compact, the process is particularly quick and intense. Most of the cloud's matter ends up concentrated inside hot young stars and the cluster keeps much of its initial gravitational attraction.
In the long term, such massive compact star clusters may lead to the development of the huge balls of stars known as globular clusters, whose tightly packed stars remain held together by gravity for billions of years.


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manosha(arabic pizza)
Fresh Labneh +zaatar
Fresh Labneh+Cheddar Cheese
Qashta"fresh cream" +honey
Feta Cheese+dried mint
Fresh Labneh +zaatar
Fresh Labneh+Cheddar Cheese
Qashta"fresh cream" +honey
Feta Cheese+dried mint
Zainab, those look fantastic. Can you tell us more about the dough and the toppings?
I'd also be interested in learning more, both about the dough and the herbs and cheeses you use.
A baking tour in Saudi Arabia sounds like a great adventure. I have been lucky to travel many interesting places in the world (including Bangladesh and Indonesia last year), but I have never been to your part of the world. I promise if I can find a way to get there, you will hear from me!
"I am not a cook. But I am sorta cooky."
Wow, those are beautiful! Thanks for sharing all the info and photos.
I'm curious about the sumac. Do you think it's the same as what grows wild around here and is used sometimes for tea? Staghorn sumac we call it, as opposed to poison sumac, it has velvety deep red 'berries' that birds eat in the winter when they're desperate.
You have done a masterful job with your post. The images of your wonderful breads evoke new flavors and tastes for me and many others I am sure. You are a prime example of the value of this site, thank you!
I look forward to trying to learn enough about your formulas and flavors to do justice to your efforts.
WOW!!!!!! I think I'm going to cry - those look soooo delicious!
Wonderful pizzas Zainab!
I was intrigued when you listed Labneh as a topping, I have made fresh Leban in the past from strained Kefir milk curd as a wonderful topping on sandwiches. I have found instructions here which show how easy it is.
Thank you for providing a new use for Sumac, normally we collect it for dyeing newly spun sheeps fleece. I can't wait to try this seasoning.
Oh my! These look marvelous. I wasn't even hungry until I looked at these again. I will have to try them sometime.
I think Penzey's in the US carries zaatar seasoning, though I've no idea how authentic it is. Most of their stuff is quite good.
and plan on trying some of this. I didn't think to look for Zaatar at Penzey's, There spices are sooo good and fresh. I'm so lucky to have them just down the road to me.
The OP posted the recipe in this thread. Currently it is the third comment and was made on 9 June 2007 5:26pm
She also writes about various seasonings and comments on the mini version in this thread too. It's worth reading through the whole thread.


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"This is a market in fast motion and identifying trends early is the key to gaining a competitive edge," said Scott Lubeck, BISG's Executive Director. "This on-going BISG baseline study of consumer behavior toward e-books and e-book reading devices is essential to understanding both the velocity of change and its significance to every stakeholder in the book industry."
Some of the specific results show:
- Fiction continues to dominate downloads, with literary fiction, science fiction, and romance each comprising over 20% of all format purchases.
- The most influential factors leading to an e-book purchase are free samples and low prices.
- "Power Buyers" (respondents who indicated that they acquired e-books at least weekly) have moved away from computers to dedicated e-readers and tablets much faster than the overall pool of respondents.
Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading also explores the use of e-book reading devices. Current results indicate the emergence of a bifurcated market, with preference for e-reading devices such as Kindle and NOOK as devices of choice for most fiction readers, while the iPad and other tablets are preferred by those engaging in more interactive types of reading that includes charts, graphs and multimedia.


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I have another swell sex-positive book to tell you about today. Anyone who frequents this site will already be familiar with my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Cheryl Cohen Greene. If ya don't believe me type her name into the search function in the sidebar to your right and PRESTO!
Not only will you find the fabulous two-part SEX WISDOM podcast we did together, (Part 1 is HERE! And Part 1 is HERE!) you will find a posting about the movie The Sessions. You've seen it right? It's the award-winning film staring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy. It's the story of a man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity. He contacts a professional surrogate partner with the help of his therapist and priest. Ms. Hunt plays Cheryl, the surrogate partner in the movie
Cheryl also contributed a chapter on sex and intimacy concerns for sick, elder and dying people for my book, The Amateur's Guide To Death And Dying.
With all that as a preface, I now offer you Cheryl's own story: An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner. The first thing I want to say is this book is it's not a clinical or technical tome. It is an easily accessible memoir. And that, to my mind, is what makes it so fascinating.
She writes in the Introduction:
I started this work in 1973, and my journey to it spans our society's sexual revolution and my own. I grew up in the '40s and '50s, a time when sex education was—to put it mildly— lacking. As I educated myself, I found that most of what I had been taught about sex was distorted or wrong. The lessons came from the playground, the church, and the media. My parents could barely talk about sex, much less inform me about it.
What follows is a candid and often funny look into the personal and professional life of a woman on the cutting edge of our culture's movement toward sexual wellbeing.
Cheryl comes out of her conservative Catholic upbringing and her often tortured family dynamics with what one would expect—her own sexual awakenings as well as the conspiracy of ignorance and repression that wanted to stifle it. This is a common story, the story of so many of us.
Starting when I was around ten, I masturbated and brought myself to orgasm nearly every night. … If my nights began with anxiety, my days began with guilt. I became convinced that every earache, every toothache, every injury was God punishing me. … I couldn't escape his gaze or his wrath. Sometimes I imagined my guardian angel looked away in disgust as I touched myself and rocked back and forth in my bed.
The miracle here is that this troubled tween would blossom into the remarkable sexologist she is today.
Some of the chapters in her book describe one or another of her hands on therapeutic encounters as a surrogate partner, but equally important and compelling are the chapters that describe Cheryl's own sexual struggles as she moved to adulthood and beyond. Cheryl's acceptance of her own sexuality enables her to build a career out of helping others do the very same thing.
Everyone has a right to satisfying, loving sex, and, in my experience, that most often flows from strong communication, self-respect, and a willingness to explore.
