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How to reset Wiko Pulp Fab
How to reset Wiko Pulp Fab
we dedicated this post to give instructions about safe reset and all 4 methods of performing reset on Wiko Pulp Fab and we discuss Reset errors and reset problems. No one can debt about android. Android smart phones has become one of the most popular Platform throughout the world.However there are some errors and problems also. but all can fix.
- Is your Wiko Pulp Fab phone is Slow? Is it getting Not responding and or get force stop messages always. then you have to reset your phone.
- If you forget, phone's unlock password or phone's pattern lock or If phone gets error messages then you have to reset your phone.
- If your phone is lost, then you have to reset your device remotely. you can do this in your Pc. see below.
- If you want to delete or erase all data from your phone. like your apps, photos, and music,etc
- If you want to get your phone with brand new condition
There are four type of reseting methods.
- Hard Factory Reset – people called this as Factory reset. However, it will delete all thing in your phone. and you can do a Hard reset if you can not switch on your phone or If you want reset your phone Hardly.
- Normal Factory Reset – There is not big deal with Normal reset.However, it will delete all things but not like hard reset. If your phone is slow, then use this. but if any other reason,then use above one
- Remotely Reset – This is new method still and Most of people don't know about this. in this method, you can reset your phone remotely. you don't want your phone to reset it. you can do this in your PC,Tab.
- Flash Stock Rom -This is a most advance method. We can fix system errors too. In this, we install system software again onto your phone. above 3 methods only can reset your phone to factory settings in this we install your Stock Rom or Custom Rom
Hard Reset Wiko Pulp Fab
Step 1
1.We recommend you to get full back up before doing this. After reset, you will lost all data in your phone.
2.Take your phone and switch off it by pressing power key. (please wait until vibrate)
3.Now press the Volume Up + Volume Down + Power. button at the same time. until android logo appear
4.Release held keys when you see a menu with two options
5. Press Volume Up to enter Android System Recover.
Step 2,
After pressing that Combination, After a few moments, you should be on Below screen and you will be able to access the phone's boot menu If not, then see the bottom of the post.
Volume Up = Go to Up
Volume Down = Go to Down
Power key = Enter
Tap the "Wipe data/factory reset" by clicking Volume down and enter.
Step 3,
Now you should be in below screen. Go down (Volume Down) and select (Power key) "YES–delete all user data"
After selecting "YES–delete all user data",your phone will start reset.Don't remove your battery during this task. after restart. you will have to set date and time, language and sign into your google account.
Reset Wiko Pulp Fab (Normal)
Step 1,
Take your phone and go to menu then go to setting. and Find "Backup and Reset"
> This screenshot can be different for phone to phone>
Step 2,
You can see below screenshots.
1.If you check it, It will save your WIFI password and apps data.
2.If you want backup, then you must sign to google account
3. Automatically restore the WIFI password and other apps data.
Step 3,
Final Step is, Tap "Reset Device" and it will Reset your phone.after restart you can use your phone.
Reset Wiko Pulp Fab remotely
Step 1,
Go to Android Device Manager and Login to your phone's google account.
There is a app also in play-store.
Step 2,
you can see there is options Box. Click "enable Lock and erase" in the Box.
Step 3,
Final Step is, Click "erase" and confirm. it will start to reset your phone.
Also, you can use Android device manage for,
- you can ring your phone. phone will start Ring its full Sound
- you can lock your phone if it is NOT locked yet.
- ADM can change the lock screen of phone.
- Last online date
Flash Stock Rom
Stock ROM is Original ROM/ Official Rom that your phone have. IF you buy a android phone. It have a Stock ROM. Stock ROM is default ROM. Stock ROM does not avoid your warranty
we use Odin tool but we also give you all Flashing methods and all required files and we give you all available Stock Roms for your phone.we have dedicated posts about flashing Stock Roms
Related errors
E: Unable to mount
E : Unable to mount storage.
E : Unable to mount '/data'
E : Unable to mount '/data'.
A : You had better install your Stock Rom again. because your Rom may be damaged. your phone will not avoid warranty. Stock Rom is official Rom. Go to this Link and Find More.
E: another error
Q : script aborted: "/system/bin/debuggerd" has unexpected contents.
"/system/bin/debuggerd" has unexpected contents.
I:Legacy property environment disabled.
E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/data/media/0/cache/update.zip'
E:Error installing zip file '/data/media/0/cache/update.zip
A :You had better install your Stock Rom again. because your Rom may be damaged. your phone will not avoid warranty. Stock Rom is official Rom. Go to this Link and Find More.
After factory reset my phone can't connect to internet
Q : I resetted my Wiko phone. Now i can't connect to internet and the sim card wasn't recognized. I remember that there is a error message.
A : If there is no any error MSG then Contact your Network severs provider and ask your Internet settings
A : Try to reset your phone again. If it is failed then try flash a stock Rom. your phone will not avoid warranty. Stock Rom is official Rom. Go to this Link and Find More.
How to Recover Memory/Data after Factory Reset
Q : I have to Hard/ factory reset my Wiko phone but I forget to get Backup before reset. help me to get my data from my phone.
A : you can get your data by using software. Actually, we have received lot of mails asking how to do this, so we create a post about Recovering Data after Factory Reset. also, you can get what apps history. Go to this Link and Find More about recovering.
bootloop and I can't go to recovery mood
Q : I can't go to recovery mood.
Q : i cannot access to recovery because. My Phone Keeps turning off and then turning itself back on continuously.
A : Remove the battery and then put it back again. Boot to Recovery by holding Volume Up + Home + Power. Choose "wipe data/factory reset" then select "Yes" after then Select Reboot to System. If you want Step by Step dedicated posts link here
A : Auto boot – may be Power switch is defective and is always depressed. maybe even a new case is pressing on it So, remove the case. try to go recovery mood. If not works then install Stock Rom
stuck at Wiko Pulp Fab Logo Screen
A : Click here – Xda
A : Remove the battery and then put it back again. Boot to Recovery by holding Volume Up + Home + Power. Choose "wipe data/factory reset" then select "Yes". If it does not work, then install Stock Rom. If you want Step by Step dedicated posts link here
Slow down my phone so i reset it. Now it does not ON-
Q :when i pressed Volume Up + Home + Power, it restart My phone . phone auto reboot so, i can't go to recovery. I tried basic methods but they didn't work.
A : Remove the battery and then put it back again. Boot to Recovery by holding Volume Up + Home + Power. Choose "wipe data/factory reset" then select "Yes" after then Select Reboot to System. If it does not work, then install Stock Rom. If you want Step by Step dedicated posts link here
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Several YMCAs in the area, including Kent County YMCA, are offering free showers and battery charging to community members affected by the floods and power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.
"The Y has always served as a community resource in times of need," said Jim Berson, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Providence. "We're fortunate that most of our branches are able to reopen after the storm and we want to extend our support to the community at large."
