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On Wednesday evening the Fox Township Supervisors approved a motion allowing dogs inside township parks. As part of the agreement, canine owners are required to complete a facility use permission/liability waiver each year they wish to bring their dogs to a township park.The waiver form consists of the owner's name, address, city, state, zip and phone number, as well as their dog's name, breed and coat color. Owners are required attach a copy of their dog's vaccine records and dog license. They must also sign the document, stating they understand the rules and regulations.Supervisor Dave Mattiuz cast the sole opposing vote. "I don't believe parks are the proper place to have dogs running around when you have young people and elderly people," Mattiuz said. "When the park was established years ago, people on the park board and the supervisors posted it as a 'no dogs allowed.' When I wanted to enforce it, they decided to make dogs allowed."The idea to draft a set of dog park rules was Mattiuz's idea several months ago. From there the township and recreation board worked together in creating a set of rules. This document was forwarded to the township solicitor for review. The recreation board made no changes to the final document.
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With full-fledged sellers' markets underway in dozens of areas around the country, new research has found curious statistical patterns emerging: Even in cities where listings get multiple offers within days or hours, significant numbers of homes are sitting on the market for six months, 12 months or more with no takers.
Call them turnoff listings. Despite roaring sales paces all around them, for one reason or another these houses send shoppers scurrying away, often because of mispricing, excessive restrictions on access to buyers and agents, failure to clean or make repairs, and a variety of other marketing bungles.
Researchers at Trulia, a real estate listings site, say the existence of large numbers of unsold houses in the midst of high-activity markets is more common than generally assumed. Jed Kolko, chief economist for Trulia, suggested that "even in the tightest markets, there is a 'long tail' of homes languishing" unsold for extended periods.
For example, in one of the fastest-paced sales areas in the country, San Jose, Calif., where the median time from listing to sale is just 20 days, one out of 10 houses has been on the market for 161 days or more. In metropolitan Boston, where houses go from listing to sale in a median 42 days, 10 percent go unsold for 257 days or more.
Nationally, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors, 44 percent of all new listings take 90 days or more to sell, 22 percent take six to 12 months, and 9 percent take more than a year.
Why the glacial pace for certain homes in even the fastest-moving sellers' markets? Realty agents who visit houses with potential buyers in tow aren't shy about sharing the major reasons. One agent, Jeff Dowler of Solutions Real Estate in Carlsbad, Calif., says more often than not, the root problem is the owners of the property. As he guides shoppers from one listing to another, "I see homes being sabotaged by owners all the time."
Sabotaged? Not intentionally, says Dowler, but by "doing things or not doing things that would make the house easier to sell." Demanding an unrealistically high asking price -- and refusing to negotiate on lower but qualified offers -- is the top turnoff for Dowler and many other agents showing homes.
Imposing severe restrictions on when and by whom the house can be shown is another. For example, sellers who will only allow showings between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturdays or who require a 24-hour advance notice inevitably delay offers and sales.
Patricia Kennedy, an agent with Evers & Co. in Washington, D.C., recently blogged on ActiveRain, a real estate site, about "annoyingly inflexible" restrictions: "What? You want to show my house in a half-hour? Sorry, but I'm covering my gray. Go away!"
But, wrote Kennedy, "if I can't show it, I can't sell it. If you're a pill about showings, you are sending the buyer's agent a message that you'll probably be a pill throughout the transaction!"
Other big turnoffs:
Poorly cleaned, messy houses with obvious deferred maintenance.
Sellers who insist on being present -- or hover nearby -- when shoppers visit so they can point out every feature they improved or like. Better for sellers to be at least out of sight.
Smells inside the house that are either bad -- especially from dogs, cats and other pets -- or come across as contrived, such as scented candles, potpourri plug-ins, etc. When buyers encounter obviously artificial smells they wonder: What are the owners covering up?
Bottom line: Just because houses are selling fast in your area doesn't mean yours will. You've got to think of it as a product you're marketing. Get it in shape to sell. Price it realistically. Be flexible and cooperative on showings and negotiations. Unless it has grossly off-putting features -- costly physical defects, ugly design -- your property should sell.
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With full-fledged sellers' markets underway in dozens of areas around the country, new research has found curious statistical patterns emerging: Even in cities where listings get multiple offers within days or hours, significant numbers of homes are sitting on the market for six months, 12 months or more with no takers.

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First Take: Little Steven Van Zandt
How does it feel to have the two Sirius channels that you created - Underground Garage (Channel 25) and Outlaw Country (Channel 36) - broadcasting 24/7? I feel like we made history already, you know? It's not easy to create a new format in radio, and I created two. They really serve an important purpose in both the rock world and the country world - turning people on to great new and historical artists. I just hope Sirius manages to stay innovative, open-minded, and adventurous, and doesn't turn into the conservative business model that Wall Street likes and then quickly disposes of.
The 2-hour syndicated version of Underground Garage is on about 140 terrestrial stations, right? Something like that. We're in over 200 markets now, and we just went over the million-listener mark.
That's great. Has the BBC version started yet? Yes. Right now, we're on only about once a month. We're also on in Stockholm, Singapore, Rome, and Copenhagen, and that's nice.
Have you felt any difference on terrestrial radio now that the show has widened its reach? I've actually been encouraging people to steal my format on the radio. Please! They tried to copy what I was doing with this format called Jack, a pathetic sort of imitation.
Yeah. You certainly can't call it "Happy Jack"... [laughs] Heh heh, no. Jack really doesn't work so well. The main thing I'm still hoping is that affiliates would loosen up the playlists a little more and play more new music. I don't quite understand why they won't even play their own core artists' new music. We're the only ones playing Ray Davies' new record [Other People's Lives] - I mean, he's the lead singer and songwriter in the Kinks...
...the third most important British Invasion band, according to you... That's correct. I don't think there's any debate about that. I don't get it - the Kinks will get played all day long, but they won't play Ray Davies' new record. Eric Clapton's new material won't get played, even Bruce Springsteen's new stuff very rarely gets played. And yet they'll play the catalog regularly. What do they think the audience is gonna do? Run and hit the button if they hear a new Bruce Springsteen record? It's just not true.
I'm hoping at some point the classic-rock stations start playing new music, at least from their core artists. And I'm hoping we affect the alternative stations, even though none of them will put our show on. I mean, God forbid the Ronettes get played on an alternative station.


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We're still a little more than a week away from kickoff of the college football season, but already there's plenty for local college basketball fans to get excited about.
The South Dakota State women have released their 2013-14 schedule, and for a program that's taken pride in playing top notch opponents, this slate might be the toughest yet.
Of the 30 games on the Jacks' schedule, half will be against teams that played in the postseason last season - including seven against fellow NCAA Tournament qualifiers — and a pair of #1 seeds.
SDSU opens the season November 8th at Brigham Young (WNIT last season), followed by a November 12th match-up at Creighton.
The Jackrabbits' home opener is November 15th Georgetown comes to Frost Arena. Also on that homestand: Northern Iowa (WNIT last season), November 17th and Pepperdine, November 21st.
Head coach Aaron Johnston's team travels to Mexico over Thanksgiving to play three games in the Puerto Vallarta Hardwood Tournament of Hope. There, SDSU will play TCU, Stanford (#1 seed in NCAA Tournament last season), and Florida Gulf Coast (WNIT last season).
December features four match-ups with NCAA Tournament qualifiers from last season: December 7th at Wisconsin-Green Bay, and December 11th and 15th against Penn State and Central Michigan.
The final non-conference game comes January 2nd at Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish were a #1 seed and Final Four team in the NCAA last season.
Summit League play begins January 9th, when the Jackrabbits host league runner-up IUPUI (WNIT last season).
That game will mark the first of 14 Summit League contests, which includes a Jan. 11 match-up with Fort Wayne to close out the first league homestand of the season.
SDSU and USD meet for the first time since last season's Summit League championship game February 2nd in Brookings. The two teams play in Vermillion March 1st.
The Jackrabbits are the defending Summit League regular season and tournament champions, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the last five seasons.


