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"Wendy is the best broker I have ever worked with - and I have worked with quite a few. (She has) a great sense of humor and a willingness to tell me not to buy a property even when I thought I did want to buy it."
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"We first hired Wendy 7 years ago to purchase a house in Medina. We had used other agents but immediately realized after working with Wendy that she had our family's best interest in mind. We were so impressed with her skills that we have continued to work with her to buy and sell homes and investment properties. She recently helped us negotiate a very complex deal and we were delighted with her professionalism and ability to get the deal done on the terms we wanted."
"We really appreciated Wendy's patience and commitment to finding us exactly what we wanted."
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"I can't speak highly enough about Wendy Paisley as a realtor. I've used her for three home transactions now, and couldn't be happier with her services. First and foremost, Wendy's sound advice based on her extensive knowledge of the Medina and West Bellevue neighborhoods has resulted in a tangible increase in my net worth. She wisely counseled me on home values throughout my purchase and sale transactions. She can easily speak to the value of a multitude of neighborhoods, property features and house characteristics, and can successfully translate that knowledge into tactical purchase and sale activities."
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Thirdly, Wendy skillfully guided me through the processes of home purchase and sale making the execution of my housing transactions as painless as possible. Whenever necessary, she has referred me to other service providers that have met with her high standards. Her guidance has even included post-purchase advice and referrals to help me quickly acclimate to my new home, neighborhood and area."
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"Wendy's sound advice based on her extensive knowledge of the Medina and West Bellevue neighborhoods has resulted in a tangible increase in my net worth."
"Wendy Paisley is responsive, cooperative, highly ethical, friendly, honest, down-to-earth and entertaining. Most importantly, she has consistently put my interests ahead of her commission check. "
"Wendy was everything we wanted in an agent…patient, very knowledgeable, extremely familiar in the area, and, our friend through the process. Throughout our nearly three-year house hunt she never wavered, notifying us of prospective listings and meeting us for showings, tirelessly. When we finally found "our" home, she made sure that our offer had what it needed to get us noticed next to four others. And, when it came to the sale of our property she skillfully balanced our worries with what she knew would get the job done. Wendy is the type of agent that will listen to you, educate you, counsel you and ultimately get you what you need. We will definitely use Wendy for our next purchase and sale."


Guwahati, Feb 24 (UNI) At least 18 people died in a road mishap at Chaygaon near Guwahati this afternoon when a Cruiser hit a bus and went off the road killing, the passengers and injuring 11 others.
According to official sources, the Cruiser traveling at a high speed from Guwahati to Korimari while trying to veer away from a passenger bus coming from the opposite lost control, skidded off the road and fell into a ditch, killing 18 persons.
14 of them died on the spot. Two died in the Chaygaon local hospital, while two more died in the Guwahati Medical College.
The deceased included a two day old infant and mother. Four members from another family also died in the accident.


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"As Mr Omirou has said, we had a very good discussion. I briefed him, exactly, on the reasons, for which Total intends or is searching its options to depart from Cyprus' EEZ. The reasons are geological, geonatural and financial, and, of course, we exchanged views for the next steps in our activities" Minister of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Yiorgos Lakkotrypis commented.
Lakkotrypis also said that the country will focus on the Aphrodite field.
'Mr Lakkotrypis said that we focus on the exploitation in "Aphrodite" field, while the exploratory activity in field 9 is also in progress, expecting the results within the next weeks' reads a note released on Thursday.
The Acting President of Cyprus Yiannakis L. Omirou made a comparison with Norway and Israel, to stress that repeated seismic and exploration campaigns are needed to reveal the potential of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus.
'Also, the fact should be taken into account that, in the international oil market there was a price fall, which affects all companies, not only Total, but all the transnational companies that conduct seismic researches and drillings for natural gas and oil' reads the communiqué.
Omirous said that the country is already under the radar of companies, and countries for its resources, adding that the Aphrodite field would itself be enough to cover the energy needs of the country "for a long period," while leaving open doors to export opportunities.
'The most important is –and should be clear for everybody- that Cyprus is already in the energy map, and this means a lot, geostrategically, geo-economically and geopolitically. It reinforces the strong foothold of the Republic of Cyprus in political and strategic level. It enhances the potentials for strategic cooperation with the countries of the region.'
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Israel Albert Horowitz fue un ajedrecista estadounidense que nació en Brooklyn (Nueva York) el 15 de noviembre de 1907 y murió en Nueva York el 18 de enero de 1973.

Biografía
Horowitz aprendió ajedrez en la edad de 6 años. Durante su paso por la Universidad de Nueva York capitaneó un fuerte equipo de ajedrez; entre (1926 y 1927). Antes de dedicarse en exclusiva a este juego fue corredor de bolsa en Wall Street.

Las contribuciones de Horowitz al ajedrez estadounidense fueron muchas. Obtuvo buenos resultados defendiendo los tableros del equipo de EE. UU. en las olimpiadas del ajedrez de Praga 1931, Varsovia 1935 y Estocolmo 1937. Publicó numerosos libros de ajedrez, tanto de teoría como, sobre todo, de divulgación. En uno de ellos (Ideas modernas sobre aperturas de ajedrez) propuso una línea de defensa contra el gambito danés que recibió el nombre de "defensa Horowitz". Fue también durante diez años el columnista de ajedrez del New York Times.

En 1932 fundó, junto con Isaac Kashdan, la Chess Review (Revista de Ajedrez), que hizo mucho por la popularización de este juego en los Estados Unidos. La revista subsistió hasta 1969, año en que se hizo cargo de ella la Federación de Ajedrez de EE. UU., fusionándola con su propia reviista, Chess Life.

Horowitz era un jugador inventivo y con un estilo muy animado. Ganó premios en diferentes torneos, incluyendo el primer puesto en el Campeonato de EE. UU. de 1935, el Open de EE. UU. de 1938, cuarto puesto en el Campeonato de EE. UU. 1938 y tercero en 1944. También fue campeón del Estado de Nueva York en 1943 y 1944.

