A recent survey using data from a number of consumer surveys reported that 58% of businesses and 40% of non-profit businesses don't have a website. What? This seems like a much larger number than it should be. Although, just in my personal researching I do find lots of local businesses that don't have a website and the only way I can find them online is through business listings, Yelp reviews and maybe a Facebook page.
A Facebook page for your business is better than nothing, but it really is no substitute for a website. In fact 98% of businesses say it is not a replacement for a website, so I am guessing they have seen a difference as a owner and a consumer.
Do you trust a company that doesn't have a website? 56% of consumers say they don't. Most people want to know that a business is going to stick around before they seek them out and buy. Most people want to see images of a shop or a product before they take the time to go there. If your business is a restaurant make sure you post images of the interior and menu at the very least on your Facebook page.
So, if you are a micro business or small business, what is stopping you from starting your website? Yes, it takes time and I know time is of short supply for a small business owner, but a simple site can be put up rather fast.
Here are some pretty easy website builders that you can use. you can also hire someone to create it (this is the kind of work PLM does - feel free to contact me) and then you will be able to easily edit it after it's been built.
If you don't have a website, check out these free website builders and then make sure to read the PLM blog posts so you can help your new website be the best it can be.
So, you're open, you're a business - now get a website and prove it.


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Book Reviews/Reading, Writing, and Research
The 400… books, that is… some immortal, some not.
Posted	on	 July 2, 2013 by	Gregory / 6 Comments
I'm gonna out myself as a total dork, but I've been keeping this list of books I've read since January, 2000, when I starting writing Enduring Patagonia. I realized that I'd hit 400 last night, when I added Richard K. Morgan's science fiction, Altered Carbon. (Philip K. Dick meets Raymond Chandler, and very enjoyable.)
I love reading. It's my preferred form of recreation/relaxation not counting surfing, climbing, and making love. Every minute spent reading feels like a minute well spent, and I hate it when I get caught having to wait without anything to read.
[Q: I'd like to published the list as a separate webpage, as a sortable spreadsheet by author, title, and date read. Can somebody advise me on how to do that? Like baseball statistics, except for books.]
I generally get through The Economist every week, and I'm also a pretty religious reader of The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated, but this list is about books and doesn't include them. Nor does it include the absurd number of times I read Enduring Patagonia and China's Wings while I was writing them. On the low end of the estimates, reading, editing, re-reading, and re-editing those two projects probably cost me another 50 books.
Scanning through, seems like my preferred genres are good novels, narrative non-fiction & history, and pulp.
The classics speak for themselves. Tomorrow I'll fish out ten less well known but very worthwhile books to recommend.
The list also shines a powerful glare on one of the most terrifying statistics in the universe (to me, at least) — the very finite number of books I can hope to read in my remaining lifetime. Being generous with the time, 400 books and a dozen years is 33.3 books per year. (And yes, I do recognize that I'm cheating a little.) If I exceed the average American male life expectancy and make it to 85 with my mind reasonably intact, that's another 38 years of reading. Multiplied by 33.3 books per year and I'm looking at reading another 1,265 books.
THAT IS NOT ENOUGH!!!
So here they are, the 400, some immortal, some not, from Hallett Abend and Aeschylus to Mitchell Zuckoff and Paul Zweig.
Abend, Hallett. My Life in China: 1926-1941.
Aeschylus. Agamemnon.
Aeschylus. The Eumenides.
Aeschylus. The Libation Bearers.
Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers.
Ambrose, Stephen. Citizen Soldiers.
Ambrose, Stephen. The Wild Blue.
Ambrose, Stephen. Custer and Crazy Horse: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors.
Ambrose, Stephen. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian. (11/09)
Angell, Roger. Let Me Finish.
Angell, Roger. The Summer Game.
Angell, Roger. Game Time.
Aristotle. Poetics.
Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn.
Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle. (3/08)
Atlas, James. Saul Bellow: A Biography.
Auden, W.H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War.
Baldacci, David. Split Second. (6/10)
Banks, Iain. Espedair Street.
Banks, Iain. The Wasp Factory.
Banks, Iain M. Consider Phelbas.
Banks, Iain M. The Use of Weapons.
Banks, Iain M. The Player of Games.
Banks, Iain M. Excession. (10/09)
Banks, Iain M. Look to Windward.
Banks, Iain M. Matter.
Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road.
Barry, Sebastian. A Long Long Way.
Baxter, Walter. Look Down in Mercy.
Beach, Patrick. A Good Forest for Dying.
Bellow, Saul. Henderson, the Rain King.
Bellow, Saul. Herzog.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.
Bergreen, Lawrence. Over the Edge of the World.
Bissinger, Buzz. Friday Night Lights.
Bissinger, Buzz. Three Nights in August.
Bixby, Harold M. Topside Rickshaw.
Boardman, Peter. The Shining Mountain.
Bond, Charles R. and Terry H. Anderson. A Flying Tiger's Diary.
Bond, William. Wings for an Embattled China.
Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down.
Bowden, Mark. Killing Pablo.
Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky.
Boyington, Gregory. Tonya.
Boyington, Gregory. Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Bradley, James. Flyboys.
Bradley, James. The Flags of Our Fathers.
Bragg, John. The Broom of God. MSS. (2/13)
Brand, H.W. The Age of Gold. (10/12)
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation.
Brown, Dan. Angels and Demons.
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
Brown, Dan. The Lost Symbol.
Burdsall, Richard, Emmons, Moore, and Young. Men Against the Clouds.
Burgess, Anthony. Ernest Hemingway and His World.
Burnett, Hallie & Whit. Fiction Writer's Handbook.
Campbell, James. The Ghost Mountain Boys. (9/11)
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood.
Card, Orsen Scott. Ender's Game.
Carr, Calib. Angel of Darkness.
Carr, Caleb. The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China.
Casey, John. Spartina.
Chabon, Michael. Summerland.
Chiang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking.
Chiang, Iris. The Chinese in America.
Chatwin, Bruce and Paul Theroux. Patagonia Revisited.
Child, Lee. Killing Floor. (1/13)
Child, Lee. Die Trying. (2/13)
Clapp, Nicholas. The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl #2: The Arctic Incident.
Connelly, Michael. A Darkness More than Night.
Connelly, Michael. Lost Light.
Connelly, Michael. The Brass Verdict. (2/2010)
Connelly, Michael. The City of Bones.
Connelly, Michael. The Closers.
Connelly, Michael. The Narrows.
Connelly, Michael. The Overlook.
Connelly, Michael. 9 Dragons. (7/10)
Connelly, Michael. The Black Box. (2/13)
Conniff, Richard. The Natural History of the Rich.
Conrad, Joseph. A Personal Record.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo.
Conrad, Joseph. The Mirror of the Sea.
Conrad, Joseph. The Shadow Line.
Conrad, Joseph. Victory.
Cornwall, Patricia. Black Notice.
Cornwell, Bernard. Agincourt.
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Battle.
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Enemy.
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Honor.
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Regiment.
Cornwell, Bernard. The Archer's Tale.
Cornwell, Bernard. Vagabond
Cornwell, Bernard. Heretic.
Cornwell, Bernard. The Last Kingdom.
Cornwell, Bernard. Lords of the North.
Cornwell, Bernard. Sword Song.
Crais, Robert. Hostage.
Crais, Robert. The Watchman. (2/11)
Crouch, Gregory. China's Wings.
Crouch, Gregory. Enduring Patagonia.
Dai Sijie. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Daley, Robert. An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire.
Dante. Inferno.
Davis, Steph. Learning to Fly. (4/13)
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. (5/12)
De Blieu, Jan. Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. (1/13)
Dideon, Joan. Play it as it Lays.
Dideon, Joan. Where I was From.
Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life.
Dodson, Jamie. Flying Boats & Spies. (9/12)
Dong, Stella. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City.
Dos Passos, John. Chosen Country. (3/10)
Drabelle, Dennis. Mile High Fever: Silver Mines, Boom Town, and High Living on the Comstock Lode. (11/12)
Drury, Well. An Editor on the Comstock Lode. (12/12)
Ehrenfeld, David. The Arrogance of Humanism.
Ehrenfeld, David. Beginning Again.
Eichenwald, Kurt. The Informant.
Ellroy, James. Blood on the Moon.
Ellroy, James. The Black Dahlia. (8/12)
Ellroy, James. The Big Nowhere. (9/12)
Fairstein, Linda. Final Jeopardy.
Fante, John. Ask the Dust.
Farmer, Rhodes. Shanghai Harvest.
Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong.
Faulks, Sebastian. Charlotte Gray. (7/10)
Feinstein, John. Living on the Black.
Fenby, Jonathan. Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost.
Fenn, I.J. The Beat: A True Account of the Bondi Gay Murders.
Fiffer, Steve. Tyrannosaurus Sue.
Fitschen, Joe. Going Up. (3/13)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World.
Follet, Ken. Hornet Flight. (10/10)
Follet, Ken. The Pillars of the Earth.
Follet, Ken. World Without End.
Ford, Daniel. The Flying Tigers.
Ford, Ford Maddox. The Good Soldier.
Fraser, George MacDonald. Quartered Safe Out Here.
Frater, Alexander. Chasing the Monsoon.
French, Paul. Midnight in Peking. (4/13)
Friedman, David M. A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis.
Frillman, Paul and Graham Peck. China: A Remembered Life.
Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. (1/13)
Furst, Alan. Mission to Paris. (3/13)
Furst, Alan. Blood of Victory.
Furst, Alan. Dark Star.
Furst, Alan. Night Soldiers.
Furst, Alan. The Foreign Correspondent.
Furst, Alan. The Polish Officer.
Galbraith, John. The Great Crash.
Gann, Ernest K. Fate is the Hunter. (1/12)
Gann, Ernest K. Soldier of Fortune.
Gardiner, John. The Art of Fiction.
Gellhorn, Martha. Travels With Myself and Another.
Genovese, J. Gen. We Flew Without Guns.
Gent, Peter. North Dallas Forty.
Glines, Carroll V. and Wendell F. Mosley. The Legendary DC-3.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time. (3/12)
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait Till Next Year.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin.
Goutiere, Peter J. Himalayan Rogue: A Pilot's Odyssey.
Greene, Graham. The Honorary Consul.
Gwynne, S.C. Empire of the Summer Moon. (7/11)
Hahn, Emily. China to Me.
Hahn, Emily. No Hurry to Get Home.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter.
Halliburton, Richard. The Royal Road to Romance. (12/09)
Hammett, Dashiel. The Dain Curse. (9/12)
Harbach, Chad. The Art of Fielding. (6/13)
Harrison, Jim. Legends of the Fall.
Haruf, Kent. Plainsong.
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time.
Heinlein, Robert. Starship Troopers. (12/10)
