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Value of re-reading books
If your goal is to learn, reading books is one of the best habits you could add to your life. It's no wonder all successful people (by a traditional measure, wealth – Gates, Buffett…), and all interesting people I know are voracious readers. I mostly concur with that opinion, learning by reading builds up like… Read more »
As Major Hayden mentioned more than a year ago, deploying CoreOS is a bit of a different beast than deploying other operating systems. In this case, we are going to do it by PXE booting the image, then applying a cloud-config script which will will set the SSH keys, core user password, CoreOS version, and… Read more »
Project Atomic is a new initiative to have a family of well-known, enterprise-tested operating systems ready for massive container deployments. Atomic operating systems focus on: Minimal size Immutable Easy to update and rollback Container cluster and runtime provided (currently via Docker and Kubernetes) It comes with a set of tools. ostree, fleet, kubectl to manage… Read more »
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After breakfast, hopefully 7:15am, I make a list of things I want to carry out on that day. I write this list by hand on a notepad to always keep it in front of me. This includes some tasks that might not have to do with work. I estimate how long each of these will… Read more »
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Nearly every time the word 'metric' comes up in software development, is to drop another diss about it. This post is not meant to rant about the latest fad on how to measure code quality (wtfs/minute), monitor your developers (ROI), or count your sushi. Instead, I would like to share how complicated it is to… Read more »
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Saw activity at 407pm trades ranged from 30c to 50c modest volume ...last trade 39c
I just checked every international market. None show LPH as trading. Unless there is another symbol.....I see no evidence of what your are talking about except on E*Trade Extended Hours. I called E*trade and talked to a rep. who had no answers about this "extended hours trade" which shows LPH DOWN .2244 to .40. The rep. couldn't answer my pointed questions about how the hell this stock could "trade" at 4:07 PM and on WHAT exchange. He had no information and couldn't explain how a stock that is in a trading HALT could "trade" down to 40c from 62.4c . Isn't that nice! No one is allowed to "trade" for a day and a half....yet some "mysterious trade" got the stock down to 40 cents. Maybe it was the CIA or the National Security Council???? Who is "allowed" to make a "mystery trade" like this and WHERE the hell did they do it?
Sentiment: Hold
Those were not trades, they were mm's adjustments, mostly cancelling trades to remove them from their books.....the stock is halted everywhere
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Today in labor history: Warsaw Ghetto uprising ends
Today in labor history, on May 16, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising comes to an end as Nazi soldiers gain control of Warsaw, Poland's Jewish ghetto, blowing up the last remaining synagogue and beginning the mass deportation of the ghetto's remaining dwellers to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Today in labor history: Workers' rule crushed in Hungary
On August 7, 1919, the Republic of the Councils of Hungary in Budapest was crushed by foreign reactionaries.
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Rose Will Monroe, who became famous as "Rosie the Riveter," died on May 31, 1997. During World War II, Monroe went to work in the aircraft industry as a riveter making parts for military airplanes.


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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.
The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to plants and animals he described, though today the form "Hamilton, 1822" is more usually seen in ichthyology and is preferred by Fishbase.
Early life[edit]
He was born Francis Buchanan at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire; his family originated in Spittal[disambiguation needed] and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan. Francis studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After several voyages on Merchant Navy ships to Asia, he served in the Bengal Medical Service from 1794 to 1815. He also studied botany under John Hope in Edinburgh.
Career in India[edit]
In 1799, after the defeat of Tippu Sultan and the fall of Mysore, he was asked to survey South India resulting in A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar (1807). He also wrote An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (1819).
He conducted two surveys, the first of Mysore in 1800 and the second of Bengal in 1807-14. From 1803 to 1804 he was surgeon to the Governor General of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta, where he also organized a zoo that was to become the Calcutta Alipore Zoo. In 1804, he was in charge of the newly founded 'Institution for Promoting the Natural History of India' at Barrackpore.
From 1807 to 1814, under the instructions of the government of Bengal, he made a comprehensive survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company. He was asked to report on topography, history, antiquities, the condition of the inhabitants, religion, natural productions (particularly fisheries, forests, mines, and quarries), agriculture (covering vegetables, implements, manure, floods, domestic animals, fences, farms, and landed property, fine and common arts, and commerce (exports and imports, weights and measures, and conveyance of goods). His conclusions are reported in a series of treatises that are retained in major United Kingdom libraries; many have been re-issued in modern editions. They include an important work on Indian fish species, entitled An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches (1822), which describes over 100 species not formerly recognised scientifically.
