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How can you explain to ordinary people the dangers of not taking action to lower the risks associated with climate change in the future?
That's a question MIT Sloan School professor John Sterman has given thought to -- which was evident when he gave a presentation on climate change last week at a systems thinking conference at MIT.
Here's how Sterman explained in, as he put it, "plain language," the implications of some climate change projections by MIT climate researchers for the year 2100:
"We are playing Russian roulette with the future of the climate, with a weapon in which 19 of the 20 chambers are loaded; [there's a] 5% chance you won't have a live round in the chamber.
There's one difference, though, between that story and classical Russian roulette. We're holding the weapon. Our finger is on the trigger. The barrel's not pointed at our head; it's pointed at the heads of our children -- and grandchildren."
And yet, Sterman continued, although "the best scientific evidence -- overwhelming scientific evidence -- is that we have an extraordinary set of risks that require concerted action, nothing is happening" to address climate change risk on a public policy front. Why is that?
Some of Sterman's research provides some insights into that question of the public's complacency about climate change. In a study published in the journal Climatic Change, Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney of Harvard found that even well-educated graduate students have a hard time intuitively grasping the dynamics of the problem of carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere. Many graduate students in a study Sterman and Booth conducted, for example, didn't realize that we could reduce carbon emissions slightly from current levels -- yet still face increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere over time.
What about you? How well do you understand the dynamics of climate change -- and the risks of not addressing the problem soon? To find out, try using the MIT System Dynamics Group's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Simulator. Or try reading a relatively short, nontechnical article about Sterman's bathtub metaphor for carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere. It's a really helpful metaphor.


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Moderate exercise can help patients with failing hearts feel better -- and it's safe, according to the largest-ever study of exercise in people with chronic heart failure, published as two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Patients in the exercise group were given exercise training and either a treadmill or an exercise bike.
The study's results may not have been groundbreaking: Fewer than half of patients were fully following the recommended exercise regimen (the equivalent of brisk walking or stationary cycling for about two to three hours a week) by the end of the study, and the effect of exercise on mortality and hospitalization risk was small. But these benefits shouldn't be dismissed, given the poor quality of life many chronic heart failure patients have, says Clyde Yancy, M.D., medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Houston, Texas.
"Having any strategy that's reasonable, that has the potential to help even a little bit, is pretty important," says Yancy, who was not involved in the research. "The real gain might be in helping our patients feel better."
About 5 million people in the United States have chronic heart failure, in which the heart becomes too weak to pump blood through the body effectively. Not too long ago, bed rest was the standard treatment for these patients, who suffer from fatigue, difficulty breathing, and swelling of the legs, among other symptoms.
But for the past 20 or 30 years, evidence has been trickling in to show that these patients can actually benefit from being active, says Kathryn E. Flynn, Ph.D., of Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
To get a clearer sense of the benefits (and potential risks) of exercise for heart failure patients, Flynn -- along with Christopher M. O'Connor, M.D., director of the Heart Center at Duke, as well as colleagues from several centers across the country -- randomly assigned 2,331 men and women with heart failure to one of two groups: standard medical care plus aerobic exercise training or standard care only.
People in the exercise group started out with 36 supervised-exercise sessions, then were sent home with a treadmill or exercise bike and instructed to get 120 to 200 minutes of exercise a week. Within three months, Flynn and her team found, the exercisers said they felt better.
"The average difference was modest, but it happened early," Flynn says. "And it persisted over time: 54 percent of the men and women in this group reported clinically meaningful improvements in their health status three months into the study, compared with 29 percent of people in the control group."
After two and a-half years, the people in the exercise group were slightly less likely to be hospitalized for any cause or for heart failure. They were also at modestly reduced risk of death from any cause, as well as death from heart failure. Unsurprisingly, exercisers also were somewhat more fit than they were at the study's outset. Health.com: What puts you at risk for high cholesterol?
"I think this study really helps to show that when you look across a lot of different people, exercise is a good thing," Flynn says, noting that past studies have included far fewer women and older people.
Given that fewer than half of the patients in the exercise group were actually following recommendations for physical activity by the end of the study -- par for the course with behavioral-intervention trials requiring lifestyle changes -- O'Connor says he wasn't disappointed that the benefits were small. "Really, it's quite remarkable in my opinion that we found these modest improvements," he adds. Health.com: Good fats vs. bad fats: Which fats are good for your heart?
When O'Connor and his colleagues broke down the results based on how well people were sticking to the exercise recommendations, an analysis not published in the JAMA paper, more striking differences emerged. "The more you did with greater intensity, the greater benefit," O'Connor says.
It's also important, he adds, that the research was able to confirm that exercise does not carry risks for people with stable heart failure. "It was not known that it was safe with this degree of certainty," O'Connor says.
The question now, Yancy says, is whether insurers will decide to pay to help chronic heart failure patients exercise, given the modesty of the benefits. "We really can't deploy this in a broad way without getting support from payers," he adds. "I can't forecast which way that will go." Health.com: How I survived a heart attack at 43
But O'Connor is willing to hazard a guess. Because his analysis suggests that patients with the most severe heart failure benefit the most from exercise, he says, it's likely that insurers will pay for exercise training for these patients who will offer them the "biggest bang for the buck."
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I finaly went over to ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu. No more windows for me! I am free from the crack addiction.
Jul 2 2007, 02:02 PM
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QUOTE(Cresho @ Jul 2 2007, 03:51 PM)
I finaly went over to ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu. No more windows for me! I am free from the crack addiction.
nice article. Welcome to Debian (Ubuntu). You'll be happier here. I switched about 4 years ago --- among other reasons in protest of the MS/DELL upgrade cycle/rape of public school finances/ and the imposition of MScraack on students (besides a ton of other ethical issues, and some basic technical issues) I really prefer to use linux now, I feel like I have blinders on (and a bit soiled, too) using windows.
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Aye. I moved from Windows about a year ago. Went through SuSE, Mandriva, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware and am currently settled on Debian. I really like Slackware's packaging system, same with Arch and Gentoo, but none of them installed nicely for me.
Anyway, Linux is way better than Windows, independent of which distro you're talking about.
Jul 2 2007, 02:26 PM
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Redhat/Fedora all the way for me... its been 5 years :-)
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I'm sticking with UBUNTU.
I First tried 6.04LTS as I was fed up of the upgrade troll every time a "New" feature came out in MS or some other distributions.