Véase también
 Ajedrez
 Historia del ajedrez
 Campeones del mundo de ajedrez
 Biografías de ajedrecistas

Referencias
Bibliográficas:
 Véanse las referencias de Ajedrez

Otras fuentes de información:
 Véanse las referencias de Ajedrez
 Páginas didácticas sobre Ajedrez

Enlaces externos

Nacidos en Brooklyn
Fallecidos en Nueva York
Ajedrecistas de Estados Unidos
Asquenazíes
Judíos de Estados Unidos
Maestro Internacional de ajedrez

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APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 10: Strange Brew (1983)
Posted on April 10, 2022 by bandsaboutmovies
I was 11 years old when Strange Brew came out and my excitement was like an average kid felt about jedis. SCTV was — and will always be — the best show ever created, after all.
Stars Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas created Bob and Doug McKenzie out of necessity. When SCTV moved to CBC, each episode has two minutes more time than those syndicated in the United States.
To make up the difference, the CBC network heads asked the show's producers to add specifically identifiable Canadian content for those two minutes, in line with government broadcast regulations.
Moranis and Thomas thought that this was totally ridiculous, as the show was already taped in Canada, with a Canadian cast and crew, but then they decided to make a sketch that was as Canadian as it got: The Great White North. At the end of a day's shooting, with just Thomas, Moranis, a single camera operator and lots of Molson, everything was improvised and the best two minutes would air.
Thomas said, "Rick and I used to sit in the studio, by ourselves — almost like happy hour — drink real beers, cook back bacon, literally make hot snack food for ourselves while we improvised and just talked. It was all very low key and stupid, and we thought, 'Well, they get what they deserve. This is their Canadian content. I hope they like it."
They even did in America, where NBC specifically requested more Bob and Doug on the show.
There was even a Bob and Doug McKenzie comedy album, The Great White North, which sold a million copies.
Based on this success, they considered a movie. After all, John Candy had made Going Berserk. Then Andrew Alexander, executive producer for SCTV, reminded them that he had exclusive contracts with the two men and that if they wrote a script, he would sue them.
So how do you take a two-minute sketch and make a movie?
You remake Hamlet.
Moranis and Thomas were not going to direct or write the film — Steve De Jarnatt (Cherry 2000, Futuresport, Miracle Mile) is credited with some of the scripting — but ended up doing both with help from executive producer Jack Grossberg.
The movie starts with an angry mob destroying a theater, enraged over the quality of Bob and Doug's movie Mutants of 2051 A.D. before going all in on a new plan: placing a mouse into a bottle of Elsinore beer — Molson and every other brewer in Canada wanted to be the beer for this movie until they learned that mice would be inside their brews — and getting free beer for life. Beauty, eh?
This plan ends up with both of them working at Elsinore for the mad Brewmeister Smith (Max Von Sydow), who has been brainwashing the patients of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Mentally Insane, using special beer and music to make them into killers.
The brewery's former owner, John Elsinore, has passed on under some level of chicanery, leaving his daughter Pam (Lynne Griffin) to be in charge — and Smith to take over — and the truth lies in a Galactic Border Patrol video game. Also, a hockey player who had a nervous breakdown, Jean "Rosie" LeRose (Angus MacInnes), is one of the men under the control of Smith.
So much more happens — van crashes, flying dogs, Bob growing to massive size after drinking an entire brewery — and writing about it makes me want to watch it again.
Speaking of Max Von Sydow, the role of Brewmeister Smith was written with him in mind even if that seemed like a quixotic ask. Freddie Fields, then-president of MGM had just produced Victory, so he sent the script. Von Sydow showed it to his son, who was a huge SCTV fan and that's how it all came true.
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Demand for spl trains to Chennai, B
Demand for spl trains to Chennai, B'luru from Nagai
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Oct 11, 2020, 01:14 IST
(This story was first published in Times of India on October 10, 2020)
Trichy: The Nagore-Nagapattinam Rail Users Association has urged the Southern Railway to operate trains between Karaikal and Chennai and Bengaluru and Karaikal ahead of the festival season, which starts from mid-October.
In a representation to the general manager of Southern Railway, secretary of the association M Sithiq said, "We request the authorities to consider operating overnight special express trains from Karaikal to Chennai Egmore daily and also a day time daily special express train between Karaikal and Bengaluru."
These trains will be helpful to the locals of Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur districts and Karaikal region of Puducherry in the absence of regular train services to Chennai and Bengaluru which are cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic. The special trains should be operated in lieu of daily express trains which were operated to Chennai (train no. 16176/16175) and Bengaluru (train no. 56513/56514) from Karaikal, Sithiq added. tnn


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Australia's Incitec Takes Stake In Explosives Maker
Fertilizer maker's 13 percent ''strategic'' stake in Dyno Nobel Ltd. could be precursor to takeover bid worth up to $1.6 billion.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australian fertilizer maker Incitec Pivot Ltd. said Wednesday it has taken a 13 percent ''strategic'' stake in explosives manufacturer Dyno Nobel Ltd., in a move that could be a precursor to a takeover bid worth as much as 2 billion Australian dollars (US$1.6 billion; euro1.2 billion).
In a statement, Incitec said it will seek talks with Dyno Nobel's board and management to ''further opportunities'' after taking the stake.
''It is not known what the outcomes of those discussions may be,'' the company said, without saying whether it will launch a full bid for Dyno. ''Incitec Pivot will update the market as matters may develop,'' it said.
Dyno Nobel's share have jump more than 17 percent on speculation that the stake holding may lead to a bid.
Mid-afternoon, Dyno Nobel's share were at A$2.40, up 17.1 percent from Tuesday, giving it a market capitalization of approximately A$2 billion.
Incitec shares, meanwhile, fell 4.7 percent by mid-afternoon to A$65.80.
Dyno Nobel — the world's second-largest explosives maker — listed in April 2006 after being sold to investors at an offer price of A$2.37 by Macquarie Bank Ltd. and others.
Incitec Pivot, which is predominantly a fertilizer group, may want to buy Dyno Nobel to consolidate the ammonium nitrate sector and tap into booming demand for explosives from the mining sector.
Incitec Pivot said it bought the stake in on-market and off-market transactions between Aug. 24 and Aug. 29 at an average price of A$2.35 a share.
Last week, Dyno Nobel said its net profit for the first half ended June 30 fell 1.5 percent from a year ago to US$43.4 million (euro31.8 million).
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Brantley Gilbert Drops Driving New Single, "Fire't Up" [Listen]
Brantley Gilbert is following up his recent No. 1 single, "What Happen in a Small Town," with the release of "Fire't Up." The new tune, which Brantley co-penned with Brandon Day and Justin Weaver," is featured on Brantley's 2019 No. 1 album, Fire & Brimstone. "Fire't Up" will impact country radio on Dec. 2. Watch…… MORE
Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell Drop Video for New Duet, "What Happens in a Small Town" [Watch]
Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell dropped a new video for their recent duet, "What Happens in a Small Town." The lead single from Brantley's upcoming fifth studio album is currently No. 40 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart after five weeks. The new video, which was directed by Shaun Silva ("Any Ol' Barstool" by Jason…… MORE
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Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell have teamed up for a new duet, "What Happens in a Small Town," which is the lead single from Brantley's upcoming fifth studio album. Penned by Brantley, Brock Berryhill, Josh Dunne and Rhett Atkins, "What Happens In A Small Town" was produced by Dann Huff, who has helmed Brantley's three…… MORE