He also collected and described many new plants in the region, and collected a series of watercolours of Indian and Nepalese plants and animals, probably painted by Indian artists, which are now in the library of the Linnean Society of London [1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1806 [1] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in January 1817
Later life[edit]
He succeeded William Roxburgh to become the Superintendent of the Calcutta botanical garden in 1814, but had to return to Britain in 1815 due to his ill health. In an interesting incident the notes that he took of Hope's botany lectures in 1780 were lent to his shipmate Alexander Boswell during a voyage in 1785. Boswell, lost the notes in Satyamangalam in Mysore and the notes went into the hands of Tipu Sultan who had them rebound. In 1800 they were found in Tippu's library by a major who returned them to Buchanan.[citation needed]
Buchanan left India in 1815, and in the same year inherited his mother's estate and in consequence took her surname of Hamilton, referring to himself as "Francis Hamilton, formerly Buchanan" or simply "Francis Hamilton". However he is variously referred to by others as "Buchanan-Hamilton", "Francis Hamilton Buchanan" or "Francis Buchanan Hamilton".[citation needed]
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- ^ "Author Query for 'Buch.-Ham.'". International Plant Names Index.
Further reading[edit]
- Vicziany, Marika (1986). "Imperialism, Botany and Statistics in Early Nineteenth-Century India: The Surveys of Francis Buchanan (1762-1829)". Modern Asian Studies 20 (4): 625–660.
- Buchanan, Francis (1807). A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies / Black, Parry & Kingsbury. – in three volumes, publishers noted as booksellers to the Asiatic Society and the East India Company, respectively.
- Noltie, H.J. (1999) Indian botanical drawings 1793–1868. ISBN 1-872291-23-6


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Saddle Brook Marriott
Saddle Brook Marriott
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.3/10
138 New Pehle Avenue
Saddle Brook, NJ 07663
Hotel Freebies Available*
• Stay for Breakfast Promotion: Rate includes breakfast for two adults and children 12 and under, when staying in the same room show dates
• Free Internet in Public Areas show dates
• Free Parking show dates
Welcome to the Saddle Brook Marriott
Free parking, an on-site restaurant and an indoor pool are some of the amenities guests find at the non-smoking Saddle Brook Marriott.
Hotel Features
The 12-story, non-smoking Marriott boasts 241 rooms, each warmly-decorated and equipped with a coffeemaker, cable TV, Wi-Fi availability and room service. Drinks are poured in the lounge and full meals are served in the on-site restaurant. As for recreation, there's a fitness room and an indoor pool that's lit naturally through a huge atrium glass ceiling. Other amenities include a 24-hour front desk, free parking and a business center.
Hotel Location
Near the junction of I-80 and the Garden State Parkway, the Marriott is five miles from Hackensack and 12 miles from Manhattan. Concert and sporting events at the Meadowlands Complex are nine miles away. Families enjoy the Bronx Zoo, 15 miles away, or hop on the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, 19 miles away at Liberty State Park. You'll find a train station two miles from the hotel. LaGuardia Airport is a 21-mile drive, and Newark Liberty International Airport is 19 miles away.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests have good things to say about the "easy-access" location, "friendly" vibe and "spacious" rooms at Saddle Brook Marriott.
Saddle Brook Marriott Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
- Accessible parking
- Air conditioning
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- AM/FM radio
- ATM/Cash machine
- Boarding pass print-out available
- Buffet breakfast
- Business center
- Business services
- Cable television
- Child programs
- CNN available
- Cocktail lounge
- Cocktail lounge with entertainment
- Cocktail lounge with light fare
- Coffee shop
- Color television
- Complimentary coffee in lobby
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Complimentary newspaper delivered to room
- Complimentary newspaper in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Concierge floor
- Connecting rooms
- Continental breakfast
- Dry cleaning
- Efolio available to company
- Elevators
- ESPN available
- Executive floor
- Exercise gym
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- Fitness center on-site
- Food and beverage outlets
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- Front desk
- Full american breakfast
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- Interior corridors
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Hotel Information
Upon check-in photo identification and credit card is required. All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.Our Pool will be closed for Renovation, July 13-24. Sorry for the Inconvenience Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Saddle Brook MarriottOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Verified Hotel Guest from Buffalo, NY
May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016
Very clean
Extremely small rooms.
Lori from Barnegat, NJ
January 7, 2016
January 7, 2016
Friendly staff.. Comfortable bed. Excellent location
Brittany from Brooklyn, CT
May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015
The poolCleanlinessFree wifi
No mini fridge No microwavePrice(since it didn't have the extras) found cheaper options with more amenities after booking
Verified Hotel Guest from Chelmsford, MA
May 26, 2015
Family Traveling with Teens
May 26, 2015
Family Traveling with Teens
The rooms were clean and comfortable. The front desk went out of their way to find a room with two double beds.
The only thing that I would have changed was to have had a refrigerator in the room. When you are traveling in the car - there are things that need to go in a fridge. My husband stored his insulin in the ice bucket!!
Noel from Abingdon, MD
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014
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Ahad from Albany, NY
August 24, 2014
August 24, 2014
Nothing I have been emailing the gm about the problem that I encountered at this location it has been over 3 weeks still no respons
No wifi
Never again
Verified Hotel Guest from Philadelphia, PA
August 19, 2014
Group Traveler
August 19, 2014
Group Traveler
Efficient check in.
Small bathroom. High fee for car service, Uber was much cheaper.
Verified Hotel Guest from Barnegat, NJ
August 4, 2014
Solo Traveler
August 4, 2014
Solo Traveler
Staff was very friendly.. especially the check in desk.