After some issues with Hardware (ATI Dirvers spit....) I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 and was the fastest OS upgrade I ever did.
Not only did it keep all the 6.04 settings, I have great performance and 3D graphics acceleration working woohoo.
Anyway, Only one machine left in the house with MS. And that's the Wife's although last I looked, she was using my PC cos it was working faster. I think that means her machine has a virus or some other downloaded pile of crap burning up the CPU
As an article in Linux Mag pointed out :-
Dear Mr Gates
Thank you for all your hard work in producing Vista, It has really helped our organisation and prompted an unexpected growth in our customer base.
Jul 4 2007, 11:38 AM
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I thought you couldn't upgrade dapper to feisty directly? Did you just change te repositories and upgrade?
I realize I"m a little off topic, but tis would be useful info.
Jul 4 2007, 12:58 PM
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I thought you couldn't upgrade dapper to feisty directly? Did you just change te repositories and upgrade?
I realize I"m a little off topic, but tis would be useful info.
Very easy upgrade, if you think ahead.
I have the following partitions
/ on hda1 at about 8GB
swap about 2GB
/home on hda6 Rest of disk
all the client applications I install so data sits in home. Thunderbird for example.
To upgrade I stuck the 7.04 DVD in the drive booted, clicked install, reformatted hda1
Let Ubuntu do its stuff
used the same user name and password for the account
rebooted and selected the same apps I had in the old version (I could have automated but didn't)
35 Mins from start to finish I had my new OS, new versions of Apps (inc google earth), all my user data, profile date, shortcuts, email, desktop settings and just about everything setup form my old profile.
Only thing I needed to do was reinstall my printer driver as I did have to hack 6.04 (Samsung laser) oh and I did need to stop grinning as Scorched earth 3d worked in all its glory.
After that I re-added some non standard repository strings for Skype and Cinelerra video suite and bobs you're uncle.
Considering getting some of the apps I use used to take weeks of hacking under some distro's I love Ubuntu's ease of use and most of al lits clear documentation. Try googling Ubuntu howto QEMU and in 30 mins or so you can have another OS booting in its own virtual machine. All with clear step by step documentation and workrounds.
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Newsletter to the SPoCs
9 June 2008
Dear SpoCs,
A few updates from the past weeks:
1. Organisational Matters:
New Single Points of Contact: The IYA2009 keeps growing: we would like to welcome our new National SPoCs from to East Timor, Slovenia and Macau and also our new Organisational Node, the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). We now have 118 National Nodes and 21 Organisational Nodes.
2. Resources
IYA2009 Trailer
We have now collected all the translations and corrections to the trailer scripts and are finalizing the production of 45 different languages versions of the IYA2009 trailer. They will be available for download on our website as soon as humanly possible on account of the huge amount of work this task involves. Thank you all for your collaboration and we are sure you will all put this resource to good use. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept any more translations or correction from this date and hope you understand.
3. Communication with the IYA2009 Secretariat
As the IYA2009 network grows, it becomes more difficult for us to keep track of all the people involved in the several projects. Therefore, we ask you if you could please create a "signature" at the bottom of your email messages to the Secretariat where you state your name, country and contacts details. This would make our work a lot easier and faster and we thank you in advance for it. It can be something like:
(Country) SPoC
Phone number
4. A message from the Opening Ceremony Special Task Group
"One month ago an email was sent, concerning the Opening Ceremony at the Unesco HQ on 15-16 January 2009. We gave you the deadline of 31 May to tell us how many people from your National node are interested in attending and whether you had the intention to select 1 or 2 students to come to Paris. Please answer as soon as possible, since the process will take time, and we need to have a first approximation of the number of participants to foresee.
With kind regards,
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5. Upcoming IYA2009 meetings:
Upcoming IYA2009 meetings:
- APRIM2008 (Kunming, China), 3 - 6 August 2008 - http://aprim.ynao.ac.cn/
- JENAM2008 (Wien, Austria) - 8-12 September 2008 - http://www.univie.ac.at/jenam2008/ or http://www.roe.ac.uk/ukatc/test/symposium.html
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
Pedro, Lars and Mariana
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Kara Lynn Joyce leaves Colorado for Carolina to try for third Olympic team
OMAHA — Altitude isn't a friend to all athletes. To Kara Lynn Joyce, a two-time Olympian, it didn't help her at all. It's one reason she left the Colorado Stars for SwimMAC in North Carolina.
"It's been great," Joyce said after qualifying third in Sunday morning's 50 freestyle preliminaries. "The coach, team, everybody, very welcoming. You get work done right away."
It's been an unstable couple of years for Joyce, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in both the 400 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay. After working out as a post-grad at the University of Georgia, her alma mater, she moved to Fullerton, Calif., and joined FAST, coached by Sean Hutchison.


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After working out your budget, you should know how your income and your spending compare. If you are spending more than you earn, you should think about reducing your outgoings.
You should divide your spending into essential items and non-essential items. Essential items are likely to be things such as food costs, your utility bills and your rent or mortgage.
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Banyan The Resort is located minutes from the centre of Hua Hin town and is the ideal holiday destination for golfers, couples and families. It is the preferred Resort at weekends by residents living in Bangkok and nearby cities. The Resort has been voted amongst being one of the best golf resorts in South East Asia.
Set in a beautiful landscaped environment and complimented by world-class facilities, the idyllic resort comprises of luxurious two and one bedroom villas, tropical gardens, infinite swimming pools, recreation, Spa and fitness and 5 star dining venues serving Thai and International cuisine. The Resort offers golfers a courtesy shuttle service to the club and offers preferred rates to play the golf course.
The Resort's luxurious villas occupy 400 square metres of landscaped gardens and provide a generous 120 square metres of living space.
The contemporary one or two-bedroom villas are tastefully furnished to a high standard in the traditional Thai style and complimented by a range of modern amenities.
A private Jacuzzi connecting to a large common lagoon-style pool allows guests to enjoy life in the tropics to the full.
Enjoy a relaxed lifestyle and the luxury of 2 bedrooms villa with pool. These fabulous 120 square metre villas feature Thai-style decor, a spacious terrace, outdoor shower and a private swimming pool. Guests benefit from a range of first-class amenities including TVs with satellite channels and a workspace. Start the day witha refreshing swim in the pool and end with an evening barbecue on your terrace overlooking the tropical garden. (Pets are not allowed in the Resort.)
