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The film was released in 2010; 15 years after two of the most catastrophic avalanches reported in documented history of natural disasters in Iceland, devastated in part the small village of Flateyri.Photo: Icelandic Film Centre.
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The second avalanche devastated the community of Flateyri in the wee hours of October 26, at 4:07 am. To the locals, winter had not yet announced its arrival to the small village, although it had been snowing for three days and the weather was by no standards good, even in the eyes of the locals who knew bad weather all too well.
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I remember this event as if it happened last week. I remember how I felt. I remember how each time a person was found alive we rejoiced and each time a body was discovered we grieved for the community's loss and perhaps also for the local hero who dug out a friend or family member only to find the spirit eternally asleep.
Photos of survivors and those perished in the deep snow appeared in the newspapers in the days following the event, each with a name, some brothers and sisters, some parents or young lovers who in the minutes and hours before the avalanche struck slept soundly side by side.
It was the first time I recalled CNN and BBC showing Iceland interest.
I was 15 years old at the time and it was the first time in my life I realized just how powerful Icelandic nature is, that it can kill and save lives all at the same time. When it comes alive, its power is sometimes just too awesome for the fragile existence of dwarf-size humans inhabiting the edge of the world.
It was also the first time I realized nature is ruthless in her selection of who lives and who dies and that here in the North, we sometimes depend on her to spare our lives.
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Another survivor who held onto his wife while the avalanche almost buried them with all its force, talks about his neighbors who lost a child.
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In her time of rage, when a tsunami of snow buried half the village, the residents of Flateyri responded with efficiency as they dug through layer after layer in an attempt to find a neighbor, relative or a friend, perhaps all of the above, while waiting for assistance from nearby communities and the capital city, and hardship while enduring personal grief in the face of an undefeatable foe.
The 3-D simulation by Halldór Bragason, unseen by the public up until now, displays how the avalanche devastated the small town in the northwest with its awesome force, and the snow quickly digested the homes and those within in matters of second.
North West, as it has been short-titled, is a film in which director, scriptwriter and editor Einar Þór Gunnlaugsson excavates a recent history of human tragedy and while doing so captures the spirit of the north, the true spirit of the north us South westerners can only pretend to possess.
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There truly are no words. The recollection of the avalanche immediately takes me back to the moment I knew what had happened, the morning I woke up to the horrible news, the day every classroom was glued to the radio and class was dismissed so that we could watch the news with our families.
Whether you're planning a trip to the West Fjords and want an insight into the history of the region, or if you just want to know the less public side of life in Iceland, North West is worth the 100 minutes.
As an Icelander who remembers October 26 1995, it's a journey worth taking and for my foreign friends and family, an insight into a region where fortitude and strength prevails.
66/23 North West, The Day of the Avalanche (original title: Norð Vestur, björgunarsaga), with subtitles in English, is available in webstores such as Shopicelandic.com.
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Harder, Leland. "Plockhoy and His Settlement at Zwaanendael, 1663." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 186-199.
Harder, Leland. "Plockhoy and His Settlement at Zwaanendael, 1663." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 186-199.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; KarlsruheSchneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 379.
Horst, Irvin B. "Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy, An Apostle of the Collegiants." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 161-185.
Horst, Irvin B. "Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy, An Apostle of the Collegiants." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 161-185.
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Living in the "Golden Age" of Dutch political independence and cultural achievement, Plockhoy came to Amsterdam from the city of Zierikzee in Zeeland, as did also Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan, the noted physician and minister of the Amsterdam Mennonite Church. These two men were both influenced by the Collegiant movement and were associated in bringing into the Amsterdam Church Collegiant ideas, which caused much dissension and eventually divided the church into the Lamists and Zonists. Plockhoy was also associated with a radical Collegiant group of poets in Amsterdam known as the Reformateurs. In the light of his Collegiant connections he has little significance in the history of thoroughgoing Mennonitism except as a by-product of the transitory period of the Amsterdam congregation in 1650-64.
In Puritan England Plockhoy has more significance as a religious and social reformer during the late months of the Cromwell government. He published various editions of the following two tracts dated 1659:
1. The Way to the Peace and Settlement of these Nations fully discovered . . . published the letters that he had submitted to the Cromwell government in his attempt to reform in the area of the state church by supplanting it with all-embracing interdenominational assemblies based on principles of freedom, discussion, and toleration, all of which were typical Collegiant ideas. His attempt at reform on such a big scale had little chance for success.
2. A Way Propounded to Make the Poor in these and other Nations Happy . . . comprised an alternative scheme with more practicality as a solution to the immediate socio-economic needs of the day. It was a plan for co-operative settlements with communitarian production and consumption. Although colonies were actually begun in London, Southampton, and Ireland, and others were projected for locations in the Isles and even on the Continent, the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 put an end to these and other reform movements of the English revolutionary period. There is some evidence that in England Plockhoy had connections with other radical reformers of this period: Levellers Giles Calvert and William Walwyn; Utopian, Samuel Hartlib; and possibly the poet-statesman, John Milton.
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Plockhoy's determination to establish communitarian settlements culminated in the planting of a colony of Dutch emigrants along the Delaware in New Netherland in 1663, following a long series of negotiations with the Amsterdam burgomasters begun in 1661. In addition to the two English tracts mentioned above, there are also extant a third and fourth published in the Netherlands in 1662 and coming out of the negotiations in Amsterdam:
3. Kort Verhael van Nieuw Nederlant ... (Brief Account of New Netherlands) published the seven anonymous letters which Plockhoy and his company submitted to the burgomasters in petition for a colonization contract.
4. Kort en Klaer Ontwerp (Brief and Concise Plan) bears Plockhoy's signature and was the actual colonization prospectus that he published to enlist emigrants for his settlement. According to a separate document, a group of twenty-five "Mennists" had already been enlisted and promised financial support by the Amsterdam government. The identity of these Mennonites has never been established, and the colony was not itself a Mennonite colony in the usual sense. A settlement of 41 persons was made in America in 1663 at Horekill on the Delaware, but was destroyed after a brief year of existence in the Anglo-Dutch war of 1664. Plockhoy's active career apparently came to an abrupt end, due in part no doubt to the fact that he became blind. Although he and his wife continued to reside in the neighborhood of Lewes, Delaware, under English rule for thirty years, they finally sought and found refuge in the new Mennonite settlement at Germantown, Pennsylvania, where they lived as public charges for their last six or more years (1694-1700).