The tub was a little dirty. Not because of the cleaning crew.. but because I believe it's old
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April 7, 2014
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April 7, 2014
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Tamme from Clarksburg, MD
February 7, 2014
February 7, 2014
Staff was very friendly.
No. Everything was to our satisfaction.
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More than 90 percent of Americans — including one in five people who say they are atheists — believe in God or a universal power, and more than half pray at least once a day, according to results of a poll released today that takes an in-depth look at Americans' religious beliefs.
Bolded for what-the-fuckedness. 20% of all atheists are rat fink liars? And do those one in five unatheistic atheists actually count toward the less than one in ten people who don't believe in God?
I thought we atheists were making some ground. Oh, well. Maybe next generation.


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Posting for Zaar World Tour. Spread on crostini bread or crackers.
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- 1 cup loosely packed basil leaves
- 1⁄4 cup chopped chives
- 2 tablespoons minced onions
- 2 -3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 lb feta cheese
- 3 -4 tablespoons olive oil, to make spreadable
- Process basil leaves, chives and onions in food processor until fine.
- Add feta and garlic and process until well mixed.
- Slowly add enough olive oil to make spreadable.
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*Reviewed for ZWT6 Whine and Cheese Gangs visit to Greece * We enjoyed this dip today with lavosh crackers. As Sarah in Mew York said ....we also thought the flavours were intense. We made a 1/2 batch of this recipe and used fresh basil from our garden and cold pressed extra virgin kalamata olive oil. Instead of adding more oil...and in keeping with the Greek feel....we added a few tablespoons of Greek plain yogurt, some freshly squeezed lemon juice and white pepper. This seemed to balance the saltiness from the fetta cheese. Photo also to be posted
Made this spread for a family gathering today and it was well-liked. We followed directions and ingredients as posted except for the addition of freshly ground black pepper. We served on garlic baguettes and rice crackers. Thanks!
This was very good! I used fresh basil from my garden and had a blast making it! I think the flavors are a bit intense, but I still loved it. I will probably add some sour cream next time... Made for ZWT 4.


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Believe it or not, Russ Gilmore did feel some pressure for his Hobbs boys' team to win another New Mexico 5A state basketball championship, which it did Saturday night in Albuquerque by beating Las Cruces Mayfield 101-94.
After three straight championships right off the bat to begin his coaching tenure at Hobbs after leaving Tascosa, surely Eagles fans wouldn't begrudge a non-title year.
But it was Gilmore himself who applied the pressure.
"I know, I know," said Gilmore, who coached at Tascosa for 14 years. "It's just my competitive nature, I guess. But I feel fantastic - like a ton of weight has been lifted off my shoulders."
Gilmore's run at Hobbs has been nothing short of spectacular so far. And, now, it is officially unprecedented.
No New Mexico boys' coach had ever won four straight state titles in the big-school classification until Gilmore did it Saturday. Lou Henson, current coach at New Mexico State, won three straight with Las Cruces High from 1959 to '61.
And Gilmore's legendary predecessor at Hobbs, Ralph Tasker, did it as well with three straight from 1956 to '58.
Even Tasker, however, would have to take a back seat to this accomplishment.
"The first two championships were a new experience," Gilmore said. "The last two, I was just relieved to get them over with."
Gilmore added that a state title a year ago was more or less expected in view of the talent Hobbs had returning. This year, however, Gilmore put the pressure on himself when he heard history was in the offing.
"I first started hearing last year that three in a row was the most ever," Gilmore said. "Then I thought, 'Oh my gosh, we have a chance to do something that's never been done before.' "
At Tascosa, Gilmore's Rebels in 1989 went to the regional finals before falling one step short of the state tournament.
Asked how his Hobbs teams would have done in Texas, Gilmore didn't mince words.
"Oh, I think we would have done very well," Gilmore said. "We were very good in 1989, but I think any of my first three teams here would've defeated that team."
As for the future, it seems that only a fairly good college program could lure Gilmore away from southeast New Mexico.
"It would be hard for me to find a better high school job, when you take into consideration the tradition (this state title is Hobbs' 15th), the community support and the administrative support," Gilmore said. "Anything else, on the high school level, would be a step down."
He also said that goes for many college jobs as well.
"A lot of Division I schools even wouldn't have the same kind of attendance we have here (Hobbs)," Gilmore added. "Places like North Texas and Lamar, you wouldn't have as many people as you have at Hobbs."
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So I was sick of paying so much for "girly" razors, and I decided to use mens. After trying several brands I landed upon Harry's and have never looked back. The price was 15 dollars for a razor handle of your color choice (I got orange), three 5 blade cartridges, and shaving cream. I ordered extra blades because they were so cheap ($1.88 per cartridge) and the reviews on a lot of mens shaving sites were very good.
It came beautifully packaged, like perfect for a gift kind of packaging. I get the smoothest, closest shave I think I've ever had with this razor! No cuts or irritation. The blade is extremely easy to clean. When you look at the back of the cartridge you'll see that the blades are not laid in a way where they are very close together, so hair and shaving cream rinse easily out of them. The shaving cream included is very good in my opinion, but a lot of people don't like it. It did leave a film on my legs, but it just made them softer. I can see this being a problem for some men when shaving their face. But hey, it was free!