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Enjoy a fine dining experience at Coral Restaurant & Bar. All-day dining restaurant serves from an extensive menu of international favourites. Open from 6.30 a.m. to 11.00 p.m., the restaurant offers an enticing buffet breakfast, and a lunch and dinner menu of Thai and Italian cuisine, steaks and burgers complimented by a good selection of wines, cocktails and ice-cold beers.
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Splash Pool Bar & Playground serves a range of tempting snacks, burgers, pizza and Thai dishes in a relaxed setting from 10.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.
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Enjoy the luxury and convenience of a barbecue dinner in the privacy of your own villa. Our experienced chef will cook up a delicious selection of barbecue delights on the terrace for you and your friends to enjoy.
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The resort offers the facilities to accommodate up to 120 persons. Events are planned to perfection and the beautiful setting allows us to create events that possess a special ambience, all further enhanced by the inimitable touch of Thai style and hospitality. With the 18-hole championship Banyan Golf Course just around the corner, delegates can combine business with a round of golf on one of the region's finest courses.
Meeting Rooms
The Conference Suites provide over 150 square metres of space. The meeting facilities are fully equipped with the latest audiovisual and video conferencing equipment including TV, video, VCD player, speakers, microphones, 35 mm slide projector, overhead projector, and LCD overhead display. Use of computers, high speed internet, laser pointer, screen, white boards, and flip chart are is available upon request.
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Ryan, B. & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report
This report covers a workshop on digital engagement for Community Councils supported by the School of Computing's public engagement fund. It was held in Glasgow on 22 March ...
Hall, H., Raeside, R., Chen, T., Dutton, M., Irving, C., & Ryan, B. (2015). Mapping the library, archives, records, information and knowledge management and related professions in the United Kingdom: final report. Chartered Institute of Library and Informaiton Professionals and Archives and Records Association ARA
Unpublished research report. (2015)
Hall, H., Cruickhsank, P. & Ryan, B. (2016). Information literacy for democratic engagement (IL-DEM). Scotland: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Between October and December 2016 a team from the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University investigated the information practices of community councillors ...
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2019). Closing the researcher-practitioner gap: an exploration of the impact of an AHRC networking grant. Journal of Documentation, 75(5), 1056-1081. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-12-2018-0212
Purpose: Results are presented from a study that investigated the extent to which learning gained through participation in three research methods workshops funded by an AHRC n...
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2018). Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 096100061876996. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769966
The purpose of the research was to investigate the practices of elected, yet unpaid, community councillors in Scotland as they exploit information channels for democratic enga...
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2018). Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre. Journal of Documentation, 74(4), 844-861. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2017-0069
Purpose Results are reported from a study that investigated the extent to which an intervention to develop a community of library and information science researchers – the Dev...
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2018). Exploring Information Literacy Through the Lens of Activity Theory. In Communications in Computer and Information Science; Information Literacy in the Workplace, (803-812). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_81
Activity Theory (AT) is presented as a framework for explaining Information Literacy (IL) as a technologically mediated social practice. This is achieved in the context of a s...
The Journal of Documentation has recently accepted a journal article by Centre for Social Informatics researchers that considers the long-term value and impact of AHRC network grant funding.
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The Centre for Social Informatics made a contribution to the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) in St Malo, France, in September 2017.
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Staff and research students from the Centre for Social Informatics presented nine papers at Information: interactions and impact (i3) in June 2017.
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Researchers in the Centre for Social Informatics have released findings of the Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM) project.
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Demographic data of UK information professions from CSI/ERI Workforce Mapping project released
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The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) have published a series of 24 fact sheets on the basis of the findings of the Wo...
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LeTourneau University will present husband and wife singing-songwriting duo My Anchor Holds for a special performance during chapel service at 10:50 a.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center, 2100 S. Mobberly Ave., in Longview. The event is free and open to the public.
Katie and Jacob Eckeberger formed My Anchor Holds in 2011, seeking to reach people with their fusion of music and faith. After meeting at Greenville College in Illinois, the two moved to Nashville, Tenn. to pursue a musical career. Now, as a popular duo, they tour across the country in churches and concerts. Their songs are a tool to spread the Christian message through worship and praise.
My Anchor Hold's self-titled debut album, available on iTunes, features tracks such as "Depth of Mercy" and "Peace." A new EP, "Dirty Jesus," has also been released.
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Did you start 2011 by unlocking new secrets to improve your public speaking? Lots of readers focused on this month's posts with improved speaking in mind--maybe working those resolutions? I welcome new readers and hope you'll explore all this blog has to offer. Here are the posts you made most popular in the first month of 2011:
- Do you auto-apologize? Time to do a "sorry" audit zoomed to the top of this month's top 10 posts. It's a guest post by Michael Melcher, who thinks women apologize too much when they speak--and looks at how we use "sorry." So many people read this post that it's now fifth on the list of most-read posts ever on the blog--what does that tell you?
- Ruby Bridges: Walking out of a Norman Rockwell painting to teach kids about racism profiled the woman who integrated New Orleans schools when she was just a child--and today uses the Rockwell portrait of that time to introduce herself when she speaks. A December post that revved up in January.
- Famous Speech Fridays kicked off a new series with a post on Coretta Scott King's "10 Commandments on Vietnam" speech, delivered just weeks after her husband was assassinated. A reader suggested the series, and by the looks of it, you like it--it's our third most-read post this month.
- 5 things speakers should ask the meeting planner reminds you not to overlook this useful source of information before your next gig. Meeting planner Jennifer Collins shared her insider perspective in this well-read guest post, covering everything from the backdrops to your content.
- Ursula K. LeGuin's "left-handed commencement address" was another in the Famous Speech Fridays series. One speechwriter-reader wrote in: "This speech by Ursula LeGuin is dy-no-mite!! Very brave, isn't it? I wonder if women think the same of society speaking in the 'language of men' today as they might have back int he 80s. At any rate, I loved her speech, and thank you so much for brining to our attention." LeGuin has linked to this post on her website, I'm happy to report.
- Davos forum to set quota for women at meeting looked at a new gender diversity policy for the high-level, expensive-to-attend Switzerland gathering of the World Economic Forum. Not everyone agrees with the policy, but it underscores the continuing difficulty women have getting into and on the programs of significant conferences in all fields.