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1884): 76.
Harder, Leland and Marvin Harder. Plockhoy from Zurikzee. Newton, 1952.
Harder, Leland. "Pioneer of Christian Civilization in America." Mennonite Life 4 (January 1949).
Harder, Leland. "Plockhoy and His Settlement at Zwaanendael, 1663." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 186-199.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 379.
Horst, Irvin B. "Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy, An Apostle of the Collegiants." Mennonite Quarterly Review 23 (1949): 161-185.
Nieper, Friedrich. Die ersten deutschen Auswanderer von Krefeld nach Pennsylvanien. Neukirchen, 1940: 104.
Quack, H. P. De Socialisten. 1899: I, 186-207.
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E-commerce retailers have both good news and bad news in equal proportions when it comes to BOTS in the virtual world. Good news is that you can be slightly pleased that the Good BOTS have an upper hand as far as their traffic on cyber space is concerned over the Bad BOTS. But the thing of worry is the inequality among Human Users and BOTS as the latter are steadily overtaking the former.
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According to Wikipedia, a BOT is simply a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically BOTS perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of BOTS, and the topic of this article, is in web spidering, in which an automatic script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at high speeds. Each web server can have a file called "robots.txt", containing rules for the spidering of that server, giving you control over which files a BOT will fetch, analyze and get information from.
Good BOTS can simply be called as programs that Search Engines launch to get their database indexed with the relevant and viable websites. Every Search Engine has its own programs that are better known as Crawlers and Spiders. You have to give due credit to these Crawlers as they establish your business on the virtual world by bestowing you a place in the much sought after Search Engines and Social Networking Platforms. These crawlers are a welcome sight if you are serious in getting the right kind of visibility for your website, but here you need to better equip yourself with the knowledge of how to guide these BOTS to effectively list your website like you need to know in depth about RoBOTS.txt, No-Follow Tags, User-agents etc.
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by Rachel Goldstein
What is your impact on the local community? How do your actions impact the world? GlobeMed, an undergraduate organization at the University of Rochester, asks these salient questions of the Rochester community with its second annual art gala, IMPACT.
The public exhibition, presenting juried artwork for viewing and for sale, will be held at the Art Museum of Rochester, 610 Monroe Ave. on December 6 with an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Guests can expect a showcase of Rochester talentgreat art, musical entertainment, refreshments, a raffle featuring products from local businesses, as well as an opportunity to learn more about what GlobeMed does abroad and in Rochester. There is a suggested five dollar donation.
The gala is part of an on-going fundraising campaign for GlobeMed's partnering organization, Kallpa Iquitos, a grassroots nonprofit aiming to empower youth and enhance opportunities through youth development projects in Iquitos, Peru.
"We want our fundraisers to reflect the values of our partner while also engaging the Rochester communitynot just UR students, but the community at large," says Art Gala co-coordinator, Alysha Alani '15. The gala was pioneered last year as a way to tie Kallpa Iquitos into the local picture. "They use art as a public messaging forum," explains Alani, "a way to promote healthy lifestyles and empower the community."
GlobeMed, a group that addresses health equity and social justice, has partnered with Kallpa Iquitos since 2010 when founders Anupa Gewali '12 and Rohini Bhatia '13 applied to be a chapter. Part of a national organization comprised of 55 groups in total, the GlobeMed chapter at the University is working to achieve global health equity through local efforts and long-term partnerships abroad.
Kallpa Iquitos and GlobeMed co-construct a memorandum of understanding, which outlines how much money GlobeMed can commit to raising and how that money will be used. "We believe that Kallpa is an expert on the community they work and live in," says Alani. "They know best how to sustainably address these self-identified issues and how GlobeMed can best use our resources as University studentsnot only financially, but time and knowledgeto help."
Kallpa Iquitos is currently focused on empowering youth to take ownership of their communities through establishing youth centers and facilitating the development of academic enrichment programming, sexual health classes, and employment opportunities, among other projects. They are currently working with nine neighborhoods within the Pampachica area of Iquitos.
Locally, GlobeMed engages in community service and strives to educate the Rochester community about public health issues and disparities. "We cannot turn a blind eye to marginalized communities," says Alani, "whether they are in our own backyard or 3,000 miles away."
GlobeMed held their 2nd annual 5K walk in partnership with two Rochester non-profits in October 2013. They are planning their 3rd annual benefit dinner in mid-February, last year's theme being "Hope in Health: Youth in Action." Additionally, GlobeMed hopes to organize an educational debate on public health topics for the spring semester. Past events have included a panel discussion on the Affordable Care Act that featured a public health professor, physician, theologian, and economist, as well as a debate on cultural relativism and family planning co-sponsored by the debate team.
"I especially value the educational curriculum that GlobeMed incorporates," Alani explains, "topics such as why health is a human right, the history of global health efforts, and models of foreign aid. It is rare to find a group of students as passionate and willing to learn."
Alani attended two GlobeMed conferences in the past yearone regional and one nationalthat bring together university chapters and GlobeMed alumni. They were a reminder of the immense tasks at hand, but also the small changes that can go a long way.
"I am continually proud and impressed," Alani states, "with what a group of undergraduates can do when we put our minds to it."
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Drexel downs Utah for WNIT title
Philadelphia, PA – Hollie Mershon's layup with 21 seconds remaining proved to be the difference maker as Drexel held on to edge Utah, 46-43, on Saturday to earn the 2013 WNIT title.
Mershon, who finished with 14 points and eight rebounds, scored the critical basket to put the Dragons ahead by one and break a scoreless streak that lasted two-plus minutes as the contest came to a close.
Taylor Wootton scored 16 points and grabbed six boards for Drexel (28-10), which defeated Florida on Wednesday in the semifinals.
Iwalani Rodrigues paced Utah with 12 points and Michelle Plouffe added nine points and 14 rebounds for the Utes (23-14), who defeated Kansas State on Wednesday in overtime to advance.
Utah held a 24-21 lead at the break in a poor shooting effort from both squads. Drexel led by five with just over four minutes remaining before consecutive treys put Utah up 43-42 at the 3:07 mark.