Despite the frank discussion of sexual topics within the book, there is no prurience or sensationalism. For the most part, Cheryl's clients are regular people, mostly men, who have pretty ordinary problems—erection and/or ejaculation concerns, dating difficulties, as well as self-esteem, guilt and shame issues. Cheryl helps each of her clients with the efficiency and confidence of the world-class sex educator she is. Most of her interaction involves her supplying her clients with some much-needed information, dispelling myths, and giving them permission to experiment. As she says;
I continue to be amazed at how solid education delivered without judgment can eradicate much of the guilt and shame that turns life in the bedroom into a struggle instead of a pleasure.
Her most famous client, Mark O'Brien, the 36-six-year-old man who had spent most of his life in an iron lung after contracting polio at age 6, was the author of How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence, in which he writes about his experience with Cheryl. This, of course, was adapted into a film, The Sessions, which I mentioned above. For her part, Cheryl delivers a most poignant remembrance of Mark early in her book.
I explained Sensual Touch to Mark. Although he was paralyzed, he still had sensation all over his body, so he would feel my hands moving up and down. … I encouraged him to try and recognize four common reactions: feeling neutral, feeling nurtured, feeling sensual and feeling sexual.
An Intimate Life chronicles Cheryl's life-long interest in human sexuality. Her life and sometimes-turbulent loves are on display, but in the most considerate fashion. She teaches by example. She's even able to speak with great compassion of her time living with and through cancer.
As I inch toward seventy, I appreciate more and more how much I have to be grateful for and how fortunate I've been. I was lucky to find a wonderful career and to be surrounded by so many smart, adventurous, caring people. My personal sexual revolution auspiciously paralleled our culture's, and in many ways was made possible by it. I am eternally grateful to the pioneers, rebels, and dreamers who made our society a little safer for women who embrace their sexuality.
There is so much I loved about this book, but mostly it's the humanity I found in abundance. Cheryl's enlightened soul shines brightly from every page. Her no nonsense approach to all things sexual is an inspiration. And her perseverance to bring surrogate partner therapy into the mainstream is laudable.
…what separates surrogates from prostitutes is significant. When people have difficulties grasping [that], I turn to my beloved and late friend Steven Brown's cooking analogy that I've so often relied on to help me through that question: Seeing a prostitute is like going to a restaurant. Seeing a surrogate is like going to culinary school.
Finally, An Intimate Life is the culmination of Cheryl's life as a sex educator, her surrogate partner therapy practice being just part of that mission. I highly recommend you read this book. You will, I assure you, come away from it as I have, a better person—enriched, informed, as well as entertained.
Cheryl, thank you for being in my life and being such an abiding inspiration. Thank you too for this marvelous book; now you can be in the lives of so many others who need you so that you can inspire them along their way.
Be sure to visit Cheryl on her site HERE!


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Alas, that's not to be, so--with an apology if I seem not quite as into the whole list-making process as I've been in previous years--let's look at 2010's reading. I read 63 books this year, a slight uptick from last year's count but a measurable improvement in quality. My project for 2010, as I told several people in the beginning of the year, was to get un-caught up. I'd spent sizable portions of 2008 and 2009 reading with an eye to nominate and vote in the Hugo awards, and that hunt for worthy nominees left me feeling harried and, to be honest, not too thrilled by the quality of work I encountered. 2010 was about indulging my own tastes, not necessarily within genre, and not pushing myself to meet deadlines or schedules. Not surprisingly, that strategy has had a positive effect, and though I'm sorry to have read so little short fiction this year (the reason there hasn't been a best short stories post), on the whole I think I made good reading choices in 2010.
Before I get to the year's best books, I'd like to take a moment to praise NYRB Classics. They've got one book on the list, and it is already widely acknowledged that their list, which brings deserving but forgotten works in a broad and eclectic range of styles and sources back into the public eye (and clad in some of the sharpest and most attractive covers in the business) is fantastic. But in 2010 the editors' tastes and mine seem to have come into alignment, and my reading plans for 2011 feature their books quite heavily, so thanks, NYRB Classics!
Without any further ado, then, here are the best books of 2010, listed in order of their author's surname:
- Life by Gwyneth Jones
This book is part of the reading project I'm planning to write about next month, and I haven't even had a chance to cover it in a recent reading roundup, so my thoughts would be a little disordered even if there were not so much to talk about here. Life is a slim volume whose setting is, at first, deceptively mundane, following the early career and personal life of a female scientist around the turn of the twenty-first century, and her dogged pursuit of a discovery in human genetics, specifically the genetics of gender, that has enormous political and social implications. What makes this novel remarkable is how much it accomplishes in such a short page count and with such a simple, even restrained premise. Life discusses feminism, women in the sciences and the politics of scientific research in general, gender relations in and out of sexual relationships, and the very meaning of gender, but at the same time it builds a fascinating, flawed, brilliant but frustrating character in its protagonist, Anna (and does good work with supporting characters, such as Anna's husband and her radical feminist best friend), and takes its world from a familiar recent past to an SFnal alternate present, wracked by global plagues and political upheaval even before the significance of Anna's discovery is understood. If there's one flaw to Life it's that there may be too much in it, that any discussion of it or attempt to comprehend it will necessarily leave out vast portions of the novel out of simple necessity, but that also makes it a novel worth chewing over and coming back to.
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Like Life, this is a novel that won me over by doing so much in such a short span of pages and in such a relatively low-key setting and premise. The protagonist is, again, a scientist, a representative of an egalitarian, utopian society traveling back to the planet from which his ancestors emigrated in order to further his research and bring back word of his society's philosophy and accomplishments. Le Guin builds both civilizations, and describes the events that led to their separation, and spells out their good and bad points, and lays out a blueprint for the construction of a believable--and believably flawed--socialist utopia, and weaves into all of this the coming of age of her protagonist, Shevek, and a story of political intrigue as he gets caught up in social unrest on his host planet, and is pursued for the technology his research might enable. All of this is accomplished with such grace and with so little fuss that is seems almost impossible to credit. The Dispossessed is a quiet, low-key novel whose characters face trials and upheavals with an equanimity that conceals powerful emotions, and Le Guin makes both those emotions and the struggle to calm them keenly felt. No one, I'm sure, needs me to tell them that Le Guin is a magnificent writer or that The Dispossessed is a masterpiece, but here's me adding my voice to both claims nonetheless.