Services began Wednesday morning at the following branches: Cranston YMCA, 1225 Park Ave, Cranston, 943-0444; East Side/Mt. Hope YMCA, 438 Hope Street, Providence, 521-0155; Kent County YMCA, 900 Centerville Rd, Warwick, 828-0130; Smithfield YMCA, 15 Deerfield Rd, Greenville, 949-2480; and West Bay Family YMCA, 7540 Post Road, North Kingstown, 295-6501.
A photo ID and signed waiver are required.
For information on branch hours and locations, visit gpymca.org.

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Smith Official DNA & One Name Study Project
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Side-by-side images show the constellation Orion in visible (left) and infrared light. The infrared comes from clouds of gas and dust, some of which are collapsing to give birth to new stars. The most prominent example is the Orion Nebula, which is a small pink smudge below Orion's Belt in the visible image, but a bright, massive blob in the infrared. By contrast, most of the stars that appear bright at visible wavelengths don't show up in the infrared. The only major exception is Betelgeuse, at the top left corner, which emits most of its energy as red or infrared light. The infrared view came from IRAS, the first infrared space observatory, which was launched in January 1983. Subsequent infrared observatories have provided far sharper views of Orion and many other star-forming regions. [NASA]
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The human eye is finely tuned to see a narrow range of wavelengths — a range of colors from deep red to deep blue. Yet there's an entire universe beyond those extremes — from wavelengths that are just a thousandth as long as the eye can see, to wavelengths that are a million times longer.
The longer side begins with the infrared. It's produced by some of the coolest objects in the universe — objects like clouds of gas and dust that are giving birth to new stars. But they're difficult to study from Earth's surface because the atmosphere absorbs most infrared energy.
The first major attempt to extend our view into the infrared began 30 years ago today, with the launch of IRAS — the Infrared Astronomy Satellite.
When it was launched, astronomers had discovered about 250,000 objects in the infrared. During its 10 months of operation, IRAS doubled that number. It also provided details on those objects that were impossible to see from the ground — details like temperature and composition. And it provided the most detailed pictures of these objects, allowing us to see their structure.
IRAS studied newborn stars, disks of gas and dust that are giving birth to planets, dusty galaxies, and icy comets. Those observations helped astronomers learn more about how stars and planets are born, and how galaxies evolve — new knowledge made possible by extending our vision into a new realm.
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brambleberry necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 131 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
ELF Industrial manufactures soap, candy molds and does custom molds for novelty items (a soap mold for the Space Needle, for example). ELF Industrial also works with prototyping utilizing 3D printing technology. Our logo will be put on our website, print materials and stamped into our soap and candy molds.
The winning logo will also get a year's worth of handmade soap! We will send you a generous package of handmade soap with 12 different luxurious bars of soap - enough to last one year!
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We're a fun, irreverant company with lots of energy. Working with ELF is like drinking a top shelf liquor - just simply better. Our committment to customer service is fanatical. Our mold designs energize the industry and our technical equipment is the best the industry has to offer. We're run by a hardworking team of experience (but young) entrepreneurs who like to have fun, make money and help support our community through our charitable contributions.
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Usher Performs "Gone Too Soon" [Michael Jackson Tribute]
AP reports "Usher performs a musical number in remembrance of Michael Jackson at a memorial in Los Angeles."
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What's the Real Story Behind Men Wearing Ties?
Despite what many a working stiff might think, men do not wear neckties to facilitate strangulation when their bosses are less than pleased with their work.
So, why do men wear this variable, often quite fashionable, and utterly useless piece of business attire?
The answer lies in history, and Europe's Thirty Years' War. The logistics of that 17th century conflict are messy, to say the least, and the various alliances hard to follow. What is worth note here was the extensive use of Croatian mercenaries. Croatian soldiers, fashion innovators that they were, wore scarves around their necks as part of their uniforms, which were called kravatas.
French soldiers must have thought the Croats looked pretty smashing in their rustic scarves. Military personnel brought the idea of wearing neckties back to France, where King Louis XIV quickly introduced 'la cravate' to high society. Neckties soon became all the rage. Wearing a cravate allowed you to show off your individual style, by altering the size and length of the tie, as well as the colors and patterns swimming across the cloth.
The word 'cravat,' which owes its origins to 'Croatian,' eventually became 'tie' in English. While the design and manner of wearing a tie have evolved over the years, the ubiquity and cross-cultural relevance of this little strip of fabric simply prove that ties are here to stay.


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Zoomovski – is clean & professional designed email template for different sides of marketing. It comes with 20 pre-made variants, which can be easily customized for your needs. Note: images do not included in the archive.
It's very easy to change the logo or any other element of the design. You need only PS for that action! PSD is well grouped, sliced and each slice named the same as in each html template. All you have to do – put your logo or change the text in dividers and save all pictures at one time (File->Save for web and devices), than put them in the appropriate folder of the template. Supervise only the correct image file extension;) All done! Enjoy:) If you have any questions, you can send me PM on my profile page!
- 4 Prebuild Layouts
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Version changelog: v.1.1. 05.07.2011: - bug with width of slices in 1st layout (gray) fixed v.1.0. 14.06.2011: - initial release


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Will it be six more weeks of winter for San Diego? Instead of running from your shadow and returning to hibernation, check out one or more of the local business events this week while you wait for Punxsutawney Phil to make his decision.
Review court rules and court changes for 2013 at the San Diego Legal Secretaries Association's membership meeting seminar on Monday. Speakers will be Thomas J. Eral, Legal Services Division SDSC, and Barbara Bleichwehl, court operations manager, Central Business Office. The seminar starts at 5:15 p.m. at The Westgate Hotel on 1055 Second Ave.
Network with the San Diego chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners at a wine and cheese event on Monday. This quarterly event offers a work and meeting space designed for women entrepreneurs that offers hourly, daily and monthly membership options. Participants will enjoy wine and cheese while making new connections and saying hello to old friends. The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hera Hub – Mission Valley on 8885 Rio San Diego Drive, Suite 237.
The CFA Society San Diego chapter presents "Municipal Debt: The State of California Public Finance" on Tuesday. A panel of experts in the field of municipal debt investing and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio will provide varying perspectives on the many financial issues facing California's cities, counties and agencies. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla on 3777 La Jolla Village Drive.
The Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. hosts an installation luncheon to honor the Merit Shop on Tuesday. ABC contractors, board members and industry professionals will gather to honor the Merit Shop at the Hyatt La Jolla. The special guest will be Capt. Clifford M. Maurer, commanding officer of NAVFAC Southwest. The luncheon runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla on 3777 La Jolla Village Drive.
The Society for Marketing Professional Services San Diego chapter hosts a luncheon on Wednesday on "Federal Program: The Pursuit of Happiness." The panel will feature key administering officers from the VA, GSA, Army Corps of Engineers and NAVFAC Southwest, who will provide insight into the next multibillion dollar phase of projects in planning, and the means and methods to plan an RFP response. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel on 7450 Hazard Center Drive.