New sensors and algorithms especially for image processing lead in 2018 to numerous new assistance systems for tractors. These can be seen as the first steps towards autonomous driving. Due the complexity and the multitude of task carried out by tractors, there is still a lot of research needed in this field. As the human will not be replaced in the medium-term by automatic systems, the areas of research focusing on comfort and ergonomics will continue to be important.


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Eel Species
by Lolly Brown | Apr 13, 2019 | Eel Species
The moray eel belongs to eel family of the large eel species. They can be found in temperate and water waters all around the world. Although they have a snake-like appearance, these moray eels are also found with other eel species are fish, not reptiles. The Moray eel species are easily found in the shallow and deep waters in the tropical as well as the sub-tropical regions. Some of these moray eels can be found in the cooler waters occasionally, they tend to stay in the deep crevices in the ocean rather than staying in the shore. The largest of these eel species can be found around the tropical coral reefs. In here, they are different marine species in large numbers.
You can find many advantages in having an elongated body underwater. They can easily squirm around the along the bottom of a lake or stream or marsh that would open up a variety of different ecological niches. Both the swimming and the morphological behavior of the cichlid or even the tetra might limit in which crannies or nooks these fishes could explore. The eel-like fish has free reign where they can poke about in to search for their prey or even hide from predators.
When we really want to define the true eel species, we need to really know the nitty gritty of their morphology, evolutionary history, as well as their development. The order of Anguilliformes is one of the most successful radiations of the fish life, and eels belong to this group. They like to occupy a big deal of ecosystem, they like the deep sea as well as tropical coral reefs. They vary greatly in shape and size, but, even though their diversity but there are only around 800 species, 20 of which are found in fresh waters.
Many adult eel species can be easily recognized through the arrangement of their fins. They have an absent pelvic fins, oftentimes, their pectoral fins as well. Their anal and dorsal fins are really elongated and the confluent with their caudal fin. You could also distinguish the juveniles due to their highly flattened and transparent form. They have a drift in the plankton known as the gossamer ribbons and often referred to as "leptocephalus" larvae.
The Elopomorpha and the anguiliform eels are easily united due to their unusual life history. Both of them are close relatives. When we look for the evolutionary history of bony fishes, the former is the first group that appears that followed the emergence of the ancient groups such as the sturgeon, bowfin, and the gars. Due to this, eels are relics and the highly successful ones and would represent around the 90% of the elopomorph fauna that is still roaming around the planet.
Eel Species in Focus: Moray Eels
We know that there are around 200 different eel species that ranges from just the 10cm long up to a near 2 meters in length. Even though they vary greatly in color and size, all of the moray eels have almost the same appearance with an elongated body, it is slightly flattened towards the tail. The Moray eels also have big eyes and mouth which also contains large teeth.
Aside from the mentioned things, this eel is a secretive animal. We can see them spending a lot of time hiding in holes as well as cervices among the corals and rocks on the ocean floor. Because they have spent a lot of time hiding, these eels easily remain out of sight of the predators and are more likely to ambush any unsuspecting prey that may pass. Just like any other large fish, this moray eel is also carnivorous animal that survive through a diet that only consist of meat. Mollusk such as cuttlefish and squid, fish, and crustaceans such as the crabs are the main food source of the moray eel.
The eel species of the Moray is known to be one of the most dominant predators in its environment. However, this eel is hunted by some other animal which includes other large fish such as barracuda, grouper, humans, and even sharks. These eels like to mate when the water is very warm, especially towards the end of the summer. The fertilization of the Moray eel is oviparous. It means that these sperm and eggs are fertilized outside of the womb, where it is surrounded by water, which we could also call as spawning. With more than 10,000 eggs that are released at a time, these are known to be a larvae and became a part of the plankton.It could take up almost a year for your moray eel larvae to fully grow enough to swim under the ocean floor to join their community.
There is almost 16 species in the eel species. The aforementioned family is the most familiar family of eels to us people. They have very unusual characteristic through their life history, it is known to be catadromy. In this, the fish would spend most of their lives in fresh water but would run to the ocean to spawn. The American Eel (Anguilla Rostrata) is the most common freshwater eel that can be found in North America. Some relations of the Americal Eels are the European Eel (A. Anguilla) from the Western Europe as well as the Anguilla Japonica or most commonly known as the Japanese Eel that came from the North Pacific Coast. Most of the large numbers of eel species – around 12, typically occur in the Indo-Pacific Region.
Your American Eel could reach the length up to 4 ft. The specie is known to be abundant in freshwater that links directly to the ocean. The range likely includes the large drainage of the St. Lawrence River, coastal rivers, up to the extending inland to Lake Ontario to a lesser degree up to the upper Great Lakes. There is no really freshwater eels that are found on the west coast of America or those that can be found on the east coast of South America.
The eel species that are American would spend a lot of their time in freshwater. But, in order to breed, this eel specie would run into the sea and then migrate to a warm-water region that is found between the Bermuda and the West Indies, this is known to be the Sargasso Sea. The European Eel can also spawn in the Sargasso sea, it follows the migration of around 4,000 or even more miles.
The eel species die after spawning. Your baby eels are leaf-shaped and transparent and might migrate to fresh water. In here, they would transform into a miniature yet transparent replicas of the adult body, we can call this as the glass eels. After which, this small fish would run up to the rivers and would take residences in the still water of large lakes and rivers, they would live here up to their adulthood for as long as 15 years.
The breeding strategy that we have just discussed was just recently discovered. For a lot of centuries, the naturalist pondered a lot because they can not find the larval eels or spawning, they could not really know the breeding habits of the eel species. In 1922, a newly hatched eel larvae was seen in the sea of Sargasso.
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Q: How to change UIBarButtonItem's title color when placed in a UIToolbar? I've tried setting the title text attributes. The Button is set by using an icon and then setting the title property. The icon is properly tinted. The title remains 'untinted'
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A: If tintColor does not affect the text color, the only solution I know of is to essentially create a composite image of the icon and text, then use that as your button image:
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(someSize, NO, 0);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