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Here is a list of the 70 games coming to Wii U in 2013 - 2014, included is a small video preview of some of these games.
While obviously not all of these are exclusives, it's great to see such a hefty list of games for the coming fiscal year. For anyone keeping their Wii U, at least there's a substantial amount of content.
The amount of indie games here is definitely something to look forward to. Definitely going to get the Oddworld games. Never can support Oddworld Inhabitants enough.
High Quality games --> Quantity of low quality rehashed games
I hope the next Direct has some more footage of Yarn Yoshi and some first footage of FE X SMT. Maybe say something on Ghost Recon Online!
Indie support is looking good as well.


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Spireites secure first league win
Chesterfield celebrated their first league win of the season with a 3-1 victory over Wycombe, who played for 80 minutes with 10 men after defender Leon Johnson's early dismissal.
First-half goals from Chris Atkinson - on his debut following his loan move from Huddersfield - and Jack Lester were answered by a Neal Trotman own goal before Sam Hird made the points safe late on.
Wycombe had to reorganise after 10 minutes when Johnson was sent off for pulling down Marc Richards with the striker through on goal, and they were behind four minutes later.
The visitors failed to cut out a cross from the right and Atkinson smashed a right-foot shot past Nikki Bull at his near post.
Chesterfield doubled their lead in the 20th minute when a 25-yard volley from Sam Togwell was diverted past Bull from eight yards by Lester and only a mis-kick by Drew Talbot saved Wycombe from going three behind in the 35th minute.
Joel Grant fired inches over for the visitors in the 65th minute, but Wycombe were back in it seven minutes later when Trotman tried to clear a corner only for the ball to go in off his shin.
Any chance of a comeback was ended in the 85th minute when Hird headed in a free-kick.
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RICHARDSON, Texas (Nov. 1, 2004) – They work in a realm that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Nevertheless, scientists from Texas and beyond involved in the esoteric but promising field of nanotechnology will put their research on display for hundreds of colleagues to view at a two-day conference this month at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Organizers expect about 300 attendees at "SPRING '04" – the second annual meeting of the Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology, a consortium of six Texas universities and the United States Air Force Research Laboratory that was formed two and one-half years ago to position the state as a center for education, research and development in the cutting-edge science. Member universities of SPRING include The University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, UTD, The University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Brownsville and The University of Texas Pan American.
The event will take place Nov. 11-12 at the UTD Conference Center on the university's campus in Richardson.
Nanotechnology enables the fabrication of material structures and devices having molecular dimensions and entirely new physical properties as a result of sizes smaller than the wavelength of light. Still in its infancy, nanoscience has the potential to revolutionize such disparate fields as electronics, medicine, communications and manufacturing.
"SPRING '04 will be an important opportunity to showcase the leading nanotechnology research being done by Texas universities," said Dr. Da Hsuan Feng, vice president for research and graduate education at UTD and a member of the SPRING executive committee. "Researchers from across the partnership will be able to share ideas and chart new areas of inquiry in a field that has profound implications in the intellectual and economic landscapes of our state and our nation."
The conference will feature several dozen speakers from SPRING member institutions, as well as two federal research organizations – the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. In addition, posters submitted by researchers and students will be displayed.
Since its founding early in 2002, SPRING has received significant amounts of funding from state and federal agencies, including approximately $26.5 million in defense appropriations requested by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas. The organization boasts a number of eminent scientists on its technical advisory committee, including two Nobel laureates – Dr. Alan MacDiarmid of UTD and Dr. Richard Smalley of Rice.
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Hoosiers help soldiers call home for holidays
Contact: Allison Fore
Phone card donations top 194,268 minutes
(Indianapolis)--Wounded soldiers recuperating at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany will be able to call all of their loved ones over the holidays now that Indiana residents have donated domestic prepaid phone cards by the thousands to Secretary of State Todd Rokita's office.
Landstuhl is the military casualty hospital that serves as the primary medical evacuation destination for U.S. troops participating in Iraq and Afghanistan military operations. When Rokita visited this summer, he learned that domestic phone cards are necessary for outgoing calls because of the hospital's phone system configuration. After publicizing this need, Rokita found that the outpouring of Hoosier support this holiday season exceeded all expectations.
"The people of Indiana have risen to the occasion and purchased domestic pre-paid phone card minutes by the thousands," said Rokita. "Along with holiday cards and letters of support, we just mailed 1241 cards representing 194,268 minutes to Landstuhl Chaplain James Griffith, and I expect there to be more on the way."
"On behalf of all of the wounded soldiers, we are so appreciative and grateful," Griffith said. "The soldiers come from all over the United States and every one of them will be able to call their spouses, children, parents and friends. Hearing a loved one's voice really helps with morale."
Cards mailed today will arrive in time for Christmas, and another anticipated mailing early next week will arrive in time for the new years celebration.
"Based on the amount of mail we have been receiving every day, I anticipate the phone cards will continue arriving, so as long as there are generous, thoughtful donors, we will keep sending them to the troops," Rokita said.
While the predominant source of cards came from individuals, church and community groups and businesses, residents of states as far as Wyoming and California also purchased cards for the troops.
"We have been encouraging others from throughout the country to aid in this effort, and we will maintain a permanent link on our website about the card donation effort," Rokita said.
Additional information can be obtained by calling Allison Fore at 317-233-8655 or by visiting http://www.sos.in.gov/.
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I have been an avid comic reader for many years now. Going to the comic book store on a Wednesday–new comic day!–has been one of my favorite things to do. As much as I love comics and comic book stores, though, I love technology and the thought of a paperless world where I can get all of my entertainment on any device I have at hand. I've embraced the cloud with open arms and adopted very new device I could afford (which, to be honest isn't many).
As comics have transitioned to digital, I've welcomed it, just like I welcome all other evolutions in technology, media, and entertainment. I've welcomed it and have been disappointed by it.
I was really excited when I first learned about motion comics. Then I watched them and hated them. Motion comics were this limbo between comic and animated feature. Some had voice actors, some didn't. Some were like an audio book with slightly twitchy pictures. There were a few that I enjoyed, but I felt the medium was lackluster.
The Comixology, DC, and Marvel apps have been pretty great in transferring the comic reading experience to tablets and phones but it didn't really feel like anything more than scans of comics. Don't get me wrong, I loved the convenience of getting the comics right when I want them without leaving the house and the ability to read them everywhere.
Marvel's new format, Marvel Infinity Comics, however, seems to embrace the medium. I'm no Marvel fanboy. In fact, I love DC comics and read them almost exclusively (though I've been reading Avengers vs. X-Men and I'm excited for "Marvel NOW!"). The best way I can describe it is it's fluid. The fluidity of it really feels right when reading a comic like AVX #1 – Infinite (a tie-in story about Nova). It helps build suspense. So far the two comics that have taken advantage of this format are from the point of view of just one character and it's been really interesting to experience. The way the comic only shows you what it wants you to see until you swipe your finger forward really helps build the momentum and suspense of the comic.
What does everyone else think? Is the Digital Comic medium destined to just be a same-day-as-print carbon copy? Or do you think we'll start seeing the different companies really innovate? Do you guys have any new ideas on how digital comics could evolve that haven't been mentioned here? Or are you completely against digital comics and think they should go away as quick as they came so that you can have your the smell and feel of the print copy?