Connect presents, "Look Near First: Get Coached to get Answers when Deciding about Outsourcing," on Wednesday. This event will help those who are questioning whether to take some or all business production needs out of the region or country. During this workshop, David Pyke, dean of the School of Business Administration at USD will discuss outsourcing options and how to think strategically to make a decision. The event runs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Room A/B on 5998 Alcala Park.
Poway Chamber of Commerce's January Mixer is on Thursday. The night of networking and fun will be at Sportsplex USA from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on 12349 McIvers Court in Poway.
Connect Timely Topics presents, "The Health Care Reform Act" on Thursday. This forum will provide information on the overall impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, how employers can calculate costs associated with health care reform, and understanding the tax consequences and health care insurance changes. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at AMN Healthcare on 12400 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100 in Del Mar.
The Greater San Diego Association of Realtors hosts the Commercial Real Estate Alliance Dealmakers Awards on Thursday. The Commercial Real Estate Alliance of San Diego recognizes San Diego brokers and brokerage teams who have completed significant transactions in San Diego and other U.S. markets. The event runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the San Diego Yacht Club on 1011 Anchorage Lane.
The East County Chapter of the Lawyers Club presents its Red, White & Brew event on Thursday. The event will feature a pairing of four wine and beer tastings with a food tasting. The event runs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center on 200 Harbor Drive, Suite 120.
The San Diego Convention Center hosts "West 2013: Pivot to the Pacific: What are the Practical and Global Implications?" The event is co-sponsored by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA International, and runs from Jan. 29 through Jan. 31. West 2013 is the largest professional development event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation and shipbuilding.
Also at the Convention Center from Jan. 29 through Jan. 31 is the DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition. This smart grid conference and expo will cover automation and control systems, energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy integration, advanced metering, T&D system operation and reliability, power delivery equipment and water utility technology.
The Utility Products Conference & Exposition also runs from Jan. 29 through Jan. 31 at the Convention Center. The event brings together buyers and sellers of power, telecom, CATV and water equipment, and provides an opportunity to learn first-hand about the industry's latest products. The Convention Center is located on 111 W. Harbor Drive.
Local earnings
Monday: Illumina Inc. (ILMN)
Tuesday: Websense Inc. (WBSN)
Wednesday: Callaway Golf Co. (ELY), Cohu Inc. (COHU), Cymer Inc. (CYMI), Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), ServiceNow Inc. (NOW)
Thursday: Mitek Systems Inc. (MITK)
Friday: None
IPOs planned
The following is a list of initial public offerings planned for the coming week:
Gladstone Land Corp. - McLean, Va., 3.33 million shares, priced at $15 each, managed by Janney Montgomery Scott, and JMP Securities. Proposed Nasdaq symbol LAND. Business: Externally managed REIT formed to invest in farmland located in major agricultural markets throughout the United States.
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. - South San Francisco, Calif., 3.85 million shares, priced $12 to $14, managed by Leerink Swann. Proposed Nasdaq symbol KBIO. Business: Biopharmaceutical focused on therapeutics that treat respiratory diseases and cancer.
Stemline Therapeutics Inc. - New York, 2.275 million shares, priced $10 to $12, managed by Aegis Capital. Proposed Nasdaq symbol STML. Business: Biotech developing treatments that target cancer stem cells and tumor bulk.
TRI Pointe Homes Inc. - Irvine, Calif., 11.7 million shares, priced $14 to $16, managed by Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and FBR Capital Markets. Proposed NYSE symbol TPH. Business: Designs, constructs and sells innovative single-family homes in planned communities in major metropolitan areas of California.
Zoetis Inc. - New York, 86.1 million class A shares, priced $22 to $25, managed by J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. Proposed NYSE symbol ZTS. Business: A global leader in the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of animal health medicines and vaccines.
National Events
The Commerce Department issues durable goods for December; and the National Association of Realtors releases pending home sales index for December.
Caterpillar Inc. and Yahoo Inc. report quarterly financial results.
Standard & Poor's issues the S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for November; the Conference Board releases the Consumer Confidence Index for January; and the Federal Reserve policymakers begin a two-day meeting to set interest rates.
Amazon.com Inc., Chrysler, Ford Motor Co., Pfizer Inc., and United States Steel Corp. report quarterly financial results.
The Commerce Department reports the fourth-quarter gross domestic product; and the Federal Reserve policymakers meet to set interest rates, statement expected at 11:15 a.m.
The Boeing Co., Facebook Inc., and Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker, report quarterly financial results.
The Labor Department issues weekly jobless claims and the fourth-quarter employment cost index; Freddie Mac releases weekly mortgage rates; and the Commerce Department reports personal income and spending for December.
Aetna Inc., Altria Group Inc., MasterCard Inc., United Parcel Service Inc., Viacom Inc., Honda Motor, the Japanese automaker, and Royal Dutch Shell, the multinational oil and gas company, report quarterly financial results.
The Labor Department issues employment data for January; the Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for January; the Commerce Department reports construction spending for December; and automakers release vehicle sales for January.
Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Mattel Inc., and Merck & Co. Inc. report quarterly financial results.
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The Alumni Annual Fund
Gifts to the Annual Fund support the professor who taught you how to think, the coach who showed you how to lead, the mentor who set you on your professional path. They bring the country and the world together in a community where a kid from Boston and a kid from Bosnia can share their family stories in Chinese.
"A gift to Middlebury is a gift to the future, because Middlebury students go on to accomplish great things. So when I say thanks for your gift to Middlebury, I really mean thanks for helping to make a better world."


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EU Rapporteur Deals Major Blow To ACTA: Recommends Rejection By European Parliament
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At the end of a morning of discussions about ACTA organized by the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, the Rapporteur for ACTA, David Martin, has recommended that the European Parliament should reject the treaty, saying:
"in the end I think the hopes of ACTA are outweighed by the fears; my recommendation is that we reject ACTA"
His view was echoed by both the President of the Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament, Johannes Swoboda, and by Sergei Stanishev, Interim President of the Party of European Socialists, who said:
"The attempt to tackle infringement of intellectual property rights on the internet was done in a very short sighted way. This is a serious subject that needs to be dealt with, however ACTA is not the right place, ACTA is not the right tool and this is not the right way to deal with this issue". The PES President called on the European Parliament to vote down the agreement at its plenary session in June.
This makes it practically certain that the left-wing bloc will vote against ratifying ACTA this summer. The question now becomes whether enough politicians in the other parties will decide to do the same. If they do, and ACTA is rejected by the European Union, it will lose much of its force as a global treaty.
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The brazen Tuesday morning bombing occurred in an Iraqi municipal council building within the section of Moqtada al-Sadr's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City that is sealed off and guarded by American and Iraqi forces.
While the US military has so far said little about how the explosives were planted inside the building, the few details that have emerged reveal that the strike, which killed at least four Americans and six Iraqis, was well coordinated and timed. It struck about 9:30 a.m. just as local officials who are cooperating with the US gathered to elect a new council chairman. The previous one had refused to cooperate with Americans.