- How can I take my presentation style to the next level? looked at all the factors that will upgrade your presence and presenting--all skills covered in our "Good On Your Feet" workshops.
- Speakers, are you afraid of...success? was a popular guest post by Selena Rezvani, author of the NextGen Women's blog. She examines what she calls "our adult fear of being great." Do you do that?
- What should I do with my hands when I'm not gesturing? reminds us that eloquence doesn't just consist of pretty words. Feeling and looking at ease when you speak matters, too--and this tip will help you do that, plus speak more fluently.Just a reminder: The Step Up Your Speaking free monthly email newsletter comes out next week, so now's a great time to sign up. Check out the links below.
- Women's voices: Are you speaking too low? is a guest post from vocal coach Kate Peters that challenges notions about where to pitch your speaking voice. Turns out that in correcting a too-high voice, you may be harming your vocal chords by setting your speaking too low. A useful post!
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The life of Edith Wharton is not an inspiriting rags-to-riches saga, nor is it a cautionary tale of riches to rags—riches to riches, rather. Born Edith Newbold Jones, in January of 1862, into one of the leading families of New York—the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to have originated with reference to her great-aunts Mary and Rebecca Jones, who shocked the rest of their staid society by building a mansion north of Fifty-seventh Street, unthinkably uptown in the nineteenth century—the author maintained multiple establishments and travelled in the highest style, with a host of servants, augmenting her several inheritances by writing best-selling fiction. In the Depression year of 1936, when two thousand dollars was a good annual income, her writing earned her a hundred and thirty thousand, much of it from plays adapted from her works. Yet her well-padded, auspiciously sponsored life was not an easy one. The aristocratic social set into which she was born expected its women to be ornamental, well-sheltered, intellectually idle agents of their interwoven clans, whereas Edith was an awkward, red-haired bookworm and dreamer, teased by her two older brothers about her big hands and feet and out of sympathy with her intensely conventional mother, née Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander—a mother-daughter disharmony that rankled in Edith's fiction to the end. She felt like a changeling, writing, in a last, unfinished effort of autobiography, "Life and I," that her parents "were beginning to regard me with fear, like some pale predestined child who disappears at night to dance with 'the little people.' "
In truth, some of her imaginative activity was alarming, as she describes it; from the age of four or five she would march up and down the house with a book in hand, pretending to read aloud words that she concocted in an " 'ecstasy' of invention." In "Life and I," she writes of "the rapture of finding myself again in my own rich world of dreams" and of "the ecstasy which transported my little body." Her mother disapproved and attempted to distract her with suitable playmates; her father's library was the site of her reading pleasure, as she lay stretched out on the rug. George Frederic Jones had graduated from Columbia College, sat on charitable boards, and had inherited enough money to keep up (just barely) with his wife's expenditures. Thrift and a dip in the family fortune prompted him to move the family to Italy and France, with their dollar-friendly economies, between 1866 and 1872; Edith returned, at the age of ten, knowing French, Italian, and German, and with a lifelong love of Europe.
In 1881, the family went again to Europe, this time for the father's health; he and Edith saw sights in Italy with Ruskin's writing as their guide. But George Frederic Jones died the following year, in Cannes, at the age of sixty-one, when Edith was twenty. She gave him credit for her bookish, culturally voracious side, though in her memoir "A Backward Glance" she credits her mother with arranging the private printing of her first book, "Verses," when Edith was sixteen. Others remembered it as her father's idea, and on her deathbed she assigned her father credit. In 1905, when "The House of Mirth" was published, to great success and acclaim, she wrote to a friend, "I often think of Papa, and wish he could have been here to encourage me with my work." Yet had he lived, her unhappy married life, and her eventual blooming into one of the twentieth century's finest American writers, might well have taken other turns, to posterity's loss. The upper crust builds thick inhibitions around its would-be writers; a live father and a more compatible husband might have kept Wharton's rather dour, frequently satiric genius sealed in a carapace of good manners and amateurish diffidence.
As Wharton's reputation gradually emerged, after her death, in 1937, from under the cloud of her late, commercially successful but critically denigrated novels and the impression they reinforced of a facile, popular "lady novelist," she has not lacked for biographical and critical attention. Her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley, a conservative Cambridge historian, sold her manuscripts and letters to Yale, embargoing "anything of a biographical sort" for thirty years. However, in the mid-nineteen-forties he invited Percy Lubbock, another Cambridge scholar whom Wharton had met through Henry James, to compose a memoir of her, which to some other of her acquaintances seemed a poor caricature. The embargo was lifted in 1968, and Louis Auchincloss's friendly, elegantly illustrated brief biography, "Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time," followed, in 1971. As early as 1966, a number of eminent American writers, including Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel, and Alfred Kazin, had been considered by the custodians of the Wharton lode for the authorized biography; the Yale professor R. W. B. Lewis was chosen. His "Edith Wharton: A Biography" came out in 1975, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and it remains, more than thirty years later, the gold standard—the Wharton biography that most people have read. Now an equally long and territorially similar biography, simply titled "Edith Wharton" (Knopf; $35), has been produced by Hermione Lee, the first female Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford and the author of book-length studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, and Philip Roth, and of a greatly admired, nearly nine-hundred-page biography of Virginia Woolf. The reader peruses her biography of Wharton, watchful for the ways in which it differs from, and improves on, Lewis's.
Lee tells us that her Wharton "makes use of the recent publication of her letters to Léon Bélugou and Louis Bromfield, draws on a large scatter of unpublished letters . . . and follows her trail more closely in France, Italy, and England." These are real additions to the record, but nothing on the sensational order of the revelations that Lewis's biography contained: an account of Wharton's passionate affair, from 1908 to 1910, with the hitherto obscure journalist Morton Fullerton; the publication, in an appendix, of an enthusiastically pornographic fragment of an unfinished story titled "Beatrice Palmato"; and the inclusion, complete, in Lewis's text of a long, long-lined poem, "Terminus," addressed to Fullerton in the hot wake of his embraces in the Charing Cross Hotel.
Lewis, surveying his task in a prefatory chapter, accentuates the positive:
If Edith Wharton did look forward rather fearfully to being given biographical treatment, she also took pains to see that the biographer would have at his disposal as complete a record as possible. [She] destroyed relatively little and destroyed selectively—most notably, the letters she had written Walter Van Renssellaer Berry and the majority of letters Berry had written to her over the years. She left behind, meanwhile, a number of extraordinarily revealing documents: diaries, unpublished poems, fragments of autobiography, unfinished stories, which, to speak personally, shook to pieces most of the preconceptions with which I came to this work.