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Singles Awareness Day (SAD) or Anti-Valentine's Day is a humorous day that provides single people with an alternative to Valentine's Day on the 14th or 15th of February. Here are some suggestions.
Instead of red, sport green
Many people wear green, on Anti-Valentine's Day as it is the complementary opposite of red. Another popular option is black as a statement of Anti-Valentine sentiments.
Go out with single friends
Make plans with your single friends to get out and do something fun.
Go for lunch with a good friend
Invite a friend or family member you love for lunch and tell them what they mean to you. If you go after Valentine's Day, you'll dodge the crowds.
If you prefer your own company have a spa day
Pamper and indulge yourself. It will probably cost less than most couples spend on Valentine's Day.
Chocolate will always be there for you
And after Valentine's Day chocolate will be on sale. You can load up on chocolate for a whole lot less than those suckers in relationships. And you won't have to share.
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Good morning! It's time for another trip into my musical teenage canon with Tune in Tuesday! I'm really enjoying this meme that Ginger of GReadsBooks has organized and I hope that you are too! It's been very therapeutic and just funny what the mind remembers! Since I'm being all open about my disasterious love triangles, […]
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Ahhh, I loved reading about your story with your boss, Estelle! It sort of reminds me of my life almost 10 years ago!
I had to laugh at Savage Garden, I have to admit they got played a lot here (obvioulsy) and I can't stand them, but so many girls at school loved them 🙂
Hehe. Estelle, I love the story! Didn't you just love being the safe haven from insane girlfriends? I've filled that role before, and it's like, "Um… I'm so much better than she is!" And seriously, I love Savage Garden! And I never knew Darren did anything solo. His voice is so distinct that I would have pegged him even if I didn't know who sang the song. Such good choices! I love this blast from the past. 🙂
haha your PS made me laugh – I definitely was, too! I'm kind of in love with this story, scandalous as it was/could have been. I remember seeing The Starting Line WAY long time ago before they were pretty well known, and when people started listening to them I was like 'really? people like them?' But then I listened to the CD and they had definitely improved since that first show haha. I miss the days of mixed CDs and tapes. Sending me a Spotify playlist just doesn't have the same feeling. (Also, Boyz II Men? LOVE FOREVER. They are my ultimate band.)
How cute! I love that you guys still talk about your old mixes and bonded over his crazy girlfriend. Sugarcult and The Starting Line!!! That's like my youth in a nutshell. 😛
I love this story! I love The Starting Line too…I had totally forgotten all about them as well. 🙂
As always, I think the story that goes along with your Tune In Tuesday is FAB. Love the songs and yes, the days of mixed cds <3
Awww I love your choices and your story! I LOVE Boyz II Men because my Mom and Dad would always listen to it when I was a little girl! Thank you for sharing 😀 So glad I discovered this blog… will definitely be visiting more often 🙂
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These posts are THE BEST. Love hearing about your boy stories! I love how mixtapes can convey what you mean through songs, so much thought is put into them. Also omg Sugarcult! I remember them and even saw/met them once. I wonder if they're still around?
I love your teenage musical stories! They are the best. Oh mixed tapes (CDs? haha). They were definitely the unspoken thoughts/feelings we so couldn't tell our crushes, but the music definitely could! Pretty sure I made a boy listen to "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" by NSync on repeat, hahahahaha. Wow.


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Famille Verte Flower Vase with Bouquet of Forget-Me-Nots, 2001–2002
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Léopold Foulem's practice is conceptually based, emphasizing ideas over process. Clever and intellectually rigorous, Foulem's work is fully cognizant of previous ceramic traditions. The decoration and title of Famille Verte Flower Vase with Bouquet of Forget-Me-Nots alludes to the much celebrated traditions of Chinese porcelain. Foulem, however, achieves his ornamentation through inexpensive hobby store glazes and cheap commercial decals. The loaded connotations of high culture, communicated through the decoration, contrasted with the lowbrow commerciality of the material, allows the artist to comment on high art versus kitsch. One of Canada's leading ceramists, Foulem has won both the Jean A. Chalmers National Crafts Award and the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft.
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- When are Law and Economics Isomorphic, 39 Golden Gate University Law Review 183-220 (2009).
- The Theory of Economic and Legal Rationality, (Research Note) 4 International Advances in Economic Research 302 (1998).
- An Interest Balancing Test for Entrapment, 18 Pace Law Review 51-81 (1998).
- When Judges Balance Interests Through Trade-Offs, They Implicitly Use Economic Theory to Order Cases, 74 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 27-62 (1996).
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- Cases and Consent Decrees, 33 Villanova Law Review 281-333 (Spring, 1988).
- Schizophrenia In The Justice Department's Merger Guidelines, 19 Antitrust Law & Economics Review 73-79 (No. 4 1987).
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- When Does Complete Copying of Copyrighted Works For Purposes Other Than Profit Or Sale, Constitute Fair Use? An Economic Analysis of the Sony B etamax and Williams & Wilkins Cases, 28 St. Louis University Law Journal 647-682 (1984).
- An Economic Analysis of the "State-Municipal Action" Antitrust Cases, 61 Texas Law Review 481-515 (1982).
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- Five Conflicts Over Income Distribution in the Motion Picture-Television Industry, 25 Villanova Law Review 417-457 (1980).
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- Price Fixing, Privity, and the Pass-On Problem in Antitrust Treble-Damage Suits: A Suggested Solution, 19 William & Mary Law Review 171-201 (1977).


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Anyone who can't get a song out of his head or obsessively replays one is testament to the power music exerts in our lives. Favorite songs by favorite artists play like tape loops in our minds; we're touched by both the lyrics and the music. It follows, then, that books about music, musicians, and the movements that shaped them are ever more popular.
We see a lot of signs that point to a healthy book market for music titles. The audience for these titles has always been very large, and it's still growing," says David Lutton, associate acquisitions editor for the Dummies series at Wiley. While this fall's crop of music books illustrates the ongoing desire of fans to learn every detail about their favorite artists, the books cut a swath across diverse musical genres—from rock to classical to jazz.
In the past two years, rockers and pop musicians like Keith Richards, Gregg Allman, Neil Young, Carole King, Patti Smith, and Cyndi Lauper have opened up about their private lives, parading their character flaws, setting the record straight, and showing us that, in spite of their excessive or glamorous lifestyles, they're plagued by the same doubts and overjoyed by the same triumphs that we experience in our lives. According to St. Martin's executive editor Kathryn Huck, "Big-time memoirs have really staged a comeback, though it seems like the talent has to be A-list to get on and stay on the list."