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.
Higgins, George. The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken. (10/11)
Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit.
Hinkle, Warren. The Richest Place on Earth. (10/12)
Homer. The Iliad.
Homer. The Odyssey.
Honigsbaum, Mark. The Fever Trail.
Honigsbaum, Mark. Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918.
Hornfischer, James. Neptune's Inferno. (5/11)
Hough, Richard. Wings Against the Sky.
Hough, Richard. Fight of the Few.
Hough , Richard. Wings of Victory.
Howard, Gerald. Editors on Editing.
Huff, Tanya. Valor's Choice. (11/10)
Iyer, Pico. Video Night in Katmandu.
Jones, James. From Here to Eternity.
Jones, James. The Thin Red Line.
Junger, Ernst. Storm of Steel.
Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm.
Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer.
Keane, Fergal. Road of Bones. (8/11)
Kearney, Alan. Mountaineering in Patagonia.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion.
Kingdon, Robert M. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. (5/12)
Korda, Michael. With Wings Like Eagles.
Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air.
Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven.
Krakauer, Jon. Where Men Win Glory.
Larsen, Michael. Literary Agents.
Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City.
Larson, Erik. In the Garden of Beasts. (4/13)
Larrowe, Charles P. Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States. (6/12)
Larsson, Steig. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. (9/10)
Larsson, Steig. The Girl Who Played With Fire. (9/10)
Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Leary, William. The Dragon's Wings.
Leavy, Jane. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy.
Leckie, Robert. Helmet for my Pillow. (3/11)
Lewis, Michael. Moneyball.
Levy, Buddy. Conquistador!
Levy, Daniel. Two-Gun Cohen.
Lindblade, Andrew. Expeditions.
Lindberg, Anne Morrow. North to the Orient. (2/12. A second reading.)
Lippman, Thomas W. Understanding Islam.
Long, John. Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hangdogs: Rock Climbing on the Edge of Reality.
Lord, Eliot. Comstock Mining and Miners. (11/12)
Lyman, George D. The Saga of the Comstock Lode. (10/12)
Makley, Michael J. John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age. (1/13)
Malreux, Andre. Man's Fate. (4/08)
Markham, Beryl. West With the Night.
Martin, George R. R. Game of Thrones. (12/11)
Martin, George R. R. Clash of Kings (12/11)
Martin, George R. R. A Storm of Swords. (12/11)
Martin, George R. R. A Feat For Crows. (10/12)
Maughan, W. Sommerset. On a Chinese Screen.
Mason, Daniel. The Piano Tuner. (9/04)
Max, Tucker. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.
McCullough, David. John Adams. (10/09)
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas. (07/09)
McCullough, David. 1776 (audiobook).
McDonald, Douglas. Virginia City and the Silver Region of the Comstock Lode. (10/12)
McKenna, Patrick. The Sand Pebbles.
McKinzie, Clinton. The Edge of Justice. (11/09)
McKinzie, Clinton. Point of Law. (11/09)
McKinzie, Clinton. Trial by Ice and Fire. (8/10)
McMurtry, Larry. Cadillac Jack.
McMurtry, Larry. Leaving Cheyenne.
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove.
McMurtry, Larry. Roads.
McMurtry, Larry. Sin Killer.
McMurtry, Larry. Terms of Endearment.
McMurtry, Larry. The Last Picture Show.
Meldahl, Keith Heyer. Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains. (12/12)
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone.
Michener, James. The Bridges at Toko-Ri.
Moreira, Peter. Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn.
Morgan, Richard K. Altered Carbon. (6/13)
Morley, James William. Japan's Road to the Pacific War: The China Quagmire – Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933-1942. (6/12)
Mortenson, Greg and David Oliver Relin. Three Cups of Tea.
Mosley, Walter. Devil in a Blue Dress. (8/12)
Mosley, Walter. A Red Death. (9/12)
Murray, Jim. Jim Murray: The Last of the Best.
Musashi, Miyamoto. The Book of Five Rings.
Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran. (12/10)
Naipaul, V.S. Among the Believers.
Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River. (3/10)
Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival. (6/11)
Neresian, Arthur. Mesopotamia. (6/11)
Nielsen, Karol. Black Elephants. (9/11)
Nietzsche. The Portable Nietzsche.
O'Brien, Dan. Buffalo for the Broken Heart.
O'Brien, Tim. July, July.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
Obst, Lynda. Hello, He Lied.
Olsen, Lynne. Citizens of London. (3/11)
Orlean, Susan. The Orchid Thief.
Pakula, Hannah. The Last Empress. (2/11)
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. (6/11)
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon.
Paolini, Christopher. Eldest
Paolini, Christopher. Brisingr
Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance. (8/12)
Parini, Jay. Steinbeck.
Parker, Robert B. Brimstone. (10/10)
Parker, Robert B. The Professional. (1/11)
Parker, Robert B. Resolution. (10/09)
Parshall, Jonathan and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword. (2/11)
Peers, William R. and Dean Brelis. Behind the Burma Road.
Persico, Joseph E. 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hours: Armistice Day, 1918.
Platt, Stephen R. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom. (4/12)
Plimpton, George. Paper Lion. (11/09)
Polk, William. Understanding Iran. (6/11)
Powell, John B. My Twenty-five Years in China.
Pressfield, Steven. The Gates of Fire.
Pressfield, Steven. The Tides of War.
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. (2/13) audiobook
Quinn, Mike. The Big Strike. (6/12)
Rawicz, Slavomir. The Long Walk.
Reding, Nick. The Last Cowboys at the End of the Earth.
Reeves, Richard. Daring Young Men.
Ridgeway, Rick. Below Another Sky.
Richards, Keith. Life. (7/12)
Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief.
Riordan, Rick. The Sea of Monsters.
Roberts, Ralph, with John Gallagher. Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman.
Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. The United States Army in World War II, China-Burma-India Theater: Stilwell's Mission to China.
Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. The United States Army in World War II, China-Burma-India Theater: Stilwell's Command Problem.
Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. The United States Army in World War II, China-Burma-India Theater: Time Runs Out in the CBI.
Roper, Steve, Editor. Ordeal by Piton.
Roper, Steve and Allen Steck and David Harris. Ascent.
Ross, Lillian. Portrait of Hemingway.
Rowan, Roy. Chasing the Dragon.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. (7/11)
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis 2. (7/11)
Seagrave, Stering. The Soong Dynasty.
Saint Exupery, Antoine de, Wind, Sand, and Stars.
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey.
Salisbury, Harrison. The Long March.
Salter, James. Solo Faces.
Salter, James. The Hunters.
Sanchez, Thomas. Mile Zero.
Sassoon, Seigfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
Sayre, Woodrow Wilson. Four Against Everest.
Schlesinger, Arthur. Crisis of the Old Order. (4/11)
Schliff, Stacy. Antoine de Saint Exupery.
Scott, Robert L. God is My Copilot.
Seagrave, Gordon S. Burma Surgeon. (3/08)
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. (12/06)
See, Lisa. Shanghai Girls. (7/12)
Selvin, David F. A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. (9/12)
Sergeant, Harriet. Shanghai.
Sevareid, Eric. Not So Wild a Dream. (3/08)
Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra.
Shapiro, Elena Mauli. 9 Rue Therese, MSS.
Sherry, Frank. Raiders and Rebels: History of the Golden Age of Piracy. (10/12)
Shilling, Erik. Destiny: A Flying Tiger's Date with Destiny.
Shipton, Sir Eric. Tierra del Fuego: The Fatal Lodestone.
Sides, Hampton. Blood and Thunder.
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers. (early 09)
Sims, Norman, editor. The Literary Journalists.
Skipper, Roger Alan. The Baptism of Billy Bean.
Sledge, E.B. With the Old Breed.
Slim, Field Marshall Viscount William. Defeat into Victory, Battling Japan in Burma, 1942-1945.
Sloan, Bill. Given Up for Dead.
Slocum, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the World. (5/10)
Sockett, Fanny. The Help. (12/10)
Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son. (5/12)
Spencer, Otha. Flying the Hump.
Stanley, Tom. The Millionaire Mind.
Stark, Freya. The Southern Gates of Arabia.
Stark, Peter. At the Mercy of the River.
Starks, Richard, and Miriam Murcutt. Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive.
Starr, Kevin. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. (1/10)
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose. (4/10)
Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row.
Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle.
Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
Steinbeck, John. Winter of Discontent.
Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat.
Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. (5/13)
Stone, Irving. Men to Match My Mountains. (5/10)
Taleb, Nassim. Fooled by Randomness.
The Old Testament.
Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian Sands.
Thomas, Evan. Sea of Thunder.
Thompson, Harry. This Thing of Darkness.
Todhunter, Andrew. The Fall of the Phantom Lord.
Trevanian. The Eiger Sanction.
Trevanian. The Summer of Katya. (6/10)
Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror.
Tuchman, Barbara. Practicing History.
Tuchman, Barbara. Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Proud Tower.
Twight, Mark. Kiss or Kill.
Tyson-Li, Laura. Madame Chaing Kai-shek.
Urban, Mark. Rifles.
Updike, John, editor. The Best Short Stories of the 20th Century.
Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation. (5/10)
Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road.
West, Nathanial. The Day of the Locust.
White, Edwin Lee. Ten Thousand Tons by Christmas. (1/10)
White, Theodore, and Annabel Lee. Thunder out of China.
White Theodore. In Search of History.
Winchester, Simon. Atlantic. (11/11)
Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa. (9/11)
Winchester, Simon. The Crack at the Edge of the World.
Winchester, Simon. The River at the Center of the World.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman.
Wings Over Asia, Vol I though IV, The China National Aviation Corporation Association.
Wolff, Tobias. The Night in Question.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Frozen in Time. (4/13)
Zweig, Paul. The Adventurer.
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Tom Lambert says:
I kept trying to get two book suggestions out to you the other night….
1. Vernor Vinge, Deepness in the Sky, which really taught me about pacing… not to mention Sherkaner Underhill.
2. Peter Hamilton, Pandora's Star – it's three books when all said and done, but a world unto itself.
Gregory says:
Thanks Tom! And mine to you were The Culture novels of Iain M. Banks.
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Kathryn Townsend says:
You know, if you want to do better than 33 books a year (a number which, I'm sure, far exceeds the number of books most people read in a year) you could give up climbing and surfing in order to make more time for reading… ;-)
Most of my climbing has gone by the wayside, but I think I'll sacrifice a few books to keep surfing.
I was pretty sure that would be your response. :-)