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TFI Friday returned to Channel 4 for a one-off special and drew in twice as many viewers as "back in the day"
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The interior designer was so outraged when she saw her fellow road-user disrespecting the environment that she composed a seething 140-character message about it, and posted it online
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The Location, Location, Location star said she has now cut back on booze because it is a risk factor for the potentially fatal disease
From the ridiculous to the offensive, featuring Kanye West, James Arthur, Katie Hopkins and more
Outspoken mum of four last month told young women to skip university and have babies by 27
The television presenter's opinions about fertility declining in mid 30s raises real emotion, write Katie Hind and Gemma Aldridge
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Location, Location, Location presenter also hopes that craft community can be involved with bigger commercial opportunities in future
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The TV presenter and mother-of-two said schools should not "dictate" to parents when youngsters should attend
The TV property guru Kirstie Allsopp wants radical action as the number of buyers has fallen off a cliff since the start of the credit crunch four years ago.
AND so we reach the time when gongs must be handed out to the good, the bad and the ugly of the past year.
I didn't think it possible for a programme to be more boring than last week's
IF Nigella Lawson and Sue Perkins had a baby, it would probably look exactly like Kirstie Allsopp as she appears in her new series.
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Suddenly property partners in crime Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp are travel gurus too!
Lord Sugar stepped up his online feud with TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp today with a below the belt comment telling her to lose weight.
Never one to hide her light under a bushel, Kirstie Allsopp modestly boasts here that her last series in which she transformed her Devon cottage "started a revolution".
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David Brooks Still Not Happy With the GOP
"They believe they are Gods of the New Dawn."
Times scribe David Brooks is using his column, once again, to lambaste the GOP for shunning a historic opportunity to reform entitlements and cut trillions from government spending. Certain conservative players — anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, "show horses" like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, talk-radio hosts, and legislators chiefly concerned with their next campaign — "do not believe in seizing opportunities to make steady, messy progress toward conservative goals," Brooks writes. "They believe that politics is a cataclysmic struggle ... They believe they are Gods of the New Dawn." [NYT]


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We here in the theater section are used to haughty artists writing in to complain about not being handled with kid gloves. Sometimes friends of the artists write to friends at the paper, insinuating that, for example, I've never heard of Mark Morris. (Confidential to VJ: Um, of course I have. And also: I review performance, not an artist's "significant impact on the community locally" or lack thereof. And also: I had no problem with the soloist; the fake-pompous molecules were what made me wince.)
But I'm getting carried away. This letter, addressed to Stranger writer Lindy West regarding her review of One Flea Spare, really takes the buttercream-frosted cake:
This article was sent to you by XXXXXXX, as a service of The Seattle Times (http://www.seattletimes.com).
Comments from sender: I wanted to send you this because this reviewer saw the 8pm show the same day that you did. I just find it ironic how reviews can be such a contrast.
Just inquiring why are you involved in the arts?What are your degrees?
Just FYI. There were two people from Kentucy who saw the show and know of or are related to Naomi Wallace. They thought the acting and direction was great. They also mention that the layers and various issues were more addressed not just the plague. The plague was more of a symbolism.
Respect always-
Tanja, Tanja, Tanja. Where to begin? Maybe you should have somebody proofread your letters before you send them to members of the media?
Why is it "ironic" that people have different opinions about a production? I would find it rather creepy if everyone who saw a show (or listened to a record, or watched a movie) had exactly the same thoughts about it.
And Richard Wallace's review is hardly a passionate endorsement, though it's typical of the gingerly approach of the Seattle Times freelance corps. He spends half his review summarizing and heaping praise on the play itself. And you may have to read between the lines to see it (as you do with much arts coverage in the dailies), but a production that "catches some of the power of Naomi Wallace's terrific language but misses the complexities of character" sounds like a disappointing night of theater to me.
On the subject of what qualifies you to critique theater: A degree? Doubtful. (If your show only appeals to those who have a college education, it's probably a massive failure.) But "knowing of" or being related to a playwright? Oh, absolutely. Tanja, can you please email me the contact information for these "Kentucians"? I DEFINITELY want them to review the next Seattle production of The Inland Sea.


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Great book, by turns funny and serious, it is about Shadow and his travels through the netherworld.
Fantastic. My full review is on C-Spot Reviews
Love this novel. This was a re-read for me and I will still retain the book. Great world-building and I am waiting with bated breath for the series *crosses fingers*
Virtually every culture, around the world and across time, has some kind of religious/mythological belief system. Where did we come from? How are we to live? Those basic questions gave rise to hundreds, even thousands, of myths to give the answers (see: the entire Masks of God series I spent months of my life reading). In an anthropological/psychological sense, God did not create man. Man created the gods. And in Neil Gaiman's American Gods, we didn't just create them as concepts in the sky; they are corporeal beings and they need us, our prayers and our tributes, to thrive. But we as Americans haven't been giving them what they need for a long time now. What idols do we regard with something close to reverence today? TVs. Our phones. Our computers. And that has given rise to new gods in competition for our devotion with the old ones.