// draw the image
// Use UIKit NSString additions to draw the text

UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

A: David's suggestion works. Here is sample code:
 + (UIImage *) image:(NSString *) imageName withTitle:(NSString *)title {

     UIFont *titleFont = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:10];
     CGSize textSize = [title sizeWithFont:titleFont];

     CGFloat width = MAX(35, textSize.width);
     UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(CGSizeMake(width, 35), NO, 0);
     CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

     UIImage *toolbarImage = [UIImage imageNamed:imageName];
     CGContextSaveGState(context);  {
         CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, 35);
         CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);
         CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake((width - toolbarImage.size.width) / 2, 14, toolbarImage.size.width, toolbarImage.size.height), toolbarImage.CGImage);
     }
     CGContextRestoreGState(context);

     [title drawInRect:CGRectMake((width - textSize.width) / 2, 22, textSize.width, textSize.height) withFont:titleFont];

     UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
     UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

return image;

}
Tweak some of the frame parameters to fit your images.

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Herluf Eigil Christensen (født 16. september 1924 i Vamdrup – død juni 1970 i Midland, Ontario, Canada) var en dansk atlet og medlem af Bov IF, AGF og Helsingør IF.

Ved de første danske ungdomsmesterskaber 1942 vandt Herluf Christensen løb for Bov IF 400 meter for de 17-18 årige.
Han flyttede til Århus og blev ved de danske mesterskaber i 1946 og 1947 bronzemedaljør på distancen, hvorefter han forsøgte sig på 800 meter. Dette skulle vise sig at være en god ide, da han i 1948 sensationelt besejrede den ellers uovervindelige Niels Holst-Sørensen. I 1948 deltog Herluf Christensen som den første AGF'er ved OL. Han havde kvalificeret sig på 800 meter ved at blive nummer to i en landskamp mod Norge i Oslo. I det indledende heat på OL blev han løbet ned af grækeren Vasilios Mavroidis og brækkede det ene ben. Benbruddet var kompliceret og satte en stopper for den store karriere, han var blevet spået. I 1951 prøvede han dog et comeback i Helsingør IF og det blev til 50,4 på 400m og 1,54,8 på 800 meter og yderligere en DM-medalje på 400 meter. Det blev således under karrieren til tre medaljer på DM, alle på 400 meter.

Internationale mesterskaber
 1948 OL 800 meter
 1946 EM 4x 400 meter 3.15,4 4. plads Hold: Herluf Christensen, Knud Greenfort, Gunnar Bergsten og Niels Holst-Sørensen

Danske mesterskaber
  1951  400 meter 51.1
  1947  400 meter  49.9
  1946  400 meter  49.8
Danske ungdomsmesterskaber 17/18-årige
  1942  400 meter 51,9

Personlige rekorder
 800 meter:  1,51,0 Oslo  4. juli 1948

Eksterne henvisninger
 Herluf Christensen Biography and Olympic Results – Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
 Track and Field Statistics – Herluf Christensen
 DAF i tal – Herluf Christensen

Sprintere fra Danmark
Danske OL-deltagere i atletik
Atleter fra Bov IF
Atleter fra AGF
Atleter fra Helsingør IF
Personer fra Vamdrup
Mellemdistanceløbere fra Danmark
Deltagere for Danmark ved sommer-OL 1948