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Going back to its roots, chassis number 13R was the fourth 1996-spec GTR built, sold to Team Lark along with its sister car #14R to be raced at the All Japan GT Championship. Driven by Naoki Hattori and Ralf Schumacher, it won three races before running into a pair of DNFs, finishing the year in second place.
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Anthropological Horizons: An Interview with Series Editor Michael Lambek
In addition to all of the work we do in the Higher Education Division of University of Toronto Press to publish materials for undergraduate anthropology students—especially the Teaching Culture series of classroom ethnographies—we are fortunate to work alongside colleagues in our Scholarly Publishing Division who have as their focus the publication of new scholarship. In the lead-up to this week's annual meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d'anthropologie, we would like to highlight one of our colleagues' most important series: Anthropological Horizons. In this interview, UTP Scholarly's current Acquisition Editor for Social Sciences, Douglas Hildebrand, discusses the origins and the major contributions to Anthropological Horizons with the series editor, Michael Lambek (Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Ethical Life at the University of Toronto). read more…
dateMay 11, 2015
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Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Well, we're just about finished our Graphic Adventures in Anthropology, and now that we have you primed, we're thrilled to announce a new book series here at the University of Toronto Press called ethnoGRAPHIC: Ethnography in Graphic Form. Whether you are an aspiring artist, or just interested in the possibilities of this format as both a methodology and a unique way of communicating your research results, we welcome expressions of interest and discussions about potential collaborations. It's a brave new world out there, and we're convinced that many academics want to be more creative in how they reach their audiences. We hope this series will harness some of that creativity. read more…
dateApril 20, 2015
Unflattening Scholarship with Comics
For this post, We sat down with Nick Sousanis to talk about the challenges and benefits of making a stronger connection between comics, scholarship, and pedagogy in higher education. Nick defended his comic dissertation last spring at Columbia's Teacher College and the published book, Unflattening, is being published by Harvard University Press this month. read more…
dateApril 8, 2015
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Descriptive Linguistics is the work of analyzing and describing the actual language spoken now, or in the past, by any group of people. Accurate description of real speech is a very difficult problem and linguists have often been reduced to very inaccurate approximations.
Almost all linguistic theory had its origin in practical problems of descriptive linguistics. Phonetics (and its theoretical developments such as phonemes) has dealt with how to pronounce languages. Syntax has developed to describe what is going on once phonetics has reduced spoken language to a control level. Lexicography collects "words" and has not given rise to much theory.
An extreme mentalist viewpoint appears to deny that the linguistic description of a language can be done by anyone but a competent speaker. Such a speaker has internalized something called "linguistic competence" which gives them the ability to correctly extrapolate from their experience to new but correct expressions and to reject unacceptable expressions. Be that as it may be there are practical immediate needs for linguistic descriptions and we cannot wait for a full exploration of linguistic competence.
There are tens of thousands of linguistic descriptions of thousands of languages that were prepared by people without adequate linguistic training. With a few honorable exceptions all linguistic descriptions done before, say, 1900, are amateur productions.
described the phonology of the language and established a practical orthography.
described the morphology of words.
described the syntax of sentences.
included a vocabulary with at least a thousand entries.
included a few genuine texts.
There are some bonus topics that might also be included, like an analysis of discourse and historical reconstructions.
The current controversial topics are usually morphology and syntax. For many years too much attention given was to English, which has a very meager morphology, over-emphasized syntax, but now morphology has revived as an active field of study.
The purpose of linguistic theory, so far as a practical linguist is concerned, is to make descriptions of morphology and syntax comprehensible. It is easy to see that the same data can often be described in different ways. For a while there was an active desire to find some measure which would allow some one description to be called the best. Today that goal seems to have been given up as chimerical.


