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Admissions. Personal and professional development courses through Pellissippi State Community College offer job training, personal enrichment or professional certification. These courses are an important part of skills training for both individuals and companies, satisfying license renewal and other skills-based training requirements as well as offering ways to improve hobby skills. Non-credit courses do not have an admissions process. To register, please choose one of five steps below:
- Register on the web: www.pstcc.edu/bcs. Click "Search for a Course" or "Register for a Class" links.
- Call (865) 539-7167 to register and pay by phone with Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express.
- Visit during office hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, Hardin Valley Campus, Lamar Alexander Building, Room 108.
- Mail a completed Non-credit Course Registration Form with check or money order to BCS Registration, Pellissippi State, P.O. Box 22990, Knoxville, TN 37933-0990.
- Fax your completed Non-credit Course Registration Form to the Business and Community Services (BCS) office on the Hardin Valley Campus at (865) 694-6583. Please do not write credit/debit card information on the form if faxing. A member of our staff will contact you for payment information once your registration form has been received. Please note that your registration is not complete until payment has been processed.
Cancellations. In the event of inclement weather, non-credit classes follow the college's schedule for cancellations. Updates appear on the main site at http://www.pstcc.edu/.
Classroom location. Classroom assignments are given out at the time of registration. In the event that a classroom or location has not been determined for a course, students will be notified of a location two days before class is scheduled to begin. Click here for campus maps and directions.
Course registration closing dates. The closing date for registration is two working days before the start of the class, unless otherwise stated. Registration after this date cannot be guaranteed. Class space is limited and many classes fill before the closing date. Early registration with payment will ensure enrollment.
Credit Classes. A student enrolled only in non-credit classes must complete a separate college application and must meet the regular admissions requirements listed under the general admissions procedures as applicable to be eligible to take credit classes at Pellissippi State.
Employee classes. Pellissippi State employees are eligible to take non-credit classes through an interdepartmental budget transfer process. The budget transfer process must be approved by your department before enrollment. Employees do not need to apply or be admitted to the college to take non-credit courses. The cost of the class and any applicable material fees are included in each course listing.
Fees. The fee amount for each class or course is included in the class description. Fees vary in accordance with the costs incurred in the delivery of the course, such as instructor, materials and facilities costs. Enrollment fees must be paid at the time of registration.
Fee waivers. Unlike credit courses, no tax dollars are used to support non-credit programs. Class fee waivers, including those offered for state employees, senior citizens and disabled persons, are not applicable to non-credit programs.
Holidays. Non-credit programs follow the college holiday schedule.
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Minimum enrollment. Non-credit courses are sustained by participant or contract revenues only; therefore, class enrollment must meet the minimum number of participants required to cover expenses. Classes may be canceled for lack of minimum enrollment. In the event a class is canceled by the college for any reason, an effort will be made to notify each student registered for the class, provided work and home telephone numbers are given at the time of registration.
Maximum enrollment. Class instructors may limit class sizes to provide personalized instruction for participants. In the event a course reaches maximum enrollment, a second course may be offered based on instructor availability. Some courses also allow for wait lists.
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Refunds. Refunds are issued when the class is canceled by the college or when students notify our business office of intent to withdraw two business days prior to the starting date of each class. Students may appeal a refund by submitting a written request outlining the basis for the appeal to the executive director of Business and Community Services.
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When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent "grand design�of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation?
The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.
In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the "top-downâ€?approach to cosmology that Hawking and Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the "multiverse"â
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The Editors' Choice award goes to a product called the Cygolite Expillion 800. According to the review team, the Cygloite had an impressive beam quality which tended to be wider than most of its competitors. The review team also notes that this wide beam pattern comfortably sent light even to the edges of their peripheral vision, which was nice. The Cygolite also excelled in the area of beam distance. Its beam distance measured an impressive 160 meters, which was more than most of its competition. They also picked this product because it sells for a fair price.
The OutdoorGearLab testing team chose two Top Pick award winners, each one because it excells at a certain application. The two winners of the Top Pick award were given to the products, NiteRider Pro 1800 and the Light and Motion Vis 360+.