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HENB01143U English - Elective subject 3, topic 3: Migration and social change: Britain 1800-2000
The figure of the migrant is multi-layered, elusive, and always in dispute. This course is an investigation into how our image of the migrant has evolved historically, how past versions have contributed to what we see today, and, by contrast, how the migrant has sought to portray her or himself. The context for this discussion is primarily Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries, but we will also go back to the 18th century, forward to the 21st, and we will make comparisons with related images of the migrant, particularly between New York and London. Source materials for analysis will vary, but include etchings, drawings, photographs, film and digital media, as well as written 'personal documents' that illuminate some of the ways the migrant has been both identified and treated as an alien.
Historically, migrant voices have developed from relative anonymity, through degrees of novelty and notoriety, towards a tension between victimhood and agency. Our task is to distinguish between the ways migrants are understood, interpreted and often constrained by others, and the ways in which migrants express their own experiences.
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Has Office Depot claimed your PC had a malware infection when it didn't?
Many of us are familiar with scareware. The pop-ups that appear on your computer, designed to frighten you into believing that your PC has a malware infection, in the hope that you'll pay up for a cure you don't need.
But what if a high street retailer was the one doing the scaring?
US retail giant Office Depot has been accused of intentionally tricking its customers by selling costly computer fixes for malware problems that simply don't exist.
That's the claim made by Jesse Jones of KIRO TV News, after he took brand new, fresh out-of-the-box PCs to Office Depot and its sister store OfficeMax in Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
The computers, which had never been connected to the internet and were independently verified as malware-free by a security firm, were deemed to each require up to $180 worth of repairs after Office Depot declared them infected.
A follow-up report by a Boston-based news team confirmed the findings, suggesting the problem was not confined to one particular part of the United States but might be widespread amongst Office Depot stores countrywide.
So, what happens if you take your computer to Office Depot for a "free PC Health Check"?
Well, the process starts with an Office Depot employee running a program on your PC, which asks a question:
Does your computer have any of the problems below?
[ ] Frequent pop-ups or other problems prevent me from browsing the internet.[ ] My PC recently became much slower or is too slow to use.[ ] I am often warned of a virus infection or I am asked to pay for virus removal.[ ] My PC frequently crashes.
Whistleblower Shane Barnett, who used to work at Office Depot, says that running the program is mandatory and staff are told they must meet technical service sales goals by running conducting unnecessary "repairs".
If you answer yes to any of the choices offered by the program, you are automatically told that your PC has a malware problem says Derek Held, an IT specialist at security firm IOActive that assisted KIRO TV News with its investigation:
"When any four of them is checked any combination and single, as long as one of those boxes is checked you will see the malware symptoms in the report. It didn't matter anything else that was on the report. It was automatic that made it show up on the report."
According to reports and posts on social media, many other Office Depot employees have confirmed the scam which is thought to have been going on for years.
It certainly doesn't inspire confidence when you discover that Office Depot's PC Health Check service is developed by Support.com. Support.com was ordered, with partner AOL, to pay US $8.5 million in 2013 after being accused of using free malware scans to trick consumers into believing their PCs were infected.
Struck by a wave of bad publicity, Office Depot says it has suspended the PC tune-up service throughout its retail chain while it conducts its own internal investigation.
However, one has to ask whether it is appropriate for Office Depot to investigate its own processes, or whether the allegations that customers have been defrauded should be probed by the authorities
US Senator Maria Cantwell has called on the FTC to investigate the allegations:
"American consumers rely on their personal computers now more than ever. Kids need computers for their school work; families need computers to keep track of their finances; and small business owners need computers to run their enterprises. They are the gateways through which we live our lives. In this context, Office Depot's exploitative behavior is particularly disturbing."
If the allegations are found to be true, it may spell bad news for the Office Depot brand – and could mean that there are lots of defrauded customers wondering how they might get their money back.
In the meantime, my advice is this: Vote with your wallet. If you have a problem with your home computer you might be better off asking your family for a personal recommendation or a trusted technical friend for assistance than going to a big business for help.
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Did 'A Sick Day for Amos McGee' Deserve the 2011 Caldecott Medal?
Filed under: Book Awards Reality Check,Caldecott Medals,Children's Books — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 2:31 am
Tags: Animals, Bedtime Stories, Book Reviews, Books, Michigan Authors, Picture Books
The latest in a series of posts on whether winners of major awards earned their honors
A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Written by Philip C. Stead. Illustrated by Erin E. Stead. Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, 32 pp., $16.99. Ages 2–5.
Erin Stead won that healthiest of picture-book prizes, the Caldecott Medal, for her illustrations for A Sick Day for Amos McGee. And she might have earned it for her fine draftsmanship alone.
Just as great painters may succeed at landscapes but fail at portraiture, some acclaimed picture-book illustrators can't draw – and especially can't draw faces – well. They excel at working with paint, collage, or mixed media instead of a pencil or pen. Or they illustrate stories good enough to mask or offset their deficiencies as draftsmen.
But pencil drawings have provided the spark for many of the best picture books of the past 50 years, including Caldecott winners such as Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji and Peter Spiers's Noah's Ark. And the medium may attract fewer illustrators as computer-generated art proliferates. So it's cheering that Erin Stead shows a gift for the form in A Sick Day for Amos McGee, a picture book written by her husband, Philip. She draws with a pencil on softly colored woodblock prints to give warmth and depth to this comic fantasy about animals who repay the kindness of their zookeeper.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee has little in the way of plot. A faithful zookeeper always makes time to visit his animal friends – to play chess with an elephant and sit with a shy penguin – until the day he stays home in bed with a cold and he and his companions reverse their caretaking roles. The creatures help the sniffling Amos by assuming, as children tend to do, that others have needs identical to theirs. The rhino with allergies hands him a handkerchief. The owl who is afraid of the dark – "knowing that Amos was afraid of the dark" – reads him a story.
Philip Stead develops his theme — you get what you give — with an appealing absence of didacticism and pretense. But his writing has less power than that of Caldecott winners such as Where the Wild Things (in which the last line – "and it was still hot" – uplifts all that has preceded it). And A Sick Day for Amos McGee ends on a slightly derivative note when, in an echo of Goodnight Moon, everyone says "goodnight":
So Amos said goodnight to the elephant.
And good night to the tortoise.
And goodnight to the penguin.
And good night to the owl …