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Who really rules the world? A cacophony of angry voices surrounds us, but from God's perspective, mankind's boasting is utterly ridiculous. Alistair Begg examines the hostility of man in the face of God's sovereignty, the Father's decree of the anointed Lordship of Christ, and the futility of rejecting His reign. The Gospel both woos and warns us: Jesus is coming again, and the only way to flee God's wrath is to take refuge in His mercy, provided in the gift of His Son.


Whatever your problems or needs, this book of 1,000 biblical promises is arranged alphabetically by subject to help you quickly find the answers you seek. Discover what the Bible says about anger, forgiveness, peace, success, prayer, freedom from sin, God's love, and more. Scripture is taken from the New Life Version (NLV) which uses a limited vocabulary of 850 words to simply and clearly present God's Word.


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PM call with Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania: 1 December 2022
The Prime Minister spoke to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama this afternoon.
The leaders welcomed the longstanding close partnership between the UK and Albania and committed to strengthening collaboration on trade, investment and defence, including cyber security.
The Prime Minister acknowledged the positive contribution of the Albanian community to life in the UK, but both leaders agreed that more needed to be done to address illegal migration and tackle organised crime together.
They discussed plans to step up cooperation to address shared challenges, including closing loopholes that are preventing the rapid return of failed asylum seekers.
The Prime Minister and Prime Minister Rama looked forward to working together to deal with those issues and deepen the broader UK-Albania relationship.
Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/prime-ministers-office-10-downing-street
Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-prime-minister-edi-rama-of-albania-1-december-2022
Prime Minister announces Appointments Secretary
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PM call with leaders of US, Germany, France & Italy: 25 January 2023
The Prime Minister spoke to the leaders of the United States, Germany, France and Italy yesterday afternoon.
Prime Minister celebrates Scottish culture in Burns Night Downing Street reception
Prime Minister celebrates Scottish culture and the integral contribution it makes to the fabric of the UK at Number 10 reception this evening.
PM call with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
The Prime Minister spoke to the Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar yesterday afternoon.
Levelling Up projects in Wales awarded £208 million by UK Government
A total of 11 projects receive grants from round two of flagship Levelling Up Fund
PM takes action to stop disruptive protests
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is backing the police to clamp down on highly disruptive and dangerous protests, under plans announced today.
PM accelerates Ukraine support ahead of anniversary of Putin's war
The Prime Minister has announced the UK will send tanks and self-propelled guns to aid the Ukrainian offensive.
PM meeting with Prime Minister Kishida of Japan: 11 January 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, at the Tower of London yesterday.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Teen Arts Collective proudly debuts 200X: Yesterday's Youth, an exhibition of new works reflecting seven unique perspectives on growing up in the 2000s. In addressing both their individual and shared experiences, the students tap into their pasts in order to reflect on the challenges of fleeting youth and contemplate the restlessness they feel as they approach the freedom of adulthood. 200X: Yesterday's Youth presents a multimedia, multisensory homage to a generation. This exhibition is on view at Santa Barbara's Youth Interactive April 17 - 30, 2019.
Samantha Fitz, Ella Grabenheinrich, Jasmine Linares, Emma MacArthur-Warner, Thalia Martinez, Sophia Pfitzmann, Abigail Rightmire.
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Teen Arts Collective (TAC) is a hands-on program that makes the contemporary art world more accessible for Santa Barbara students ages 15 to 18. Over the course of six months, TAC members develop visual literacy skills, strengthen leadership abilities, and begin cultivating their own creative networks through exposure to practicing artists and arts institutions in the Santa Barbara and Los Angeles areas.
Admission is free. RSVP for the Artists' Reception at Nightout.


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DVD Review: Man on a Ledge
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STUDIO: Summit | DIRECTOR: Asger Leth | CAST: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedgwick, Edward Burns
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You'd think the title would say it all, but the thriller Man on a Ledge offers a lot more—like car chases, gunfights, fisticuffs and a high-tech diamond heist. It's unfortunate that the titular scenario is the one that works best for the film, which suffers from the attention that's afforded to the rest of it.
Sam Worthington perches 25 floors up in Man on a Ledge.
The main story involves ex-cop Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington, The Debt), who's been wrongly convicted for a stealing a $40 diamond from an evil tycoon (Ed Harris, The Way Back) with a nefarious agenda. Escaping from incarceration, Cassidy makes his way to a midtown New York hotel and shimmies out onto a ledge on the 25th floor. Cassidy obviously has a plan, but it's one he won't immediately discuss with negotiators Jack Dougherty (Edward Burns, Nice Guy Johnny) and Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks, Our Idiot Brother) or his ex-partner (Anthony Mackie, Real Steel), even as his brother (Jamie Bell, Jane Eyre) and bro's girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez, Casas De Mi Padre) put the plan into motion. As the crowd below grows, the NYPD begins to get more aggressive, the vein in Ed Harris's neck begins to bulge, and the scheme is revealed, Cassidy and company find themselves in increasingly more dangerous (and arguably ridiculous) scenarios—both on the ledge and off.
Unlike earlier man-on-a-ledge scenarios—most notably Henry Hathaway's 1951 nail-biter Fourteen Hours, the "Ledge" segment from the 1985 Stephen King-penned thriller anthology Cat's Eye and, most recently, 2011's The Ledge—Man on a Ledge throws so many other story elements, plot points and locations into the mix that the thrills begin to wane by the half-way point. Pablo F. Fenjves's screenplay definitely broadens the scope of the action, but it's all too convoluted and silly to keep up the film's initial momentum. And the last quarter throws in too much action (unrealistic action!) away from the ledge, diluting all the thrills that were delivered earlier. Thought the actors are adequate—Worthington and Banks are always watchable–their dialogue is pretty weak, particularly the banter between Bell and Rodriguez and anything coming out of the mouth of the almost-cartoony villain Harris. The best moments, again, are the hair-raising ones director Asger Leth mounts of sky-high Worthington balancing precariously on his six-inch concrete perch as he's forced to deal with negotiators, heavy breezes and lots near-death experiences.
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is that the only reason you thank amazon?
Actually did that without waiting for your response. But now I have an idea of where to set the trailing stop.
And as usual stocks rise after I sell... (at least I kept half, and the half I sold was for a healthy profit).
Shares of Kodak spiked after the photo company announced it would launch its own form of blockchain technology dubbed "KodakCoin."
Kodak's stock is up 66.91% at $11.40 in pre-market trading on Wednesday. Shares soared as much as 136% on Tuesday, the day the news was initially announced.
So the madness is spreading, KODK stock went from $3 to $13 in 2 days, a co. losing money and he stock was going downhill , quadrupled in 2 days just by adding KodakCoin.
One of my quickest trades,covered my short of 3000 shares at @$8.25, profit of $4.50 points x 3000 shares=$13500 profit in 24 hours, not bad, here is today's chart at the close where I bought the 3000 shares to cover the short. On to the next trade.
Beautiful. Results of very strong conviction trade.
On January 4, I posted that the Israeli shekel and the Norwegian Kroner where the best plays against the USD in the Forex market, I said if the USDILS breaks below 3.49 we go to 3.40 very fast, did so in 1 week, now if it breaks 3.40 whoever is sitting on shekels will be happy and we'll see 3.20 , current price 3.4044.
I am not a trader, but I did take a certain long term position a while ago based on what I see as fundamentals of the JPY. Despite those fundamentals, it has shown strength. Where do you see USDJPY going short, mid and long term?
No clear trend for a mid and long term trade here,short term it is in a downtrend , so if I am short USDJPY ill put a stop at 113.80---it looks about to break 1.11 on the downside which can accelerate the move.
My favorite plays at this time is shorting the USDNOK, currently 7.9830, with oil going up and USDNOK was at 5.00 in 2009, also the USDILS but is a little late to short since it is down from 4 to 3.40 .
Take a look at the platinum chart , the futures contract is only 50 oz, it is up from 880 to 996 now, I have been long for a while, gold is at $1331 will go much higher from here, I went long last at $1245, silver up big, I think the metals are a great upside play .
Woke up late to the game.
Can someone explain to a simple person why $low just shot up?
LOW had a strong resistance at $83-$86, after it went above on strong volume these were all time highs with no sellers trying to get out to break even, also momentum buyers who buy new all time highs jumped in, it is currently overbought and I'll not chase it here.
You shorted KODK with IB?


