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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Thief'
Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusaks groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she cant resistbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge to Terabithia'
The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He's been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay.
Despite their superficial differences, it's clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson's characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge to Terabithia: A Play with Music'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge to Terabithia: The Official Movie Companion'
Now a major motion picture, discover the beloved Newbery Medal-winning story of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke. Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brief History of the Dead'
From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the Citys only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'
For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death: The High Cost of Living'
Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, and others Death incarnate, as defined by master storyteller Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN), is a genuinely likeable young girl with a fondness for ankhs who truly cares about people. It's small wonder then that when a rising star of the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death that Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, honest, and intelligent story that illuminates "the miracle of death." [via]
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Teenager Sexton Furnival is contemplating suicide when he is befriended by death. Death herself is being hunted by evil forces which prey on her new vulnerability now that she is human. Meanwhile, Mad Hettie threatens to kill Death's suicidal friend if Death won't help her find her heart. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dirty Job'
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okayuntil people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven'
Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grief Observed'
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell, to doubt, to kick at God in angry violence. This is a part of a healthy grief which is not often encouraged. It is helpful indeed that C. S. Lewis, who has been such a successful apologist for Christianity, should have the courage to admit doubt about what he has so superbly proclaimed. It gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth."
Written in longhand in notebooks that Lewis found in his home, A Grief Observed probes the "mad midnight moments" of Lewis's mourning and loss, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. Indecision and self-pity assailed Lewis. "We are under the harrow and can't escape," he writes. "I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace." Writing A Grief Observed as "a defense against total collapse, a safety valve," he came to recognize that "bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."
Lewis writes his statement of faith with precision, humor, and grace. Yet neither is Lewis reluctant to confess his continuing doubts and his awareness of his own human frailty. This is precisely the quality which suggests that A Grief Observed may become "among the great devotional books of our age."
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'
National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story'
Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hogfather'
What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this is the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.
This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren't real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death tries. He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (Mort, Reaper Man, and Soul Music) know, he takes things literally. He gives children whatever they wish for and appears in person at Crumley's in The Maul.
Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn't have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas. --Nona Vero [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Die'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter'
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity.
"It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Alaska'
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestseller Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more Francois Rabelais, poet . He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'
On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mort'
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice... "The Guardian" [via]
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An illustrated version of one of Terry Pratchett's comic science-fiction novels. Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging, free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory, either. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Death & Dying'
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An audio presentation of the world-famous bestseller in which Kubler-Ross examines attitudes and factors that contribute to society's anxiety about death. 2 cassettes. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reaper Man'
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When the mortals come up with the perfect strategy for destroying the immortals, all that stands between the immortals and a certain doom is the last surviving truthspeaker. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul Music'
Soul Music is the 16th book in the bestselling Discworld series, with close ties to the fourth book, Mort. Susan Sto Helit is rather bored at her boarding school in the city of Ankh-Morpork, which is just as well, since it seems that her family business--she is the granddaughter of Death--suddenly needs a new caretaker. --Blaise Selby [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife'
If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humour, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach informs us in her introduction, "This is a book for people who would like very much to believe in a soul and in an afterlife for it to hang around in, but who have trouble accepting these things on faith. It's a giggly, random, utterly earthbound assault on our most ponderous unanswered question." Talk about truth in advertising. With that, Roach grabs us by the wrist and hauls butt to India, England, and various points in between in search of human spiritual ephemera, consulting an earnest bunch of scientists, mystics, psychics, and kooks along the way. It's a heck of a journey and Roach, with one eyebrow mischievously cocked, is a fantastically entertaining tour guide, at once respectful and hilarious, dubious yet probing. And brother, does she bring the facts. Indeed, Spook's myriad footnotes are nearly as riveting as the principal text. To wit: "In reality, an X-ray of the head could not show the brain, because the skull blocks the rays. What appeared to be an X-ray of the folds and convolutions of a human brain inside a skull--an image circulated widely in 1896--was in fact an X-ray of artfully arranged cat intestines." Or this: "Medical treatises were eminently more readable in Sanctorius's day. Medicina statica delved fearlessly into subjects of unprecedented medical eccentricity: 'Cucumbers, how prejudicial,' and the tantalizing 'Leaping, its consequences.' There's even a full-page, near-infomercial-quality plug for something called the Flesh-Brush." While rigid students of theology might take exception to Roach's conclusions (namely, we're just a bag of bones killing time before donning a soil blanket) it's hard to imagine anyone not enjoying this impressively researched and immensely readable book. And since, as Roach suggests, each of us has only one go-round, we might as well waste downtime with something thoroughly fun. --Kim Hughes [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.More editions of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief of Time'
It was only a matter of time before Terry Pratchett would win the minds and hearts of America. Already a worldwide sensation and Great Britain's indisputable number one author, this intellectually audacious and effortlessly hilarious writer sold more hardcover books in the United Kingdom during the previous decade than any other living novelist. His novels have reigned supreme on English bestseller lists since before the Iron Lady left Downing Street, and though some things have changed since then, Pratchett, thankfully, continues to pen insightfully irreverent tales set in a world a lot like our own -- only different.