But Erin Stead extends the story with her talent for portraiture and more. Every face in the book — human or animal — shows emotion and personality, whether it's that of the contemplative elephant, the long-suffering rhinoceros, or the sweetly child-like Amos. And Stead's use of color heightens the mood she creates for each page. On several spreads, she sets her characters against wide, vertical yellow stripes that could represent wallpaper, beams of sunlight, and more. That several interpretations would make sense helps to show why this book would stand up to many rereadings.
No less appealing are the visual subplots. One involves the reticent penguin who at first holds himself apart from other characters. Then he catches a red balloon that floats within his reach at the zoo. We next see him holding the balloon as he sits at the front of a bus that is taking the animals to the ailing Amos: He's starting to shed his shyness. On the following spread, he stands tall as he walks at the front of a line of larger animals marching into the sick zookeeper's bedroom. He has clearly gained confidence from holding a balloon, what psychologists might call a "security object," and perhaps also from his mission. Only the pictures tell you about the change in the penguin, but they need no help from words.
Was this book worthy of a Caldecott Medal? A qualified yes. Erin Stead gets an A for her art and Philip Stead a B/B+ for his writing. But American Library Association rules say that Caldecott judges should't consider the text unless it interferes with the pictures. And the writing in this book doesn't interfere. By the rulebook, A Sick Day for Amos McGee gets an A. The greatest Caldecott Medal winners – which include Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House and Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are – are A+ books in which the words and pictures are equally superlative. But only the most unrealistic adult would expect a child to read nothing but A+ books. And A Sick Day for Amos McGee has literary traits that some of the ALA titans don't, including that it's short and gentle enough to make a fine bedtime story for any child who is getting tired of Goodnight Moon.
Sendak once wrote that Randolph Caldecott's work marks the beginning of the modern picture book. The Victorian illustrator found a new way to juxtapose words and pictures, he noted: "Words are left out – but the picture says it. Pictures are left out — but the word says it." Long after Caldecott's death, artists must still to bring those ideals into harmony, and Erin Stead has done it in A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
Best line/picture: Two wordless spreads that tell the story entirely in pictures.
Worst line/picture: I don't have children, but people who do say that you need to be careful about introducing the concept of "fear of the dark" to toddlers and preschoolers who don't have it. Some adults might want to skip over the lines that refer to it. And all of the characters in this book are male.
Furthermore: The Caldecott Medal goes to the illustrator of a book, not the author. Erin Stead shows in this video the technique she used for A Sick Day for Amos McGee: drawing with pencil on top of woodblock prints. She made other comments about her work to the Wall Street Journal. One-Minute Book Reviews also reviewed the Caldecott medalists Flotsam, Where The Wild Things Are and The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
About the author and illustrator: The Steads commute between New York City and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
You may also want to read "American Library Association to Little Kids: Women Are Second Best," a response to the medals gap between male and female Caldecott winners.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and journalist who has been vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle. You can also follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
2009 Caldecott Medal Honors an Attractive But Derivative Book — ALA Judges Play It Safe by Choosing the Poetry of 'The House in the Night'
Filed under: Book Awards Reality Check,Children's Books — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 3:38 am
Tags: ALA, American Library Association, Bedtime Stories, Book Awards, Books, Caldecott, Children, Children's Poetry, Female Poets, Kids, Libraries, Minnesota Authors, New Hampshire Artists, Picture Books, Poem, Poetry, Reviews
Beth Krommes used scratchboard and watercolor for 'The House in the Night.'
The House in the Night. By Susan Marie Swanson. Illustrated by Beth Krommes. Houghton Mifflin, 40 pp., $17. Ages 2–5.
This lovely and thoroughly inoffensive 2009 Caldecott award–winner should hearten anybody who sees the American Library Association as a hotbed of Communists who keep trying to sneak into kids' hands books on dangerous topics like sex education and environmentalism. The House in the Night is pretty as can be but shows the ALA in full retreat from the days when it gave medals to trailblazing books like The Little House, Where the Wild Things Are and Jumanji.
There's no doubt that as the financial maelstrom rages, many people will welcome this gentle story about the comforts of home in the darkness. As night falls, a young girl receives a key to a tidy house that has glowing lamp. She enters and finds on a bed a book about a dove-like bird that carries her on its wings toward the moon and back to a home "full of light."
None of the action in this tale has a catalyst that is remotely upsetting or disturbing, such as Max's getting sent to bed without his supper in Where the Wild Things Are. Susan Marie Swanson found the inspiration for this cumulative story in one of the nursery rhymes collected by the estimable Iona and Peter Opie ("This is the key of the kingdom: / In that kingdom is a city"). And although nursery rhymes can be sadistic, this book minds its manners. Swanson tells her story in short-lined poetry so low keyed, most critics seem to have missed it despite lines like "the house in the night / a home full of light."
Beth Krommes's illustrations have a minimalist color palette unusually sophisticated for a picture book. Krommes uses just three colors – black, white and yellow – and watercolor and scratchboard techniques that give the art the look of wood engravings. She also reduces her images to essentials: a cat, a doll, a brush, teddy bears, sweaters in a bedroom drawer. Her "house in the night" is a cottage — the roof appears thatched — that could have come from a benevolent fairy tale. Even the sun has a smiling face with long eyelashes. The girl soars on her bird's wings over a pastoral landscape that, the cars suggest, belongs to the 1940s.
All of these scenes have a cozy familiarity – too much of it for a Caldecott winner. Everything in this derivative book reminds you of something else. That brush in the bedroom? Goodnight Moon. That color palette? Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats. The structure of the story? "This Is the House That Jack Built."
The borrowed elements in The House in the Night generally work well together and add up to a good book. But you expect more than good from the winner of the Caldecott Medal, awarded to "the most distinguished American picture book for children." You expect greatness, or at least a higher level of originality – the boldness of winners like Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House, which dealt with suburban sprawl decades before it became fashionable, or David Macaulay's Black and White, which wove together multiple plots in way new to picture books.
The House in the Night leaves you wondering if the Caldecott judges wanted to find the best book, or just to administer a dose of bibliotherapy to a nation that needs it. You also wonder if the committee overreacted to recent criticisms that the ALA awards don't honor enough poetry by honoring a book some may not recognize as poetry at all. And why are the organization's judges such suckers for books about reading? This pattern goes back at least to the 1991 Newbery for Maniac Magee. But books about the power of reading aren't inherently worthier of awards than those about plumbing or red-tailed hawks: Everything depends on the execution.