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Researchers Say Kids Are Exposed To 'Startling' Amounts Of Background TV
By Scott Hensley
Published October 1, 2012 at 3:39 PM MDT
It might be time to pull the plug, even if she doesn't seem to be watching.
Parents, if nobody is watching the TV, please turn it off.
Researchers who conducted a national survey of kids' exposure to TVs droning on in the background say, "The amount of exposure for the average child is startling."
How much is it, exactly? Try just under four hours a day for the typical kid.
So why care about a TV that nobody seems to be paying attention to? Well, the researchers write, background TV may lower the quality of interactions between parents and kids, lower kids' performance on tasks that require real thinking and drain kids' attention during playtime.
The findings, published in the latest issue of Pediatrics, come from a telephone survey of more than 1,400 English-speaking households conducted in early 2009.
The researchers asked people to go through the activities of a typical day, noting whether a TV was on while the child was doing something.
There were a few significant patterns in the responses:
Kids living in single-parent homes were exposed to more background TV than those in two-parent households.
Children in the poorest households were exposed to the most background TV.
Infants and toddlers were exposed to more background TV — 5 1/2 hours compared to 2 3/4 hours for kids aged 6-8.
Pediatricians say the littlest kids — those 2 and younger — shouldn't watch any TV at all. Older children should spend no more than 2 hours a day plopped down in front of a computer, TV or other device with a screen.
The researchers behind the latest study suggest that it might be best for doctors and parents to concentrate on reducing the TV exposure of kids under 2, since they should watch the least and are being exposed to the most.
The work was funded by a grant from a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Scott Hensley
Scott Hensley edits stories about health, biomedical research and pharmaceuticals for NPR's Science desk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has led the desk's reporting on the development of vaccines against the coronavirus.
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In May 1865, shortly after the war ended, the Civil War veterans of the North marched through the streets of Washington in a grand review of the armies.
On May 23, a bright sunny day, Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, started out at 9 a.m. leading the Army of the Potomac, 80,000 strong, down Pennsylvania Avenue. They marched like a mighty river past flags and placards and bunting and thousands of cheering spectators. The soldiers sang patriotic songs as they headed toward the reviewing stand in front of the White House. Children handed the soldiers bouquets. The next day, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman led the 65,000 men of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia down the same streets.
One week later, the Grand Army of the Republic was disbanded and the Civil War veterans were left to fend for themselves.
Many soldiers, physically and mentally exhausted, marched in sadness and confusion. They had marched to Washington through battlegrounds littered with bleached bones. Some, fresh from the horrors of battle, were unimpressed by the pomp or the cheering crowds. Some were saddened by the prospect of parting from their friends. Some mourned their dead comrades.
Many dreaded what lay ahead.
Frank Cox, a soldier, wrote home to Maine expressing his ambivalence about civilian life. In a letter home he wrote, "I had rather go home then to any wh[e]re else from here, but I don't for I am to leazy to work." He wrote that half the boys want to stay in the army because they preferred 'the sound of Cannons and rifles."
Muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell observed, "Four years of fighting, of defeat and victory, had hardened many of them into warriors, and many of them loved their trade."
When the 20th Maine stopped in Providence on its way home, Brigadier Gen. Ellis Spear posted a guard at a nearby saloon to prevent drunken brawling.
Home, for the tens of thousands of veterans returning to New England, wasn't going to be an easy place.
Thomas Plunkett, 21st Massachusetts, a prewar mechanic, became a double-amputee; William A. McNulty, 10th New York; & William R. Mudge, 2nd Massachusetts, former photographer, blinded in the war.
New England was ill equipped to care for the tsunami of returning Civil War veterans. Large swathes of each state's population had served in Union forces. Rhode Island sent 14.5 percent of its population off to war. Massachusetts sent 12.9 percent; Maine sent 12.7 percent; Connecticut, 11.9 percent; New Hampshire, 9.9 percent Vermont, 9.7 percent.
President Abraham Lincoln had signed a law creating National Asylums for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, but the government was slow to build them. The first was the Eastern Branch, which opened in November 1866 at Togus Springs, Maine, a failed summer resort. The men lived in barracks and wore modified Army uniforms. Medical care was limited. Beds quickly filled with 450 maimed Civil War veterans. About 100 of them had come directly from the poorhouse.
A total of 35,000 Civil War veterans survived with amputations. Many, like David B. Tanner, couldn't support themselves, let alone their families. Tanner, a Rhode Island artillerist, lost his leg at Antietam. !" His stump still throbbed and oozed splinters, making it hard to fit a wooden leg. He appealed for support in an 1870 leaflet, "Our Limbs Are Lost! Our Country Saved."
Henry Meacham had been a carriage maker in Russell, Mass., before joining the 32nd Massachusetts. His right arm, shattered by a Confederate shell, was amputated and he returned home. Unable to support himself or his sick wife, he self-published a 32-page pamphlet called The Empty Sleeve: Or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham in the Union Army, which he sold for 25 cents.
The war had created an outsize number of widows who couldn't take care of their orphaned children. Many were sent away by the trainload and taken in by kind foster parents if they were lucky or as cheap farm labor if they were not.
Those Civil War veterans lucky enough to return home were derided as cranky. The cheering crowds of the grand review in Washington gave way to a public distrustful and cynical about the men who came back from war.
"The life of our soldiers of the late war was one of continuous hardship to the nervous system," wrote Porter. "For every one hour of battle there were hundreds of hours of or the brain tension of expected danger."
Veterans, wrote Porter, aged early, ached greatly and lagged behind in the struggle for existence.
Another New England physician said the 'tiresome watches of sleepless nights,' the 'vicissitudes of climate' and exposure to 'unhygienic environment' created 'common nervous troubles' and 'idiotic leer' of old soldiers.
Surgeon General John Show Billings observed Massachusetts veterans were twice as likely as adult civilian males to suffer from consumption and rheumatism, nearly seven times as likely to develop heart disease and 55 times more likely to get diarrheal diseases.
Civil War veterans quickly realized they would have to help themselves. They formed into veterans' organizations such as the Grand Army of the Republic in 1866, to hold rituals, reunions and reminisce. They worked for respect and rights and most important their pensions, which the labyrinthine federal bureaucracy was too often reluctant to grant.
As the veterans began to die off, the public mind began to soften toward them. Newspaper editors commented on the sacrifices made by a recently deceased veteran.
Eventually, Confederate and Union soldiers, each separated from the rest of society by their wartime experience, began to find common ground.
In 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., gave a Decoration Day speech in Keene, N.H. "The generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience," said Holmes, who had been wounded in the war. "The soldiers of the war need no explanations. They can join in commemorating a soldier's death with feelings not different in kind, whether he fell toward them or by their side."
The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States.
Photo: Thomas Plunkett, 21st Massachusetts, a prewar mechanic, became a double-amputee; William A. McNulty, 10th New York; & William R. Mudge, 2nd Massachusetts, former photographer, blinded in the war.
With thanks to Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan.