- The Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning (review)
Comprised of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, Manning's sprawling, strongly autobiographical account of a newlywed British couple's life in Romania in the early years of WWII, their flight from the Nazis to Greece and later Egypt, and their journeys in the Middle East as the course of the war turns against Germany, is far from perfect. For one thing, it's my personal belief that it is missing its final act, which would have resolved the issues in Guy and Harriet Pringle's loving but dysfunctional marriage and seen Harriet embarking on a writing career that mirrored her alter-ego's. And besides that, it is on occasion unfocused, and doesn't always balance its descriptions of the war and the Pringles' marital strife as well as it could. Nevertheless, this is one of the most unusual and shocking depictions of life during wartime that I've ever read, effortlessly slicing through the images, which are by now clichés, that we've come to associate with WWII and giving us characters who cling to normalcy--to gossip, to the silly squabbles and feuds of their social set, to prejudice based on class and wealth--even as the war rages, in part because of desperation, and in part because the events unfolding around them are so great and so complicated that it is often hard to tell what the difference between war and peace, safety and danger, is. If that were not enough, Guy and Harriet themselves are fantastically well-written characters, simultaneously ill-suited to marriage and perfectly suited to one another, and it is hard to know whether to wish for their marriage's success or failure, and the glimpse the novels, in particular The Levant Trilogy, give of the Middle East during wartime, from the perspective of its soon-to-be-former colonizers, is utterly fascinating.
- Far North by Marcel Theroux
I was a little underwhelmed by this year's Arthur C. Clarke shortlist, which struck me as strong but a little on the predictable side. But if it hadn't been for the Clarke (and if a copy of the book hadn't been available during my reading week holiday) I probably never would have given Marcel Theroux's Far North a look, and I would have missed the year's finest read. When I first heard about it I dismissed Far North as yet another novel trying to follow in The Road's footsteps--a bleak, frozen post-apocalypse (whose cause is only vaguely described) traversed by a laconic and hopeless protagonist who isn't quite ready to lie down and die. What I discovered instead was a novel that shows The Road up in almost every respect. Where McCarthy's novel lapsed into a fable-like style in its attempts to describe the magnitude of the catastrophe that has overwhelmed humanity, and the destruction wrought on nature and human endeavor alike, Theroux stays grounded in reality. His descriptions of the destruction--and of its human toll, as refugees begin fleeing into previously uninhabited locales--are precise and down to earth even as they continue to conceal the exact nature of the catastrophe. If McCarthy reconfigured the struggle to survive in straitened circumstances as one between good and evil, Theroux gives us the more thorny and heartbreaking question of how far one compromises one's ideals in order to survive. His characters are complicit, either actively or passively, in evil, and yet most of them are sympathetic. And if the acknowledged flaw of The Road, even by its greatest proponents, was the near absence of women from its story, Far North gives us its narrator, Makepeace, who is both tough and vulnerable, stalwart and craven, hopeful and hopeless. Which is to say, entirely human--a woman who recognizes the dire situation she's in, but can't help but hope for better, and whose actions reflect both pragmatism and wishful thinking. In a year that has already featured so many indelible protagonists, Makepeace stands out from the pack, and will probably continue to do so for years to come.
- In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield (review)
I came to In Great Waters with a lot of baggage. On the one hand, it was a book that had received rapturous praise from many reviewers whose opinions I valued, and on the other hand, I'd been rather disappointed by Whitfield's first novel, Benighted. It's probably all the more impressive, then, that In Great Waters managed to live up to my expectations, and live down the memory of its predecessor. A first contact story set in the royal courts of 17th century Europe, a meditation on the meaning of human and animal nature, and a chilly and refreshingly unromantic love story, In Great Waters combines fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction and grounds them all in two prickly, defensive, quite literally cold-blooded protagonists, Henry and Anne, a human-mermaid hybrid with designs on the English throne and the princess he means to unseat. Along the way it discusses morality, religion, and the storytelling impulse, giving us a decidedly inhuman perspective on these three quintessentially human activities and weighing their benefits and drawbacks. This is a rich--and richly told--novel that gives no quarter to sentimentality or romanticism, and is all the better for it.
- Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
- Sleepless by Charlie Huston (review)
- The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
- Breathers by S.G. Browne (review)
The lifecycle the genre trend--be it vampires, superheroes, zombies, or whatnot--starts out with pulp, continues with mainstream penetration, segues into over-saturation, and finally ends up grasping at respectability with allegedly literary works that deconstruct, and usually render inert and pointless, the very quality that launched the trend to begin with. 2010 saw an absolute deluge of literary zombie novels, and maybe some of them were worth a look, but Browne's debut, subtitled A Zombie's Lament, was not. Perched uncomfortably between the comedic (it opens with the zombiefied narrator debating how to cook his parents) and tragic (zombies have no civil rights and the narrator has been prevented from seeing his still-living daughter) tones, the novel doesn't know quite where to fall. It expects us to take the narrator's pain and suffering--at the end of his life, but also at being considered inhuman by living society--seriously, but to look at the horrible things, include multiple murders, he does as a joke. As a result--and due to Browne's at-best serviceable prose--Breathers fails to elicit either laughs or sympathy. It's horrifying, but not, I suspect, in the way that Browne intended.
- A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
This book is on the list less because of its own flaws--though they are considerable--than because it forces me to reevaluate my positive reaction to Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, and the credit I gave her in that novel for making believable human beings out of the major players in Henry VIII's succession crisis and England's subsequent break with the Catholic church. A Place of Greater Safety, which tells the story of the French Revolution from the perspective of three of its instigators, has a similar, perhaps even tougher task--how to make sympathetic the people who, for all their good intentions, created a tyrannical state that butchered its own citizens by the tens of thousands? It's a tall order, but the problem with A Place of Greater Safety is that Mantel doesn't really try to answer the question. She concentrates instead on the characters' marriages and friendships, as if the problem with The Terror was that it put an end to the epic bromance between Camille Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre. In light of this, it's hard not to take an even dimmer view of Mantel's choice to end Wolf Hall before the events that would tarnish its protagonist, Thomas Cromwell's, legacy. Even with a promised sequel, dealing with Cromwell's enabling of the judicial murder of Anne Boleyn as well as other crimes, in the works, it's hard not to wonder whether a similar shift in focus to the domestic will be used to make sympathetic a person who is a lot more complicated than Mantel would have us believe.