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Last Station, The (UK - BD RB)
Marcus hasn't read War and Peace but The Last Station makes him want to...
Looking at the last days of world renowned writer and philosopher Count Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) (he wrote War and Peace y'know), newly appointed secretary Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy) is sent by one of the Count's most devoted disciples Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) to work alongside him and monitor his work and turbulent family life with Tolstoy's wife (Helen Mirren).
Soon Valentin discovers the battle being waged for the rights to Tolstoy's work. His wife, Sofya Tolstaya is looking to retain her family's way of life after her husband's death and head of the Tolstoy movement, Vladimir Chertkov, wants to create an icon for the people and has used his relationship with Tolstoy to create a following.
While trying to follow the writer's words and live a life devoted to his ideals, Valentin's outlook on life begins to change and he's drawn deeper into the personal struggles of the Tolstoy family and the struggle to simply find love.
I'll admit right now, I wasn't expecting too much from this one, despite the big award nods recently. That said, it didn't really take me long to get into the spirit of movie. The playful score and equally playful dialogue made what I predicted to be a stuffy period drama into a thoughtful and enjoyable look at not only a historic icon but his beliefs and ideals via the characters around him.
The brilliant screenplay makes everything feel so effortless. Large themes like religion, family and more importantly love are all discussed poetically by the characters and the politics of all of these subjects are woven into the characters' motivations and the events leading up to Tolstoy's death. All of this is done in a way that puts a lot of these discussions in the watcher's hands, to attach their own thoughts and feelings on exactly what Tolstoy was trying to convey in his work.
Also it has to be said that the entire cast are doing pretty stellar work. Plummer's presence as the great writer adds a lot of weight to the importance of the character and those who gravitate around him are on equally fine form. Paul Giamatti is an actor I could watch in anything, he's always on the money and here is no exception. Mirren really isn't an actress I respond to normally, but her passionate performance was well spotted in awards season, same can be said for McAvoy (an actor that I usually write off as a poor man's Ewan McGregor) really had a lot to do with why I connected with the film and his subtle responses to events, especially towards the end of the film, really showed off his talents.
In a movie year that's been lukewarm at best so far, this little film, that was pretty much off my radar, was a welcome surprise. Its playful nature and its discussions on love and life were a delight and as events get darker towards the end, the emotional kick of the movie works wonders.
Despite there being a noticeable softness to the transfer and a level of detail that is slightly below average for HD, The Last Station still manages to look pretty good. Black levels are consistently deep and the natural lighting does wonders to sell the richness of the outdoors around the Tolstoy grounds.
Colours are a little muted with blues faring the best, either via the decoration of a set or McAvoy's eyes (which sometimes seemed boosted when in contrast to the fairly pale surrounding of the interior scenes) and generally The Last Station's look and style is captured well within this bright, clean transfer and even though it'll win no awards it's still a pleasant, reliable transfer that does all it needs to do.
Well for starters, hats off to Sergey Yevtushenko for providing a great score that by the end of the movie really becomes a massive part of the emotional punch the story has. Thankfully the DTS-HD Master Audio track presents everything well and has a strong presence in both the playful first half and moving second half.
The track handles dialogue well and has a nice ambience, especially within the exterior scenes. Crickets chirp around the surround speakers, adding extra depth and the scribbling of pencils as characters are constantly noting down everything the iconic writer does or says also have a nice placement which makes it understandable when Mirren's characters gets annoyed by the constant sound of it.
Other than that, there's the odd steam train that rocks the bass a little and a handful of arguments that make things a little more dynamic but generally this is a quiet and subtle track that's celebrating the great screenplay as opposed to audio attacks.
'Interview with Michael Hoffman' (38:23 SD) is a fine complimentary piece to the movie (especially with the lack of a commentary). The director tells the entire story that led from reading the book the film is based on in 1989 through to the making of the movie as well as the differences between the two.
'Conversations on The Last Station' (44:19 SD) features interviews with the cast as well as on set footage from the shoot. It also features a bit more insight into the story from author of the book Jay Parini as well as assorted members of the crew. Really, this is more than a simple making of but more a bit of a historical insight merged with the making of the movie through the inputs from all involved.
Lastly there's the film's trailer (02:10 SD)
The Last Station was a delight to watch and even more so because it came as a surprise. 2010 is six months in and so far I've struggled to really get that excited about any of the movie releases I've seen. Because of that The Last Station sits quite proudly at the top end of year so far (trust me, its as much as a surprise to me) and I really hope that something else as well written, acted and thoughtful will arrive soon.
Disc wise, the video and audio both do good jobs without showing off too much and the features compliment the film nicely, so all in all this pleasant surprise offered up quite a lot.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
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Sweet. I'll definitely be checking this one out when it hits shelves here on the 22nd. Thanks for the review.
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Release Date: 21st June 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, LPCM Stereo 2.0 English
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Extras: Interview with Michael Hoffman, Conversations on The Last Station, Trailer
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Cast: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti
Genre: Drama
Length: 112 minutes
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How often do you pray or wish for something and it really came true? Do you think wishing and praying really work? Whats one thing you really want to wish for and hope to get it?
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Yes, it does work. More and more of my thoughts are becoming reality.
I hardly ever wish or pray so I don't know if it works or not, I don't think it does otherwise the world would be perfect.
If I were to actually wish for something then it'd be something of pure fantasy and dreams like being able to fly. lol.
Boredom :I
Yes, praying works and please no debating just becausi think so. I believe what i believe and you believe what you believe and we can get along( to whoever reads this) :excl:. Me and my cousin catches buckets of crawfish and i boil them and eat them and let me tell you, its sublime. The river we would usually catch them at was getting really low to the point there was pretty well no crawfish. We prayed, left for the night, there was a storm........BOOM, small flood. There was craw fish all over the place.
My brother got thrown 20 feet from a horse and he broke his arm. It was definetly broke; swelling, discoloring, and it resembled a rainbow. We prayed that his arm would heal without going to the hospital and it did. Took one month of rehabilitating and it never had another problem.
My uncle, who is very close, was in need of a truck. We was tight on money at the time but we were difenetly going to need to buy a truck. We all prayed for him to get one for cheap. My uncles boss who is filthy rich (invented the card machine that you slip your card through and he owns several plantations becuase of it, one of which my uncle works at) gave a cheverlet tahoe to my uncle for 1 dollar. I swear this is true. My family is known for how hard we work. My motto is ''fun at home, work at work.''
In 2011, we had a large flood where i live. It was on cnn and everything. A couple cities got flooded and everyone around us were getting flooded in one day by the river.
We live 100 feet from the river. river water was making its way 2 miles into towns and cities but some how we did not get flooded from the SAME river that had taken more than 100 houses around us. 100 feet away from the river and it didnt touch our house but it did get close, really close. lots and lots and lots and lots of praying.
Im back. How was studyville you ask? Judging by that question, you should visit.
Wishing and praying work about as well as pulling out does. Believing something doesn't make it a fact.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky...
no it doesn't work
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Cue religious flamewar in 3...2...1......
Is the pizza here yet?
Jk but seriously I believe praying for something is lazy if that is all you are relying on for something to happen. You are the only thing that can really have an impact on your life.
Is the pizza here yet?
Prayer? Yes.
Remember during the 1998 olympics the entire nation of Japan prayed for snow? It worked. When people gather together to pray for a united cause God listens. He won't always give us what we want but a united people, praying for something important to them will be answered.
wishing and praying for me is a matter of perspective and faith....
if you just keep wishing and praying without doing anything to make them come true then it will never happen...
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. ~Itachi Uchiha
Don't really care.
My previous status is even more relevant now!
It seems pretty unlikely, and I would bet in cases where they seem to work it was just chance or the effect of some other process.
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How often do you pray or wish for something and it really came true? Do you think wishing and praying really work? Whats one thing you really want to wish for and hope to get it?
Our prayers and wish's are similar we just want to have another good year with our mate. I hope my partner Serena/Taeyeon well and has a great new year.
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It was Nov. 28, 1964, and it was easy to cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame.
The Fighting Irish came to the Coliseum with a 9-0 record, a No. 1 national ranking and a Heisman Trophy winner with a rags-to-riches story. It was to be the cherry on top of the hot fudge sundae, a final time to shake down the thunder.
Instead, it turned into a game for the ages, a legendary classic between schools that will meet in football Saturday for the 84th time. The shocking and controversial defeat for the Irish happened 48 years ago and remains etched in the minds of thousands of fans, both Irish and Trojans.
It was the ultimate Irish wake.
A Pacific Palisades businessman named John Huarte, who was then the Heisman winner for Notre Dame, was asked this week when he finally got over it. "I still haven't," he says.