His impression of her as "rather too much of the grande dame . . . whose private life was a narrow one, who was cool and even abrasive in her outward relationships, and puritanically repressed within" was supplanted by "a picture of a woman hardly recognizable alongside the Edith Wharton of legend. There was, after all, a fund of passion and of laughter in her, and almost unbelievable energy. There was genuine daring of both a personal and a literary variety." Lee, looking at the same archives, sees a glass half empty, a fund of suppression and silence:
Wharton's life story often feels like a cover story, with tremendously articulate activity on the surface, and secrets and silences below. This is partly due to the missing bits in the archive, missing because she—or someone else—deliberately made away with them. There is no remaining correspondence with her parents or her brothers, and hardly any of their own documents. There are only a few letters from the most important person in her life, Walter Berry: she destroyed most of his letters to her, and managed, also, to retrieve and make away with hers to him; only four of these slipped through the cull. There are very few of her many letters, some of them extremely personal, to Henry James: he burnt them. . . . There are only three painful letters from her husband, and few traces of him. There are no letters from her lover, Morton Fullerton, though hers to him came to light many years after her death (how she would have hated it). Her published autobiography is selective and evasive. . . . Reserve and concealment are everywhere in her fiction.
It is not that Lee is disapproving of Wharton, or fails to do justice to her exemplary qualities, her intelligence and artistry and the triumphant energy and will invested in the passage from the ugly upper-class duckling to the literary queen with her posh leather-bound library, her splendid gardens, her international fame. But something slightly heavy and lustreless weighs on the big pages as Lee inventories the many members of Wharton's extensive acquaintance and tracks her avid travels through the American Northeast and Europe and North Africa; each page begins to loom as a cliff that the reader must scale upside down, top to bottom.
Just a few glances into Lee's lauded biography of Virginia Woolf suggest an animating difference: she loves Virginia Woolf, or—to put it less heatedly—her life and her subject's touch. In an afterword called "Biographer," Lee joyfully outlines her contacts with Woolf—her discovery, when she was eight or nine and sleeping over at a friend's house, of a Penguin edition of "The Waves" on her bedside table, and her feeling that "I had happened on a secret language which belonged to me"; her exploration of a London whose place-names and vistas Woolf had experienced decades before; her sense, as she began to seek interviews ("to be met, on the whole, with kind but wearied civility"), that she was moving toward a person who "was at once locked in past, distant history, and touchably close." The starchy Joneses, with their ritual transatlantic reach toward the seats of real culture, their naïve and monotonous snobbery, their strange mixture of religiosity and materialism, their unforgiving family quarrels, do not invite touching. Lee, in praising Wharton's artistry, keeps using the word "ruthless": "Ethan Frome" unfolds with "brilliant, ruthless speed"; "The Age of Innocence" uses "her entire family network, and every vase, net curtain and picture-frame in the Jones household, in the most ruthless and lavish way"; and the short story "Roman Fever" is an "impeccable, ruthless masterpiece."
When Edith Jones first returned to New York, according to Lee, it "seemed to the ten-year-old, after six years in Europe, startlingly ugly and drab, and . . . from this moment on she felt like an exile in America." Returning at the age of forty, in 1903, to the Mount, the stately home she had built in fashionable Lenox, in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the proprietress did write to her friend Sally Norton of "the wild, disheveled, backwoods look of everything when one first comes home." But it was the backwoods people, their dishevelled and sparse culture, their "complete mental starvation," that made Wharton an expatriate. Lee explores, in the vast tracts of the novelist's writings, her annotations in her own beloved books, and reports:
Santayana, whom she greatly admired, gets one annotation in "The Life of Reason." Next to this remark—"In some nations everybody is by nature so astute, versatile, and sympathetic that education hardly makes any difference in manners or mind"—she writes "France."
Lee is very good on Wharton in France. The Rue de Varenne, its hôtels particuliers dating back to the eighteenth century and "packed tight with ancient families," was, with several changes of address, where Wharton lived from 1907 to 1920; here, in the aristocratic Faubourg Saint-Germain, she wrote a great deal of American fiction, including "Ethan Frome," which was begun—surprisingly—as an exercise in French. For four strenuous years, she founded and directed a number of charities for those who, like Belgian children, were displaced and deprived by the First World War. For her tireless work, which nearly broke her health, she was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur; "Mme Warthon" was cited as one "qui a toujours eu pour la France le sentiment qu'on donne à une seconde patrie." Another honor from her second country, the Prix de Vertu, was bestowed in a speech that claimed, of her writings, "_Jamais la France n'a été mieux comprise ni mieux aimée"—_France has never been better understood or better loved. Wharton's spoken French, we are told, was grammatically faultless but pronounced with a strong "English" accent. Her love letters to Fullerton switch back and forth between French and English, and Lee says, "Sometimes French seems to be the only possible language for what she wants to say: 'Si tu veux que nous nous aimions encore, aimons nous. J'aurais toujours le temps d'être triste après—' " Lee herself seems at home in the language, and leaves half her French quotations untranslated, setting the reader a salutary test.
After the war, Wharton tired of Paris, writing to Bernard Berenson, "Paris is simply awful—a kind of continuous earth-quake of motor-busses, trams, lorries, taxis & other howling & swooping & colliding engines, with hundreds & thousands of U.S. citizens rushing about in them." By 1917, she had found a likely house, a half hour from Paris in the village of Saint-Brice, in the area of Fontainebleau; the dilapidated house had a romantic past as a maison de plaisance, a rural retreat occupied by a dashing Venetian family whose eldest daughter, a flaxen-haired beauty with the stage name of Mademoiselle Colombe, was the mistress of, successively, an Irish nobleman and the keeper of the king's finances. Wharton named the place Pavillon Colombe and, after extensive interior renovations and a start at turning its forested seven acres into a garden, had moved in by 1920. At the same time, vacationing in the South of France, she found in the town of Hyères an empty house, built into the ruined walls of the town's medieval castle, that she arranged to rent on a long lease, renaming the place Sainte-Claire-du-Château. Here, to create a garden, she needed to build terraces, haul in soil, construct pergolas and paths, and develop irrigation; the results, imperilled by the region's sharp frosts, droughts, and violent rains, were what Lee calls a "dramatic and enchanting" garden, described, when the house was sold after her death, as "among the most celebrated in France." The biographer draws a pleasing parallel between gardening and novel-writing:
The mixture of disciplined structure and imaginative freedom, the reworking of traditions into a new idea, the ruthless [that word again!] elimination of dull, incongruous or surplus materials, and the creation of a dramatic narrative, all come to mind—not to mention patience, stamina, and attentiveness. John Hugh Smith reported to Lubbock, in 1938, that "she told me that she thought her gardens were better than her books."