Certainly the Caldecott committee snubbed books as award-worthy as this one, including Pale Male and The Little Yellow Leaf. For all its virtues, The House in the Night has nothing so unusual about it that schools and libraries need to have it, the way they do need have the 2008 winner, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which has strong and unique merits. Oddly enough, if the Caldecott judges wanted to help a nation in financial turmoil, they did it, but not in the intended way: They selected a book that no one needs to rush out to buy.
Best line/picture: "the house in the night / a home full of light."
Worst line/picture: This book depicts cars more than a half century old but a lamp that looks inspired by the latest Pottery Barn catalog.
About the authors: Swanson is an award-winning poet in St. Paul, Minnesota. Krommes is an illustrator in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Janice Harayda is an award-winning journalist and former vice-president for Awards of the National Book Critics Circle.
© Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.
'Owl Babies' — A Picture Book That Sets the Stage for Bedtime
Filed under: Children's Books — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 4:51 pm
Tags: Bedtime Stories, Birds, Books, Children's literature, Kids, Owls, Parenting, Picture Books, Preschoolers, Toddlers
Two words for parents looking for a bedtime story for very young children: Owl Babies (Candlewick, 32 pp., $5.99, paperback, ages 1–3). In this popular picture book, Martin Waddell tells a lackluster story about the separation anxiety that strikes three fluffy white owlets that are left alone one night when their mother flies off to hunt for food. But Patrick Benson illustrates the tale with captivating ink-and-watercolor pictures that help to make up for the weaknesses of a text that is at times cutesy and overelaborated. Benson also sets the white owls against a very dark background that, more strongly than most picture books, immerses you in a nighttime world and sets the stage for bedtime.
Natalie Babbitt's Cycle of Stories About an Out-of-Work Pirate, 'Jack Plank Tells Tales'
Filed under: Children's Books — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 12:34 pm
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The author of Tuck Everlasting returns with a lighter book about a reformed plunderer-of-the-high-seas
Jack Plank Tells Tales. Story and pictures by Natalie Babbitt. Scholastic/Michael Di Capua, 128 pp., $15.95. Ages 7–9 (ages 4 and up for reading aloud).
Jack Plank Tells Tales is the book many parents have been waiting for – a pirate story for children too old for picture books but too young for Treasure Island. It lacks the psychological heft and stylistic perfection of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, a modern classic. But it's several nautical miles beyond many other recent pirate stories, including Peter Pan rip-offs and cheesy movie tie-ins.
Jack Plank is an amiable out-of-work pirate who is cast off the ship Avarice because he lacks a talent for plunder: "You have to yell and make faces and rattle your sword, and once you've got people scared, you take things away from them." So he has to find a new job after he settles into a boarding house on Jamaica in about 1720.
Each day he looks for work, with the proprietor's 11-year-old daughter as his guide, and finds something wrong with one of his options. He can't fish because it reminds him of a shipmate's story of a man who turned into an octopus and can't work in a sugarcane field because he would have to cross a bridge that brings to mind a sailor's account of a troll. Each night he entertains the boardinghouse residents with another tale of why he has come up empty-handed, which leads soon to a job that suits him the way a deep harbor suits a galleon.
The stop-and-go narrative makes this book good bedtime reading for children who can handle its two deaths by stabbing even as the lack of a strong forward momentum may make it easier for others to put down. And there's not much thematic development – this is light entertainment, an amusing cycle of stories billed by the publisher as a novel.
But Babbitt's engaging pencil drawings – and a handsome jacket and design by Kathleen Westray – help to offset the narrative limits. The refusal of American Library Association www.ala.org to give Tuck Everlasting a Newbery Medal or Honor Book citation may have been the organization's greatest awards blunder of the past 40 years, compounded by its continual failure to recognize Babbitt with the Margaret A. Edwards award for lifetime achievement. Lois Lowry is a good writer. But why Lowry has won the Edwards award and Babbitt hasn't is a mystery that this appealing book only deepens.
Best line: Many of the tales in this book develop folkloric motifs such as that of the mummy's hand, and its story of a girl raised by seagulls has an especially memorable illustration of a feral child.
Worst line: The last: "But it seems to be sure that, as Waddy Spoonton pointed out, it's never too late to be happy." This ending is unusually sugary – and clichéd – for Babbitt. And the text doesn't really prepare you for it.
Published: May 2007 www.scholastic.com
Furthermore: Babbitt won a Newbery Honor Book designation for Kneeknock Rise, a completely inadequate recognition of her body of work from the ALA. As a former vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle, I appreciate the great difficulty of getting literary prizes right. But the ALA is just embarrassing itself on this one.
Beverly Donofrio and Barbara McClintock's 'Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary'
Filed under: Children's Books — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 1:31 am
Tags: Animals, Artists, Arts, Bedtime Stories, Blogroll, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Children, Children's literature, Connecticut Authors, Culture, Girls, Kids, Libraries, Mice, Picture Books, Preschoolers, Reviews, Women's Writing
A girl and a mouse share more than a house in an engaging bedtime story
Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary. By Beverly Donofrio. Illustrated by Barbara McClintock. Random House/Schwartz & Wade, 32 pp., $16.99. Ages 2–6.
This quiet, lovely bedtime story goes against the grain of almost everything that is fashionable in picture books. That's partly what makes it so appealing: It won't lose its appeal when a book with more glitz comes along, because it has no glitz. What it has is heart, lots of it, that shows up most clearly beguiling illustrations by Barbara McClintock.
Mary and the Mouse is a book of opposites. Mary lives in a big house in the early years of the baby boom. The Mouse lives a little house in Mary's house. They meet by accident and wave to each other every night until they grow up and leave for new homes. When Mary becomes a mother, she and her family live in another big house. When Mouse becomes a mother, she and her family live in another little house inside Mary's house. The daughters of Mary and the Mouse vary their mothers' pattern – they smile at each other instead of waving – until one night each of them "did something brave": They found the courage to say, "Good Night!"
This simple plot serves worthy themes – affections survive separations, children resemble their parents but are unique, and change may not occur in one generation — well-supported by the art. McClintock creates lively human and animal faces that show real expression. And her warm and painterly seem to catch gestures in midair, as motor-drive camera does. Her cover image has Alice-in-Wonderland quality, and it's pleasure to fall down the rabbit hole – or mouse hole – into this book.
Best line/picture: As an adult, Mary lives in a beautiful glass-and-fieldstone home in the spirit of Philip Johnson's Glass House. This is refreshing. You could easily get the idea from recent picture books that all American children live in a) trailers; b) suburban colonials; or c) brownstones. Architectural diversity almost doesn't exist in them.
Worst line/picture: None.
Published: August 2007 www.randomhouse.com/kids
Furthermore: This is the first book for children by Beverly Donofrio www.beverlydonofrio.com, who lives in Mexico and wrote Riding in Cars With Boys. Barbara McClintock wrote and illustrated the children's book Adèle & Simon. She lives in Connecticut.