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The last books I read was .... Battle Royale by Koushun Takami... It was cool in a psycho kinda way ....
Then I read Neouromancer by William Gibson and liked it a lot, even if it was a little strange.
And I've started on Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice, but it just dosen't keep me interested so I probably wont finish it any time soon ...
The last book I read was...'A Child Called It'.
It was a really good book, worth reading about, but the worst fact was that it was all true. Loads of stuff in it that made you shudder with sympathy for the boy (obviously the author wrote this)
Kino No Tabi: The Beautiful World Volume 1 by Keiichi Sigiawa
Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil
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Last good book of that series in my oppinion. Queen of the Damned was garbage (book and movie).
Have you even read passed that ?
Queen of the damned was the best book in the series in my opinion. The movie was garbage but the book was amazing and beyond sensual... As for the rest well Tale of the Body Thief was probably the most entertaining ... Lestat ... human body... Hello!! Memnoch is good as well ...
Anything that has Lestat as a narrator is good I cant believe you'd think it's garbage.
The Farseer Trilogy:
Assasins Aprentice(5 weeks ago)
Royal Assasin (2 weeks and running)
planning to read:
Assasins Quest.(estimate 2 weeks)
Well that is the current list, but i also own an abundance of Terry Pratchett Discworld novels that i read sometimes when i want to have some fun.
But still Manga has taken up so much love for reading that normal books hve to come second to me now ...<---- Thats bad.
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i havnt read a book since the 8th grade always used the sparknotes
Why do 13 year olds add me, send chain letters, then get pissy when I yell?
I'll get back to you on that one. I'm probably going to read all of Vonnegut's writings eventually. He is an amazing writer. His words are philosophical and, frankly, they make me feel every emotion possible when I read his books.
I've read a summary of Breakfast of Champions and it sounded great. From what I hear, he's an outstanding writer.
Apparently so does he.
Lmao. XD
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.
I don't read books, I burn them.
I've dragged this halo through the dirt for the last time.
Aww, but books are your frieeeeends. Hope you've got a big bonfire then...
Hmm...I've recently reread 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huley, having last glanced through it during French class two years ago. And I'm very glad I did because since then I've been taking philosophy and so I was able to get a deeper understanding of the various ethical issues. Not that I didn't comprehend them before...but this time I could analyse the book by analytically dividing it up. It was quite amazing to go through it and think 'hey, there's a positive ultilitrian viewpoint here!'
...It's a ridiculously short book though...
Latest book I've read was The Kite Runner by Khaleed Hosseini
A very powerful book. All the great themes of life and literature are in it. Love, honor, guilt, fear, redemption. There's no nonsence. It's an awsome book and very hard to put down. In this book, all it takes for evil to triumph is for a good boy to stand back and do nothing.
I miss Michael Jackson :( Forever Sweet Angel
the lst book ive read was eragon. good book. right now im reading the christmas carol. hey its christmas.
The last book I read was Eldest, it was really good.
Getting Going~
I just finished reading The Body Thief, book IV (4) of the Anne Rice, The Vampire Trilogy
Currently watching Yakitate! Japan. Awesome show,
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I just finished reading The Body Thief, book IV (4) of the Anne Rice, The Vampire Trilogy
It's book 4 of a trilogy, eh? lol, I think you meant The Vampire Chronicles.


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Regardless of what you think of HTC's more recent ad campaigns featuring Gary Oldman and Robert Downey, Jr. they still haven't managed to obtain the kind of recognition or mind share that Samsung enjoys. No surprise then that HTC would look for aid from the same mind that helped Samsung into their current position, former Samsung Chief Marketing Officer Paul Golden.
According to Mr. Golden's LinkedIn page, during his time at Samsung he "created and launched the…Galaxy brand." While the hardware can't be dismissed, it is also clear that Samsung's success over the last few years is in no small part attributable to their branding and advertising.
HTC with the One and now the One (M8) have the hardware part of the equation solved. But according to their own chairman, Cher Wang, they "…never think marketing is that important — this is really not very good." She also recognizes that "it's really not only the budget increase, it's the way how you spend the money. Is it smart?"
Mr. Golden is presumably there to help make sure the answer to that question is yes. For the time being, he is on a three-month consulting contract reporting directly to Wang. Whether this will turn into a long-term role is unknown, and HTC has only commented that the company will "continue to invest in talent and recruitment as part of our broader human resources strategy."
In an interview just prior to the US launch of the Galaxy SII, Mr. Golden had this to say about shaping the Samsung mobile brand in the US: "Not only are we giving you a device, but this device is going to change your life and is going to become a part of your life that you can't do without."
Only time will tell whether Mr. Golden can help HTC harness that same attitude and sell consumers on its truth.


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When it comes to crafting your new favorite jewelry creation, we rely on the extensive experience and know-how of the goldsmiths working at our BERND WOLF studio. Manufacturing our jewelry here in the Dreisam Valley near Freiburg enables us to guarantee products of consistently excellent quality. We purchase our basic materials from suppliers in many countries. Further processing of the materials, as well as the essential worksteps related to surface finishing and assembly, are always performed at our studio.
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By selecting materials of particularly fine quality, as well as using sophisticated tools and crafting techniques, we come close to our goal of creating absolutely perfect pieces of jewelry for you. After completion, before being shipped to you, each piece is meticulously checked once again to ensure you'll enjoy your new jewelry creation to the full.
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Thanks to the superlative craftsmanship involved in our jewelry and the exquisite, carefully selected materials they're made of, we are able to offer you an affordable Lifetime Service for our entire product range, constituting a guarantee included in the purchase price. Thanks to this special service, you can have your jewelry restored to almost original condition, even after many years. It's important to us to ensure that you'll experience lifelong pleasure with your favorite BERND WOLF jewelry creations.
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Our goldsmiths pay meticulous attention to chromatically harmonizing the gemstones, pearls or coral for each individual piece of BERND WOLF jewelry, selecting pearls with matching luster and hue by hand. Marbled sponge coral and turquoise with inclusions display fascinating natural shades and hues, so each of the pieces concerned is a genuinely unique piece. The variations involved characterize them as authentically natural products that lend themselves perfectly to creating harmoniously balanced, vibrant jewelry creations that underscore your personality to radiant perfection.