Lee is at her best with Wharton's books. Her close and ingenious explications reveal formal patterns of design and persuasive, sometimes subtle connections with Wharton's experiences; as with most authors, her life was her ultimate subject, whether she was projecting her imprisoning marriage and thwarted romance into the rural misery of "Ethan Frome" or using her own broad experience of authorship in the wide-ranging satire of "Hudson River Bracketed." Lee gives the later, critically shunned novels respectful readings, and is keen enough on the short stories to rouse guilt in a susceptible breast over their less than canonical status. On the three full-length novels (all with "of" in their titles) at the heart of Wharton's enduring accomplishment, Lee is wise, fresh, and generous, though in my own taste she ranks "The Custom of the Country" too highly as "her greatest book" (not to mention "her most ruthless, harsh and ebullient"), and slightly underplays the tragic impact of "The Age of Innocence," even "though, as usual, personal emotions are carefully distanced and dressed up." Lee spells out "the qualities that make Wharton a great writer—her mixture of harshly detached, meticulously perceptive, disabused realism, with a language of poignant feeling and deep passion, and her setting of the most confined of private lives in a thick, complex network of social forces." The biography's penultimate chapter, "A Private Library," movingly describes Wharton's wide reading (her favorite author was Goethe, read in German) and earnest study—from her lonely girlhood on, she consumed volumes of anthropology and Darwinism, history and philosophy. Her inexorable naturalism was acquired via books as well as by bitter experience.
She wrote, famously, in bed, tossing her handwritten pages onto the floor for her secretary to type, and balanced her writing desk on her knees with an inkpot in it and a pet Pekinese dog on the bed with her. She lived into modern times, long enough to vote for Roosevelt once and then, deeming him too "socialist," not again. But she was not a modernist, though well aware of changing fashions; her young friends could not convince her of the virtues of "Ulysses," which she called "a turgid welter of schoolboy pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & unformed & unimportant drivel. . . . The same applies to Eliot." Dreams, delirium, and ghosts figure in her fiction, but not a programmatic, fragmentary surrealism. Asked about the role of the unconscious in creating fiction, she sounds somewhat French, somewhat starchy, and quite sensible:
I do not think I can get any nearer than this to the sources of my story-telling; I can only say that the process, though it takes place in some secret region on the sheer edge of consciousness, is always illuminated by the full light of my critical attention.
The full light was not necessarily a harsh one. Her fiction shows a striking empathy with the losers of the world, without her wanting to be one of them. In the dreariest days of her dying marriage to Teddy Wharton, when she felt herself locked up in a prison de suie ("prison of soot"), she wrote Berenson, "You mustn't think there haven't been bits of blue sky all the same; there always are with me; I can hardly ever wholly stop having a good time!" ♦


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It's a mystery how this adorable child bundled up in a stroller ended up joining a street performer in a duet. But the toddler can belt out a tune and, thanks to the video filmed by Kamil Litwinowicz, is now catching the attention of the Web.
Someone, probably dad, is seen at the beginning of the clip positioning the stroller next to the singer, who is performing on the main square in Krakow, Poland. He then walks off camera to enjoy the show, which quickly becomes a duet—and a Web hit.
Even though the tyke doesn't know the words to the operatic melody—they come out as basically "goo goo ga ga"—the kid is in tune and even overshadows the professional.
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Multiplex: Chapter 1
eBook: 40 strips
Pub. Date: September 2011 (2nd. Ed.)
Age Range: 16 and up
Publisher: Chase Sequence Co.
Welcome to the Multiplex 10 Cinemas!
Multiplex is an online comic about a low-brow movie buff Kurt and a high-brow film snob Jason, who wage a never-ending battle against the terrible movies and even worse customers infesting their movie theater.
The Multiplex: Chapter 1 eBook collects strips #1–24 from the Multiplex archives, plus two guest strips and seven bonus comics not found in the archives!
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GALESBURG, ILLINOIS 3 September 2015: From 28 May through 1 June 2015 the first Carl Sandburg Institute of Genealogy will be held at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. Four tracks of study over 4.5 days are scheduled. Nationally-known genealogical-research experts will present the following tracks:
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- Advanced Methodology and Analysis (coordinator Michael John Neill of Genealogy Tip of the Day) The Advancing Genealogist: Research Standards, Tools, and Records (coordinator Debbie Mieszala, CGSM)
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Escape rooms offer a sense of mystery, adventure and irresistible challenge. Getting that perfect mix of theme and enjoyable puzzle mechanics requires no small amount of attention to detail. Any out of place element or overly perplexing clue can ruin the fun.
Since fun is what escape rooms are all about, any designer worth their salt will focus on the following elements to ensure that escape room participants have a great time, every time.
A Sense of Narrative Flow
Storytelling draws people in. That's why movies, books, shows and video games are multibillion dollar businesses. It is also why we obsess over developing news stories and try to read between the lines, looking for a full sense of the tale that is being woven.
With escape rooms, designers use the narrative hook of storytelling to motivate curiosity. Finding that next clue becomes more important if you learn why the clue was left in the first place. Also, creating characters and backstories for the challenges offers extra subtext to guide your next decision. If you are in a film noir detective setting, for instance, maybe that empty bottle of whiskey is more important than it seemed?
Creating a rich narrative around escape rooms is certainly not easy, but designers who get it right make the experience that much more engrossing and memorable.
A Puzzle Sequence That Works
Fun can come to a screeching halt when you get stuck on a puzzle. Of course the puzzle shouldn't be too easy, but running customers into a dead end only leads to frustration.
To find the right balance of challenge and guidance, most escape rooms have multiple clue threads laying around. Participants who get stuck on something can work on another loose end until it leads them somewhere else. Sometimes, a clue found in the beginning won't even make sense to a group until towards the very end.