- The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
The original literary vampire romance from the pen of the author of The Anubis Gates, The Stress of Her Regard should have been everything that Breathers--not to mention the raft of My Vampires are Different novels we've been inundated with--wasn't, a fresh (for all that it is two decades old) take on a hoary trope. And the premise, which sees the romantic poets--Byron, Keats, Shelley--pursued by vampires, who grant them creative powers at the cost of their lives, sounds like a crackerjack one. But the whole thing is just so boring--the vampires, and the rules of how vampirism works and can be defeated, are boring, the poets are boring, the original characters are really, really boring. The dullness of the novel would be bad enough on its own, but when one considers how promising its premise was, how easily it should have worked, it becomes downright infuriating.


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By Rich Lowry
There's a reason that halftime of NFL broadcasts is usually reserved for game analysis and highlights, rather than social science. NBC announcer Bob Costas showed why with a little sermonette during the Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys game Sunday night.
Just a day earlier, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before driving to the Chiefs' practice facility and shooting and killing himself in front of the team's head coach and general manager.
During halftime of "Football Night in America," which is not to be confused with "Monday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football," Costas referred to Belcher's shocking murder-suicide as "nearly unfathomable." He then proceeded to fathom it in terms of a cliched gun-control fable. Costas quoted approvingly sportswriter Jason Whitlock's argument that "our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy."
Costas is an extraordinary and justly acclaimed broadcaster, who apparently hasn't spared a moment's reflection to the long-running argument over guns in our society. If he had, he wouldn't have treated such tripe as priceless words of wisdom.
A Gallup survey last year found that 47 percent of adults have a gun in their home or on their property, the highest figure since 1993. Yet, as of 2005, the number of intimate homicides had steadily declined since 1993, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Overall, domestic violence has dropped by more than 60 percent since 1993.
That is not to deny that the presence of a gun makes a violent relationship much more dangerous. But what set of laws could possibly deny a gun to Jovan Belcher, who had no criminal record and was touted as a model NFL player, without denying them to the vast majority of gun owners who will never do harm to anyone? It is already illegal for someone convicted of domestic violence to own a firearm.
Costas left out the most powerful part of Whitlock's commentary, which was an excoriating attack on the NFL for letting the Chiefs' regularly scheduled game be played the very next day after the killings. Nothing to see here -- except more football.
If it proves to have any larger lessons, the Belcher story will tell us more about the NFL than the NRA. According to a friend's account reported by the website Deadspin, Belcher "was dazed and was suffering from short-term memory loss" after his last start. The source described him as suffering from a "combination of alcohol, concussions and prescription drugs."
Nearly simultaneously with Belcher's murder-suicide, Boston University researchers published a study that found, in the words of a Reuters report, "years of hits to the head in football or other contact sports lead to a distinct pattern of brain damage that begins with an athlete having trouble focusing and can eventually progress to aggression and dementia." It is apparently not big hits to the head that bring on the condition, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, but a diet of small blows.
This phenomenon may have absolutely nothing to do with Belcher's crime. But the question will be asked, and yet more attention will focus on the issue of brain injuries. The league is already getting sued by thousands of former players and their relatives for not taking brain injuries seriously enough. The game is so hugely entertaining that it is hard to see it ever losing ground in American life -- unless people eventually come to believe our viewing pleasure isn't worth the price exacted from the players.
If Costas really wanted to issue a jeremiad in the aftermath of the Belcher killings, perhaps it should have been directed at the vastly profitable football-industrial complex of which he is a small part. In keeping with his view expressed in the past that the NFL is "unacceptably brutal," he could have said: "As I stand here, I, too, profit from a game that depends on men doing violence to one another with effects we still don't fully understand." But that would have hit too close to home, and the third quarter beckoned.
2012, King Features Syndicate
Rich Lowry is editor of National Review.


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My two sons just lost their father and are moving in with me. I want them to feel comfortable and have their own beds through this big transition.
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Today Maria and I went shopping! It was a big day as all the court matters were settled and she was able to get beds for the boys. She was so moved by the generous supporters who funded her need. You should have seen her face as she choose their new beds! The items will arrive at her house next week. After that, she plans to set everything up while the boys are in school so that they will be surprised when they come home. Thank you to everyone who helped make their lives a little better. I can't wait to see the photo of everything set up and ready!
I need beds for my two children who recently came to live with me full time after their father suddenly passed in his sleep. This includes two mattresses, two bed frames, sheets, pillows, and blankets.
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My current situation is that I am a mother of eight children. Five of my children live with me already, and my oldest daughter lives on her own. I share custody of my other two children with their father. On August 19 he passed away unexpectedly. Now we are trying to put our lives back together. The other two children have come to live with me, but they need beds of their own. I want them to feel comfortable and like this is their home.
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As well, staff writer Ceci Moss will be presenting a paper entitled "Viral Not Virus: Alan Liu's "Viral Aesthetics" Reconsidered" at The Matter with Media, Saturday, 17 September. That same day, she'll also perform a sound composition using recordings of the human voice found on the web during the conference as part of the performance panel, Soundwwwalk.
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One day I recived such a e-mail:
'Hi dear! My name's Sandy, and my boyfriend dumped me last night. He was a jerk, but he loved me so hard that I got addicted to sex with him. Now, nobody is banging my holes and I am going crazy. I think I'm a nymph, and I'm looking for a substitute for my ex, who would love me every day to make me happy.'


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It's Time to Tab!
Samsung tablet is not at all a "mee-too" product in over-crowded tablet market. It is slim, light weight and cute. It is your companion forever. To read books, to stay in touch with your friends, to watch movies and to share your precious joyous moments with the world. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is always at your service.