The International Workshop on Membrane Computing opened its 10th edition in Curtea de Arges (southern Romania) on Monday, to celebrate a field initiated by Romanian academician Gheorghe Paun in 1998.
Attending this year's edition are 60 researchers from Romania, the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, UK, China, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Ireland.
The agenda of the scientific gathering includes several lectures, with the first to be delivered by Romanian academician Solomon Marcus as well as more than 30 scientific reports, with some of them being theoretical and others relating to the applications of the membrane computing systems in biology, optimization, computer technology and software products.
Membrane computing is a computing model inspired from the live cell biology, a model that has started a branch of the information technology that is studied by hundreds of researchers from tens of countries.
The field of membrane computing was initiated by Romanian mathematician and academician Gheorghe Paun, born in the southern Arges county. The respective models have been named P systems, starting from Paun's initial.
The next edition of the workshop to be held in Jena, Germany next year will see the event upgraded to the Conference on Membrane Computing, the organizers announced.


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Rosetta spacecraft ends mission
8:19am, September 30, 2016
FINAL APPROACH Rosetta's last picture of comet 67P, taken just 51 meters from the surface, reveals a gravelly landscape.
ESA, Rosetta, MPS for OSIRIS Team, MPS, UPD, LAM, IAA, SSO, INTA, UPM, DASP, IDA
Rosetta is no more. On September 30, the orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the mission.
The landing site has been dubbed Sais, the ancient Egyptian town believed to be the original home of the Rosetta stone, after which the mission is named.
Confirmation came from a planned loss of radio signal from the spacecraft. Onboard computers were programmed to shut down when Rosetta hit the comet. The spacecraft approached the comet at just a few kilometers per hour, but the probe wasn't designed for landings and was probably damaged.
Mission scientists will continue to keep busy analyzing all the data sent back before touchdown.
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Born in Chihuahua, Mexico and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Tania Chairez came to the United States with her parents to live the American Dream. Tania received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Grand Canyon University. As a publicly undocumented immigrant, Tania has been a community organizer centered around immigrant rights since 2011, taught 7th and 8th grade English, and is now an advisor for college students who have graduated from KIPP Colorado Schools. Tania has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine and was named one of 12 Inspiring Latinas Under 25 by Latina Magazine.


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Bees tracked with microchip glued onto their backs, Kew Gardens study
By Christian Nordqvist Published Mar 26, 2015 at 5:24 AM GMT
In a study aimed at reversing bee decline, scientists at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have glued tiny 4.8mm x 8mm microchips onto the insects' backs so that they can monitor their movements in the landscape.
The New RFID (radio frequency identification) tags allow the tagged bees to be tracked up a distance of 1.2 metres from a detecting unit. The average range of a foraging bee is about 1 kilometre (0.6 of a mile) from its hive. So, if several detecting units can be placed within a 1 km radius, they will be able to monitor the bees' behavoiur.
The new technology, once trialled, will help zoologists track bees between flower patches in the landscape, helping them more clearly identify the threats bee populations face, including the largely unknown impacts of pesticides and habitat fragmentation, as well as gaining valuable insight into the vital pollination services they provide.
With the RFID tags, scientists will be able to monitor the bees and hopefully gain insight into why their populations are declining. (Image: Kew)
Kew scientist Dr. Sarah Barlow trialled the new technology, developed by Tumbling Dice Ltd., on bumblebees in Kew's Quarantine House.
Each RFID tag sends out a unique signal so that scientists can identify individual insects that are picked up by the detector unit.
The detectors send signals to readers which pass the data onto Raspberry Pi computers.
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Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels and Novellas + A Biography of the Author (Book House Publishing)
By Joseph Conrad
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Joseph Conrad in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Almayer's Folly
- An Outcast of the Islands
- The N****r of the Narcissus
- Heart of Darkness
- Lord Jim
- The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford)
- Typhoon
- The End of the Tether
- Romance (with Ford Madox Ford)
- Nostromo
- Gaspar Ruiz
- The Secret Agent
- The Duel
- The Nature of a Crime (with Ford Madox Ford)
- Under Western Eyes
- Victory: An Island Tale
- The Shadow Line
- The Arrow of Gold
- The Rescue
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The Mirror of the Sea
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The Masterpieces of World Literature
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Q: Check if one string is a prefix of another I have two strings which I'd like to compare: String and String:. Is there a library function that would return true when passed these two strings, but false for say String and OtherString?
To be precise, I want to know whether one string is a prefix of another.

A: Use std::mismatch. Pass in the shorter string as the first iterator range and the longer as the second iterator range. The return is a pair of iterators, the first is the iterator in the first range and the second, in the second rage. If the first is end of the first range, then you know the the short string is the prefix of the longer string e.g.
std::string foo("foo");
std::string foobar("foobar");

auto res = std::mismatch(foo.begin(), foo.end(), foobar.begin());

if (res.first == foo.end())
{
  // foo is a prefix of foobar.
}

A: If you can reasonably ignore any multi-byte encodings (say, UTF-8) then you can use strncmp for this:
// Yields true if the string 's' starts with the string 't'.
bool startsWith( const std::string &s, const std::string &t )
{
    return strncmp( s.c_str(), t.c_str(), t.size() ) == 0;
}

If you insist on using a fancy C++ version, you can use the std::equal algorithm (with the added benefit that your function also works for other collections, not just strings):
// Yields true if the string 's' starts with the string 't'.
template <class T>
bool startsWith( const T &s, const T &t )
{
    return s.size() >= t.size() &&
           std::equal( t.begin(), t.end(), s.begin() );
}

A: How about simply:
bool prefix(const std::string& a, const std::string& b) {
  if (a.size() > b.size()) {
    return a.substr(0,b.size()) == b;
  }
  else {
    return b.substr(0,a.size()) == a;
  }
}

C++ not C, safe, simple, efficient.
Tested with:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

bool prefix(const std::string& a, const std::string& b);

int main() {
  const std::string t1 = "test";
  const std::string t2 = "testing";
  const std::string t3 = "hello";
  const std::string t4 = "hello world";
  std::cout << prefix(t1,t2) << "," << prefix(t2,t1) << std::endl;
  std::cout << prefix(t3,t4) << "," << prefix(t4,t3) << std::endl;
  std::cout << prefix(t1,t4) << "," << prefix(t4,t1) << std::endl;
  std::cout << prefix(t1,t3) << "," << prefix(t3,t1) << std::endl;

}

If you have C++17 you can write a better version of this, using std::string_view instead:
#include <string>
#include <string_view>

bool prefix(const std::string& a, const std::string& b) {
  if (a.size() > b.size()) {
    return std::string_view(a.c_str(),b.size()) == b;
  }
  else {
    return std::string_view(b.c_str(),a.size()) == a;
  }
}

With g++ 7 at -O3 this collapses to a single memcmp call, which is a fairly substantial improvement over the older version.

A: Easiest way is to use substr() and compare() member functions:
string str = "Foobar";
string prefix = "Foo";

if(str.substr(0, prefix.size()).compare(prefix) == 0) cout<<"Found!";

A: This is both efficient and convenient:
str.compare(0, pre.size(), pre) == 0

compare is fast because it uses the fast traits::compare method and doesn't have to copy any data.
Here, it will compare std::min(str.size(), pre.size()) characters but if the characters in the two ranges are equal it also checks the length of pre and returns a non-zero value if pre is longer than this.
See the documentation at cplusplus.com.
I've written a test program that uses this code to compare prefixes and strings given on the command line.