One year ago, rust-never-sleeps rocker Neil Young rambled on through his musical and personal journey, including his rocky, on-again-off-again relationship with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, in Waging Peace: A Hippy Dream (Blue Rider Press). Now, Graham Nash gets his turn to pull no punches in his memoir, Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life (Crown Archetype, Oct.), candidly discussing his upbringing and his family difficulties, the arrogance of Stephen Stills and Young, and his commitment to songwriting and making music in three-part harmony. Songbird Linda Ronstadt also came out of the California rock and folk scene out of which Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young grew. In Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir (S&S, Sept.), she artfully weaves together the story of her musical upbringing in Arizona, her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene, and beyond, introducing figures as diverse as Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, Nelson Riddle, and Kermit the Frog. About Simple Dreams, Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp says, "In these pages you'll discover a woman who loves to sing and learns to express that love through an eclectic range of music."
While Jimi Hendrix told his story through his songs, rock fans might wonder what kind of memoir Hendrix would have written had he lived. In Starting at Zero: His Own Story (Bloomsbury, Oct.), filmmaker Peter Neal, Hendrix's producer and close friend, gathers Hendrix's writings—on hotel stationery, napkins, cigarette cartons—to create a comprehensive account of his life, from birth to death. With a nod-and-a-wink attitude, Steely Dan cofounder Donald Fagen offers an autobiographical portrait that reveals the cultural figures that shaped his life, from Jean Shepherd to Henry Mancini to Blake Edwards, in Eminent Hipsters (Viking, Oct.).
Suzanne Ryan, Oxford University Press's editor in chief, humanities, points out that "biographies are a perennial favorite, whether of individuals or of major groups, genre histories, or favorite works." In recent years, Robert Plant, the Led Zeppelin frontman, has lent his distinctive voice to a number of musical projects, including collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and Americana artist Patty Griffin. Telling his biographer Paul Rees that he "had no intention of doing an autobiography as he felt it was too early in his career to do so," Plant gave the green light to Rees to tell his story in the definitive Robert Plant: A Life (HarperCollins, Oct.), with a 100,000-copy print run. Rock writer Mick Wall unearths previously unheard stories in AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (St. Martin's, Nov.). Another metal rock band gets its due in Neil Daniels's Reinventing Metal: The True Story of Pantera and the Tragically Short Life of Dimebag Darrell (Backbeat, Sept.), while Paul Branigan and Ian Winwood offer their first installment of the two-volume Birth School Metallica Death (Da Capo, Nov.). Finally, Stacy Brown and Michael Jackson's former publicist Bob Jones take a look at the King of Pop in Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask (SelectBooks, Oct.), and Ian Bell delves into Bob Dylan's mystique in Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan (Pegasus, Oct.).
Classical Gas
Last year, Paul Elie cast fresh light on Johann Sebastian Bach and his impact on the act of composing music in Reinventing Bach (FSG). This fall, a number of new books look at the lives of classical composers or explore the difficulty of learning to play classical music. Confident of the continued interest in Bach, Knopf's 30,000-copy printing of Music in the Castle in Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach (Knopf, Oct.) by John Eliot Gardiner offers an in-depth look at the composer. Beethoven scholar John Suchet draws on newly available sources in Beethoven: The Man Revealed (Grove/Atlantic, Dec.); Martin Geck strives to strike a balance between the technical aspects of Wagner's compositions and Wagner's understanding of aesthetics in Richard Wagner: A Life in Music (Univ. of Chicago, Sept.). With Mozart: A Life (Viking, Nov.), cultural biographer Paul Johnson (Darwin) offers a concise but illuminating biography of Mozart, focusing on the composer's uncanny gift for instrumentation, while Stephen Walsh offers a collective biography of Mussorgsky and the composers with whom he associated in Mussorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure (Knopf, Dec.). In Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music (Holt, Sept.), Neil Powell delivers a biography of the English composer for the centennial of his birth, and editor Nigel Simeone provides a revealing glimpse of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in The Leonard Bernstein Letters (Yale, Oct.).
Two books take on the challenges and the obsession of learning to play classical music. In Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible (FSG, Sept.), Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger recounts his yearlong effort to master Chopin's Ballade no. 1 in G Minor and how the project consumed him. With a 150,000-copy first printing, Hyperion has great hopes for the inspirational true tale of journalist Joanne Lipman, along with Melanie Kupchynsky, who wrote Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations (Oct.), the story of a violin teacher, Mr. K, who transforms his student, Lipman, and his own daughter, Kupchynsky, into top performers (Kupchynsky plays with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
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Ten years ago, Johnny Cash died. When Robert Hilburn asked Cash's manager Lou Robins how much of Cash's story had been told, Robins replied that "only about twenty percent" had been revealed—in spite of Cash's own autobiography, Cash. Hilburn set out to cover the entire story in Johnny Cash: The Life (Little, Brown, Oct.), drawing on his personal experience with Cash and on a treasure trove of never-before-seen material from Cash's inner circle. Little, Brown executive editor John Parsley says, "There's always a readership for the best books on hallowed music icons. Johnny Cash's life is so ripe for Bob Hilburn's exhaustive, page-turning telling; it's a book that only Bob Hilburn could have written and that Cash's legacy deserves." Country music critic David Cantwell, meanwhile, takes us on a revelatory journey through Merle Haggard's music and the life and times out of which it came in Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (Univ. of Texas, Sept.). In a groundbreaking biographical and cultural history, banjo player and founder of Women in Bluegrass Murphy Hicks Henry offers the first-ever book about women pickers in Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (Univ. of Illinois, Sept.).
Legendary bluegrass mandolin picker Ricky Skaggs tells his story of playing as a child with Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and striving to bridge past and future with his music in Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music (IT/Harper, Sept.). In Buck 'Em: The Autobiography of Buck Owens (Backbeat, Nov.), the late Owens tells, with Randy Poe, his life story from the back roads of Texas to the streets of Bakersfield, Calif., where he helped shape the "Bakersfield Sound."