We cannot live without breath. Same like us, the Samsung tablet also breathes. It breathes with data, bits, zeros and ones. In today's era of cloud computing and networked world, any device is incomplete without data connectivity. This little device has baseband signal processing hardware for all cellular and WiFi bands. (HSPA+ in 850/900/1900/2100 MHz bands, EDGE/GPRS in 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n with dual band 2GHz and 5GHz, WiFi Direct and Bluetooth 3.0) So you get best high speed Internet coverage at any part of the world. Excellent! Isn't it?
3. Multimedia & Navigation
How about gaming? Well, compare to Apple iPad's three-way accelerometer and gyroscope, Samsung uses four-way sensors. So while gaming, screen rotation has much faster response. Not only that, it is your companion in travelling too with turn-by-turn navigation support. It has everything like A-GPS, Compass and Accelerometer. No need for map or any travel guide. Just pack your luggage and book the ticket.
By the way, what will you do with these amazing clarity photographs? Off course, you will share them with your friends on Facebook. Don't you? Your Galaxy Tab is a Social Hub. Picasa, YouTube, Twitter, GooglePlus, Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, LinkedIn, Yammer, OCS, you just name it. At Samsung Galaxy Tab, a single portal is enough to access multiple e-mail, messaging and social networking accounts. The portal has message feed and web feed in easy-to-read flow. Not only that, 2 Mega Pixels front camera helps you to have video call over Skype etc. Now, you are never out of touch from your friends. So nice!
Books are always our best friends. Samsung Galaxy Tab is a Readers Hub. Now need of separate e-book reader like Amazon's Kindle. You can access more than 23 lacs e-books, 2000 newspaper, 3000 magazines, RSS feeds in 49 different languages. Its large bright LCD screen displays sharp characters for strain-less reading. Zoom in/zoom out, font enlargement and virtual bookmarks improve the e-reading experience further. Happy reading!
What separate Samsung Galaxy tablet from other tablets? Its brand. SAMSUNG. The Samsung group is a multinational conglomerate corporation from South Korea. Any brand has special appeal, that make you special. This tablet is brand hub too. It has Adobe Flash support for better browsing. The complete Google application suite. GTalk, Gmail, Google Map, Google Maps Navigation Google Latitude, Google Places, Google Calender, Google *.* :) And yes, Android Market with more than 4.5 Lacs apps. So you can download wide variety of apps for Android Honeycomb 3.1 Operating System. However for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, no need to download anything. It has Polaris Office for your professional life. The clipboard stores upto 20 text and images. Useful, right? What Next?
Like Intel Pentium processor is inside desktop, "NVIDIA 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2" processor is inside this tablet. Processor is core part. It is a brain of the tablet. Sometimes feature rich smart phone and tablet become annoying with their sluggish response to UI (User interface). This dual core processor is very powerful. It is excellent for multitasking, mobile web browsing, hardware-accelerated Flash applications, console-quality graphics and so overall best user experience. It does all the calculation in real time, so you can browse Internet, read e-books, play games, enjoy HD videos. Yet it is power efficient to conserve your battery. Unbelievable!
This blog URL is 7Layers, because our existence has seven layers. Body, breath, mind, memory, intelligence, ego and self. Same way, have you noticed? The Samsung Galaxy Tab has seven layers. So the URL for . (1)Physical Body, (2) Connectivity, (3) Multimedia and Navigation, (4) Social Hub, (5) Readers Hub, (6) Brand Hub and (7) Processor. All these seven layers exist for only one sole purpose: 'the best end user experience'. You can further enhance interaction with tablet using Keyboard case and desktop dock accessories.
Whether hardware or software. Whether Android platform or Apps. Whether WiFi or 3.5G HSPA. Whether social networking or multimedia. Whether purpose is work or play. Altogether, this tablet provides a 'wow expression'!It's far better than Apple's iPad, Motorola's Xoom, Acer's Iconia Tab A100 or Toshiba Thrive.
Kisi Pagal Kavi Ki Kalpana Ho Tum...
Khud Ko Bhool Jaun Woh Nasha Ho Tum...
Hakikat To Nahin, Ek Sapna Ho Tum...
Ab Hosh Na Aaye To Behtar Hoga...
Sapna Hi Sahi Phir Bhi Mere Apne Ho Tum...
You are just an imagination of a mad poet like me. You are ecstasy, that makes me to forget myself. You are not reality, just dream only. Let me remain in this state only. After all, it's my own dream.
Yes such tablet was an imagination of a mad poet. Now not. Samsung has launched Galaxy Tablet 750 in India on August 10, 2011. Now it is no longer a dream. It is a reality. It is marvel of engineering. So what are you waiting for? It's time for better tablet. It's time to Tab. Just go and buy Samsung Tab. And yes, do not forget to share your experience.
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Here you will find many of the items you need for your Julpak in the right size and at the right price. I have field-tested these in my own Every Day Carry (EDC) kit. I can recommend each piece as a solid choice for your pack.
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Buried in a Houston Chronicle story about Jeff Bagwell's rehab of his right shoulder was this disturbing tidbit:
Renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews was expected to check the progress of Bagwell's right shoulder's mobility in Birmingham, Ala.
"Dr. Andrews suffered a heart attack over the weekend, so we don't know where his situation stands," [Astros general manager Tim] Purpura said.
Bagwell, who had surgery in June and returned in September, continues to work out and undergo extensive physical therapy in Houston in hopes of playing this year.
"I don't know what's going on," Bagwell said of the visit with Andrews.
Dr. James Andrews, of course, is the guy who mastered Dr. Frank Jobe's Tommy John surgery and is the foremost shoulder and knee guy; he's the reason John Smoltz, Kerry Wood, you name it, are still pitching today. Surely his heart attack is more worthy than a notebook tidbit in an offseason Houston Chronicle story. Come to think of it ... that story is the only place we've seen any mention of this. We hope Purpura just has his facts wrong, because a heart attack for one of the most influential doctors in sports would deserve, we think, a little more than, "Hey, what about my shoulder surgery?"
Bagwell Update [Houston Chronicle] (third item)
(Update: Sources confirm that Dr. Andrews did have a heart attack and is currently in intensive care. He is stable, however, and recovering. We wish him well.)