The blast reveals the new dangers – and extreme resistance – that Americans face as they move forward with a campaign to further marginalize and weaken Mr. Sadr's movement.
What's more, it brings into the forefront, yet again, serious doubts about the capabilities and even the loyalties of Iraqi forces. The Iraqi Army had prime responsibility for securing the building located behind a stretch of high walls and barbed wires. No civilian vehicles are allowed into this stretch and everyone coming in is supposed to be searched by the Iraqis.
This area of Sadr City was walled-off starting in mid-April while US forces were battling Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in a fight that ended almost a month later in a truce. The cease-fire came about after more than 1,000 people were killed. Now, five US-Iraqi security garrisons protect the sealed-off enclave of the poor Shiite district.
The US military said that it caught the bombing suspect fleeing the scene and that he tested positive for explosive residue. It blamed so-called Special Groups (SGs), which it says are splinter groups of the Mahdi Army backed by Iran.
"This was the fourth meeting of this district council, led by hard-working Iraqis determined to make a difference and set Sadr City off on the right path. Special Groups are afraid of progress and afraid of empowering the people," said Lt. Col. John Digiambatista, of the US military unit in charge of Sadr City.
The bombing came just one day after two other US soldiers were killed and three others wounded while leaving a similar municipal meeting in the southern outskirts of Baghdad. The gunman was a Sunni Arab. The attack in Sadr City coincides with a major US-Iraqi operation under way in the southern Shiite city of Amara against the Mahdi Army and other militants.
Meanwhile, US forces are still engaged in a relentless pursuit of remaining militia members in Baghdad. They are also spending millions of dollars on community projects and creating temporary jobs for thousands of poor Shiites in a move to counter Sadr's influence.
The creation of walled "safe neighborhoods" all over Baghdad free of insurgent influence has been a cornerstone of the surge in US troops implemented in early 2007 and credited with reducing the levels of violence.
Under a 14-point agreement between the Iraqi government and Sadr's representatives that ended the fighting in Sadr City on May 12, US troops are supposed to be restricted to the area south of Al Quds Street while the Iraqi Army was deployed in the rest of Sadr City to conduct raids and seize weapons.
US military spokesman Lt. Col. Steve Stover says that 94 SG operatives have been arrested since the deal was signed. He says that one-third of those are cell leaders. Iraqi forces operating north of Al Quds have found 313 weapon and munitions caches since May 20, including hundreds of sophisticated roadside bombs, rockets and mortar, and artillery rounds.
The US Army's ambitious civil affairs program in the section, which it calls "AO Gold," will include spending $13.4 million for a variety of service projects, such as stand-alone power generators. It is also creating 1,200 jobs through a neighborhood guard program. The military also aims to reorganize local police, notorious for its links to the Mahdi Army.
The US hopes to create an ideal community within the newly erected walls that the rest of Sadr City would want to emulate.
"We have a finite capability … we are going to focus on one place, get it right, and move on to the next step," Col. Alan Batschelet had told reporters earlier this month.
The military has also been anxious to portray those militiamen who continue to resist US and Iraqi troop presence in Sadr City as Iranian-backed extremists.
"The extremist militias are looking for a safe haven in Sadr City. The Iranians are supporting these groups by providing weapons, funding, and training to kill Iraqi citizens," reads a slick-looking billboard depicting a sketch of a masked militiaman with a green bandana tied around his head.
The campaign has been met with mixed reactions. A man who gave his name as Abu Fatima worried that Tuesday's blast would curtail US activities in the area. "The Americans have come to serve us, to restore services, and start projects, whoever did this wants to stop that."
But in an interview a week ago, Sadr's top representative in Sadr City, Sheikh Salman al-Freiji, expressed his bitter opposition to the US presence. "We categorically reject the presence of US forces and do not want their services or handouts."
He said that since the truce began more than 500 Sadrists have been arrested by both US and Iraqi forces.


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Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown
Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown
506 West Harrison Street
506 West Harrison Street
Chicago, Illinois
United States
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Welcome to Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown
Holiday Inn® Downtown Chicago Hotel Near Willis Tower
Welcome to the Holiday Inn® & Suites Chicago - Downtown conveniently located near the Chicago Loop, and other prominent area attractions. Located off I-290 on South Canal Street, this downtown Chicago hotel is ideal for leisure and business travelers.
Vacationers are surrounded by Willis (once Sears)Tower and the Museum Campus when they stay in downtown Chicago. Our hotel's location is also near the historic Navy Pier--the Midwest's #1 tourist and leisure attraction. It's also just minutes away from UIC Flames and the United Center (home to theChicago Blackhawks & Chicago Bulls)--and don't forget games with Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs & Chicago White Sox.Business travelers appreciate our hotel's location, as we're near AzkoNobel, Bank of America, Hillshire, JPMorgan Chase, MillerCoors, PepsiCo, USG Corp and the Chicago Financial District as well as McCormick Place. In addition, our hotel seats 2,000 sq ft of event space.Whether business or pleasure brings you to Chicago Downtown, free Wi-Fi access keeps you connected, while an extensive fitness center lets you keep up your workout routine. A seasonal outdoor rooftop pool provides great enjoyment for the entire family. For a delicious dining experience, visit Sunny's Bar & Grill. Clearly, with these choice amenities and prices, it's easy to see why guests prefer us to other hotels in Chicago, IL
Kids Stay and Eat Free
Kids ages 18 and under stay for free when sharing their parents' room. Up to four kids ages 11 and under eat free any time of the day in any Holiday Inn® on-site restaurant.
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Children's Activities Available.
Seasonal Outdoor Rooftop Pool and Sundeck, games in the restaurantIn-room Movies
|Kids Stay Free
|Kids Eat Free
Free High-Speed Internet
Standard Wireless Internet service is included for all guests.
Shuttle/ Parking
- Car Parking Available
- Valet Parking is available
- Valet Parking Fee: 50 USD
- Hotel Parking at the hotel $50USD per night with unlimited in and out privileges. NO TRUCK/BUS/RV PARKING ALLOWED ON PREMISES. Hotel is not affiliated with the city adjacent self-parking lot.
Pet Policy
- No pets allowed
- Service Animals Allowed
- Pets Walking Area Available
- 250USD service recovery fee will be imposed for non compliance of pet policy. Service Animals are always welcomed.
Languages Spoken by Staff
Credit Cards
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- Carte Blanche
- Discover
- Smoke-Free Facility
- Number of Floors: 6
- Total Number of Rooms: 145
- Number of Suites: 27
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 145
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 8
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Center
- Pool
- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 3
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Registration Area
- Accessible Guest Rooms
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Exercise Facility
- Pool
Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self-Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Ramp Access
- Closed Caption TVs
- Telephone with TDD
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
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Johnny Knoxville has been at the center of the lowbrow "Jackass" series of bad-boy comedy films and cable TV shows. His format gathers a collection of silly, stupid skits that are so seriously R-rated they defy description in a family newspaper. The movies are extremely low-budget but fully entertain the target audience of video-gaming teenage males.