According the testing team the NiteRider Pro 1800 was the best bike light tested for mountain biking. The reason for this is because the Pro 1800 received the highest score of all twenty of the bike lights tested in this review. It received 10 out of 10 scores for both brightness and beam pattern and it also scored well for battery life. The review team would like to point out though that this particular light is not recommended for use as a commuter light because it is particularly large, heavy and not very simple to install.
The Light and Motion Vis 360+ was reported by the testing team to be a potential game changer with regards to design. The Vis 360+ features a spotlight mounted to the front of the helmet, which enables the wearer to point the light where they need it most while riding. The Vis 360+ also comes with two side lights which are amber in color and a red tail light in the back that can be turned on or off as needed. Its battery life was pretty great as well, scoring the second highest score of all the lights tested. The Vis 360+ is highly recommended by the review team for commuting because of its unique design, which allowed for the most feelings of safety while doing so.
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A majority of Americans support cutting off aid to Egypt, at least until democracy is restored there, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.
According to the new poll, a combined 52 percent of Americans support eliminating military aid the U.S. sends to Egypt, including 28 percent who want to cut off aid until Egypt restores a democratic government and 24 percent who said they'd like to cut off aid no matter what happens there. Twenty-one percent said they would prefer to continue aid as long as it's beneficial to the U.S. and its allies, and 27 percent said they're not sure.
A Pew Research Center poll released Monday likewise found that 51 percent of Americans want to "cut off military aid as a way to pressure the Egyptian government," while 26 percent said they would like to "continue military aid in order to influence what happens there."
Republicans in the HuffPost/YouGov poll were most likely to support withdrawing aid to Egypt, with a combined 63 percent supporting either cutting off aid until it restores a democratic government (34 percent) or cutting off aid regardless of what happens (29 percent). Just under half of Democrats and independents said they would support cutting off aid, though Democrats were more likely to support a cutoff until democratic governance is reestablished, while independents were more likely to support an unconditional withdrawal of aid.
Respondents were divided in their opinion of how President Barack Obama is handling the situation in Egypt. Thirty-two percent said they approved of the way he is handling the conflict, while 34 percent said they disapprove. Another 34 percent said they weren't sure. Twenty-nine percent said Obama's response has not been strong enough, while another 29 percent said it's been about right. Only 8 percent said the response by Obama has been too strong.
A YouGov/Economist poll conducted July 6 to July 8 found that a plurality of 35 percent to 22 percent of Americans disapproved of Obama's handling of protests in Egypt at that time, but 42 percent in that poll said they had no opinion.
Together, the Pew and HuffPost/YouGov polls show the fine line the Obama administration must walk in attempting to influence events in Egypt. While the HuffPost/YouGov poll found a preference for withholding aid at least until Egypt restores democracy, the Pew poll also found that more would prefer an Egypt controlled by the military than one controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, by a 45 percent to 11 percent margin. Forty-four percent said that they would either prefer neither of those options or that they were not sure.
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Weekend watch: NFL players with Utah ties in this weekend's preseason action
The NFL preseason begins just as college camps are getting ready, and one team in action this weekend features a number of players from the State of Utah.
The Miami Dolphins appear to be a destination for Beehive State footballers. Players from all three major Utah programs have landed there, and several of them have thrived.
Perhaps the biggest surprise out of Miami's fall camp has been former Utah State defensive back Will Davis. The rookie has been an interception machine in the early phases of fall camp.
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5 utes. 1 aggie. 1 cougar
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dosent miami stink or something. now the ravens that's a team. if it wasn't for an unavoidable injury who would have been tabbed the best TE in the nfl?
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No need to exaggerate on this one, Chris. I give the Utes full props for getting players in the NFL. The number they place ranks favorably in the PAC 12 (middle of the pack, 6th I believe) and is probably ranked around 30th in the league while BYU has only as many as USU and probably ranks around 80-100. But let's not read too much into that… Cal places more in the NFL (44) than Texas, Alabama, and Oregon. Iowa (35) places more than Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. Fresno State (24) places more than Oregon State, Arizona, and Washington. I'm thrilled Utah has had so much success in getting players to the league, and I'm even more excited to see what they can do on the field in six weeks.