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"Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about…a character who helps to illuminate the life of a great artist and the life of her times." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"As social history, literary criticism, and, not least, an absorbing detective story, The Invisible Woman is a wonderful book." —Newsday
"Groundbreaking." —The Guardian (UK)
"This is feminist biography at its best." —Leon Edel
"Part social history, part detective story, wholly enthralling." —John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)


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It's Saturday night, and 18-year-old Samantha Carson is decked out in a long black ball gown.
This is her first time at prom – although she had planned to come in the past few years.
"I even picked out dresses and everything, and then I got sick and couldn't make it, but now I feel great," she said, stepping outside of the ballroom at Pima Community College's downtown campus.
Carson has been in a years-long battle against Ewing's Sarcoma – a rare form of bone or soft tissue cancer that's most prevalent among teenagers. She's still undergoing chemotherapy and was in the hospital this time last week. But tonight she is ready to dance.
And she's in good company here.
There's a DJ, and boutonnieres pinned to boys' lapels, corsages wrapped around girls' wrists, a photographer snapping photos of beaming groups of friends by the entrance. All of the vestiges of proms at any high school around the country. But this isn't a normal high school prom. Tonight's event is organized by the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona.
This is the ninth annual Candlelighters prom, said Beverley Tidwell, who serves as the group's program director.
The organization also runs a summer camp and throws an annual holiday party. But Candlelighters' efforts aren't just social in nature. Tidwell, whose son died of cancer when he was 11, noted the financial strain that the illness places on families.
"Someone probably has to stick with a job to keep insurance. It's just a really challenging time. By the time you're finished with your copay, and medical copays and pharmacy copays it's just a balancing act for everyone," she said. "There are a number of families that just have to declare bankruptcy. The whole experience is really overwhelming."
Candlelighters provides those families with financial assistance.
Carson said the organization has bought her family groceries and helped out with financial issues. And ahead of tonight's prom, they partnered with the organization Cinderella's Closet to provide outfits for Carson and the other guests at the prom.
Throughout her treatments, Carson said the hardest part of her illness has been watching it affect her family.
"You don't go into it alone. Your friends and your family. They don't have it personally, they don't go through the chemo and everything, but they're right by your side when you get sick," she said. "So the hardest thing for me is seeing the toll it's put on them. Seeing how it's...messing with the plans they've had."
Regarding her own plans, Carson said she's going to her senior prom at Marana High School next month. After graduation, she wants to study sign language interpretation in college. And although bearing children is far too risky for her, eventually she wants a family of her own.
"My greatest wish is to live long enough to be able to adopt," Carson said. "I helped out with my little siblings. Everyone says I've got the motherly touch."
Carson headed back into the prom to find her best friend, Kimmy. The girls got their picture taken together, they ate dinner and had Shirley Temples. And, just like at any prom, they danced the rest of the evening.


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I've been working on this post for quite some time now. I'll probably be adding to it in the future when other item quandaries come about. It's a helpful aggregation of insider tips and hints about how to clean and care for the items you pick up on your thrifting adventures – Cheers!
You Just Bought: Used CD, DVD, Glass Frame, etc.
Problem: Residual sticker goo from price tags. It's unsightly, annoying, and the OCD in me needs to get it off of there.
Solution: Goo Gone or (my personal favorite) Lift Off Tape Remover. Both items are pretty nasty chemical-wise, but these two definitely work the best and the fastest. A little bottle goes a long way. Spray a bit onto the gooey area and let it sit for a couple of minutes then with some gentle rubbing it should swipe perfectly clean.
You Just Bought: DUSTY Antiques (Hard wood Furniture, Silverware, Collectibles).
Problem: You want the dust & dirt off. You want the original glory of the item to show through.
Solution: To restore & clean an antique is to get it back as close to original as feasible. Back in the day, there was no such thing as polyurethane, so antique restoration can't include coating an antique with plastic and have it be the same as original.
RULE OF THUMB: If you don't need to clean it, then don't. Most old collectibles are sought FOR the tarnished and beat up look. These items ooze with character and tell a visual story. I personally just use a barely moist cotton cloth to gently clean and dry the items I find, 99% of the time.
– When cleaning old wood furniture, use mild cleaners such as Murphy's Oil Soap or Prelude.
– When cleaning old toys or antique signage use a clean rag, warm water with a tiny bit of natural or plant-based soap and be sure to dry it thoroughly to prevent further oxidation or corrosion.
– When cleaning antique silverware it's a step by step process best shown here.
TIP: If there is soil or stains that can not be cleaned by a gentle washing, consult an antique expert before using any type of metal cleaner on your antique. Further cleaning may be possible once the type of metal and value of the item has been determined.
You Just Bought: Old clothing / vintage garments.
Problem: Someone wore them or used them before you. They're lovely and delicate. But you want them clean.
Solution: If the item is cotton-based such as an old t-shirt or jeans, I just toss them in with a like color and use a gentle natural detergent and put it on the gentle cycle. For a more in-depth look at how to clean some trickier fabrics such as vintage lace, linens, and fabrics, this article here is great.
You Just Bought: Wool Scarf, Blanket or Jacket.
Problem: It's old but cool, kind of itchy, smells vaguely like an animal shelter.
Solution: If it's a jacket or cardigan, I usually take it to my local (eco-friendly) dry cleaners. They can get almost anything looking (and smelling) brand new for relatively cheap, less than $10 a garment. "If you can't beat 'em, re-post 'em." So here's a more thorough article on how to care and store various wool garments.
You Just Bought: USED Vinyl Records
Problem: Vinyl is near and dear to audiophiles and collectors like myself. Whenever I move, my collection has been personally moved by myself and rode in the car with me, as if they were my own children. Some vinyl records can be 50 (or more) years old by now. That means decades of dust, dirt, weather and stacked pile compression have most likely pressed grit into your beloved grooves.
Solution: After I thrift or buy any used vinyl, I take them home and GENTLY give them a once-over with a barely wet cloth, warm water and dry them. One commonly used item that I own is a record brush. Just static alone can attract a lot of dust and icky stuff to your records. I give each record a pass with it before it hits the player and after when it's about to return to it's casing. Another way to protect your records are to store them all in the clear vinyl sleeves and to replace the inner paper sleeves. These help keep them fresh, protected and looks pretty nice too. I purchase all my vinyl supplies bulk online here.