Knoxville takes a huge leap forward with his latest effort. "Bad Grandpa" is an actual story with a real timeline that goes from a beginning to an end. Knoxville plays an 86-year-old man whose adult daughter has been sentenced to prison. He must drive her child, his 11-year-old grandson, across the country to the boy's father in North Carolina.
Needless to say, the long journey provides ample opportunity for the lascivious grandpa to behave badly in all sorts of situations. The antics at times are crazy funny, truly hysterical and way off the charts of normal behavior. But if you can handle the kind of adult humor found in "Bridesmaids" and "The Hangover," this may be the funniest film you'll see this year.
—John Depko
What a year this has been for black history in film. First, we had the eloquent "42" about Jackie Robinson, then "The Butler," chronicling the modern civil rights movement.
And now is the excellent "12 Years a Slave," based on the grueling true story of a black man, born free in New York, trafficked into slavery and working plantations in the Deep South.
Not since "Roots" has there been such a graphic depiction of slavery. But unlike in that TV drama, there is barely a drop of human kindness from brokers to overseers, owners and even their wives.
Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a crushing performance as the slave Solomon Northup, who must hide his education, background and pride to stay alive. "I don't want to survive, I want to live," he says, and his survival is quite remarkable.
Lupita Nyong'o makes a stunning debut as Patsey, a pretty slave subjected to horrors at the hands of owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender). Fassbender is quite terrifying — smiling one moment, deadly cruel the next.
"12 Years" was directed by Brit Steve McQueen with frank realism and power. It's a must-see.
"The Counselor" opens on an intimate moment between Counselor (Michael Fassbender, again) and his lover (Penelope Cruz). It is beautifully shot, seductive, well-acted, yet a bit pointless. That is the entire movie in a nutshell.
It's disappointing a film with such a stellar pedigree — written by novelist Cormac McCarthy and directed by Ridley Scott — should fall so flat.
Counselor wants in on a huge deal with a drug cartel and partners with Reiner (fabulous Javier Bardem), who is hooked up with Malkina (Cameron Diaz), a cool beauty with two pet cheetahs, every bit the predator herself. Diaz is amazing and steals every scene. Brad Pitt also stars as a laconic Texas drug lord and philosopher.
Moving the drug shipment itself is gritty and ingenious, but everything else ambles like a dream. The exquisitely written monologues are better suited for the written page and carry little excitement onscreen. Beauty speaks softly in ominous parables. This is no country for good-looking men.
—Susanne Perez
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator. SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.


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Savannah Rm.
The Savannah room is a large Executive/ Family room with a double and single bed, and another single bed can be added if required. There are views across the rose garden to the Mountains, a lounge area with two comfortable lounge chairs and a full en-suite bathroom, with twin wash basins, heated towel rail. Heated blankets for the cool winter nights, tea/coffee tray with freshly ground coffee and fresh milk, mini fridge, hair dryer, luxury toiletries, T.V, (DSTV) DVD, CD and radio.
It also has a private patio with table and chairs, where you can enjoy a sunset drink.
Superior Accommodation in George, Garden Route, South Africa. George Accommodation.
Pin Cushion Protea, flowering in our Garden in October.


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Winter, precisely because of, rather than in spite of, its long evenings and uninspiring weather, is a rewarding time for frustrated bibliophiles, for this is the season when restless, housebound folk have the time to catch up on their reading. Reading about what? Well, perhaps about all of the other things they'd be doing were it any season but winter.
In that spirit, and with the holidays drawing nigh, the editors and staff of MOTHER EARTH NEWS have put together for your reading and gift-giving pleasure a compilation of our own personal favorite books—some useful in the pursuit of a rewarding country lifestyle, others merely exceptionally good reads. Our hope is that, from the descriptions of works that we as individuals most admire, you'll find something to brighten those gray December days and enlighten those long winter's eves—for yourself or for a loved one.
Terry Krautwurst
Senior Editor
It seems that nearly everybody's dream these crowded and hectic days is to buy a few acres of country land and make their escape—either permanently or whenever time allows. Malcolm Margolin's Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It (revised edition, 1985, Heyday Books) tells us how to take care of our land and how to heal any sores or scars imposed by previous owners. There's good, sound, dear advice on simple, low-cost, low-impact, hand-tool-only methods for stopping and preventing erosion; treating injured trees; planting, pruning, and propagating trees and shrubs; attracting and protecting wildlife; building and maintaining trails; and a whole lot more—all illustrated with clear, interesting line drawings. The author's style is friendly and casual, and the philosophy Margolin holds to is simple: Work with your land, not against it.
In 1904, at the age of 42, a man named Horace Kephart—father of six, scholar, translator of Dante's La Vita, and for 13 years head of the prestigious Saint Louis Mercantile Library—up and shucked it all and fled to a little shack on a fork of Hazel Creek deep in the then-remote Great Smoky Mountains. Kephart spent the next couple of years nestled in his hideaway writing Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness (1988, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 912 pages), a book still often referred to as "the bible of outdoorsmen," and justifiably so. The book is, in fact, Bible-like: pocket-Bible-size and Bible-thick, and almost incomprehensibly comprehensive. Never mind the discussions of now-obsolete packboards and heavy canvas tents and such; Kephart's advice on pathfinding and knot tying and camp cooking and axmanship and firemaking (and, and, and) rings as true and useful as ever. Furthermore, Kephart is a joy to read. He quotes from Chaucer, Shakespeare, da Vinci. He writes with wit, pithiness, class, and great attention to detail. This book is all its title proclaims and more—fantasy and adventure, autobiography and philosophy, history and humor.
David Petersen
Western Editor
In my notoriously opinionated opinion, no country home library is complete without a copy of Bradford Angier's One Acre and Security: How To Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It (1973, Random House)—a veritable encyclopedia of country-living skills for the seriously self-sufficient, and a rich source of encouragement and vicarious entertainment for easy-chair hopefuls.
While it's no substitute for a fat stash of MOTHER EARTH NEWS back issues, and so very many subjects are covered that most get only superficial, and a few even misinformed, treatment, One Acre and Security is largely accurate and is guaranteed to get you fired up for action.
Were my little Rocky Mountain cabin home burning down, one book I'd risk life and limb to rescue is my autographed copy of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. (Several versions are available, from a 1985, 320-page paperback Ballantine edition to an exquisite 1988, 255-page illustrated hardbound from the University of Arizona Press.) Why should an autobiographical account of a desert rat be tops on a mountain mole's reading list? Because Edward Abbey is among my favorite writers and Desert Solitaire is not only the best of his score or so books, but arguably the finest work of nonfiction literature written in this century. And because Desert Solitaire is about a great deal more than the Utah desert and canyon country. As David Quamman commented in a recent Outside magazine tribute to Abbey: "Desert Solitaire begins on a first day of April…and ends in October, and in between is encompassed a world and a life and a vision.…My message to you is…'Trust me. Just read this thing.' "
If enough of my own country home library were left standing to justify a second dash into the flames, I'd go for more Abbey—probably his fat masterpiece, The Fool's Progress—plus any of A.B. Guthrie's six novels of the American westering movement, starting with his 1947 classic, The Big Sky, plus his environmental essay collection, Big Sky, Fair Land, and finally, Ernest Thompson Seton's four-volume classic, The Lives of Game Animals. They just don't make writers anymore like Guthrie, Abbey, and Seton.