In its central and most straightforward plot line, American Gods follows Shadow Moon, a convict released from prison at the very beginning of the novel, and his work with the mysterious Mr. Wednesday to round up the old gods to do battle against the new in a final battle. But this isn't a straightforward novel, and its reach expands far beyond the basic premise. Gaiman explores the history of the gods, explaining how they got to the United States in the first place...from prehistoric travel across the land bridge over the Bering Straight, to the Vikings, to the slave trade and more. He shows us how these neglected gods survive in the real world: Bilquis, the Queen of Sheba, is a prostitute, and Thoth and Anubis have set up shop as undertakers for the minority community in a small town in Illinois. There's a short story within the novel of a gay Arab man, trying desperately to sell his brother-in-law's trinkets to distributors in New York City, and his encounter with an ifrit. There's a subplot about an idyllic small town in Wisconsin and how it stays prosperous and comfortable even while surrounding communities suffer. Gaiman has created a rich and thick and layered experience to read and absorb.
So why not a more glowing review, a higher rating? Well, as much as I appreciated it, I didn't connect with it very much. Shadow, our main character, is a cipher who neither speaks particularly often or has an especially rich inner life. And it makes sense, for who he's supposed to be: the only son of a peripatetic single mother who never had many friends growing up, who's spent a few years in the clink and loses the person closest to him right from the start. Why wouldn't he be withdrawn and closed off? Left alone in the world, why wouldn't he practice coin tricks instead of losing himself in his thoughts? But as much as I understand the characterization, it keeps the book at a distance, at least at first. As it moved along I got more swept up in it, but it still didn't quite click. It's actually a book I think would improve on re-read...now that I know what's coming and how it all plays out, I'd like to go back and start it from the beginning. Not right now. But eventually.
The enigmatic Mr. Wednesday has a master plan with ex-convict Shadow at its center. Gradually, Shadow comes to realize the Old Gods, from every pantheon, and the New Gods, created by American obsessions, are going to war. And the outcome will be determined by the lowly Shadow.
Neil Gaiman nagyszerű mesélő: a helyszínek megelevenednek, igazi emberek élnek a városkákban (főként Lakeside-ban), megismerünk a szemben álló felet vezető szándékokból is valamennyit. Nincs egyértelmű jó és rossz.
This might all sound like a bit much. But Gaiman -- who is best known as the creator of the respected DC Comics ''Sandman'' series -- has a deft hand with the mythologies he tinkers with here; even better, he's a fine, droll storyteller.
This is a fantastic novel, as obsessed with the minutiae of life on the road as it is with a catalogue of doomed and half-forgotten deities. In the course of the protagonist Shadow's adventures as the bodyguard and fixer of the one-eyed Mr Wednesday, he visits a famous museum of junk and the motel at the centre of the US, as well as eating more sorts of good and bad diner food than one wants especially to think about.
Part of the joy of American Gods is that its inventions all find a place in a well-organised structure. The book runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate.
Gaiman's stories are always overstuffed experiences, and ''American Gods'' has more than enough to earn its redemption, including a hero who deserves further adventures.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060558121, Paperback)American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton
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Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
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As we've reported, Tom Crean is visiting Alabama wing Christian Watford today.
As the Facebook
stalkers connoisseurs at Inside The Hall have reported, Watford changed his status Monday night to "WORLD…STAY TUNED 4 TOMORROW!!!!!!"
This means either he's planning on telling Crean he'd like to play at Indiana or there's a gigantic meteor headed our way that only Christian Watford knows about. Either way, it's exhilarating.
We saw Watford play multiple times — for multiple teams — this summer. Most of the times we saw him, we described him as smooth. And he is. The game seems to come naturally to him.
Toward the end of the summer, word got out that Watford didn't exactly play very vigorously on defense. This caused a mini-uproar among Indiana fans, who equate not playing defense to other signficant ailments such as not having a soul and thinking Bruce Weber's voice isn't really all that annoying once you get used to it.
I'm in no way qualified to tell you whether or not Watford's commitment to playing defense should be a legitimate concern. To date, I've seen exactly one player — Eric Gordon — play great defense consistently in AAU games. But that's E.J. I'm guessing he was stuffing kids at recess in second grade. And also dunking.
Watford's got the makings of a great defender. He's long. He needs to get stronger, but almost everybody that age does. And, seriously, it's AAU basketball. Even if you're part of an established program with actual coaches, you mostly end up playing a lot of teams that are just there to run and show off. The lack of structure leaks out to the entire game.
My guess is that Crean vetted Watford's defensive abilities at the elite camp. Watford was paired with Bloomington South PG Jordan Hulls, another 2009 IU recruit, and their team didn't lose a single game.
What a major pick up this would be. Hopfully they can add 1 more to the '09 class.
I agree. Crean wouldn't place him at the top of the list if he had doubts about his ability and desire to play defense.
Wow…this would be awesome, and just think if Crean could also get Cheek to commit sometime this fall?!