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The diagnostic approach to asymptomatic dogs with elevated liver enzyme activities
What's the next step when you see an apparently healthy dog that has abnormal liver enzyme results? These clinicians help you figure out when further diagnostic testing is warranted, which tests are indicated, and what conditions to suspect.
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Discuss how monthly electric and gas billing data can be combined with average monthly temperature data to model a building's energy use, quantify energy conservation opportunities and verify performance improvements.
The following steps are used determine to determine the characteristic curve for a particular building:
Step One - Normalize electricity and/or gas usage in terms of Watts/Ft2 (or Watts/m2).
Electricity, W/Ft2 = ([Monthly kWh] x 1000 Watts/kW) / ([Days/Bill] x 24 Hr/Day x [Bldg. Area])
Natural Gas,
W/Ft2 = ([Monthly Therms] x 100,000 BTU/Therm)
(3.413 BTU/Watt x [Days/Bill] x 24 Hr/Day x [Bldg. Area])
Step Two - Determine average monthly temperature for each billing period.
Step Three - Plot each month's normalized energy use verses that month's average monthly temperature.
After performing this anlysis on many buildings, we have discovered consistent trends. A typical all-electric home with electric resistance heat will use about 3.5 Watts/Ft2 at 20F and approximately 0.75 Watt/Ft2 around 60F, rising to about 1 Watt/Ft2 at 70F. An all-electric home with an air-source heat pump will be similar except the home will use about 2.5 Watts/Ft2 at 20F instead of 3.5 for the electric resistance home.
The slope of the line between 20F and 50F corresponds to the heat loss coefficient of the building due to conduction, infiltration and ventilation. Reducing the slope by a prescribed amount will predict the energy savings that will occur by replacing windows, adding insulation, reducing infiltration or reducing ventilation air.
The intersection of this line with the X axis, typically 70F, indicates the average temperature maintained inside the home. (Although, as Michael Blasnik correctly states in his comments below, the intersection of the UA line can be significantly influenced by solar gains or non-electric loads within the home.) Shifting the line to the left will predict the savings that occur by setting the thermostat back to a lower temperature.
I prefer to use watts per square foot (or watts per square meter) instead of using British Thermal Units (BTU's), kilowatt hours (kWh's) or Joules to normalize a building's monthly or annual energy use for the following reasons:
1. A watt is one of the few metric measurements that is commonly used and understood by most Americans. (75 watt light bulb, 1,500 watt heater, etc.) Because lighting and heating loads are often stated in terms of watts, it is relatively easy to quantify their contribution to a building's normalized overall energy when it is also represented in terms of average watts per unit area.
2. Even though a watt is a measurement of power, not energy, I find that energy represented in terms of average watts to be more intuitive than BTU's, kWh or Joules.
3. Switching between metric and non-metric values is relatively easy. The rule of the thumb conversion between square meters and square feet is a simple factor of ten (1 meter by 1 meter = 10.75 square feet). One watt per square foot is 10.76 watt per square meter.
4. Direct solar gain at the surface of the earth at noon on a clear day near the equator is roughly 1,000 watts per square meter, or approximately 100 watts per square foot. These rule-of-thumb values make it easier to relate solar heat gains to other heat gains within a home.
Adding Residential Solar PV Systems
The graph below shows the metered AC electrical energy generated by a 6.5 kW solar PV array that has been normalized in terms of watts per unit area of a 2,000 sq. ft. all-electric house. Although the energy generated each month by the solar array is not perfectly correlated with average monthly temperature, it shows just how far this house on the east side of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest has to go to reach net zero energy.
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It's always fun to look at usage data, but of course I've got a few questions/comments:
1) I'm curious why you don't use degree days rather than monthly average temperature -- an 80F day at the end of May doesn't offset the heating needed during the 45F day at the beginning of May. With degree days, linear fits tend to work pretty well (especially with linear heating systems -- not quite as well with heat pumps).
JW's Response: In my opinion, dealing with heating and cooling degree days (HDD and CDD) makes things more complicated than necessary. It all depends on what method you are used to dealing with. I have found that most homes I deal with do not have a balance point of 65F that is commonly used for calculating HDD. Also, if the temperatures do not rise above the 65F balance point, the results for average monthly temperature and HDD are mathmatically the same. Simply plotting average loads verses average monthly temperatures gives me a characteristic plot that quickly illuminates many characteristics of a home's energy use; such as level of internal gains, overall air conditioning loads, and the extent of electric heat. Another interesting aspect of the average temperature vs. average load plot, is that the peak loads for the home can also be calculated by extrapolating the heating line out to the design temperature in question.
I wrote a paper with Howard Reichmuth in 1996 that discuss the relationship between heating degree days and average monthly temperatures. The paper goes into much greater detail regarding the slope of the "UA" (heat loss coefficient x building area) line, how cooling, solar gain, reheat, setback and many other factors can be viewed when looking at a building using average monthly temperature and and average loads in terms of Watts/Unit area.
2) I'm wondering about your statement that the x intercept is an estimate of average indoor temperature -- that doesn't quite add up since the temperature float between indoor temperature and heating requirements is a function of all gains (solar, occupant, plug, other baseload, adjusted for utilization) and not just the gains for the fuel analyzed.
JW's Response: Solar gains and exterior loads will shift the X intercept in a prescribed way, but internal plug and base loads do not tend to shift the position of the x-intercept. The paper I mentioned above goes into greater detail if you want to see how I dealt with these factors using the average temperature model.
3) I find that normalizing by floor area tends to make smaller homes seem less efficient than large homes since it's the building shell that loses (or gains) heat and not the floor area.
JW's response: I agree, houses below 1,000 square feet tend to have higher relative heat loss values and higher internal gains on a per square foot basis.
The plot below shows how the average temperature plot for a home defines the extent of where energy is being used within the home. We use this monthly billing analysis to predict energy savings when customers want to know how much energy they will save if they replace their windows or add insulation.
For example, the total heat loss through the windows in terms of Watts/Ft2/F is equal to:
Window W/Ft2/F = Sum([Window U-Value, BTU/Hr/Ft2/F] x [Window Area, Ft2])
([Total Building Ft2] x 3.413 BTU/Watt-Hr)
Air Infiltration W/Ft2/F = [Air Change/Hr] x [Volume of Home]
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Media Regulation: Who Needs Your Protection?
Freedom of expression and media freedom - most contentious issues not only in autocracies but, seemingly increasingly, also in democracies. It's a fine line between regulating the media and strangling it. Who should be protected by media regulation? The media? The public? Freedom of expression? The government? National security?
Let's start with the media. Does the media need protection? Surely - at least to some extend media systems need to be shielded from being overwhelmed by economic and political interests. If we assume that a free and balanced media is fundamental to a healthy balance between the state and its citizens there need to be safeguards that allow journalists to report without fear of repercussions.


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From Francis Marion University
FLORENCE – McLeod Health has once again partnered with Francis Marion University to support the university's nursing program. McLeod Regional Medical Center's Chief Nursing Officer Leanne Huminski and staff members were on hand Thursday, June 7, to present a $75,000 gift to FMU.
"We want to thank McLeod Health for the continuing support to our nursing program," said FMU President Dr. Fred Carter. "This generous gift will enhance the financial support that we can provide to students who are desirous of pursuing careers in nursing."
This donation by McLeod Health reflects continued financial support of the nursing program at FMU. This is one of many times that McLeod has provided this level of support directly to the nursing program at FMU, in addition to McLeod's previous contributions to nursing education through the Medical University of South Carolina satellite nursing program at FMU for six years.
MUSC began operating a satellite-nursing program at FMU in 1982. Carter and MUSC President Raymond S. Greenberg agreed in 2004 to transfer control of the program to FMU.
Bricks and mortar came with the $5.5 million donation made by the doctors. Bruce and Lee Foundation of Florence toward the Dr. Frank B. Lee Nursing Building, a $7.6 million, 30,000-plus square foot building to house FMU's stand-alone baccalaureate nursing program. Located just north of the campus pond and adjacent to the McNair Science Building, the two-story building contains all classrooms, patient care labs and support spaces needed for an expanded nursing program at FMU.
Enrollment in the program has doubled since its inception. That increase is a direct result of the quality of the program.
"This gift recognizes the University and its nursing program for their commitment to the development of outstanding health care professionals for the Pee Dee Region," stated Leanne Huminski, chief nursing officer for McLeod.
Additionally, McLeod serves as a learning site for more than 100 nurses a year who are FMU students in local nursing programs.


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Well just got sprung that the mother in-law wants me to bring a brisket. Well now when to cook it. Should I do Saturday morning and just refrigerate it and reheat Sunday after church or try to time it and cook it over night and let it rest in a cooler while at church. Any ideas
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Wish I had seen this sooner. Because I think food tastes better right off the grill, I'd probably have gotten up early and cooked it, wrapped in foil and let the folks eat up right after church.
Although I have to admit, I've cooked ribs and put half a rack in the fridge over night and then just microwaved them for a couple minutes the next day and they were almost, almost, as good as when they came off the Holland.


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SKF has developed a new rope sheave concept. Existing sheaves are modified resulting in a virtually maintenance-free solution that needs no relubrication. This resolves problems related to grease leakage. In addition, a patented security locking system ensures that the sheaves cannot fall off the machine.


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This week's Culinary SOS request comes from Bonnie Cohn in Hermosa Beach:
"I enjoy reading your column, and it occurred to me that you might be able to answer my request. "It was a dark and stormy night," like many we've recently had, when friends and I happened into Smitty's in Pasadena after the theater. Not being Pasadena locals, we didn't realize our good fortune. It was a perfect night for their signature chili and corn bread specials. Not your ground beef variety, the chili seemed to be prepared with flank steak and the corn bread was the best ever. Any chance you could wheedle their secret for your readers?"
Smitty's was happy to share its recipe for their rich and hearty chili and corn bread. Thanks, Bonnie! You can find the recipe below.
See more Culinary SOS recipes. If you have a favorite restaurant recipe you'd like to request, email me. I'll do my best to track it down.
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Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
Our most popular British Library exhibition ever
"This really is a show that turns the world on its head. I'll never look at a map in quite the same way again."
Daily Telegraph
Record numbers of people were inspired by the British Library's most popular exhibition ever. Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art attracted nearly 227,000 visitors to the Paccar Gallery. Almost as many visited the website, another record. Feedback was extremely positive.
The exhibition presented 100 of the world's greatest maps in recreated original settings. It featured more than 80 spectacular wall maps dating from 200 AD to the present day, many of which had never been exhibited before. Highlights included a copy of the Fra Mauro world map of c.1450, perhaps the first 'modern' world map.
Visitors were fascinated to discover how maps can be works of art, propaganda and indoctrination. "Maps are often pictorial encyclopaedias that are about far more than just geography," said Peter Barber, Head of Cartographic and Topographic Materials. "Magnificent Maps was a visual extravaganza that intrigued, fascinated and entranced visitors while challenging their assumptions about the very nature and purpose of maps."
Nearly 3,000 people took part in the exhibition's learning programme and even more came to public events.