You Just Bought: A USED Turntable
Problem: It's dusty, it's mod, all the knobs and components are intact – but does it still work?
Solution: Having recently taken a gamble on a really neat turntable, which I chronicled in a recent post here, I learned that as long as you can get the turntable for a good price, that the most important components on a turntable are replaceable and are fairly cheap to have installed. The two main things you want to have replaced on any turntable is the needle/cartridge (every 2-5 years minimum) depending on the frequency of use. Cartridges can range anywhere from $15 up to thousands. The other component to replace and have professionally calibrated is the belt. This is the heart and drivetrain of any turntable. These wear out and dry out just like the belts on your car or a common rubber band might. Turntable belts range from anywhere from $15 up to hundreds.
You Just Bought: A Used Couch, Sofa, Chair, etc.
Problem: It's perfect, it's beautiful, but it's been someone else's.
Solution: Personally, I usually just vacuum and Febreze the hell out of used soft furniture items when I acquire them. But I've recently found a greener option. A DIY way to make a safer (and cheaper) version of Febreze here.
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The head of Google's lobbying informed the company that he plans to do no lobbying.
Alan Davidson resigned from his post as the top lobbyist for the Mountain View-based search company's political interests.
In an email to Google employees, Davidson said it was time for to find a new challenge.
"In 2005, I joined Google in Washington to build a first-rate Internet policy group. It's been a remarkable experience -– and a very exciting and intense time -- but I'm ready for a new challenge," he wrote.
The timing of Davidson's departure may not not have been ideal for Google. The company has recently found itself under the microscope in Washington D.C.
Regulators and lawmakers have put some of Google's dealings and practices under the microscope and in turn, Google has increased its spending on lobbyists.
Google said it will continue with its lobbying practices. Davidson will take a sabbatical from the company to find a new path.
Google's Top Lobbyist Steps Down
The head of Google's lobbying informed the company that he plans to do no lobbying.


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Previn, Sir André
Previn, Sir André prĕv´ĭn [key], 1929–, American conductor, composer, and pianist, b. Germany, as Andreas Ludwig Priwin. He has recorded classical music since 1946. In the 1950s he made a number of highly successful jazz piano albums, and he began recording jazz again in the 1990s. He has also composed film scores (which he wrote about in Minor Chords: My Early Days in Hollywood, 1991), songs, an opera, and chamber music. Previn conducted the Houston Symphony (1967–69) and the London Symphony (1968–79) and served as musical director of the Pittsburgh Symphony (1976–1984) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1986–89), where he remained as conductor until 1992. Conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra since 1992, he continues to compose and to be a frequent piano soloist and chamber player. Previn was knighted in 1996 and two years later was awarded a presidential medal.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Privacy Policy
Last Update: March 28, 2017
Paladin Internet Properties, Inc. (Paladin), doing business as Paladin Registry (Registry), Paladin Research & Registry, Investor Watchdog (Watchdog) Find a Financial Advisor, and Paladin Digital Marketing, is committed to protecting the privacy of consumers, investors, financial service professionals, and financial service firms (collectively Users) who use our tools, information, and services. This Privacy Policy explains the type of information that is collected and how it is used by Paladin. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact Paladin at email@example.com.
1. Confidentiality
Paladin will not disclose any personal information about individual users, except as specified in this Privacy Policy. With the few exceptions that are explained here, we do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information. We would only disclose personal information in the following instances: (i) with the Users' consent; (ii) we are required to by applicable law, or in response to legal process to protect the rights or property of Paladin, or to protect the safety of Paladin, its Users, and others; (iii) a User's request for particular Paladin services in particular locations, and (iv) with certain contractors of Paladin who have entered into confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
2. Security
Paladin is committed to protecting the personal information of Users. We store information provided by Users on our secure servers and information provided to a third-party service provider for processing the payment of any applicable User service fees is encrypted using SSL technology.
3. Password Protected
Paladin's internal sites are password protected and available to Users who are listed on the Registry website and list their services in the Paladin Directory. Users should not share their passwords with anyone. Paladin will never ask Users for their passwords in an unsolicited phone call or email. If Users use a computer which is accessible to others, they should remember to log out and close their browser window when leaving a Paladin website.
4. Information Collection and Use
We take the issue of safeguarding your privacy and confidentiality seriously as a User of our services, tools, and information. We exercise care to ensure that the personal information Users may provide to us for the purposes set forth below is kept confidential. Our policy is to collect the minimum amount of information we need to provide services, tools, and information to Users. In addition, we collect IP addresses for our sites' security and to provide us with information regarding the Users of our sites to help us improve the sites' performance and services.
We collect the following types of personal information on our websites: Name, e-mail, and phone number. We use a device known as a "cookie." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the User's hard drive that contains information about a User. There are two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies get written to a file called a "cookie jar" on the User's hard drive and are retrieved every time a site is accessed. Session cookies are similar to persistent cookies except that the information does not get written to the hard drive and disappears when Users close their browser. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information that Users submit on our sites.
Paladin sites use session cookies. If Users do not accept cookies, they may still use our sites' services, tools, and information; however, some Users will not be able to use the internal, password protected service sections. These sections require a cookie that is set to identify a particular computer to our web servers. This cookie is called a Session ID and consists of a 32-digit sequence of random numbers and letters generated by Paladin web servers each time one of Paladin's sites is called up. This is necessary so Paladin computers can match logged-in Users with their account information. This cookie will be deleted when Users log out or close their browsers.
The use of cookies by our partners and service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners and service providers may use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
In addition to cookies, Paladin sites may also use tiny electronic images ("single-pixel GIFs" or "Web beacons"), which allow Paladin to count Users who have visited specific pages or accessed certain cookies. Paladin may use single-pixel GIFs in the following ways: (i) to count and recognize Users; (ii) to conduct research on behalf of some partners on their websites and for auditing purposes; (iii) to determine aggregate information about Users, including demographic and usage information. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. Paladin does not link the information Paladin stores in cookies to any personal information Users submit while using the services, tools, and information on Paladin sites.