If Watford were to come to IU that would fill the last available scholarship slot.
I've read talk of also "over signing" to get Cheek, as well.
How does that work? Why is it allowed?
I assume it means you are borrowing against the number of scholarships available the following year.
It's really not borrowing against the next year. You can have 13 players on scholarship each year. However, you can oversign by one which is to allow adjustments for players who go pro, transfer,etc.
He told AI.com that he has committed to IU!
Whoo Hoo! Here we go Hoosiers!
More like kicked him out. Hope they didn't lick him from head to toe! [...]
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Our developers use Java on Linux for various things (like checking membership of groups etc). It works - no problem with that! I'm not a developer so bare with me.
The problem is that they have hardcoded the servernames of our Domain Controllers (LDAP-servers) in their code. So now when we need to replace them with newer DCs, they need to change the code.
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GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) -- A wildfire has burned about 70 acres of brush in the Angeles National Forest but so far no homes or buildings are threatened.
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The Michigan Senate today passed Senate Bill 137 by a vote of 26-11. The bill includes troubling exceptions for "moral convictions." It does not include reporting requirements and does not mention populations that are most often victimized by bullying and harassment. All 11 Democrats present voted against the bill and all 26 Republicans voted in favor.
Equality Michigan, a statewide advocacy organization, opposes the bill because it will not provide comprehensive protection for Michigan students. SB 137 does not incorporate best practices used around the nation and provides little direction for local school districts. Under a new amendment added today by Senate Republicans, students would be allowed to victimize others for any reason and cite a "moral conviction" as a basis for doing so.
Statement from Emily Dievendorf
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"Shockingly, Senate Bill 137 will do more harm than good. Senate Republicans left our students behind in favor of partisan politics and passed a bill that actually allows more bullying. Students and parents expect lawmakers to lead the charge against bullying, but instead Republicans made ideology more important than school safety."
"Research clearly shows that only states with enumerated bills see a reduction in bullying. We need a bill that mentions the most affected populations and requires statewide reporting of bullying and harassment. SB 137 simply does nothing to reduce bullying in our schools."
"We are grateful for the Democratic Senators that stood up for the right thing today by opposing it. It's clear that they remain committed to keeping our kids safe and won't settle for anything less. We hope that our representatives in the House will follow their lead and put our kids first."
The Michigan State Board of Education has developed a Model Anti-Bullying Policy that Governor Snyder, school safety advocates and Equality Michigan, strongly support. Use of this policy by school districts remains voluntary. The model policy is available online.
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Glamorgan Archives
Tredegarville Baptist Church, Cardiff
Reference code(s): GB 0214 DBAP23
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Title: Tredegarville Baptist Church, Cardiff
Short title: Tredegarville Baptist Church, Cardiff
Dates of creation: 1891-1948
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 0.003 cubic metres (14 booklets, 8 papers, 1 volume)
Name of creator(s): Tredegarville Baptist Church, Cardiff
Administrative and biographical history: Tredegarville English Baptist church, Cardiff, Glamorgan, was formed in 1861, and the first meeting took place in the same year under the Rev. Alfred Tilly (1861-1893), former minister of Bethany Baptist church, Cardiff (1857-1861). The school room was erected that same year and the chapel the year following at a cost of £3,600. Tredegarville was a 'mother church' with branches at Maindy chapel, North Road (opened 11 April 1884), Rumney (church opened 27 November 1889), Llanishen (church opened 10 February 1892), Merthyr Street Mission Room (opened 30 August 1891, and removed to Cathays Terrace, 9 Feb 1899), Pentyrch Street (opened 11 November 1905). The daughter churches all became independent at a later date.
Scope and content: Records of the Tredegarville Baptist Church, 1891-1948, including: list of communicants, 1888-1894; members' list, 1907 (arranged alphabetically); and church manual, 1891-1948 (with gaps).
Language/script: English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements: Good to fair condition
System of arrangement: Arranged by date and type.
Conditions governing access: No restrictions
Conditions governing reproduction: Normal Glamorgan Archives conditions apply.
Finding aids: A full version of the catalogue can be searched online at http://calmview.cardiff.gov.uk/calmview/
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Accruals: Accruals are not expected.
Immediate source of acquisition: Information to be supplied.
Related units of description: Related units of description at the Glamorgan Record Office: DBAP8, Tredegarville English Baptist Church and Llanishen English Baptist Church.
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Archivist's note: Compiled by Hayden Burns for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Glamorgan Record Office, Catalogue of records for the Tredegarville English Baptist Church; Jenkins, J Austin and R Edwards James, The History of Nonconformity in Cardiff, (Cardiff, 1901); The Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, Official Handbook of the Cardiff Assembly, 5th to 8th May, (Cardiff, 1924).
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H.R.3109: To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to exempt certain Alaskan Native articles from prohibitions against sale of items containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes.