To install snail and slug barriers is one of the first things to do to protect vulnerable plants.
It is sometimes said that there is no effective obstacle to fend off slugs and snails, but this is not true; there are many effective barriers!
A rustproof metal slug fence is a classic obstacle against slugs and snails, and it has been successfully used in Northern Europe for more than 30 years.
Because the edges are bent in two directions, most slugs and snails cannot climb over this barrier.
Their high effectiveness has made slug fences popular.
Since I wanted to be sure that these fences work, I designed and conducted an experiment to test their effectiveness.
Copper is said to have a repulsive effect on snails, but this is controversial. Therefore, I also tested the effects of copper, and my experiment showed that a wide strip of copper deters most slugs and snails. In the linked article below, you will find more information about the experiment.
Self-adhesive copper tape can be used in a variety of ways, particularly around raised beds, tubs, or other plant pots.
Slug collars are also a useful method to successfully stop slugs and snails.
Similar to metal slug fences, the edges of slug collars are also bent but only once. This is why slug collars are a little less effective than slug fences.
These collars are put over individual plants. They protect flowers and vegetables when they are most vulnerable: during their growing phase. Some plants can even be protected throughout their whole life cycle, as is true of the runner bean in the picture.
Their biggest advantage is that they are relatively cheap, making them accessible to most gardeners.
Protective plant covers secure young plants against rain, wind, and frost, as well as snails, slugs and birds.
This allows seedlings to grow undisturbed.
Once the plants have grown up, slugs and snails usually cannot damage them anymore.
To build an electric slug fence, two parallel metal bands are installed on an enclosure and then connected to a rechargeable battery.
Once it has been turned on, critters that try to pass the fence will receive an electric shock and turn around.
If the electric fence is maintained, it can provide consistent protection against slimy invasive species.
Like plant covers, nursery garden bells protect plants from snails, birds, and the weather.
Garden bells are usually larger than plant covers and can protect plants for a longer period.
Compared to plant covers, however, garden bells are much more expensive.
Slug- and snail-repellent coatings, like Schnexagon, open up a new world of slug control possibilities.
Schnexagon can be painted on most surfaces, making many applications possible.
For example, Schnexagon can protect the entry areas of greenhouses and all types of planters and pots.
There are a lot of possibilities to block the way of slugs and snails.
Therefore, it is not necessary to use slug pellets or other baits to protect flowers and vegetables.
You could plant mostly slug-resistant flowers.
Slugs do not like to eat these vegetables and herbs.
You could attract enemies of slugs and snails to your garden.
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AAN Editors and Writers Take on Vegas
By AAN Staff
AAN's 2010 Writers Workshop features a program jam-packed with valuable lessons and reporting tools for writers. Las Vegas will be scene of the crime, with the opening session starting at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 29.
(CLICK HERE TO REGISTER)
On Saturday morning, award-winning magazine journalist Dan Baum will discuss why writers need to dream big and swing for the bleachers in their reporting. Baum has been a staff writer for the New Yorker and has also written for numerous national magazines such as Rolling Stone and Playboy.
In an afternoon session, bestselling author Mike Sager -- who has interviewed the likes of Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Snoop Dogg, and Ray Charles -- will share stories and tips for interviewing and profile writing. Sager has the distinction of working with both investigative reporter Bob Woodward at the Washington Post and the legendary Hunter S. Thompson while at Rolling Stone.
Attendees of this year's workshop will also have the opportunity to:
Brush up on fundamental skills such as writing ledes and establishing a beat.
Learn about new electronic tools and websites that make it easy to embed databases and other interactive documents into a story.
Gain ideas on how to attack the medical marijuana beat from the pioneering Denver-based Westword.
Participate in the always popular -- and tremendously valuable -- story generating session.
A complete list of detailed session descriptions can be found here.
Make no mistake, these sessions will be interactive and hands-on, and attendees will be pushed to participate and engage. This will not be one of those conferences where attendees can expect to sit in the back of the room nursing a hangover while a speaker drones on in front of a Powerpoint presentation.
In addition to Baum and Sager, the list of speakers includes Peabody and Emmy award winning George Knapp (Las Vegas Channel 8); Jimmy Boegle (Tucson Weekly); Patricia Calhoun (Westword); Julia Goldberg (Santa Fe Reporter); Anne Schindler (Folio Weekly); Steve Sebelius (Las Vegas CityLife); Hank Sims (North Coast Journal); and Joel Warner (Westword).
AAN members can register at the insanely affordable rate of $75 up until October 7. After that the rate increases to $100.
Not an AAN member? No problem. Non-members can register for a very reasonable rate of $125 up until October 7, and $150 after that.
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Members and non-members can register for the 2010 Writers Workshop by clicking here.
AAN has reserved a block of rooms at the Tropicana Las Vegas for workshop attendees. The group rates for single or double occupancy are as follows:
Thursday, Oct. 28 -- $49
Friday, Oct. 29 -- $89
Saturday, Oct. 30 -- $89
Higher rates apply for triple or quad occupancy.
Please make your reservations by calling the hotel's reservation department at (800) 634-4000 and ask for the AAN Writers Workshop rate.
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Enjoy the convenience of renting a vehicle from Skaha Truck Rentals. There are countless reasons why renting is a smart decision that will save you time and money.
COST – The cost of renting versus purchasing or leasing a new or used vehicle is far reduced, and won't affect your revolving credit or purchasing power, allowing you to use your funds more efficiently for your home or business.
COMMITMENT – Renting allows you to cancel at any time without any fees or penalties. Rent for as long as you need, without any further obligation.
FLEXIBILITY – Keep your options open – vary the brand, model or size of your rental depending on your changing needs.
MAINTENANCE – Avoid costly and time consuming maintenance visits. Our trucks and SUV's are maintained by our expert technicians and are always in top notch condition.
If you're in the market for a rental vehicle, drop by or give us a call to see how we can help you find the perfect solution at the right price.
We carry an impressive fleet of trucks and SUV's to suit all of your rental needs. Our extensive inventory includes the newest Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota and Chrysler models to choose from.