Sara Pacher
Senior Editor
Being an ardent craftsperson, I love the book NatureCrafts: Seasonal Projects from Natural Materials, by Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine Pearson (1980, Oxmoor House). Among the easy-to-follow instructions for dozens of crafts (including great ideas for Christmas decorations) are drying melon and citrus shells in wood ashes to form fine little boxes or containers, making pots from local clay, transforming twigs or straw into flowerpot containers, making luminarias from snowballs, and creating elegant flowers out of seashells. In their presentations of all these attractive projects, the authors make a point of altering the natural materials as little as possible, in order to better celebrate the earth's colors, shapes, and textures.
Architecturally, I find few things more enchanting than an old moss- or lichen-covered stone wall draped with ivy or climbing roses. Such structures lend an elegant antiquity to any home and will long outlast the builders. As John Vivian points out in his thorough and practical little book, Building Stone Walls (revised edition, 1979, Storey Communications, Inc., 112 pages), a properly built fence made of easily split and worked sandstone or limestone can hold up for 10,000 or 12,000 years. Obviously, the construction of stone walls requires a strong back and a lot of energy. If you have those, Vivian's book will equip you with the know-how to create these everlasting structures. It also tells you how to use rocks to stop erosion, create a better stream habitat, or build a cairn-type bath to attract the local birds.
As "forever" as stone is, the written word is even more enduring—at least when the writer is William Shakespeare. So, without a doubt, my one book of choice—if, heaven forbid, I ever had to choose just one book—would be The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. There are literally dozens of versions, and prices, to choose from. As Philario says in Cymbeline, " I beseech you all, be better known to this gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend of mine."
Carol Taylor
Food Editor
Cookbooks have about the same shelf life as yogurt. In a market where preparation methods and even foods themselves are often just short-lived fads (remember mesquite? remember quiche?), last year's best-seller is this year's cliché. But trendiness isn't the only reason for rapid decline. An astonishing number of attractive, vigorously marketed, well-reviewed cookbooks are interesting to browse through but disappointing to cook from. A noteworthy exception is Jane Brody's Good Food Book (1987, Bantam). The first third of this 700-page paperback discusses recent trends in nutrition, and if you nodded off during the 1980s, you can catch up here. Brody makes the case for what has become dogma—Americans eat too much protein, fat, sugar, and salt, and too few complex carbohydrates—and provides nutritional, cultural, and historical sketches of the major starches. But most useful are the recipes—350 of them. They're a diverse and delicious lot, neither complicated nor time-consuming, ranging from appetizers to desserts and drawing from a variety of ethnic traditions. They're nutritionally sound, and they can be trusted.
Some of the best books about food include no recipes at all. For example, anthropologist Margaret Visser says that if we serve a dinner of corn with butter and salt, chicken with rice, lettuce with olive oil and lemon, and ice cream, "we should be aware that our meal is almost totally female in connotation. Corn is the American Indian 'mother and nourisher'; chicken (pale meat, no red blood, and little fat in evidence) is for us a typically 'female' choice; rice, a delicate grain—especially when it is 'fluffy,' as we like it—white like chicken, and in its mythical origins…a girl-child; lettuce is light and unfattening, but also cold, green, and (therefore) female; lemons nippled, olive oil virgin, ice cream cold, milky, and served in definitely womanly, rounded shapes. Salt is the one exception, but even it is neuter end not masculine; butter from cream is again female."
That's the kind of thing that can happen when an anthropologist gets loose in the kitchen. In Much Depends on Dinner (1988, Macmillan), Visser examines the history, mythology, production, and cultural, meanings of the nine foods listed above—and demonstrates that it can be more interesting to read about food than to eat it.
Richard Freudenberger
Research Coordinator
Were I to be banished to the wilderness, any wilderness, with just a couple of books, I'd be sure that one of the two was Medicine for Mountaineering, third edition, edited by James A. Wilkerson, M.D. (1985, The Mountaineers Books, 376 pages). The text, while written by physicians who are active mountain climbers for an audience who shares the same interest, can serve any intelligent individual who deals with isolation in terms of days, weeks, or even seasons. The book covers the basics (diagnoses, therapies, and precautionary measures such as immunization and water purification), then details the treatment of a number of environmental and physical injuries. A full third of the text addresses "nontraumatic diseases" of the body's various systems—pneumonia, dysentery, urinary infections, and sinusitis are but a few—and discusses the nature of infections and allergies. Finally, there are five detailed appendixes dealing with medications, administration, medical supplies, legal concerns, and terminology.
For my second choice, I'd consider The Best Of Edward Abbey from Sierra Club Books, the 1944 edition of the Boy Scout Field-book, Kerouac's Dharma Bums, Giono's The Man who Planted Trees, and Ernest Callenbach's regionally elitist upbraiding, Ecotopia. But if limited to just one additional volume, I'd probably have to go with John McPhee's The Pine Barrens (1968, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 157 pages). This is a book about one of the least densely populated areas of the United States, located, ironically, in New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the union. But the book is more than just a history of the thousand or so square miles of sandy pine forest that make up the region; it's a privileged look at the people who have made it their home for generations. Told in great part through the comments of Hog Wallow resident Fred Brown and other locals, it ambles pleasantly from the 18th century to the present. The dialogue is often anachronistic, the vernacular so unspoiled by the outside world that it has hardly changed. The Pine Barrens holds a special fascination for me because, having lived on the region's periphery at about the same time the book was published (some 20 years ago), I appreciate the value of a place that hasn't "progressed" with progress.
Pat Stone
Assistant Editor
There's nothing more down-to-earth (and little that's more satisfying) than growing one's own food. So when preparing for the winter in an isolated homestead, I'll tote in a gardening book. The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (1978, Rodale Press) is the most thorough gardening book I know of. Along with acres of how-to on rearing food crops, it covers raising turkeys, stopping soil erosion, planting to attract wild birds, starting cuttings, choosing shrubs, combating lightning, and a whole lot more. From Abelia to Zygopetalum, there are 1,236 pages of no-frills, hands-on text in this one.
Since I suffer from "brown thumb" (the incurable talent for making gardening mistakes), I'd also grab a copy of The Healthy Garden Handbook (1989, Simon & Schuster). This grower's diagnostic tool, put together by the organic gardening staff here at MOTHER EARTH NEWS, thoroughly analyzes common gardening mistakes and tells you how to correct them. If you've messed up on your peas and carrots as often as I have, you'll appreciate the detective help this handsome book provides.