Much as he did in his popular biography of Louis Armstrong (Pops), culture critic Terry Teachout draws on candid unpublished interviews with Duke Ellington for Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham, Oct.). Gotham vice-president and editorial director Lauren Marino says, "Duke is really about a major American musical figure; his compositions had a powerful impact on popular culture and the artists and music of the 20th century." Several books focus on Charlie Parker: Chuck Haddix's Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Univ. of Illinois, Sept.) weaves firsthand accounts from Parker's associates with new information about his life and career. The University of Minnesota Press adds to the Parker conversation with a revised and definitive edition of Gary Giddins's Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (Sept.). And in the long-awaited first installment of his life of Charlie Parker, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (HarperCollins/It, Oct.), acclaimed jazz critic Stanley Crouch brings Parker's early years and his rise to fame to life (Crouch is profiled in this issue, p. 26). Quincy Jones: His Life in Music (Mississippi, Oct.) by Clarence Bernard Henry, traces the story of Jones's work as a composer and producer. From the streets of New Orleans, Matt Sakakeeny provides a firsthand account of the lives of the city's brass band musicians in Roll with It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (Duke, Nov.). And for the first timer, Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion (Scarecrow Press, Oct.) offers advice and direction.
We can thank the record labels who signed up the artists, pressed the vinyl, and marketed their music for our favorite sounds. Stax Records, an iconic American recording studio, gave the world Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs, and Steve Cropper. In his definitive history of the label, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion (Bloomsbury, Nov.), Robert Gordon looks behind the scenes at the studio responsible for soul music. At first, fans laughed at the late-night commercials advertising collections of hits by various artists, but Rhino Records took the music world by storm, with access to previously unheard versions of iconic recordings; Rhino cofounder Harold Bronson tells the tale of this small independent label in The Rhino Records Story (SelectBooks, Oct.).
This rich harvest of fall music books goes beyond the liner notes and the grooves of favorite albums to reveal the musicians behind the music, as well as the powerful cultural history of a wide variety of musical forms.
A New Spin on Books: The 33 1/3 Series
For many music fans, reading the liner notes of an album simply isn't enough; they want to know every little idiosyncrasy of the recording process. What recording equipment were the musicians using? What kinds of instruments were they using? How did the band really feel about each other in that villa in France? What if there were a series of pocket-sized books that allowed fans to find the answers to these questions and more?
In 2003, Continuum, now a part of Bloomsbury, launched 33 1/3, a series of books offering fans of seminal albums closer, more intimate looks at their favorites. David Barker, publishing director, education, at Bloomsbury, brought the series to light: "I'd started a series called Continuum Contemporaries, short critical guides to contemporary fiction. It occurred to me that it might be equally—okay, perhaps even more—fun to try a similar series with albums; I'd find authors from many other fields and give them as much freedom as possible to approach their subject."
33 1/3 kicked out the jams that year with books on five classic albums: Dusty in Memphis (Dusty Springfield's fifth studio album); Love's Forever Changes (a 1967 Summer of Love classic); Neil Young's Harvest; The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society; and The Smiths' Meat is Murder. Between 2003 and 2012, 86 books appeared in the series, covering albums by artists ranging from James Brown, Bob Dylan, and Prince to the Pixies, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, and Céline Dion. Continuum decided to allow the series to wind down in 2012. The last volume was Jonathan Lethem's take on the Talking Heads' Fear of Music.
When Bloomsbury purchased Continuum in 2011, Barker and commissioning editor for popular music Ally Jane Grossan, proposed a plan to revive the series. "Bloomsbury loved the idea," she says, "and we issued an open call for new proposals in early 2012." The response to that call clearly demonstrated the immense popularity of 33 1/3: 471 proposals.
An important aspect of the series is the involvement of the fans. As Grossan says, "33 1/3 is one of the most democratic publishing imprints in the world. The editorial process is very visible on the blog [www.333sound.com], even though David and I do the actual selecting. We carefully whittled down the 471 proposals to 94, and we posted the list on the blog, which serves as an open forum for the series. We welcomed input from fans and haters alike." Out of that 94, 33 1/3 will publish 18 titles over the next year.
This fall, the series features Darran Anderson on Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (Oct.) and S. Alexander Reed and Philip Sandifer on They Might Be Giants' Flood (Nov.). The series will cover albums ranging from the Beach Boys' Smile and Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe to Michael Jackson's Dangerous and Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.
"Each book tells a story about an album that is beloved but not always necessarily well known," says Grossan. This approach to music books has won critical praise, a loyal fan base, and steady sales—each volume has sold over 3,000 copies—and Bloomsbury will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series throughout 2014, culminating with publication of the 100th volume in fall 2014.
With a Little Help from Their Friends: Celebrating the Beatles' 50th Anniversary
It was 50 years ago this year that the raucous, bluesy, rock 'n' roll of John, Paul, George, and Ringo climbed up American record charts, leaving millions of teenage girls swooning and parents concerned about the obsession these four mop-heads inspired.
Over the next 10 years, the Beatles altered the course of rock history, growing musically from a band whose original sound came out of American blues, soul music, and British skiffle, into a group famous for ingenious songwriting, experimental music, ferocious infighting, as well as now-iconic album covers and a farewell rooftop concert.
Last fall featured a crop of books hailing the 50th anniversary of that other British band, the Rolling Stones; this fall is all about the Fab Four.
Before they arrived in America, the Beatles plunged into a rough and tumble Liverpool music scene, eventually rising to the top of the heap of talent there that also included, among others, the Hollies and the Animals. Former Beatles book manager Joe Flannery "witnessed the Beatles" rise to prominence in the early '60s and tells about it in his warts-and-all account, Standing in the Wings: The Beatles, Brian Epstein, and Me (Nov.), according to the History Press commissioning editor, Mark Benyon.
"We've had great success with two Beatles books in the past [100 Beatles Songs and The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics], so we know well that books about the Beatles and their music still excite the public," says Black Dog & Leventhal editor Dinah Dunn. With a print run of 40,000 copies, Black Dog & Leventhal has high hopes for All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release by Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, and Scott Freiman (Oct.), which dissects every album and every song ever recorded by the Beatles—from "Please Please Me" to "The Long and Winding Road." Ten years out of print, Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962–1970 is being brought back by Sterling; it is the definitive guide to the every Beatles recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios (Oct.)