As is true of most Web sites, we use third party tracking-utility partners to gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual Users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our User base as a whole.
5. Advertising
6. Service Providers
Paladin uses third parties to provide Web Hosting, Web Development, Search Engine Optimization and other services for Paladin websites. When Users submit data to Paladin for processing, Paladin will share User data, as necessary with the designated third parties so they can provide their specific services. These third parties are prohibited from using Users' personal information for any other purpose.
7. Use of Personal Information
Paladin collects personal information to provide Users with specialized services that contain relevant content. In addition, Paladin conducts research on investor and advisor demographics, interests, and behavior based on information that is voluntarily provided to Paladin. This information is compiled and analyzed on a generalized basis and is not User specific. Paladin does not share, sell, trade, or rent Users' personal information to third parties for unknown reasons.
8. Direct Mailings/Service-Related Announcements
Paladin sends Users strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if Paladin's service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, Paladin may send Users an email. Generally, Users may not opt-out of these communications, which are usually not promotional in nature. If Users do not wish to receive them, Users have the option of deactivating their accounts. To deactivate a User account, Users must notify Paladin via email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or by phone at 916.253.3334. Paladin may also use User email addresses to send Users free special research reports, newsletters, and surveys that provide current information about financial professionals and related commentary. There is an opt-out function on each of the reports and newsletters.
9. Tell a Friend, Family Member or Associate
If Users choose to tell a friend about Paladin's sites, we will ask Users for the User's friend's name and email address. We will automatically send a User's friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Paladin stores this information for the purpose of sending this one-time email and free, informative newsletters, and research reports. A User's friend may contact us at email@example.com to request that Paladin remove User's contact information from Paladin's database or use the opt-out function on the newsletter or research report.
10. Online Reports
Financial Advisor Users who are listed on Paladin's Registry website may provide disclosures for their credentials, ethics, and business practices so investor Users have online access to the information. Advisors can opt out of Paladin services at anytime by notifying Paladin. Paladin maintains a record of the data that was provided by advisors in the event the advisors want to be reactivated on a Paladin website.
11. Changes to Users' Personal Information
If Users want to modify, delete, or update personal information, Users should login to one of Paladin's internal websites and click on the function that enables them to make these changes. Users are able to change User IDs (email addresses), update passwords, select optional programs, and update personal reports.
We will retain User information for as long as User's account is active or as needed to provide services to User. If User wishes to cancel an account or request that we no longer use User's information to provide services contact us at info@ paladinregistry.com. We will retain and use User information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
12. Referral of Advisors
Paladin may provide the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of advisors who seek admittance to the Registry or want to advertise their services on a Paladin website to an affiliated company that produces referrals for financial advisors.
13. Minor's Privacy
Paladin sites are not intended for use by minors under the age of 18. The site is operated in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Act and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under the age of 18.
14. Re-Targeted Advertising
Re-Targeted advertising uses information collected from a User's web browsing behavior such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made. This information is then used to display ads. The information collected is only linked to an anonymous cookie ID (alphanumeric number); it does not include any information that could be linked back to a particular User, such as name, address or credit card number. The information used for targeted advertising either comes from Paladin or through third party website publishers. If User would like to opt out of re-targeted advertising from Paladin that occurs when visiting our third party advertising publishers, please click here. This does not opt Users out of being served advertising. Users will continue to receive generic ads.
15. General
This Privacy Policy applies to sites that are operated and viewed in the United States of America. Paladin uses its best efforts to protect the privacy of Users; however, Paladin cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that Users transmit over the Internet, and Users do so at their own risk. Paladin websites incorporate links to third parties for the convenience of Users. If Users use these links, each site has its own Privacy Policy and data collection practices. Paladin is not responsible or liable for the policies or practices of other sites, and Paladin does not review the policies or practices of other sites.
16. Legal Disputes
This Privacy Policy will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California, excluding that body of laws known as choice of law or conflict of laws. Subject to the provisions of this Section, all disputes, controversies or claims arising out of or relating to this Agreement will be resolved through mandatory binding arbitration conducted in Sacramento, California, before JAMS/ENDISPUTE or its successor ("JAMS") pursuant to the United States Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. Section 1, et seq. (the "Act"); and (iii) this Agreement. The arbitration will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of JAMS's Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures in effect at the time of filing of the demand for arbitration (the "JAMS Rules"), subject to the provisions of this Section. The terms set forth in this Agreement will control in the event of any inconsistency between such terms and the JAMS Rules. The parties will cooperate with JAMS and with each other in promptly selecting a single arbitrator from JAMS's panel of neutrals. If the parties fail to to select an arbitrator within thirty (30) days following the date of either party's notice of demand to conduct arbitration, then JAMS will appoint an arbitrator in accordance with the JAMS Rules. The award of the arbitrator will be in writing and will set forth findings of fact and conclusions of law. Judgment on the arbitrator's award will be final and binding upon the parties and may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. If for any reason JAMS or its successor no longer is in business, then the arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's fees will be shared equally by the parties and each party will initially bear its own costs and attorneys' fees, but the prevailing party shall be reimbursed by the other party for all attorney's fees, witness fees, and arbitration costs. All papers, documents, or evidence, whether written or oral, filed with or presented in connection with the arbitration proceeding will be deemed by the parties and by the arbitrator to be confidential information of both parties. The arbitrator chosen in accordance with these provisions will not have the power to alter, amend or otherwise affect the terms of these arbitration provisions or the provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section shall prevent either party from applying for and obtaining from a court a temporary restraining order and/or other injunctive relief.
17. Social Media Widgets
Paladin websites include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook's Like button [and Widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on Paladin's site]. These Features may collect User IP address, which page Users are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
18. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.
To contact Paladin about website privacy issues, to report a violation of Paladin's Privacy Policy, or to discuss any other issue, please contact Paladin at firstname.lastname@example.com, 916.253.3334, or Paladin Internet Properties, Inc., 69 Lincoln Blvd., A-275, Lincoln, CA 95648.


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