A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River (1966, Oxford Univ. Press), Aldo Leopold's 295-page classic, moves from intimate nature sketches to deep ecological reflection. It starts gently ("Each year, after the midwinter blizzards, there comes a night of thaw when the tinkle of dripping water is heard in the land.") and ends philosophically ("Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."). I could spend an entire winter cherishing the poetry of those magical nature sketches that march through the seasons at Leopold's Wisconsin-marsh farm…mulling over the evocative travel-reflection essays written from all over outdoor America…slowly gnawing away on the meanings of hard-hitting "think pieces" like "The Land Ethic" and "Conservation Esthetic." Yes, I could read Leopold the entire winter—and never become bored.
Kathleen Seabe
Chief of Research
I was raised in the city in a household where when repairs were needed, a carpenter, plumber, or painter was called. These days I live in a century-old farmhouse, enjoy working with my hands, and am possessed of a curiosity that has overcome my total lack of do-it-yourself experience and led me to discover a book that's the next best thing to the rare knowledgeable and patient hardware-store salesperson. It's called The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores, by Tom Philbin and Steve Ettlinger (1988, Macmillan). Nothing is excluded: hand and power tools; general hardware and materials; paints, stains, and finishes; wood and wood products; and treatments for walls, floors, ceilings, doors, and windows. Plumbing, electrical, and masonry questions are answered as well, and there's even a chapter on safety equipment. Confused? Consult the well-organized table of contents, scout the detailed index, or peruse the large, clear illustrations. Then proceed to the hardware store as if you know what you're talking about—because you will!
Each time I reread a portion of Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1988, Houghton Mifflin, 287 pages), I feel a special kind of intimacy. Dissatisfied with her life as a laundress in Denver, this woman yearned for the expansiveness of open territory, wanted to be her own boss, and longed for her own land. In 1909, in company with her young daughter, she set out for Wyoming, intent on homesteading. Through her eloquent letters, Elinore shares with the reader her never-ending delight in fields of flowers, howling coyotes, and burning sunsets. There's also her humorous appreciation of the idiosyncrasies of her fellow ranchers: the hermit, Zebulon Pike; the twins, Sedalia and Regalia Lane; and others equally eccentric. Elinore's frontier life held endless amounts of work, but these accounts don't wallow in self-pity. This woman, realistic and plainspoken, loved her freedom and didn't try to contain her passion for life. The movie Heartland, Letters of a Woman Homesteader was taken from the Stewart letters.
David Schoonmaker
Senior Editor
If I were marooned on a desert island with an unlimited charge account at the local building-materials supply store, I'd want a copy of Architectural Graphic Standards. Not because I fancy myself a budding architect, but because AGS is the single best source of accessible information on habitation. From chairs to retaining walls to rafter tables to electrical specifications, AGS covers it all. Current versions—it's revised frequently by the American Institute of Architects' staff and published by John Wiley & Sons—are pricey, but you can often pick up remaindered older versions for much less.
When I grew tired of sawing and hammering on my desert-isle castle, I'd want to relax with pleasant, stimulating, and enduring reading. I could try forever to read Joyce's Ulysses without risk of finishing, but I'd find the variety and frustration level much more acceptable in The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition, Volume 2, Blake to Auden, edited by Frank Kermode et al (1975, Oxford Univ. Press). Volume 2 excludes early favorites such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Johnson—a hard trio to give up—but having Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot close to hand is fair compensation. Best of all, my used copy cost $7 at a college bookstore.
Bruce Woods
Editor in Chief
Two books. Two? Might as well ask me to pick one sense, select a single limb, decide between a cold beer at the end of a hard day and a mug of hot coffee at the beginning of one. I'm an addictive-personality sort of reader, the type that keeps at least four books going at a time in random locations (on the bedside table, next to the commode, on the kitchen counter…); my tastes tend toward the omnivorous. I can happily lose myself in the poetry of Gary Snyder, the modem horror of Stephen King, the mysteries of John D. MacDonald, or the essays of Peter Matthiessen. But limit myself, even in my imagination, to two volumes? Well, here goes.
Since I spend as much time as possible in the bush, and since—in this neck of the woods—that bush consists mainly of Southern deciduous forest, I'd have to hold on to my copy of Lee Peterson's A Field Guide to Eastern Edible Wild Plants (1984, Houghton Mifflin). I've prepared any number of meals using foraged plants over the years, from main courses to desserts to wines, and I've never found a more reliable identification tool than Peterson's volume. He uses quality color photographs in addition to the more common (and commonly almost useless) line drawings, and keys each plant to the types of preparation that suit it best. With Lee's guide along, I'll know that, regardless of my shortage of reading material, I'll always be able to eat.
Then again, I don't plan on running out of interesting reading for a decade or so, because my second choice will be a much dog-eared and annotated copy of Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker (1982, Washington Square Press). I've read Riddley some six times over the past 10 years, and I don't imagine I'll succeed in milking it dry in another mere decade. This tale of post-apocalypse Earth, upon which small tribes of hunter-gatherers are slowly being supplanted by a newly reborn agriculture (the "formers"…those that bring form, those that farm), concerns—among other things—an effort on the part of some tribal politicians (they ring more truly than the news from the most recent summit conference) who are trying to rediscover the secret of producing gunpowder. In the course of presenting his story, Hoban recreates an English language that is so appropriate and believable that it's a joy to decipher. Moreover, the book is simply fun to read and is packed with environmental/political/sociological wisdom. Just the thing to feed the mind while the palate savors a Chenopodium album frittata.


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1. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequencejoe bloe premiere Oct 3, 2011 11:36 AM (in response to aboumay)
I have a strong hardware (dual xeon 5650, quadro 4000, 48gb ram), so I think it's not the cause.
You did not mention your disk setup.
Playing back numbered image sequences at high resolution is
probably the most disk IO intensive thing you can ask Premiere to do.
Without a dedicated RAID controller and multi-disk setup, you will likely be
forced to timeline preview render all your image sequences for real time playback.
After effects plays images sequences very smoothly, so why not premiere?
AE will not play image sequences in real time until you render a RAM preview.
I did convert my image sequences to avi or mov uncompressed, but even with no compression, there's a significant loss of quality...
There will be no loss of quality if you use a lossless codec for your
digital intermediate file (i.e. Lagarith or UT), and these uncompressed files
will play smoothly in Premiere without needing to render timeline previews.
2. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequenceaboumay Oct 3, 2011 11:49 AM (in response to joe bloe premiere)
Thank you for input
I have a ssd sata3 as primary (C), and 1tb wd digital caviar black 64mb cache 7200t (also sata3) as secondary (D).
I'm sorry but I'm a newbie at disk config (I don't have any experience in disk setup for video edit software), as well as a newbie in premiere, it's the first time I use it, I didn't even know that you could timeline preview the sequence, which can suffice to me I assume, I just want to be able to edit my sequence, trim etc, and I can't with my problem because even the back and forward arrows don't give feedback in the preview window, I don't even know what I'm doing due to this playback problem.