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March 5, 1934 - July 16, 2013
Winter Park, FL - Formerly of Middletown, NY
Maryann Schumaci DeGroat of Winter Park, FL, passed away on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. She was 79 years old.
Maryann was born in Middletown, the daughter of the late Carmella Belfiglio and Carmine Schumaci. She was the widow of Don DeGroat. Maryann enjoyed knitting, baking, playing cards and being with friends and family.
She is survived by her daughters: Dayna, Rae, Jennifer, and Angela; grandchildren: Erin and Ryan; great-grandchildren: Chrysantha, Isabella, Alyssa and Ethan. She was predeceased by her son, Randy and brothers, Frank and Stephen.
A Celebration of Maryann's life was held on Saturday, July 27th at First Covenant Church of Winter Park, 1720 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park, FL 32792.
Arrangements were under the direction of Collison Family Funeral Home. Obituary submitted by Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc.; to send a condolence please visit www.applebee-mcphillips.com or Collisonfamilyfh.com at the Howell Family Branch Chapel.


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This is the year publishers had to confront their worst nightmare: Oprah closed her book club. After six years of creating or boosting a bestseller every single month, the TV talk-show host claimed she couldn't find enough good books to recommend. If only she'd returned my calls....
Traveling through the 40 titles we receive here every day, our reviewers have braved the far corners of the world - and beyond - to discover the year's best in fiction and nonfiction. Inside, you'll find 10 highly recommended books and almost 60 noteworthy ones.
On our website, each of these capsules is linked to the full review we ran during the year. Before setting off on an adventure, do your homework and read up on the destination.
Happy exploring.
- Ron Charles
This swirling dinner-table collection of family tales is worthy of the anticipation that's built up over the 18 years since Cisneros wrote "The House on Mango Street." Her story of four generations of Mexican-Americans moves across literary borders as easily as its characters trek between Mexico City and Chicago. Little Lala Reyes tells the first part of the novel, a sweaty car trip to visit the Awful Grandmother in Mexico. But then Cisneros jumps back to tell the story of that Awful Grandmother as a young woman - with the voice of the grandmother often interrupting the narrator. The story spreads out across the whole fabric of Lala's family history with tales of foolishness and passion, tragedy and sacrifice, showing us, in the end, the conciliatory power of storytelling. (Oct. 10)
In this comic, moving, ultimately unsettling novel, Booker Award-winner McEwan captures the brutality of love and war and guilt. The story opens on a sweltering day at the ugly Gothic estate of the Tallis family. McEwan rotates through the perspectives of several residents and guests during a ludicrous and ultimately disastrous weekend, turning subtly through a kind of mock tribute to Jane Austen, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. As the novel moves on through three more sections, 13-year-old Briony Tallis clears the fog of adolescence and confronts the destructive power of fiction, even while she pursues its redemptive possibilities. Each of us, McEwan suggests, is composing a life. (March 14)
With this weird and wild testimony of William Gould, a 19th-century forger imprisoned below the tide line in a Tasmanian penal colony, Flanagan has written a fish story that's THIS BIG, surely the slipperiest, most outrageous novel of the year. The tale Gould tells of the land way down under is captivating. But be forewarned, it's also scatological and shockingly violent, a nightmare inversion of the elegant British society that constructed this place. As the narrative loops back on itself in a series of mind-bending poststructural tricks, Flanagan develops a grander and more ghastly vision that leaps beyond his country's history toward the biggest questions that love and language can pose. (March 28)
This debut novel storms with crosscurrents of the Old Testament: the trials of exile, the burdens of orthodoxy, the inexplicable nature of evil, the awesome power of God. When a young driver hits Naomi Landsmann in the novel's first paragraph, she and her killer vanish from its pages. But her death brings together an unlikely pair: her best friend, who reacts by becoming mute, and her grandfather, who attempts to capture everything on earth in thousands of carefully organized slides. This exuberant novel about the tenacity and mystery of faith is a book to press into other people's hands and pester them to finish so you can talk about it together. (Sept. 12)
With emotional accuracy and gymnastic irony, Phillips follows five friends through Hungary in 1990. The novel focuses on a sensitive, principled young American named John, who's arrived in Budapest in a futile attempt to bond with his older brother. The story moves fluidly through John's experience in a culture that's swirling with nostalgia, deception, and promise. Phillips holds a precarious balance, satirizing the rituals of modern culture while cradling John's desperate search for a worthy life. The result is a sophisticated and profound debut novel - a witty, humane tale of a generation stumbling in a dim glow that could be dawn or twilight. (June 20)
For Brands, the California Gold Rush was an accumulation of "hundreds of thousands of small stories of the men and women who traveled to California in pursuit of their common dream." This bestselling author has now assembled those stories in a dazzling setting that conveys the world-changing effects of the era. Most of the people he describes are unknown, like Vicente Peréz Rosales, who came from Chile with four brothers, a brother-in-law, and two trusted servants. Others are still famous, like Samuel Clemens, who "lit out for the territories in 1861." Brands's well-documented study presents a compelling argument that those small stories record "a seminal event in history, one of those rare moments that divide human existence into before and after." (Aug. 22)
Darwin spent 20 years working out evidence to support his theory of natural selection, secure in the knowledge that his idea was too radical and the details too arcane for anyone else to have discovered. Then one morning in 1858, he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, laying out the theory in words that could have been Darwin's own. So opens the second book of Browne's riveting two-volume biography. In the entire range of intellectual history, it's doubtful there's a moment that tops the Darwin-Wallace collision for human drama. Over the course of these two volumes, we come to intimately understand Darwin - a very unmodern man who brought modernity to science. (Sept. 26)
This third volume in Caro's award-winning biography chronicles more of Johnson's ruthlessness, which dominated the second volume. But it also marks a return to what Caro terms the "bright thread" of Johnson's life: the public-policy changes he helped bring about during his two terms in the US Senate, especially the civil rights improvements. Caro also calls attention to Johnson's genius as a political organizer. Nobody, he argues, has ever wielded legislative power more skillfully. Though the previous two volumes are superb, a newcomer won't be lost by jumping into this painstakingly researched, beautifully written installment. National Book Award nominee. (May 2)
The bestselling author of "Walking the Bible," Feiler here focuses on Abraham, the one man to whom Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all trace their roots. Well aware of the power that history wields in the imagination of the region, Feiler was hoping to find an Abraham of the sacred texts that could serve as a bridge for all the faithful. Instead, he encountered a multitude of Abrahams - some 240, he says! - as the interpretative works of each religion over four millenniums reshaped and often made more exclusive the story of this remarkable figure. His wonderfully readable book inspires because it grapples honestly with how all three faiths have reinterpreted their original truths. That realistic understanding provides a basis for fostering genuine communication. (Oct. 17)
Albatrosses spend 95 percent of their lives at sea, usually in flight. Safina wondered what we might learn about the world if we could see it from their perspective. After shadowing these great birds by foot, ship, and satellite, he has painted a beautiful, awe-inspiring tableau of the world as you've never seen it: an interconnected universe of wind and waves, sun-blasted islands, teeming polar seas, broad-winged birds, and the far-reaching effects of civilization. But today, albatrosses' lives are tangled up with those of humans. Though their world is far removed from civilization, they're inundated with pesticides, antibiotics, and hormone mimics. The lesson, Safina writes, is that there are no longer any places on earth unaffected by man. (May 16)
Set in Manhattan during the Civil War, this historical novel rescues from national amnesia the worst riot in US history. A new law has made all able-bodied white men eligible to be drafted into the Union Army, but for the thousands of poor Irishmen who've recently escaped starvation, the suppression of Southern rebels seems a distant irrelevancy. Baker's enormous story burns for just three days, but it generates so much heat you feel the pages might disintegrate into ash as you turn them. (Oct. 17)
Annie Dunne - an unpleasant, cranky old hag - lives with her cousin on a small Irish farm. Not much happens there until a nephew drops off his son and daughter to spend the summer. Annie couldn't be more delighted, but a threat to her security and a suggestion of sexual abuse cloud her enthusiasm. Rarely has the interaction between the old and the young been captured in such beauty and tenderness. There's plenty of Barry's signature despair here, but the emotional range is far broader. (Aug. 22)
Costello's black comedy is a sprawling portrayal of the natural disasters, social unrest, criminal plots, and international threats that the Secret Service repels minute by minute without blinking. Costello shows these blank-faced guards sacrificing their lives every day, throwing their hearts and minds into the paths of terrors that never make the evening news. Full of ragged realism and edgy satire of the world just after tomorrow. National Book Award nominee. (June 27)
The farms and orange groves of southern California are the backdrop for this smoldering romance between Linda Stamp and Bruder, a quiet soldier her father brought home after World War I. The pieces of this story, which is told to a real estate buyer years later, accumulate from shards of gossip polished into legend. Everything in this luxurious tragedy weeps with regret - for the loss of love and land and potential, but especially for the passing of the grand literary style of the 19th century. (July 18)
Jumping off from Franz Kafka's novella, in which Gregor is transformed into an enormous bug, "Insect Dreams" describes a stranger metamorphosis: That bug mutates into the savior of humanity. In the most natural way, Estrin manages to insert Gregor (the cockroach) into the major developments of the first half of the 20th century. His novel is a massive tour of science, culture, and politics. It's also perpetually funny. (Feb. 14)
When detective Thursday Next first hears that the manuscript of Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" has been stolen, she's not particularly alarmed - until it becomes clear that the perpetrator is a master criminal and arch-villain. In this debut novel, Fforde has crossbred "Jane Eyre" with James Bond and Harry Potter. The result is clever, loopy, and unabashedly ridiculous - about as much fun as you can have in the classics section without being thrown out of the library. (Jan. 31)