Escape room designers mull these balance issues carefully and try to give participants enough to chew on so they do not get stuck but enough obscurity that they cannot solve puzzles just by trying the first thing that comes to mind. After all, solving a problem is so much more rewarding when it requires effort.
Dramatic Themes
Themes admittedly pull people into puzzles better than any other design element. We have active imaginations, so getting the chance to pretend we are superheros in training or trying to prevent a time-bending apocalypse ups the immersion and the stakes.
Creating a cohesive theme involves countless hours of planning. It also requires designers to go out and find props, furniture and decorations that fit 100 percent in theme.
At the same time, we want to guide participants in a consistent way, which means not making something that is supposed to be a banal prop look like a clue. Naturally, there are times for exceptions when a hint is telegraphed in an unexpected way, but participants should never feel cheated by an unexpected jump in logic.
All of these elements make a fun, colorful and memorable theme one of the hallmarks of well-designed escape rooms. You can enjoy all of these qualities as well as friendly service any time you visit our escape room games in Atlanta or a city near you!


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Mimi, Pride Of Florida
"In the next few years I would love to see myself on the big screen," she adds.
[Our Model Of The Day]
Where She's From: Myrline Francois, born and raised in Cap-Haitien, in Haiti, goes by the name Mimi.
"I moved to Florida in 1998, when I 14," she tells The Black Star News. "The most important things I learned from my parents were how to survive and be strong in life and how not to depend on people but yourself and God."
Mimi attended Dillard High School and then Broward Community College working to get Associates in Radiology.
Where She's At: Mimi started modeling when she was 16. It all started when her mailman one day asked, "Are you a model?" The question inspired her into launching her career. She was soon in fashion shows,
videos and working as movie extras.
"In the next few years I would love to see myself on the big screen," she adds. "I mean I have such a strong passion for acting--it's like food to my soul." She's currently working on two Haitian films.
"I always had to work hard for everything, but It's not a bad thing," Mimi says, when asked about how she deals with challenges.
"I am a very ambitious person and I always try to find a way to get what I want. The hardest thing that I had to deal with was the loss of my father. We were like best friends in a way and I just didn't see it coming and I had plans for us, you know so I wasn't ready to see him go. I overcome his death by praying and knowing that he's still around in spirit."
"I'm so grateful for everything in my life. I mean I have no regrets if I was to stop modeling today, just because I had the chance to already live some of part of my dreams in some way," she adds.
She concedes there are many models that portray themselves as "dumb" and "stupid." She adds, "I am a very strong and intelligent woman and I can overcome anything. so I love the fact that I want to be other things in life besides a beauty symbol. I want to be known as a beautiful, smart, successful, intelligent, person, who is more than just a model."
"I want to get to travel the world where I can supply food, clothes and education to needy children and families from around the world. That's my goal."
So how does this young beauty prepare to step out?
"Well I don't really have a preferred brand name for clothes as long as I feel comfortable. I have a shoe fetish; I actually like BCBG, Nine west shoes. As far as lotions I like to use natural products on my skin, I mostly use cocoa butter. I love Dolce and Gabana light it's my favorite perfume and for makeup I enjoy wearing MAC."
Mimi's Words Of Wisdom: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Mimi's Secrets Of Success: "I believe in myself, in the universe and in the laws of attraction. I believe that I can be anything and do anything as long as I believe in it."
Mimi's Favorite Films: "A walk To Remember, Cutting Edge, Here On Earth."
Mimi's Favorite Books: "I enjoy reading E. Lynn Harris books and Sister Soulja's The Coldest Winter Ever, Any way The Wind Blows, Invisible Life And As I am."
Three Leaders That Have Most Inspired Mimi: "Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Oprah."
The First Three Things Mimi Would Do As President: "Pull out the troops from Iraq, open up the petroleum reserves in the USA to stabilize the price of gas and improve the economy, then stop global hunger."
Mimi's Favorite Cars: "I love the new range rover, BMW, Mercedes and Nissan Altima."
Mimi's Favorite Websites: "MySpace, hi5, Yahoo, Msn, Google and blackplanet."
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Miley Cyrus
American singer, songwriter and actress
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Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; 23 November 1992) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel.
- Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.
- Reuters UK (November 27, 2007)
- I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette (January 2, 2008)
- I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.
- OK! Magazine (January 18, 2008)
- Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
- OK! Magazine (February 20, 2008)
- Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.
- BREATHEcast.com (March 3, 2008)
- I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me, I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together, and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
- Reuters (April 22, 2008)
- The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone. Most of all, I have let myself down. I will learn from my mistakes and trust my support team.
- MTV.com (April 29, 2008)
- My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.
- Mirror.co.uk (May 5, 2008)
- I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand.
- People Magazine (July 15, 2008)
- Nick Jonas and Joss Carter were in love.
- People Magazine (August 7, 2008)
- I only turn 16 once, so it's going to be an awesome party with my favorite rides, hanging out with friends, fireworks and more.
- TheCelebrityCafe.com (August 24, 2008)
- I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.
- MarketWatch (October 5, 2008)
- I went to Starbucks and there was, like, no-one, no-one asked me for my autograph, no-one did anything, so I was like 'woah, this is really cool, this is really strange'.
- BBC News (October 14, 2008)
- I've already fallen in love with 20 guys since I've been here. The accents sound so intelligent. I love the way the guys are so classy and wear trench coats.
- Vancouver Sun (October 15, 2008)
- I had one normal job and I actually liked it. I worked at this place called Sparkles Service and I cleaned guys out. I was like 11. I can clean toilet bowls too!
- Canada.com (November 7, 2008)
- When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I would order something at Starbucks, they would go, 'Huh? What did you say?' My accent was an issue and my low voice was as well. They thought I should be more girlie. But that's who I am.
- Inquirer.net (November 20, 2008)
- Shoes. I like shoes a lot. My favorite are these Tory Burch boots that I have on. But my favorite shoes to buy are Converse shoes. I have probably every color of Converse shoes known to man.
- Inquirer.net (November 20, 2008)
- Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren't on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful.
- Inquirer.net (November 20, 2008)
- That's what I want to do with my life. I would love to be a photographer, I want to come to London to study. I hear there are some great schools here so I would love to do that.
- TV Guide (December 2, 2008)
- I'm so stoked! I never expected to get nominated, I can't believe I'm on the same list as Clint Eastwood, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and everyone else.