Lewisohn, one of the leading authorities on the Beatles, also delivers the 10-years-in-the-making first volume of his trilogy, Tune In: The Beatles—All These Years (Crown Archetype, Oct.), which draws on new interviews and never-before-seen material to look into the band's pre-Fab years in Liverpool and Hamburg and the way that everything came together for the Beatles during that time.
Forty years after the Beatles broke up, the band continues to exert its fascination over fans, who pore over posters, photographs, and other objects, in addition to the records. Mat Snow's beautiful four-book set, Beatles Solo: The Illustrated Chronicles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo after the Beatles (Quayside, Oct. 2), examines their individual triumphs and tragedies in a post-Beatles world. Mark Hayward's The Beatles in America Poster Book (Sterling, Oct.) captures the band's lasting influence on music, culture, and fashion in a collection of 20 frameable posters detailing the careers of the Beatles in the U.S., while Brian Southall's The Beatles in 100 Objects (Sterling, Oct.) portrays the career of the Beatles and their influence through photos of the most famous objects associated with the band.
Beatles or Stones? In a groundbreaking approach to this question, John McMillian reveals in Beatles vs. Stones (S&S, Oct.) that the rivalry between the bands has long been misconstrued and is the product of savvy marketing managers.
When Penelope Rowlands reconnected with one of the screaming teenagers with whom she was photographed in a 1964 New York Times article about the Beatles' arrival in America, she realized how deeply that experience had changed her and others. The Beatles Are Here! 50 Years After the Band Arrived in America, Writers and Other Fans Remember (Algonquin, Jan.) contains memories of those who were there, including Cyndi Lauper, Gay Talese, Lisa See, and Fran Lebowitz.
Fifty years on, the legends from Liverpool continue to get by.


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How To Become A Radiologic Technologist in Alaska
In order to qualify for Radiation Therapy jobs in Alaska, you should compare all available technical schools in your target area, as well as consider taking some of your courses online. Check with each nursing school below for assistance with certificate program requirements, degree prerequisites, and class registration. You may request information from several different schools below, without making a commitment.
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To prepare for Radiation Therapy careers in Alaska, you need to complete a technical education in your specialty area, as well as consider taking part of your required courses online. Which college degrees give you the best chances of finding employment after graduation? Qualifications for engineering jobs vary considerably. Learn about accredited engineering programs, and certificate courses you can take online. Check with the radiologic technology department for course registration deadlines, and engineering program requirements.
Healthcare professionals use many types of equipment to diagnose patients. Radiologic technologists, also known as radiographers, specialize in x-ray and computed tomography (CT) imaging. Some radiologic technologists prepare a mixture for the patient to drink that allows soft tissue to be viewed on the images that the radiologist reviews. Further, radiologic technologists might also specialize in mammography, using low-dose x-ray systems to produce images of the breast. Technologists may be certified in multiple specialties.
MRI technologists, on the other hand, operate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to create diagnostic images on special film. They must inject patients with contrast dyes so that the images will show up on the scan. The scanning equipment uses overlapping magnetic fields in combination with a contrast agent, in order to produce images that a physician can use to diagnose medical problems. Beyond major requirements within the radiologic technology department, you may consider Walsh University renewable energy as a complementary elective.


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The nighttime glow around the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is full of information. Against Tokyo's black sky, twinkling dotted lights stretch beyond the parameters of a panoramic guestroom window. But, adjacent to the distant modern skyline is another source of illumination: horizontal lines of light stacked atop each other and surrounded by exposed tree trunks, revealing abundant foliage and a three-story pagoda.
During the day, the scene at the garden of Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is so impressive that tour groups leave the busier parts of the city and head to Bunkyo for a stroll through the 17-acre garden. Some meditate by one of the spring water streams, while others read about the old plants and historic artifacts, including the piece de resistance — the Entsukaku three-story pagoda, which is one of the oldest pagodas in Tokyo and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan.
Chinzanso, which means "villa on a mountain of camellias," was acquired by Baron Heitaro Fujita from Japan's Prince Aritomo Yamagata in 1918. Since 1952, the property has been owned by Fujita Kanko Inc., a leading hospitality company headquartered in Tokyo with 60 properties throughout Japan.
After World War II, the first president of Fujita Kanko decided to make the property available to the public. In 1992, Fujita Kanko built the hotel on the grounds and contracted Four Seasons as a franchisee.
"It was a great advantage for us to be part of Four Seasons and to be the first Four Seasons in Asia," said Ayumi Sanada, chief manager, public relations for Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo. "However, during the past 20 years, many international luxury hotel brands have entered the Japanese market. These days, clients are looking for more than brands — they are looking for experiences."
As a result, the rebranded property features a unique sense of place, which is apparent from the new rooms to the extended programming — all part of an ongoing $70 million investment for upgrades.
"What Fujita Kanko truly excels at is offering authentic Japanese hospitality and culture," said Sanada.
Chinzanso has launched three new activities: a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, performed by the hotel's tea masters in two historic, authentic tea houses on the property; Japanese etiquette and language classes, where guests learn Japanese table manners and other lessons; and a bonsai creation workshop taught by the hotel's licensed landscape gardener, who has taken care of the Chinzanso garden for the past 30 years. Since most staff members, including the management team, have been with the hotel since its opening, guests should not notice a change in service.
The hotel has also added the rooftop Serenity Garden, a 16,145-square-foot, open-air garden. Overlooking the Tokyo skyline and the botanical garden, the location is an elegant option for the staggering 3,000 weddings held at Chinzanso each year.
"We also renovated some of the guestrooms to create 'unique view' bathrooms," said Sanada. "It is an ultimate luxury to have a chance to enjoy the beauty that each season brings: cherry blossoms in the spring, dancing fireflies in the summer, breathtaking foliage in the fall and 1,000 camellia trees blooming in the snow."
Tips For Booking a Hotel for the 2020 OlympicsThe 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo may be several years away, but many people are already dreaming of visiting the city during the event. Though the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee has not issued guidelines to the hospitality industry yet, Sanada offers some updates and tips for forward-looking travel agents.
"The whole hospitality industry is preparing to welcome international visitors to Tokyo," said Sanada. "Many anticipate that demands for the summer of 2020 will exceed any other events that Japan has experienced."