Celebrated as one of the keenest practitioners of satire and parody at work today -- alongside Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen -- Terry Pratchett commands a loyal and ever-increasing number of readers and appreciative critics from coast to coast in our own country. As he skewers all aspects of modern life -- and especially our sacred cows -- Pratchett makes us laugh and challenges us to think. And he's at his sharpest, most uproarious best in Thief of Time.
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld its management is entrusted to the experts: the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (after all, how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where harried citizens are forever lamenting, "Oh where does the time go?"
And while everyone always talks about slowing down, one clever soul is about to stop. Stop time, that is. For good. Going against everything known (and the nine tenths of everything that remains unknown), a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock. It falls to History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd to find the timepiece and stop it before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will stop. And then the trouble will really begin.
A superb send-up of science and philosophy, religion and death (after all, isn't that where time stops, for most of us, anyway?), and a host of other timely topics, Thief of Time provides the perfect opportunity to kick back and unwind. So don't put off till tomorrow what you could do today. Read Thief of Time. Right this minute. Because tomorrow may not come. (You'll have to read the book to find out why. This is a Terry Pratchett novel, after all.)
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[via]› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson'
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later-the night before New Year's Eve-the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las cinco personas que encontraras en el cielo / The Five People You Meet in Heaven'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo'
From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]
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From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encuentros Con Morrie'
En marzo de 1995, el escritor Mitch Albom viajó cerca de mil kilómetros para pasar una tarde con un hombre moribundo -Morrie Schwartz, su antiguo profesor de sociología- y encontró algo que no se esperaba. Aunque Schwartz estaba reducido a una silla de ruedas y se encontraba en las fases finales de una terrible enfermedad, estaba viviendo uno de los momentos más productivos de su vida: trabajando en un libro de aforismos, rodeado de amigos y estudiantes, difundiendo su sabiduría a través de un conocido programa de televisión. "Entonces pensé", dice Albom, "yo tengo 37 años y estoy en perfecto estado de salud. Él tiene 78 y se está muriendo; sin embargo, él parece definitivamente más feliz y satisfecho".
Éste fue el inicio de la serie de encuentros que dieron lugar a este libro y que constituyen la mayor lección que alguien puede recibir. En sus encuentros, que siempre tienen lugar los martes, Morrie y Mitch hablan sobre todas las cosas importantes de la vida, pero sobre todo Morrie comparte con su antiguo alumno lo que ha aprendido de la vida desde el momento en que supo que iba a morir. Y su mensaje, para sorpresa de todos, es una lección de optimismo, entereza, amor y generosidad. Al final, como dice Albom, "Encuentros con Morrie no es en absoluto un libro acerca de la muerte. Es un libro acerca de cómo vivir bien y encontrar la satisfacción".
"Mientras nos queramos unos a otros y tengamos presente el sentimiento del amor que tuvimos, podemos morir sin irnos del todo. Todo el amor que uno creó queda allí. Todos los recuerdos siguen allí. Uno sigue viviendo en los corazones de todos los que tocó y quiso mientras estuvo aquí... La muerte es el final de una vida, pero no de una relación", le dice Morrie a Mitch, en uno de sus últimos encuentros. [via]
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Esta es la historia de Jess Aarons, que un día tiene la suerte, a la vez maravillosa y terrible, de encontrar esa amistad con que todos soñamos. [via]
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It wasn't an easy opening season game, but Midway Middle's Raiders racked up the W in a close 5-4 game against Sampson Monday afternoon.
Raider coach Steven Tyler said considering the limited amount of time he'd had to practice with his team, he thought the boys played well.
"You could tell it was our first game," Tyler said. "The guys were tense and nervous to start with, you could tell there were butterflies, but when they got warmed up a little, they came to life. We made some mistakes we'll have to work on, but considering we've only practiced about 6 or 7 times, including tryouts, I thought they did a good job."
Midway jumped on the scoreboard in the first inning, with 1 run. Sampson's at-bat brought no score. Neither team found home plate in the second inning, then the Raiders put 2 more on the board in the third to open up a 3-0 lead. Scores in the fourth and sixth from the Raiders put them ahead by 5, but Sampson's bats warmed up in the sixth, and the Dark Horses brought in 3 runs to edge closer at 5-3.