- MTV.com (December 11, 2008)
- I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.
- Reading Eagle (December 20, 2008)
- I'm a Brad Pitt fan as an actor. I don't necessarily think he's good-looking. If I tell you guys who I think are cute, they're lame people. Like, I think Harry Connick Jr. is so cute. In 'Hope Floats' or 'P.S. I Love You,' isn't he the cutest? Yeah, he is. I think Gerard Butler is 'Oh, my God.'
- MTV (March 5, 2009)
- [On boyfriend Liam Hemsworth] I think we're both deeper than normal people. What they think and how they feel.
- US Magazine (March 2010)
- The reason I kind of started this [vegan lifestyle] was because I had a fish that was highly intelligent. When I would come through the door … this blowfish would go to the side and get excited … and he really knew who I was. He really got excited when I was home. … And one day … I went to a sushi restaurant with a few of my friends and they were serving blowfish, and I thought, "You know, this is an intelligent animal."
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (October 1, 2015)
Song lyricsEdit
- You used to call me your dreamer,
And now I'm living out my dreams;
Oh, how I wish you could see,
Everything that's happening for me.
- I Miss You, her character's guitar piece for Hannah Montana and in reality dedicated to her late grandfather Ron Cyrus
- The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking.
Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking.
I may not know it, but these are the moments
I am going to remember most, just got to keep going.
- The Climb, her character's guitar piece for Hannah Montana: The Movie and dedicated to her father Billy Ray Cyrus
- The last time I freaked out I just kept looking down.
I st-st-stuttered when you asked me what I'm thinkin' 'bout.
Felt like I couldn't breathe, you asked what's wrong with me.
My best friend Lesley says "Oh, she's just being Miley."
- See You Again, her first hit song
- I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan.
Welcome to the land of fame excess - am I going to fit in?
I jump into the cab, here I am for the first time,
I look to the right and I see the Hollywood sign.
- Party in the USA, her second hit song
- You love me for who I am
Like the stars hold the moon
Right there where they belong
And I know I'm not alone
- When I Look At You, her character's solo piece from The Last Song motion picture
About Miley CyrusEdit
- We don't have each other's phone numbers. But when she meets me, she's excited. It's cute – I see a lot of myself in her.
- Hilary Duff to Allure Magazine (April 16, 2008)
- Of course I look out for her and feel protective over her. People forget she's just a kid. She loves just hanging out, chatting and catching up on gossip.
- Jason Earles to Mirror.co.uk (May 5, 2008)
- She's been my best friend for the last five years and I'll always be there for her. I love her.
- Mitchel Musso to Mirror.co.uk (May 5, 2008)
- Her voice is surprisingly rich for a girl in her early teens, and she has more personality than many pop starlets her age, especially those in the Disney stable.
- Heather Phares of allmusic


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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones as they are often called, are increasingly available online and on store shelves. Prospective operators—from consumers to businesses—want to fly and fly safely, but many don't realize that, just because you can easily acquire a UAS, doesn't mean you can fly it anywhere, or for any purpose. "Know Before You Fly" is an educational campaign that provides prospective users with the information and guidance they need to fly safely and responsibly.
Know Before You Fly was founded by the two leading organizations with a stake in UAS safety – the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). The campaign is conducted in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the federal agency charged with keeping the U.S. national airspace safe.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The FAA's final rule for small, unmanned aircraft went into effect on August 29, 2016. It provides specific safety regulations for non-recreational use of unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds. That means UAS users who want to fly for commercial use (such as providing aerial surveying or photography services) or fly incidental to a business (such as performing roof inspections or real estate photography) must follow these regulations. For more information about how this rule will impact the specific way you are flying your UAS, visit the business or government entities pages on this website. To learn more or if you have any questions, check out the FAA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems page here or email the FAA directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Know Before You Fly campaign is looking for supporters to help spread the word on safe and responsible UAS use.
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Children's Book Giveaway: 'Chopsticks'
A single chopstick is a very lonely chopstick. How can he dexterously scoop up noodles without his friend? But there comes a point in every chopstick's life when he must quest for personal identity and independence.
Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal with illustrations by Scott Magoon, is the classic chopstick coming of age tale—it's also the companion book to Spoon, if you're familiar with other utensil-centric children's literature.
Chopstick A and Chopstick B are the bestest of best friends. But tragedy strikes one day when (kids, close your eyes) Chopstick A snapped and was whisked away (by a whisk, naturally) to the medicine cabinet. It's time they each learn to survive on their own. Spoiler: they reunite at the end, and it's joyous.
We're giving away five (5) copies of Chopsticks. To enter to win a copy for your little one (or yourself, that's perfectly acceptable) just tell us about your favorite utensil below.
This contest will end and comments will close at 5 p.m. ET, Monday, January 30, 2012. One entry per community member. Winners are limited to residents of the continental U.S. Standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.


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Stocks close down on fear of tightening
NEW YORK Stocks are ending lower on Wall Street as traders consider when and how much the Federal Reserve will slow down its economic stimulus.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 76 points at 15,177, a decrease of 0.5 percent.
The Dow recovered much of an early loss of 153. Traders worried that the Fed might slow down its bond purchases earlier than expected.
The Standard & Poor's 500 fell nine points to 1,631, or 0.6 percent. The Nasdaq fell 20 points to 3,445, a loss of 0.6 percent.
General Motors (GM) rose 1.6 percent on news that the company will be added to the S&P 500 index Thursday, replacing Heinz.
Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 3.6 billion shares.


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Boy, the requests for more animals for kids just keep coming in like crazy. I'm going to add another animal to the 'For Kids' section and today it will be on a member of the horse family. It is always fun drawing horses, but it's even more fun when you "draw a pony for kids" because they are small versions of the horse. A smaller version means smaller parts of the body to draw, and that translates into an easier way to create a new animal. I know I could have chosen a different drawing style for this pony, but for some reason I just love the way the ponies from My Little Pony look. I went ahead and incorporated that technique and made a version of a pony that you see here. I promise that when you tackle this tutorial on "how to draw a pony for kids", you will be finished in about ten minutes of maybe even five depending on how well you draw. I drew a background that is very fun looking, and as you can see this pony is having a blast splashing in the water during these hot summer days. You can be as creative as you want when drawing a background of your own, or you can just go with the flow and do what I did here. Either way you are sure to have fun.
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