Luckily, Tokyo currently has more than 300 convention facilities, 96,000 guestrooms and 150,000 restaurants. The city offers a broad range of hotels, from budget to luxury. According to Sanada, agents should not be concerned about the quality of budget hotels because Japanese budget hotels offer quality services.
"This is something that visitors as well as travel agencies can take advantage of," said Sanada. "We are known for our hospitality. Japanese hoteliers cater to every need that clients have before they even realize what they need. It's a part of the Japanese tradition and culture. Travel agencies can expect that their agencies and clients will be well taken care of working with Japanese hotels."
Because Tokyo can meet the needs of a variety of clients, familiarize yourself with the different products available. For luxury clients, there are several reasons to consider Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo.
"It is only five kilometers from our hotel to the main Olympic stadium, 15 minutes by car and 30 minutes by train and walking," said Sanada. "A subway line that has a stop near our hotel has an extension plan to reach the area where many games will take place, so it will be quite convenient."


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Look! Little Matteo's Nursery Mural
We love the accessibility and temporary nature of wall decals. Still, sometimes it's hard to compete with actual paint on the wall, custom tailored around the unique features of a specific room. Take a gander at this inspiring nursery art from Italian creative collective, Studio Fludd.
The first thing that grabbed our attention was the lively mix of colors and whimsical scenery, but check out the clever peacock boom box incorporating the wall outlets, the use of the deer to mask an awkward metal wall panel, or the starry sky patch painted into the corner of the ceiling.
We might not have the time or ambition to tackle a project on a similar scale, but Little Matteo's room has definitely got us brainstorming about the possibilities of a small paint job surrounding, say, a light switch or an unused phone jack.
Peruse the rest of the images from Little Matteo's room on Studio Fludd's Flickr photostream.
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Microsoft Bob
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|March 10, 1995[1]
|Stable release
1.00a / August 30, 1995[1]
|Operating system
|Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, XP [2]
Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product that was released on March 11, 1995 and discontinued in early 1996. The program was intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems, supplanting the Windows Program Manager. Microsoft Bob presented screens showing a "house", with "rooms" that the user could go to containing familiar objects corresponding to computer applications—for instance, a desk with pen and paper, a checkbook, and other items. In this case, clicking on the pen and paper would open the word processor.
A cartoon dog named Rover and other cartoon characters provided guidance using speech balloons. Rover and a few others managed to later make their way back in Windows XP as "Search Companions".
Microsoft Bob was greatly criticized in the press, did not gain wide acceptance with users, and was neither a successful nor long-lived product.
Microsoft Bob was released in March 1995 (before Windows 95 was released), although it had been widely publicized prior to that date under the codename "Utopia".[3][4] The project leader for Bob was Karen Fries, a Microsoft researcher. The design was based on research by Professors Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves of Stanford University.[5] At one point, Bill Gates's wife, Melinda Gates, worked as one of the Marketing Managers on the project.[6] Microsoft originally purchased the domain name bob.com from Boston-area techie Bob Antia, but later traded it to Bob Kerstein for the windows2000.com domain name.[7]
Bob included various office suite programs such as a finance application and a word processor. The user interface was designed to simplify the navigational experience for novice computer users.
Similar to early graphical shells like Jane, the main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms corresponding to common real-world room styles such as a kitchen or family room. Each room contains decorations and furniture, as well as icons that represent applications. Bob offers the user the option of fully customizing the entire house. The user has full control over decorating each room, and can add, remove, or reposition all objects. The user can also add or remove rooms from the house and change the destinations of each door. There is also a feature in which Bob offers multiple themes for room designs and decorations, such as contemporary and postmodern.[8]
The applications built into Bob are represented by matching decorations – for example, clicking on a clock opens the calendar, while a pen and paper represent the word processor. The user can also add shortcuts to applications on his or her computer. These shortcuts display the icon inside various styles of decorations such as boxes and picture frames.[8]
Released right as the Internet was beginning to become popular, Bob offered an email client with which a user could subscribe to MCI Mail, a dial-up email account. The price was $5.00 per month to send up to 15 emails per month. Each email was limited to 5000 characters, and each additional email after the limit was reached was an additional 45 cents. A toll-free phone number had to be called to set up the account.[9]
Bob features "Assistants", cartoon characters intended to help the user navigate the virtual house or perform tasks in the main interface or within the built-in applications.
Gateway 2000 Edition[edit]
An edition of Microsoft Bob was bundled with the Gateway 2000 computer around 1995. The Gateway Edition contained Gateway branding on the Login screen along with additional rooms and backgrounds not seen in the retail version. One additional room was the attic, which contained the box to a Gateway 2000 computer. Along with the additional rooms, there were more icons that appeared by default in the new rooms.[10]
Reception and legacy[edit]
Bob was one of Microsoft's more visible product failures.[11] Despite being discontinued before Windows 95 was released, Microsoft Bob continued to be severely criticized in reviews and popular media.[12]
Bob received the 7th place in PC World magazine's list of the 25 worst tech products of all time,[13] number one worst product of the decade by CNET.com,[14] and a spot in a list of the 50 worst inventions published by Time magazine, who called Bob "overly cutesy" and an "operating system designed around Clippy".[15] Microsoft's Steve Ballmer mentioned Bob as an example of a situation in which "we decided that we have not succeeded and let's stop".[16]
Microsoft employee Raymond Chen wrote in an article that an encrypted copy of Bob was included on Windows XP install CDs to take up space and slow down illegal copies.[11] Tech journalist Harry McCracken called the story "a delightfully urban legend-y tale" and noted its similarities to an April Fools' Day joke claiming Bob was hidden in Windows Vista.[17]
Rover, the software's dog mascot, reappeared in XP's File Search function.
The typeface Comic Sans was created for (but not used in) Microsoft Bob[18] and is still a popular—though often reviled—typeface today.[15][19]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Lifecycle Information for Microsoft Obsolete Products Support". support.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 14 August 2005. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Raymond Chen Discusses Microsoft Bob". technet.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ "MS plans Utopia for PC users". Computer Shoqqer. April 1994.
- ^ "Microsoft makes for Utopia". Personal Computer World. May 1994.