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Paul Facella has served as Vice President, Market Development, McDonald's Metropolitan New York Region since 1999. During his tenure with McDonald's he has garnered every major honor the company bestows, including The President's Award, The Freddy Award, two Team Awards, and The Star Award. Adina Genn is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times and Long Island Business News.
Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonaldsby Paul Facella, Adina Genn
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What is it about McDonald's that has enabled it to produce more millionaires from within its ranks than any company in history?
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And how does it continue to expand its products, retool its image, and become more popular with each passing year?
Few authors are as qualified to answer those questions as company insider Paul Facella. Beginning behind the counter at age 16, Paul literally grew up at McDonald's. From counter, to grill, to Regional Vice President, he has, over the course of his distinguished 34-year career, developed an intimate knowledge of the fast-food giant's management practices and culture. He's also forged personal ties to its legendary leaders, including founder Ray Kroc and CEOs Fred Turner, Mike Quinlan, Jack Greenberg, former President Ed Rensi, and current CEO Jim Skinner.
Everything I Know Ab out Business I Learned at McDonald's delivers an up-close-and-personal look at a company where talent is cultivated and encouraged to thrive, from the individual restaurant to the corner office. With the help of in-depth interviews and "in their own words" commentaries from company executives, franchisees, and vendors, he explores McDonald's result-driven culture, and reveals the core principles, first laid down by founder Ray Kroc in 1955, that have successfully guided the company for more than five decades.
Finally, Paul distills all that knowledge and experience into powerful lessons on teamwork, leadership, integrity, communication, and relationship building that you'll use to achieve stellar results in your company-whether your goal is to build an international business empire of your own, or just the best darned shop in town.
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Every day, McDonalds serves food to nearly 50 million people in 30,000 restaurants worldwide. It owns about half of the globally branded, fast food restaurants outside the U.S. In India, you can order a Maharaja Mac with two lamb patties. New Zealand¿s Kiwi Burger has a slice of beef and a fried egg. In Uruguay, the egg on the McHuevo burger is poached. With annual sales at the typical outlet averaging more than $2 million, many franchisees have become millionaires. In fact, seven out of 10 current McDonald¿s executives began as restaurant ¿crewmembers¿ and built their careers through the chain. Ray Kroc, who made McDonald¿s the world¿s largest fast food company, once said he didn¿t know what type of food it would be selling in the year 2000 (he died in 1984), but he was certain that it would be selling more of that food than anyone else. Author Paul Facella worked at McDonalds for 33 years. Albeit with the attitude of a fond insider, he details its history and philosophy, and the lessons he learned from the legendary Kroc. getAbstract relishes serving up this primer on McDonald¿s ¿ and in some sense, America¿s ¿ way of doing business.
The book is unique in that the management principles are all related to someone¿s real life experiences at an entity that everyone is familiar with and can relate to. It is not an academic-oriented book and thankfully it doesn¿t have a single chart or diagram. What it does have are relevant stories that make the ideas more concrete. While the principles apply to a large multinational company, they are equally as relevant for a five-person jewelry store or a ten person manufacturing company. I suppose non-profits would benefit as well. Additionally, this is a management book that can be read by the president and the manager, as well as the employee at the bottom of the ladder. It probably should be read by all at the same time in order to get everyone on the same page in any organization. It is easy to read through, and the summaries and bullet points are helpful when you need to refer back to something that was previously read.
Facella has given us a rare and absolutlely candid peek under Mickey D's tent, and it is fascinating. You can't help but walk away with a clear understanding of how McDonald's became, and continues to be one of the most successful companies on the planet. But more importantly,Facella provides a simple blueprint for the reader to apply these very same principles in our own personal and professional lives. Its a fast moving read, and I highly recommend it!
I enjoyed reading this book on 3 levels; as a friend who was excited to read about "stuff" that has happened to the author that I did not know about and remembering things that I did, second, reading it as an "ex" Mickey D alumni that brought back fond memories that helped form my path in life and business, and third, as an interesting business tool that gives insight to successful planning, coaching, and action guides that offer accountability and positive long lasting results.
Paul Facella is successful on all three levels. The anecdotes in the book keep it fresh, interesting, and personal.
A must read for all who would like to have an insightful guide to being a respected leader who gets results, inspires loyalty, and manintains long lasting relationships.
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NORTH SALT LAKE — One motorcyclist is dead and another seriously injured after their bikes collided on I-15 Wednesday afternoon.
Around 2:20 p.m., two men on Yamaha motorcycles were traveling south together in the left lane when the lead motorcyclist, Matthew L. Nichol, 36, from Cottonwood Heights, went down, according to Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Ed Michaud.
The second motorcyclist, Mark Ross, 52, from Washington state, apparently drove over Nichol. He was unable to stop in time, and traffic prevented him from veering into the next lane, police said.
After the impact, the motorcycles appeared to have travelled about 200 feet. They were travelling at freeway speeds upon impact.
Nichol was pronounced dead at the scene from his injuries, and Ross was taken by ambulance to a local hospital in critical condition with a broken ankle, road rash and head injuries.
Neither rider was wearing a helmet. Nichol had a helmet attached to his bike.
"Had helmets been worn, the injuries would not likely have been nearly as serious," Michaud said.
Police are still investigating the accident, he said, but it does not appear that alcohol and drugs played a role. Both bikes were in good condition and did not have any apparent defects.
As the holiday weekend approaches, officers caution those traveling to use good judgment when they're on the road.
"Certainly wear safety equipment. We certainly advocate helmets on the part of motorcyclists. Watch your speed. Keep your speeds within the speed limits," Michaud said. "Always wear your seat belt if you're in a vehicle, and definitely do not drink and drive."
All southbound lanes of I-15 in south Davis County were shut down after the accident to accommodate an AirMed helicopter. Vehicles headed south at Beck Street were diverted to I-215 until the helicopter lifted. At that point, police reopened one lane and the Beck Street off-ramp.
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Obama, standing side by side with Jordans King Abdullah II, said the international community must work together to ensure there is a credible opposition ready to step into the breach.
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The outcome is Syria is not going to be ideal, he acknowledged, adding that strengthening a credible opposition was crucial to minimizing the difficulties.
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Samsung's S1 Mini is based on the firm's own 1.8" hard drives, which come with an integrated USB 2.0 interface to save space and cost. S1 Minis are based on the new 4KB sector size rather than the common 512 byte size. This has little impact on the end-user, but it's very favorable for the drive maker, which can squeeze out around 10% more net capacity due to smaller ECC needs and inter-sector margins.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me,
"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had
the advantages that you've had."
He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually
communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he
meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm
inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up
many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of
not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect
and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal
person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly
accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret
griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were
unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that
an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the
intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in
which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred
by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of
infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if
I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly
repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled
out unequally at birth.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to
the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded
on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point
I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from
the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in
uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted
no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the
human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to
this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented
everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If
personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then
there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened
sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one
of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten
thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do
with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under
the name of the "creative temperament"—it was an extraordinary
gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have
never found in any other person and which it is not likely I
shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the
end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in
the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my
interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of
* * *
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this
Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are
something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're
descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual
founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came
here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and
started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries
on to-day.
I never saw this great-uncle, but I'm supposed to look like
him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting
that hangs in father's office. I graduated from New
Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and
a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration
known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly
that I came back restless. Instead of being the warm
center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the
ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn
the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business,
so I supposed it could support one more single man. All
my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a
prep school for me, and finally said, "Why—ye-es," with very
grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance me for a year,
and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought,
in the spring of twenty-two.
The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was
a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns
and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested
that we take a house together in a commuting town,
it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weatherbeaten
cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last
minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out
to the country alone. I had a dog—at least I had him for a
few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish
woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered
Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man,
more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
"How do you get to West Egg village?" he asked helplessly.
I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I
was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually
conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves
growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had
that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again
with the summer.
There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much
fine health to be pulled down out of the young breathgiving
air. I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit
and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red
and gold like new money from the mint, promising to
unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and
Mæcenas knew. And I had the high intention of reading
many other books besides. I was rather literary in college—
one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials
for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back
all such things into my life and become again that most limited
of all specialists, the "well-rounded man." This isn't
just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at
from a single window, after all.
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house
in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was
on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of
New York—and where there are, among other natural
curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles
from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour
and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most
domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere,
the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not
perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are
both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical
resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the
gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting
phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except
shape and size.
I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the
two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the
bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My
house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the
Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for
twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was
a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation
of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble
swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and
garden. It was Gatsby's mansion. Or, rather, as I didn't know
Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion, inhabited by a gentleman of
that name. My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small
eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the
water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling
proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.
Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable
East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer
really begins on the evening I drove over there to have
dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second
cousin once removed, and I'd known Tom in college. And just
after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.
Her husband, among various physical accomplishments,
had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football
at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those
men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one
that everything afterward savors of anticlimax. His family were
enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with
money was a matter for reproach—but now he'd left Chicago
and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away;
for instance, he'd brought down a string of polo ponies
from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own
generation was wealthy enough to do that.
Why they came East I don't know. They had spent a year
in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and
there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich
together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the
telephone, but I didn't believe it—I had no sight into Daisy's
heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a
little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable
football game.
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I
drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely
knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I
expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion,
overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and
ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping
over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally
when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines
as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken
by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected
gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom
Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart
on the front porch.
He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he
was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard
mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant
eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him
the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not
even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the
enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening
boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could
see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved
under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous
leverage—a cruel body.
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the
impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch
of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—
and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
"Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final,"
he seemed to say, "just because I'm stronger and more of a
man than you are." We were in the same senior society, and
while we were never intimate I always had the impression that
he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some
harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.
We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
"I've got a nice place here," he said, his eyes flashing
about restlessly.
Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat
hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken
Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a
snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.
"It belonged to Demaine, the oil man." He turned me
around again, politely and abruptly. " We'll go inside."
We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosycolored
space, fragilely bound into the house by French
windows at either end. The windows were ajar and gleaming
white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little
way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew
curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags,
twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling,
and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a
shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
The only completely stationary object in the room was an
enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed
up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in
white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they
had just been blown back in after a short flight around the
house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the
whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on
the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the
rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room,
and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned
slowly to the floor.
The younger of the two was a stranger to me. She was
extended full length at her end of the divan, completely
motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing
something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she
saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—
indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for
having disturbed her by coming in.
The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise—she
leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression—then
she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed
too and came forward into the room.
"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."
She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and
held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face,
promising that there was no one in the world she so much
wanted to see. That was a way she had. She hinted in a murmur
that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker. (I've
heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people
lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less
At any rate, Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me
almost imperceptibly, and then quickly tipped her head
back again—the object she was balancing had obviously
tottered a little and given her something of a fright. Again a
sort of apology arose to my lips. Almost any exhibition of
complete self-sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.
I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions
in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear
follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of
notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and
lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate
mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that
men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a
singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she
had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there
were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on
my way East, and how a dozen people had sent their love
through me.
"Do they miss me?" she cried ecstatically.
"The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear
wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there's a persistent
wail all night along the north shore."
"How gorgeous! Let's go back, Tom. To-morrow!" Then
she added irrelevantly: "You ought to see the baby."
"I'd like to."
"She's asleep. She's three years old. Haven't you ever seen
"Well, you ought to see her. She's——"
Tom Buchanan, who had been hovering restlessly about
the room, stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
"What you doing, Nick?"
"I'm a bond man."
"Who with?"
I told him.
"Never heard of them," he remarked decisively.
This annoyed me.
"You will," I answered shortly. "You will if you stay in the
"Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing
at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something
more. "I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else."
At this point Miss Baker said: "Absolutely!" with such suddenness
that I started—it was the first word she had uttered
since I came into the room. Evidently it surprised her as much
as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft
movements stood up into the room.
"I'm stiff," she complained, "I've been lying on that sofa
for as long as I can remember."
" Don't look at me," Daisy retorted, "I've been trying to
get you to New York all afternoon."
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in
from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
Her host looked at her incredulously.
"You are!" He took down his drink as if it were a drop in
the bottom of a glass. "How you ever get anything done is
beyond me."
I looked at Miss Baker, wondering what it was she "got
done." I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender, smallbreasted
girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by
throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young
cadet. Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with
polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented
face. It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a
picture of her, somewhere before.
"You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously. "I
know somebody there."
"I don't know a single——"
"You must know Gatsby."
"Gatsby?" demanded Daisy. "What Gatsby?" --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Unfortunately the edition I bought, from Old Landmark Publishing, has a number of minor transcription errors. The most notable is the occasional
insertion of multiple paragraph
breaks within a sentence. There are also occasional misplaced paragraph breaks in dialog paragraphs, which sometimes leads to confusion about which character is speaking.
I downloaded the free sample of the Scribner Edition and although that is only a short sample, it appears to be a much better quality transcription.
So since there are several Kindle editions available, you might want to avoid the Old Landmark Publishing Edition (the one with the car on the cover) and try the Scribner Edition (the one with the dark blue cover with a face superimposed).
Much of this is eloquently articulated by Nick Carraway, Gatsby's modest Long Island neighbor who becomes his most trusted confidante. Nick is responsible for reuniting the lovers who both have come to different points in their lives five years after their aborted romance. Now a solitary figure in his luxurious mansion, Gatsby is a newly wealthy man who accumulated his fortunes through dubious means. Daisy, on the other hand, has always led a life of privilege and could not let love stand in the way of her comfortable existence. She married Tom Buchanan for that sole purpose. With Gatsby's ambition spurred by his love for Daisy, he rekindles his romance with Daisy, as Tom carries on carelessly with an auto mechanic's grasping wife. Nick himself gets caught up in the jet set trappings and has a relationship with Jordan Baker, a young golf pro.
These characters are inevitably led on a collision course that exposes the hypocrisy of the rich, the falsity of a love undeserving and the transience of individuals on this earth. The strength of Fitzgerald's treatment comes from the lyrical prose he provides to illuminate these themes.Read more ›
Alexander Scourby, one of the greatest reading voices of his era (overlapping Fitzgerald's enough to know and feel it all) here does Carraway in a way that cannot, therefore, again be quite equalled. Imagine having a recording of a great contemporary actor reading Ahab's speeches in Moby Dick, and one begins to appreciate the gift that we only now have in recorded sound, something we are already quite casual about. But there is much more here than historical accuracy. Scourby's voice wraps around every phrase of Fitzgeral's text with both an actor's professionalism and a good reader's care, making it not only uncannily his own monument but also a monument in audio book history. It sets the bar, and anyone interested in the recorded voice as an art form should own this for repeated learning.
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I really liked it.The character was so inspiring,and I could understand why people like it so
much.I could read over and over again.
This book was poorly written, boring, and just plain bad. I hated almost every page hoping for something interesting to happen a nothing did until recently last two chapters.Published 16 hours ago by layne fisher
This is one of the best books I've ever read! The Great Gatsby is so so so good. Definitely recommend this!!!!Published 2 days ago by AWESOMENESS!!!!
Dated, pretentious writing. Pretty weak story. Doubt it would get published today.Published 2 days ago by B. Tierney
Not my favorite. The old English language is hard to follow. Probably for a mature audience. But still a good readPublished 6 days ago by M. Lonsdale


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The Street reported it at 10am Fri, today, again!
It's the second entry under headlines in Yahoo finance, even I found it, about the time I picked someone's pocket and bought 100 shares at 51.95, and I get the dividend to boot, gotta love this country
You might try looking at the press release for the distribution announcement to get your answer.
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|1. Pleasure Is All Mine
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|3. Where Is The Line
|4. Vokuro
|5. Oll Birtan
|6. Who Is It
|7. Submarine
|8. Desired Constellation
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Bjork is one of the most recognized stars in the world. She has sold millions of copies of her groundbreaking albums, she is an icon of cutting edge style, & she has received worldwide acclaim as an actress. Medulla, Bjork's first new studio album in three years, finds her delving deeper than ever before into her haunting & exhilarating sound & vision. Innovative as always, Bjork has this time built the songs on Medulla entirely from vocal tracks, with no insturments appearnig on the album, creating a soundscape unlike anything you've ever heard before. Special guests include Rahzel from The Roots, Mike Patton of Faith No More & Mr. Bungle, an Inuit throat singer, an Icelandic choir, the world's greatest human beatboxes & more.
Normally, an artist such as Bjork with a mass audience across the globe steadily eases off as the back-catalog starts to grow. However, Medulla, the fifth proper studio album from Bjork is without a doubt the most challenging collection of music she has ever released.For the most part, the album is made up of layers upon layers of processed vocal parts arranged in either harmony or dissonance such as "Vokuro" and "Oll Birtan," respectively. Some, such as "Show Me Forgiveness" are simple acapella, the aforementioned sounding like a vocal cut from Debut minus the music. Another echo of Bjork days gone by is "Desired Constellation," a slow trancy pulse underpinning her distinct vocals. "Where Is the Line," "Who Is It," and "Triumph of a Heart" are a bit grimier with a semi-urban twist, the latter a fantastically funky beatbox number with an outstanding introduction, the closest moment to a pop song appearing on Medulla. Although traditional instruments and breaks have been removed from this album, Medulla is no great departure for Bjork but in a sense it is radically different from any of her previous work. Some will love it, some hate it, and some just won't be sure what to think. --David Trueman
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Medulla is an amazing album, one to be listened to with giant headphones at 2 in the morning with some sort of snack food in hand. This album is tribal yet cosmopolitan, somber yet ecstatic, avant-garde yet organic, beautiful and rough. The Inuit influence is glaring and perhaps those unfamiliar with the art form will be very perplexed but why not expose yourself to a new experience, you can only be the better for it.
Some people have trouble with Medulla simply because there are no instruments used. Not usual, no - but what do you expect from Bjork?
Pleasure is All Mine - The erratic breathing at the beginning takes some gets getting used to, but I love this song. 5/5
Show Me Forgiveness - Short acapella, but pretty. Nice arpeggios in here. 5/5
Where is the Line - Sort of grungey, with a funky beat. This was the first song on the CD that really grabbed by attention and kept it. 5/5
Vokuro - Pretty slow song. 4.5/5
Oll Birtan - I didn't like this song at first, along with the other two vocal-mentals...haha...but after two listens I decided I really liked this. 4.5/5
Who Is It - Another one of those grab your attention songs. 5/5
Submarine - This song really irratates me. I can't stand it. The stupid blubbering and do-do-do get my eye twitching. Only good part of this song is Bjork's solo in the middle. 1/5
Desired Constellation - Slower song. I love Bjork's voice in this one. One of the two songs that has instrumentation (synths) 5/5
Oceania - Great song, though the choir's sliding scale get irritating after a while. 4.5/5
Sonnets/Unrealities XI - About letting a loved one go. 5/5
Ancestors - I really hated this song when I first heard it. Bjork on the piano hyperventilating, and Tagaq grunting. After a few listens I actually began to like it.Read more ›
Medulla is like a relationship, it takes a bit of time and a bit of work to get to the heart of the music. In my opinion, this is a brilliant collection which must be listened to as that, a collection. It fuses poetry, music and elemental themes in an exciting and rewarding way. I am not surprised that her collection is so popular in Europe, but suffers criticisms here in North America. Its just not an easy listen at first, but it is one of the most rewarding and satisfying listens that I have had since Vespertine.
Bjork embarks on her strangest and most experimental musical journey here. Not just one kind of song, but many -- majestic medieval-flavored music to pop to hymns to an eerie vocal ballad backed by throat singing. Bjork even beatboxes with a choir behind her, giving a sort of classical hip-hop sound to the music. Can't get that just anywhere.
"Medulla" isn't entirely devoid of instrumentation... the non-vocal variety, that is. There's a pretty piano solo to "Ancestors," and the deep bassline of "Submarine." Keyboards pop up occasionally But those are the exception -- most of the time it's Bjork's soft vocals, singing, grunting, whistles, and various gutteral sounds -- sort of a dolphin-on-acid noise. It's wonderfully weird.
After the pretty but vaguely monotonous "Vespertine," Bjork just bursts out with her new sound. What's strangest is the effect it has when one is listening to it -- it's powerful and visceral, lulling you one moment and making you shiver the next. At times it's unnerving -- the grunts range from sexy to ghastly, and are enough to make you squirm -- but it never fails to provoke a response.
"Medulla" isn't a full departure from her past material. The opening number has echoes of "Vespertine," while "Where is the Line" hints at "Homogenic." But the heart and soul of "Medulla" rests in an entirely new zone, far away from the icy grandeur of her past trip-hop.Read more ›
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Thank you very much for the prompt service and doing business you. The sleeve of vinyl is perfect. And i presume that the vinyl is also perfect. I have not opened for it is a gift.Published on Nov. 12 2013 by gene
I agree with the reviewer below me. Do not take just one person's opinion on this release.
Although this CD strays away from much of Bjork's past upbeat and radio friendly... Read more
It's a harsh listen, it's not angelic. It's not pop and it seems people are upset Bjork would "betray" her fans by abandoning dance music. Read morePublished on Jan. 8 2005 by J. Rehlinger
just because the other reviewer did not like it, does not mean that it isnt a good cd! its bjork experimenting again, like she does on every album. Read morePublished on Nov. 6 2004
When I heard that Bijork Released a new album I was excited!
So I bought it.
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Now I'm wondering if I bought the right album. Read more
Ok, when I first heard that Bijork was coming out with another album I was excited. So I ran to the nearest store and purchased it for $17.99 CDN. Read morePublished on Oct. 31 2004 by Daniel L
An album with no instuments, just noise from people's mouths gets annoying after a while. Nothing on this album stands out. Read morePublished on Oct. 10 2004 by ital_m_24
It's good. Very. It is real music for the real 'now'. Wonderfully inventive. Beauty reaching the spiritual. Bjork excites and inspires with her latest.Published on Sept. 27 2004
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Let's meet and photograph hot air balloons! Of course, this is weather dependent, so I will be updating this as it gets closer...
I'm not sure where we will try to meet up, so be sure to save my number and text me when you arrive. I can also try and post a comment about where to meet once I arrive, if you have access to the Meetup app on your smartphone. My number is 420-0000. 614 area code. Once we scope the place out Friday night, I can update the Saturday night meetup with a meetup location...
Awesum. First time in a hot air balloon!
0 · August 24, 2013
What we did at Marysville last year was attach white ribbons to our camera straps so members could recognize each other.
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If you look through our photo albums, you can see pics taken at Marysville las year and this year for some ideas.
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I posted a picture of a suggested meeting place for the balloon festival.http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/1/3/2/highres_274024402.jpeg
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Hi everyone. Thanks for accepting me to the group. This sounds like a whole lot of fun and I am excited. I photographed a hot air balloon show up here in our neck of the woods three years ago and won second place in their photo contest. They are fun to watch. I need to check my schedule and see if I am able to make this one. I hope so. Thanks again everyone.
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Chris Brown x Tyga - B*tches
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Fan of a Fan 2
Tyga knows how to make a hit. Chris Brown, too, knows how to make a hit. I'm not a mathematician but, when two hitmakers get together, the result has got to be a super, mega smash-hit, right? Well, B*tches certainly supports my hypothesis. Though it's not a "conscious" record by any stretch of the imagination, this collab has all the makings of a club/party anthem. Over an uncredited producer's funky, staggered production, the YMCMB signee and C. Breezy deliver lavish, lady-killin' bars in two similarly blunted, swaying flows. Fans of this cut can expect more bangers on the collaborators' joint sophomore mixtape, Fan of a Fan 2, coming soon.
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