This Australian winner of Britain's Orange Prize tells the story of a chronically shy engineer and a museum curator who's been having a bad-hair day since she was 12. Though Grenville makes them the subject of great comedy, she regards these sweet losers with patience. The result is an irresistible comedy of manners that catches the agony of chronic awkwardness. (April 18)
Jiles's debut novel about the Civil War skirts along the border of history, following the alarmingly common tragedy of 18-year-old Adair Colley, a Missouri farm girl whose family owns no slaves, but who still falls victim to the brutality of the Union's program to quell rebellion. Jiles is a poet, but she proves herself a remarkably effective historian as well. And her steely style never wastes a word across the cold mountain of desperation she describes. (Feb. 21)
Johnston uses history - the race for the North Pole - as a stunning backdrop for a young man's search for his own past. Devlin Stead, a precocious orphan, leaves Newfoundland to join Frederick Cook's exploration. By the time he's finished describing their remarkable competition against Lt. Robert Peary, Johnston has braved the coldest spot on earth but delivered us to a place of genuine warmth. (Oct. 24)
Kennedy's latest novel about Albany (his seventh) opens as World War II closes. With the Nazis vanquished, the new enemy is a Republican governor determined to attack the corrupt Democratic Party, run by three crafty crooks who've been friends since boyhood. "Roscoe" barrels along with wild vitality - a winking, confident novel, full of snappy irony but capable of dropping into dark horror or sweet sympathy. (Jan. 10)
Leithauser tells this quiet story of a wealthy butterfly scientist at the turn of the century in 600 10-line sonnets. A long poem about lepidoptera is a tough sell, but this novel in verse catches one's eye with all the charm and complexity of an Ozark swallowtail. Leithauser's story doesn't suffer from its form; there's nothing he can't catch in this net. (April 4)
Lent's second novel is loosely based on the short-lived efforts of a group in upstate New Hampshire to secede from the Union two decades before the Civil War. It opens as a trader named Blood is leading an oxcart with a 16-year-old girl he won in a card game leashed to it. Lent renders their violent story in a spectacular fury of language that cracks and flashes with desperate insight into the nature of remorse and redemption. (May 2)
In this wonderful Irish novel about a lake - and the community that surrounds it - nothing much happens except for the rustle through a year with a few villagers. But the life McGahern resurrects here sounds like the melody of a forgotten favorite song. He conveys the profundity of ordinary lives, his wit and wisdom collecting as gently as dew. (March 7)
A strange, often beautiful story about a London piano tuner who receives a remarkable request from the military that plunges him into England's conquest of Burma. It's a smart, entertaining adventure, but ultimately a story of disillusionment. Mason delivers a timely critique of the self-justifying nature of military action, but also develops an equally troubling theme about the dangers of quixotic rogues and "misplaced munificence." (Sept. 19)
This satirical debut novel poses as a biographer's revengeful notes on Simon Silber, a failed avant-garde composer with a pathological hatred of sound. In creating this symphony of absurdity, Miller demonstrates perfect pitch for straight-faced comedy. (May 16)
Pears's canvas has never been larger or his concerns more profound than in this category-buster of a novel. He follows three historians in Provence at three moments when Western civilization seemed ready to shatter: the fall of Rome in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and Nazi occupation in the 20th century. The novel's greatest mystery is, "How can Pears know so much?" (May 30)
Cipriano Algor, a 76-year-old potter, lives with his daughter and son-in-law outside the walls of an enormous residential shopping mall - his only buyer. When his contract is canceled, he must find another way to make a living and a life. Not so much an attack on capitalism as a heartfelt lament for its disruptive force. This profound allegorical tale is delivered by an agile, irrepressibly funny, often cerebral voice. (Nov. 14)
In the first chapter of this runaway bestseller, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is enticed into a cave by her neighbor, who rapes and dismembers her. For the next seven years Susie describes, from heaven, how her family and friends - even her murderer - cope with her absence. It sounds mawkish, but Sebold has done something miraculous. (July 25)
Reta Winters, who once had all the trappings of success, is devastated by her daughter's decision to drop out of college and sit on a street corner, begging, with a sign on her neck that says, "Goodness." For Reta, the calamity calls everything into question, particularly her family's baffling reflex to carry on with normal life. In this mischievous monologue, Shields is as subtle and unsettling as ever. (May 9)
Murray Tepper knows where to park in New York City. In the evenings, he likes to spend an hour or so in his car next to a paid-up meter, just reading the paper. So begins Trillin's perpetually amusing fable of a simple man with a simple pastime who disrupts America's biggest city. Trillin treats the Big Apple with the droll wit of James Thurber, and he knows human nature the way Tepper knows parking spots. (Jan. 24)
A raw, poignant memoir of Ansary's upbringing in Afghanistan, this book captures a lost era and one man's decades-long mourning of it. (April 11)
JAZZ MODERNISM, by Alfred Appel, Knopf, $35
A piquant, playful book that shows the parallels between key jazz influences such as Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, and their literary and fine-arts contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and Henri Matisse. (Sept. 19)
At one time, artists were virtually chemists, Ball explains in this fascinating history of pigments and their relation to art. (March 14)
Newly discovered principles show the similarities among networks of all kinds, from the Internet to Al Qaeda. (June 6)
The autobiography of a law professor and civil rights lawyer, whose life demonstrates that it's possible to live a successful and virtuous life. (Oct. 10)
This massive tome is really three treatises in one: a history of diplomacy from 1500 to 1990, a theory of the history of the state, and an analysis of globalization. (June 13)
Lucid "biographies" of eight masterpieces - such as Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and Munch's "The Scream. The author restores the private intimacy these works have lost through overexposure. (May 16)
A nuanced history of America's "small wars," little-known conflicts where the US was called upon to suppress irregular forces in inhospitable locales around the globe. (May 16)
Published while smoke was still rising from the World Trade Center site, this little book shows that attacks on civilians have never accomplished their stated goals and never will. (Feb. 14)
D'Este's compelling biography eschews a look at Eisenhower's entire life, focusing instead on his early life and the resulting military career it spawned. (July 18)
Ferris uses the personal experiences of hundreds of backyard astronomers to explain the 20th-century revolution in spectroscopic analysis of very distant light from celestial bodies. (Sept. 5)
What makes a hero? Gibbon urges students to look beyond the athletic field, the movie screen, and the recording studio for their models. (July 18)
An engrossing portrait of Eustace Conway and his crusade to convince Americans to return to the land. National Book Award nominee. (May 9)
An American rabbi with years of experience in grass-roots conflict resolution in the Middle East offers a fresh angle from which to view the struggle. (May 23)
In this wide-ranging selection of personal stories and recipes, Haber offers a savory history of American cooking and the cultural forces that have shaped it. (April 18)
Halberstam analyzes the culture and values of the firehouse, telling the story of the men of Engine 40 and Ladder 35 who answered the call on Sept. 11. (June 13)
Thanks to the combination of Hertz's populist style and rigorous political commentary, this is fast becoming the central text of the antiglobalization movement. (Oct. 3)
In Muslim writings, Jesus has a life of his own. He spends time with ascetics rather than with sinners, and has hot words for scholars who advance themselves by working with the government. (Feb. 28)
A riveting memoir that details how life under the Taliban devastated one urban, educated, middle-class family. (May 30)
Lewis assumes that something did go wrong in the Middle East, starting in the late Middle Ages when progress in science and technology simply halted. (Feb. 28)
A major reinterpretation of the life of a writer who helped chart America's literary and political path for more than three decades. (Jan. 10)
McDonough and Braungart want us to design everything so that it can be composted safely and rapidly or turned into industrial feedstock. As an example, their book is printed with a nontoxic ink on waterproof "paper" made from plastic resins. (April 4)
Everything you ever wanted to know about shad, from a beautiful writer who captures the whole history of America in this fish story. (Oct. 10)
In this highly readable narrative, Princeton historian McPherson describes the indecisive, bloody battle that he considers the turning point of the Civil War. (Sept. 12)
A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations describes four factions that have been at work in the formation of US foreign policy throughout its history. (Jan. 10)
In medieval Spain, from AD 750 to 1492, the three monotheistic faiths clashed, intermingled, and produced a rich, tolerant culture. (July 25)
Lincoln's greatness and goodness are widely known. This book seeks to explain how he got that way by peering behind his words and deeds to examine his thoughts and moral precepts. (Feb. 7)
A nature writer tracks an elusive and potentially new species of bear through Indochina, racing against political and culture forces that threaten to destroy the animals. (Oct. 3)
In this coming-of-age story, a scientist finds her true calling only when she follows killer whales to their native waters. (July 18)
A concise, well-reasoned argument for an American foreign policy that works primarily in concert with that of other nations, not as a Lone Ranger. (April 18)
Physicist and theologian Polkinghorne provides an energizing discussion of eschatology - the study of death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and humankind. (March 28)
A brutal critique of international aid efforts, which the author claims breed a culture of dependency. (Oct. 31)
A Nobel Prize-winning economist's harsh criticism of the International Monetary Fund and its policies. (June 27)
A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector set in 1913 and then went on to construct a radically new marketing strategy that spoke directly to boys and their ambitions. (Oct. 10)
This biography of mathematician and philosopher René Descartes is idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, highly personal, wildly opinionated, and informative. (June 6)
In the midst of mass extinctions, we must be more aggressive stewards of planet Earth, Wilson argues in this elegant though sobering warning based on solid scientific research and profound moral imperatives. (Jan. 17)
In this reexamination of the legend, Zacks argues that Captain Kidd was a respectable mariner, framed by the British government. (June 27