A: If you know which string is shorter, the procedure is simple, just use
std::equal with the shorter string first.  If you don't, something
like the following should work:
bool
unorderIsPrefix( std::string const& lhs, std::string const& rhs )
{
    return std::equal(
        lhs.begin(),
        lhs.begin() + std::min( lhs.size(), rhs.size() ),
        rhs.begin() );
}

A: std::string(X).find(Y) is zero if and only if Y is a prefix of X

A: With string::compare, you should be able to write something like:
bool match = (0==s1.compare(0, min(s1.length(), s2.length()), s2,0,min(s1.length(),s2.length())));
Alternatively, in case we don't want to use the length() member function:
bool isPrefix(string const& s1, string const&s2)
{
    const char*p = s1.c_str();
    const char*q = s2.c_str();
    while (*p&&*q)
        if (*p++!=*q++)
            return false;
    return true;
}

A: After C++20, we can use starts_with to check if a string begins with given prefix.
str.starts_with(prefix)

Also, there is ends_with to check suffix

A: I think strncmp is the closest to what you're looking for.
Though, if reworded, you may be looking for strstr(s2,s1)==s2, which is not necessarily the most performant way to do that. But you do not want to work out n ;-)
Okay, okay, the c++ version would be !s1.find(s2).
Okay, you can make it even more c++, something like this: std::mismatch(s1.begin(),s1.end(),s2.begin()).first==s1.end().

A: You can use this:
for c++14 or less
bool has_prefix
    (const std::string& str, const std::string& prefix)  {
    return str.find(prefix, 0) == 0;
}

for c++17
//it's a little faster
auto has_prefix
    (const std::string& str, const std::string_view& prefix) -> decltype(str.find(prefix) == 0) {
    return str.find(prefix, 0) == 0;
}

A: str1.find(str2) returns 0 if entire str2 is found at the index 0 of str1:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

// does str1 have str2 as prefix?
bool StartsWith(const std::string& str1, const std::string& str2)
{
    return (str1.find(str2)) ? false : true;
}

// is one of the strings prefix of the another?
bool IsOnePrefixOfAnother(const std::string& str1, const std::string& str2)
{
    return (str1.find(str2) && str2.find(str1)) ? false : true;
}

int main()
{
    std::string str1("String");
    std::string str2("String:");
    std::string str3("OtherString");

    if(StartsWith(str2, str1))
    {
        std::cout << "str2 starts with str1" << std::endl;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << "str2 does not start with str1" << std::endl;
    }

    if(StartsWith(str3, str1))
    {
        std::cout << "str3 starts with str1" << std::endl;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << "str3 does not start with str1" << std::endl;
    }

        if(IsOnePrefixOfAnother(str2, str1))
        {
            std::cout << "one is prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }
        else
        {
            std::cout << "one is not prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }

        if(IsOnePrefixOfAnother(str3, str1))
        {
            std::cout << "one is prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }
        else
        {
            std::cout << "one is not prefix of another" << std::endl;
        }

    return 0;
}

Output:
  str2 starts with str1
  str3 does not start with str1
  one is prefix of another
  one is not prefix of another

A: What's wrong with the "find" and checking the result for position 0 ?
string a = "String";
string b = "String:";

if(b.find(a) == 0)
{
// Prefix

}
else
{
// No Prefix
}

A: bool IsPrefix(const std::string& prefix, const std::string& whole)
{
  return whole.size() >= prefix.size() && whole.compare(0, prefix.size(), prefix) == 0;
}


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Loss of three parishioners a 'terrible blow' to Staten Island parish
by Chaz Muth , Catholic News Service
Dominican Sr. Jeanine Conlon embraces John Mennella following a Mass on Wednesday dedicated to people affected by Hurricane Sandy at St. Charles Church in New York's Staten Island. Mennella said he lost everything in his home during the monster storm that claimed the lives of three members of the parish. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Staten Island, N.Y. — St. Charles Catholic Church in Staten Island opened its doors to local residents who lost power during Hurricane Sandy, and to the families of three parishioners who lost their lives in that deadly storm.
John K. Filipowicz, 51, and his 20-year-old son, John C. Filipowicz, were found in an embrace after they drowned when floodwaters from the hurricane rushed their home.
A neighbor of the Filipowiczs and fellow St. Charles parishioner, Leonard Montalto, 53, also drowned in his Staten Island home the night Hurricane Sandy made landfall.
In the week following the storm, the funerals for all three of these parishioners were held at the church.
"It's a terrible blow to our parish," said Joan Paolino, a Staten Island resident who often meets fellow parishioners at the church before daily Mass to pray the rosary. "This hurricane devastated our community, but these deaths are a real tragedy. My heart breaks for their families."
Dominican Sr. Jeanine Conlon was well acquainted with the three men who died in the storm, but she had a special connection with John K. Filipowicz: She was one of his teachers when he attended St. Charles School in the 1960s and 1970s.
"He was a cute kid, he was a great guy," said Conlon, a pastoral associate at the Church of St. Charles. "As an adult I used to see him here. Funny guy, funny, funny fellow. A Marine. A strong, solid man, he came to Mass every Sunday. He'd wave to me and I'd wave back. A good parishioner."
The sadness of the St. Charles community was evident during the Monday funeral of the Filipowicz men and in preparation for the Montalto service Thursday, the Dominican sister told Catholic News Service, as she talked about how the parish had been impacted by the storm.
"There are 76 (St. Charles) school families displaced, that's a lot from one school," she said. "I'd say that is one fifth of our school."
During an 11:30 a.m. Mass on Wednesday, Fr. Antony Das S. Devadhasan told parishioners the storm may have caused despair among the faithful, but it can't rob them of their security, because God and their faith community would ultimately make sure they will be all right.
Following Mass, Devadhasan, Conlon and several parishioners comforted John Mennella, who became emotional when he talked about how his home sustained severe damage during the storm.
"My house is standing, but it's completely wrecked," Mennella said, as he wiped a tear from his left cheek. "It just breaks my heart for all of the people who lost their homes, for all of the people from this church, the people who lost loved ones. I know God will get me through this."
Conlon told him the people at his church would also help him. She also told CNS it's incumbent on the people of the community to come together and help each person in need during this extraordinary time.
Members of the church have already been collecting donations for storm victims and have organized other relief efforts, but Conlon said those efforts have to continue until people are once again whole.
"This is not going to be a short-term help," she said. "I mean, we have to pray, that's a given. But, while you're praying you've got to work. If people are hungry, you can't just say, 'I'll pray for you.'
"Your work is your prayer, and your prayer is your work," Conlon said. "So, that's what you have to do."
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A small group of LCT Leadership Summit attendees stood in a severely mutated horseshoe around a man whose features were muffled by the night but who most likely wore tan, leathery skin.
He was the tour guide, and he explained the basics of kayak rowing: grab the paddle with your arms roughly shoulder length apart, don't squeeze the paddle, wiggle your fingers to let the blood flow and delay fatigue, make sure the letters on the blades are facing you, don't dip them in all the way, pretend you're taking a nice creamy scoop off the top of some ice cream, yeah, just like that.
Moonlight pooled in his glasses, his eyes looked cartoonish.
People laughed at some jokes the guide told, laughed at the silence in between, laughed because their nerves were charged ticklish. They had come out for a tour of bioluminescent marine life found in Puerto Rico's Laguna Grande bay.
After Kayak 101, the group zip-clicked to their bodies life-vests equipped with one glowing purple ring around a strap in the back to serve as a visual guide for the kayakers behind. The guide would wear a red light and lead the way, off the coast into the sea, where a solid ten minutes went by as kayakers attempted to summon the wizardry required to get their kayaks to line up single-file and go the right direction.
Eventually the group met the entrance of a mangrove channel lit with a blackness darker than limo tint and more humid than an armpit. As people turned into shapes turned into shadows turned into glowing purple circles, the group navigated along the snaking channel in which must have lived a portal to another world, because the deeper and darker it got, the more ghostly the glow rings appeared, the more readily the water showed signs of luminous agitation, glowing as the paddles scooped the cream. It was as if a new world had appeared in place of the one left behind at the El Conquistador, a world more like the great planet Pandora in the movie Avatar.
The channel emptied out into a large bay that housed the bulk of the bioluminescence. Fish looked like snakes as they left glowing winding trails in the water behind them. Hands dunked below the surface could paint a neon lemon-lime stroke, fingers becoming brushes, the water a self-cleaning canvas.
After some history about the bay and science behind the glow, the tour guide instructed us to form in a horseshoe and charge in one direction. This time there was harmony among the group, each kayak heading gracefully in the right direction at the right speed. An electric vibe linked the kayakers in the rush, it felt vaguely ancient, pleasantly aggressive. The goal was to scare fish into jumping out of the water. It was dark, but a few could be seen.
One gentleman got smacked in the head by a frightened fish, and then the group turned back into a single-file organism and paddled back toward the mangrove channel. It passed through the portal once again, transforming into clumsy human beings who bumped into the kayaks in front of them or crashed into the trees along the edges. Through the portal to a world that was just as real as before, but not quite the same.