- ^ McCracken, Harry (March 31, 2010). "The Bob Chronicles". PC World. IDG. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
- ^ Newman, Michael (23 May 1999). "Bob is dead; long live Bob". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: John Robinson Block. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
- ^ Lea, Graham (11 November 1999). "Windows2000.com owner sells domain to Microsoft". The Register. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
- ^ a b Nathan Lineback. "Microsoft Bob". Nathan's Toasty Technology. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ McCracken, Harry (29 March 2010). "A Guided Tour of Microsoft Bob". Technologizer. Technologizer, Inc. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ Rose, Daniel. "The "Bob Home"". DanielSays.com. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ a b Chen, Raymond (July 2008). "Windows Confidential: History Taking Up Space". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
- ^ Dvorak, John C. (16 August 2004). "The Bottom 10: Worst Software Disasters". PC World. IDG. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
- ^ Tynan, Dan (26 March 2006). "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time". PC World. IDG. Retrieved 2007-03-14.
- ^ Merritt, Tom (30 April 2007). "CNET Top 5: Worst products in a decade". CNET. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
- ^ a b Fletcher, Dan (27 May 2010). "The 50 Worst Inventions". Time. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
- ^ Cowley, Stacy (31 July 2006). "Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake". CRN Magazine. The Channel Company. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
- ^ McCracken, Harry (29 March 2010). "Windows XP: A Free Copy of Bob in Every Box?". Technologizer. Technologizer, Inc. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
- ^ Strizver, Ilene. "The Story Behind Comic Sans". Fonts.com. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
- ^ Garfield, Simon (20 October 2010). "What's so wrong with Comic Sans?". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
External links[edit]
- Microsoft Bob Review
- Information about Microsoft Bob version 1.0 for Windows
- The GUI Gallery: Microsoft Bob' Examining Bob in the context of other graphical user interfaces
- A short computing history (story and slideshow) of Bobs from Microsoft Bob to Bob Metcalfe to Alice & Bob.
- A more in-depth article about Microsoft Bob (in German)
- Video of the Microsoft Bob in action on YouTube


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Take a look at a new trailer for Soul Sacrifice.
One of the most impressive looking games on the vita.
cant wait to play this at TGS!!!! definitely one of the first things I do!
I hope this becomes the next Monster Hunter in fame, greatness, and sales. Screw Capcom.
Sweeeeeet! I was already gonna get the game, but this trailer is just awesome!
shut up and take my money!!!!!
Holy crap, that looks awesome!
100% buy!
Damn , if this game comes out they can have my money. I only do not understand that sony has not more of this types of games for the vita. I know we are talking about money and not sugar. But to earn any profit you have to invest enough to earn any profit.
Sigh... Sony is really making it hard for me not to get a Vita. PSO 2 is making me wonder if I should, but seeing some of these games.....
Despite what a lot of people would like you to believe, it's worth it. It's got a great current library, a ton of great features, and more excellent stuff on the way.
I already have more than 37 games on it including Psone classics :D ! loving it xD
Now I know what an illegitimate child of Dark Souls and Monster Hunter would look like.
Inafune-sama *bows*
Daddy LIKEY!
Looking great as always! :D
dang man this is the first ive seen of this game. love my vita man
M**&^*&%&*^ &(^*(&(*&!!!! best &^*( ive seen in a long time! This game looks more fun than console titles.. I cant wait for this
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LEBANON, Ill. – The King University men's volleyball team fell to Quincy University and Lindenwood (Mo.) University by identical 3-1 scores on Saturday as the Tornado wrapped up play at the McKendree Crossover Classic, hosted by McKendree University.
In the match against Quincy (11-11), King hit .250 as a team and had three players reach double figures in kills. Nick Serowski led the Tornado with 15 kills, while Eddie Moushikhian and Mason Casner each had 10 terminations of their own. Casner also tied for the match lead with three blocks, leading a King front line that had 6.0 total team blocks for the match.
The Tornado were forced to take a timeout in the first set after a kill by Andrew Cavanaugh, who led the Hawks with 13 kills, gave Quincy a 24-21 lead. Kiel Bell started the King rally with a kill, then combined with Matthew Lychock on a block to pull the Tornado within a point. A service ace by Chandler Wellmann evened the set at 24, but Quincy reached its fourth set point on a Cavanaugh kill. Moushikhian responded with a kill for the seventh tie of the match, then an ace by Bell gave King the lead. A Quincy attack error then sealed the dramatic 27-25 win for the Tornado in the first frame.
King was unable to sustain its momentum from its first-set victory, however. The second set featured five ties and two lead changes, with neither team able to build an advantage of any size. Trailing 21-20, King gave up the final four points of the set and allowed the Hawks to tie the match. The third set was even tighter, with the team scores deadlocked 14 times and within two points until the end of the set. A Moushikhian tied the score at 16, but Quincy went on a 6-0 run to seize control and went on to win 25-19. King led by as many as five points in the fourth set, but Quincy again used a large run to put the set out of reach. A 9-2 stretch turned a 15-11 King lead into a 20-17 Hawks advantage, and Quincy went on to close out the set and take the match.
Against Lindenwood (17-6) in the final match of the day, the Tornado (8-14) were led by 12 kills from Moushikhian, who hit .333 on 24 attempts. Casner had a service ace and four blocks, while Matthew DeLong had 33 assists to go along with a block and three kills.
The Tornado trailed 2-0 after falling 29-27 to the Lions in the first set and 25-19 in the second. The first set had 10 ties and three lead changes. King led by as many as four points midway through the set, but the Lions were able to steadily climb back into contention and took a 25-24 lead after scoring three straight points to stave off the Tornado. The match was tied at 25, 26, and 27 points, but a Scott Siwicki kill and a King attack error gave the Lions the victory. King never led in the second set and saw the Lions pull away at the end after maintaining an advantage of at least three points through much of the frame.
King was able to force the match to a fourth set with a 26-24 win in the third. The Tornado trailed by four points on six different occasions, including seeing Lindenwood build a 24-20 advantage. But King scored the final six points of the set to stun the Lions, using an attack error, a Bell service ace, and a Moushikhian kill to pull within a point. Moushikhian then continued his run of excellence by notching a block and two terminations to give King the win. The Tornado were unable to sustain the momentum from the third-set victory, however, and succumbed to Lindenwood with a 25-15 loss in the fourth set.
The Tornado will return to action on Wednesday, March 19 with a conference match against Pfeiffer. It will mark King's first home match since a pair of sweeps over Marymount and Emmanuel on February 1. First serve is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.