Sampson got another run in the seventh, but it wasn't enough, and Midway walked away the winner in a tight contest.
"Sampson came to play," Tyler stressed. "They've got a really good team and they played us hard. We were fortunate to come away with the win."
Dustin Holland was on the mound for the middle Raiders all 7 innings, tossing 14 strikeouts, allowing only 3 hits and giving up 2 earned runs.
Leading hitters for Midway were Landon Dorman, 2-3, with a walk and a run; Holland, 1-3, with a double; Gregory Nobles, 1-4, with 2 RBIs; Adam Butler, 1-2 with 2 RBIs; and Wesley Johnson, 2-3.
For Sampson, Logan Carr was on the hill, tossing all seven innings and getting 3 strikeouts.
Leading hitters for the Horses were Gray Sutter, 1-4; and Zack Darden, 2-3.
Tyler said there are 12 returning eighth-graders on his middle school team, along with 1 eighth-grader and six seventh-graders.
The young Raiders are 1-0 and travel Thursday to Hobbton Middle for a 4 p.m. game.

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You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils)
Paul de Marseul, the owner of a prestigious vineyard in Saint Emilion, has a son, Martin, who works with him on the family estate. But Paul is very demanding, and his son is not able to fulfill his dream of a perfect winemaker. The arrival of Philip, the manager's son, changes their lives.
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Top Gear U.S. – See First Trailer!
The Brit smash car TV show TopGear is finally getting an American version, and it's going to be hosted by The History Channel. The wait is finally over, but it's been a long one and car fans from East coast to West coast are eager to get a treat of what's coming. We know that, and that's why we've included the first official trailer of the U.S. Top Gear right here!
Any names for the U.S. Top Gear show to be? Sure: Tanner Foust, Rutledge Wood and Adam Ferrara are going to win over viewers in the debut of the show.
Will the program be built on the same success plan as the original BBS production? Yes indeed, the will not stray from the original formula with lots of tests, celebrities, weird challenges and all the best of the rest.
The trailer shows how the host has to find out which is the best $1,000 car you can buy in the land of the free. In order to do so, he races three of posible winners in a "moonshine run" dirt course.This video teaser here depicts Adam Ferrar's pick , a 1975-1976 Cadillac Deville Calais. Wow, that's an elder put to the dirt. The result is funny as hell.
The future of the American Top Gear show is looking bright … at least until some wacky race covers your screen in dirt!


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Horace "Pappy" "Tom" E. Smith, 93, of Athens formerly of Reedsville died early Sunday morning, March 3, 2013, at The Laurels of Athens. Born May 4, 1919, in Pomeroy, he was the son of the late Clyde and Amanda Chaney Smith.
He attended Meigs Local School and had been employed at Cole's Sawmill of Tuppers Plains and the Athens Lumber Company. He was a member of the Airline Church of Christ, Albany. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. He also enjoyed playing his guitar and bluegrass music.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II serving in the European and African Theatres. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Horace is survived by three sons, Oris (Shelia) Smith of Millfield, Warren (Debra) Smith of Albany, and Leroy Smith of Millfield; daughter-in-law, Sharon Smith of Athens; nine grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Lynn Taylor of Beshon.
Besides his parents he is preceded in death by his wife, Marjean Jeffers Smith; two daughters, Helen and Rita Mae Smith; three sons, Roger, James and David Smith; two sisters, Mabel Jo and Geraldine Smith; and three brothers, Richard, Harold and Clyde Smith.
Funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Jagers & Sons Funeral Home with Willard Love, Minister officiating. Burial will be in Cherry Ridge Cemetery, Meigs County. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m., Tuesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Airline Church of Christ, P.O. Box 202, Albany, Ohio 45710. Military Rites will be conducted by K.T. Crossen Post 21 American Legion, VFW Post 3477 and VFW Post 9893 Honor Guards at the cemetery.
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I founded an open-source software project for voting about 8 years ago. It has been mostly a solo project, and it is very successful in that it is by far the most well known and most used software in its niche.
I do it because I love it, but as the software has grown and become more complex, it is becoming increasingly difficult to work on it in addition to my day job. It would be my dream to make it a non-profit that would provide me with enough income to do it full time.
I'm looking for advice to help me do that. Basically, I want to generate enough revenue to pay the rent, but in a way that promotes maximum use of the software. I plan to keep the software as open source, but have a restrictive license so people can't share with others and have to get it from me.