I use quicktime pro (I don't own another program to do so) to convert my sequences with *.mov format with no compression, I also tried with avi with no compression output from AE and I can notice a loss compared to the stills.
Can you tell me how to use the timeline preview? And will it allow me to edit my footage?
Thank you
4. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequenceaboumay Oct 3, 2011 11:59 AM (in response to joe bloe premiere)
Thank you, very useful links
But the generic guideline for disk setup link is broken, and I guess this is the most important for me at the moment. Do you have a working link for that ressource?
Thank you again
5. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequencejoe bloe premiere Oct 3, 2011 12:05 PM (in response to aboumay)
Link repaired.
6. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequenceTodd_Kopriva Oct 3, 2011 5:51 PM (in response to joe bloe premiere)
In addition to the links that joe provided, these may be useful:
FAQ: How do I make Premiere Pro faster?
7. Re: very poor Playback of imported image sequenceaboumay Oct 3, 2011 9:13 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)
Well, thank you both for these links, I begin to learn disk setup, raid, etc.
I'll follow the instructions in the provided link


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DBRider251 wrote:Okay, can I get a little clarity on my confusion?
Since there were 12 people signed up for Am All Stars, does that mean it pays back to 4th place?
Yes, 4th place will get their money back. And maybe just a hair more I think. Waiting to finalize it. Also it appears that 13 people actually paid, however someone must have been a no show.
Waiting to make sure there aren't protests or anything like that before we do prizes.


text: Hi In ISPConfig web interface, Email > Global Filters > Postfix Whitelist, I have added a single email address (type "recipient" restriction). However when I send an email from bash: echo "this is the body" | mail -s "this is the subject" "[email protected]" where the to address is *not* the one I specified in the whitelist, the email is still delivered. In summary I want to ensure that my server only delivers emails that are addressed to an email address I have specified. (This is for reasons of controlling spam.) Am I doing something wrong?


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"Fresh yet deeply knowing . . . In his flawless, fluid, droll, and suspenseful tales of deceptively routine lives, Sheehy dramatizes loneliness, terror, and loss with arresting restraint, focusing on the percussive aftermath of violence. A writer of evocative subtlety and uncanny power . . . Sheehy reveals what's hidden in plain sight to clarion effect."
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Earlier this offseason, there were rumors that the Eagles had at least some interest in trading up in the draft for quarterback Robert Griffin III.
If we're speaking in hypotheticals, Griffin could have potentially spent a year behind Michael Vick, taken over in 2013, and the Eagles would have had their quarterback of the future.
Of course, as it turned out, the Redskins won the RG3 sweepstakes, and the Eagles will now play against the dynamic quarterback twice a year for the foreseeable future.
Those meetings will be particularly special for Griffin this year, considering he'll be facing off against a player he grew up watching in Vick.
"He's a guy that guys like myself looked up to when he was playing in Atlanta and especially the way he's turned things around with the Philadelphia Eagles," Griffin said in an NFL Network interview after hearing Vick talk at the rookie symposium earlier this week. "It was good to hear him talk, hear what he had to say. He's definitely a guy I could listen to all day."
As I've written about at length in the past, Vick is someone who seems to be almost universally respected by his peers. I noticed that about him even when Vick was playing only a handful of snaps each game back in 2009.
In 2010, Cowboys running back Tashard Choice infamously went up to Vick after a game and asked him for an autograph.
"He's a real guy, he made a mistake, he owned up to it, came back out, made the best of his situation, and he got his second chance and made the most of it," Griffin said. "I think a lot of guys can really relate to that, maybe not going to prison and things of that nature, but just the fact that he's real, he made a mistake and he's working hard now, which he wishes he would have done from the beginning."
On a sidenote, I get the feeling that Eagles fans are going to have a tough time directing their "sports hate" towards Griffin. Tony Romo? No problem. Eli Manning? Not an issue. But Griffin is just so freakin' likeable. Perhaps he'll do something in Week 16 when the Redskins travel to the Linc, but right now, I'm not seeing much.
Getting back to Vick, Griffin said the Eagles quarterback was the perfect guy to talk to the league's rookies.
"It's just good to see him the way he is now," Griffin said. "Growing up, when he first started in '01, I think I was 11 years old, so to watch him play and be inspired to play football by guys like him and to see him own up to his mistake, and now be where he's at in his career, having some of the best years of his career in Philly, it's really good to see and have him come talk. I think everybody in that room was zoned in. He's definitely a guy that everything he says holds some power."
The NFL will move its 4:15 start times to 4:25, according to John Ourand of the SportsBusiness Journal. The point (apparently) is to reduce overlap from the 1 p.m. games.
The Eagles' only scheduled 4:15 game is in Week 10 against the Cowboys.
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Posted by: dglazer67 Sorry, I guess I should have put that last post in the previous Mole category. My bad.
Well the last celb mole was pretty good...even my DH watched and he is not a reality tv erosn...I keep trying to make him but no, he puts up with me and the shows sometimes.
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By Jocelyn VerVelde, Sports Information Coordinator
MOREHEAD, Ky. – Junior Courtney Smith hit a career milestone on Saturday afternoon despite the Tennessee Tech volleyball team dropping its match to Ohio Valley Conference powerhouse Morehead State in three sets, 25-15, 25-16, 25-19.
The libero recorded her 1000th career dig as she tallied 13 digs during the match to put her career total to 1,001. She joins fellow junior Allison May in the 1,000-Dig Club. May has a 1,092 digs in her career.
Senior Elise Robertson and sophomore Cody Dodd each put down six kills, while senior Ashleigh Hancock dished out 19 assists.
The Morehead State Eagles increased their impressive conference win streak to 30-straight matches as they hit .277 for the match and were able to force the Golden Eagle in many error-prone situations. Laura McDermott led the Eagles with 9 kills and hit a blistering .438. Colbey Cameron put up 24 assists and Leslie Schellhaas dug up a match-high 14 digs.
The Golden Eagles are back in action on Tuesday as they head to Tennessee State for a 6 p.m. CDT midweek match-up.


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Good sheer at the Emmys: Lena Headey
I like the exposed girdle under lace situation happening here on Cersei Lannister. It's not the best, but it's far from the worst. Too bad she totally disappeared during the show though. Because Game Of Thrones doesn't exist at the Emmys, it really doesn't. This is what I meant earlier when I said that a lot of the people who actually looked good were made irrelevant by the show. It's not something that happens, say, at the Oscars. For example, at the Oscars a few years ago, Diane Kruger was there representing Inglourious Basterds, you remember? She had no personal nomination. But it didn't feel that way, did it? She wasn't pushed off to the side the way Lena Headey and so many others were pushed off to the side. It's like the Emmys force us who to care about and who not to care about. No disrespect to Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hannigan, but how many f-cking times do I have to see them?
One final note on Headey, and you know I almost always love a white pump, but this white pump in particular doesn't work for me. It was the wrong look with the dress.
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