We were sad to find out one of our go-to diners in Westmont closed, but Intern Amy has the scoop on the tasty place that replaced it. Check back weekly to find other Restaurant Raves for great dining spots around the Chicago area.
I am no stranger to a good breakfast restaurant. Actually, I love almost all of them. Going out to breakfast on Saturday and Sunday is frequently the most relaxing part of my weekend. So, you can imagine my disappointment when I found out one of my go-to places, Moondance Diner in Westmont, had closed. However, last weekend, I went to its replacement, Citrus Diner. I was far from disappointed.
Citrus Diner revamped Moondance in every sense of the word. The basic setup is the same, but with vast improvements to the decor and all of the favorite Moondance menu items are still there (phew)! The new restaurant looks and feels tremendously fresher and has been brightened with white walls and vibrant lime, orange, and yellow accepts on the booths, flatware, tables, and wells.
If you liked Moondance before, you will be happy to know the food is still as good as ever. The Zucchini Bread French Toast, The Farmland Omelet, the Ba-Ba Benny & The Eggs benedict: they're all still there. The staff is just as friendly as well as accommodating. My coffee mug was never empty before I was offered a refill and the food came out hot quickly after it was ordered.
With the restaurant being open until 2:30 p.m., the menu features some great lunch items worth trying as well. The tortilla soup was a regular favorite before, and customers were elated to see it on the Citrus menu.
Want to bring the kids? No problem, they have plenty of high chairs, booster seats, coloring menus, and crayons to keep them satisfied while they wait for the food. If you could not get enough of their coffee, Citrus Diner also sells their coffee along with travel mugs stamped with their logo on your way out.
If you are debating where to grab breakfast any day of the week, make sure to check out this new and improved hotspot conveniently located in the James Crossing Shopping Center on the corner of Ogden Avenue and Route 83.


You searched for subject:(Dramma per musica). Showing records 1 – 4 of 4 total matches.
1. Eskenazy, Nathanaël. L'influence française dans les opéras issus de Gerusalemme liberata de Vivaldi à Rossini : The french influence in the operas from Gerusalemme liberata from Vivaldi to Rossini.
2. Landers, Heath A. W. Rhetorical concepts and Mozart: elements of classical oratory in his drammi per musica.
An understanding of the art of rhetoric was considered an essential part of a liberal arts education up until the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century – not only for the well-to-do, but also for professional musicians and those employed in other art forms. While little documentation is now extant to provide us with information about the rhetorical training that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) received, we can surmise that much of Mozart's knowledge in this area was transmitted through his father, Leopold (1719-1787), who had studied philosophy at the Benedictine University in Salzburg. This thesis will investigate whether it can be shown that Mozart continued the rhetorical tradition in music to portray the emotions expressed in the genre of dramma per musica. All but the last of Mozart's works of this genre date prior to his residence in Vienna (from 1781) and show the influence of some of the most celebrated operatic composers of the day, such as Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781) and Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774), as well as that of the influential 'Mannheim school' on his orchestral writing. This dissertation will examine ways in which rhetorical figures, musical form, tonality, harmonic texture, tones of voice and melodic lines may be understood as part of a rhetorical scheme used by Mozart and his contemporaries to convey emotions, or the 'passions', as they were commonly referred to during the eighteenth century. Rhetorical techniques and devices formed a tradition dating from the first performances of opera in the early seventeenth century; it will be argued that they continued to be the guiding principle for communicating expressiveness in Mozart's drammi per musica, alongside their innovations in orchestral texture and in form. While Mozart's operatic compositions have been subject to many types of analysis, the analytical methodology of this dissertation will be based on a study of compositional precepts of the period. It aims to show how Mozart, as a composer of the late eighteenth century, applied these concepts to his vocal compositions to illuminate through music the emotions, ideas and images expressed in the text.
Landers, Heath A W. "Rhetorical concepts and Mozart: elements of classical oratory in his drammi per musica." 2015. Masters Thesis, University of Newcastle. Accessed April 25, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310003.
Landers, Heath A W. "Rhetorical concepts and Mozart: elements of classical oratory in his drammi per musica." 2015. Web. 25 Apr 2019.
Landers HAW. Rhetorical concepts and Mozart: elements of classical oratory in his drammi per musica. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Newcastle; 2015. [cited 2019 Apr 25]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310003.
3. Piffaut, Ludovic. L'univers médiéval et ses figures de représentations dans l'opéra italien (1690-1730) : medieval universe and its representation's figures in Italian Opera (1690-1730).
Piffaut, Ludovic. "L'univers médiéval et ses figures de représentations dans l'opéra italien (1690-1730) : medieval universe and its representation's figures in Italian Opera (1690-1730)." 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Université François-Rabelais de Tours. Accessed April 25, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR2006.
Piffaut, Ludovic. "L'univers médiéval et ses figures de représentations dans l'opéra italien (1690-1730) : medieval universe and its representation's figures in Italian Opera (1690-1730)." 2012. Web. 25 Apr 2019.
Piffaut L. L'univers médiéval et ses figures de représentations dans l'opéra italien (1690-1730) : medieval universe and its representation's figures in Italian Opera (1690-1730). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université François-Rabelais de Tours; 2012. [cited 2019 Apr 25]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR2006.
4. Clausius, Katharina Anne Crawford. OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS .
▼ With its bold combination of epic style and vernacular prose, François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) created a stir that preoccupied the literary, theatrical, musical, and art world throughout the eighteenth century. My dissertation places the novel at the centre of a crucial exchange between the French revisionist movement – with its mandate to redefine neoclassical theatre – and Italian dramma per musica in the second half of the eighteenth century. While littérateurs like Antoine Houdar de la Motte and Voltaire argued publicly over the theoretical viability of prose tragedy on the back of Télémaque, the operatic stage was actively absorbing and experimenting with principles of de la Motte's new brand of theatre: a less compounded application of the Aristotelian unities, a bolder approach to character portrayal, a painterly approach to scenography, and an integration of tropes from the epic. I rely on two case studies to argue that dramma per musica began to adopt specific principles of de la Motte's contentious "prose tragedy" genre: Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi's Mitridate libretto (set by Quirino Gasparini in 1767 and Mozart in 1770), which was based on the same Racine play that incited de la Motte and Voltaire's animosity; and Giambattista Varesco's Idomeneo, based on Danchet's adaptation of Fénelon. Literary scholarship, familiar with the heated paper war incited by Fénelon's novel thanks to Fabienne Moore and Romira Worville's research, has so far paid little heed to the eighteenth-century operatic stage as the most prominent and sustained reworking of the neoclassical tragic tradition. In answer to Reinhard Strohm's appeal to synthesize literary and musicological approaches towards a cross-disciplinary poetics of Enlightenment opera, I show that dramma per musica actively reconfigures a neoclassical tradition in flux alongside the century's noisiest literary revisionist movement, reimagining theatrical praxis as part of a broader poetics of arts and letters.
Clausius, Katharina Anne Crawford. "OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS ." 2017. Thesis, University of Cambridge. Accessed April 25, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267190.
Clausius, Katharina Anne Crawford. "OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS ." 2017. Web. 25 Apr 2019.
Clausius KAC. OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Cambridge; 2017. [cited 2019 Apr 25]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267190.