Revenue Models
- Charge per Download -- As an experiment, I started charging $5 for downloads about 4 months ago, and I average one download a day. With good marketing, I could certainly increase this, but, given the niche nature, this is unlikely to create a sustainable revenue stream. I could increase the price, but that is counter to the goal of having as many people as possible using it. Also, other free software would surely appear if I make the price too high.
- Different Price Levels -- I could limit the $5 version to 100 voters, and charge more for unlimited voters. This seems like a good possibility, though the software will be open source and thus easy to circumvent. Hopefully, enough honest people would pay and not circumvent.
- Restrictive License -- I could keep the software at $5, but have license that only allows evaluative use and does not allow it to be used for an actual election. To use it for a real election, would require additional payment. This would again depend on honesty, but many organizations publicize their elections on the Internet.
- Web Access vs. Download -- I could create a web app that allows people to use the software inexpensively (say $5/month) and charge a much higher amount to download the source or a desktop app.
- Site License -- Allow other organizations to provide free downloads to their users for a significant fee. This seems like the most promising route if I can get other companies doing this.
So those are my ideas to monetize in a way that is consistent with a non-profit mission. I know there are other posts out there about how to make money from software, but I am looking for advice in particular about how to do that with a non-profit mission.


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L.P. Owens, a partner with Sage Ralston in the development of the property, said they started the new building as a spec building but that they have a company that has expressed some real interest in it.
"We do think we have a real prospect," Owens said.
The first building in the Commerce Center is KAS Rugs, 100 Enterprise Drive, Calhoun, a business owned by Rao Yarlagadda and his wife Kas, which specializes in the distribution of Oriental rugs. The Somerset, N.J.-headquartered firm started shipping from the Calhoun site in July of 2011.
Owens said the Calhoun Commerce Center has a 50-acre lot to the west side of the property and approximately 24 acres on the east side.
"We've got lots of space to build," Owens said.
The site will be tied to the proposed south bypass of Calhoun. The partners have had the Georgia Commerce Center property for about five years.
"Times are sort of slow and raw land is even slower," Owens said. "There is a demand for warehouses and most of the warehouses in Calhoun are rented and this is on the bypass."
The Georgia Department of Transportation has let the contract for a new interchange on Interstate 75 at Union Grove Road, which will be a part of the south bypass around Calhoun.
"The bypass is going to be on this property, we're going to have a corner," Owens said.
While the bypass project is still several years down the road, Owens said the DOT has already settled with him and Ralston for their property that will be a part of the bypass.
"They have bought a lot of the right of way on the bypass. They're putting money out," Owens said.
Some $17.5 million for the bypass is included on Gordon County's project list to be funded by the proposed 1-cent TSPLOST, which will be voted on across 15 counties in Northwest Georgia on July 31.
Owens said he and Ralston are going to fully build out the new warehouse type building, offices and everything.
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I try to answer questions here with an eye on the commercial aspects, and on the dynamics of manager-developer relationships. As you can see I am not so much the pointy- as the floppy-haired boss.
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Can I like the idea of a thing, better than the thing? This is the question I'm pondering as I write up this admittedly cool LED/laser hybrid projector from ViewSonic. Instead of UHP lamps or even "regular" LEDs, the Pro9000 adds a laser to the mix, because ... well because it's cool, right?
While it gets an "A" on the technology front, its performance grade is notably lower.
Nearly all front projectors currently on the market use UHP (Ultra-High Pressure) lamps to generate light. This light gets manipulated by either LCD, LCOS, or as in the case with the Pro9000, DLP. UHP lamps offer incredible amounts of output, but a lot gets wasted on light frequencies not needed to create an image. All you need to make pretty pictures is specific amounts of the primary colors: red, green, and blue.
LED projectors are relatively new on the market. Using red, green, and blue LEDs, they don't waste energy with a lot of the junk in-between. So far, though, LEDs don't offer the raw light output of UHP lamps (they will, eventually).
Two companies are experimenting with laser/LED hybrids: Casio and, of course, ViewSonic. I reviewed the Casio a few months ago. Their method is to use a red LED, blue laser, and a green phosphor to create all the light. The blue laser creates the blue light, but also energizes the green phosphor to create green light. If this sounds weird, I thought so too. The results weren't spectacular, but given the price and Casio's lack of history in the home theater space, I can't definitively say this is because of their lighting process.
ViewSonic moves a step closer to traditional: red and blue LEDs, and, get this, a blue laser hitting a green phosphor. Are inexpensive green lasers not the right wavelength or something? Are blue lasers more efficient? Your guess is as good as mine. Here's what the light engine layout looks like:
(Note the "Phosphor Color Wheel" isn't like the traditional multi-color color filter wheel in UHP-based DLPs.)