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i use mitts for
1. skill introduction
2. accuracy
3. timing
4. reactive drills
4. adding progressive variables one element at a time in a controlled environment
it can be a useful tool for fine tuning a skill on it's way into sparring. lots of coaches and boxers use mitts for an ego stroke because it looks fancy, but if what's done on mitts is not been seen in sparring then its a waste. there's a progression. if i don't see a skill at one level then chances are i'm not going to see it at the next challenge up a level.
shadow box > bag > drill > mitts > situation/condition spar > open/full spar > outside spar (with another gym) > competition > tournament (obviously this is an amateur scenario. even though your question was for pros you probably see my point since pros still learn new stuff too)
there's a lot of steps between mitts and true high level competition.
many pro camps have a guy who is only doing mitts (some guys make a whole profession just holding mitts, get their foot in the door as a coach and gain behind the scenes experience).
and a good head coach is someone who knows how to delegate well, not someone who has to do it all himself.
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I use the pads to coach obviously but there are times when I need more then a 2d view of a boxer. Especially as I coach mainly novices.
You can still coach someone on a bag, and you can still coach someone shadow boxing. I think your confusing going on the pads with one to one input and that can occur when your doing most things if your coach is attentive enough.
Any moron can hold a set of pads- its what your being told while there being held that's important. But the instructions you give on the pads can be given in other scenarios.
I have two lads who train with each other every session. They've NEVER hit the pads . They just hit each other... I did it as an experiment. And they are mus**** for novices and can spar with anyone.
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GEORGE HERNANDEZ, center, watches Leroy Cooper, left, and Myshawn Gray spar on Thursday at the Garfield Park field house in Chicago.
AP Photo CHICAGO -- The boys are panting as they stomp into the gym after a jog around Garfield Park and stop to watch an amateur fighter learning to throw a left hook.
Not quite ready for the ring themselves, 12-year-old Davontae Watts and 15-year-old Myshawn Gray wrap their hands and begin pounding on worn punching bags. They'll skip rope and maybe shadowbox before going home exhausted.
The Chicago Park District, which has been training fighters since the 1930s, today gives hundreds of children a chance to train with aspiring fighters and title-hungry pros through its youth boxing program.
More than 3,000 children and adults participate each year at 17 field houses around the city. The program, free to anyone under 18, maintains the largest registration of amateur boxers in the country, said park district spokeswoman Lisa Arizzi.
"The hardest part is staying," said Myshawn, a high school freshman who joined last fall. "Most people just give up. At first, I thought I would probably drop out, too. But now, I'm thinking this is getting kind of interesting."
Veteran boxing coach George Hernandez, a sharp-tongued taskmaster who learned how to throw a punch while growing up in a state home for boys, keeps it interesting -- and disciplined.
Several Olympians, amateur champions and ranked pros trace their success in the ring to Hernandez and his tough love approach, including Michael Bennett, captain of the 2004 U.S. Olympic boxing team, and Fres Oquendo, scheduled to fight in May at Chicago's United Center.
"People like to use those cliches -- inner city, urban or underprivileged or underclass -- and I don't know what that is," Hernandez said. "If you go somewhere, and do the best you can, you can succeed anywhere."
At Garfield Park, 200 kids signed up for the Chicago program last fall, but only Davontae and Myshawn still show up regularly.
Hernandez, an unforgiving proponent of physical conditioning, says he has no room in his gym for quitters.
"The ones that don't want to do the work are the ones that leave, and those kids we don't care about, because if you find this training hard you're going to find life in general hard," he said.
Hernandez is just one of many old-school coaches providing kids with the fundamental boxing skills needed to advance in the sport.
The Chicago Park District's annual citywide youth boxing tournament is this month, with the championship bouts scheduled for March 24.
Though the sport's popularity has waned over the years, the role boxing plays in providing disadvantaged youth a way out of the ghetto has not changed.
"It helps to discipline kids. It helps by showing them you must fight in order to get into the economic mainstream," said Hank Kaplan, a Miami-based boxing historian.
Kaplan said there are few areas in the country where the sport has remained as popular as it has in Chicago.
"Almost every city has some kind of program, but in Chicago they have an unusual amount of this activity from what I have observed," Kaplan said. "There's a lot of clubs in Chicago, clubs that date back to the turn of the century, in some cases."
Chris Riley, a 32-year-old cruiserweight who turned pro a year ago, said many of the kids that come to the Garfield Park gym develop a stronger sense of self-esteem, particularly after they've had their first bout.
"Boxing isn't about being aggressive and overbearing, or not having any concern for someone else," Riley said. "You have to be able to take into account what's going on in your surroundings. So I always encourage the kids to think about what they're saying and what they're doing because someone else is always going to be affected by that. You always have consequences."
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Use of GIS to rationalise pressure in water supply systems
Fernando, Achela; Zhang, Xiujuan; Brown, N.
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Citation:Fernando, A., Zhang, X., & Brown, N. (2007). Use of GIS to rationalise pressure in water supply systems. In P. Coombes, J. Dahlenburg, & M. Han (Eds.), Proceedings of the Rainwater and Urban Design 2007 Conference (CD Rom ed.). Sydney: Tour Hosts Pty. Limited.