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Masters has found a way to keep its field small and let in more PGA Tour winners.
The PGA Tour is going to a wraparound schedule in October. That means the tournaments formally part of the Fall Series will be part of the tour's FedEx Cup season. Masters chairman Billy Payne says winners from those tournaments will get invitations.
The only PGA Tour events where the winner won't get an invitation to the Masters are those held opposite majors or World Golf Championships.
The Masters will take only the top 12 finishers instead of 16, and the top eight from the U.S. Open instead of the top four.
Meanwhile, the cut will expand this year to take the top 50 and ties, plus anyone within 10 shots of the lead.


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text: What I meant was that Batchelor's stated aim is to investigate the suttas in order to determine the "true teachings of the Buddha", not that I agreed with his conclusions. The point is that different people can use the same material and come to rather different conclusions.Ñāṇa wrote:I really don't think Batchelor is, Mike. How can one have a meaningful and coherent "sutta method" which fails to accept the validity of passages which are central to the description of the Buddha's awakening and passages which are common throughout the suttas? ...mikenz66 wrote:Stephen Batchelor is practising a "sutta method" just as much as you are, but you have (I think) come to rather different conclusions.


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It is a February night in 1986 at a hotel somewhere in Sweden. The hotel is closing down.
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The hired musicians are tuning their instruments. In anticipation of the guests, Zvea starts telling the story of her life, of the hotel where she has worked for 50 years and of the people she has met and who in various ways have influenced her life. The story is accompanied by songs and music from the 1920's until today. The historic aspect is reinforced through authentic radio broadcasts and quotes from Swedish movies.
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Early this year Motorola and Intel announced a multi-year partnership, but we have yet to see any mobile devices announced since then. That should change soon as Motorola just sent out an invitation to the press for an event with Intel that is planned for September 18th in London. Some sites are already speculating that this could be Motorola's first Android phone to feature Intel's Medfield chip, but that platform is aging and Intel already announced a faster part.
Intel's first mobile chip that was adopted in Android phones was the Atom Z2460 (Medfield), which featured a single-core 1.6 GHz CPU and PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Their next mobile chip is the Atom Z2580 (Clover Trail) that features a dual-core 1.8 GHz CPU, PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU, and integrated LTE.
Atom supports Hyper-Threading technology which allows two virtual or logical cores to run on each physical CPU core. This means the new dual-core Atom Z2580 will be able to run four threads, similar to other quad-core mobile processors. The newer PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU will also be clocked at 533 MHz, which would put it on the level of the fastest mobile GPU found in Apple's iPad.
"Faster speeds only get you so far," Mike Bell, Intel's vice president for mobile, told the BBC. "It's really all about user experience and the responsiveness of the device and less about speeds and feeds. What we are trying to do is work out what the next user experience should be on these hand-held devices and then work backwards to build into the silicon the hooks we need to create that experience, because it's software and hardware that do it, not just one or the other."
Several Windows 8 tablets from ASUS and Acer are going to use the Atom Z2580, so the part should be ready for smartphones as well. Motorola's event is just a couple weeks away, so we will find out the details soon enough.
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Pandemic Studios announced today that they are showing four titles at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo. In addition to the recently announced Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront - both co-developed and published by LucasArts, Pandemic will also be bringing back Full Spectrum Warrior, and introducing Destroy All Humans! - both co-developed and published by THQ.
E3 attendees can play the soon-to-be-released Full Spectrum Warrior in the Microsoft Xbox booth and on multiple screens at the THQ booth. THQ will also be offering an early look at Pandemic Australia's Destroy All Humans!, due out next year. Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront will be shown in the LucasArts booth in the Concourse Hall, and both games can also be seen in the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox booths. Star Wars Battlefront is being shown at the ATI booth as well.


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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern women's cross country team placed three runners in the top 10 to finish second overall at the Third Annual GSW Remembrance Run on Saturday morning. Freshman Jessi Young led the Lady Hurricanes on the 5K course at Southland Academy with a time of 21:12. Young was the individual runner-up in the four-team event and her time set a school record.
Lisa Espino posted the second-fastest time for GSW with a 21:35 and Micah Bucher grabbed the third slot for the Lady Hurricanes, crossing the finish line 10th overall at 22:31.
Nakora Mackey placed 14th with a time of 23:16 and Mollie McGowan was one slot behind Mackey with her 23:35.
With 19 points, Valdosta State finished ahead of GSW (46) for the team title.
Juliana Boehm from VSU crossed the finish line first with a time of 19:22. The Lady Blazers took five of the top six slots in a field of 28 runners.
Every GSW runner shaved time off their opening-week run in Albany on Sept. 1. Mackey saw the biggest improvement with 1:42 off her Week 1 run. McGowan was also more than a minute faster (1:06) and Espino set her personal best for the second-straight week.
Southwestern travels to Montevallo, Ala. on Sept. 22 for the Falcon Classic. Start time is set for 9:45 a.m. EST.
3rd Annual Remembrance Run
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Sept. 8, 2012
GSW Individual Results
2. Jessi Young, 21:12
7. Lisa Espino, 21:35
10. Micah Bucher, 22:31
14. Nakora Mackey, 23:16
15. Mollie McGowan, 23:35
Team Results
1. Valdosta State (19 pts)
3. Clark Atlanta (75)
4. Wesleyan College (113)