Which makes for an interesting spectral response:
You can see the red and blue spikes where the LEDs are creating very specific wavelengths, and the green blob of the green phosphor. A UHP lamp would be more "rolling hills" than "sharp peeks." Sharp peaks being, perhaps counter intuitively, better.
There's a certain naturalness to an image created by pure RGB. Even if the color points are exactly measurably the same, the LED image looks a little more realistic. I asked a TV engineer why this is, and his explanation was that it was like painting with purer paint. There are traces of this with the Pro9000. Skin tones, for example, look really good.
There are other benefits with this laser/LED hybrid, like nearly instant light when you press the power button (no way you get that with UHP). There's no color wheel needed like there is with UHP, so those susceptible to seeing DLP's dreaded "rainbows" needn't worry. There's no mercury, which all UHP lamps have. You don't have to replace lamps ($300 or so with UHP, and you'll need a new one every year or so). ViewSonic also claims lower power consumption, though when it comes to projectors, I don't think most people worry about that too much.
Like most current DLP-based projectors, there is no lens shift and a significant upwards throw. So ceiling or table mount is OK, but you really can't use a shelf on the back wall. Zoom range on the lens isn't great, but I've certainly seen worse.
There are a minimum of picture adjustment controls, but those that it has, work pretty well. For example, the color temperature controls only allow global RGB adjustments (not gain and bias like most displays). However, it tracks well across the grayscale range after calibration so this is fine.
The color management system is intuitive enough, but it lacks the fine steps and/or range to fully dial in the colors. Out of the box, the colors are way off HDTV spec, and even after adjustment, they're all much further off than other displays of this price range.
Annoyingly, the Overscan control set to "0%" still crops a few pixels.
Not sure how to best approach this section. I guess I'll start with the good. Motion resolution is great, as is typical with DLP. I readily notice motion blur, and both LCD and LCOS projectors suffer badly from it. The Pro9000 has way more detail with motion than any recent projector I've reviewed.
It goes downhill from there. On my 102-inch 1.0-gain screen, I measured 15.24 footLamberts. This is half as bright as the $3,500 JVC DLA-X35, and lower still than other projectors in this class. The black level was a mediocre 0.0085 fL, for a native contrast ratio of 1,793:1. This is barely better than the worst LCD flat panels I measured in 2012, and significantly worse than other projectors based on LCD and LCOS designs. There is an ECO mode that improves the black level by dropping the overall light output, but since the maximum is 15.24, I wouldn't recommend a mode that's dimmer, unless you had a really small screen. Besides, the contrast ratio stays the same.
Color accuracy, as I mentioned earlier, is subpar. I could go on, but the story is pretty clear at this point.
The Pro9000 doesn't exist in a vacuum. With a list price of $3,923, it's on the high side of the new sweet spot for home theater projectors. This means it's competing head-to-head with the highly accurate and all-around great Sony VPL-HW50ES ($3,999), the gorgeous JVC DLA-X35 ($3,499) and its best-I've-ever-measured native contrast ratio, and the brightest-display-I've-ever-measured Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020e ($2,899). The Pro9000 can't compete on color accuracy, contrast ratio, or overall light output. These are the three most important performance aspects of a projector, and the ViewSonic comes up far short in all three.
While the street price is closer to $3,000, it would have to be much lower to be commensurate with its performance.
Judged solely as a projector, the Pro9000 is vastly outperformed by Sony, Epson, and JVC, all of which are basically the same price as the ViewSonic. Even if you figure in not having to pay for lamps over the lifetime of the projector, it is still not a decent value.
As a glimpse at the possible future of projector lighting technologies, though, it's fascinating.
Brent Butterworth and Geoff Morrison combine their years of gear testing and knowledge in one überblog of irreverence and techiness.
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Active Day of Russeville hosted it's first annual St. Patrick's Day Dance March 15. The event was held for those who have special needs offering an opportunity for Logan Countians to get out and have some fun. Several folks in the community attended the dance, said Active Day Director Tammy Dauley.
Clay Bilyeu and Timmy Parrish provided entertainment for the evening. Tasty themed food was offered including nachos, pizza, fruit, shamrock cookies and green punch. Door prized were given out during the event as well.
Dauley said she planned the event after some of those who come to the Active Day asked about having a dance. A similar dance is held in Bowling Green sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Several of the clients have attended that dance and have had a great time. "They asked why we couldn't do the same. I thought why not," said Dauley.
Active Day of Russellville came to the community 11 years ago, providing a safe, home-like environment for more than 35 clients with mental and physical disabilities. Active Day receives a customized care program that includes therapeutic activities, daily nutrition, socialization and health services that improve quality of life. The facility moved from it's former location in Russellville to a new one on 431 (the old Lewisburg Road) Jan. 27, 2012.
Active Day of Russellville holds several events throughout the year for their patrons, but the dance was something that was new and offered to the public. It was very successful said Dauley.
"Some folks even got their faces painted with a green shamrock or green heart," said Dauley. "Several folks enjoyed dancing the night away. We really enjoyed seeing all of the smiling faces as they participated in this dance."


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Springbok lock Flip van der Merwe is relishing the prospect of taking on the All Blacks in Dunedin on Saturday.
Van der Merwe is determined to make the most of a rare opportunity in the Boks' starting XV after he was elevated to the run-on side when first-choice second-row Eben Etzebeth was banned for two weeks for head-butting Wallabies counterpart Nathan Sharpe in Perth last week.
"The way the world works you have to take your chances but it's very unfortunate for Eben," he told Supersport.
"I think that I am in good shape and I think I am playing well.
"I have had an impact role in the previous tests and I am looking forward to bringing my playing style at the Bulls to the game. I want to show that I am capable of being a starting lock."
Van der Merwe knows that the clash with the All Blacks will be the Springboks' toughest assignment of the year but although the odds are stacked against them, he believes a win is not impossible.
"Every rugby player wants to test himself against the best in the world and that is the challenge that we face on Saturday," he said.
"New Zealand in New Zealand is probably one of the biggest challenges that there is.
"The belief that we can win is definitely there. We learnt a lot in the past two tests and we have got better each week.
"The guys are starting to understand one another and our training this week was probably the best we have had on tour.
"If you pull on a Springbok jersey then you go out to win and that is what we will be doing on Saturday.
"Myself and (flank) Francois Louw are in the team to bring a bit of experience and we are going out to win."
The 27-year-old is looking forward to locking the scrum with Bulls team-mate Juandre Kruger.
"I am very happy to be playing with Juandre," said van der Merwe.
"Our line-outs worked well during Super Rugby and I think we can form a good partnership at four and five."


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I purchased the LigthStim and then this serum after I failed to see results. The serum is silicon heavy which is disappointing. I like the dispenser it comes in which is very travel friendly. Not sure how I about the claim on the front about oxygenation - wouldn't be something I would advertise as a good thing. Overall it's ok, I've been using it, didn't send it back with the LightStim but not sure if I would purchase again.
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Last week we offered up a lot of gadgets for gift ideas and stocking stuffers for the foodie on your list. This week we focus on gift ideas that you can eat or drink.
The first thing we think of when we think of gifts to snack or nosh is the gift basket. There is practically no food emporium that doesn't offer some sort of gift basket. Gourmet Gallery does a Made in Oklahoma basket among its many variations. The Beef Jerky Emporium offers gift baskets that won't cause your husband, son or boss to turn in his man-card. Few mix edibles and gadgetry as thoroughly as International Pantry in Norman. Few do chocolate as thoroughly as Coco Flow. Few do both candy and cupcakes like Pinkitzel. Few do candy and gifts like 42nd Street Candy Co. Few do all of these things like the Candy Box in Norman. You get the picture. If you're looking for a gift basket, you don't have to go far to find someone to do a great one for you.
One place that might not immediately come to mind is Nunu's Mediterranean Cafe and Market, 3131 W Memorial. Poaching product from the cafe portion of the operation, Janet Farhood and son Clayton offer beautiful baskets with assorted products, including a variety of sweets and savories, which you can mix and match. Options include homemade Walnut Baklava, Belgian truffles, Jordan Almonds, chocolate sunflower seeds, peppermint bark, candy cane caramels, shortbread cookies, almond cookies, chocolate Christmas figurines, Trecce dell' Orto Tricolor Pasta, Lovera's Gourmet Sauce (Tomato Basil, Roasted Garlic, or Vodka), Pietro Coricelli Riserva del Presidente Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Aceto Balsamico de Modena, Lovera's Onion Stuffed Olives (or other flavors), Artichoke Tomato Bruschetta, Elki Garlic and Herb Crackers, Merlot Wine Jelly (or Chardonnay, Chianti, or Marsala), Lazzaroni Amaretti Snaps, and chocolate-covered espresso coffee beans to name a few. Call 751-7000 to order, then stop by and have some falafel for lunch.


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Docs Warn of Wii Pain
By: Bruce Hensel, KNBC
Updated: April 1, 2009
Now some of those same people are lining up at the doctor's office.
What sets the Wii games apart is the motion sensitive controllers that require players to act out movements.
Players use the Wii remote to mimic the actions of swinging a racket, bat or club.
What they often forget is that it is not the real thing.
Kristyl Sunderman was on the golf team in college and does yoga every week, so she thought playing Wii golf and Wii yoga would not be a big deal.
She was wrong.
"After playing the Wii on two occasions my lower back is hurting, and my right knee," Kristyl said.
Dr. Ralph Gambardella says he is seeing people come in with injuries caused by playing Wii, and the potential for more is huge.
For example, he says that a Wii golf club is weighted differently than a real golf club, so that it is putting a strain in a different way.
"So what we have here is we have a combination of something that is in a way mind addictive, if you've ever played any of those things and you've got any competition in you. so that the time frame gets lost very quickly, and you think that you're doing it for 15 minutes and the next thing you know it's an hour later," Gambardella said.
After an examination, Dr. Gambardella found that Kristyl aggravated a degenerative disk condition in her back, and hurt her knee.
She will undergo physical therapy, and she has advice for other Wii players.
"Just be careful use caution, don't get overexcited," she said.


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WATCH: PSA from 'Familia es Familia' highlights importance of the freedom to marry
on Jun 10, 2013 at 09:45 amToday, Familia es Familia, released a new public education video featuring civil rights leader Dolores Huerta that highlights the importance of the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
Sergio Lopez says 'Ya Es Hora' for family acceptance
on Apr 02, 2013 at 01:15 pmLatinos overwhelming support the freedom to marry but they won't talk to their families about it. It's time we change that.
Analysis demonstrates increased and diverse support, isolated opposition for marriage
on Mar 07, 2013 at 12:00 pmA new analysis of national polling data and trends on the freedom to marry by two top Democratic and Republican pollsters indicates that the majority national support for marriage for same-sex couples is broadening and diversifying while resistance is diminishing and becoming isolated to just a few narrow demographic groups.
Freedom to Marry welcomes Sergio Lopez as director of Latino programming
on Feb 15, 2013 at 01:41 pmToday Freedom to Marry announced that Sergio Lopez, a seasoned campaign organizer, Latino media strategist, and marriage advocate has joined as the newest member of its team, and will serve as director of Latino programming.
New survey shows that a firm majority of Latinos support the freedom to marry
on Oct 03, 2012 at 11:00 amA new poll from NBC Latino/IBOPE Zogby indicates that a solid majority of Latinos in the United States support the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. 60 percent of Latinos surveyed in the poll said they "strongly agree" that same-sex couples should be able to marry.
200 leaders representing communities of color endorse marriage in Washington
on Sep 20, 2012 at 12:33 pmThis week, Washington United for Marriage, the broad coalition of organizations and advocates working to uphold the freedom to marry in Washington, announced that nearly 200 organizations and leaders representing communities of color in the state are voicing their fervent support for marriage for same-sex couples.
National Latino organizations urge passage of the Uniting American Families Act
on Aug 24, 2012 at 11:00 amThis week, over thiry prominent Latino organizations signed onto a group filing that encourages Congress to pass immigration reform legislation, including legislation that would eliminate immigration discrimination for same-sex couples.
Finding love, acceptance and support in my Mexican immigrant Mormon family
on Jul 24, 2012 at 09:45 amHear a personal story of self-discovery and familial love from Carlos Gomar, whose story resonates with our 'Familia es Familia' public education campaign. Coming out as gay in a Mexican immigrant Mormon family in Utah may not be the most typical coming out story - but it's Carlos', and he's learned a lot from his unique identity.
League of United Latin American Citizens passes freedom to marry resolution
on Jul 02, 2012 at 12:50 pmOn Saturday, the oldest Latino organization in the country, the League of United Latin American Citizens, approved a resolution supporting the freedom to marry.
National Council of La Raza passes freedom to marry resolution
on Jun 25, 2012 at 12:50 pmEarlier this month, the board of the National Council of La Raza unanimously approved a resolution supporting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. NCLR is the largest Latino civil rights group in the country.


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THEY TELL ME I will die here. This place I do not know, this dark, dank, rancid dungeon, where nobody wishes me well and most speak languages I don't understand—this is the place I will call home for the rest of my life. That's what they tell me. It's getting harder to disbelieve them.
There are people in here who want me dead, some for retribution but most to establish their own notoriety. It would be a sure path to celebrity to kill me or one of my friends, known collectively as the Monte Carlo Mistresses. That was the moniker that stuck in the international media. More imaginative than the earlier ones—the Gang of Four, the Bern Beauties, the Desperate Housewives. Less chilling, to me at least, than the one that ran on the front page of Le Monde the day after the verdict: Mamans Coupables. Guilty Moms.
So I wait. For a miracle. For newly discovered evidence. A confession from the real killer. A sympathetic ear to my appeal. Or simply for the morning when I wake up and discover this was all a dream. The last three hundred and ninety-eight mornings, I've opened my eyes and prayed that I was back in Bern, or, better yet, back in Georgetown, preparing to teach American literature to hungover underclassmen.
And I watch. I turn every corner widely and slowly. I sleep sitting up. I try to avoid any routine that would make my movements predictable, that would make me vulnerable. If they're going to get to me in here, they're going to have to earn it.
It started out as a day like any other. I walked down the narrow corridor of G wing. When I approached the block letters on the door's glass window—INFIRMERIE—I stopped and made sure my toes lined up with the peeling red tape on the floor that served as a marker, a stop sign before entering.
"Bonjour," I said to the guard at the station on the other side of the hydraulic door, a woman named Cecile. No last names. None of the prison staff was allowed to reveal anything more to the prisoners than their first names, and those were probably fake, too. The point was anonymity outside these walls: because of it, the inmates, once released, wouldn't be able to hunt down the prison guards who hadn't treated them so nicely.
"Hi, Abbie." Always responding to me in her best English, which wasn't bad. Better than my French. After a loud, echoing buzz, the door released with a hiss.
The prison infirmary was the length and width of an American gymnasium, but it had a lower ceiling, about eight feet high. It was mostly one open space filled with about two dozen beds. On one side was a long cage—the "reception" area—where inmates waited their turn to be treated. On another side, also closed off and secured, was a room containing medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.
Reprinted from the book GUILTY WIVES by James Patterson and David Ellis. Copyright © 2012 by James Patterson. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks all of fabulous Monte Carlo, and it doesn't take the women long to surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the endless flow of Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they are free to live a lifestyle reserved for the rich and famous. And as the weekend takes them into pulsating discos, opulent, high-stakes casinos and beyond, Abbie experiences the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
But in the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a magnificent private yacht, surrounded by police! Something awful has happened—something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime—for survival. Guilty Wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop thrill ride of excess, friendship, betrayal and danger that could only come from #1 bestselling author James Patterson.
Hardcover Book : 416 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group, USA ( March 26, 2012 )
Item #: 13-492244
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.94inches
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I really enjoyed this book, it was a little different from some of his other work however; that is part of what I liked. Great read.
Reviewer: Pamela
This book was sooooooooooo ecxiting...a real page turner!
Reviewer: jeani
I really liked this book!!
Reviewer: Karen
I really liked this book!! It would make an excellent movie.
Reviewer: Debbie R
for a first time with patterson i read a brief intro of the book and was looking so forward to read it.I was not disappointed i really did enjoy the book.What I really hate is people feel like they have to follow the review get over it if you dont like the book STOP READING HOW STUPID! I start a book give it a portion to prove itself if it doesnt i certainly wont make myself suffer thru it to finish it I mean really come on !
Reviewer: joni s


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In an effort to support and enhance its local farming communities, Loews Coronado Bay Resort will host its final Farmers, Foragers and Fishermen dinner on October 7 in the resort's Mistral restaurant. The popular series, which has welcomed Brandt Beef, Fresh Origins Farm, and Kanaloa Seafood, allows guests to dine with folks who produce, harvest, and catch the ingredients they enjoy on a regular basis.
For its final dinner, Loews Coronado Bay Resort is turning to renowned restaurant and food consultant Clark Wolf, author of American Cheeses: The Best Regional, Artisan and Farmhouse Cheeses, Who Makes Them and Where to Find Them. Wolf will forage and present a sampling of California's most accomplished cheesemakers, from well-known brands to the creators of small-batch, hand-crafted rarities.
The evening will begin at 6:30pm with the cheesemaker festival. Guests will sample three varieties, each perfectly paired with its own libation. At 7:30pm, a four-course dinner will prelude with a guided tasting class by Wolf, who will share his expertise on how cheese is made, how to store it, serve it, and most importantly, how to enjoy it. The evening will conclude with an extensive cheese table presentation. The cost is $48 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Wine pairings will be available during the four-course dinner. Reservations are required by calling Mistral manager Michael Graichen. (619/424-4000, ext. 4476)


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I purchased the pdf last night and it's pretty spiffy.
As I read through a number of questions occur which I'll ask in order. First off is age; does a character gain +20 skill points per additional d6 years or does it only kick in at 5d6 years or greater? Also, which skills can they be applied to? I can't seem to find anything that says they're restricted to culture or occupation.