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Water is a valuable resource needing conservation. Excessive water pressure in water distribution systems causes leakages leading to substantial losses of treated water. It also places additional strain on networks reducing their efficiency and increasing annual maintenance costs. Conversely, too low a water pressure can be an inconvenient annoyance to the user and, more importantly, mean inadequate conditions to meet fire fighting requirements. The North Shore City Council (NSCC) in Auckland, is not free from the aforementioned pressure-related problems. This paper summarises the outcome of a study undertaken, using GIS technology, to identify areas with potential pressure problems and suggest options for consideration to resolve pressure issues with the intension of (a) reducing water losses, (b) providing customer satisfaction, (c) ensuring fire-fighting readiness, and (d) making long term savings by strategic capital investment in the water supply network of the NSCC. First, the clusters of properties with potential pressure problems were identified. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to determine the optimum pressure for the key zones to minimise the number of properties affected by either low or high pressure issues. Then, the optimum pressure for each user was determined while ensuring (a) a minimum supply head of 30m for each property, (b) a maximum static head of 90m, (b) no property experiences a reduction in pressure exceeding 30m as a result of the implementation of the remedial measures suggested, and (c) a minimum residual pressure of 10m at fire hydrants during fire-fighting. Finally, a range of suggestions ranging from pressure zone boundary adjustments to sample designs that can eventually lead to potential capital expenditure are made.
Keywords:Geographic information systems, GIS mapping, Water pressure, Water distribution
ANZSRC Field of Research:090509 Water Resources Engineering
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Got a nice upgrade at the car rental and a free night at the hotel :-) Life is certainly good!!!
down at Rock Harbour - our fave place to watch the sunset
another nice place to enjoy as the sun goes down
and another one :)
were eating lobster the whole time with lobster salad and lobster rolls and everything that had lobster in it ;-)
the only good thing about an American breakfast - latte!!!
houses right on the shore
the restaurant where we used to work in Wellfleet!!!
still in Wellfleet
Truro Vineyards - because not only Napa Valley sells good wines - as the slogan goes ;-)
heading inside the wine shop at the winery
happy with my bold and elegant style Truro Triumph red wine :))
Truro winery
Truro Highlands
there's also a golf course
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inside the oldest lighthouse
Lighthouse at North Truro, Cape Cod
Cape Cod style :)
me and my love of lighthouses ;))
house right on the beach
can't help loving the scenes on the good old Cape!
window seat at the lobster bar :) beach grass right at sitting level
The biggest car I've ever driven and despite the look of it I totally got the hang of it pretty quickly :))
shop window
and there's another shop which named 'Life is good' :))
one of the funniest :D
kite store
not at all patriotic with the tons of flags everywhere ;)
they looked like they were made of paper...
Provincetown with all its flags :)
marshland flower
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people milling about the restaurant in the evening
Beach Comber at Wellfleet
another sunset
sheraton four points, the hotel where we used to work that summer
my lobster salad :)
the 'three sisters' lighthouses
beach restaurant at Sandneck beach
varieties for post boxes...
Hyannis bay after sunset
evening walk in Hyannis bay
bicycle with two children seats in the front - and Karesz just had to find out how he built this prototype :)
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A survey published earlier this year shows that the majority of the public believes that Ethiopian immigrants suffer the most from Israeli racism (of any minority in Israel). The community has been discriminated against on many levels and they have struggled to close the gaps economically, socially, or representatively. The government has formulated a new plan to address the ticking social failure.
Did you know that Ethiopian immigrants to Israel are bound to the Ministry of Absorption for life?
Although budgets and initiatives to help the Ethiopian community are passed, somehow the bureaucracy absorbs much of the resources. Money gets lost in the myriad of social organizations and problems remain unresolved. Institutional discrimination or an absurdity? Probably both.
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Recently started working in a tech-agnostic shop, and I find myself switching between OSX and Windows machines with some frequency. I've got a great set of HTML tools I use in my local MAMP, and recently figured out how to set up a standalone MAMP on a thumb drive for switching Mac-to-Mac. The downfall is I can't take them with me onto a Windows box.
What I want to do is have MAMP and WAMP on the thumb drive, running off the same database and webroot (never concurrently, obviously). Research has proved fruitless, the most help I've found is importing a MAMP environment into WAMP. Is it possible/practical to run MAMP and WAMP off the same database/webroot?


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I hate it when you are having a bad day and everyone takes it personally, like no I hate myself, not you. Get the fuck over yourself.
Do you ever read someone's opinion about something and just go "okay for the sake of our friendship I'll just ignore that"
Between all the Mucinex, NyQuil, DayQuil, and caffeine, my body is in a really weird place.
If I hear or read "I just seen" one more goddamn time.....
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I heard this phrase in the TV show Grimm. Does it mean that I'll wait until you come out of the house?
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No, that's not the basic meaning, though that could well be the implication in this particular case. It's just coincidence here that the transparent idiom 'wait out' has a particle (out) where the prepositional use is obviously not impossible. Contrast
The basic senses are:
[McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.]
[usually as an alternative to intervening in an undesired situation – or at least indicating that patience is being exercised]
[Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms]